Yours and other/.'ers intolerance for diversity of opinion is a far greater threat than some 'religious right' boogie man. All my posts here are being turned into -1 trolls (if my posts have no value, then why did 7 of you respond to it rather than ignore it?)
Well now here's something you and I can agree on!;)
yes we have a good theory of evolution and experimantal proof in the feild that it works at least in a small scale
What makes it 'good?' What small scale proof is there? Don't confuse natural selection with evolution, if that is what you are thinking about
It's good because it is independently supported by multiple observers and demonstrable by different methodologies.
The usual example of small scale proof is the Liverpool moths, but you can make an equally strong case for quite a few other organisms including viruses, which are not usually considered to be alive.
Evolution is just a big word for change; it offends some religions because they believe that they are made in the physical image of their deity and therefore must not ever have changed in physical form. Natural selection is believed to be one of the most common mechanisms provoking evolution - the principle cause of evolution in the so-called "higher animals", however, is generally assumed to be sexual selection.
It's interesting how so many posts assume you're a christian nutbag because you seem to believe in a creator or creators. I think your comments about the narrow-mindedness of many pro-evolutionists are apropos. I mean, why didn't they assume you were a pantheist, or a muslim?
Turner's not "head of one of the biggest media conglomerates" AFAIK. Which one are you talking about?
I thought he was sinking his money into motion pictures and bison, and that his picture company was a pygmy on the media veldt. You do know he sold CNN and most of the other Turner media holdings to AOL-Time-Warner almost a decade ago, right?
Sorry about the subject line, I liked your.sig so much I had to use it.
Ranting, I'll give you. But last I heard, "anti-american" did not mean "anti-republican" + "anti-democrat".
It's also dead on topic. If people voted, or ran for local office, they'd be able to influence the government towards appropriate regulations (whatever you might think that would be). But instead most of the crybabies and flag-wavers alike are content to sit at home in from of their mass-media disinformation feeding tubes. This speaks directly to at least one of the major points of Turner's article - did you read the whole thing?
Point out to me the anti-american part. The original poster wasn't recommending doing any harm to The American Way (tm), was he?
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I think you'll find that a very outspoken minority of Slashdotters worship Ayn Rand.
BALDR not TRADITIONAL?
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I take it you're not talking about this Baldur then.
onboard computer systems (which is usually ONE modular package sitting behind the dash or under the roof)
Not any more! Nowadays cars can have multiple "brain boxes" scattered all over the place. My Prius (which is admittedly a bit more geekular than most vehicles) has more than 50 intelligent nodes on the internal network, and uses at least three separate networking protocols.
Auto builders are moving towards distributed control systems to save on wiring; if you run everything from a single master controller you have to have a lot of copper, but if you use networking technologies it's a single wire (daisy-chained, in some cases) to each control point.
This same cost-driven evolution has already happened on factory floors; nowadays factories use DCS (Distributed Control System) networks instead of large computers with hundreds of specialized interfaces.
I have. And I've solved many problems for people by doing so; it's a valid investigative technique, and it's foolish to equate port-scanning with malicious intent.
Look at it this way: All the people that ever attempted to crack your security breathe air. Obviously, punishing people for breathing air makes no sense... just because it's a prerequisite activity to cracking your system does not mean that in and of itself it's a bad thing. Portscanning, same same.
Within the next few hours I will be portscanning two networks; one, a hospital, the other a medical ASV. They have connectivity problems they can't figure out, and I'm going to help them fix them. I don't intend to ask for permission from their IT hierarchy before I portscan them, and I don't expect them to give me any grief about it, because portscanning them will not harm them.
Port scanning is legitimate, harmless investigative activity (unless it is part of a Denial-of-Service attack, but that applies to all forms of connection anyway - obviously, you can be DOSsed with half-pings or even GRE packets).
Are you going to claim you never have to port-scan in order to solve a problem? C'mon, man, get a grip. Sometimes even end-users have a legitimate need to portscan! Log it and move on, the real bad guys don't stop with a simple port-scan.
