People ignore the "scientific community" because they have been desensitized by the steady stream of dire predictions that appear in the press. In addition, the remedies recommended are always some way-out impossibility. Stop driving your car to work, stop eating, stop breathing.
p.s. the ozone hole is smaller this year. too bad nobody saw fit to put that in the newspaper.
You have to drive it in a business context more than 50% of the time, according to the article you linked to.
So
1) It didn't "nearly pay for" the Hummer 2) You actually have to drive the thing for business purposes 3) Other expenses are in the picture like gas, insurance, etc.
You can't plow with a Hummer, or put ladders on the top. It isn't good as a delivery vehicle. The break just brings the price down to something equivalent to a pickup truck. I guess it might be pretty cool for a real-estate agent's car, but I don't see many delivering pizzas.
No, to be cost effective (and resource effective) it takes a large truck that can deliver the HDTV and 200 other items to the store. Then it takes a pickup truck to go and get it from the store.
Unless you buy it remotely (mail-order or online), then it just takes a very large truck to get it to the distribution center (or maybe a train) and a smaller truck to get it to your house.
Sorry you don't like Hummers. (But the guy was killed by a minivan. Maybe it had six people in it. Maybe they were carpooling, in the carpool lane, saving gas to make our planet a better place. It doesn't say.)
That large truck delivering your HDTV could definitely squish a Hummer. Maybe you should buy more HDTVs in the hopes that such occurrances increase.
I disagree with the idea that a true hacker has to be a genious. I think that I've been in some cool programming grooves in the past. They didn't last very long, and they were intensely focused on an interesting problem.
I don't claim to be a great programmer. But if I can find a problem that grabs my interest then the hours fly by and the end product is something I am proud of.
Maybe I have a small mind, that just means I have to break problems down into small interesting bites.
It sounds to me like those are policy decisions... not science.
When a Nobel laurate says something about public policy I think it should get attention. After all, they are supposed to be people who have shown they can exercise their mind. But beyond that they are just another Barbara Streisand or Ed Asner.
Our society suffers a lot from the confusion of popularity and expertise.
As a Christian I have fundamental disagreement with the strict naturalism that has changed science from a method into a philosophy. So I am inclined to question almost everything a "scientist" says that goes beyond their immediate (as in local, at-hand) application of the scientific method.
When you call my phone or ring my doorbell you are interrupting my life. You are using my resources in an attempt to do yourself some good.
The fact that I have telephone service does not imply that I want you to call me. Likewise, the existence of a door is not an invitation for you to attempt entry.
One thing I agree on: we shouldn't have to make silly little laws against things that annoy us. If there were no scumbags around, we wouldn't need these laws at all.
Unfortunately the system has been built so that the telemarketers now have an advantage over the average citizen. Since everything is opt-out on a case-by-case basis, you get one shot to interrupt my life before I can cut you off. The NCL removes that first-strike advantage.
We signed our household up for the Colorado NCL last fall. It's wonderful! Now if we could get the phoney scam-police-charity types to disappear then life would truly be improved.
Because what makes one kid uncomfortable may not make another uncomfortable.
Are you saying that a kid doesn't know when he/she is uncomfortable?
The basic issue is: something is being forced on a person so that someone else can prosper.
I don't have as much problem with a "find PORN click here --> URL" kind of message. The kind that are grossly wrong are the kind that let it all hang out the minute you open the message. There is a direct correlation with other offensive images/messages. Would you be so sanguine if the message were filled with racial slurs or other non-PC types of offensive material?
In my mind, sending porn to children is just another branch of child pornography and should be treated as such.
Daddy giving Mommy a hug and a kiss is appropriate sexual behavior.
Some pouty-faced bimbo stuffing a camera up her crotch is not appropriate sexual behavior.
If it makes the kid unfortable to look at then they shouldn't have to suffer through it. What's so hard about that?
I expect you would be offended if someone were sending you pictures of mutilated bodies, aborted fetuses or other distastful images without your consent. Why does a 10 year-old have to be immersed in something equally shocking against his/her will?
The only purpose for porn spam is to raise the hit count, get attention, and try to make money. Some slimeballs are making money by shocking kids. I would be pleased to do the same to them with a cattle prod.
>Furthermore...do you ever hear of large companies buying commercial Unixes (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) without support contracts? Do they ever say, "we have lots of people who know unix...why do we need support?" It's the exact same thing.
