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  1. Re:Fossils on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 1, Troll

    No brother, that's the difference between Charismatic and Southern Baptist, LOL... ;-) Think about it, "Thousands of Gods"? If we're but a resemblance of them, then what does a committee do? I was impressed that of all of the scientific disciplines, astronomers seemed to be most likely to be of the faith. Why? Because, IMHO, they work with the "big" picture. A committee didn't create what they see in the Hubble Deep Field... A lot of my thought of it comes out of physics and quantum mechanics. Non-locality, a photon doesn't experience time (do the math), etc. If one can wrap their mind around an ever present NOW encompassing past, present, and future, then one can start to perceive the operating sphere of God.

  2. Re:I worry about autonomous language activities on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 1

    If-then-else compiles into about 6 bytes (approximately) of machine code. Nothing beats it, to my knowledge, of getting tight close to the metal, other than microcode, which we'all in the real world can't usually access (not since the days of bit-slice anyhow). So what would be the purpose of any language that can't fit the metal as tightly as C or C++ (I'm a rusty C++ aficionado)?

  3. Re:Fossils on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    As you mock, He laughs at you, and STILL loves you, LOL. No, God is not Cuthulu, he doesn't have appendages. Myself, I don't have problem with believing in the theory of evolution and believing in God. See, God, is outside of time, and hence He sees beginning, now, and end. A second to God is a thousand years... God can use the laws of nature, He made them! So when you read Feynman's Lectures, you know what, God made those laws and He doesn't change. So, when the preacher online starts harping about science, remind him that the same God that created all also created the physical laws that allows that internet stream of his Sunday service, and that God is constant. The same physical laws apply everywhere, because God made those laws, and God doesn't change!

  4. Re:OH YAY more aspies on Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Evolution is a theory. God is very real. You have the freedom of choice to percieve Him or not...

  5. Re:How Tragic on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    Does 54,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate create the potential? Texas is VERY familiar with ammonium nitrate and it's destructive potential. They had a ship blow up in Texas City in 1947 that killed almost 600 people and destroyed the town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

    It's dangerous shit that can blow up under the right conditions of detonation or fire. Which leads to the idea that the missing firefighters knew what they were getting into... Looking at the video taken by the guy with his daughter, all I can say is condolences to the families, and may they rest in peace. They passed as heroes, IMHO.

  6. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Ram is still faster by magnitudes than SSD. ~6ms for HDD, ~60usec (1/100 HDD) for SSD, ~20nsec (1/3000 SDD) for DDR3-1333 given data at http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/memory-performance-16gb-ddr31333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill I've been telling my clients to upgrade ram, so now I need to tell them to upgrade to maximum ram and the HDD to an SSD.

  7. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    It's also amazing what removing Windows and installing Linux will do to an older computer. Or at least making it dual boot, because Windows is better supported than Linux for game applications, IMHO.

  8. Facebook Homie Security Issue on Hacker Modifies Facebook Home To Work On All Android Devices · · Score: 1

    How long has Facebook Home been out? A month? A few? Already it's been hacked in a big way. A false flag hack? Possibly, and wouldn't put it past the organization to be sly like that. Regardless the deal with Android appears to be that it's not a very secure OS already, and it doesn't bode well for security that Facebook Home took almost no time at all to get hacked in the wild. I wouldn't install that shit on my phone if they payed me and gave me a phone.

    That leads to the question of why Android is so weak security-wise? I run different versions of Linux on different machines and it's very secure and Android is based on Linux, so why isn't it as secure? Reports say it has become the target of choice for bots, malware, and hackers. So whats up with that and why won't Google fix the security holes?

    All I can think of is that between Google and Facebook, and their data-whoring, you may as well implant a RFID tag with remote control interface in your brain, and eliminate the need for carting around a device or wearing GG's...[rolleyes]

  9. Re:Try NSA Security Guides... on Ask Slashdot: Do-It-Yourself Security Auditing Tools? · · Score: 1

    Check this out also as a guide to security. All 20 need not be implemented, just the ones pertinent to your organization.

    CSIS: 20 Critical Security Controls Version 4.1
    http://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/?utm_campaign=resources&utm_source=featured&utm_medium=web&utm_content=critical_controls

  10. Re:Navigation on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 5, Informative

    Drupal being "best" is in the eyes of the beholder. If you already are familiar with CMS and mySQL, then Drupal is the best. But if you have very little experience, Wordpress is by far the easiest. For my own sites, I use Drupal, but for client sites, I use Wordpress because it's easier for non-technicals to operate. That being said, Drupal has an upgrading catch. I'm running 6.28, I think, and find it impossible to port over to version 7 without manually porting over the database table by table. There should be a way to port content tables to new versions without a lot of pain and suffering...

  11. Re:Correct on World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Which is why modern reactors depends on gravity; which to the best of my knowledge has never been turned off.

    Ah, you've never heard of the Podkletnov Effect? Read
    "Weak gravitation shielding properties of composite bulk YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x} superconductor below 70 K under e.m. field"
    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9701074

  12. Re:I for one.... on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great dissertation. Old school idea, though, of Illuminati / Freemasonry / Mormonism.

