We're looking at developing some of the softer skills that are needed for the 21st century, such as problem-solving, resilience, persistence and collaboration.
As well as shooting machine guns or plasma cannons while jumping 10ft in midair, jumping out of moving vehicles at 30mph to run into and fly a nearby helicopter, diffusing explosives with a pocket knife, commanding legions of foot soldiers while maintaining a productive economy, and of course... respawning.
...when the internet packets are constantly monitored by the RIAA, all forms of media are ROM or highly volatile, iPods are outlawed, and radio is replaced with personal, encrypted subscriptions to broadcast the music directly into a chip implanted into the users ear (insuring that they do not broadcast without license), the RIAA will go after the schoolyard kids and the remaining music listeners who accidentally recite lyrics from their copyrighted works, ensuring that not a single note or phrase from their property gets used without them seeing their glorious monetary rewards.
and would thus most likely be completely harmless to us.
A virus and bacteria are completely different. The virus has to mutate to penetrate the protien membrane around our cells. The bacteria just needs to sit and multiply, while our immune system goes nuts trying to kill it.
Scientifically, macro-evolution contradicts the 2nd Law of Thermo (Entropy)
No. It's all about perspective since you're taking that law WAY out of context. It doesn't apply to biology, only overall energy. Get that out of your head.
Another thing, after billions of years of goo, cells were formed, and the cells eventually turn human? We're so smart today, let's do the easiest thing the goo did alone.
Who said it was easy, and who said it can be done in your lifetime? You said it yourself, it took billions of years.
Challenge to the scientific community: 1. Show me any linkage of evolution between species. 2. Create a cell.
1. They have linkage, just go read a book. 2. It took billions of years to make one through natural causes. You want one by the end of the day?
My challenge to the anti-scientific religious community: 1. Explain the creation of the universe without the existence of an all powerful wizard.
What really bothers me about you people is that you are hypocrites in every form. You skew the facts to fit your own current belief and have no open mind.
Want me to prove it? Then here's my second challenge, and if you can't answer it, then you have no right to endorse ID/creationism over evolution:
You say that life couldn't have evolved from nature, yet God himself created it. Explain why God couldn't have or didn't create a universe in which life evolved on its own. Are you going to say that Gods creation is so imperfect that it requires a "crutch" by him constantly interfering with its natural course? I would consider that blasphemy.
Note: I am christian and fully believe in God, yet I concider the merits of creationism laughable...
If your ISP does that and serves authoritative requests from the same server which is used for name resolution in clients - RUN. They have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER.
At home, I'm the DNS server for my website's domain name (also hosted there), so I'm the authoritative name server for 2 different master zones (my domain name, and my brothers). I also am the name server for my internal network since I don't want to rely on comcast's servers (which have gone out in the recent past). This server is also my firewall (OpenBSD).
Last time I checked, I had bind configured to use recursion (the default). My understanding of this was that it just took the load off the resolver, and put it on the DNS server itself whenever there was a query.
Is there a problem with this setup (which it seems you are describing)? I thought the problem was in forwarding anyway...
Linux already dominates displayless embedded systems (= pretty much everything minus PDAs and cellphones)
Oh really? You think so? Could you name them please?
I'm sorry, but your definition of an embedded system must be very narrow.
An embedded system is any computational device that is designed and optimized to run a specific task. Your monitor is practically an embedded system. Any firmware is an embedded system. Embedded systems rarely have an actual operating system or monitor. The exceptions, of course, are PDA's, cell phones, etc.
Linux only is on a small, and selective part of the embedded systems out there. It definately does not dominate it.
It isn't a standard, but the parts (sans javascript, sorta) are. Firefox supports all 3. Please remove DHTML from your vocabulary, as it is just another buzzword.
From W3.org:
"Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated. The scripting interfaces provided in DHTML have a significant overlap with the DOM, particularly with the HTML module. Compatibility with DHTML was a motivating factor in the development of the DOM. The DOM, however, is more than DHTML. It is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents, both HTML and XML."
You complain that we're falling behind China in aerospace, and then you want to downsize NASA?! Wtf is wrong with you? You just said that it is a critical economic area, but you want to disband it in the US?!
