People think Quantum Physics is spooky, but I don't get it -- I really don't. Can anyone please explain to me (or point me at a link) that will tell me how this is any different than having two billiard balls, one is red and one is blue. Without looking at them, you put them both into boxes and ship them off to opposite sides of the globe. Now, one box is opened, and the ball is blue. So you know when the other box is opened, the ball they got will be red.
That's not spooky, bizarre, or even strange. It's not counterintuitive. So how is it different than quantum entanglement? I do not know, but I would like to.
I'm willing to bet that the point is -- on some level -- to drive more traffic to Facebook and get people to sign up. I clicked the link in the article. Facebook says I have to sign up to see the content. I said, fuck that -- but how many new members do you think they got out of this slashdot article alone?
Someone's going to have to explain the joke to me. What's so wrong about carbohydrates? If I eat a potato or a plate of spaghetti, am I going to get cancer? Die? Get fat, even? I ate a bowl of rice for lunch, and I felt pretty fucking healthy about it.
Seriously. What's so wrong about carbohydrates that this makes for a joke?
If my experience in High School still applies (and maybe it doesn't; it was a long time ago) you're going to turn out the lights to use that fancy gizno and half the class is going straight to sleep, the other half is going to be passing notes and shooting spitwads and paper airplanes around.
I suggest you compliment the technology there with a pair of night-vision goggles or something.
You can clear out an entire area of bad guys and KNOW it's cleared; there's NO ONE there, for sure, you can walk around and see they are all gone, and there is no other way in.
Then you set off an alarm and the place is CRAWLING with them. Where did they come from? Who the fuck knows. Totally destroyed the game for me.
You are correct. I've been through PCI and before that, CISP. Our office network is not involved. The production network where card numbers go is heavily audited and tracked.
OSSEC-HIDS helped a lot in the monitoring requirements, along with nmap and the LOG/ULOG targets in iptables.
We're talking about surfing porn on the internet. I've been doing that (or the equivalent on BBSes) for 20 years now, since I was maybe 12 or a bit older.
It's never resulted in kids... and if it is possible to result in kids then there's something I must have missed in school.
None of my sexual contact with women has resulted in kids either, because I'm not some sheltered little ignoramus who is told by the Church that condoms make baby Jesus cry.
And if you think the condom shit is old news, it's not. The government here in the US still only supports programs that teach/ABSTINENCE/, not condom use. It's ignorance, stupidity, and fear of the big Sky Daddy. GET OVER IT.
look, I don't know what the truth is about a rootkit but I can tell you one thing for/certain/ - I bought this game off Steam, downloaded it, installed it, and disabled my network card as is my usual state of affairs when I am bothered to boot into Windows. It runs just fine with the network missing, FWIW.
So when a guy puts marks on a board and says "learn this" without showing what value it contains, I tend to think he's playing a weed-out game of who will be his little obsequious minions and decided his game had nothing to do with the physics I'd gone there to learn.
No, you just had a bad teacher.
If you're actually interested, Richard Feynman's physics lectures are published and he was an *excellent* teacher.
Just a guess?! You misunderstand how scientists use the word "Theory."
The Theory of Gravity, Copernican Theory (you think that's just a guess? Maybe the Earth *doesn't* go around the sun?!), Atomic theory (totally just a guess! No evidence there at all!)... seriously. We've got as much or more evidence for the correctness of the Theory of Relativity as for any of those -- at this point if there were shown to be any significant error in the ToR (such as being able to go faster than the speed of light) it would break just about everything we have ever observed.
Now maybe you were joking, trying to make some attempt at being one of those Wankers who says "Evolution is just a/theory!/" but you got modded +1 insightful. So if you were kidding, this admonisment is for whoever modded you: get a clue.
No one said it's boring -- in fact they said it's very exciting. They said it's hard work, and it is.
Now, I love your idea of flower-power physics without all the math, but seriously exactly how do you hope to accomplish this?
You're a hippie with a magical dream... put down the bong and learn some mathematics. It's not boring, it is hard, but it is rewarding. Don't like hard work? Not only will you never understand anything beyond the most basic physics, you don't deserve to.
