So, if the human brain works on quantum principles, and one of those principles is communication at a distance, then that tells me that telepathy is possible.
The problem is that, in these "entanglement experiments", no information is being transmitted from the first site to the second. By measuring the state of the first electron, you can instantaneously affect the state of the second electron -- but according to all of the current theories, there is no way to actually use that to communicate. (If that sounds weird... it is. Quantum theory is rather unintuitive.)
Why are people outraged over Intelligent Design but not this kind of stuff?
Because the fight over evolution/intelligent design has more to do with politics than science. Belief in telepathy is probably not strongly correlated with political affiliation, and is certainly not considered to be a common characteristic of any large, politically active group of people.
I actually don't see any real difference between the two "alternatives" you mention. Both of them boil down to proving that a request was generated by some (presumably tamperproof) hardware. That's fairly difficult, especially when you're transmitting your packets across a channel that can't be controlled.
We actually already have these "proof of life" systems -- CAPTCHAs -- which are used with varying success on blogs and the like. They have weaknesses, but that's mostly weaknesses in a particular kind of CAPTCHA, not in the system itself. Of course, how to convince people to click on an ad and then do a CAPTCHA is a bit of a problem.
What discussion, exactly, is this article going to start that hasn't been covered in everyotherarticle that slashdot posts about wikipedia? Learn to use the search box already.
Maybe someone could explain to my why virtual memory is necessary...
It's not. It's just cheaper to set aside a couple gigs of hard drive space rather than getting that much extra RAM.
And in any case, there are flash-only systems available today. For instance, I think that the $100 laptops don't have hard drives. The original poster is probably right that flash memory will not replace hard drives generally, but in some circumstances it works fine.
There are quite a few frames in a movie, at least for me, when I get sick of taking screenshots after the 20th one.
Of course you'd get sick of it. But if somebody paid you, say, $100 an hour, could/would you do it?
The answer to that may be no -- I'm not sure I'd go for it either, despite the fact that it would be a massive improvement on my salary. But I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would.
There are parts of the world where $5 or $10 an hour may be equivalent to $100 to you. Assuming that someone could process one frame a second (probably low once they get going), we're talking about 45 hours of work based on your numbers. If you were paying $10 an hour (probably way high), that's still less than $500 to rip the entire movie. It wouldn't be worth it to you, but it would be worth it to professional pirates.
Huh? xenu.net is the anti-scientology site, and like I pointed out, Google happily returns 33,500 results for that query, and points to the complaint on the chillingeffects so you can even find the copyright-infringing materials. (And besides, this whole thing happened four years ago.) I may not be too thrilled about how the whole thing was handled, but pretending that it's even in the same ballpark as systematically supressing political views is just moronic.
The program applies to people without green cards who enter the US with a visa, whether for work, school, research or tourism, or those from 27 mostly European countries who are traveling under the "Visa Waiver Program," which allows travelers to stay for up to 90 days without a visa. Over the next year, people in these categories will be issued new "I-94" visa cards embedded with an RFID tag at five border crossings including Nogales East and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria Bay in New York, and the Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in Washington. Homeland Security Department requires that the I-94 cards be carried at all times.
So he's right. The only thing that program has to do with implanting chips in immigrants is that they both happen to use RFID.
The Reverends' communal car was stolen last night.
The apostrophe in that case is indicating that it is a possessive, not a plural. Compare to "The Reverends drove off the bridge in their communal car last night."
But the GGP is correct that it is acceptable to use an apostrophe on acronyms and numbers (some style guides recommend it, though I get the impression that most recommend against it -- and his examples were not very good, and I've never heard of it being used on abbrevations.) So you can say, "During the 1970's, I got three A's, two B's, and seven D's on my report cards."
For the record, though, I rather prefer not using the apostrophe.
OMG...I cannot believe people could be more naive/stupid then Shelley & Tristan from shelleytherepublican.com. If this is not a complete satire then the US is really in trouble.
Frankly, I think that it's rather more disturbing that so many of the supposedly "intelligent" members of our society are completely incapable of the critical thinking neccessary to identify satire. Whatever our education system is doing, it sure isn't teaching people how to think.
Personally, I am of the opinion that since we only have one history and whatever is lost can NEVER be replaced, any destruction of our heritage should be treated as a crime of extreme seriousness.
The thing about history is that no matter how much of it we destroy, we'll always have more of it tomorrow.
(How serious I'm being is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Because marking a post 'redundant' is a punishment. That's the system that we have.
No, it isn't. Moderators are [or should be] moderating posts, not people. Marking a post "redundant" is simply a way to improve the quality of the discussion by removing redundant posts. This is not kindergarten where everyone's a winner if they try, and a 1-point drop in karma has no real effect on the poster.
