Nice to see people listen (read) my recommendations... Calvino isn't exactly sci-fi, though just this morning I read a short story with him starring particles or somethings in space-time. But I heard that Eco (Foucalt's Pendulum, etc) calls him an inspiration or something.
I really enjoyed the first 3 Ender books when they came around. I think I've lost interest in the form/genre/style/taste/smell/texture/furriness and now find Stephen Dedalus a more convincing anguished youth. But Ender seems a little more Sturm und Drang, ja? It might just be the passing into late adolescence though.
How 'bout this story? tchrist, tchrist's antagonist agreeing with tchrist, and OSC all posting... think my standards for/. are getting lower ackshully
Try Italo Calvino, one of Umberto Eco's favorite writers... in "If on a winter's night, a traveler" he plays with reading misprinted, mistranslated, misappropiated, etc. novels... very fun and cute.
Always nice to see some literary figures appear on slashdot--too often are we limited to blurbish thoughts that dont really develop... like this one.
Yeah. I thought the film well-made but poorly designed--excellent music and cinematography for the most part, and decent acting. But really, I misread my watch inside the theater and I was about ready to walk out after what I thought was three hours.
It seems literary because of:
1) The "brothers" theme. Between Ripley and uhh... the one in Italy he calls brother? Bath tub? Whats his name again? Now, this theme never occurs in literature! At least there wasn't anything about consubstantiality and atonement between father and son. Or Oedipus complexes.
2) And ooh! popular modern literary dichotomy between appearance and reality.
So we had those. They were depicted but not explored.
The psychological depth of the characters! thhhbt! We do indeed get rich kids living in Europe ala Hemingway and that guy who wrote Gatsby... And then, well, Ripley's character...
Potentially a cross between say Thomas Mann's Felix Krull and Doestoyevsky's Raskolnikov. Instead, they simply wave before us the homoerotic aspects of Ripley's attractions to other certain other male characters. Amusing indeed was the depiction, amusing was the audience's "amused" reaction. But really! Perhaps swimming around in circles is the part of the director's message--a *shudder* spiral of evil--but couldn't he have at least gone deeper and darker psychologically? There is a confidence man here drowning in his situation, one who is falling into the habit of killing his closest male confidences.
Ah. But really: Felix Krull and Crime and Punishment are good books--entertaining, provocative, and even chilling (one more so than the other).
The greatest flaw in the movie's design though, was its inability to sustain tension after a while. Very tense it was, with Ripley's persona and more hanging on by threads at times... but that got very repetitive... Very repetitive. Very, very repetitive.
This movie is a beautiful portrait, I suppose. But little depth or substance behind it all. Listening to Stravinsky's Petruchka on the drive home was nice and stirring.
It would have been a cute sub-2hour flick--pretty and something more than sensory dope. But it was a little long at 2.5 hours. Felt like 3.5. I saw Seven Samurai a week ago at home... 3.5 hours, felt like 2.5 (except for finishing at 4 am), and you wished it was longer. Very simple conceptually, but much more spiritually and emotionally involved.
I think I may actually attempt to write a college application essay on this movie after I wake into coherence for all the nice little intellectual tangents it could lead me on.
Never coherent and especially exhausted, i think i must try to burp a reply. I shrugged at your first post, grimaced at the second, now I struggle to belch.
Ah! I should like you--thou sayest that this matter (nevermind) of sansara is the riverrun, commodiously recirculing...
Actually, I think this point of view is stupid, except from the perspective of the elemental atoms themselves. They are invincible (pertaining only to chemcial reactions)!
Simple "scientific" flaws: all of this capitalist consumerist merchandise mongering uses a lot of energy manufacturing worldly attachments... and a lot more energy will be needed to demanufacture goods into reusable resources. Ah! What if some of this energy is nuclear (natural like the sun or artifical like springfield nuclear). Now, can you think of some practical way to reverse these processes? Even if all of the energy behind our hyperreal gluttony comes from "renewable" sources, our very consumption, in any form, irresponsibly fosters greater rates of entropy increase. Whatever you have in mind for the final cats-game of the universe, be it closed or open, iron atoms... who knows how many billions of years have been shaved from the distance
Ok, that was absurdly long-view. And slightly fatalistic. Let's look at this idea of reusing atoms. It seems that you admit that this atom reusing = recycling. You point out that recycling is a waste of energy and not a very good way of doing things presently. That is an argument against recycling. It is nothing even close to a good defense for disposible products or our evil consumption culture.