Except for the source code part. And the NDA part. And the money part.
If such is the case, then shouldn't we encourage all law abiding citizens to buy a handgun, get some training, and get a carry permit?
I've been thinking about this a lot since 9/11. If there are more moles out there just waiting to do more damage, is it time for me to get a concealed carry permit and pack some heat?
It's been 15 years since I got my ComSci sheepskin from a midwestern Moo U. In those days the programming education came in two flavors, Pascal and Cobol. I chose Pascal. Shortly after graduation I became gainfully employed. I learned C. I learned SQL (for some value of 'learned').
Over the years I picked up a course on Java. I did a little C++ on my own.
Now I do most things in Perl.
For example, I have to build a little script that will break up this monolithic file into multiple files, build a directory structure, and ftp the whole thing to another machine. Perl. Take a bit from this and a bit from that, throw in some CPAN and I'm done.
One of you fine folks with a view from the top tell me what would work better. I'm always interested in doing less and getting more.
You might want to check with Iowa Network Services, INS. They handle a lot of internet access in rural Iowa and also telephone traffic. Maybe they would do some sponsorship for your communications link.
This seems backwards to me.
If a security break is involved then the folks who found the hole already know what it is. The 'bad guys' already know about it. There is no additional safety in not publishing.
In my experience, porting between competing flavors of Unix isn't that hard. The C library, system calls and general environment are pretty much standard.
You run into problems with directory structures, different styles of terminal handling, threads, some parts of IPC, and the sys admin tools for managing hardware.
But everyone has fork(), exec(), sockets, select(), etc. Posix and ANSI C keep things pretty generic.
Someone who programs for AIX can do HP-UX without much trouble. Much easier than going from AIX to VMS,Windows, or NT.
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People ignore the "scientific community" because they have been desensitized by the steady stream of dire predictions that appear in the press. In addition, the remedies recommended are always some way-out impossibility. Stop driving your car to work, stop eating, stop breathing.
p.s. the ozone hole is smaller this year. too bad nobody saw fit to put that in the newspaper.
You have to drive it in a business context more than 50% of the time, according to the article
you linked to.
So
1) It didn't "nearly pay for" the Hummer
2) You actually have to drive the thing for business purposes
3) Other expenses are in the picture like gas, insurance, etc.
You can't plow with a Hummer, or put ladders on the top. It isn't good as a delivery vehicle.
The break just brings the price down to something equivalent to a pickup truck.
I guess it might be pretty cool for a real-estate agent's car, but I don't see many delivering pizzas.
No, to be cost effective (and resource effective) it takes a large truck that can deliver the HDTV and 200 other items to the store. Then it takes a pickup truck to go and get it from the store.
Unless you buy it remotely (mail-order or online),
then it just takes a very large truck to get it to the distribution center (or maybe a train) and a smaller truck to get it to your house.
Sorry you don't like Hummers. (But the guy was killed by a minivan. Maybe it had six people in it. Maybe they were carpooling, in the carpool lane, saving gas to make our planet a better place. It doesn't say.)
That large truck delivering your HDTV could definitely squish a Hummer. Maybe you should buy more HDTVs in the hopes that such occurrances increase.
With no trucks on the road, how will they deliver your new bigscreen HDTV?
grr
:-(
buy them outright
buy not but
So is it actually possible to liquidate and distribute the cash?
How would that be done?
It's interesting that no other company would but them outright at 1X. I guess maybe their thinking there might be future liability for the lawsuits?
I disagree with the idea that a true hacker
has to be a genious. I think that I've been in
some cool programming grooves in the past. They didn't last very long, and they were intensely focused on an interesting problem.
I don't claim to be a great programmer. But if I can find a problem that grabs my interest then the
hours fly by and the end product is something I am proud of.
Maybe I have a small mind, that just means I have to break problems down into small interesting bites.
Kevin Cameron - Technical column in Cycle World
Ask Mr. Protocol by Michael O'Brien
William Langewiesche
It sounds to me like those are policy decisions... not science.
When a Nobel laurate says something about public policy I think it should get attention. After all, they are supposed to be people who have shown they can exercise their mind. But beyond that they are just another Barbara Streisand or Ed Asner.
Our society suffers a lot from the confusion of popularity and expertise.
