I find this enitre report on the study to be highly suspect, for example it says "Previous work has shown that people with more efficient brain connections score higher on tests of intelligence", a statement so profoundly free of any connection to actual science that it goes well beyond religious. I've seen plenty of hard workers sail right past highly intelligent people in academia and employment circles.
They didn't say that efficient brains are more successful in life, only that they are more intelligent. That would be a connection that science could easily establish, with no religion involved. On the other hand, if they said that efficient brains make for better/more successful people, then I would have to agree with you.
How much you wanna bet someone very high up at Samsung, upon seeing this story hit the 'net, snatched up the phone, dialed up a memorized phone number, and feverishly whispered to the high mucky muck at the Department of Homeland Security that the deal was off....
You can't be a "control whore", because then you would be selling your authority to whomever would pay.
You are absolutely correct. By that argument, we could reasonably call Apple the "Control Pimp". It has a whole bunch of apps in its stable (App Store) and it charges you money to use one of them. It can restrict use of an app and even kill an app off if it's not bringing in enough money.
Cuz Apple gots to get PAID.
[insert picture of Steve Jobs macking with a grill, 10 pounds of gold chains and rings, and a cane.]
I'm going to guess that, yes, the phone got him out of the ticket, but only because the judge wanted to avoid setting a precedent by expressly ignoring it. I'd say his evidence was clear enough, but the judge wanted to avoid being the judge to rule that an app on someone's mobile device constitutes indisputable evidence, and the lack of evidence on the officer's part gave him the necessary out.
Based on observations of Cassiopeia A, Dany Page and his collaborators pinpoint the critical temperature of the neutron superfluid to half a billion degrees and argue that the protons in neutron-star cores are superconducting.
Hey folks, help me out here. My understanding of "superconduction" deals solely with electron pairs traveling through a special medium. How would protons in a neutron star be "superconducting"? Is that to say that protons move through the neutron star material with zero resistance? And if that's the case, what happened to all the electrons? I thought that the very definition of a neutron star was one in which gravity had caused the collapse of atoms, and that one byproduct of that collapse was that the protons and electrons merged to become neutrons themselves...
"Of all the better-known content management systems, Drupal is oftentimes criticized for having the steepest learning curve. Yet that would only be a valid charge as a result of Drupal's great power and flexibility — particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable Drupal developer."
Of all the better-known programming languages, Assembly is oftentimes criticized for having the steepest learning curve. Yet that would only be a valid charge as a result of Assembly's great power and flexibility — particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable Assembly developer.
There. Fixed that for you.
Anytime someone tells me that a system has a steep learning curve, I figure the guy that developed it did it wrong. There's steep, and then there's ridiculous, and if you have to tell me that the learning curve is criticized for being steep, I'm going to assume that there are better solutions out there or that there is an opportunity for a better solution to be created.
Oink like a pig, yes. Absolutely, if they produce an insect that can do a passable grunt/oink, I will whip out the hanky, fork, and knife out of no where, Wily Coyote style, and I will personally taste test cockroach bacon.
I'd rather have the gut feeling that this is what could be reached at home during daytime, i.e. when people who have a job go to work...
As with most polls, really.
It's stunning to me that Palin is in there at all. How do you manage to admire someone who quits an elected position halfway through because she doesn't like the questions the media are asking, or that is so blatantly uninformed, misinformed, and even downright ignorant?
I think it would be really interesting if the poll included the interviewee's source of news. I wonder what this poll would look like if you took Faux News viewers out of it.
We are now just shy of 7bill and expectation is that population will plateau at around 10bill.
Plateau? Isn't that just a lovely euphemism for "exceed the earth's ability to support any more people"? Ignoring the dire need for population control, I don't think anyone in this discussion is really ignoring human resourcefulness and creativity. Most of the comments here are suggesting various directions our collective intelligence could take us. Quite a few of the comments point out that capitalist self-interest has a tendency to drive us down less than optimal avenues, paths of least resistance that enrich those who already have the money to influence politicians.
I don't see a problem with using our intelligence to predict the resource pressures and attempt to begin creating solutions to those shortages. Better to have a flint in your pack than pretend you'll be able to scrounge one when the need for fire becomes urgent.
Why would you do that to him? And why would you do that to public discourse?
Not that it isn't an interesting idea -- he's certainly smart enough and would bring a whole different spin to any discussion -- but he serves a more important role using comedy to question the decisions and even the discussions being promoted by those in charge. There is nothing that can ground an issue and restore perspective like shining a light on absurdity.
You say you can get infected from "seemingly innocuous" sites. Does that include mainstream sites, like Netflix or YouTube, Demonoid.me or Amazon or blogs like Slashdot?