You sound like a two-faced politician... or maybe just a hypocrite.
With a firewall, you can easily block incoming syn/ack's through the ntp port, but use a keep-state to allow outgoing TCP connections (someone internally has to initialize it, then you can get bi-directional communication)....at least with PF.
Cost? 30 seconds to modify pf.conf and 5 seconds to load in the new rule. What's that for an hourly wage? Hell, drop 5 bucks on the table and the company made a profit.
Launching close to the equator gives you a large advantage since you already have the centripetal velocity from the earth's spin. Russia has launch sites very far north, but then you waste energy getting the rocket up to the same speed.
That's one of the reasons to launch in florida. The water is another one (falling debris won't hit anyone's house).
They maintained a full 11Mbit unamplified connection for 3 hours using Z-com 300mw PCMCIA cards, surplus satellite dishes, Linux, and a great deal of hacker ingenuity.
Unamplified... with a satellite dish? How did that work out? That's one hell of a passive antenna.
Can a judge issue an order allowing the takedown of foreign sites via hack or DDOS if they are deemed harmful to national security? Can such an order be sealed and kept from the public?
Yes, and yes.
And if these corps, regardless of national origin, were capable of initiating DDOS attacks, I'd be curious as to where/how they got their zombies.
You don't think they can get ahold of 16-20 year old computer geeks who dwell in their parent's basement?
There's a certain visceral satisfaction in seeing advocates of hate and violence silenced, but at the same time it's frightening to think of any government covertly silencing voices of dissent, as that starts a society down a slippery slope of oppression.
They'll do it as long as the public doesn't lash out against it. They know revolutions happen.
OSX stems from BSD (FreeBSD). BSD stems from UNIX. Therefore, OSX stems from UNIX.
When leo said "UNIX", it is just the environment and design of the operating system (I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion.). In that sense, OSX, BSD, Linux, Solaris... are all "unix".
And you did reverse shit: "Is every mp3 player an iPod too?"
1) Probability over an infinite universe means it is possible. Something doesn't have to be probable to happen. Take and upper-level math class focusing on probability (or even intro).
2) Thermodynamics has nothing to do with the system you describe. Even so, Earth is not a closed system. Since biology is simply a large chemical reaction, what is the problem with complex systems coming about? You are confusing your sciences with every sentence you write. Take a physics and biology class.
3) We have transitional fossils (see the provided link) for many cases. Not all, but enough to support the theory. Take a biology class.
4) The article you mention says nothing about the problem with dating methods, just a greedy PhD. Learn how to research/site sources.
5) Spontaneous generation isn't part of accepted evolution. Stop using that straw man (I thought you were "logical"). Take a biology class, and intro to logic for a humanity.
6) All scientific theories are falsifiable (see provided link). That is their nature. Take a science class.
7) Evolution of the eye can be googled. Bats are not blind. Take a biology class.
8) There is no mystery to the evolution of the vertebrae. Take a biology class (that isn't in the bible belt of the US).
You may not be a crationist, but are horribly misguided.
It's as illegal as owning a car, because cars are used to amplify the ability of robbers/muggers to escape the scene of the crime, and they also kill people.
You're probably right. Ya know what's also illegal? Making your own AM or FM reciever, and the schematics for that are easily found in electrical text books, and they even come as kits.
Technically illegal, but everyone still does it, and legitimate businesses sell it. So where does one draw the line?
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We're looking at developing some of the softer skills that are needed for the 21st century, such as problem-solving, resilience, persistence and collaboration.
As well as shooting machine guns or plasma cannons while jumping 10ft in midair, jumping out of moving vehicles at 30mph to run into and fly a nearby helicopter, diffusing explosives with a pocket knife, commanding legions of foot soldiers while maintaining a productive economy, and of course... respawning.
...when the internet packets are constantly monitored by the RIAA, all forms of media are ROM or highly volatile, iPods are outlawed, and radio is replaced with personal, encrypted subscriptions to broadcast the music directly into a chip implanted into the users ear (insuring that they do not broadcast without license), the RIAA will go after the schoolyard kids and the remaining music listeners who accidentally recite lyrics from their copyrighted works, ensuring that not a single note or phrase from their property gets used without them seeing their glorious monetary rewards.
