I'm an aspie, as soon as I heard about this I broke out my whiteboards and went to work.
Took me about two hours (including the thirty minutes deciding how best to actually draw the sudoku board). I suppose the hardest part was finding out where to start -- I rummaged through dozens of combinations and tried to deduce a single number, but that method didn't work (didn't have enough colored markers anyway, >:( ).
But think of all those accountants that get to handle the millions of alleged dollars the MPAA/RIAA would make in a world without piracy! And since they don't have jobs well they're gonna go commit suicide.
Sounds like murder to me.
(Not even kidding, this is the same reasoning used by the propaganda video played on tvshack.net.)
If you think lying is a morally un-praiseworthy activity (a negative of what we philosophers call morally sufficient), then you are rather near-sighted indeed.
And how North Korea can treat the people they can is a sign of immaturity of the whole world government ecosystem. Let's get our logic straight people.
Holy strawman batman! Is that what I said? But I do appreciate you equating a DDoS attack to fire bombing a bus HQ, I like your analogies, very colorful.
Well no, he's been keeping up with the latest research. It's not a matter of opinion. We have the track record to show just throwing tablets into classrooms just doesn't work, in the same way throwing a gallon of paint at a wall doesn't paint the wall.
An all too often quoted phrase, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." And I say this because it's wrong, sparing the rod saves the child from a life of violence, as the APA has so wonderfully pointed out time and time again. Corporal punishment is not the answer.
"Ah!" you may retort, "I meant a metaphysical rod!"
Think for a moment. If I do remember the article correctly (I dare say I do), then at least one of the teenagers is a straight-A student. Not your vandalizing, druggie, won't behave son -- someone who is actually bending over for our medieval attempt at education and succeeding. What are we doing by discouraging this behavior?
Teenagers, as psychology teaches us, tend to have a very romanticized view of morality. We teach them to be kind to others, that everyone is equal, etc., and what do they end up doing when they look into the world? Do they see a fair, civilized society? They see protests in Syria having their human rights violated while everyone else sits on the sidelines. They see an Egyptian military coup. And they learn that the US is supporting dictators who are oppressing their people -- the same US they were taught was all for freedom, democracy, and the common good.
Now they open their eyes and the picture is shattered. Corporations lobby and succeed to promote legislature that would benefit their profits at the detriment of other people, people are suffering in countries like Haiti, and the RIAA/MPAA is cracking down AGAINST teenagers for copyright infringement.
There was a group of rebels who lived by the principles our dear teenagers are living by. We call them our founding fathers.
Maybe these kids have the right idea, maybe all of our adult selves sitting down and trying to talk to a government disinterested in anything but profit is a waste of time, and we should give them a reason to listen to us,
I can't believe their wasting their time to go after these teenage kids. There's plenty more where they came from, and ruining their future is only going to give the pro-lulzsec crowd ammunition. It's a really dumb move, and certainly not what I would do if I were the prosecution. Then again, I'm fairly my having a brain excludes me from being part of those clowns.
What these people who do their best to take down groups like LulzSec, Anonymous, etc. don't understand is that you can't take them down. This isn't a militia, a terrorist organization, or a code monkey who wants to get back at the work that laid him off: this is an idea, and a very powerful one. Anonymous's very nature is that it is anyone and everyone, there is no centralized network. LulzSec does not elect presidents, and they do not have a chain of command.
The idea is that individual liberty and the common good is important above all else. Censorship and tyranny stands in the way of this goal, and the only thing these companies are doing is adding fuel to the fire, by proving they're the very entities that need to be stopped.
The only way anyone could possibly put this to an end is if they arrested and detained every free thinker, anyone who believe in liberty and the free exchange of information, and anyone who won't bend over backwards when Uncle Sam comes to violate our rights and freedoms. We have a word for that, it's called a dystopia.
Did Benjamin Franklin fucking stutter when he famously defended liberty? And it's not even domestic safety we're discussing, it's the safety of some publisher's checkbooks and egos. Don't think for a damn second slinging logical fallacies (yes, that's right Stephanie, I know they're logical fallacies) our way is somehow going to impress us? Let me tell you what's going to happen in the future because of the internet.
