A rational person will consider these things. A devout person will send their child to parochial school. An extremist will launch into some drivel about "moral majorities", "athiestic liberals" or sideline into abortion or a similar divisive topic.
Intelligent Design can be proven false by showing that intelligent agents can emerge from unintelligent, randomly combined building blocks.
The instant you do that, the ID people will simply tell you that all you proved is that there is more than one way to create intelligent agents, not that an Intelligent Designer does/did not exist to create us.
Horribly misinterpreted and bastardized stem cell "debate" aside, consider the administration "revising" environmental research.
Just remember that anti-science doesn't have to be pro-religion, it could just be pro-stupid or corporate-whore. While paying the scientists ostensibly gives you the right to do whatever to their research, including editing it, changing the results then presenting it as science is wrong.
Apache can actually do name-based virtual hosting with *.domain.com certificates, as long as all your vhosts are in.domain.com. It appears that what happens in apache is this:
Open socket Apache whines then picks the first vhost matching this hostname:port and loads its certificate. Client matches cert against hostname SSL is negotiated Client sends request including hostname Apache picks the by-name vhost matching the hostname given, and the transaction continues.
Congratulations on forming a network of friends outside of your office.
For the rest of us, whose friends all moved away after college, the only people we really know of who share the same interests that I can meet face to face are our coworkers. This isn't something limited to geeks either, you can just about ask anyone for whom school is a fond memory, and the friends they meet in person will consist mostly of coworkers, neighbors, and fellow churchgoers (if any). (In fact, geeks might be able to claim more friends... their fellow D&D gamers, LAN parties, etc.)
I myself go out and have a drink after work on a regular basis, blow off steam, shoot the breeze, and generally have fun. Then I go home and do what I do all the other evenings: tinker with my LAN, play some video games, eat dinner, and go to sleep, all of which are also fun.
At a Good Job, importance is not reflected through hiring procedure or salary. At a Good Job, everyone recognizes that it is the entire chain of employees working together that makes the operation run smoothly, without blowing up. At a Good Job, your boss will find a way to make you feel appreciated even if you aren't the "star quarterback".
At a Good Job, you may not be paid $2 million an hour, but you're also less likely to come to work one morning and find security guards and plastic bags at your desk when they sack the whole R&D team because the quarterly report was more important than the company.
Come to Houston. Better yet, don't, just read about how our crime lab regularly testified under oath repeatedly in crimes they never performed any testing on, or where the tests were compromised either intentionally or through the fact that the lab just sucked. Originally it was just the DNA lab that fucked over innocent people, but now it's turned out that other divisions have been too.
It doesn't help that our D.A. at the time, when faced with DNA evidence proving that the man was innocent refused to grant a pardon, leaving him with a record of being guilty of rape. Apparently DNA only counts when test results come out the way you want them to.
So, you can take your flowery government-is-right bullshit and shove it up your flowery asshole, because those "previous mistakes" are still there. THEY ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. They do not just go away because you quit looking or assumed that when everyone said they'd behave, they weren't lying through their teeth to you.
I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there?
Did you go there and ask?
Anyways, there are still citizens that have been held without charge for years now. That Padillo guy for one. I have nothing against prosecuting terrorists, but apparently the government does.
Nobody is going to search your library records.
Didn't you notice the point when Ashcroft quit insisting that the library records portion of the Act had never been used? Anyways, an illegal (British, expired Visa) in Florida was deported for using the library to look up "Baghdad Batteries". Sure, he was an illegal immigrant, but now it's obvious that doing research on ancient electrical sources is grounds for the investigation that led to him being deported.
An open network does not give implied consent to use anymore than an unlocked house or car.
So an open website with no encryption or authentication requires me to obtain in advance permission to use it? I wonder what CowboyNeal's phone number is, I think I'll need to get permission for every time I hit reload....
they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK
Unless, of course, the shareholders say "I want Cisco to not provide China with firewall equipment". In which case, Cisco has an obligation to the shareholders to not provide China with firewall equipment.
I think that was just given as an example of what Amazon intends to do.
Right now, its marketplace sells physical things: used/new books, etc. They're extending that to include web services now as well, so you can go to amazon's marketplace and buy or subscribe to a web service, and for connecting consumers and webservices, amazon gets a cut, and Amazon patents everything it does whether its an invention or not.
