I use linux (arch linux) on all my machines. I agree with you that this will break interoperability, but even I (a die hard linux user) recognize that Microsoft has a right to try to improve their file system. NTFS has been around a long time (version 1.0 released in 1993). Sometimes laying an old project to rest and starting new is the right choice. This does not mean that they are doing this to break "system rescue cd" or some other live linux environment.
That article on the study you quote is not honest. As a person trained in radiation safety I can tell you that this quote:
WHY IS THE SCIENCE SO HOTLY CONTESTED?
Why is there so much dispute about the number of deaths which Fukushima could cause on the West Coast?
Because radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s - and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.
is blatantly FALSE. For simple proof of this consider that every x-ray facility in the US has signage that says something like this:
IF YOU ARE PREGNANT, OR THINK YOU MIGHT BE PREGNANT, TELL THE X-RAY TECHNOLOGIST BEFORE HAVING AN X-RAY COMPLETED - SI EST USTED EMBARAZADA O CREE ESTARLO, INFORME AL TCNICO DE RAYOS X ANTES DE REALIZAR LA PRUEBA DE RAYOS X
Most firearm rounds will not be stopped by an average size human. An air plain is a crowded environment where collateral damage from firearms would be too great. The last class I took for "conceal and carry" the instructor had us line up for target shooting and I can tell you from personal experience that people who have never fired a gun with someone next to them shooting at the same time will be very nervous, and the accuracy of their shooting will be greatly diminished. I have seen people with experience shooting miss a human size target only 10 yards away. Why don't we save the firearms for well trained responsible individuals, and give everyone else a bat.
Who needs hackers for a DoS attack when Facebook could do the job for you?
So quit relying on other peoples web sites and get your own. Really, we have two pharmaceutical companies fighting over a stupid facebook account. If I was them I would be too embarrassed to even admit that I had a facebook account.
This is aimed at "fixing" interoperability by having everyone on the same system using the same keys.
Given that these channels are monitored by police, ambulance, ER, and the fire dept. I question the feasibility of putting all on the same encrypted channel. You create a single point of failure that is beyond the control of the police. Not saying that it can't be done, but that if the police truly want privacy they need an alternate channel that they control. They should use the open channel most of the time and only use the encrypted channel when they need...
privacy.
P.S.
The entire concept of the police having the ability to hide what they are doing from the people is really disturbing.
I am not so certain that it is slashdot's problem. I haven't come by anything really exciting in tech news in quite sometime. I actually miss the sco lawsuit.
You have a good point. Atheism does not have a set code of moral teachings, but I think you are being more than a bit dishonest. Atheism certainly has moral implications that cannot be ignored. In atheism we are the judges and creators of morality. The root of human morality apart from God is summed up rather nicely in the scientific statement "The survival of the fittest". This is demonstrated simply by looking at what man has done when we consider ourselves free to decide right and wrong for ourselves. Don't kid yourself between atheism and evolution we can find all the justification we need for such atrocities as eugenics and the holocaust.
You're implying an asocial aspect to atheism that simply isn't based in reality.
Do you know of any societies that developed without religion or rejected religion to embrace atheism that have a moral code that holds that life has intrinsic value?
I have a moral code. A lot of the time (but not always) my moral code matches a lot of what the christian faith teaches as being moral.
Though certainly not a demonstration that Christianity is true, I think you have just demonstrated why it is necessary. You have grown up in a society that is heavily influenced by Christian moral teaching. Christianity has provided a moral underpinning that has held our society together. The more we leave Christianity and its teachings the more our society suffers. Consider the following:
Christianity teaches that we should be content with what we have and that greed is wrong. This moral teaching is the best balance to capitalism.
Christianity teaches that husbands should love their wives and and give her honour "as unto the weaker vessel" (NOTE: This does not teach that the wife is somehow weaker than the husband but that the husband should treat her as if she were special, the weaker vessel being like the fine china you keep safe.) This provides support to help the family to stay together.
There are many other examples of why Christianity is important such as its teachings on covetousness, truthfulness, and the value of human life.
Atheistic teachings on all these things boil down to survival of the fittest and could not create a society even close to what we have today.
Night and day are made in one time span. The Sun is made in a later time span. The order is completely off, both in the multiple genesis stories, and with regard to what we know about the universe.
It is fascinating that you would mention this as it is one of the reasons to take the Genesis account literally. The logic goes like this.
Given that everyone can see that the sun gives us light, and
if man were to invent a creation story it would be most natural to create the sun first.
Given that it would require a deity to create light, then give it a direction, then give it a source, and
such an order of events would be necessary for stars to be visible in a young universe.
Given that the gospels of Matthew and Luke both show the ancestry of Christ (Luke taking it all the way back to Adam) using the names of the people out of Genesis, demonstrating that they believed the people were real and not made up.
It then follows that if the ancestry of Christ is to be taken literally that the earth is young, and
if the earth is young then we need to account for the ability to see the stars, therefore
for the deist the literal Genesis account should be the preferred interpretation as only a literal interpretation of Genesis can account for the old appearance of a young universe.
I realise that these arguments are full of assumptions that an atheist would not have. However, this is an argument that would come up between theist who disagree on how to interpret Genesis ch 1-7.
Man up! Grow a pair of balls and FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN.
As a republican (kinda) I would like to say AMEN!!
I may not support all that he would do, but I hate politics. These parasites in washington should not be allowed to hide their true beliefs. What we need are statesmen who really care about the people they represent. What we get are a bunch of cowards who are only interested in there own pocketbooks.
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All our laws should have an expiration date. Congress should have re-evaluate every law on the books every so many years that way they are too tied up keeping the system going to constantly pass bad laws, and they would also have an incentive to keep the laws simple to expedite the system. Bad laws can simply disappear by the inaction of a future congress. Our laws (and our government) need to be downsized to the point that the average citizen can understand what they can and cannot do.
