Which, of course, means that your monthly subscription, Internet connection, and hours played now become tax deductible costs of doing business. Not a bad way to make a living if you can hack it.
Better go back and look up the definition of hypocritical. Just because you can't live up to an expectation you hold for your child doesn't mean you don't actually hold those beliefs or strive to meet them yourself. And just because you used to think one way doesn't make it hypocritical to hold opposing beliefs now. Now if someone could only bang that little tidbit through our President's thick squash, the world might be a better place.
For example if Honda decided to sell us Pink Elephants on Wheels and spent a billion dollars in marketing, you can be sure that there will be a lot of people in this country how will just "have" to have a pink elephant on wheels. You mean like this?
Re:slightly off-topic - general post on AI
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Marvin Minsky On AI
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Creating Artifical Intelligence that can pass the Turing Test which in turn leads towards emulating Human Intelligence in an artificial way? Once you are there, you might be able to use this so called Artificial Intelligence to store human intelligence in a consistent, realible and perfectly-encompasing and preserving way. I've never understood the compulsive bent towards the Turing Test and the emulation of human intelligence. It seems pretty plain and simple that you cannot, EVER, create human intelligence. Human intelligence is a property of humans (duh), and it even varies from human to human: a human born blind, or with no arms possesses a uniquely different way of solving problems than someone who can see or who possesses all of their limbs. While the underlying machinery doesn't vary significantly from a differently-abled person, the intelligence that person uses for negotiating their environment is significantly different.
Likewise, non-humans are pretty damn smart. Not "human" smart, but I've seen cats pull stunts that I'm pretty sure your average MySpace poster couldn't pull off. But will we ever create a computer with "cat" intelligence? No, because, very simply, it's not a cat. But what we CAN do is create a computer that is "computer" intelligent, or a robot that's "robot" intelligent. I don't think anyone knows exactly what that means yet because it's never been fully explored on its own terms.
The biggest flaw in the field of Artificial Intelligence has been the excessively narrow definition of what intelligence is. Once we wise up and realize that a machine can be intelligent in a "machine" way instead of trying to make it intelligent in a "human" way, we'll at least be headed in the right direction.
Here, here! I agree with everything the parent says and more. BC has destroyed the game for me; I've gone from playing several days a week to at most an hour or two a week, or not at all. 1. The game economics have been destroyed. Green items are not even worth trying to auction anymore. Even pre-BC, it was difficult to sell higher level equipment, but it's impossible now. 2. Every thing I worked so hard to get was obsolete within seconds of starting the expansion. 3. The new quests seem to be intentionally design to encourage ninja'ing. I have seen the absolute worst behavior in BC that I've ever seen in any game, let alone any period of WoW. And it is intentional, because it would be trivial to tweak the quests to eliminate this behavior.
Our family used to have 3 accounts. We're down to one, and it's going to be none very soon.
Should that ever happen, I don't understand what the big deal is. All we've done is shift the locus of talent. To make a good movie, it's still going to require a convincing, human performance. Whether it's some guy in front of a sound board twiddling nerd-knobs, or a live flesh and blood actor on the screen, if it's worth watching, it's going to take talent.
Was it just me, or did everyone get the little advertisement movie proclaiming that the London Stock Exchange got improved reliability by switching to Windows from Linux?
That's why I always write ransom notes by hand, using my own blood. Take my word for it: that's how you get caught. You need to write the note in HER blood.
I'm not quite 50, but I can get a pretty good feel for how I'm going to relate with someone by mentioning the Iraq occupation or global warming. They're charged enough topics that you can get a feel for the person's political, social, and religious leanings without the overt hostility you'd get from mentioning, say, abortion or affirmative action. The responses are usually along a broad spectrum and give enough color to figure out how sympatico you'll be.
Actually, the section of the code you're refering to refers only to bank "notes" not coins, and forgery is the mutilation of currency with the intent to pass it off as authentic. There is a separate section of the code, section 331, that specifically refers to coins. It is different in that it specifically mentions intent:
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs,
diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined
at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are
by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money
within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
lightened -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both. I'm pretty sure The Disney Company researched this before they set out those hundreds of penny mutilation machines at Disney World. Be some pretty bad press if my five year old got hauled down Main Street USA for felonious mutiliation of money.
