In that case, the correct moderation status was neither Troll nor Off-Topic, but Redundant.
If it's not redundant, why don't you actually try refuting any of those statements. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Re:Everybody seems to have the wrong idea here. .
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Render the blood-brain barrier permeable? Where'd you get that one? I've heard mutterings about the radio waves resonating with your brain tissue in some as-yet-undetermined way, but I've never seen that specific claim before.
Re:Here's a couple I really want to know
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Right on. I don't find Searle's rejoinders to some of the counterarguments - especially his rejoinder to the Systems Reply - particularly convincing. If I were to memorize the book, I would actually be an entity which understands Chinese - it's just that there's no way to communicate, except by way of an interpreter, between the mind I think of as "me" and the mind which speaks Chinese. Just like you, as you point out, have no direct understanding of the neurons firing in your head.
I can't imagine that reviving Aeris was ever intended by the original writers. It would have cheapened the sacrifice she made and robbed the story of its pathos (quite aside from the fact that a resurrected Aeris would've required a total rewrite of the Cloud/Tifa relationship story in the latter part of the game).
A Final Fantasy 7 in which Aeris could be revived could still, perhaps, be a compelling story, but in a fundamental sense, it would be a very different story from the one that was told.
After reading all your responses on this thread - and noticing that you've focused on responding to people whose posts had some flaw you could attack, rather than responding to people with reasoned rebuttals of your arguments - I'd have to say that the first poster to reply to your original article had the most pertinent and accurate response.
If, after the past two years, you can't see any reason to believe private industry is hardly a much better custodian of money than the government, I pity you.
I may not be an entirely objective observer, but one reason why it's not being discussed might be that there's nothing to discuss. Short of someone discovering some evidence one way or the other, we'd be arguing in a vacuum. Not that's stopped people before...
Only problem: this would require installing a lot of new equipment. And if a city has the budget for that, they'd also have the budget to replace their existing switchers with higher-tech ones that use coded signals.
It probably differs from one tumor to the next. But when you have something growing inside you without regard for other parts of your body, it's not hard to imagine ways. As it grows, it would tend to kill the existing functional tissue next to it, either by insinuating itself into the organ and taking over the nutrients it depends on, or just pushing it aside and squishing it flat.
Advanced stages of cancer can also metastatize (bits of it break off, float in the bloodstream, attach somewhere else, and start growing from its new location). Once a tumor starts doing that, it's pretty much game over.
Does Microsoft actually support Japanese in that order? All the Japanese apps and web pages I've seen go left-to-right top-to-bottom, just like European languages.
Doesn't help that much. The solar wind consists of a large flux of mass-containing particles (neutrons, protons, electrons, probably alphas).
Of course, the existence of comet tails does indicate that solar sails could have some degree of function even if light weren't the primary motive force.
Either I'm missing something here, or you've got one hell of a heating bill there. My shower wouldn't stay hot for nine hours, and I sure as hell wouldn't stay in a cold shower that long...
Re:XML is Verbose...compresses beautifully-- NOT!!
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The secret is that if you really want to compress XML specifically, you use a compression mechanism that understands XML. The basic idea of such a compression mechanism is to have a dictionary of things like tag and attribute names and compress that way. Then you use a compression mechanism appropriate for whatever kind of data you have, if necessary.
On another note, 10GB data sets are indeed a poor fit for XML, but XML itself surely cannot be blamed for having become a buzzword that unduly fascinates the PHBs...
but I think I can tell you the reason Microsoft doesn't require strong passwords.
Find any of your friends who works as a network admin for a sizable company that has a strong-password policy, and ask how many times a week they have to reset people's passwords because they forgot them. Divide by the number of people at said company. Now multiply by the hundreds of millions of Windows users.
That's how many calls a week Microsoft would get from home users who'd forgot their passwords. Now add the fact that Microsoft can't reset all those passwords (or even worse, imagine if they could!)...
No, Microsoft isn't going to require strong passwords anytime soon.
That's actually a fairly impressive troll. Who wrote it originally, I wonder?
And it even has a grain of truth in it, although it's been blown far out of proportion, and ignores countless facts that would weaken the argument (Microsoft's undeniably predatory business practices, the counter-intellectual effect of copyright laws gone too far).
But mostly it's just an excessively wordy of saying "If you moderate me down, you're a Nazi." And that sort of illogic deserves all the -1's it can get.
There's a reason retail has one of the highest employee turnover rates of any profession. I can't imagine that anyone works as a retail clerk for long if there's any readily available alternative. Besides, if you'd read his post closely, you'd have seen that he "used to work" at CompUSA.
Nevertheless, you are right about the fact that credit card fraud is harder to get away with than most people appreciate.