Landfills will enbiggen! Air will dirtify! The good savage, wherever he or she may roam, sheds a tear as we drown in our decadence.
BLAST! I can't make a good argument even if I try. Maybe tommorrow. Too much sun and college-applications tonight. Email me if you want more tommorrow. It's just dumb to try face problems of ecology/sociology with absurdly reduced thermodynamics.
are they like the Knight Templars or Rosicrucians? Can they tell me how to get back to atlantis? I'm tired of being stuck in James Joyce's "brain," serving drinks to da Irish.
has a nice explanation of quantum "crypto". I prefer one-time-pads distributed through q. entanglement, if that is feasible...
well... off to the supermarket and movies... life of the slacker high school senior...
oh. if q. computers can decrypt stuff like:
Fennsense, fnnsonse, aworn! Tuck upp those wide shorts. The pink of the busket for sheer give. Peeps. Stand up to hard ware and step into style. If you soil may, puett, guett me prives...
i offer my soul and any others that i can get my claws on
An mistake all too easy, my fellow earwickers. Quantum encryption requires direct access to the fiber-optic line on both ends, it provides an eavesdrop-proof channel since something (i dunno) will be skewed about the way the incoming photons are polarized. Quantum encryption is based on the properties of photons and really has very little computing going on for it. It is, in our current models of physics, perfect. Perhaps trusted key distribution centers for the future that are linked by quantum encryption can serve as one-time-pad sharing sites.
First time I heard of quantum encryption, I thought that they were considering Bell's theorem: get random pad information by manipulating a pair of twins. Though you cannot communicate using the twins themselves, the random noise that you can get by analyzing states (simultaneously?) can be used as a one-time-pad.
Quantum computing will not break symmetric ciphers. It can, however, search key space much faster, reduce complexity by the factor of a square root. That is, once it becomes feasible... Stupid quanta are not cooperating.
With assymetric ciphers, including El Gamal-type elliptic log thingies, RSA's large primes, and all those broken and ready-to-be broken knapsack problem, quantum computing will be far more effective. Ideally, QC will be able to reduce these NP complete and NP-hard problems to solvable in polynomial time.
Also, I'd like to point out that the complexity of RSA does not double with each additional bit... 4096 bit encryption RSA does not have 2^3968 or so more possible keys than 128 bit TwoFish... It supports large prime products as big as 4096 bits (or was it large primes?) The spacing of primes at big numbers and our almost-decent sieving schemes...bla bla bla.
Now, if quantum computing can reduce the amount of power used by my puters, or if it allows me to build either a quantum death ray or time machine, I think its time for me to transform into a rabid koala.
Wharnow are alle her childer, say? In kingdome gone or power to come or gloria be to them farther? Allalivial, allalluvial!
Erm, anyhoo. do you know this bug personally? i seems your description struck a bell! my ears are afflicted with this "analog noise" problem as well. perhaps thats why my rear windshield is smashed up.
seriously though. i believe the g3 also had a similar issue with register or cache corruption under certain kinds of load. dunno what came of it. I thought IBM had nothing to do with the G4's in question; that the 7400 is motorola's baby. oh well. nice chip though.
Oh, btw. Anyone see the news regarding the next-gen G4 (g4 1/2?) moving from 4 stage pipeline to 7 so as to reach more intel/amd-ish clock speeds, 11 execution units, and 4 instead of 3 instructions per cycle. Also integrated L2 cache and support for external backside L3. Under 10 watts too. I'd call it an elegant design if motorola wasnt using obscenely small processes, they claim.13 for the new ones..15 microns on the current g4's. so they say. shame that the ARM architecture isnt more popular.
then again, maybe you are saying something. tell us more. what you say?
actually, ist quite happy with my powerbook g3... except for it being dead for a while. dunno why i bother overclocking my celery except to save about 1 second for every 4 spent every 10 minutes rendering a massive slashdot page in bloody netscape.
dunno. just really would prefer 2-3 buttons on a powerbook trackpad. and maybe a subnotebookish enclosure.
sorry bout my little physics error. never took freshmen physics so thhhbt.
and does anyone know if the current Motorola G4's are really manufactured in copper.15 micron 6 layer metal as the motorola site says. that would be pretty impressive manufacturing, and some less impressive chip design imho.
