So the occupants of a vessel in Star Trek would not necessarily be reduced to a fine pulp as you might think.
If only I'd been born a bit earlier, I'd have beaten Miguel Alcubierre to the punch on his theory... I came up with the exact same thing sometime in 1998 trying to come up with an explanation for a method of superluminal travel for a short story I was writing.
If you've read most of the posts thus far, you'll notice several posts along the lines of:
"Stop whining. I work X hours a week doing Y work."
And this points towards a very important factor which plays very much into stress: perception.
You see, by having a severely stressful job, the "quit whining" posters are able to step down to a moderately sressful job and percieve it as relatively non-stressful. They are able to percieve your job as rather easy.
So maybe you could just go for the most brutally hellish job you can find, work that for a while, quit and go elsewhere... that should change your perception!
Much like fear, stress requires your consent. It only exists because you cause it to exist.
Most of the people I know in the military would tell me that the first goal in their training is to wash out the mindless androids.
That's funny... I thought it was the other way around.
The military is the most conformist organization there is. They don't want anyone stepping out of line, and all the talk of appreciating new ideas and innovative ways of doing things is often just that.... talk.
The android types are the ones who sail smoothly through their service...
When I was in Iraq last year, I took one look at the network folks and resolved to quit right there. Here I was busting my balls all day in the sun while they sat in their air conditioned tent the whole time. And was I getting paid any more? Nope. In fact, they get paid more... with reenlistment bonuses, anyway. When I thought about it, I felt downright stupid for having to put up with my (now old) job.
I left active duty (after 8 years) and changing jobs in the guard is easy, so long as you move 100 miles or so.
Now, it's cake city. Switches and routers are soooooo simple and easy to configure, maintain and troubleshoot... I love it! Perhaps you should try a similar change of careers, no?
Maybe YOU aren't trying to prove it to anyone, but I've had plenty of theists (christians)attempt to prove it to me. Just because you aren't pushing your religion, doesn't mean nobody else is.
Seeing all these anti-spyware posts makes me wonder:
Why don't anti-spyware/virus writers use similar deployment/propagation tactics? Why not write a virus that eliminates viruses? Why not create spyware killers that auto-install transparently like spyware?
No need to mod me up or down... I'm just asking a question.
Granted, they may not support jumbo frames or be true gigabit, but there are gigabit switches in the $70 price range such as LanReady's LS-5000G (check out pricewatch sometime).
I really don't give a shit, it's your life not mine. Whatever happened to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
Indeed... I think all this really illustrates how we've strayed from the founding principles of this country... as such, we're definitely on a fast track to being totally fucked.
pherris quietly puts on a fire retardant suit and watches his karma head south.
If you're modded down, it's truly a sign of how screwed up things are and how brainwashed the masses have become...
or that mail clients be changed so that they automatically follom the link
Sounds like a pretty simple solution to me. All that would be needed is a standard format for the e-mail ticket (reference message as you call it) and a client that supports the standard.
If such a standard came out tomorrow and new mail clients to boot, I'd be more than glad to trade out my client. If someone e-mails with an older client, just have the new client send back "sorry, this e-mail uses x.x00". Then I tell my friends and add blurbs to e-mail web postings to inform of the necessity of said compliancy, and presto.
So, how's this:
1. Sender sends standard formatted ticket containing originating address and a random verification string.
2. Receiver gets ticket and send pickup message with another different random string and original string through a proxy.
3. Sender verifies original string and sends actual message.
4. Receiver verifies secondary string and gets message.
And by doing it all client side, there's no immediate requirement to chenge server software.
Another thing is that the method poses new risks. In order to read the message, you contact the sender, so you expose yourself. The sender knows that he reached a real address - which is something you would want to prevent. Also, it might be easier to exploit security holes in your system when you contact the other computer.
Couldn't the receiver just use a proxy for pickup?
"Visibility," said the phlegmy chief executive. "There might yet be tribal elders hidden in some lost corner of the South American jungle who has not yet heard of Microsoft.
Damn. That was the funniest thing I've read in weeks...
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What about Unix?
When I think of Bell Labs, I think Unix and the transistor and yet you skipped those, oddly enough.
They set the voice levels too low for me to hear so I have to turn the volume all the way up to hear speech then just about that time they start blowing shit up, (like my speakers and my head) and lay in with the loud ass music. Words can not begin to describe how freaking annoying that is.
I thought I was the only one driven nuts by this. I'm relatively young and have perfectly good hearing, and I still find it annoying as hell. Why on earth do they do this??
Does anybody know of a DVD player with some nice AGC built in (and running by default)? I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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I remember reading something like this for the basis of a uber-computer in an old science fiction novel called "Factoring Humanity".
It used to be one of the premier search engines until Disney bought and ruined it.
Why do these companied do this sort of stuff? What are they thinking?
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Word is definitely a pain in the ass... particularly when I get someone else's document and mess around with it.
My solution? Excel... It does EXACTLY what I want it to.
...this?
I'm always looking for suggestions too...
Maybe you should pick it up, eh? :)
The superluminal travel used in Star Trek is based on the manipulation of spacetime.
So the occupants of a vessel in Star Trek would not necessarily be reduced to a fine pulp as you might think.
If only I'd been born a bit earlier, I'd have beaten Miguel Alcubierre to the punch on his theory... I came up with the exact same thing sometime in 1998 trying to come up with an explanation for a method of superluminal travel for a short story I was writing.
