how can someone who is "willing to constantly re-evaluate everything they know to be true " have faith?
By not being a sunday-school Christian.
There are several millenia of theology and philosophy out there to study. If you choose to seek enlightenment through this path, it's not a straightforward process like applying the scientific process to an unknown situation. During the process you'll reflect on how your actions and the actions of others affect the world around you. You'll come to embrace some parts of some sects of some religions, and recognize other parts of other sects of other religions. You will learn that the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths all extend from a single original base. You'll find that many of the other religions of the world share a lot in common with those religions.
Even within the Christian religion, people shift from one sect to another, re-evaluating what their belief means in their actions and how they treat the world around them. Southern Baptist != Catholic != Methodist != Christian Scientist != Christian Unionist, even if the core of their beliefs are the same. Every major sect has a Confirmation process for learning about that flavor of Christianity, even if only the Catholic and Episcopal really "push" it on their followers. While this may not be "re-evaluating" what you believed (unless you had key points of your sect wrong) it does deepen your understanding of your religion what it expects of you, and what others expect of you because of it.
"If your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, offer him cold water to drink. In doing so you pile hot coals upon his head."
And if your enemy teaches your children, don't expect your children to follow your beliefs.
Thats what is at stake here and why both sides are fighting tooth and nail. Scientists can demonstrate evolution on a small scale, and the fundamentalists are scared that the scientists will teach this to their children. In turn, fundamentalists want to bend the education system to their will, and the scientists are scared that their children will become stupid sheep, rather than more scientists.
Once there's laws enforcing these restrictions, there'll be calls for tighter and tighter controls. People are just now doing this with the MPAA movie ratings, whining about how the PG-13 movies are so violent. (I bet the star wars "blood bath" will throw more ewoks on the fire).
Eventually, movies and games will be rated "G" for "Good Christian Audiences" and "H" for "You are all going to Hell! HELL!", and most stores will only carry the G-rated titles to keep the fundies from raising a stink.
Also, if you think fundies will stop once they have minors banned from buying the mature games, you're wrong. Even if its marked not for children, even if people are carded just to walk into the same room as it, SOME fundie is going to get their panties in a knot over its existance and start throwing a lawyer-tantrum.
If you're connected to another network via a cable modem, you've got bigger problems to deal with:P Egress filtering should occur somewhere below the point the networks meet, otherwise you'd have to make sure not to filter the 2nd ISP's traffic.. oh and any other ISPs that ISP connects to, and so on. Like I said, the closer you do this to the individual users, the less work you and your gear has to do;)
I don't know what country YOU live in, but here in the good ol' USA the patent holder can charge any amount for licensing the patent. They can charge per year. They can charge per user. They can charge per unit. MPEG was considering charging mpeg4 encoders per minute of encoded video. They can charge nothing and let anyone use it. They can charge nothing and let NOBODY use it.
In terms of court trials over infringing on some silly patent, if you're found to be knowingly infringing you're out triple the normal damages. Oh, and if you want to get a silly patent struck down? It STILL takes a court battle to get a judgement proving that your invention doesn't infringe, or that the patent is invalid, and if you lose, it pretty much demonstrates that you knew about the patent and infringed it.
Unless ISPs got off their asses and implemented egress filtering for packets leaving their networks. Cable modem in Florida spewing packets addressed from China? Holy shit, I think they're bogus! The closer you filter these bogus packets to the source, the less traffic any given filter has to deal with, PLUS the smaller network size it has to accept packets from, leading to a reduced chance of dropping or allowing the wrong packets.
Several platforms out there have systems for bootstrapping new kernels over a running kernel. It's not an easy task, but it's not an impossible one either, at least if the kernels and system are designed for it, which linux just isn't.
Ah yes, you're right! In 15-20 years when the cable companies have gotten around to rolling out fiber and the telephone companies have gotten around to rolling out fiber, instead of one monopoly in each field providing shitty service at shitty prices, we'll have two giant companies competing to provide shitty service at shitty prices!