Yes, when you enter the non-flash portion of the site there is a graphic of Richard Nixon saying "Get flash you hippie".
Yo, slashdotlings, this does not mean that TMBG's site requires flash! It's just a graphic on the first page of the non-flash section. It will not bite you. Geez, people, get a grip (and a sense of humor).
Heavy chains, welded to the case, attached to eyebolts sunk in concrete. The chains need to be strong enough to resist commercially available bolt-cutters, and the eyebolts need to be completely immersed. Check with your building management to be sure you can core-drill the floors for setting the bolts; otherwise you will have to get a very heavy concrete block (big enough to double as a computer desk).
Furthermore, you'll need to replace the case fasteners with snap-off security bolts to prevent thieves from simply removing the innards from your locked-down case and reconstructing them in a plywood box, as was so common with the chained-down computer terminals at the University of Delaware in the 70s.
If that's not enough for you, you could consider this.
Some scapegoat had to be bombed, some hapless schmuck had to be nailed to a cross, and the Afghans were the best candidate: they were incapable of effectively fighting back, they were incapable of withstanding invasion, and they were harboring a known terrorist who was believed to be (and in fact actually was) connected with the 9/11 atrocities.
If you think about it, these three things (especially that last one) are valid reasons for invasion. Only one of these reasons can be applied to Iraq, obviously - that they were incapable of resisting invasion.
First "the Great Goddess Ayn Rand says your a dirty stinkin' COMMIE" post!
Seriously, the Post Office is one obvious choice for real identification - they can't tell any better than anyone else *who* you are, but they can probably validate *where* you are cheaper than anybody else.
Whenever management tells me to do something illegal, immoral, or just generally stupid, I eplain that all such requests have to be made in writing, so that I won't get mixed up and deliver something other than what they asked for.
If they don't put it in writing, I don't do it. And I make plausible excuses based on all the properly submitted requests already pending.
If they *do* put it in writing, I tell 'em it's technically impossible. People stupid enough to write down illegal requests (bootleg this software out to all the PCs in marketing!) are easily drowned in technical triviata.
It works like this in Delaware: if you sell gift certificates, they can have an expiration date written on them, on no expiration date at all.
If there is no expiration date, the issuing company is forced to keep proper books; essentially, they can't count the money recieved for the certificate as pure profit, since products will have to be provided in return at some nebulous later date. Unredeemed certificates are effectively debts.
Companies hate that, because it complicates their bookkeeping, and because they'd like to profit from people failing to redeem a certificate before some arbitrary date.
Delaware essentially said, OK, we will let you have expiration dates (if simplifying your bookkeeping is that important to you) but if the date passes and the certificate is not redeemed, you must give all the money from sales of the certificate to the state. Obviously, this is auditable, and any company that issues certificates must be prepared to show state auditors their records of certificate sales.
In theory, this prevents companies from profitting by issuing certificates designed not to be redeemed. In practice, it results in nearly all certificates issued in Delaware being unlimited - that is, they have no expiration dates.
The system works reasonably well and consumers are very happy with it.
Excellent, thank you. My camera is listed as "supported"! I won't get a chance to work with the software for a couple of weeks:^( because my employee is sending me all over the map lately, but I should have lots of opportunities to snap pictures, anyway.
My method of photography is "Start shooting before whatever you want to shoot happens, and keep going until after it's over".
I was so happy when they came up with fast-forward-winding film cameras. The more pictures you can shoot, the more chances of a serendipitous shot you'dve never have been able to set up in a million years.
Digital imaging greatly reduces the cost of this method - I was getting two or three awesome pics per roll of file, so I couldn't afford to do very many - but unfortunately many of the digital cameras have a slow cycle time, and you'll find yourself between clicks when the pie hits the President.
Your use of the term "raghead" was exactly the same usage one hears from racists. If you do not wish to be consdered a racist you should not use their language when pushing viewpoints that coincide with theirs.
If you start making comments about "shipping undesirables back to Africa" and then use the word "pickaninny" I'm going to assume you are a white supremecist. If you start talking about "ragheads" and criticising non-western religion and philosophy, I'm assuming you're anti-Arab.