If you've read most of the posts thus far, you'll notice several posts along the lines of:
"Stop whining. I work X hours a week doing Y work."
And this points towards a very important factor which plays very much into stress: perception.
You see, by having a severely stressful job, the "quit whining" posters are able to step down to a moderately sressful job and percieve it as relatively non-stressful. They are able to percieve your job as rather easy.
So maybe you could just go for the most brutally hellish job you can find, work that for a while, quit and go elsewhere... that should change your perception!
Much like fear, stress requires your consent. It only exists because you cause it to exist.
Most of the people I know in the military would tell me that the first goal in their training is to wash out the mindless androids.
That's funny... I thought it was the other way around.
The military is the most conformist organization there is. They don't want anyone stepping out of line, and all the talk of appreciating new ideas and innovative ways of doing things is often just that.... talk.
The android types are the ones who sail smoothly through their service...
I would LOVE to be doing that
Maybe you ought to switch jobs.
When I was in Iraq last year, I took one look at the network folks and resolved to quit right there. Here I was busting my balls all day in the sun while they sat in their air conditioned tent the whole time. And was I getting paid any more? Nope. In fact, they get paid more... with reenlistment bonuses, anyway. When I thought about it, I felt downright stupid for having to put up with my (now old) job.
I left active duty (after 8 years) and changing jobs in the guard is easy, so long as you move 100 miles or so.
Now, it's cake city. Switches and routers are soooooo simple and easy to configure, maintain and troubleshoot... I love it! Perhaps you should try a similar change of careers, no?
I can tell you a story of a friend who was raised from the dead
Are you sure he was dead?
people with incurable diseases being healed
Obviously they weren't incurable, were they?
Either way, I fail to see how these examples of yours prove the existence of God.
Yes, but the thesits are not trying to prove anything to anyone
Oh really? Then what's this?
Maybe YOU aren't trying to prove it to anyone, but I've had plenty of theists (christians)attempt to prove it to me. Just because you aren't pushing your religion, doesn't mean nobody else is.
Fair enough. If you're right, when we die, we die. If I'm right, well... Let's just say I'll stick with my faith.
I'd say foolhardy is an apt nick.
Legality doesn't seem to be stopping viruses and spyware.
Seeing all these anti-spyware posts makes me wonder:
Why don't anti-spyware/virus writers use similar deployment/propagation tactics? Why not write a virus that eliminates viruses? Why not create spyware killers that auto-install transparently like spyware?
No need to mod me up or down... I'm just asking a question.
At least in my time zone it is...
Granted, they may not support jumbo frames or be true gigabit, but there are gigabit switches in the $70 price range such as LanReady's LS-5000G (check out pricewatch sometime).
I thought the max bandwidth for 32-bit PCI is 133 MBps? Should be enough for Gigabit's 125 MBps, right?
I really don't give a shit, it's your life not mine. Whatever happened to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
Indeed... I think all this really illustrates how we've strayed from the founding principles of this country... as such, we're definitely on a fast track to being totally fucked.
pherris quietly puts on a fire retardant suit and watches his karma head south.
If you're modded down, it's truly a sign of how screwed up things are and how brainwashed the masses have become...
The law's the law
So you follow laws simply for the sake of them being laws?
It really bothers me that so many people follow rules handed down to them without question.
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law."
-Henry David Thoreau
or that mail clients be changed so that they automatically follom the link
Sounds like a pretty simple solution to me. All that would be needed is a standard format for the e-mail ticket (reference message as you call it) and a client that supports the standard.
If such a standard came out tomorrow and new mail clients to boot, I'd be more than glad to trade out my client. If someone e-mails with an older client, just have the new client send back "sorry, this e-mail uses x.x00". Then I tell my friends and add blurbs to e-mail web postings to inform of the necessity of said compliancy, and presto.
So, how's this:
1. Sender sends standard formatted ticket containing originating address and a random verification string.
2. Receiver gets ticket and send pickup message with another different random string and original string through a proxy.
3. Sender verifies original string and sends actual message.
4. Receiver verifies secondary string and gets message.
And by doing it all client side, there's no immediate requirement to chenge server software.
Another thing is that the method poses new risks. In order to read the message, you contact the sender, so you expose yourself. The sender knows that he reached a real address - which is something you would want to prevent. Also, it might be easier to exploit security holes in your system when you contact the other computer.
Couldn't the receiver just use a proxy for pickup?
I was just thinking along the same lines.
If the original message were stored at the sender side, wouldn't this alleviate the problem of spoofing and massive bandwidth consumption?
What are the flaws I'm not seeing here? Why not adopt this??
"Visibility," said the phlegmy chief executive. "There might yet be tribal elders hidden in some lost corner of the South American jungle who has not yet heard of Microsoft.
Damn. That was the funniest thing I've read in weeks...
What about Unix?
When I think of Bell Labs, I think Unix and the transistor and yet you skipped those, oddly enough.
They set the voice levels too low for me to hear so I have to turn the volume all the way up to hear speech then just about that time they start blowing shit up, (like my speakers and my head) and lay in with the loud ass music. Words can not begin to describe how freaking annoying that is.
I thought I was the only one driven nuts by this. I'm relatively young and have perfectly good hearing, and I still find it annoying as hell. Why on earth do they do this??
Does anybody know of a DVD player with some nice AGC built in (and running by default)? I'd buy it in a heartbeat.