Actually, I was referring to any site that I might come across while doing a search. I've come across numerous situations where I'm trying to find information on something and one of the sites I click on is blocked by AVG. I haven't had a well-known mainstream site blocked, IIRC.
These days I cannot use those ports. I know for a fact that 3389 and 80 are blocked. And any time I run RDP on a different port it'll wind up blocked again after two or three connections.
Not to get off the point of your post, but if you can't use those ports it's time to call your ISP. I'm on Comcast and I run a small web server and FTP server, and I use VNC or Remote Desktop all the time.
Absolutely correct. If you could pick up Japan and fold it in half, you could drop it into North and South Dakota with a little room to spare. With Finland, you'd have to use the Dakotas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The U.S. is a pretty large, sprawled out place. You have to account for that when planning out the 'net architecture and the problem domain of providing ubiquitous fiber service.
The media lie and the government lies. As long as they tell different lies, democracy is working. You should watch out, though, if they start telling the same lies.
You don't get them by opening email or surfing the web these days. Tracking cookies are not viruses.
You absolutely CAN get an infection from simply surfing the web. I was one of the people affected by the AVG Update Of Death, but I recovered and I will continue to use them in part because it integrates with Firefox and has stopped numerous attacks by intercepting seemingly innocuous sites. If you're not aware of the danger involved in simply surfing the web, you should do a little honest research.
The only practical way to do it is to enforce the fact that when someone opts out of paying for a service, they have opted out of receiving that service.
Please tell me you aren't a hospital administrator.
Fortunately, there are laws that force hospitals to provide emergency services. Emergency services shouldn't be a betting game any more than health care. In the case of house fires, I would argue that the only practical way to prevent this situation from happening again is to levy taxes at the state level and pay fire personnel from the state coffers. Allowing a city to refuse to render emergency aid where no other aid is available is criminal.
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I find this enitre report on the study to be highly suspect, for example it says "Previous work has shown that people with more efficient brain connections score higher on tests of intelligence", a statement so profoundly free of any connection to actual science that it goes well beyond religious. I've seen plenty of hard workers sail right past highly intelligent people in academia and employment circles.
They didn't say that efficient brains are more successful in life, only that they are more intelligent. That would be a connection that science could easily establish, with no religion involved. On the other hand, if they said that efficient brains make for better/more successful people, then I would have to agree with you.
How much you wanna bet someone very high up at Samsung, upon seeing this story hit the 'net, snatched up the phone, dialed up a memorized phone number, and feverishly whispered to the high mucky muck at the Department of Homeland Security that the deal was off....
This shows a clear need for TSA screenings of all astronauts prior boarding.
"I have to take off my boots, too? OH COME ON, ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
Oh my god! I've never seen that one before.
THAT WAS AWESOME!
Thanks man, that made my whole day....hehe...
+5, Funny?
Well, +5 Fanboi isn't one of the options Slashdot gives you, so yeah, +5 Funny.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this thing is going to speak to you through its ears and listen to you through its feet?
Hm.
No, that's not weird at all....
You can't be a "control whore", because then you would be selling your authority to whomever would pay.
You are absolutely correct. By that argument, we could reasonably call Apple the "Control Pimp". It has a whole bunch of apps in its stable (App Store) and it charges you money to use one of them. It can restrict use of an app and even kill an app off if it's not bringing in enough money.
Cuz Apple gots to get PAID.
[insert picture of Steve Jobs macking with a grill, 10 pounds of gold chains and rings, and a cane.]
In Wikipedia, under "Geek Porn", there's a link to that video.
I'm going to guess that, yes, the phone got him out of the ticket, but only because the judge wanted to avoid setting a precedent by expressly ignoring it. I'd say his evidence was clear enough, but the judge wanted to avoid being the judge to rule that an app on someone's mobile device constitutes indisputable evidence, and the lack of evidence on the officer's part gave him the necessary out.
Based on observations of Cassiopeia A, Dany Page and his collaborators pinpoint the critical temperature of the neutron superfluid to half a billion degrees and argue that the protons in neutron-star cores are superconducting.
Hey folks, help me out here. My understanding of "superconduction" deals solely with electron pairs traveling through a special medium. How would protons in a neutron star be "superconducting"? Is that to say that protons move through the neutron star material with zero resistance? And if that's the case, what happened to all the electrons? I thought that the very definition of a neutron star was one in which gravity had caused the collapse of atoms, and that one byproduct of that collapse was that the protons and electrons merged to become neutrons themselves...
???
"Of all the better-known content management systems, Drupal is oftentimes criticized for having the steepest learning curve. Yet that would only be a valid charge as a result of Drupal's great power and flexibility — particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable Drupal developer."