As a Christian I have fundamental disagreement with the strict naturalism that has changed science from a method into a philosophy. So I am inclined to question almost everything a "scientist" says that goes beyond their immediate (as in local, at-hand) application of the scientific method.
I don't understand how that will keep people from putting a microphone near the speakers.
Faxing would be a bad idea.
It's illegal and can result in a hefty
civil penalty.
I had what was either a 10c or an 11c
and I really liked it. But I lost
it somewhere along the line.
Now I see that 11c models are selling for
$75 and up on ebay.
You'd think someone in China could reverse
engineer one and manufacture it again for that
kind of price!
Sorry JohnnyB, you've got it wrong.
When you call my phone or ring my doorbell you are interrupting my life. You are using my resources in an attempt to do yourself some good.
The fact that I have telephone service does not imply that I want you to call me. Likewise, the existence of a door is not an invitation for you to attempt entry.
One thing I agree on: we shouldn't have to make silly little laws against things that annoy us.
If there were no scumbags around, we wouldn't need these laws at all.
Unfortunately the system has been built so that the telemarketers now have an advantage over the average citizen. Since everything is opt-out on a case-by-case basis, you get one shot to interrupt my life before I can cut you off. The NCL removes that first-strike advantage.
We signed our household up for the Colorado NCL last fall. It's wonderful! Now if we could get the phoney scam-police-charity types to disappear then life would truly be improved.
Saving money == greedy ??
Because what makes one kid uncomfortable may not make another uncomfortable.
Are you saying that a kid doesn't know when he/she is uncomfortable?
The basic issue is: something is being forced on a person so that someone else can prosper.
I don't have as much problem with a
"find PORN click here --> URL" kind of message. The kind that are grossly wrong are the kind that let it all hang out the minute you open the message. There is a direct correlation with other offensive images/messages.
Would you be so sanguine if the message were filled with racial slurs or other non-PC types of offensive material?
In my mind, sending porn to children is just another branch of child pornography and should be treated as such.
Simple.
Daddy giving Mommy a hug and a kiss is appropriate sexual behavior.
Some pouty-faced bimbo stuffing a camera up her crotch is not appropriate sexual behavior.
If it makes the kid unfortable to look at then they shouldn't have to suffer through it. What's so hard about that?
I expect you would be offended if someone were sending you pictures of mutilated bodies, aborted fetuses or other distastful images without your consent. Why does a 10 year-old have to be immersed in something equally shocking against his/her will?
The only purpose for porn spam is to raise the hit count, get attention, and try to make money. Some slimeballs are making money by shocking kids. I would be pleased to do the same to them with a cattle prod.
>Furthermore...do you ever hear of large companies buying commercial Unixes (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) without support contracts? Do they ever say, "we have lots of people who know unix...why do we need support?" It's the exact same thing.
Except for the source code part. And the NDA part. And the money part.
"The problem here is not having pre-existing beliefs. It's having pre-existing beliefs and then using them to filter what you observe."
I need enlightenment. Isn't this exactly what "pre-existing" beliefs are good for?
The name we use for people without pre-existing beliefs: infant.
I've been thinking about this a lot since 9/11. If there are more moles out there just waiting to do more damage, is it time for me to get a concealed carry permit and pack some heat?
Over the years I picked up a course on Java. I did a little C++ on my own.
Now I do most things in Perl.
For example, I have to build a little script that will break up this monolithic file into multiple files, build a directory structure, and ftp the whole thing to another machine. Perl. Take a bit from this and a bit from that, throw in some CPAN and I'm done.
One of you fine folks with a view from the top tell me what would work better. I'm always interested in doing less and getting more.
Lay it on me.
You might want to check with Iowa Network Services, INS. They handle a lot of internet access in rural Iowa and also telephone traffic. Maybe they would do some sponsorship for your communications link.
This seems backwards to me. If a security break is involved then the folks who found the hole already know what it is. The 'bad guys' already know about it. There is no additional safety in not publishing.
You're telling me that the source code for Windows is more intelligible? Prove it. Come on, cough it up. Let's see the source code.
You run into problems with directory structures, different styles of terminal handling, threads, some parts of IPC, and the sys admin tools for managing hardware.
But everyone has fork(), exec(), sockets, select(), etc. Posix and ANSI C keep things pretty generic.
Someone who programs for AIX can do HP-UX without much trouble. Much easier than going from AIX to VMS,Windows, or NT.