It'd be nice if there was some more marks on the axes, but you can see that somewhere below one atmosphere of pressure, you can get directly from ice to vapor.
One must balance the fact that actual innovative devices often generate multiple patents
This is a fact? Funny, I don't think the lightbulb had patents covering "A process for making wire" "A process for creating a vacuum" "A process for creating a bulb of glass" "A process for creating a vacuum in a bulb of glass" "A process for moving electricity through a wire in a vacuum in a bulb of glass"... no, the patent was just on the lightbulb.
In fact, the whole "MAXINT" thing would be fixed if people were banned from patenting anything less than a whole invention. The other problem (patents with a hojillion claims which don't always add up to the description in the Abstract, like the Player Piano patent lawsuit against Apple) could be solved by banning people from patenting anything more than a whole invention too.
It's true that requiring exactly one invention per application will certainly increase the number of applications, however when these don't have 100 different inventions encoded in their claims, it will be far easier to actually process these in a timely manner. (Perhaps the application should be automatically rejected if the word "or" appears in it)
shorter terms for patents to become public domain
Patents should become public domain when they are no longer novel. Take, for instance, the FAT16 patent that Microsoft tried to strongarm people with long after FAT32 was created and at least two versions of NTFS. Prior art aside, by the time Microsoft got around to threatening to sue people over the patent, the patent wasn't very interesting.
You can't pick and choose what bits you find are "morally right" AFTER the fact. He accepted a big salary, now he should accept the waiting period before he can join google
We can't "pick and choose" parts of the contract? What about Microsoft "picking and choosing" who their competitors are? How long was this exec with Microsoft? Was Google even around when he signed this agreement? It's one thing to say "hey, don't work for Novell or Red Hat" but for microsoft to say "don't work for anyone we might be competing with sometime in the distant future", that's more abhorrent than the well-stretched "ohh, its a contract, shouldn't have signed it if you didn't like it" excuse can cover... Contracts MUST have finite, fixed terms that specifically lay out the responsibilites of both sides.
But it's true. If people are going to continue to spout this "murder simulation/training" bullshit, we have to work harder to prove just how stupid the idea is. People whip out their tired old "the army uses games to train", despite the fact that there is not an army in the world that substitutes Hogan's Alley and the NES pistol for spending time on a shooting range with a real gun and live ammunition. Recruits are marched for hours on end, they don't "simulate" that by circling the troops and marching them across a Starcraft map.
So, the net result of videogames is that when threatened, you respond faster? Sounds like standard issue eye-hand-coordination boosting to me. Instead, let us address the real issue of how the population of Nazis have been utterly decimated due to kids playing Wolfenstein 3D and being trained to go out and shoot mutant Nazi soldiers 20 times in the face with a shotgun. And don't even get me started on the population of demons since the release of Doom. When was the last time you've heard a demon mating call? I thought not. Clearly these murder simulators are decimating our endangered species!
Currently if I plug in a USB HD, windows spends several minutes with a popup window telling me it's searching for an autorun file. While this is easy to turn off for a CD drive, I have yet to figure out how to tell windows to stop for a removable drive that actually gets removed.
The funny thing is that I navigate from place to place in a car trying to turn right as often as I can so that I don't have to try and cross traffic or wait for turn signals by turning left. Maybe when it comes time for driver's ed, you and your son should look at living in Europe or another country where people drive on the left side of the road;)
Sounds like a good excuse for logging who goes to the union site and posting records or forwarding my IP to the authority, or perhaps even disconnect me for viewing the union site, but nothing in that clause says that I agree to let them censor what I see.
Being told that they aren't required to censor things != being told that they will censor things.
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A rational person will consider these things. A devout person will send their child to parochial school. An extremist will launch into some drivel about "moral majorities", "athiestic liberals" or sideline into abortion or a similar divisive topic.
Well said! I think I might borrow this some day.
Intelligent Design can be proven false by showing that intelligent agents can emerge from unintelligent, randomly combined building blocks.
The instant you do that, the ID people will simply tell you that all you proved is that there is more than one way to create intelligent agents, not that an Intelligent Designer does/did not exist to create us.