Publishers are going to become obsolete. Record labels are going to become obsolete. Secondary education is going to become free, or damn near close.
This made possible through perhaps the most terrific and important invention in human history. And all you can talk about is protected an outdated and thoroughly abused copyright model in interest of profits in seemingly direct opposition to these of most noble achievements. We have achieved so much since the dark ages, and I promise you that we're not going to let some moron throw it all away.
Maybe you're brain dead, but it was people like us, tech savvy -- the designers -- that built this modern age and the internet. Don't think you can waltz in and take it. We designed it, we built it, and it's not your call to say it's for your client's profits. It's ours, and we say it's for the people.
Are random number generators free speech, then? What about computer programs that are incorporated with random elements? How much random variance must be present to qualify as free speech? 1%? 0.1%? Almost surely zero?
The three classical states are so grouped because each can change into any of the others. You probably are already familiar with freezing/melting and vaporization/condensation, but may not be familiar with sublimation or disposition.
Plasma is grouped as a high-energy state of matter, apart from the other three, because only a gas can undergo ionization and become plasma (and a plasma can undergo deionization to become a gas). Another high-energy state is quark-gluon plasma (not to be confused with typical plasma).
Low-temperature states (consequently low-energy, but I refrain from calling it this directly) are on the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps the best example is superfluid, created when matter is cooled close to absolute zero. It has some pretty interesting properties, among the most prominent being infinite fluidity and infinite thermal conductivity.
Also a low-temperature state, Bose-Einstein Condensate, is when the matter stops behaving like you would expect it to (separate particles) and instead in a quantum state. --
For obvious reasons, you can see why these other states of matter aren't included in third grade textbooks, since many of them require some higher level mathematics and understanding of physics to begin to understand. Plasma is sometimes included early on because it is easier to explain and very common in everyday life (fire, electricity).
But that doesn't vindicate teachers from teaching it wrong. Adding the word classical can make a whole world of difference when later they're taught about additional states, and doesn't leave the impression that those three are the only states of matter. It's akin to an elementary teacher telling children that rational numbers are the only numbers there are (irrational numbers are very real, so too are unreal numbers and hyperreals). Just because you can't explain something doesn't excuse you of teaching it wrong.
Well, there are far more than four, if we're to get technical. For the correct answer to be three, the test would have to indicate that it's referring to classical states, but if it merely asked for states of matter, none of those answers are correct.
I had a similar problem, but my anger grew deeper every day that I fought the horrible monstrosity. I searched desperately throughout the internet, venturing into dangerous darknets and crawling through the mysterious deepnet. I craved to learn more about this threat so I could eradicate it once and for all. But it was to no avail, even MyCleanPC could do nothing before its onslaught.
I do not know how many days I was lost in hopelessness. The days and nights blended together, as I huddled in my meager basement, staring at a piece of empty paper, hoping that an idea -- any idea would come to me. But it did not, and my persistence only became insanity.
I only knew this demon's name: Braniac. I could not close my eyes without seeing that word; it taunted and teased me. But still I pressed on. I had contacted the Green Lantern Corps for help. And they thought long and hard, but eventually arrived at a solution. Superman, they told me. Superman was the solution.
He was there faster than a speeding bullet, and armed with ancient Kryptonian knowledge, removed Braniac from my computer. I rest a little easier now, knowing that when MyCleanPC fails, Superman will always be there.
Slashdot Mirror
Now I know who to blame for my dizziness. Damn you and your fun contraptions!
I'm an aspie, as soon as I heard about this I broke out my whiteboards and went to work.
Took me about two hours (including the thirty minutes deciding how best to actually draw the sudoku board). I suppose the hardest part was finding out where to start -- I rummaged through dozens of combinations and tried to deduce a single number, but that method didn't work (didn't have enough colored markers anyway, >:( ).
But think of all those accountants that get to handle the millions of alleged dollars the MPAA/RIAA would make in a world without piracy! And since they don't have jobs well they're gonna go commit suicide.
