I agree that the money wasted on fighting superstition and ignorance in court and in other places is alarming. But the approach of the establishment towards people's ignorance is all wrong. Bush believed all these evil things about Saddam Hussein most of which were true but the general picture led him to believe something that wasn't exactly warranted. Total cost to the US taxpayer, far over $100b and counting. They call Bush stupid and apparently he tries to make that point stubbornly:)
A lot of people claim to have seen UFO's and Yetis and bigfoot. Maybe that's what they saw, maybe not. A lot of 'establishment' people rage against these perceptions and don't help any in unnerving suspicions. They flatly deny the possibility that such things exist while the scientific method dictates that something cannot be proven not to exist, since we know very little and our theories might be wrong or unrefined.
Someone with your helpful attitude should consider joining clan debunkers and rush all those who are "stupid" into your eugenics program.
When I post here do I have to qualify everything I say? It would be an endless discourse. Have you ever used google... does that mean all results from that query should be taken literally? Hell if thats how you read posts you should really evaluate your communications skills.
It's easy to debunk especially when you feel that you are intellectually superior to the one you respond to. It's exactly that holier than thou attitude that is making a lot of common people loose trust in science and government because the moment they witness something or are concerned about something that is outside the parameters of conventional society they get debunked with the passion and arrogance you so eloquently display. You do know that a huge proportion of americans believes in aliens and harmful effects of powerlines exactly because people like yourself think they are stupid and should be neutered. You troll.
Undereducated I don't know. Gullible perhaps. I could name a dozen well educated people who upon learning of some lawsuits and some studies would try to get wifi banned in their childrens schools. They wouldn't have received a good education in physics but nevertheless.
Occurs to me most if not all people really have an insufficient understanding of modern society generally. You understand your own specialty and for the rest you have to trust others to understand theirs and come to the right conclusions. I think debunkers often focus too much on making the uneducated look like morons which is very counterproductive especially if you have a few good speakers/lawyers that find a constituency in those declared morons.
Interesting convo... too bad slashdot moves so fast by the time i have time to reply to anything convos have usually totally died down.
His (Marx's) crisis & concentration theory seems to be in full effect. Also if you want to see a working example of socialism you wont find it but you will find an interesting balance between capitalism and socialism in pretty much every european country.
Marx is mostly bollox. Socialism is contrary to what I feel is optimal to human nature because it makes complaining whiners out of people. The happy workers paradise sounds like it would be the end of history and of evolution.
There are a lot of studies done on the health effect of radiation, recently one in the netherlands about the health effects of 3g cellphones. http://silicon.com/news/500018/1/6241.html
Even if it isnt ionizing radiation it can obviously still be harmful. If someone feels ill and there is no scientific reason for that person to feel ill it doesn't mean that person isn't ill. Apples fell even before newton theorized gravity.
Electrical fields and EMR cause magnetic fields whose health effects are pretty much unknown. Dismissing something in a heartbeat because it doesn't fit your theology of science really isnt very helpful:P
Explain, since when is any form of electromagnetic radiation not harmful? Low band low energy radio is not very harmful while high energy gamma rays aren quite harmful. Wifi is pretty energetic so has the capability to dislodge atomic structures and hence arguably is carcinogenic.
Next time when you talk about sterilization for stupidity include a clause that when in retrospect you are the stupid one they can stop your machinery from working...
Have you ever used google like for http://www.google.se/search?q=radiation+wifi+healt h
In Europe phone deregulation has created a huge market for ultra-low long distance (less than $0.05 US$ a minute to call from most eur countries to anywhere within the US)
The same deregulation allows VOIP like Skype simply to take off without any questions being asked (so far).
If the US were to regulate VOIP and tax it or otherwise inhibit its implementation it will just shoot itself in the foot and hobble into the "human communication over IP" era. Europe, Japan and most of the rest of the world will find no fault in VOIP.
It remains to be seen if this is entirely true, former national carriers could try to make a last ditch effort but most of them are in such deep financial trouble that they really are dangerously close to bankrupcy.