Meanwhile we'll still lag behind second-world Asia, and the excuses for the situation will still sound just as lame.
if such a crime ever happened to you or your child
That right there usually marks the end of rational discussion. As soon as someone says "it'll happen to YOU!" rationality flies out the window and everyone becomes emotional. Once rationality is gone, civility is sure to follow, and once we've lost civility, why bother with trials, we can go hunt down that sick pediatrician and give him what he's got coming.
Shouldn't let it bug me but it is. Over half the highly modded comments in this thread are like this one. The article says nothing about doing this to 'sex offenders' in general.
For now anyway. I'm sure theres space on the paper for it to grow. Just wait until some kid gets raped by a three-armed person and they start tracking everyone with extra appendages.
As for any arguments against any kind of "slippery slope" happening here, I'd have to say that any system that groups public urination with screwing a child as "sex offenses" is already coated in mud from the slipping and sliding and is now heading uncontrolled off the edge of the cliff.
Wow, an arbitrary and randomly selected age limit! Shock, Gasp!
And the next time a 12 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? And the next time a 13 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? And the next time a 14 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? You see where I'm going here, right?
Stop and wonder why we have randomly and inconsistently selected the ages of consent across all our states, and you'll realize that its the age at which not enough people can be bothered to whine about it being too low. I figure in 10-20 years the age limit for wearing GPS for raping someone is going to be higher than the age of consent, people will have forgotten that the idea was originally proposed for young child rapists, and they'll be looking for new things to do to people who rape 11 year olds, 12 year olds, 13 year olds...
That would be a shame, I was hoping to learn about cleaning data from various file types. Unlike a lot of "this needs to be secret so nobody knows about it@!$" stuff going on these days, knowing how to remove the memory dump bullshit from word documents doesn't help me put it back, but would help me in my own job;)
Having your email monitored at work is not an "invasion of privacy."
Right up until you forward that memo about selling equipment to yourself at a substantial markup to make your quarterly report look like you're doing a lot of business and getting a lot of money flowing through your company to the FBI and the SEC and you get fired and the memo gets disappeared. "Of course this person is making it up, they were just fired and are trying for revenge!"
What pisses me off right now is that its easier to get a good coverage map for a cellphone then it is to find out if you can get DSL in a house BEFORE you move in.
I look at these apartment locators and house listing services, and think that people are missing a major business opportunity... partner up with some DSL provider (pick one) and mark each listing that you can get DSL at that house... new subscribers for the DSL and tech savvy people buying the house.
At $20-$40 a month per subscriber, they'd have to have either a huge chunk of graft or have no subscribers to run the system into the red. If its the latter, then the system will probably end up just being run by the university. If its the former, some local news show will have some "Major Expose" and "blast the story wide open" on prime time tv where nobody will continue to care.
I suspect that the "final answer" on what companies need to provide 911 service is going to be can you call a real phone with it. If Joe User can call a real phone, then why shouldn't Joe User expect 911 when they dial 911?
I suspect that the final solution will be that 911 centers will start working together, and VoIP providers will provide a meta-911 service that accepts a "roaming" user's call, gets information about that user, and their location, whats wrong, and then forwards the user information and call to the correct 911 call center for whatever city the user is in at the moment. This'd also force VoIP providers to deal with whatever DDoS attacks and prank callers on their end rather than dumping them on unsuspecting 911 centers.
I never dared to try it when I was a kid living in the middle of nowhere, Missouri... What happens when you call 911 from a land line thats 50-60 miles away from the nearest real city? I probably couldn't have even convinced Kansas City's 911 call center that the town I live in exists. I suppose Excelsior Springs might have answered, they had a dinky little hospital there...
withholding the names of people running a kiddie porn ring
Actually, I'd be more than happy if the University did this. Imagine if YOU were the one arrested. Everyone sees your name and picture plastered all over the news. Of course, you're not a pedophile, and after dismantling your computer, the charges are dropped, and nobody speaks of it again.