</1984ish hell>
You can't always win. When will they learn?
and would thus most likely be completely harmless to us.
A virus and bacteria are completely different. The virus has to mutate to penetrate the protien membrane around our cells. The bacteria just needs to sit and multiply, while our immune system goes nuts trying to kill it.
Even a "talking head" reporter on TV wouldn't say this drivel.
Don't you watch Fox?
Scientifically, macro-evolution contradicts the 2nd Law of Thermo (Entropy)
No. It's all about perspective since you're taking that law WAY out of context. It doesn't apply to biology, only overall energy. Get that out of your head.
Another thing, after billions of years of goo, cells were formed, and the cells eventually turn human? We're so smart today, let's do the easiest thing the goo did alone.
Who said it was easy, and who said it can be done in your lifetime? You said it yourself, it took billions of years.
Challenge to the scientific community:
1. Show me any linkage of evolution between species.
2. Create a cell.
1. They have linkage, just go read a book.
2. It took billions of years to make one through natural causes. You want one by the end of the day?
My challenge to the anti-scientific religious community:
1. Explain the creation of the universe without the existence of an all powerful wizard.
What really bothers me about you people is that you are hypocrites in every form. You skew the facts to fit your own current belief and have no open mind.
Want me to prove it? Then here's my second challenge, and if you can't answer it, then you have no right to endorse ID/creationism over evolution:
You say that life couldn't have evolved from nature, yet God himself created it. Explain why God couldn't have or didn't create a universe in which life evolved on its own. Are you going to say that Gods creation is so imperfect that it requires a "crutch" by him constantly interfering with its natural course? I would consider that blasphemy.
Note: I am christian and fully believe in God, yet I concider the merits of creationism laughable...
We test this by finding the person or people who did design it.
Have you found god?
If so, I have a few questions...
In all seriousness, your arguments are logically flawed.
If you use dhcp, edit dhclient.conf to override the default values returned to you. That way it'll stick.
If your ISP does that and serves authoritative requests from the same server which is used for name resolution in clients - RUN. They have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER.
At home, I'm the DNS server for my website's domain name (also hosted there), so I'm the authoritative name server for 2 different master zones (my domain name, and my brothers). I also am the name server for my internal network since I don't want to rely on comcast's servers (which have gone out in the recent past). This server is also my firewall (OpenBSD).
Last time I checked, I had bind configured to use recursion (the default). My understanding of this was that it just took the load off the resolver, and put it on the DNS server itself whenever there was a query.
Is there a problem with this setup (which it seems you are describing)? I thought the problem was in forwarding anyway...
The syntax is a standard, yes... but the actual implementation is not. i.e. document.all and document.layers. (hence the "sorta" at the end)
Linux already dominates displayless embedded systems (= pretty much everything minus PDAs and cellphones)
Oh really? You think so? Could you name them please?
I'm sorry, but your definition of an embedded system must be very narrow.
An embedded system is any computational device that is designed and optimized to run a specific task. Your monitor is practically an embedded system. Any firmware is an embedded system. Embedded systems rarely have an actual operating system or monitor. The exceptions, of course, are PDA's, cell phones, etc.
Linux only is on a small, and selective part of the embedded systems out there. It definately does not dominate it.
DHTML = HTML + JavaScript + CSS.
It isn't a standard, but the parts (sans javascript, sorta) are. Firefox supports all 3. Please remove DHTML from your vocabulary, as it is just another buzzword.
From W3.org:
"Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated. The scripting interfaces provided in DHTML have a significant overlap with the DOM, particularly with the HTML module. Compatibility with DHTML was a motivating factor in the development of the DOM. The DOM, however, is more than DHTML. It is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents, both HTML and XML."
source.
You complain that we're falling behind China in aerospace, and then you want to downsize NASA?! Wtf is wrong with you? You just said that it is a critical economic area, but you want to disband it in the US?!
