I dunno about you, but I'm an atheist because there simply aren't any gods... but an anti-theist because of the way faith and religion makes people behave.
Absolutely, I'm an anti-theist too.
Am I an atheist? Well that's a tough question, first one would have to define what an atheist is, which is someone that is sure there "is no god", rather than "I lack any evidence either way"
One then has to define what "god" is. That's the tricky bit. If one were to postulate that "god" is a force that was in existence and caused or shaped the big bang, created laws of nature, and in undetectable from our space-time, then I can't be an atheist. If something caused the universe to be the way it is, quantum fluctuations in space time or what have you, then does that fit a definition of "god"?
I'm afraid I can't answer on the subject of atheism without broaching the question of free will, start points of the universe, if there are patterns to seemingly random events like cosmic rays etc. It's entirely possible that some force is behind physics that I have no hope of ever comprehending.
I reckon it's newsworthy when the leadership of a 1 billion-strong team is about to change.
Does it have anything to do with technology at all?
Because we don't get Slashdot articles saying "Happy Easter" or "welcome to Lent" and "Happy Hannukah".
This has nothing to do with Slashdot.
Big stories from slashdot's past * Kerry Concedes Election To Bush * Strike on Iraq * Barack Obama Wins US Presidency * Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London
And not big enough to be in hof, but essential reading for me on the day -- pretty much the only website which stayed up as I dialed in from work on my 28.8 modem * World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked
This beats the "news" that 1GB != 2^30 bytes in any case
My thoughts exactly. This is an article appropriate for The Today Show or something where you are informing the illiterate masses, not something worthy of posting on Slashdot.
BTW, this reminds me - a couple of weeks ago on the Today show, they were talking about new cool comptuer terms. One they were talking about was "animated GIFs". I felt like I jumped into a time machine and went back 20 years into the past.
They produced the first good MP3 player, the iPod. Then others developed good MP3 players too.
MP3 players existed before the iPod, many of them were cheaper, had more storage, and better user interfaces. When the iPod came out it had half the features, but better marketing.
No wireless, less space than a nomad. Lame.
Apple succeeded because they made a polished product. I'm typing this on my iPhone, not my android, because it just works. The keyboard on my android is terrible.
It's the same reason I use Linux rather than windows, and a travel agent rather than an airline website. It's simple, reliable and I can guarantee it works well.
If you enter my house at take my photo album, that's theft regardless of whether the door was locked or unlocked. How is this any different? There is a reasonable expectation to privacy for an email account.
If I walk into your house, take a picture of your photo album, but leave you with it, it's not theft. It may not even be breaking and entering if your door's open. It could be copyright infringement I guess.
What do you have to offer that's so unique? Halo? No, that's not looking a bit tired at all. Halo 5? Wow, I wonder what you have to do in *that* game!? (hint: shoot aliens...)
I've been shooting aliens since doom, so what's so unique about Halo?
I was at a hotel in singapore earlier this year, and attempted to hook my laptop up to the TV. It had a HDMI cable, but not way to change the channel.
In comparison, the TVs since then in Jerusalem and gaza city were just normal TVs and I had no problem in doing that.
The Singapore one was a chain hotel (intercontinental or hilton or something), where the middle east were individual hotels.
In comparison, the chain hotel charged S$20/night for internet, the one in Jerusalem (and many small hotels) was free. Unusually the one in Gaza was US$5/night.
'When we were planning this degree, our advisers from the commercial space industry said they couldn't wait to hire our graduates.'"
So the course wasn't even fully designed yet, not a single fucking graduate has yet to come out of that university, and they ALREADY want them working on projects headed to one of the most hostile environment we're aware of?
I tried it on my car: I don't have a iPhone but an android smartphone, but I guess the results shouldn't be that different. Consumption of bandwidth is huge and reception is crappy, since on my commuting path I don't have a reliable UMTS/GSM data coverage. Furthermore one hour of reception drains about 50% of the battery.
On the other side, my Sony shortwave receiver needs 4 AA cells every two weeks, and can pick up plenty of stations. Unfortunately BBC, Voice of America and other broadcasters are shutting down their shortwave facilities, since they claim that internet is the future...sigh.