I'm reminded of the guy who complained about being called a Nazi, when he had a big portrait of Hitler tattooed on his shaven head. Maybe he isn't a Nazi, but he's always going to be considered one if he continues to act like one. I can only know your intent by your words. If you used the wrong words, it's not me "twisting your intent", it's you failing to express yourself.
I assure you that "raghead" is considered a racist term by many people. If you'd care to research this, I suggest you be careful who you say it to.
You are correct that my message was intended to be ironic. But it appears that I am also not an expert at written communication. Hopefully somebody somewhere found it amusingly sardonic, but perhaps not.
As for Arab propaganda, we don't get any of that around here. It's all zionism, all the time in most of the Eastern USA. But if you want to stop terrorism, you have to make suicide bombers prefer life to death - and you don't do that by blowing up their neighbors, or funding invasions, or by selling arms to brutal dictatorhips.
Do you deny that the states of Israel and Saudia Arabia (generally considered by the people who actually live in the Middle East to be two of the worst oppressors in the region) are completely dependent on the US dollar? Do you deny that this is what motivates the terrorist attacks on the US? That's not Arab propaganda, it's reality.
Your wrote: "Prehaps you would like to review my message and grasp my sharply worded attack upon Osama bin Laden and his brand of religious and historically motivated terrorism against the United States."
At the time, it sounded more to me like a vague support for the inconveniencing of Canadians; with the implication that Canada is "soft on terrorism" because they are not sacrificing traditional freedoms in a vain attempt to stop terrorism through increased militarism and regulation.
If you are indeed not a racist, my apologies for miscategorizing you. I would wager I am not the only one who read your message that way, though.
I just find the way people are lining up to throw out every remaining vestige of freedom and individuality in the USA these days bleakly amusing. Add your little racist diatribe and it becomes hysterically funny.
Do you always use the word "raghead" to refer to Arabs, or do you like to use "sand-nigger" too?
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VMS went 64-bit at least a decade ago.
Great OS for English-speaking folk, despite Linus's hatred for it.
because it'd save me a lot of spamassassin CPU cycles.
I just can't keep track of the difference between a common shitload and an Imperial Arseload anymore.
Why don't you damn Aussies and Brits learn to speak American, like the rest of the world?!
The usual example of small scale proof is the Liverpool moths, but you can make an equally strong case for quite a few other organisms including viruses, which are not usually considered to be alive.
Evolution is just a big word for change; it offends some religions because they believe that they are made in the physical image of their deity and therefore must not ever have changed in physical form. Natural selection is believed to be one of the most common mechanisms provoking evolution - the principle cause of evolution in the so-called "higher animals", however, is generally assumed to be sexual selection.
It's interesting how so many posts assume you're a christian nutbag because you seem to believe in a creator or creators. I think your comments about the narrow-mindedness of many pro-evolutionists are apropos. I mean, why didn't they assume you were a pantheist, or a muslim?
Turner's not "head of one of the biggest media conglomerates" AFAIK. Which one are you talking about?
.sig so much I had to use it.
I thought he was sinking his money into motion pictures and bison, and that his picture company was a pygmy on the media veldt. You do know he sold CNN and most of the other Turner media holdings to AOL-Time-Warner almost a decade ago, right?
Sorry about the subject line, I liked your
Ranting, I'll give you. But last I heard, "anti-american" did not mean "anti-republican" + "anti-democrat".
It's also dead on topic. If people voted, or ran for local office, they'd be able to influence the government towards appropriate regulations (whatever you might think that would be). But instead most of the crybabies and flag-wavers alike are content to sit at home in from of their mass-media disinformation feeding tubes. This speaks directly to at least one of the major points of Turner's article - did you read the whole thing?
Point out to me the anti-american part. The original poster wasn't recommending doing any harm to The American Way (tm), was he?
I think you'll find that a very outspoken minority of Slashdotters worship Ayn Rand.
I take it you're not talking about this Baldur then.