I've tried a few different providers in the $10 range. Of them, I've stuck with RapidVPS so far because their tech staff seems very knowledgable and gets things done fast.
You can get a VPS for $10 a month, put postgresql on it yourself. It is what I do. I don't know what you consider cheap but $10/month isn't a burden over here.
If you still don't get it, you can go to a medical textbook and look up the clitoris, and the clitoral hood, and see how they are closely related but not the same.
As I claimed in my post, female circumcision generally refers to the removal of the hood. As I claimed, that is absolutely analogous to removal of the foreskin.
I understand that the original post referred to "genital mutilation" which also includes the kinds of things you are talking about. But if you even glanced at my post it should be clear what I am talking about and that I am not equating it to complete removal of the clitoris.
Also it should be perfectly clear I'm against any such practices. If an adult decides to go out and get himself circumcised, that's all good. If someone else does it to him (even if it's when he's a child) that's not good at all.
The worst side effect to male circumcision is that it makes your schlong more long.
have far greater support among muslims, including but not limited to:
* Freedom of speech * Women's rights * Homophobia * Religious law * Forced marriage * Repressed view of nudity and sexuality * Female sex mutilation * Honor killings
Sounds to me like they're doing pretty well, if they support Freedom of Speech and Women's Rights they're off to a good start. Those other things on the list we(here in the US of A) are not much better off at. We're CERTAINLY not in a position to dictate these things to anyone else.
Here in the US, in *most* (but not all) places, homosexuality is illegal. It's a technical matter that no one is ever prosecuted on, of course, but that doesn't make it legal -- there are sodomy laws all over the books here. So someone would be justified, in my opinion, in claiming we support homophobia.
Religious law? Bible belt? Judges convinced that our laws are based on the Bible and the 10 commandments! Okay, yup, same here again, we have support for religious law.
Forced marriage? Only if she's pregnant... haw haw... okay, I guess this is one thing on your list that they support that we do not. If there are large groups here that support this I am unaware of them.
Repressed view of nudity and sexuality? Can a woman breast-feed her child in public in the US? Not in a lot of places; many people have been arrested or ejected from private property for it. And let's not even talk about gratuitious sexuality -- why can women not run around topless if they want? Hint: it's not because we're civilized. Civilized people aren't upset by boobies (or ankles). So we also support repressed views of nudity and sexuality.
Female sex multilation -- not common in the states. But why do you only specify female? In most cases it is the analogous thing being done to men; most female circumcisions remove the hood over the clitoris (most, I said!) and most male circumcisions remove the foreskin; which is the equivalent male structure. So why do you only get up in arms about the females? As a male, my own circumcision was forced on me, I had no more choice than a female does in that other country. So you discriminate by gender -- but I'm still going to chalk this up as somehting that is supported in the states as well; sexual mutiliation (regardless of gender).
Honor killings - Many states in the US still apply the death penalty for cases where the criminal has done something that is very repugnant.
So yes, I'm obviously stretching definitions to make a point, but I think it's an important one.
I'm surprised to hear from you that they largely support Freedom of Speech and Women's Rights. What I've heard elsewhere is that they do not.
yes, I'm guilty of nto reading your post carefull enough. I hope my advice can help someone else. Or maybe you'll decide to put together your own "experience" in the evenings/weekends away from your job (assuming you didn't accept some contract that makes every bit of coding you do belong to them regardless of scope... lots of kids get suckered into signing that one).
As a recently graduated CS student, I find this type of thinking to be incredibly infuriating at times. Companies only want to hire people with experience. Yet to gain this experience, I need a job. The circular logic goes round and round until you have a brain aneurism.
As someone with experience I'd just like to suggest that maybe they aren't stuck in a logical loop. Maybe you aren't the person they want, they want someone with experience.
Here's an idea: As a computer programmer, you are in a unique position to make your own experience. I got started in "the business" by developing a totally crappy (seriously, I'm ashamed) graphing calculator for the HPC. I have an HPC, I needed a graphing calculator, and I'm cheap, so I really wrote it for myself. Then I put it up on the web and people liked it, so that became the first point on what is now a long programming resume.