Then graduation looms. You start sending out resumes. Not a single response, not even a rejection letter. Deciding that your college town sucked anyway, you spread the net a little wider, graduation just around the corner. Graduation comes and goes. You go back to living with your parents. Finally, on the other side of the country, you get a nibble. You fly over there for an interview, they hire you on the spot. Over the next few days you arrange a year contract on an apartment, move in, and start working, then the Regional Manager drops by to see how everything is going. Of course he recognizes you, and two days later you're jobless again, your position having been downsized ("we're terribly sorry").
I'm all for posting signs in pedos' yards after they've been found guilty of screwing little kids or something, but face it... we live in a world where a lynch mob recently killed a pediatrician because their collective intelligence couldn't beat an amoeba. Innocent until proven guilty requires a certain level of privacy and delicacy for situations like this.
Then don't tell anyone where you work "hey, this project is neat, we can use it for free and it will work!" because when it doesn't, YOU will be the one at fault.
It's simple really. If Company X uses open source software with its disclaimer of liability and something goes wrong, its nobody's fault but X's. If Company X goes with Microsoft software with its disclaimer of liability, its still nobody's fault but X's.
While it'd be interesting to see if liability disclaimers hold up in court, I'd rather it be with Microsoft as the defendant, personally.
What my mother wants to know is "does this obsolete my first-generation DSS receiver if she doesn't use HDTV?"
If so, she's not interested in buying a new receiver. If DirecTV wants to keep her as a customer they can send her an upgrade for free.
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The same company (Nippon Ichi Software) and artist (Takehito Harada) behind Phantom Brave also produced Disgaea (in fact, the main characters make a cameo in a bonus area after the end of Phantom Brave)
Disgaea's battle system is more reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics: grid layout, limited movement, jumping capability. Phantom Brave discards the square grid for a circular radius-based system. PB also has more strategic elements beyond just levelling up to Lv12,000... confinement limits: pull everyone out on the first turn, and your army might literally evaporate before the battle is over. Or, the choice between sending your people into battle unarmed (allows for summoning more people) and hoping to find a weapon laying around, or sending them into battle with a weapon, which could possibly save you should the map be low on items to confine. People you don't take into battle could be home making money and mana for you. Or just laying around in the sun all day.
Story wise, Disgaea is hilarious. Damn hilarious. If you don't like your battles to be centered around pure fluff like tracking down the evil demon who stole your picnic basket, don't look here. With multiple endings (even for dying on the first boss!) there is plenty of opportunity for replay. Parody extends all the way down to the core of the game. If you aren't level 5000 by the end of the game, you're doing something wrong, or you're not at one of the cooler game endings. Damage numbers pop up with "K" on the end when you pass 99999 (nothing quite as satisfying like finding a level 1 monster and doing 1000K damage to it). New powers and maps are unlocked by vote at the "assembly of darkness". Don't like the way they vote? Bribe 'em. Or just kill them all.
Meanwhile, Phantom Brave does what few games (or movies) have ever made me do... feel for the characters in the game. And these feelings are not always happy fuzzy feelings. People in the game are assholes. Shit happens. In the end theres a more or less happy ending, but I'd have preferred to have had the chance to rip a few characters' heads off along the way.
If you're a hardcore "tactical" RPG fan, you can play La Pucelle, which predated Disgaea technologically (and has character cameos in Disgaea. To understand all of Disgaea's cameos, go back to the ultra-cute musical (no, seriously: Cast breaking out into song and dance) Rhapsody on the PS1). I suggest playing La Pucelle before Disgaea (they were released in reverse order in the US), otherwise you will spend a lot of the game thinking about how much better the newer battle system was.
Or don't care about. If you're a user of open source, you're free to continue using the open source version you received before they were acquired. If you're a developer of open source, it's your source to sell or not to sell, depending on how idealistic you are versus how hungry you are.
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how can someone who is "willing to constantly re-evaluate everything they know to be true " have faith?
By not being a sunday-school Christian.
There are several millenia of theology and philosophy out there to study. If you choose to seek enlightenment through this path, it's not a straightforward process like applying the scientific process to an unknown situation. During the process you'll reflect on how your actions and the actions of others affect the world around you. You'll come to embrace some parts of some sects of some religions, and recognize other parts of other sects of other religions. You will learn that the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths all extend from a single original base. You'll find that many of the other religions of the world share a lot in common with those religions.