Typical power consumption on both new chips (no clock speed specified) is around 12 watts, according to AMD. Not cool. Har har.
As I sit here on my 2.2 volt OC'd celeron, mourning my dead G3, I wonder at how we free-software, open-sourceys still use or rely on this blasted, 20+ year old rube goldberg arch.
The new G4's havent even gone through manufacturing and minor design refinements, nor are they aimed at low-power environments but they still (yield issues aside) draw something like 5.0w typical/11.5 peak. And consider how power consumption varies with the SQUARE of wattage (i believe:P). sheesh. too bad intel has possession of the strongarm arch now. that was elegant.
its a shame. for my laptops, i look for the most elegant solution and designs. too bad apple doesnt exactly have real competition with powerpc laptops.
ah. sad how quake frame rates drive the market, no? i think i go soak in the tub with gottfried von strassburg's tristan. save my money for some sound system that can work while i bathe so i can enjoy my bach. apparently the world beyond maya has only gotten worse since these "enlightened times"
Reminds me a little of the Nestor episode Ulysses... the 20th century one, at least. I'd quote some, but I'm toting Thomas Mann to work this week, not the old jolly hibernian. Mann's Goethe sounds like S.D. aged like fine parmesan though.
And well, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape." indeed-doo
of course, relating Goethe and science is pretty funny.
and to tie this into the subject a little: speciation does happen! polyploidy in plants leads to genetically different offspring that cannot interbreed with the original.
Dogs, dingoes, and wolves are often typed into different species, but they can interbreed and produce viable offspring.
i'm surprised that microevolution is accepted. easily explanation: they might have a little trouble refuting what happens with bacteria and antibiotics and insects and DDT. but why not macroevolution? speciation is hard to explain given kinda murky definitions of species but why not microevolution over extended peroids of time?
suppose now that over 500 years, super-duper-DDT became more and more widely used. the dominant persistant patterns (prototypes vs. instances) tend to exhibit more and more resistance. thus the standard cowdog 500 years later will be a little different from today's cowpig, which derive from the same stock (or ancestral (dammit whats the opposite of inheritance) object). It may develop a nose like a gas mask. The important thing is: the image of a cowpig/cowdog 500 years later is different from that of one today. someone who sees the change will call them different names. speciation.
what we call species is pretty much two discernable sets of organisms that, if they have sex, dont do it together. otherwise, its just classification. generally we group genetically or anatomically, sometimes behaviorally. it's a synthetic science.
science's objective is to explain our experiences and perhaps gain power over what we can "touch" science works because it uses our experiences and our "touching" of the world to gain understanding.
creationism hurts me because people do not look with their own eyes to evaluate something i value. i believe they close their eyes on one hand of god because they are too fixed on another perhaps.
the compromise (microev. not macro) suggests this is political. when the masses fight they are respectable but their opinions are not delectable.
its kinda like free software. i could care less if it dominated the world. but anyone learning to code and add their ideas to the free pool is quite groovy.
i'm speaking from the lower 25% of my high school class. flame away. i always have the sweet caress of ALP dream away to.
I'm not exactly informed on the subject of win2000 as the only times I touch windows seems to be during my evil summer jobs; otherwise, i stick to meine Powerbook und meine pure linux celery. but here are some opinions, free and unsolicited.
0. Huh. They make this log message sound so natural. I hear logrotate being installed now.
10:45am - Reboot because the System log was full.
1. In trying to "crack" the server, ye can either use known attacks or you can shoot randomly in the dark. Now, dear Microsoft has asked us specifically not to hand the keyboards to the trillion monkeys (all chiquita powered) so we can assume that the only meaningful attacks are ones with known program flaws (in IIS or NT). Chances are, anyone who has the knowledge to properly take advantage of, much less find a buffer overflow would NOT be wasting time in the contest but either already a MS employee, developer, or tester. Not everyone dreams of being called 3l33t hax0r or whatnot.
2. Very simple installation. IIS and NT--I mean win2k--and some sort of guestbook cgi--or asp or isapi app or something. I could put the passwords to all of my accounts, the source code to my linux installation, and still be safe without any firewallish protection IF the only services running were plain http, NTP, and qmail/sendmail (evil sendmail configs not withstanding).