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Horribly misinterpreted and bastardized stem cell "debate" aside, consider the administration "revising" environmental research.
Just remember that anti-science doesn't have to be pro-religion, it could just be pro-stupid or corporate-whore. While paying the scientists ostensibly gives you the right to do whatever to their research, including editing it, changing the results then presenting it as science is wrong.
Apache can actually do name-based virtual hosting with *.domain.com certificates, as long as all your vhosts are in .domain.com. It appears that what happens in apache is this:
Open socket
Apache whines then picks the first vhost matching this hostname:port and loads its certificate.
Client matches cert against hostname
SSL is negotiated
Client sends request including hostname
Apache picks the by-name vhost matching the hostname given, and the transaction continues.
what about the rest of us who work in places populated nearly entirely with complete cunts?
Simple, don't make everyone else miserable by banning getting together and having a happy hour with coworkers.
Congratulations on forming a network of friends outside of your office.
For the rest of us, whose friends all moved away after college, the only people we really know of who share the same interests that I can meet face to face are our coworkers. This isn't something limited to geeks either, you can just about ask anyone for whom school is a fond memory, and the friends they meet in person will consist mostly of coworkers, neighbors, and fellow churchgoers (if any). (In fact, geeks might be able to claim more friends... their fellow D&D gamers, LAN parties, etc.)
I myself go out and have a drink after work on a regular basis, blow off steam, shoot the breeze, and generally have fun. Then I go home and do what I do all the other evenings: tinker with my LAN, play some video games, eat dinner, and go to sleep, all of which are also fun.
As for the rest of your post, what the fuck?
har har funney!
At a Good Job, importance is not reflected through hiring procedure or salary. At a Good Job, everyone recognizes that it is the entire chain of employees working together that makes the operation run smoothly, without blowing up. At a Good Job, your boss will find a way to make you feel appreciated even if you aren't the "star quarterback".
At a Good Job, you may not be paid $2 million an hour, but you're also less likely to come to work one morning and find security guards and plastic bags at your desk when they sack the whole R&D team because the quarterly report was more important than the company.
Obviously everyone in jail is innocent
Come to Houston. Better yet, don't, just read about how our crime lab regularly testified under oath repeatedly in crimes they never performed any testing on, or where the tests were compromised either intentionally or through the fact that the lab just sucked. Originally it was just the DNA lab that fucked over innocent people, but now it's turned out that other divisions have been too.
It doesn't help that our D.A. at the time, when faced with DNA evidence proving that the man was innocent refused to grant a pardon, leaving him with a record of being guilty of rape. Apparently DNA only counts when test results come out the way you want them to.
So, you can take your flowery government-is-right bullshit and shove it up your flowery asshole, because those "previous mistakes" are still there. THEY ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. They do not just go away because you quit looking or assumed that when everyone said they'd behave, they weren't lying through their teeth to you.
I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there?
Did you go there and ask?
Anyways, there are still citizens that have been held without charge for years now. That Padillo guy for one. I have nothing against prosecuting terrorists, but apparently the government does.
Nobody is going to search your library records.
Didn't you notice the point when Ashcroft quit insisting that the library records portion of the Act had never been used? Anyways, an illegal (British, expired Visa) in Florida was deported for using the library to look up "Baghdad Batteries". Sure, he was an illegal immigrant, but now it's obvious that doing research on ancient electrical sources is grounds for the investigation that led to him being deported.
It's clearly impossible in the US to criticize the government
That depends. Is your wife a CIA agent?
An open network does not give implied consent to use anymore than an unlocked house or car.
So an open website with no encryption or authentication requires me to obtain in advance permission to use it? I wonder what CowboyNeal's phone number is, I think I'll need to get permission for every time I hit reload....
they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK
Unless, of course, the shareholders say "I want Cisco to not provide China with firewall equipment". In which case, Cisco has an obligation to the shareholders to not provide China with firewall equipment.
I think that was just given as an example of what Amazon intends to do.
Right now, its marketplace sells physical things: used/new books, etc. They're extending that to include web services now as well, so you can go to amazon's marketplace and buy or subscribe to a web service, and for connecting consumers and webservices, amazon gets a cut, and Amazon patents everything it does whether its an invention or not.