No in eur you use a long distance company, the state lost monopoly on long distance AGES ago, few national carriers are still government owned, sometimes the govt has ownership of something like 25%
So no, the fact that I pay about 6 eurocents ($0.05 US) per minute to the US is because of deregulation and good old capitalist competition. Before the liberalisation of the eur phone market a call to the us cost about $1 US (one dollar) a minute, but thats more than a decade ago. Time for you to update!
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/internet/09/26/goog le.amazon.ap/story.search.jpg
A bit offtopic but check out that image.. Isn't that a windows 3.11 running on a blower 15" monitor from back in the days? cnn should update its art a bit to a 19" tft running KDE 3.2 alpha (ok maybe emacs IS better but...)
you mean you never heard of apt-get, urpmi nor pkg-add?
This stuff about companies needing sun/redhat/ms/IBM support is nonsense. Companies need their services working. If you have a couple of qualified OS people around for the OS you run you can support it perfectly well without needing to sign a contract.
As I understand it,Sun's mad hatter desktop runs over the net on thin clients (boot over the net) so there's a $100 pricetag for each additional user hooking up a desktop and a decreasing cost per user as more users are added.
While this can easily be done by any linux distribution Sun does have the advantage of being able to bring this all from in-house expertise. It certainly is VERY competitive.
But really it's not all that different from having a few people hook up a tightvnc to a heavy linux server or linux farm.
Maybe dba.openoffice.org can help you out and if it doesn't have the tools you can probably request them. I've seen for myself how many faculties depend on MS to provide the tools and it locks the students into a corporately sponsored analytical method that... well I don't think that needs elaboration. Above and beyond just openoffice, using linux would prepare soon to be chemists for working at companies that use unix mainframes and/or linux clusters for modelling complex chemical interactions (like in pharmaceutical research).
Getting dba.openoffice.org to work with for example mysql is pretty simple (you either need the odbc or jdbc driver from mysql.com), from then on it's a lot like working in ms access.
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Outfit sex offenders with these and apply electroshock whenever they're about to commit a vice crime -> Pavlov unleashed!
Seriously though there is a real point to be made in favour of violating the freedom of people that have proven not to care about the freedom or well being of others. Once an offender would be on parole their wereabouts can be monitored and correlated to the location of a crime.
Once someone has done their time should this technology be used? I think it's up to the courts to decide; 10 years in jail and life on RFID, it could be part of sentencing. It would prevent a lot of crime.
Always have to ask oneself though, hitler and stalin would have loved RFID and would have used it in ways that our legal system must prevent. Tagging people will allow a possible future dictatorship to "DELETE FROM POPULATION WHERE CHARACTERISTIC = BITMASK"
Yes that was pretty much my point.. Maybe i should spell every single one of my thoughts out next time so my point would be totally clear to everyone including slashdot's favourite pet troll:P
If you mix Swedes Danes & Dutch, you pretty much have north(western) germans (Hamburg). If you take Italians, French & Chechs, mix them and add some beer, you have Bayern (Munchen). It's certainly not that crude but the differences between traditional cultures in Germany are pronounced and this diversity makes Germany a very fun and surprising country to visit.
Most people are far too stupid to realize that the 70% (*) profit microsoft makes on office and windows is straight out of their pocket and caused by the ms monopoly on office document standard. If they cut off 70%, sell it over the web (no boxes, shrink wrap & distribution costs) they'd still make a profit per unit. That's how sun does it.
Your department should really look at staroffice or openoffice.org. It opens almost any ms office document, and has database support as well. It's a free download....
openoffice dba forms based interface to JDBC/ODBC, native mysql in development.
And its not easy to deal with ms office documents better when those documents have been engineered to make reverse engineering as close to impossible as difficult can get. It's a feature SO/OOo shines at compared to other Office suites.