Then the spam program will use Natural Language Processing techniques to send spam messages to the victim's contacts that look a lot like messages that the user has previously sent. The researchers predict that this will be extremely hard to detect, but they do offer a few suggestions for combating it.
For instance, before sending someone your credit card number, take a moment to ask yourself whether or not your mother is likely to be offering to sell you penis enlargement pills.
Somehow, I don't think it is going to be difficult to tell the difference, simply because my friends are not trying to peddle things to me.
I've read in many places that the nationwide unemployment rate issued by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics counts only people who are drawing unemployment insurance...
Those "many places" probably include all the posts on slashdot by people who have a reason to be propagating that myth. Here is the first link I could find on the subject, which explains how unemployment is actually counted.
The main problem with digg at the moment is the inmature style of writing most of it users has. A quickly written story about a great thing (tm) will get more diggs than the carefully written one that is posted 5 minutes later. This is a huge disadvantage for digg as I have to read the awfully written summaries to find the goodies.
This is as opposed to slashdot, I suppose, where the well-written story is rejected in favor of the factually incorrect one submitted twelve hours later.
I used to get mod points almost once a week, then I started exerting my Republican viewpoint on Slashdot and I havent seen mod points in over a year and a half.
Most likely you got hit by bad metamoderation, perhaps a few times in a row. I once used my mod points to moderate down a troll who was plagiarizing posts from different blogs... since metamoderators don't see context, I was metamoderated badly, and it was several months before I got mod points again.
Of course, you could make the argument that you shouldn't have been using the moderation system to push your own viewpoint. Although, of course, those with "popular" viewpoints can do it without any fear of retribution, which is a big part of the problem.
Interestingly, as one who was not able to moderate for a couple years after moderating up some posts in one of those infamous threads, I've actually started getting mod points again. (They started again not long after michael left, which I suspect had something to do with it.) Are there others who are still blocked from moderating after that happened?
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I actually don't see any real difference between the two "alternatives" you mention. Both of them boil down to proving that a request was generated by some (presumably tamperproof) hardware. That's fairly difficult, especially when you're transmitting your packets across a channel that can't be controlled.
We actually already have these "proof of life" systems -- CAPTCHAs -- which are used with varying success on blogs and the like. They have weaknesses, but that's mostly weaknesses in a particular kind of CAPTCHA, not in the system itself. Of course, how to convince people to click on an ad and then do a CAPTCHA is a bit of a problem.
What discussion, exactly, is this article going to start that hasn't been covered in every other article that slashdot posts about wikipedia? Learn to use the search box already.
It's not. It's just cheaper to set aside a couple gigs of hard drive space rather than getting that much extra RAM.
And in any case, there are flash-only systems available today. For instance, I think that the $100 laptops don't have hard drives. The original poster is probably right that flash memory will not replace hard drives generally, but in some circumstances it works fine.
Of course you'd get sick of it. But if somebody paid you, say, $100 an hour, could/would you do it?
The answer to that may be no -- I'm not sure I'd go for it either, despite the fact that it would be a massive improvement on my salary. But I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would.
There are parts of the world where $5 or $10 an hour may be equivalent to $100 to you. Assuming that someone could process one frame a second (probably low once they get going), we're talking about 45 hours of work based on your numbers. If you were paying $10 an hour (probably way high), that's still less than $500 to rip the entire movie. It wouldn't be worth it to you, but it would be worth it to professional pirates.
Huh? xenu.net is the anti-scientology site, and like I pointed out, Google happily returns 33,500 results for that query, and points to the complaint on the chillingeffects so you can even find the copyright-infringing materials. (And besides, this whole thing happened four years ago.) I may not be too thrilled about how the whole thing was handled, but pretending that it's even in the same ballpark as systematically supressing political views is just moronic.
But the GGP is correct that it is acceptable to use an apostrophe on acronyms and numbers (some style guides recommend it, though I get the impression that most recommend against it -- and his examples were not very good, and I've never heard of it being used on abbrevations.) So you can say, "During the 1970's, I got three A's, two B's, and seven D's on my report cards."
For the record, though, I rather prefer not using the apostrophe.
(How serious I'm being is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Somehow, I don't think it is going to be difficult to tell the difference, simply because my friends are not trying to peddle things to me.
Of course, you could make the argument that you shouldn't have been using the moderation system to push your own viewpoint. Although, of course, those with "popular" viewpoints can do it without any fear of retribution, which is a big part of the problem.
Interestingly, as one who was not able to moderate for a couple years after moderating up some posts in one of those infamous threads, I've actually started getting mod points again. (They started again not long after michael left, which I suspect had something to do with it.) Are there others who are still blocked from moderating after that happened?