My point is, you don't have to get hired by anyone to get experience. If you don't have an idea or an itch to scratch of your own, pitch in on some open-source projects.
When I am hiring junior programmers, the guy who is fresh out of school I'm going to overlook. The guy who's fresh out of school AND has some projects of his own he's worked on is EXACTLY the guy I want, though -- not only do I know he's knowledgable and capable, I also know he's a self-starter who's not going to wait around and whine and bitch that no one is giving him an opportunity. The opportunities are out there, you can't wait for someone to give them to you... you have to go take them.
Seriously, go *do* something. It'll take your mind off being out of a job and if you do it right it will be the thing that gets you a job. It's win-win.
Your post was thoughtful and well-written, as well as insightful. I'm almost embarassed to be replying with humor.
So although I have not read William Gibson's works, I ask him not to give up on writing. You will have another good idea and you will write another book about it. Just wait for it to come.
I'd like to suggest that if you HAD read his books, you'd ask him to please put down the pen and do something else.
He had one great idea, and when he was younger, his writing style was beautiful and articulate, like some crazy poetry. But as time has worn on, he has moved further from brilliant concepts and fantastic conceptualizations, and closer to being "just another sci-fi author."
Neuromancer was an excellent read. The stories in Burning Chrome, genius. I'd even give im points on Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
After that, he went to crap. I still give him credit for being a brilliant man, a good writer, whom a lot of people enjoy. But I don't think that anyone, even his current fans, would argue that after his first set of books, "something changed."
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People think Quantum Physics is spooky, but I don't get it -- I really don't. Can anyone please explain to me (or point me at a link) that will tell me how this is any different than having two billiard balls, one is red and one is blue. Without looking at them, you put them both into boxes and ship them off to opposite sides of the globe. Now, one box is opened, and the ball is blue. So you know when the other box is opened, the ball they got will be red.
That's not spooky, bizarre, or even strange. It's not counterintuitive. So how is it different than quantum entanglement? I do not know, but I would like to.
Whoever modded this insightful has never heard, "Do it or we'll fire you and find someone who will."
I'm willing to bet that the point is -- on some level -- to drive more traffic to Facebook and get people to sign up. I clicked the link in the article. Facebook says I have to sign up to see the content. I said, fuck that -- but how many new members do you think they got out of this slashdot article alone?
Someone's going to have to explain the joke to me. What's so wrong about carbohydrates? If I eat a potato or a plate of spaghetti, am I going to get cancer? Die? Get fat, even? I ate a bowl of rice for lunch, and I felt pretty fucking healthy about it.
Seriously. What's so wrong about carbohydrates that this makes for a joke?
If my experience in High School still applies (and maybe it doesn't; it was a long time ago) you're going to turn out the lights to use that fancy gizno and half the class is going straight to sleep, the other half is going to be passing notes and shooting spitwads and paper airplanes around.
I suggest you compliment the technology there with a pair of night-vision goggles or something.
There was a game back in the day - Suspended, by Infocom. It remains one of the scariest games I have ever played.
/actually/ is impossible -- if you select it, then three moves into the game the sun goes supernova, destroying everything.
Anyhow, it had difficulty options, and the hardest difficulty setting was "Impossible."
Turns out it
I didn't like System Shock 2.
You can clear out an entire area of bad guys and KNOW it's cleared; there's NO ONE there, for sure, you can walk around and see they are all gone, and there is no other way in.
Then you set off an alarm and the place is CRAWLING with them. Where did they come from? Who the fuck knows. Totally destroyed the game for me.
You are correct. I've been through PCI and before that, CISP. Our office network is not involved. The production network where card numbers go is heavily audited and tracked.
OSSEC-HIDS helped a lot in the monitoring requirements, along with nmap and the LOG/ULOG targets in iptables.
INSIGHTFUL?
/ABSTINENCE/, not condom use. It's ignorance, stupidity, and fear of the big Sky Daddy. GET OVER IT.
We're talking about surfing porn on the internet. I've been doing that (or the equivalent on BBSes) for 20 years now, since I was maybe 12 or a bit older.
It's never resulted in kids... and if it is possible to result in kids then there's something I must have missed in school.
