That's cool man. Not ordering you to "believe" anything. I'd always been a 'prove it to me' kinda' guy myself. Well, for me, it was 'proven'. Just wish it wasn't proved up to me the way it happened, is all. Slashdot is where people can freely post ideas and opinions, which is what I've done. As they say, "Opinions and assholes. Everyone's got one!" You have a good, happy life, my friend. S.F.
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova. She flew on June 16th, 1963. That was two years after the first man flew into the space.
On the other hand, the first American woman (Sally Ride, RIP) flew in 1982.
Question: Why did it take NASA almost two decades to send the woman in space?
Answer: At that time it was still very much a male dominated society in the U.S. Ms Ride shattered that way of thinking then, made a lot of then male-chauvinists begin to think, 'differently'. She knowingly 'rode an untested controlled bomb', in the search of knowledge. That is quite a brave feat that many males would have been too afraid to do. Gotta' respect that
So you compare yourself to a car? A hunk of metal and plastic is all you on par with? When my friend was dying, his cousin (also my friend) was of the mind that, "we die, rot in a box and get eaten by worms!" Technically true, at least for the shell that houses our spirit. The friend I speak of had his own 'moment of confusion' while his cousin was dying, witnessed stuff in the 'death room' that even his proud, logical, German mind could not explain. I'm NOT religious, more like a deist, if anything. And I totally agree with your 'be good to other people' sentiment, but try to keep an open mind about things. As a logical thinker, I cannot "prove" to you or anyone else that this life is like kindergarten, that there is a first grade we all get to 'graduate' to. And by the same token, as a logical thinker, you can not dis-prove to me what I know from my life experience. And it's all good my friend(s). Live the golden rule, don't do stupid shit like shooting up movie theaters just because you can, and live your life well,with honor. Like the late, great Ms. Ride lived hers.
People do not want to admit that death==nonexistence so they make-up imaginary "trips" to some other place (heaven, hell, Elysian Fields, space, whatever). In reality Sally Ride's personality dissolved into nothingness at the moment her brain's neurons broke connection with one another when they were deprived of oxygen.
I was where you're at once. 20 years ago, my friend 'passed' from stomach cancer at age 35, young. The docs gave him 2 months, he lasted 7, we took him to Atlantic City for his dying wish. He was home to die thanks to the local hospice, and I was blessed to be able to be there, to help him and his wife any way I could. A lot of weird unexplainable shit happened in that room. All I can say is, keep an open mind about
things, young man. There's more going on in this life than what we can
see, that is my experience. Think what you will, I know what I know,
and those 7 months spent helping out permanently changed my
thinking, and the direction of my life, for the better. One last thing.
Young Sir, after you die, get ready for a surprise!
This entire stupid fucking argument is why Slashdot is becoming less and less the place for me to get my tech news and discussion. Fuck all of you guys.
Feel better now? Got that off your chest, did'ja? You aren't the 1st to voice that opinion here. You will be missed. Though no super-techie, I've found a lot of intelligent, stimulating back & forth opinions and arguements here covering a wide range of subjects that affect us all. And I learn an awful lot here. One thing I've learned is that Slashdot has seemed to evolve and change over the years. Change pisses some people off, can't help that. I can't see being an editor here and pleasing all the people all the time.
If that's the kind of logic you use to get through life, you're not going very far. Seriously, "It hasn't happened yet, even though someone pre-Industrial Revolution predicted it, so it won't happen no matter how circumstances have changed." is about as dumb as it gets.
IMHO, Parent is right. The sun will rise tomorrow even with a "the end is near" guy barking every couple of years. Throughout history people have said, "This is not a good time to bring kids into the world." And you know what? We're still here! Humans have an amazing ability to adapt and survive. As someone here already posted the ancient chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times.", these are interesting times. I used to work for a guy who once said to me,"Don't worry about it.. Just think, in a hundred years, all new people!"
"We need regulations that strictly govern who is allowed to reproduce and how many babies can be born. That is unpleasant and almost unthinkable but it must be done." *** And may I suggest we begin the sterilization with YOU!
We are running out of oil. We're at or near the halfway point now, and the oil left is mostly deep inside the earth, expensive to claim. We have to keep developing these alternate transportation technologies. Or lose the standard of living we've become accustomed to.
I realize this is off topic, but... There was a good, dark, sci-fi short story I read as a kid about how in the future there are only 2 classes, those who drive and those who don't. Those who drove were the elite's, they had useless, shriveled appendages that used to be legs, since they never got used. The 'walkers' were the lower class eking out an existence and were considered fair game to be made into road kill. It might have been written by Clifford D. Simak, maybe someone here on/. will remember. That story would be a good premise for a movie or tv series today.
In the '90s the California area tested out battery powered vehicles, owners were quite happy and satisfied with their vehicles. At the end of the 'study', the leased vehices were taken back and crushed, despite protestations and offers from the lessee's to outright buy the cars. It seems that the electric car worked too well, which scared certain oil families whose name rhymes with 'mush'.