Sounds like murder to me.
(Not even kidding, this is the same reasoning used by the propaganda video played on tvshack.net.)
Other countries don't have the MPAA/RIAA.
They make earbuds for $3.99? My god how do some people still hear?
Pah! Just wait until Apple catches wind that I own the patent for rectangular boxes!
Mind if I break out the Rand too? ;)
Ethical egoism.
If you think lying is a morally un-praiseworthy activity (a negative of what we philosophers call morally sufficient), then you are rather near-sighted indeed.
Really? At eighteen you magically get automatic adult knowledge? That didn't happen for me, maybe it got mixed up in the mail.
I accidentally my coffee too :(
And how North Korea can treat the people they can is a sign of immaturity of the whole world government ecosystem. Let's get our logic straight people.
Holy strawman batman! Is that what I said? But I do appreciate you equating a DDoS attack to fire bombing a bus HQ, I like your analogies, very colorful.
I only have half a brain before I get my coffee ;)
Well no, he's been keeping up with the latest research. It's not a matter of opinion. We have the track record to show just throwing tablets into classrooms just doesn't work, in the same way throwing a gallon of paint at a wall doesn't paint the wall.
An all too often quoted phrase, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." And I say this because it's wrong, sparing the rod saves the child from a life of violence, as the APA has so wonderfully pointed out time and time again. Corporal punishment is not the answer.
"Ah!" you may retort, "I meant a metaphysical rod!"
Think for a moment. If I do remember the article correctly (I dare say I do), then at least one of the teenagers is a straight-A student. Not your vandalizing, druggie, won't behave son -- someone who is actually bending over for our medieval attempt at education and succeeding. What are we doing by discouraging this behavior?
Teenagers, as psychology teaches us, tend to have a very romanticized view of morality. We teach them to be kind to others, that everyone is equal, etc., and what do they end up doing when they look into the world? Do they see a fair, civilized society? They see protests in Syria having their human rights violated while everyone else sits on the sidelines. They see an Egyptian military coup. And they learn that the US is supporting dictators who are oppressing their people -- the same US they were taught was all for freedom, democracy, and the common good.
Now they open their eyes and the picture is shattered. Corporations lobby and succeed to promote legislature that would benefit their profits at the detriment of other people, people are suffering in countries like Haiti, and the RIAA/MPAA is cracking down AGAINST teenagers for copyright infringement.
There was a group of rebels who lived by the principles our dear teenagers are living by. We call them our founding fathers.
Maybe these kids have the right idea, maybe all of our adult selves sitting down and trying to talk to a government disinterested in anything but profit is a waste of time, and we should give them a reason to listen to us,
Oh and this is all about a DDoS attack? Ha.
And making instant noodles is cooking.
I can't believe their wasting their time to go after these teenage kids. There's plenty more where they came from, and ruining their future is only going to give the pro-lulzsec crowd ammunition. It's a really dumb move, and certainly not what I would do if I were the prosecution. Then again, I'm fairly my having a brain excludes me from being part of those clowns.
What these people who do their best to take down groups like LulzSec, Anonymous, etc. don't understand is that you can't take them down. This isn't a militia, a terrorist organization, or a code monkey who wants to get back at the work that laid him off: this is an idea, and a very powerful one. Anonymous's very nature is that it is anyone and everyone, there is no centralized network. LulzSec does not elect presidents, and they do not have a chain of command.
The idea is that individual liberty and the common good is important above all else. Censorship and tyranny stands in the way of this goal, and the only thing these companies are doing is adding fuel to the fire, by proving they're the very entities that need to be stopped.
The only way anyone could possibly put this to an end is if they arrested and detained every free thinker, anyone who believe in liberty and the free exchange of information, and anyone who won't bend over backwards when Uncle Sam comes to violate our rights and freedoms. We have a word for that, it's called a dystopia.
That's the problem with you softies, always getting in the way of good science. I bet you work at Black Mesa.
Now if you excuse me, I have some banks to go rob. For science.
I don't pay taxes to put up with this bullshit.