Who Amazon.com thinks wears bluetooth headsets
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Bluetooth Headset Roundup
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I hate these things. Of all the obnoxious, pretentious accessories to one of the most obnoxious pretentious pieces of technology ever invented, bluetooth headsets are the worst. I was therefore a little shocked when Amazon.com recommended that I might like one. Luckily, Amazon has this nifty little feature that lets you see why they made a recommendation, and lets you edit the triggers to refine future suggestions.
To set this up, earlier in the day I was reading a Fazed article about Amazon's new "personal care products" lines. One of the items they had under "personal care" was the Doc Johnson fist-shaped dildo. Hardy-har... Amazon's selling fisting aids.
Later in the day, I went back to Amazon to do some Christmas shopping, and there's this recommendation to purchase a Motorola HS805 Bluetooth headset. I've never bought anything related to a cel phone on Amazon so I couldn't figure out why it would make this suggestion. I clicked on the "Why was I recommended this?" link, and up pops this window http://www.juric.org/images/who_buys_borgsets.JPG.
To this day, I can't look at anyone wearing one of those things without bursting out laughing.
A computer is a tool, teach your kids that. The internet... is a distraction that young children don't need.
I call hogwash all over that. My 2 year old is a frequent visitor to PBSKids.org. His counting and spelling skills have multiplied in conjunction with his computer usage. My five year old can Google with the best of them and plays almost as many math games as entertainment games. My 10 year old is on the verge of teaching me a thing or two about technology, uses the Internet to research projects for school, and walks all over me in WoW with the information he's learned.
The computer can be a tool. It can also be a toy and a weapon. Do you consider the library a distraction? The newspaper? It's all about the parenting. Teach your children well and they will make the best of anything you give them access to. Spoil your children and they will treat everything like a toy. Teach them hatred and everything becomes a weapon.
Here, here! Mod the parent up and ignore the "integrity" arguments below. The summary (if it's accurate) says
The revamp announced Friday prompted mixed responses from analysts, who indicated the plan might be successful but, at that time, they doubted Edmondson's ability to pull it off after it became clear he had lied about his education.
His ability to pull off a management revamping is completely independent of his education. I've seen MBAs ride herd on more business disasters than I care to count. I would be willing to argue that keeping your Harvard Business School education out of corporate America is probably the best way for any company to succeed.
No, your phone records are your providors business records. They can do with them what they want. Go read your TOS.
Maybe you ought to read yours. I use Sprint/Nextel and they spell it out in black and white:
Sprint Nextel protects the privacy of its local, long distance and wireless customers consistent with applicable law, such as the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) regulations that govern Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)....
CPNI includes, for example, the number and type of lines... call detail records, and bill summary. If you are a new customer of Sprint Nextel, you will receive a notice of your CPNI rights and further information on this topic from Sprint Nextel. When you have not already given Sprint Nextel your permission to use CPNI for certain marketing purposes, Sprint Nextel will give you 33 days after soliciting your consent before using your CPNI and Sprint Nextel will follow your directions if you choose not to provide your consent.
In other words, if you don't give them explicit permission to give out your information, they are violating Federal law by doing so.
Sometimes to reach a gloablly optimal path, you have to take a locally suboptimal path. So long as one mutation doesn't completely destroy an organism, the mutation, even if immediately unhelpful, can serve as a stepping stone to future, more helpful mutations or advantages in changing environments.
You're falling into the same common trap that leads to "theories" like ID. There is no goal to evolution. Evolution is not about optimization. In fact, optimization is deterimental to natural selection because it reduces the diversity of the genetic material available to the descendants. The eye did not evolve into what it is because it was the best design, nor can you accurately describe the eye as an optimal solution to the problem of sight. Sometimes things evolve and stay around for the entire lifespan of the species for no other reason than their proximity to something else that came into usefullness.
it is likely that IP addresses were also harvested - potentially for future lawsuits.
Lawsuits for what? Downloading useless garbage with the same name as your product? I've never understood this strategy. If they've intentionally destroyed the payload so it's gigs of unusable garbage, you haven't stolen a thing. The Treasury Department regularly shreds billions of dollars worth of currency and tosses it in the garbage. If I take those shreds are they going to accuse me of robbery? Trespassing maybe, but the scrambled bits bear no meaningful resemblance to the original product. If you transmogrify what you're trying to protect to the point that it no longer IS what you're trying to protect, you can't accuse someone of stealing what it isn't any more.