Early assembly line. Some machine was a pain to run awkward controls on the wrong side. There's a similar machine on each side of the line, does the same task. The boss notices all these people struggling, calls in the engineers. Engineers being engineers, they come up with their versions of the amazing confusitron. Henry Ford walks by, says "put right handed guys on this side of the line, left handed on the other, then they can use the machines easily".
Only one question - how did they deal with the fact that the righties outnumber the lefties 9 to 1?
Well, I'm not mad. But of course, since I'm denying it, I must be lying, since you know I'm mad (despite the fact that you refuse to provide any evidence), and that the psychiatrists who've so far found no evidence of my madness are clearly just delaying your attempts to have me committed.
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If it's not redundant, why don't you actually try refuting any of those statements. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Render the blood-brain barrier permeable? Where'd you get that one? I've heard mutterings about the radio waves resonating with your brain tissue in some as-yet-undetermined way, but I've never seen that specific claim before.
Right on. I don't find Searle's rejoinders to some of the counterarguments - especially his rejoinder to the Systems Reply - particularly convincing. If I were to memorize the book, I would actually be an entity which understands Chinese - it's just that there's no way to communicate, except by way of an interpreter, between the mind I think of as "me" and the mind which speaks Chinese. Just like you, as you point out, have no direct understanding of the neurons firing in your head.
A Final Fantasy 7 in which Aeris could be revived could still, perhaps, be a compelling story, but in a fundamental sense, it would be a very different story from the one that was told.
To wit: "fuck off, troll".
I remember seeing that feature on Yahoo Mail months ago. But since for various reasons Hotmail is what I use, I'm glad to see it done.
If, after the past two years, you can't see any reason to believe private industry is hardly a much better custodian of money than the government, I pity you.
I may not be an entirely objective observer, but one reason why it's not being discussed might be that there's nothing to discuss. Short of someone discovering some evidence one way or the other, we'd be arguing in a vacuum. Not that's stopped people before...
Only problem: this would require installing a lot of new equipment. And if a city has the budget for that, they'd also have the budget to replace their existing switchers with higher-tech ones that use coded signals.
Advanced stages of cancer can also metastatize (bits of it break off, float in the bloodstream, attach somewhere else, and start growing from its new location). Once a tumor starts doing that, it's pretty much game over.
Does Microsoft actually support Japanese in that order? All the Japanese apps and web pages I've seen go left-to-right top-to-bottom, just like European languages.
Greater than the reliability of previous versions of Windows.
In other words, yes.
If we could make it so that sending email costs a penny per ten, I wouldn't feel the need for any further spam regulations at all.
I'm pretty sure the network tools in Windows are of BSD origin. And of course, the BSD license allows that.
Of course, the existence of comet tails does indicate that solar sails could have some degree of function even if light weren't the primary motive force.
Either I'm missing something here, or you've got one hell of a heating bill there. My shower wouldn't stay hot for nine hours, and I sure as hell wouldn't stay in a cold shower that long...
On another note, 10GB data sets are indeed a poor fit for XML, but XML itself surely cannot be blamed for having become a buzzword that unduly fascinates the PHBs...
Find any of your friends who works as a network admin for a sizable company that has a strong-password policy, and ask how many times a week they have to reset people's passwords because they forgot them. Divide by the number of people at said company. Now multiply by the hundreds of millions of Windows users.
That's how many calls a week Microsoft would get from home users who'd forgot their passwords. Now add the fact that Microsoft can't reset all those passwords (or even worse, imagine if they could!)...
No, Microsoft isn't going to require strong passwords anytime soon.
Fine, fine. But is he wrong in this article?
That's actually a fairly impressive troll. Who wrote it originally, I wonder?
And it even has a grain of truth in it, although it's been blown far out of proportion, and ignores countless facts that would weaken the argument (Microsoft's undeniably predatory business practices, the counter-intellectual effect of copyright laws gone too far).
But mostly it's just an excessively wordy of saying "If you moderate me down, you're a Nazi." And that sort of illogic deserves all the -1's it can get.
Nevertheless, you are right about the fact that credit card fraud is harder to get away with than most people appreciate.
I wish I could rate this Funny and Overrated at once... :)
(note: I think it would be okay, in the public interest, but LexisNexis would undoubtedly take severe umbrage.)
Only one question - how did they deal with the fact that the righties outnumber the lefties 9 to 1?
Well, I'm not mad. But of course, since I'm denying it, I must be lying, since you know I'm mad (despite the fact that you refuse to provide any evidence), and that the psychiatrists who've so far found no evidence of my madness are clearly just delaying your attempts to have me committed.