With a expiration limit of say 10 years I bet our law makers would be so busy that even the lobbyist couldn't keep up with them. It would also be neat to see big business have to spend lobbying dollars repeatedly for their favourite pet law instead of just once.
Are you certain that we don't have to worry about the globe getting more solar energy than it is already getting. It would be worth it just to see Mr Gore's response.
Here in America the southern states thought that too. I wonder what would happen if a nation that was economical important to the EU were to try to withdraw.
not to mention a healthy dose of pride so you can elevate your own self worth.
I am a republican, but I am tired of hearing the old party line of trickle down economics. Do you know what the problem is with trickle down economics?
-- TRICKLE --
I am sick of begging for the scraps that the wealthy decide to throw our way. The biggest problem though, I don't know how to fix this situation.
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I was refering to the eating of concrete without effect. :)
I use linux (arch linux) on all my machines. I agree with you that this will break interoperability, but even I (a die hard linux user) recognize that Microsoft has a right to try to improve their file system. NTFS has been around a long time (version 1.0 released in 1993). Sometimes laying an old project to rest and starting new is the right choice. This does not mean that they are doing this to break "system rescue cd" or some other live linux environment.
Are you sure?
That article on the study you quote is not honest. As a person trained in radiation safety I can tell you that this quote:
is blatantly FALSE. For simple proof of this consider that every x-ray facility in the US has signage that says something like this:
Most firearm rounds will not be stopped by an average size human. An air plain is a crowded environment where collateral damage from firearms would be too great. The last class I took for "conceal and carry" the instructor had us line up for target shooting and I can tell you from personal experience that people who have never fired a gun with someone next to them shooting at the same time will be very nervous, and the accuracy of their shooting will be greatly diminished. I have seen people with experience shooting miss a human size target only 10 yards away. Why don't we save the firearms for well trained responsible individuals, and give everyone else a bat.
This has been a concern of mine. I have this happen frequently. I take solace in the fact that on the systems I use /var/log can only be read by root.
How do you log errors with the new binary syslog?
So quit relying on other peoples web sites and get your own. Really, we have two pharmaceutical companies fighting over a stupid facebook account. If I was them I would be too embarrassed to even admit that I had a facebook account.
'organic' vegetables - the stuff even the insects won't eat. ;)
That is just because the machines didn't know what chicken taste like.
Given that these channels are monitored by police, ambulance, ER, and the fire dept. I question the feasibility of putting all on the same encrypted channel. You create a single point of failure that is beyond the control of the police. Not saying that it can't be done, but that if the police truly want privacy they need an alternate channel that they control. They should use the open channel most of the time and only use the encrypted channel when they need ...
privacy.
P.S.
The entire concept of the police having the ability to hide what they are doing from the people is really disturbing.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
You haven't tried gnome 3 yet have you.
I am not so certain that it is slashdot's problem. I haven't come by anything really exciting in tech news in quite sometime. I actually miss the sco lawsuit.
:x
You have a good point. Atheism does not have a set code of moral teachings, but I think you are being more than a bit dishonest. Atheism certainly has moral implications that cannot be ignored. In atheism we are the judges and creators of morality. The root of human morality apart from God is summed up rather nicely in the scientific statement "The survival of the fittest". This is demonstrated simply by looking at what man has done when we consider ourselves free to decide right and wrong for ourselves. Don't kid yourself between atheism and evolution we can find all the justification we need for such atrocities as eugenics and the holocaust.
Perhaps you missed my previous comment.
Do you know of any societies that developed without religion or rejected religion to embrace atheism that have a moral code that holds that life has intrinsic value?
"And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." Acts 11:26b (emphasis added)
no
Though certainly not a demonstration that Christianity is true, I think you have just demonstrated why it is necessary. You have grown up in a society that is heavily influenced by Christian moral teaching. Christianity has provided a moral underpinning that has held our society together. The more we leave Christianity and its teachings the more our society suffers. Consider the following:
Atheistic teachings on all these things boil down to survival of the fittest and could not create a society even close to what we have today.
It is fascinating that you would mention this as it is one of the reasons to take the Genesis account literally. The logic goes like this.
I realise that these arguments are full of assumptions that an atheist would not have. However, this is an argument that would come up between theist who disagree on how to interpret Genesis ch 1-7.
As a republican (kinda) I would like to say AMEN!!
I may not support all that he would do, but I hate politics. These parasites in washington should not be allowed to hide their true beliefs. What we need are statesmen who really care about the people they represent. What we get are a bunch of cowards who are only interested in there own pocketbooks.
---------- Unrelated ----------
All our laws should have an expiration date. Congress should have re-evaluate every law on the books every so many years that way they are too tied up keeping the system going to constantly pass bad laws, and they would also have an incentive to keep the laws simple to expedite the system. Bad laws can simply disappear by the inaction of a future congress. Our laws (and our government) need to be downsized to the point that the average citizen can understand what they can and cannot do.
With a expiration limit of say 10 years I bet our law makers would be so busy that even the lobbyist couldn't keep up with them. It would also be neat to see big business have to spend lobbying dollars repeatedly for their favourite pet law instead of just once.
Are you certain that we don't have to worry about the globe getting more solar energy than it is already getting. It would be worth it just to see Mr Gore's response.
Here in America the southern states thought that too. I wonder what would happen if a nation that was economical important to the EU were to try to withdraw.
I am a republican, but I am tired of hearing the old party line of trickle down economics. Do you know what the problem is with trickle down economics?
-- TRICKLE --
I am sick of begging for the scraps that the wealthy decide to throw our way. The biggest problem though, I don't know how to fix this situation.