    But to what end? So you have control of everything, to argue hypothetically. Then what? You've established the worldwide government, religious or not, run by elitists, who just happen to still have to drop their drawers to poop, unless they are descendent's of Cuthulu. What is the master plan of the New World Order past conquering everything? If it's the same old bullshit, then they just wasted our collective time.

    Or is their plan to implement the Georgia Guide Stones? What is really the master plan? I'd humbly advise the "great ones" who wish to implement the plan of the New World Order that they should pay heed to and meditate upon Puma Punku and what it says if you're open to reading between the lines.

    One final morsel for thought: If I were a galactic civilization, I would keep the human race safely contained on the planet like a nasty plague by whatever means necessary, including sending them back to the stone age. Just because of the way we roll...

  13. Don't know about pain... on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    But pleasure, damn... I think it's the hottest Caucasian 'tang! Absolutely bar none.

  14. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    More likely, at least in my neck of woods, man confronted by baseball bat draws firearm and blows assailant to hell, LOL! We're firm believers in the right to bear arms and self-defense. When seconds count authorities are minutes away...

  15. Re:seven courts on Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Here's a new idea of measure: "and justice for all." I won't quote the rest of it. That might be considered treasonous...

  16. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 1

    Four? Were you from? It better be at least 6 studs at 96"...

  17. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 1

    So I was living on the streets in Fort Collins around the early 2000's, and this is were Colorado State University is. I managed to convince the staff at some college buildings like the library and gym that I was a computer science graduate science student. It was great, I had the run of the place, and when I came in a little worse from the wear of the streets, they believed it was just a air-headed geek with his thoughts in the air having slept in his cloths again, LOL. Social engineering is a useful tool at times, and that experience lasted 2001-2005, BTW.

  18. Re:Only when they don't already know? on US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption · · Score: 1

    That's true. Brain wave scanning to achieve a result or goal is here now, just not in the mainstream yet.
    http://gizmodo.com/5887586/an-electric-skateboard-controlled-by-your-brainwaves

    That's just a toy. And if that's a toy, the military types have significantly more than toys. Anybody ever read the Soul Rider series? In the end, life may again mimic art once we start controlling computers directly with the mind...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker#The_Soul_Rider_series
    http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Rider-01-Spirits-Anchor/dp/0812533127

  19. Re:Of, if you DON'T pick just new releases... on RapidShare Fighting Piracy By Slowing Download Speeds · · Score: 1

    Naw, he just likes white meat...;-)

  20. Re:Great on FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine · · Score: 1

    For $20 you can go down the street to the trailer park and get two dime bags of bathtub crank in most communities. Or your friendly neighborhood Rx dealer can hook you up with the real deal, Benzedrine tabs, and those can be crushed and snorted. So why are we dicking around with caffeine?

  21. Used to see them regularly... on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    Yes, on I-25 rolling between Cheyenne and Denver. There's other cues... I usually get way ahead, LOL!

    The more prevalent ones on that stretch of Interstate, however, are Yucca Flats bound trucks with 3-4 containers of nuclear waste. Those are obvious, because the containers have the radioactivity symbol in big bold yellow on them.

    I don't drive for a living anymore, but the last time I did some driving work, about a month ago, there was one Yucca Flats truck southbound on the stretch. So I bet there many more than one a day from that observation.

  22. Here's an Idea... on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 1

    All this can go on Freenet and SOPA / PIPA / CHUPA PINGA style legislation can go pack sand. Freenet isn't susceptible to some of the legal attacks so far presented, hence why there is nasty shit there always. But as a medium for free exchange of information, it is bar none, due to that inability to be censored! Sad that more don't hook up. But SOPA / PIPA and the shutdown of file sharing sites will insure that Freenet gets more users.

    http://freenetproject.org/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
    WARNING: Offensive content will also be found on Freenet. You'll know which, as they don't hide themselves. Don't browse to those sites...

  23. Re:Mine is 54321 UNREAL on Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually try that xkcd password now on any word list I use. First...;-)

    That approach is Diceware, BTW,
    http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
    http://happycattech.com/book/security-applications-0 (MS Excel and OpenOffice Calc implementations)

  24. Re:Obligatory. on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    Thanks! Nothing like an early morning roll on the floor with tears in the eyes...

  25. Re:Ehhh, not exactly. on World's Largest Virtual Optical Telescope Created · · Score: 2

    Just what one needs to image the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. If they can get the timing right, between this set of 4 telescopes operating as one, the Keck telescopes in Hawaii, and the Spitzer IR Space Telescope, we could have a virtual telescope in the IR band that is easily 30,000 km wide.
    http://www.keckobservatory.org/
    http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

    Btw: This idea increased spatial resolution using very long baseline interferometry is why it would be worth a few billion dollars to send multi-spectral moderate aperture telescopes to the L4 & L5 points, IMHO.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point