Even within the Christian religion, people shift from one sect to another, re-evaluating what their belief means in their actions and how they treat the world around them. Southern Baptist != Catholic != Methodist != Christian Scientist != Christian Unionist, even if the core of their beliefs are the same. Every major sect has a Confirmation process for learning about that flavor of Christianity, even if only the Catholic and Episcopal really "push" it on their followers. While this may not be "re-evaluating" what you believed (unless you had key points of your sect wrong) it does deepen your understanding of your religion what it expects of you, and what others expect of you because of it.
A majority, however, need only be 50.1%.
In the case of war-mongering Americans, it seems to be 51 %.
"If your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, offer him cold water to drink. In doing so you pile hot coals upon his head."
And if your enemy teaches your children, don't expect your children to follow your beliefs.
Thats what is at stake here and why both sides are fighting tooth and nail. Scientists can demonstrate evolution on a small scale, and the fundamentalists are scared that the scientists will teach this to their children. In turn, fundamentalists want to bend the education system to their will, and the scientists are scared that their children will become stupid sheep, rather than more scientists.
Once there's laws enforcing these restrictions, there'll be calls for tighter and tighter controls. People are just now doing this with the MPAA movie ratings, whining about how the PG-13 movies are so violent. (I bet the star wars "blood bath" will throw more ewoks on the fire).
Eventually, movies and games will be rated "G" for "Good Christian Audiences" and "H" for "You are all going to Hell! HELL!", and most stores will only carry the G-rated titles to keep the fundies from raising a stink.
Also, if you think fundies will stop once they have minors banned from buying the mature games, you're wrong. Even if its marked not for children, even if people are carded just to walk into the same room as it, SOME fundie is going to get their panties in a knot over its existance and start throwing a lawyer-tantrum.
arrangements to be a transit net with a 2nd ISP
:P Egress filtering should occur somewhere below the point the networks meet, otherwise you'd have to make sure not to filter the 2nd ISP's traffic.. oh and any other ISPs that ISP connects to, and so on. Like I said, the closer you do this to the individual users, the less work you and your gear has to do ;)
If you're connected to another network via a cable modem, you've got bigger problems to deal with
I don't know what country YOU live in, but here in the good ol' USA the patent holder can charge any amount for licensing the patent. They can charge per year. They can charge per user. They can charge per unit. MPEG was considering charging mpeg4 encoders per minute of encoded video. They can charge nothing and let anyone use it. They can charge nothing and let NOBODY use it.
In terms of court trials over infringing on some silly patent, if you're found to be knowingly infringing you're out triple the normal damages. Oh, and if you want to get a silly patent struck down? It STILL takes a court battle to get a judgement proving that your invention doesn't infringe, or that the patent is invalid, and if you lose, it pretty much demonstrates that you knew about the patent and infringed it.
Blow out your kneecaps and leave you crying on the ground.
As the Terminator said, "He'll live".
could be usefully forged.
Unless ISPs got off their asses and implemented egress filtering for packets leaving their networks. Cable modem in Florida spewing packets addressed from China? Holy shit, I think they're bogus! The closer you filter these bogus packets to the source, the less traffic any given filter has to deal with, PLUS the smaller network size it has to accept packets from, leading to a reduced chance of dropping or allowing the wrong packets.
Several platforms out there have systems for bootstrapping new kernels over a running kernel. It's not an easy task, but it's not an impossible one either, at least if the kernels and system are designed for it, which linux just isn't.
Ah yes, you're right! In 15-20 years when the cable companies have gotten around to rolling out fiber and the telephone companies have gotten around to rolling out fiber, instead of one monopoly in each field providing shitty service at shitty prices, we'll have two giant companies competing to provide shitty service at shitty prices!