3. I agree that the majority of security problems on operational machines comes from misconfiguration. It is my understanding that hax0r tools like BO2K take advantage of user config errors--made much easier by NT's (in my understanding, the only NT that I've touched being a couple of firewalled thinkpad systems) half-assed multi-user design. This is pretty much a cookie-cutter stamped installation maintained by a whole team of Microsofties. Unless they deliberately misconfigure--which would be odd considering they would need to have a vulnerability to exist for this to be an effective technique without resorting to the monkey militia--I assume that this installation is rather airtight.
Umm... losing count so i'll start over. Like hell I'm scrolling back. 2 hour train ride ahead of me and it's already very very late. Actually screw the numbers. I believe the only attack that may yield something useful is monkey madness. Either way, MS gets something to boast about.
MS is not the evil evil enemy... though it is damn fun to call them that (even more so to call their employees incubi and succubi and such. screwtapes and wormwoods). Linux is good because of the hacker mentality: the spirit to learn and improve for their own sake. Those who use Linux because its c00l may be following the way of MS. I use Linux because I like seeing the code and trying to hack up my own little pieces of code.
Damn this. nevermind, i have to go pee.
H.C. earwicker from Tokyo err. off the top of my head: "well either you know or don't you kennet. every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look the dusk is growing. Her branches lofty are taking root. And her cold cher's gone ashley. Filou, filou? What time is at? It saon is late..." indeed. Home at 9 at this rate. and only really worked for like 5 hours today.
hrms... i'm using a microwave link now that sits on the roof and aims through the trees... encryption should be an non-issue as long as bandwith usage remains manageable; that is, the amount of bandwith the average user can use is close to what is reasonably encryptable using a lightweight scheme. Of course, snoopers would have to splice the actual laser... just keep a camera with really really big zoom along the path of the signal... hmm. so i guess i could upgrade my t1-ish (strange, 200 KBps (kbytes)downloads despite paying for 384 kbits microwave) to this in a couple weeks, cough. Ah. Anyone notice dem pitiable foo's in the article who confused bits and bytes? Phall to phoenish.
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Ah. You seem to have read the National Socialist Dummy's Guide to Nietzche. Untermensch. :P
other bully is Quarkie, aka Jimbo.
Nice to see people listen (read) my recommendations... Calvino isn't exactly sci-fi, though just this morning I read a short story with him starring particles or somethings in space-time. But I heard that Eco (Foucalt's Pendulum, etc) calls him an inspiration or something.
/. are getting lower ackshully
I really enjoyed the first 3 Ender books when they came around. I think I've lost interest in the form/genre/style/taste/smell/texture/furriness and now find Stephen Dedalus a more convincing anguished youth. But Ender seems a little more Sturm und Drang, ja? It might just be the passing into late adolescence though.
How 'bout this story? tchrist, tchrist's antagonist agreeing with tchrist, and OSC all posting... think my standards for
Try Italo Calvino, one of Umberto Eco's favorite writers... in "If on a winter's night, a traveler" he plays with reading misprinted, mistranslated, misappropiated, etc. novels... very fun and cute.
Always nice to see some literary figures appear on slashdot--too often are we limited to blurbish thoughts that dont really develop... like this one.
i've read ulysses! dont make me poke you with my ashplant... or peg you with this potato i have, yes
Yeah. I thought the film well-made but poorly designed--excellent music and cinematography for the most part, and decent acting. But really, I misread my watch inside the theater and I was about ready to walk out after what I thought was three hours.
It seems literary because of:
1) The "brothers" theme. Between Ripley and uhh... the one in Italy he calls brother? Bath tub? Whats his name again? Now, this theme never occurs in literature! At least there wasn't anything about consubstantiality and atonement between father and son. Or Oedipus complexes.
2) And ooh! popular modern literary dichotomy between appearance and reality.
So we had those. They were depicted but not explored.
The psychological depth of the characters! thhhbt! We do indeed get rich kids living in Europe ala Hemingway and that guy who wrote Gatsby... And then, well, Ripley's character...
Potentially a cross between say Thomas Mann's Felix Krull and Doestoyevsky's Raskolnikov. Instead, they simply wave before us the homoerotic aspects of Ripley's attractions to other certain other male characters. Amusing indeed was the depiction, amusing was the audience's "amused" reaction. But really! Perhaps swimming around in circles is the part of the director's message--a *shudder* spiral of evil--but couldn't he have at least gone deeper and darker psychologically? There is a confidence man here drowning in his situation, one who is falling into the habit of killing his closest male confidences.
