"Think of it like disease. Rarely is one disease guaranteed to kill all of a species. But if you can load dozens of serious diseases onto the species, you have a fair chance of wiping it out. Spammers are the species. Anti-spam measures are disease vectors aimed at them."
I think that's a very good description of reality (or model if you will). Mod up.
Well actually water *is* pretty weird as a chemical. Possibly on some other planet they say the same about ammonia while they fart out some dry sodium hydroxide though.
My condolences. I felt that I needed to reply. I was touched by your post and I feel sad for you.
Just remember that while the pain never goes away (and it shouldn't) it will get less over time (and it should). Don't feel guilty for carrying on and cherish the memories, pass on the values she taught you. Don't idolize someone because they're dead, they were just them as you are just you with all their faults and blessings. There's no death without life and no life without death. people don't realize that most of the time. They don't want to. They are even taught not to.
I lost my brother at a young age after years of illness. It certainly molded me. And if there's anything, any word that comes up first it is this: empathy. It may make you feel weak at times but it most certainly makes you a better person. And sadly, in our instant gratification society most people, including myself, only learn that after a great personal loss. But goddamned, hold on to that. It's probably the greatest gift your mom ever gave you.
Yup, but AP still gets to define the story and how you "ought" to think about it, so they already succeeded. Their job is the mouthpiece, or at best the gatekeeper role IMHO.
Attribution at commercial outlets is generally just as bad I think (maybe not for AP and hey they tow the line anyway so they can be credited alright, it's probably one button, but for smaller sources they're going to bulldozer along just fine then -- I've seen this consistantly while being only a reader of diverse sources, mostly outside the MSN).
that beacon of independent journalism lazily quoted around the world without question or any original research by the quoting parties (all news outlets who I'm sure pay them for their feed, how 1980s).
Poor them. For once the message may have been cut-and-pasted a bit too (un?)skewed for their tastes, or who knows, have contained actual unbiased truth (Dog help us!)
Poor them.
Yup they surely need the fascist DMCA to make sure they will remain the number one source of the whole truth and nothing but the truth for the people. No thought crime allowed. After all, this is a new time.
Hence the "stack" of apps (which in some sense look like books or papers usually) and utils such as calculator, calendar, card game, etc. It's not all that long ago when the GUIs used terms like "briefcase". And of course, "trashcan". All are metaphors for the actual desk and related items.
Will we ever get "factually true" (+1) and "factually wrong" (-1) moderations? It would greatly improve/. moderation I think, and as an aside make meta-moderating a little more sane (in the sense that you actually have the option to mod down for being not factual rather than just generically slashing it down via underrated)
Erm, are you saying that a proton is much heavier/larger than a neutron? They are of the same size/weight (1u). Alpha particles are helium nuclei (4u).
There may be reasons that make detection problematic, but I don't think size is one of them, neither should their velocity/energy be because both are in the same order of magnitude.
You can see that the reactions with the "slower" neutrons (~2 MeV) are needed to produce the D+n->T transumtation that the article mentions. I don't think you can get ~14MeV neutrons sufficiently slowed down in this small geometry for them to contribute much to the transmutation. Now this is mentioned specifically, so it seems that the tritium involved doesn't get created by fusion (d+d->t+p) but instead through transmutation by neutrons that are a byproduct of d+d->He(3)+n(2.5MeV)
So (2ii) to (6i), as numbered in the wikipedia article, are the reactions they claim to see (with the neutrons being high energetic, assumingly too high to be significantly useful to create tritium, hence the talk about transmutation), or at least one or more of them.
So as I understand it, they argue that the metallic Pd/Zr configuration acts as some sort of catalyser similar as (surface-)catalysers in chemical reactions do.
What you'd want to detect are both high and "low" energy neutrons AND PROTONS, right?
M.S. (oops!) and the *buntu guild of piggybackers hereby declare Debian their mule while proposing to RedHat and Novell to divide the pie and then take it eeeeasy. What if RH and novell say yes... two out of three.