Not any more! Nowadays cars can have multiple "brain boxes" scattered all over the place. My Prius (which is admittedly a bit more geekular than most vehicles) has more than 50 intelligent nodes on the internal network, and uses at least three separate networking protocols.
Auto builders are moving towards distributed control systems to save on wiring; if you run everything from a single master controller you have to have a lot of copper, but if you use networking technologies it's a single wire (daisy-chained, in some cases) to each control point.
This same cost-driven evolution has already happened on factory floors; nowadays factories use DCS (Distributed Control System) networks instead of large computers with hundreds of specialized interfaces.
I have. And I've solved many problems for people by doing so; it's a valid investigative technique, and it's foolish to equate port-scanning with malicious intent.
Look at it this way: All the people that ever attempted to crack your security breathe air. Obviously, punishing people for breathing air makes no sense... just because it's a prerequisite activity to cracking your system does not mean that in and of itself it's a bad thing. Portscanning, same same.
Within the next few hours I will be portscanning two networks; one, a hospital, the other a medical ASV. They have connectivity problems they can't figure out, and I'm going to help them fix them. I don't intend to ask for permission from their IT hierarchy before I portscan them, and I don't expect them to give me any grief about it, because portscanning them will not harm them.
Port scanning is legitimate, harmless investigative activity (unless it is part of a Denial-of-Service attack, but that applies to all forms of connection anyway - obviously, you can be DOSsed with half-pings or even GRE packets).
Are you going to claim you never have to port-scan in order to solve a problem? C'mon, man, get a grip. Sometimes even end-users have a legitimate need to portscan! Log it and move on, the real bad guys don't stop with a simple port-scan.
Well, the US policy on government assassinations is a bit more complex than that. See this for a brief overview.
Since Reagan the interpretation has apparently been "it's not an assassination if you use really big weapons to assure maximum collateral damage".
Yes, when you enter the non-flash portion of the site there is a graphic of Richard Nixon saying "Get flash you hippie".
Yo, slashdotlings, this does not mean that TMBG's site requires flash! It's just a graphic on the first page of the non-flash section. It will not bite you. Geez, people, get a grip (and a sense of humor).
Heavy chains, welded to the case, attached to eyebolts sunk in concrete. The chains need to be strong enough to resist commercially available bolt-cutters, and the eyebolts need to be completely immersed. Check with your building management to be sure you can core-drill the floors for setting the bolts; otherwise you will have to get a very heavy concrete block (big enough to double as a computer desk).
Furthermore, you'll need to replace the case fasteners with snap-off security bolts to prevent thieves from simply removing the innards from your locked-down case and reconstructing them in a plywood box, as was so common with the chained-down computer terminals at the University of Delaware in the 70s.
If that's not enough for you, you could consider this.
Hope this helped!
Political expediency.
Some scapegoat had to be bombed, some hapless schmuck had to be nailed to a cross, and the Afghans were the best candidate: they were incapable of effectively fighting back, they were incapable of withstanding invasion, and they were harboring a known terrorist who was believed to be (and in fact actually was) connected with the 9/11 atrocities.
If you think about it, these three things (especially that last one) are valid reasons for invasion. Only one of these reasons can be applied to Iraq, obviously - that they were incapable of resisting invasion.
First "the Great Goddess Ayn Rand says your a dirty stinkin' COMMIE" post!
Seriously, the Post Office is one obvious choice for real identification - they can't tell any better than anyone else *who* you are, but they can probably validate *where* you are cheaper than anybody else.
Minerva Magazine is awesome, although the web site is rather weak in comparison.
What, my username didn't tip you off?
Whenever management tells me to do something illegal, immoral, or just generally stupid, I eplain that all such requests have to be made in writing, so that I won't get mixed up and deliver something other than what they asked for.
If they don't put it in writing, I don't do it. And I make plausible excuses based on all the properly submitted requests already pending.
If they *do* put it in writing, I tell 'em it's technically impossible. People stupid enough to write down illegal requests (bootleg this software out to all the PCs in marketing!) are easily drowned in technical triviata.
It works like this in Delaware: if you sell gift certificates, they can have an expiration date written on them, on no expiration date at all.