No, profiling is a dirty word because it is an asinine way to investigate criminal activity. Only an idiot would follow a profile once it has been established, and the ability of determined criminals to evade the profile is relatively simple.
You are absolutely correct! All those Middle-eastern Muslim extremists have to do to evade profiling is stop being middle-eastern, Muslim, and extremists and they'll slip right under the radar. It's an unbeatable strategy. When I had skunks ripping up my yard looking for grubs, I had to shoot 3 cats, a dog, and 4 neighbor kids just in case those wily skunks had changed their stripes.
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Which, of course, means that your monthly subscription, Internet connection, and hours played now become tax deductible costs of doing business. Not a bad way to make a living if you can hack it.
Better go back and look up the definition of hypocritical. Just because you can't live up to an expectation you hold for your child doesn't mean you don't actually hold those beliefs or strive to meet them yourself. And just because you used to think one way doesn't make it hypocritical to hold opposing beliefs now. Now if someone could only bang that little tidbit through our President's thick squash, the world might be a better place.
Likewise, non-humans are pretty damn smart. Not "human" smart, but I've seen cats pull stunts that I'm pretty sure your average MySpace poster couldn't pull off. But will we ever create a computer with "cat" intelligence? No, because, very simply, it's not a cat. But what we CAN do is create a computer that is "computer" intelligent, or a robot that's "robot" intelligent. I don't think anyone knows exactly what that means yet because it's never been fully explored on its own terms.
The biggest flaw in the field of Artificial Intelligence has been the excessively narrow definition of what intelligence is. Once we wise up and realize that a machine can be intelligent in a "machine" way instead of trying to make it intelligent in a "human" way, we'll at least be headed in the right direction.
Here, here! I agree with everything the parent says and more. BC has destroyed the game for me; I've gone from playing several days a week to at most an hour or two a week, or not at all.
1. The game economics have been destroyed. Green items are not even worth trying to auction anymore. Even pre-BC, it was difficult to sell higher level equipment, but it's impossible now.
2. Every thing I worked so hard to get was obsolete within seconds of starting the expansion.
3. The new quests seem to be intentionally design to encourage ninja'ing. I have seen the absolute worst behavior in BC that I've ever seen in any game, let alone any period of WoW. And it is intentional, because it would be trivial to tweak the quests to eliminate this behavior.
Our family used to have 3 accounts. We're down to one, and it's going to be none very soon.
Should that ever happen, I don't understand what the big deal is. All we've done is shift the locus of talent. To make a good movie, it's still going to require a convincing, human performance. Whether it's some guy in front of a sound board twiddling nerd-knobs, or a live flesh and blood actor on the screen, if it's worth watching, it's going to take talent.
Was it just me, or did everyone get the little advertisement movie proclaiming that the London Stock Exchange got improved reliability by switching to Windows from Linux?
Operating System B! We are definitely, firmly on the side of Operating System B!
I'm not quite 50, but I can get a pretty good feel for how I'm going to relate with someone by mentioning the Iraq occupation or global warming. They're charged enough topics that you can get a feel for the person's political, social, and religious leanings without the overt hostility you'd get from mentioning, say, abortion or affirmative action. The responses are usually along a broad spectrum and give enough color to figure out how sympatico you'll be.
diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined
at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are
by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money
within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
lightened -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both. I'm pretty sure The Disney Company researched this before they set out those hundreds of penny mutilation machines at Disney World. Be some pretty bad press if my five year old got hauled down Main Street USA for felonious mutiliation of money.
Because we're talking about boot speeds, not media players, and that would be off-top... Never mind.
It's actually a pretty cool concept: http://www.danenet.org/bcp2006/redbikes/
Because they're not French.
I hate these things. Of all the obnoxious, pretentious accessories to one of the most obnoxious pretentious pieces of technology ever invented, bluetooth headsets are the worst. I was therefore a little shocked when Amazon.com recommended that I might like one. Luckily, Amazon has this nifty little feature that lets you see why they made a recommendation, and lets you edit the triggers to refine future suggestions.
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To set this up, earlier in the day I was reading a Fazed article about Amazon's new "personal care products" lines. One of the items they had under "personal care" was the Doc Johnson fist-shaped dildo. Hardy-har... Amazon's selling fisting aids.