Debian of course has its own release cycle and it's not going to change. This whole thing sounds like a bit of a threat IMHO.
If I were debian(ite) I would feel uneasy about this.
while being read charges of orchestrating death squads, that godforsaken SOB, I'd like to say good morning Peru!
I know there's pros and cons VAV the OLPC, but overall it's a win-win if this can get kids access to tech that they otherwise wouldn't, and be (eventually) able to communicate with other kids at the other side of the globe and be able to learn to use a computer much in the same way as kids in the "developed" world do, and it likely gives them an economical advantage in the long run, but certainly and immediately the advantage of having broaded their horizon, which is always a treat to a young mind I think.
I already posted and blew my modpoints on another article, but: hear hear.
It's as if people are getting imprinted with the idea that "charity == noble suffering" and "fun == forprofit" while to any well thinking and empathic human being it should be clear that "charity == fun" is the only workable way to really have any success in giving some of your time/experience/money to the "betterment of the world". And there's no particular reason why the latter should be any driving motive in the first place. It's the result that counts.
The whole idea that charity should not be personally rewarding (monetary, ego, or just the fuzzies) is a very puritan notion, that is charity ought to be driven by guilt not by any positive emotion such as "the fuzzies". Or maybe it's just seen as a means to influence/power. Professional beggars^h^h^h^h^h^h^hcharities are masters in exploiting the guilt thing.
Against my nature I RTFA, and I noticed that from MS' side what this seems to be about (if you read between the lines) is the courting of local developers. The comparison with India speaks volumes.
I'm willing to speculate that if you look at market entrance for the (lower) continent SA is likely the gateway. Is Shuttleworth a large employer there? Is it a veiled threat WRT employment possibilities?
It's a tried and tested method used by corporations to get their way, use (potential and actual) employment as bargaining chips to get the government pork.
Would someone please kindly shoot the homephobic basement dweller that still thinks that it's bon ton to insult me and many other people with their adolescent (and completely off-topic) labelling. Thanks.
No difference at all from the NIGGER troll(s) that rightfully get mod into oblivion.
Or else, I want to see a NIGGER tag too. Because it's just as fucking stupid and insulting.
From what I read here and there (google) this is really about this guy's older brother who's also a journalist and who has written about one or more of the tribal chiefs aka warlords (and since they're our "friends" now they have moved up into all sorts of higher positions). One thing that stung was apparently his reporting how this tribal chief and others (apparently it's an old custom) enjoy capturing and abusing teenage boys. Maybe before being sold and shipped to Guantanamo, who knows.
I think, but am not sure that's in the Uruzgan province where our dear Dutch soldiers are protecting such scumbags while spreading freedom and democracy.
And there are persistent rumors that Karzai (mayor of Kabul)'s brother is opium chief number one in that lovely place. Well I reckon something has to pay for weaponry and the squanders of war and newfound power. And they can cheerfully dump the heroin into countries such as Iran. You know, to stop the terrorists there.
BTW, in Iraq they now HAVE sharia law. Officially. It's only a few pages away from the oil privatizing clauses in their new and illegal constitution brought to them by the benevolent US of A. Gays are killed. Single women (and there are MANY widows there) are targeted. The whole shebang. So they get death from above, death from starvation, death from disease, and death from their own governments militia (and the madhi). Almost makes death by M16 a mercy killing, doesn't it.
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"example of the tu quoque fallacy"
Happy to oblige, and that incluses the word "the" yes ;-)
You're "Loyal" alright. And who's in whose pockets is clear to all.
Doesn't change the fact that the FED is neither federal nor a reserve.
Correct.
"Think of it like disease. Rarely is one disease guaranteed to kill all of a species. But if you can load dozens of serious diseases onto the species, you have a fair chance of wiping it out. Spammers are the species. Anti-spam measures are disease vectors aimed at them."
I think that's a very good description of reality (or model if you will). Mod up.