Meanwhile we'll still lag behind second-world Asia, and the excuses for the situation will still sound just as lame.
if such a crime ever happened to you or your child
That right there usually marks the end of rational discussion. As soon as someone says "it'll happen to YOU!" rationality flies out the window and everyone becomes emotional. Once rationality is gone, civility is sure to follow, and once we've lost civility, why bother with trials, we can go hunt down that sick pediatrician and give him what he's got coming.
Shouldn't let it bug me but it is. Over half the highly modded comments in this thread are like this one. The article says nothing about doing this to 'sex offenders' in general.
For now anyway. I'm sure theres space on the paper for it to grow. Just wait until some kid gets raped by a three-armed person and they start tracking everyone with extra appendages.
As for any arguments against any kind of "slippery slope" happening here, I'd have to say that any system that groups public urination with screwing a child as "sex offenses" is already coated in mud from the slipping and sliding and is now heading uncontrolled off the edge of the cliff.
Wow, an arbitrary and randomly selected age limit! Shock, Gasp!
And the next time a 12 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? And the next time a 13 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? And the next time a 14 year old gets raped, guess what the age limit will be adjusted to? You see where I'm going here, right?
Stop and wonder why we have randomly and inconsistently selected the ages of consent across all our states, and you'll realize that its the age at which not enough people can be bothered to whine about it being too low. I figure in 10-20 years the age limit for wearing GPS for raping someone is going to be higher than the age of consent, people will have forgotten that the idea was originally proposed for young child rapists, and they'll be looking for new things to do to people who rape 11 year olds, 12 year olds, 13 year olds...
Anyone who has sex with children (or even, God forbid, infants/toddlers) can no longer be classified as such.
Riiight.
Because the guy who screws a 17 year old girl two days before her birthday after lying to him about her age is obviously a sick, sick monster.
While you spout this shit off, remember that a 17.9999 year old is still treated like a 4 year old under the law in many states.
it is not available on the plublic network.
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That would be a shame, I was hoping to learn about cleaning data from various file types. Unlike a lot of "this needs to be secret so nobody knows about it@!$" stuff going on these days, knowing how to remove the memory dump bullshit from word documents doesn't help me put it back, but would help me in my own job
Having your email monitored at work is not an "invasion of privacy."
Right up until you forward that memo about selling equipment to yourself at a substantial markup to make your quarterly report look like you're doing a lot of business and getting a lot of money flowing through your company to the FBI and the SEC and you get fired and the memo gets disappeared. "Of course this person is making it up, they were just fired and are trying for revenge!"
What pisses me off right now is that its easier to get a good coverage map for a cellphone then it is to find out if you can get DSL in a house BEFORE you move in.
I look at these apartment locators and house listing services, and think that people are missing a major business opportunity... partner up with some DSL provider (pick one) and mark each listing that you can get DSL at that house... new subscribers for the DSL and tech savvy people buying the house.
At $20-$40 a month per subscriber, they'd have to have either a huge chunk of graft or have no subscribers to run the system into the red. If its the latter, then the system will probably end up just being run by the university. If its the former, some local news show will have some "Major Expose" and "blast the story wide open" on prime time tv where nobody will continue to care.
I suspect that the "final answer" on what companies need to provide 911 service is going to be can you call a real phone with it. If Joe User can call a real phone, then why shouldn't Joe User expect 911 when they dial 911?
I suspect that the final solution will be that 911 centers will start working together, and VoIP providers will provide a meta-911 service that accepts a "roaming" user's call, gets information about that user, and their location, whats wrong, and then forwards the user information and call to the correct 911 call center for whatever city the user is in at the moment. This'd also force VoIP providers to deal with whatever DDoS attacks and prank callers on their end rather than dumping them on unsuspecting 911 centers.
I never dared to try it when I was a kid living in the middle of nowhere, Missouri... What happens when you call 911 from a land line thats 50-60 miles away from the nearest real city? I probably couldn't have even convinced Kansas City's 911 call center that the town I live in exists. I suppose Excelsior Springs might have answered, they had a dinky little hospital there...
withholding the names of people running a kiddie porn ring
Actually, I'd be more than happy if the University did this. Imagine if YOU were the one arrested. Everyone sees your name and picture plastered all over the news. Of course, you're not a pedophile, and after dismantling your computer, the charges are dropped, and nobody speaks of it again.