Of all the better-known programming languages, Assembly is oftentimes criticized for having the steepest learning curve. Yet that would only be a valid charge as a result of Assembly's great power and flexibility — particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable Assembly developer.
There. Fixed that for you.
Anytime someone tells me that a system has a steep learning curve, I figure the guy that developed it did it wrong. There's steep, and then there's ridiculous, and if you have to tell me that the learning curve is criticized for being steep, I'm going to assume that there are better solutions out there or that there is an opportunity for a better solution to be created.
That's just 21 years of programming talking...
Y'know what? No. Squeal like a pig? No.
Oink like a pig, yes. Absolutely, if they produce an insect that can do a passable grunt/oink, I will whip out the hanky, fork, and knife out of no where, Wily Coyote style, and I will personally taste test cockroach bacon.
MMmmmmmm bacon...
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I'd rather have the gut feeling that this is what could be reached at home during daytime, i.e. when people who have a job go to work...
As with most polls, really.
It's stunning to me that Palin is in there at all. How do you manage to admire someone who quits an elected position halfway through because she doesn't like the questions the media are asking, or that is so blatantly uninformed, misinformed, and even downright ignorant?
I think it would be really interesting if the poll included the interviewee's source of news. I wonder what this poll would look like if you took Faux News viewers out of it.
Until they can make grasshoppers moo, I'll pass.
We are now just shy of 7bill and expectation is that population will plateau at around 10bill.
Plateau? Isn't that just a lovely euphemism for "exceed the earth's ability to support any more people"? Ignoring the dire need for population control, I don't think anyone in this discussion is really ignoring human resourcefulness and creativity. Most of the comments here are suggesting various directions our collective intelligence could take us. Quite a few of the comments point out that capitalist self-interest has a tendency to drive us down less than optimal avenues, paths of least resistance that enrich those who already have the money to influence politicians.
I don't see a problem with using our intelligence to predict the resource pressures and attempt to begin creating solutions to those shortages. Better to have a flint in your pack than pretend you'll be able to scrounge one when the need for fire becomes urgent.
Why would you do that to him? And why would you do that to public discourse?
Not that it isn't an interesting idea -- he's certainly smart enough and would bring a whole different spin to any discussion -- but he serves a more important role using comedy to question the decisions and even the discussions being promoted by those in charge. There is nothing that can ground an issue and restore perspective like shining a light on absurdity.
You say you can get infected from "seemingly innocuous" sites. Does that include mainstream sites, like Netflix or YouTube, Demonoid.me or Amazon or blogs like Slashdot?
Actually, I was referring to any site that I might come across while doing a search. I've come across numerous situations where I'm trying to find information on something and one of the sites I click on is blocked by AVG. I haven't had a well-known mainstream site blocked, IIRC.
These days I cannot use those ports. I know for a fact that 3389 and 80 are blocked. And any time I run RDP on a different port it'll wind up blocked again after two or three connections.
Not to get off the point of your post, but if you can't use those ports it's time to call your ISP.
I'm on Comcast and I run a small web server and FTP server, and I use VNC or Remote Desktop all the time.
Absolutely correct. If you could pick up Japan and fold it in half, you could drop it into North and South Dakota with a little room to spare. With Finland, you'd have to use the Dakotas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The U.S. is a pretty large, sprawled out place. You have to account for that when planning out the 'net architecture and the problem domain of providing ubiquitous fiber service.
Sorry, I know this is off-topic, but perhaps you can explain why I would want to repeal my ability to directly elect my Senators?
The media lie and the government lies. As long as they tell different lies, democracy is working. You should watch out, though, if they start telling the same lies.
You mean like Fox News and the GOP?
Was her ex really short, bearded, and wearing a funny hat?
His ex dated Santa Claus?
You don't get them by opening email or surfing the web these days. Tracking cookies are not viruses.
You absolutely CAN get an infection from simply surfing the web. I was one of the people affected by the AVG Update Of Death, but I recovered and I will continue to use them in part because it integrates with Firefox and has stopped numerous attacks by intercepting seemingly innocuous sites. If you're not aware of the danger involved in simply surfing the web, you should do a little honest research.
"...We.re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don't cooperate"
I wonder if that constitutes a terrorist threat?
Y'know what? Screw'em. I'd post a tear down, then I'd reassemble it and stick it under a long haul trucker's trailer.
The only practical way to do it is to enforce the fact that when someone opts out of paying for a service, they have opted out of receiving that service.
Please tell me you aren't a hospital administrator.
Fortunately, there are laws that force hospitals to provide emergency services. Emergency services shouldn't be a betting game any more than health care. In the case of house fires, I would argue that the only practical way to prevent this situation from happening again is to levy taxes at the state level and pay fire personnel from the state coffers. Allowing a city to refuse to render emergency aid where no other aid is available is criminal.