Hmff, /. undid the moderations anyway. THEN WHY DO THEY ASK? :) Oh well.
Yeah, even water outweirds you.
H2O - the new soviet Russia.
Well actually water *is* pretty weird as a chemical. Possibly on some other planet they say the same about ammonia while they fart out some dry sodium hydroxide though.
My condolences. I felt that I needed to reply. I was touched by your post and I feel sad for you.
Just remember that while the pain never goes away (and it shouldn't) it will get less over time (and it should). Don't feel guilty for carrying on and cherish the memories, pass on the values she taught you. Don't idolize someone because they're dead, they were just them as you are just you with all their faults and blessings. There's no death without life and no life without death. people don't realize that most of the time. They don't want to. They are even taught not to.
I lost my brother at a young age after years of illness. It certainly molded me. And if there's anything, any word that comes up first it is this: empathy. It may make you feel weak at times but it most certainly makes you a better person. And sadly, in our instant gratification society most people, including myself, only learn that after a great personal loss. But goddamned, hold on to that. It's probably the greatest gift your mom ever gave you.
All the best,
Dan
If Nokia screws us over or stops maintaining Qt, Qt will have to be released as-is under a BSD license.
The answer to that is no.
Yup, but AP still gets to define the story and how you "ought" to think about it, so they already succeeded. Their job is the mouthpiece, or at best the gatekeeper role IMHO.
Attribution at commercial outlets is generally just as bad I think (maybe not for AP and hey they tow the line anyway so they can be credited alright, it's probably one button, but for smaller sources they're going to bulldozer along just fine then -- I've seen this consistantly while being only a reader of diverse sources, mostly outside the MSN).
that beacon of independent journalism lazily quoted around the world without question or any original research by the quoting parties (all news outlets who I'm sure pay them for their feed, how 1980s).
Poor them. For once the message may have been cut-and-pasted a bit too (un?)skewed for their tastes, or who knows, have contained actual unbiased truth (Dog help us!)
Poor them.
Yup they surely need the fascist DMCA to make sure they will remain the number one source of the whole truth and nothing but the truth for the people. No thought crime allowed. After all, this is a new time.
Poor them.
Yes, of course it does.
/. moderation I think, and as an aside make meta-moderating a little more sane (in the sense that you actually have the option to mod down for being not factual rather than just generically slashing it down via underrated)
Hence the "stack" of apps (which in some sense look like books or papers usually) and utils such as calculator, calendar, card game, etc. It's not all that long ago when the GUIs used terms like "briefcase". And of course, "trashcan". All are metaphors for the actual desk and related items.
Will we ever get "factually true" (+1) and "factually wrong" (-1) moderations? It would greatly improve
Erm, are you saying that a proton is much heavier/larger than a neutron? They are of the same size/weight (1u). Alpha particles are helium nuclei (4u).
There may be reasons that make detection problematic, but I don't think size is one of them, neither should their velocity/energy be because both are in the same order of magnitude.
I was thinking this too. Judging from the possible reactions (and assuming this is the set we should be considering):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Criteria_and_candidates_for_terrestrial_reactions
You can see that the reactions with the "slower" neutrons (~2 MeV) are needed to produce the D+n->T transumtation that the article mentions. I don't think you can get ~14MeV neutrons sufficiently slowed down in this small geometry for them to contribute much to the transmutation. Now this is mentioned specifically, so it seems that the tritium involved doesn't get created by fusion (d+d->t+p) but instead through transmutation by neutrons that are a byproduct of d+d->He(3)+n(2.5MeV)
So (2ii) to (6i), as numbered in the wikipedia article, are the reactions they claim to see (with the neutrons being high energetic, assumingly too high to be significantly useful to create tritium, hence the talk about transmutation), or at least one or more of them.
So as I understand it, they argue that the metallic Pd/Zr configuration acts as some sort of catalyser similar as (surface-)catalysers in chemical reactions do.