Yeah it's really sweet and allows for pretty small files. I made a little tutorial with large fonts, put "click here for next slide" at the bottom of each slide, shrunk it (in the object params) to something like 200x150 pixels, and embedded it into a webpage. Great stuff!
I'm curious what more is included in SO7 since theyre talking about animations and thats something openoffice 1.1b wasn't able to do (as far as i could tell). I would expect to see similar functionality in openoffice.
OpenOffice does include some kind of MS Access like database forms interface that connects to JDBC, ODBC... Probably soon native MySQL support. I haven't dug far into it but it should be good enough to build basic forms visually and actually make them do stuff. Very nice!
Thanks to WIne and its commercial equivalents like crossover office plugins and the likes you can pretty much run any windows app on linux. That doesnt really work at such a low cost on Apple. Also MS controls the windows VM for apple machines so thats a dangerous path.
But at slashdot we the users get to add in useless comments! Seriously though comparing slashdot to cnet news is comparing apples to oranges. Both are fruit. At slashdot news items are posted for the discussion although for a lot of users its a great collection of news items in their profession and/or interest area.
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A lot of people claim to have seen UFO's and Yetis and bigfoot. Maybe that's what they saw, maybe not. A lot of 'establishment' people rage against these perceptions and don't help any in unnerving suspicions. They flatly deny the possibility that such things exist while the scientific method dictates that something cannot be proven not to exist, since we know very little and our theories might be wrong or unrefined.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=1089 40% believe in astrology, 30% in UFOs (NSF study)
http://images.google.com/images?q=troll Hey google has them so they exist!
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When I post here do I have to qualify everything I say? It would be an endless discourse. Have you ever used google... does that mean all results from that query should be taken literally? Hell if thats how you read posts you should really evaluate your communications skills.
It's easy to debunk especially when you feel that you are intellectually superior to the one you respond to. It's exactly that holier than thou attitude that is making a lot of common people loose trust in science and government because the moment they witness something or are concerned about something that is outside the parameters of conventional society they get debunked with the passion and arrogance you so eloquently display. You do know that a huge proportion of americans believes in aliens and harmful effects of powerlines exactly because people like yourself think they are stupid and should be neutered. You troll.
Undereducated I don't know. Gullible perhaps. I could name a dozen well educated people who upon learning of some lawsuits and some studies would try to get wifi banned in their childrens schools. They wouldn't have received a good education in physics but nevertheless. Occurs to me most if not all people really have an insufficient understanding of modern society generally. You understand your own specialty and for the rest you have to trust others to understand theirs and come to the right conclusions. I think debunkers often focus too much on making the uneducated look like morons which is very counterproductive especially if you have a few good speakers/lawyers that find a constituency in those declared morons. Interesting convo... too bad slashdot moves so fast by the time i have time to reply to anything convos have usually totally died down.
Marx is mostly bollox. Socialism is contrary to what I feel is optimal to human nature because it makes complaining whiners out of people. The happy workers paradise sounds like it would be the end of history and of evolution.
Even if it isnt ionizing radiation it can obviously still be harmful. If someone feels ill and there is no scientific reason for that person to feel ill it doesn't mean that person isn't ill. Apples fell even before newton theorized gravity.
Electrical fields and EMR cause magnetic fields whose health effects are pretty much unknown. Dismissing something in a heartbeat because it doesn't fit your theology of science really isnt very helpful :P
Next time when you talk about sterilization for stupidity include a clause that when in retrospect you are the stupid one they can stop your machinery from working...
Have you ever used google like for http://www.google.se/search?q=radiation+wifi+healt h
The same deregulation allows VOIP like Skype simply to take off without any questions being asked (so far).
If the US were to regulate VOIP and tax it or otherwise inhibit its implementation it will just shoot itself in the foot and hobble into the "human communication over IP" era. Europe, Japan and most of the rest of the world will find no fault in VOIP.
It remains to be seen if this is entirely true, former national carriers could try to make a last ditch effort but most of them are in such deep financial trouble that they really are dangerously close to bankrupcy.