None of my sexual contact with women has resulted in kids either, because I'm not some sheltered little ignoramus who is told by the Church that condoms make baby Jesus cry.
And if you think the condom shit is old news, it's not. The government here in the US still only supports programs that teach
look, I don't know what the truth is about a rootkit but I can tell you one thing for /certain/ - I bought this game off Steam, downloaded it, installed it, and disabled my network card as is my usual state of affairs when I am bothered to boot into Windows. It runs just fine with the network missing, FWIW.
They won't be the /only/ winners if anyone takes you up on that bet. You'll be one too.
Remember I was your friend before you got $10 richer.
So when a guy puts marks on a board and says "learn this" without showing what value it contains, I tend to think he's playing a weed-out game of who will be his little obsequious minions and decided his game had nothing to do with the physics I'd gone there to learn.
No, you just had a bad teacher.
If you're actually interested, Richard Feynman's physics lectures are published and he was an *excellent* teacher.
Just a guess?! You misunderstand how scientists use the word "Theory."
/theory!/" but you got modded +1 insightful. So if you were kidding, this admonisment is for whoever modded you: get a clue.
The Theory of Gravity, Copernican Theory (you think that's just a guess? Maybe the Earth *doesn't* go around the sun?!), Atomic theory (totally just a guess! No evidence there at all!)... seriously. We've got as much or more evidence for the correctness of the Theory of Relativity as for any of those -- at this point if there were shown to be any significant error in the ToR (such as being able to go faster than the speed of light) it would break just about everything we have ever observed.
Now maybe you were joking, trying to make some attempt at being one of those Wankers who says "Evolution is just a
No one said it's boring -- in fact they said it's very exciting. They said it's hard work, and it is.
Now, I love your idea of flower-power physics without all the math, but seriously exactly how do you hope to accomplish this?
You're a hippie with a magical dream... put down the bong and learn some mathematics. It's not boring, it is hard, but it is rewarding. Don't like hard work? Not only will you never understand anything beyond the most basic physics, you don't deserve to.
I've tried a few different providers in the $10 range. Of them, I've stuck with RapidVPS so far because their tech staff seems very knowledgable and gets things done fast.
-Chris
You can get a VPS for $10 a month, put postgresql on it yourself. It is what I do. I don't know what you consider cheap but $10/month isn't a burden over here.
Those laws that you think make being homosexual illegal were declared unconstitutional. Four years ago.
That's good news!! Finally I can get the reaming I deserve!!
Oh wait, I guess you already took care of that for me.
Go back and read my post.
If you still don't get it, you can go to a medical textbook and look up the clitoris, and the clitoral hood, and see how they are closely related but not the same.
As I claimed in my post, female circumcision generally refers to the removal of the hood. As I claimed, that is absolutely analogous to removal of the foreskin.
I understand that the original post referred to "genital mutilation" which also includes the kinds of things you are talking about. But if you even glanced at my post it should be clear what I am talking about and that I am not equating it to complete removal of the clitoris.
Also it should be perfectly clear I'm against any such practices. If an adult decides to go out and get himself circumcised, that's all good. If someone else does it to him (even if it's when he's a child) that's not good at all.
The worst side effect to male circumcision is that it makes your schlong more long.
HAHAHAHAHAHAhahaha.... no.
I'm already working on my script to download all new music the minute it hits the service -- before it becomes popular.
I can't wait for the madness that will hit once my script becomes popular in usage.
(Note, I'm not actually writing such a script, but someone will.)
have far greater support among muslims, including but not limited to:
* Freedom of speech
* Women's rights
* Homophobia
* Religious law
* Forced marriage
* Repressed view of nudity and sexuality
* Female sex mutilation
* Honor killings
Sounds to me like they're doing pretty well, if they support Freedom of Speech and Women's Rights they're off to a good start. Those other things on the list we(here in the US of A) are not much better off at. We're CERTAINLY not in a position to dictate these things to anyone else.
Here in the US, in *most* (but not all) places, homosexuality is illegal. It's a technical matter that no one is ever prosecuted on, of course, but that doesn't make it legal -- there are sodomy laws all over the books here. So someone would be justified, in my opinion, in claiming we support homophobia.