Then graduation looms. You start sending out resumes. Not a single response, not even a rejection letter. Deciding that your college town sucked anyway, you spread the net a little wider, graduation just around the corner. Graduation comes and goes. You go back to living with your parents. Finally, on the other side of the country, you get a nibble. You fly over there for an interview, they hire you on the spot. Over the next few days you arrange a year contract on an apartment, move in, and start working, then the Regional Manager drops by to see how everything is going. Of course he recognizes you, and two days later you're jobless again, your position having been downsized ("we're terribly sorry").
I'm all for posting signs in pedos' yards after they've been found guilty of screwing little kids or something, but face it... we live in a world where a lynch mob recently killed a pediatrician because their collective intelligence couldn't beat an amoeba. Innocent until proven guilty requires a certain level of privacy and delicacy for situations like this.
Then don't tell anyone where you work "hey, this project is neat, we can use it for free and it will work!" because when it doesn't, YOU will be the one at fault.
It's simple really. If Company X uses open source software with its disclaimer of liability and something goes wrong, its nobody's fault but X's. If Company X goes with Microsoft software with its disclaimer of liability, its still nobody's fault but X's.
While it'd be interesting to see if liability disclaimers hold up in court, I'd rather it be with Microsoft as the defendant, personally.
What my mother wants to know is "does this obsolete my first-generation DSS receiver if she doesn't use HDTV?"
If so, she's not interested in buying a new receiver. If DirecTV wants to keep her as a customer they can send her an upgrade for free.
The same company (Nippon Ichi Software) and artist (Takehito Harada) behind Phantom Brave also produced Disgaea (in fact, the main characters make a cameo in a bonus area after the end of Phantom Brave)
Disgaea's battle system is more reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics: grid layout, limited movement, jumping capability. Phantom Brave discards the square grid for a circular radius-based system. PB also has more strategic elements beyond just levelling up to Lv12,000... confinement limits: pull everyone out on the first turn, and your army might literally evaporate before the battle is over. Or, the choice between sending your people into battle unarmed (allows for summoning more people) and hoping to find a weapon laying around, or sending them into battle with a weapon, which could possibly save you should the map be low on items to confine. People you don't take into battle could be home making money and mana for you. Or just laying around in the sun all day.
Story wise, Disgaea is hilarious. Damn hilarious. If you don't like your battles to be centered around pure fluff like tracking down the evil demon who stole your picnic basket, don't look here. With multiple endings (even for dying on the first boss!) there is plenty of opportunity for replay. Parody extends all the way down to the core of the game. If you aren't level 5000 by the end of the game, you're doing something wrong, or you're not at one of the cooler game endings. Damage numbers pop up with "K" on the end when you pass 99999 (nothing quite as satisfying like finding a level 1 monster and doing 1000K damage to it). New powers and maps are unlocked by vote at the "assembly of darkness". Don't like the way they vote? Bribe 'em. Or just kill them all.
Meanwhile, Phantom Brave does what few games (or movies) have ever made me do... feel for the characters in the game. And these feelings are not always happy fuzzy feelings. People in the game are assholes. Shit happens. In the end theres a more or less happy ending, but I'd have preferred to have had the chance to rip a few characters' heads off along the way.
If you're a hardcore "tactical" RPG fan, you can play La Pucelle, which predated Disgaea technologically (and has character cameos in Disgaea. To understand all of Disgaea's cameos, go back to the ultra-cute musical (no, seriously: Cast breaking out into song and dance) Rhapsody on the PS1). I suggest playing La Pucelle before Disgaea (they were released in reverse order in the US), otherwise you will spend a lot of the game thinking about how much better the newer battle system was.
either don't know about or don't talk about
Or don't care about. If you're a user of open source, you're free to continue using the open source version you received before they were acquired. If you're a developer of open source, it's your source to sell or not to sell, depending on how idealistic you are versus how hungry you are.
But is the mirror running on apache or IIS?