Ah. But really: Felix Krull and Crime and Punishment are good books--entertaining, provocative, and even chilling (one more so than the other).
The greatest flaw in the movie's design though, was its inability to sustain tension after a while. Very tense it was, with Ripley's persona and more hanging on by threads at times... but that got very repetitive... Very repetitive. Very, very repetitive.
This movie is a beautiful portrait, I suppose. But little depth or substance behind it all. Listening to Stravinsky's Petruchka on the drive home was nice and stirring.
It would have been a cute sub-2hour flick--pretty and something more than sensory dope. But it was a little long at 2.5 hours. Felt like 3.5. I saw Seven Samurai a week ago at home... 3.5 hours, felt like 2.5 (except for finishing at 4 am), and you wished it was longer. Very simple conceptually, but much more spiritually and emotionally involved.
I think I may actually attempt to write a college application essay on this movie after I wake into coherence for all the nice little intellectual tangents it could lead me on.
Never coherent and especially exhausted, i think i must try to burp a reply. I shrugged at your first post, grimaced at the second, now I struggle to belch.
Ah! I should like you--thou sayest that this matter (nevermind) of sansara is the riverrun, commodiously recirculing...
Actually, I think this point of view is stupid, except from the perspective of the elemental atoms themselves. They are invincible (pertaining only to chemcial reactions)!
Simple "scientific" flaws: all of this capitalist consumerist merchandise mongering uses a lot of energy manufacturing worldly attachments... and a lot more energy will be needed to demanufacture goods into reusable resources. Ah! What if some of this energy is nuclear (natural like the sun or artifical like springfield nuclear). Now, can you think of some practical way to reverse these processes? Even if all of the energy behind our hyperreal gluttony comes from "renewable" sources, our very consumption, in any form, irresponsibly fosters greater rates of entropy increase. Whatever you have in mind for the final cats-game of the universe, be it closed or open, iron atoms... who knows how many billions of years have been shaved from the distance
Ok, that was absurdly long-view. And slightly fatalistic. Let's look at this idea of reusing atoms. It seems that you admit that this atom reusing = recycling. You point out that recycling is a waste of energy and not a very good way of doing things presently. That is an argument against recycling. It is nothing even close to a good defense for disposible products or our evil consumption culture.
Landfills will enbiggen! Air will dirtify! The good savage, wherever he or she may roam, sheds a tear as we drown in our decadence.
BLAST! I can't make a good argument even if I try. Maybe tommorrow. Too much sun and college-applications tonight. Email me if you want more tommorrow. It's just dumb to try face problems of ecology/sociology with absurdly reduced thermodynamics.
are they like the Knight Templars or Rosicrucians? Can they tell me how to get back to atlantis? I'm tired of being stuck in James Joyce's "brain," serving drinks to da Irish.
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991002/quantumcon .html
has a nice explanation of quantum "crypto". I prefer one-time-pads distributed through q. entanglement, if that is feasible...
well... off to the supermarket and movies... life of the slacker high school senior...
oh. if q. computers can decrypt stuff like:
Fennsense, fnnsonse, aworn! Tuck upp those wide shorts. The pink of the busket for sheer give. Peeps. Stand up to hard ware and step into style. If you soil may, puett, guett me prives...
i offer my soul and any others that i can get my claws on
An mistake all too easy, my fellow earwickers. Quantum encryption requires direct access to the fiber-optic line on both ends, it provides an eavesdrop-proof channel since something (i dunno) will be skewed about the way the incoming photons are polarized. Quantum encryption is based on the properties of photons and really has very little computing going on for it. It is, in our current models of physics, perfect. Perhaps trusted key distribution centers for the future that are linked by quantum encryption can serve as one-time-pad sharing sites.
First time I heard of quantum encryption, I thought that they were considering Bell's theorem: get random pad information by manipulating a pair of twins. Though you cannot communicate using the twins themselves, the random noise that you can get by analyzing states (simultaneously?) can be used as a one-time-pad.
Quantum computing will not break symmetric ciphers. It can, however, search key space much faster, reduce complexity by the factor of a square root. That is, once it becomes feasible... Stupid quanta are not cooperating.
With assymetric ciphers, including El Gamal-type elliptic log thingies, RSA's large primes, and all those broken and ready-to-be broken knapsack problem, quantum computing will be far more effective. Ideally, QC will be able to reduce these NP complete and NP-hard problems to solvable in polynomial time.