Later in the day, I went back to Amazon to do some Christmas shopping, and there's this recommendation to purchase a Motorola HS805 Bluetooth headset. I've never bought anything related to a cel phone on Amazon so I couldn't figure out why it would make this suggestion. I clicked on the "Why was I recommended this?" link, and up pops this window http://www.juric.org/images/who_buys_borgsets.JPG
To this day, I can't look at anyone wearing one of those things without bursting out laughing.
I say just ADD "video games", "beer", "marijuana" and you've got yourself one hell of a weekend.
A computer is a tool, teach your kids that.
The internet... is a distraction that young children don't need.
I call hogwash all over that. My 2 year old is a frequent visitor to PBSKids.org. His counting and spelling skills have multiplied in conjunction with his computer usage. My five year old can Google with the best of them and plays almost as many math games as entertainment games. My 10 year old is on the verge of teaching me a thing or two about technology, uses the Internet to research projects for school, and walks all over me in WoW with the information he's learned.
The computer can be a tool. It can also be a toy and a weapon. Do you consider the library a distraction? The newspaper? It's all about the parenting. Teach your children well and they will make the best of anything you give them access to. Spoil your children and they will treat everything like a toy. Teach them hatred and everything becomes a weapon.
His ability to pull off a management revamping is completely independent of his education. I've seen MBAs ride herd on more business disasters than I care to count. I would be willing to argue that keeping your Harvard Business School education out of corporate America is probably the best way for any company to succeed.
No, your phone records are your providors business records. They can do with them what they want. Go read your TOS.
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... call detail records, and bill summary. If you are a new customer of Sprint Nextel, you will receive a notice of your CPNI rights and further information on this topic from Sprint Nextel. When you have not already given Sprint Nextel your permission to use CPNI for certain marketing purposes, Sprint Nextel will give you 33 days after soliciting your consent before using your CPNI and Sprint Nextel will follow your directions if you choose not to provide your consent.
Maybe you ought to read yours. I use Sprint/Nextel and they spell it out in black and white:
Sprint Nextel protects the privacy of its local, long distance and wireless customers consistent with applicable law, such as the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) regulations that govern Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI).
CPNI includes, for example, the number and type of lines
In other words, if you don't give them explicit permission to give out your information, they are violating Federal law by doing so.
Sometimes to reach a gloablly optimal path, you have to take a locally suboptimal path. So long as one mutation doesn't completely destroy an organism, the mutation, even if immediately unhelpful, can serve as a stepping stone to future, more helpful mutations or advantages in changing environments.
You're falling into the same common trap that leads to "theories" like ID. There is no goal to evolution. Evolution is not about optimization. In fact, optimization is deterimental to natural selection because it reduces the diversity of the genetic material available to the descendants. The eye did not evolve into what it is because it was the best design, nor can you accurately describe the eye as an optimal solution to the problem of sight. Sometimes things evolve and stay around for the entire lifespan of the species for no other reason than their proximity to something else that came into usefullness.
who came here looking for some tricked out collection of ksh goodies?
Lawsuits for what? Downloading useless garbage with the same name as your product? I've never understood this strategy. If they've intentionally destroyed the payload so it's gigs of unusable garbage, you haven't stolen a thing. The Treasury Department regularly shreds billions of dollars worth of currency and tosses it in the garbage. If I take those shreds are they going to accuse me of robbery? Trespassing maybe, but the scrambled bits bear no meaningful resemblance to the original product. If you transmogrify what you're trying to protect to the point that it no longer IS what you're trying to protect, you can't accuse someone of stealing what it isn't any more.
No, profiling is a dirty word because it is an asinine way to investigate criminal activity. Only an idiot would follow a profile once it has been established, and the ability of determined criminals to evade the profile is relatively simple.
You are absolutely correct! All those Middle-eastern Muslim extremists have to do to evade profiling is stop being middle-eastern, Muslim, and extremists and they'll slip right under the radar. It's an unbeatable strategy. When I had skunks ripping up my yard looking for grubs, I had to shoot 3 cats, a dog, and 4 neighbor kids just in case those wily skunks had changed their stripes.
Try using something other than Firefox. That's your browser doing the redirection - not the TLDs. Try entering this URL and see where you go...
http//anydomain.com
Funny... it was because of increased illegal activity that I moved from BitTorrent to eDonkey.