What you'd want to detect are both high and "low" energy neutrons AND PROTONS, right?
M.S. (oops!) and the *buntu guild of piggybackers hereby declare Debian their mule while proposing to RedHat and Novell to divide the pie and then take it eeeeasy. What if RH and novell say yes... two out of three.
Debian of course has its own release cycle and it's not going to change. This whole thing sounds like a bit of a threat IMHO.
If I were debian(ite) I would feel uneasy about this.
while being read charges of orchestrating death squads, that godforsaken SOB, I'd like to say good morning Peru!
I know there's pros and cons VAV the OLPC, but overall it's a win-win if this can get kids access to tech that they otherwise wouldn't, and be (eventually) able to communicate with other kids at the other side of the globe and be able to learn to use a computer much in the same way as kids in the "developed" world do, and it likely gives them an economical advantage in the long run, but certainly and immediately the advantage of having broaded their horizon, which is always a treat to a young mind I think.
I already posted and blew my modpoints on another article, but: hear hear.
It's as if people are getting imprinted with the idea that "charity == noble suffering" and "fun == forprofit" while to any well thinking and empathic human being it should be clear that "charity == fun" is the only workable way to really have any success in giving some of your time/experience/money to the "betterment of the world". And there's no particular reason why the latter should be any driving motive in the first place. It's the result that counts.
The whole idea that charity should not be personally rewarding (monetary, ego, or just the fuzzies) is a very puritan notion, that is charity ought to be driven by guilt not by any positive emotion such as "the fuzzies". Or maybe it's just seen as a means to influence/power. Professional beggars^h^h^h^h^h^h^hcharities are masters in exploiting the guilt thing.
Anyway, great comment.
Against my nature I RTFA, and I noticed that from MS' side what this seems to be about (if you read between the lines) is the courting of local developers. The comparison with India speaks volumes.
I'm willing to speculate that if you look at market entrance for the (lower) continent SA is likely the gateway. Is Shuttleworth a large employer there? Is it a veiled threat WRT employment possibilities?
It's a tried and tested method used by corporations to get their way, use (potential and actual) employment as bargaining chips to get the government pork.
"Nobody develops software for charity"
Hello, my name is Nobody. You know, the one that's prefect. Same dude.
Makepeace: "Oh butt out, you're just hung over. Again."
Yah baby, now reach for the kleenex. Atta boy
No, you want euthaenesia. You just don't know it yet.
Would someone please kindly shoot the homephobic basement dweller that still thinks that it's bon ton to insult me and many other people with their adolescent (and completely off-topic) labelling. Thanks.
No difference at all from the NIGGER troll(s) that rightfully get mod into oblivion.
Or else, I want to see a NIGGER tag too. Because it's just as fucking stupid and insulting.
From what I read here and there (google) this is really about this guy's older brother who's also a journalist and who has written about one or more of the tribal chiefs aka warlords (and since they're our "friends" now they have moved up into all sorts of higher positions). One thing that stung was apparently his reporting how this tribal chief and others (apparently it's an old custom) enjoy capturing and abusing teenage boys. Maybe before being sold and shipped to Guantanamo, who knows.
I think, but am not sure that's in the Uruzgan province where our dear Dutch soldiers are protecting such scumbags while spreading freedom and democracy.
And there are persistent rumors that Karzai (mayor of Kabul)'s brother is opium chief number one in that lovely place. Well I reckon something has to pay for weaponry and the squanders of war and newfound power. And they can cheerfully dump the heroin into countries such as Iran. You know, to stop the terrorists there.
BTW, in Iraq they now HAVE sharia law. Officially. It's only a few pages away from the oil privatizing clauses in their new and illegal constitution brought to them by the benevolent US of A. Gays are killed. Single women (and there are MANY widows there) are targeted. The whole shebang. So they get death from above, death from starvation, death from disease, and death from their own governments militia (and the madhi). Almost makes death by M16 a mercy killing, doesn't it.
+5 bull's eye!