No in eur you use a long distance company, the state lost monopoly on long distance AGES ago, few national carriers are still government owned, sometimes the govt has ownership of something like 25% So no, the fact that I pay about 6 eurocents ($0.05 US) per minute to the US is because of deregulation and good old capitalist competition. Before the liberalisation of the eur phone market a call to the us cost about $1 US (one dollar) a minute, but thats more than a decade ago. Time for you to update!
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/internet/09/26/goog le.amazon.ap/story.search.jpg
A bit offtopic but check out that image.. Isn't that a windows 3.11 running on a blower 15" monitor from back in the days? cnn should update its art a bit to a 19" tft running KDE 3.2 alpha (ok maybe emacs IS better but...)
This stuff about companies needing sun/redhat/ms/IBM support is nonsense. Companies need their services working. If you have a couple of qualified OS people around for the OS you run you can support it perfectly well without needing to sign a contract.
While this can easily be done by any linux distribution Sun does have the advantage of being able to bring this all from in-house expertise. It certainly is VERY competitive.
But really it's not all that different from having a few people hook up a tightvnc to a heavy linux server or linux farm.
Getting dba.openoffice.org to work with for example mysql is pretty simple (you either need the odbc or jdbc driver from mysql.com), from then on it's a lot like working in ms access.
DELETE FROM population WHERE CHARACTERISTIC = SEARCHBITMASK
Seriously though there is a real point to be made in favour of violating the freedom of people that have proven not to care about the freedom or well being of others. Once an offender would be on parole their wereabouts can be monitored and correlated to the location of a crime.
Once someone has done their time should this technology be used? I think it's up to the courts to decide; 10 years in jail and life on RFID, it could be part of sentencing. It would prevent a lot of crime.
Always have to ask oneself though, hitler and stalin would have loved RFID and would have used it in ways that our legal system must prevent. Tagging people will allow a possible future dictatorship to "DELETE FROM POPULATION WHERE CHARACTERISTIC = BITMASK"
Yes that was pretty much my point.. Maybe i should spell every single one of my thoughts out next time so my point would be totally clear to everyone including slashdot's favourite pet troll :P
If you mix Swedes Danes & Dutch, you pretty much have north(western) germans (Hamburg). If you take Italians, French & Chechs, mix them and add some beer, you have Bayern (Munchen). It's certainly not that crude but the differences between traditional cultures in Germany are pronounced and this diversity makes Germany a very fun and surprising country to visit.
Your department should really look at staroffice or openoffice.org. It opens almost any ms office document, and has database support as well. It's a free download....
(*) something like 70%, google knows.
Yeah let's sell the royal family to the americans! Maybe they can put Buckingham castle in DC and Balmoral castle in Beverly Hills!
And its not easy to deal with ms office documents better when those documents have been engineered to make reverse engineering as close to impossible as difficult can get. It's a feature SO/OOo shines at compared to other Office suites.
I'm curious what more is included in SO7 since theyre talking about animations and thats something openoffice 1.1b wasn't able to do (as far as i could tell). I would expect to see similar functionality in openoffice.
Maybe the openoffice Database Access Project is a better link. Sad to have to point this out to myself. Oh well!
OpenOffice does include some kind of MS Access like database forms interface that connects to JDBC, ODBC... Probably soon native MySQL support. I haven't dug far into it but it should be good enough to build basic forms visually and actually make them do stuff. Very nice!
Thanks to WIne and its commercial equivalents like crossover office plugins and the likes you can pretty much run any windows app on linux. That doesnt really work at such a low cost on Apple. Also MS controls the windows VM for apple machines so thats a dangerous path.
Not to mention theyll start posting rude anti MS statements AC on slashdot!
But at slashdot we the users get to add in useless comments! Seriously though comparing slashdot to cnet news is comparing apples to oranges. Both are fruit. At slashdot news items are posted for the discussion although for a lot of users its a great collection of news items in their profession and/or interest area.