Also, I'd like to point out that the complexity of RSA does not double with each additional bit... 4096 bit encryption RSA does not have 2^3968 or so more possible keys than 128 bit TwoFish... It supports large prime products as big as 4096 bits (or was it large primes?) The spacing of primes at big numbers and our almost-decent sieving schemes...bla bla bla.
Now, if quantum computing can reduce the amount of power used by my puters, or if it allows me to build either a quantum death ray or time machine, I think its time for me to transform into a rabid koala.
Back to reading Parzifal...
And here is what I have to say to you:
.13 for the new ones. .15 microns on the current g4's. so they say. shame that the ARM architecture isnt more popular.
Wharnow are alle her childer, say? In kingdome gone or power to come or gloria be to them farther? Allalivial, allalluvial!
Erm, anyhoo. do you know this bug personally? i seems your description struck a bell! my ears are afflicted with this "analog noise" problem as well. perhaps thats why my rear windshield is smashed up.
seriously though. i believe the g3 also had a similar issue with register or cache corruption under certain kinds of load. dunno what came of it.
I thought IBM had nothing to do with the G4's in question; that the 7400 is motorola's baby. oh well. nice chip though.
Oh, btw. Anyone see the news regarding the next-gen G4 (g4 1/2?) moving from 4 stage pipeline to 7 so as to reach more intel/amd-ish clock speeds, 11 execution units, and 4 instead of 3 instructions per cycle. Also integrated L2 cache and support for external backside L3. Under 10 watts too. I'd call it an elegant design if motorola wasnt using obscenely small processes, they claim
then again, maybe you are saying something. tell us more. what you say?
actually, ist quite happy with my powerbook g3... except for it being dead for a while. dunno why i bother overclocking my celery except to save about 1 second for every 4 spent every 10 minutes rendering a massive slashdot page in bloody netscape.
.15 micron 6 layer metal as the motorola site says. that would be pretty impressive manufacturing, and some less impressive chip design imho.
dunno. just really would prefer 2-3 buttons on a powerbook trackpad. and maybe a subnotebookish enclosure.
sorry bout my little physics error. never took freshmen physics so thhhbt.
and does anyone know if the current Motorola G4's are really manufactured in copper
Typical power consumption on both new chips (no clock speed specified) is around 12 watts, according to AMD. Not cool. Har har.
:P). sheesh. too bad intel has possession of the strongarm arch now. that was elegant.
As I sit here on my 2.2 volt OC'd celeron, mourning my dead G3, I wonder at how we free-software, open-sourceys still use or rely on this blasted, 20+ year old rube goldberg arch.
The new G4's havent even gone through manufacturing and minor design refinements, nor are they aimed at low-power environments but they still (yield issues aside) draw something like 5.0w typical/11.5 peak. And consider how power consumption varies with the SQUARE of wattage (i believe
its a shame. for my laptops, i look for the most elegant solution and designs. too bad apple doesnt exactly have real competition with powerpc laptops.
ah. sad how quake frame rates drive the market, no? i think i go soak in the tub with gottfried von strassburg's tristan. save my money for some sound system that can work while i bathe so i can enjoy my bach. apparently the world beyond maya has only gotten worse since these "enlightened times"
Reminds me a little of the Nestor episode Ulysses... the 20th century one, at least. I'd quote some, but I'm toting Thomas Mann to work this week, not the old jolly hibernian. Mann's Goethe sounds like S.D. aged like fine parmesan though.
And well, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape." indeed-doo
of course, relating Goethe and science is pretty funny.
and to tie this into the subject a little: speciation does happen! polyploidy in plants leads to genetically different offspring that cannot interbreed with the original.
Dogs, dingoes, and wolves are often typed into different species, but they can interbreed and produce viable offspring.
i'm surprised that microevolution is accepted. easily explanation: they might have a little trouble refuting what happens with bacteria and antibiotics and insects and DDT. but why not macroevolution? speciation is hard to explain given kinda murky definitions of species but why not microevolution over extended peroids of time?
suppose now that over 500 years, super-duper-DDT became more and more widely used. the dominant persistant patterns (prototypes vs. instances) tend to exhibit more and more resistance. thus the standard cowdog 500 years later will be a little different from today's cowpig, which derive from the same stock (or ancestral (dammit whats the opposite of inheritance) object). It may develop a nose like a gas mask. The important thing is: the image of a cowpig/cowdog 500 years later is different from that of one today. someone who sees the change will call them different names. speciation.