If there is no expiration date, the issuing company is forced to keep proper books; essentially, they can't count the money recieved for the certificate as pure profit, since products will have to be provided in return at some nebulous later date. Unredeemed certificates are effectively debts.
Companies hate that, because it complicates their bookkeeping, and because they'd like to profit from people failing to redeem a certificate before some arbitrary date.
Delaware essentially said, OK, we will let you have expiration dates (if simplifying your bookkeeping is that important to you) but if the date passes and the certificate is not redeemed, you must give all the money from sales of the certificate to the state. Obviously, this is auditable, and any company that issues certificates must be prepared to show state auditors their records of certificate sales.
In theory, this prevents companies from profitting by issuing certificates designed not to be redeemed. In practice, it results in nearly all certificates issued in Delaware being unlimited - that is, they have no expiration dates.
The system works reasonably well and consumers are very happy with it.
Excellent, thank you. My camera is listed as "supported"! I won't get a chance to work with the software for a couple of weeks :^( because my employee is sending me all over the map lately, but I should have lots of opportunities to snap pictures, anyway.
Thanks again!
What software would you recommend?
Do you know of any camera/software combinations that are noteworthy?
Thanks!
My method of photography is "Start shooting before whatever you want to shoot happens, and keep going until after it's over".
I was so happy when they came up with fast-forward-winding film cameras. The more pictures you can shoot, the more chances of a serendipitous shot you'dve never have been able to set up in a million years.
Digital imaging greatly reduces the cost of this method - I was getting two or three awesome pics per roll of file, so I couldn't afford to do very many - but unfortunately many of the digital cameras have a slow cycle time, and you'll find yourself between clicks when the pie hits the President.
Check out camera speed before you buy!
Your use of the term "raghead" was exactly the same usage one hears from racists. If you do not wish to be consdered a racist you should not use their language when pushing viewpoints that coincide with theirs.
If you start making comments about "shipping undesirables back to Africa" and then use the word "pickaninny" I'm going to assume you are a white supremecist. If you start talking about "ragheads" and criticising non-western religion and philosophy, I'm assuming you're anti-Arab.
I'm reminded of the guy who complained about being called a Nazi, when he had a big portrait of Hitler tattooed on his shaven head. Maybe he isn't a Nazi, but he's always going to be considered one if he continues to act like one. I can only know your intent by your words. If you used the wrong words, it's not me "twisting your intent", it's you failing to express yourself.
I assure you that "raghead" is considered a racist term by many people. If you'd care to research this, I suggest you be careful who you say it to.
You are correct that my message was intended to be ironic. But it appears that I am also not an expert at written communication. Hopefully somebody somewhere found it amusingly sardonic, but perhaps not.
As for Arab propaganda, we don't get any of that around here. It's all zionism, all the time in most of the Eastern USA. But if you want to stop terrorism, you have to make suicide bombers prefer life to death - and you don't do that by blowing up their neighbors, or funding invasions, or by selling arms to brutal dictatorhips.
Do you deny that the states of Israel and Saudia Arabia (generally considered by the people who actually live in the Middle East to be two of the worst oppressors in the region) are completely dependent on the US dollar? Do you deny that this is what motivates the terrorist attacks on the US? That's not Arab propaganda, it's reality.
Your wrote: "Prehaps you would like to review my message and grasp my sharply worded attack upon Osama bin Laden and his brand of religious and historically motivated terrorism against the United States."
At the time, it sounded more to me like a vague support for the inconveniencing of Canadians; with the implication that Canada is "soft on terrorism" because they are not sacrificing traditional freedoms in a vain attempt to stop terrorism through increased militarism and regulation.
If you are indeed not a racist, my apologies for miscategorizing you. I would wager I am not the only one who read your message that way, though.
People over 40 probably got it... never mind.
I just find the way people are lining up to throw out every remaining vestige of freedom and individuality in the USA these days bleakly amusing. Add your little racist diatribe and it becomes hysterically funny.
Do you always use the word "raghead" to refer to Arabs, or do you like to use "sand-nigger" too?