Religious law? Bible belt? Judges convinced that our laws are based on the Bible and the 10 commandments! Okay, yup, same here again, we have support for religious law.
Forced marriage? Only if she's pregnant... haw haw... okay, I guess this is one thing on your list that they support that we do not. If there are large groups here that support this I am unaware of them.
Repressed view of nudity and sexuality? Can a woman breast-feed her child in public in the US? Not in a lot of places; many people have been arrested or ejected from private property for it. And let's not even talk about gratuitious sexuality -- why can women not run around topless if they want? Hint: it's not because we're civilized. Civilized people aren't upset by boobies (or ankles). So we also support repressed views of nudity and sexuality.
Female sex multilation -- not common in the states. But why do you only specify female? In most cases it is the analogous thing being done to men; most female circumcisions remove the hood over the clitoris (most, I said!) and most male circumcisions remove the foreskin; which is the equivalent male structure. So why do you only get up in arms about the females? As a male, my own circumcision was forced on me, I had no more choice than a female does in that other country. So you discriminate by gender -- but I'm still going to chalk this up as somehting that is supported in the states as well; sexual mutiliation (regardless of gender).
Honor killings - Many states in the US still apply the death penalty for cases where the criminal has done something that is very repugnant.
So yes, I'm obviously stretching definitions to make a point, but I think it's an important one.
I'm surprised to hear from you that they largely support Freedom of Speech and Women's Rights. What I've heard elsewhere is that they do not.
yes, I'm guilty of nto reading your post carefull enough. I hope my advice can help someone else. Or maybe you'll decide to put together your own "experience" in the evenings/weekends away from your job (assuming you didn't accept some contract that makes every bit of coding you do belong to them regardless of scope... lots of kids get suckered into signing that one).
As a recently graduated CS student, I find this type of thinking to be incredibly infuriating at times. Companies only want to hire people with experience. Yet to gain this experience, I need a job. The circular logic goes round and round until you have a brain aneurism.
As someone with experience I'd just like to suggest that maybe they aren't stuck in a logical loop. Maybe you aren't the person they want, they want someone with experience.
Here's an idea: As a computer programmer, you are in a unique position to make your own experience. I got started in "the business" by developing a totally crappy (seriously, I'm ashamed) graphing calculator for the HPC. I have an HPC, I needed a graphing calculator, and I'm cheap, so I really wrote it for myself. Then I put it up on the web and people liked it, so that became the first point on what is now a long programming resume.
My point is, you don't have to get hired by anyone to get experience. If you don't have an idea or an itch to scratch of your own, pitch in on some open-source projects.
When I am hiring junior programmers, the guy who is fresh out of school I'm going to overlook. The guy who's fresh out of school AND has some projects of his own he's worked on is EXACTLY the guy I want, though -- not only do I know he's knowledgable and capable, I also know he's a self-starter who's not going to wait around and whine and bitch that no one is giving him an opportunity. The opportunities are out there, you can't wait for someone to give them to you... you have to go take them.
Seriously, go *do* something. It'll take your mind off being out of a job and if you do it right it will be the thing that gets you a job. It's win-win.
Your post was thoughtful and well-written, as well as insightful. I'm almost embarassed to be replying with humor.
So although I have not read William Gibson's works, I ask him not to give up on writing. You will have another good idea and you will write another book about it. Just wait for it to come.
I'd like to suggest that if you HAD read his books, you'd ask him to please put down the pen and do something else.
He had one great idea, and when he was younger, his writing style was beautiful and articulate, like some crazy poetry. But as time has worn on, he has moved further from brilliant concepts and fantastic conceptualizations, and closer to being "just another sci-fi author."
Neuromancer was an excellent read. The stories in Burning Chrome, genius. I'd even give im points on Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
After that, he went to crap. I still give him credit for being a brilliant man, a good writer, whom a lot of people enjoy. But I don't think that anyone, even his current fans, would argue that after his first set of books, "something changed."
If you were 1/2 as prolific a coder as you are a writer, the games would be finished (and probably well-commented).
Parent is modded "+ Interesting" because it's someone admitting he was wrong on Slashdot... should be modded "+ LastChanceToSee"...