It' amazing how few people in target BBC areas have radios now, compared with access to smartphones and the internet.
BBC R&D did a fair bit of work on DRM, which was obviously doomed to failure. All the downsides of shortwave, coupled with the fact noone has a receiver. And it's French.
I was thinking more about small children. If you've ever met any, you'd realize that it only takes a few unattended seconds for them to do something they oughtn't do, like open up a Mac Pro and stick their hands in the fan.
Takes just a few seconds for them to unplug an iec and stick the end in their mouth too.
The redesigned bootloader has already been submitted to Microsoft for singing and once the signed version is received, The Linux Foundation is planning to provide it for free.
Why in hell did the world give Microsoft control over computer bootup hardware?
That's just insane.
The idea was suggested 16 years ago, you have Stallman to blame.
Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
Surely the payload of a printer and materials will be greater than the prefabricated materials alone? Isn't this more costly? And why build, why not find somewhere where there is a cave and use the moon as a natural defense?
For every immigrant that comes over here, we send the "donor" country back one of our citizens. We get an engineer, and they get a TV talk show host or a Senator. Seems like a good trade to me.
-- MyLongNickName
Too late, we already got rid of Piers Morgan to you.
Oh, you've tried to send him back, but you've failed. Bet you're regretting that whole 1776 thing now aren't you?
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Did the US Senate ratify the outer space treaty?
How many spaceships has the UN got to enforce the provisions of this treaty?
They could just rent space on a Russian rocket. Sound famillier?
99% Percent of U.S. See Flying Cars by 1985.
October 2015. And jaws 27 at the same time.
I use my Pi to watch porn from the DMZ. Every morning I wash the sheets and re-flash the SD card.
Korean soldier porn with land mines?
There's porn of everything nowadays...
I dunno about you, but I'm an atheist because there simply aren't any gods... but an anti-theist because of the way faith and religion makes people behave.
Absolutely, I'm an anti-theist too.
Am I an atheist? Well that's a tough question, first one would have to define what an atheist is, which is someone that is sure there "is no god", rather than "I lack any evidence either way"
One then has to define what "god" is. That's the tricky bit. If one were to postulate that "god" is a force that was in existence and caused or shaped the big bang, created laws of nature, and in undetectable from our space-time, then I can't be an atheist. If something caused the universe to be the way it is, quantum fluctuations in space time or what have you, then does that fit a definition of "god"?
I'm afraid I can't answer on the subject of atheism without broaching the question of free will, start points of the universe, if there are patterns to seemingly random events like cosmic rays etc. It's entirely possible that some force is behind physics that I have no hope of ever comprehending.
Does it have anything to do with technology at all?
Because we don't get Slashdot articles saying "Happy Easter" or "welcome to Lent" and "Happy Hannukah".
This has nothing to do with Slashdot.
Big stories from slashdot's past
* Kerry Concedes Election To Bush
* Strike on Iraq
* Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
* Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London
And not big enough to be in hof, but essential reading for me on the day -- pretty much the only website which stayed up as I dialed in from work on my 28.8 modem
* World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked
This beats the "news" that 1GB != 2^30 bytes in any case
This is ironic.
Like rain on your wedding day?
My thoughts exactly. This is an article appropriate for The Today Show or something where you are informing the illiterate masses, not something worthy of posting on Slashdot.
BTW, this reminds me - a couple of weeks ago on the Today show, they were talking about new cool comptuer terms. One they were talking about was "animated GIFs". I felt like I jumped into a time machine and went back 20 years into the past.
Slashdot is full of illiterate masses now
They produced the first good MP3 player, the iPod. Then others developed good MP3 players too.
MP3 players existed before the iPod, many of them were cheaper, had more storage, and better user interfaces. When the iPod came out it had half the features, but better marketing.
No wireless, less space than a nomad. Lame.
Apple succeeded because they made a polished product. I'm typing this on my iPhone, not my android, because it just works. The keyboard on my android is terrible.
It's the same reason I use Linux rather than windows, and a travel agent rather than an airline website. It's simple, reliable and I can guarantee it works well.
Actually the proper research is very conclusive. There are no health hazards from cell phone use.
depends how loud and obnoxious you are, but cellphone use can lead to a broken nose of uses innapropoatly.