You sound like a two-faced politician... or maybe just a hypocrite.
With a firewall, you can easily block incoming syn/ack's through the ntp port, but use a keep-state to allow outgoing TCP connections (someone internally has to initialize it, then you can get bi-directional communication). ...at least with PF.
Cost? 30 seconds to modify pf.conf and 5 seconds to load in the new rule. What's that for an hourly wage? Hell, drop 5 bucks on the table and the company made a profit.
Launching close to the equator gives you a large advantage since you already have the centripetal velocity from the earth's spin. Russia has launch sites very far north, but then you waste energy getting the rocket up to the same speed.
That's one of the reasons to launch in florida. The water is another one (falling debris won't hit anyone's house).
Is there any backup source?
Why would the guy come out and admit it when the hacker threatened to... do it.... for.... him.
This whole story just smells of bull sh*t.
They maintained a full 11Mbit unamplified connection for 3 hours using Z-com 300mw PCMCIA cards, surplus satellite dishes, Linux, and a great deal of hacker ingenuity.
Unamplified... with a satellite dish? How did that work out? That's one hell of a passive antenna.
...software aids in human decision and management. More at 11.
Seriously, this is how businesses function. Data management is huge. Slapping on buzzwords doesn't make it any more unique.
Can a judge issue an order allowing the takedown of foreign sites via hack or DDOS if they are deemed harmful to national security? Can such an order be sealed and kept from the public?
Yes, and yes.
And if these corps, regardless of national origin, were capable of initiating DDOS attacks, I'd be curious as to where/how they got their zombies.
You don't think they can get ahold of 16-20 year old computer geeks who dwell in their parent's basement?
There's a certain visceral satisfaction in seeing advocates of hate and violence silenced, but at the same time it's frightening to think of any government covertly silencing voices of dissent, as that starts a society down a slippery slope of oppression.
They'll do it as long as the public doesn't lash out against it. They know revolutions happen.
Where anything under the sun is patentable, it puts an unbelievable amount of pressure on the patent office
That's it! Patent the Sun! Such a method of gigantic energy transfer must be patentable, since it is so unique and original.
OSX stems from BSD (FreeBSD). BSD stems from UNIX. Therefore, OSX stems from UNIX.
When leo said "UNIX", it is just the environment and design of the operating system (I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion.). In that sense, OSX, BSD, Linux, Solaris... are all "unix".
And you did reverse shit: "Is every mp3 player an iPod too?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism
1) Probability over an infinite universe means it is possible. Something doesn't have to be probable to happen. Take and upper-level math class focusing on probability (or even intro).
2) Thermodynamics has nothing to do with the system you describe. Even so, Earth is not a closed system. Since biology is simply a large chemical reaction, what is the problem with complex systems coming about? You are confusing your sciences with every sentence you write. Take a physics and biology class.
3) We have transitional fossils (see the provided link) for many cases. Not all, but enough to support the theory. Take a biology class.
4) The article you mention says nothing about the problem with dating methods, just a greedy PhD. Learn how to research/site sources.
5) Spontaneous generation isn't part of accepted evolution. Stop using that straw man (I thought you were "logical"). Take a biology class, and intro to logic for a humanity.
6) All scientific theories are falsifiable (see provided link). That is their nature. Take a science class.
7) Evolution of the eye can be googled. Bats are not blind. Take a biology class.
8) There is no mystery to the evolution of the vertebrae. Take a biology class (that isn't in the bible belt of the US).
You may not be a crationist, but are horribly misguided.
Bzzzt, wrong.
Even if their orbit is eliptical ("circularized"), they're still ballistic. Everything that doesn't propel itself is ballistic.
It takes a while to get into an orbit anyway.
What the hell is "Wot"?
It's as illegal as owning a car, because cars are used to amplify the ability of robbers/muggers to escape the scene of the crime, and they also kill people.
Oh, wait...
You're probably right. Ya know what's also illegal? Making your own AM or FM reciever, and the schematics for that are easily found in electrical text books, and they even come as kits.
Technically illegal, but everyone still does it, and legitimate businesses sell it. So where does one draw the line?