what we call species is pretty much two discernable sets of organisms that, if they have sex, dont do it together. otherwise, its just classification. generally we group genetically or anatomically, sometimes behaviorally. it's a synthetic science.
science's objective is to explain our experiences and perhaps gain power over what we can "touch" science works because it uses our experiences and our "touching" of the world to gain understanding.
creationism hurts me because people do not look with their own eyes to evaluate something i value. i believe they close their eyes on one hand of god because they are too fixed on another perhaps.
the compromise (microev. not macro) suggests this is political. when the masses fight they are respectable but their opinions are not delectable.
its kinda like free software. i could care less if it dominated the world. but anyone learning to code and add their ideas to the free pool is quite groovy.
i'm speaking from the lower 25% of my high school class. flame away. i always have the sweet caress of ALP dream away to.
I'm not exactly informed on the subject of win2000 as the only times I touch windows seems to be during my evil summer jobs; otherwise, i stick to meine Powerbook und meine pure linux celery. but here are some opinions, free and unsolicited.
0. Huh. They make this log message sound so natural. I hear logrotate being installed now.
10:45am - Reboot because the System log was full.
1. In trying to "crack" the server, ye can either use known attacks or you can shoot randomly in the dark. Now, dear Microsoft has asked us specifically not to hand the keyboards to the trillion monkeys (all chiquita powered) so we can assume that the only meaningful attacks are ones with known program flaws (in IIS or NT). Chances are, anyone who has the knowledge to properly take advantage of, much less find a buffer overflow would NOT be wasting time in the contest but either already a MS employee, developer, or tester. Not everyone dreams of being called 3l33t hax0r or whatnot.
2. Very simple installation. IIS and NT--I mean win2k--and some sort of guestbook cgi--or asp or isapi app or something. I could put the passwords to all of my accounts, the source code to my linux installation, and still be safe without any firewallish protection IF the only services running were plain http, NTP, and qmail/sendmail (evil sendmail configs not withstanding).
3. I agree that the majority of security problems on operational machines comes from misconfiguration. It is my understanding that hax0r tools like BO2K take advantage of user config errors--made much easier by NT's (in my understanding, the only NT that I've touched being a couple of firewalled thinkpad systems) half-assed multi-user design. This is pretty much a cookie-cutter stamped installation maintained by a whole team of Microsofties. Unless they deliberately misconfigure--which would be odd considering they would need to have a vulnerability to exist for this to be an effective technique without resorting to the monkey militia--I assume that this installation is rather airtight.
Umm... losing count so i'll start over. Like hell I'm scrolling back. 2 hour train ride ahead of me and it's already very very late. Actually screw the numbers. I believe the only attack that may yield something useful is monkey madness. Either way, MS gets something to boast about.
MS is not the evil evil enemy... though it is damn fun to call them that (even more so to call their employees incubi and succubi and such. screwtapes and wormwoods). Linux is good because of the hacker mentality: the spirit to learn and improve for their own sake. Those who use Linux because its c00l may be following the way of MS. I use Linux because I like seeing the code and trying to hack up my own little pieces of code.
Damn this. nevermind, i have to go pee.
H.C. earwicker from Tokyo
err. off the top of my head: "well either you know or don't you kennet. every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look the dusk is growing. Her branches lofty are taking root. And her cold cher's gone ashley. Filou, filou? What time is at? It saon is late..." indeed. Home at 9 at this rate. and only really worked for like 5 hours today.
hrms... i'm using a microwave link now that sits on the roof and aims through the trees... encryption should be an non-issue as long as bandwith usage remains manageable; that is, the amount of bandwith the average user can use is close to what is reasonably encryptable using a lightweight scheme. Of course, snoopers would have to splice the actual laser... just keep a camera with really really big zoom along the path of the signal... hmm. so i guess i could upgrade my t1-ish (strange, 200 KBps (kbytes)downloads despite paying for 384 kbits microwave) to this in a couple weeks, cough. Ah. Anyone notice dem pitiable foo's in the article who confused bits and bytes? Phall to phoenish.
Remember switching! bandwith seems to be getting easier all the time.
of course, going through the air seems pretty cool, takes the fiber out of fiber optic and back into breakfast cereal... speaking of which