See the phase diagram for water Here
It'd be nice if there was some more marks on the axes, but you can see that somewhere below one atmosphere of pressure, you can get directly from ice to vapor.
One must balance the fact that actual innovative devices often generate multiple patents
This is a fact? Funny, I don't think the lightbulb had patents covering "A process for making wire" "A process for creating a vacuum" "A process for creating a bulb of glass" "A process for creating a vacuum in a bulb of glass" "A process for moving electricity through a wire in a vacuum in a bulb of glass"... no, the patent was just on the lightbulb.
In fact, the whole "MAXINT" thing would be fixed if people were banned from patenting anything less than a whole invention. The other problem (patents with a hojillion claims which don't always add up to the description in the Abstract, like the Player Piano patent lawsuit against Apple) could be solved by banning people from patenting anything more than a whole invention too.
It's true that requiring exactly one invention per application will certainly increase the number of applications, however when these don't have 100 different inventions encoded in their claims, it will be far easier to actually process these in a timely manner. (Perhaps the application should be automatically rejected if the word "or" appears in it)
shorter terms for patents to become public domain
Patents should become public domain when they are no longer novel. Take, for instance, the FAT16 patent that Microsoft tried to strongarm people with long after FAT32 was created and at least two versions of NTFS. Prior art aside, by the time Microsoft got around to threatening to sue people over the patent, the patent wasn't very interesting.
You can't pick and choose what bits you find are "morally right" AFTER the fact. He accepted a big salary, now he should accept the waiting period before he can join google
We can't "pick and choose" parts of the contract? What about Microsoft "picking and choosing" who their competitors are? How long was this exec with Microsoft? Was Google even around when he signed this agreement? It's one thing to say "hey, don't work for Novell or Red Hat" but for microsoft to say "don't work for anyone we might be competing with sometime in the distant future", that's more abhorrent than the well-stretched "ohh, its a contract, shouldn't have signed it if you didn't like it" excuse can cover... Contracts MUST have finite, fixed terms that specifically lay out the responsibilites of both sides.
Plus Google isn't the only one who does search technology.
The moral of the story is: "Don't work for Microsoft". EVERYONE is Microsoft's competitor, whether they know it yet or not.
In that sense, it's less intrusive than a license plate.
You pay for your license plate. I pay for terrorists to show up, get their tag, and throw it in the trash can on the way out the door.
But it's true. If people are going to continue to spout this "murder simulation/training" bullshit, we have to work harder to prove just how stupid the idea is. People whip out their tired old "the army uses games to train", despite the fact that there is not an army in the world that substitutes Hogan's Alley and the NES pistol for spending time on a shooting range with a real gun and live ammunition. Recruits are marched for hours on end, they don't "simulate" that by circling the troops and marching them across a Starcraft map.
Thanks!
So, the net result of videogames is that when threatened, you respond faster? Sounds like standard issue eye-hand-coordination boosting to me. Instead, let us address the real issue of how the population of Nazis have been utterly decimated due to kids playing Wolfenstein 3D and being trained to go out and shoot mutant Nazi soldiers 20 times in the face with a shotgun. And don't even get me started on the population of demons since the release of Doom. When was the last time you've heard a demon mating call? I thought not. Clearly these murder simulators are decimating our endangered species!
Won't someone think of the Nazis?!
Currently if there's an autorun, windows runs it.
Currently if I plug in a USB HD, windows spends several minutes with a popup window telling me it's searching for an autorun file. While this is easy to turn off for a CD drive, I have yet to figure out how to tell windows to stop for a removable drive that actually gets removed.
The funny thing is that I navigate from place to place in a car trying to turn right as often as I can so that I don't have to try and cross traffic or wait for turn signals by turning left. Maybe when it comes time for driver's ed, you and your son should look at living in Europe or another country where people drive on the left side of the road ;)
Sounds like a good excuse for logging who goes to the union site and posting records or forwarding my IP to the authority, or perhaps even disconnect me for viewing the union site, but nothing in that clause says that I agree to let them censor what I see.
Being told that they aren't required to censor things != being told that they will censor things.