Did Benjamin Franklin fucking stutter when he famously defended liberty? And it's not even domestic safety we're discussing, it's the safety of some publisher's checkbooks and egos. Don't think for a damn second slinging logical fallacies (yes, that's right Stephanie, I know they're logical fallacies) our way is somehow going to impress us? Let me tell you what's going to happen in the future because of the internet.
Publishers are going to become obsolete.
Record labels are going to become obsolete.
Secondary education is going to become free, or damn near close.
This made possible through perhaps the most terrific and important invention in human history. And all you can talk about is protected an outdated and thoroughly abused copyright model in interest of profits in seemingly direct opposition to these of most noble achievements. We have achieved so much since the dark ages, and I promise you that we're not going to let some moron throw it all away.
Maybe you're brain dead, but it was people like us, tech savvy -- the designers -- that built this modern age and the internet. Don't think you can waltz in and take it. We designed it, we built it, and it's not your call to say it's for your client's profits. It's ours, and we say it's for the people.
Are random number generators free speech, then? What about computer programs that are incorporated with random elements? How much random variance must be present to qualify as free speech? 1%? 0.1%? Almost surely zero?
I'm sure you mean GB, and you had me confused because I thought for a moment you were speaking of SATA speed.
But you would be incorrect, Windows 7 x64 is fully capable of running 8 GB of RAM.
You forgot energy, E = m c^2 and all that jazz.
The three classical states are so grouped because each can change into any of the others. You probably are already familiar with freezing/melting and vaporization/condensation, but may not be familiar with sublimation or disposition.
Plasma is grouped as a high-energy state of matter, apart from the other three, because only a gas can undergo ionization and become plasma (and a plasma can undergo deionization to become a gas). Another high-energy state is quark-gluon plasma (not to be confused with typical plasma).
Low-temperature states (consequently low-energy, but I refrain from calling it this directly) are on the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps the best example is superfluid, created when matter is cooled close to absolute zero. It has some pretty interesting properties, among the most prominent being infinite fluidity and infinite thermal conductivity.
Also a low-temperature state, Bose-Einstein Condensate, is when the matter stops behaving like you would expect it to (separate particles) and instead in a quantum state.
--
For obvious reasons, you can see why these other states of matter aren't included in third grade textbooks, since many of them require some higher level mathematics and understanding of physics to begin to understand. Plasma is sometimes included early on because it is easier to explain and very common in everyday life (fire, electricity).
But that doesn't vindicate teachers from teaching it wrong. Adding the word classical can make a whole world of difference when later they're taught about additional states, and doesn't leave the impression that those three are the only states of matter. It's akin to an elementary teacher telling children that rational numbers are the only numbers there are (irrational numbers are very real, so too are unreal numbers and hyperreals). Just because you can't explain something doesn't excuse you of teaching it wrong.
Well, there are far more than four, if we're to get technical. For the correct answer to be three, the test would have to indicate that it's referring to classical states, but if it merely asked for states of matter, none of those answers are correct.
I had my doubts about Comcast for some time now, but if they keep this up, they may keep me as a customer.
I had a similar problem, but my anger grew deeper every day that I fought the horrible monstrosity. I searched desperately throughout the internet, venturing into dangerous darknets and crawling through the mysterious deepnet. I craved to learn more about this threat so I could eradicate it once and for all. But it was to no avail, even MyCleanPC could do nothing before its onslaught.
I do not know how many days I was lost in hopelessness. The days and nights blended together, as I huddled in my meager basement, staring at a piece of empty paper, hoping that an idea -- any idea would come to me. But it did not, and my persistence only became insanity.
I only knew this demon's name: Braniac. I could not close my eyes without seeing that word; it taunted and teased me. But still I pressed on. I had contacted the Green Lantern Corps for help. And they thought long and hard, but eventually arrived at a solution. Superman, they told me. Superman was the solution.
He was there faster than a speeding bullet, and armed with ancient Kryptonian knowledge, removed Braniac from my computer. I rest a little easier now, knowing that when MyCleanPC fails, Superman will always be there.