Yeah, it's got EM radiation! I hear that stuff causes cancer.
Yup, from sun burn to skin cancer, em radiation is a nasty thing.
Alt+F4, Alt+F4, Alt+F4, Alt+F4, Alt+F4, Alt+F4, Alt+F4 ...I'm sure someone will hit it (even now :-).
Why would I want to switch to virtual desktop 4?
That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this happen: someone is going to get fired over this... So, who got fired?
Presumably the person that receives the big end-of-year bonus when everything goes well?
If you enter my house at take my photo album, that's theft regardless of whether the door was locked or unlocked. How is this any different? There is a reasonable expectation to privacy for an email account.
If I walk into your house, take a picture of your photo album, but leave you with it, it's not theft. It may not even be breaking and entering if your door's open. It could be copyright infringement I guess.
Maybe he means this? Obama relents on drone guidelines details
Probably referring to the recent attack helicopters shooting blanks in downtown Miami
What do you have to offer that's so unique? Halo? No, that's not looking a bit tired at all. Halo 5? Wow, I wonder what you have to do in *that* game!? (hint: shoot aliens...)
I've been shooting aliens since doom, so what's so unique about Halo?
I was at a hotel in singapore earlier this year, and attempted to hook my laptop up to the TV. It had a HDMI cable, but not way to change the channel.
In comparison, the TVs since then in Jerusalem and gaza city were just normal TVs and I had no problem in doing that.
The Singapore one was a chain hotel (intercontinental or hilton or something), where the middle east were individual hotels.
In comparison, the chain hotel charged S$20/night for internet, the one in Jerusalem (and many small hotels) was free. Unusually the one in Gaza was US$5/night.
'When we were planning this degree, our advisers from the commercial space industry said they couldn't wait to hire our graduates.'"
So the course wasn't even fully designed yet, not a single fucking graduate has yet to come out of that university, and they ALREADY want them working on projects headed to one of the most hostile environment we're aware of?
What a bunch of clowns.
Have you been to Baltimore?
I tried it on my car: I don't have a iPhone but an android smartphone, but I guess the results shouldn't be that different.
Consumption of bandwidth is huge and reception is crappy, since on my commuting path I don't have a reliable UMTS/GSM data coverage. Furthermore one hour of reception drains about 50% of the battery.
On the other side, my Sony shortwave receiver needs 4 AA cells every two weeks, and can pick up plenty of stations. Unfortunately BBC, Voice of America and other broadcasters are shutting down their shortwave facilities, since they claim that internet is the future...sigh.
It' amazing how few people in target BBC areas have radios now, compared with access to smartphones and the internet.
BBC R&D did a fair bit of work on DRM, which was obviously doomed to failure. All the downsides of shortwave, coupled with the fact noone has a receiver. And it's French.
That's because you don't get karma for funny posts.
Is there anyone left on slashdot that didn't max their karma out decades ago?
I was thinking more about small children. If you've ever met any, you'd realize that it only takes a few unattended seconds for them to do something they oughtn't do, like open up a Mac Pro and stick their hands in the fan.
Takes just a few seconds for them to unplug an iec and stick the end in their mouth too.
The redesigned bootloader has already been submitted to Microsoft for singing and once the signed version is received, The Linux Foundation is planning to provide it for free.
Why in hell did the world give Microsoft control over computer bootup hardware?
That's just insane.
The idea was suggested 16 years ago, you have Stallman to blame.
Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
Isn't this an advert for some cisco snakeoil?
Surely the payload of a printer and materials will be greater than the prefabricated materials alone? Isn't this more costly? And why build, why not find somewhere where there is a cave and use the moon as a natural defense?
Not many caves on the moon for obvious reasons
Yes and here's a freebie
Does the US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense?
Do the US owe the world...
For every immigrant that comes over here, we send the "donor" country back one of our citizens. We get an engineer, and they get a TV talk show host or a Senator. Seems like a good trade to me.
-- MyLongNickName
Too late, we already got rid of Piers Morgan to you.
Oh, you've tried to send him back, but you've failed. Bet you're regretting that whole 1776 thing now aren't you?
-- UKian