In the '90s the California area tested out battery powered vehicles, owners were quite happy and satisfied with their vehicles. At the end of the 'study', the leased vehices were taken back and crushed, despite protestations and offers from the lessee's to outright buy the cars. It seems that the electric car worked too well, which scared certain oil families whose name rhymes with 'mush'.
"With Firefox 14, Mozilla will automatically encrypt searches conducted via Google's search engine in the browser's location bar, search box, or the right-click menu. The idea is to "protect your data from potentially prying eyes, like network administrators when you use public or shared WiFi networks," Mozilla said in a blog post. At this point, Google is the only search engine that will support encrypted searches, "but we look forward to supporting additional search engines with this feature in the future," Mozilla said." (From the PC Mag article) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407263,00.asp
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That's cool man. Not ordering you to "believe" anything. I'd always been a 'prove it to me' kinda' guy myself. Well, for me, it was 'proven'. Just wish it wasn't proved up to me the way it happened, is all. Slashdot is where people can freely post ideas and opinions, which is what I've done. As they say, "Opinions and assholes. Everyone's got one!" You have a good, happy life, my friend. S.F.
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova. She flew on June 16th, 1963. That was two years after the first man flew into the space. On the other hand, the first American woman (Sally Ride, RIP) flew in 1982. Question: Why did it take NASA almost two decades to send the woman in space?
Answer: At that time it was still very much a male dominated society in the U.S. Ms Ride shattered that way of thinking then, made a lot of then male-chauvinists begin to think, 'differently'. She knowingly 'rode an untested controlled bomb', in the search of knowledge. That is quite a brave feat that many males would have been too afraid to do. Gotta' respect that
So you compare yourself to a car? A hunk of metal and plastic is all you on par with? When my friend was dying, his cousin (also my friend) was of the mind that, "we die, rot in a box and get eaten by worms!" Technically true, at least for the shell that houses our spirit. The friend I speak of had his own 'moment of confusion' while his cousin was dying, witnessed stuff in the 'death room' that even his proud, logical, German mind could not explain. I'm NOT religious, more like a deist, if anything. And I totally agree with your 'be good to other people' sentiment, but try to keep an open mind about things. As a logical thinker, I cannot "prove" to you or anyone else that this life is like kindergarten, that there is a first grade we all get to 'graduate' to. And by the same token, as a logical thinker, you can not dis-prove to me what I know from my life experience. And it's all good my friend(s). Live the golden rule, don't do stupid shit like shooting up movie theaters just because you can, and live your life well,with honor. Like the late, great Ms. Ride lived hers.
People do not want to admit that death==nonexistence so they make-up imaginary "trips" to some other place (heaven, hell, Elysian Fields, space, whatever). In reality Sally Ride's personality dissolved into nothingness at the moment her brain's neurons broke connection with one another when they were deprived of oxygen.
I was where you're at once. 20 years ago, my friend 'passed' from stomach cancer at age 35, young. The docs gave him 2 months, he lasted 7, we took him to Atlantic City for his dying wish. He was home to die thanks to the local hospice, and I was blessed to be able to be there, to help him and his wife any way I could. A lot of weird unexplainable shit happened in that room. All I can say is, keep an open mind about things, young man. There's more going on in this life than what we can see, that is my experience. Think what you will, I know what I know, and those 7 months spent helping out permanently changed my thinking, and the direction of my life, for the better. One last thing. Young Sir, after you die, get ready for a surprise!
This entire stupid fucking argument is why Slashdot is becoming less and less the place for me to get my tech news and discussion. Fuck all of you guys.
Feel better now? Got that off your chest, did'ja? You aren't the 1st to voice that opinion here. You will be missed. Though no super-techie, I've found a lot of intelligent, stimulating back & forth opinions and arguements here covering a wide range of subjects that affect us all. And I learn an awful lot here. One thing I've learned is that Slashdot has seemed to evolve and change over the years. Change pisses some people off, can't help that. I can't see being an editor here and pleasing all the people all the time.
If that's the kind of logic you use to get through life, you're not going very far. Seriously, "It hasn't happened yet, even though someone pre-Industrial Revolution predicted it, so it won't happen no matter how circumstances have changed." is about as dumb as it gets.
IMHO, Parent is right. The sun will rise tomorrow even with a "the end is near" guy barking every couple of years. Throughout history people have said, "This is not a good time to bring kids into the world." And you know what? We're still here! Humans have an amazing ability to adapt and survive. As someone here already posted the ancient chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times.", these are interesting times. I used to work for a guy who once said to me,"Don't worry about it.. Just think, in a hundred years, all new people!"
Don't worry too much about the earth. The planet will heal no matter what we do to it. The people may die, but the earth will go on.
"We need regulations that strictly govern who is allowed to reproduce and how many babies can be born. That is unpleasant and almost unthinkable but it must be done." *** And may I suggest we begin the sterilization with YOU!
and still none for the average /.er. ;-(
We are running out of oil. We're at or near the halfway point now, and the oil left is mostly deep inside the earth, expensive to claim. We have to keep developing these alternate transportation technologies. Or lose the standard of living we've become accustomed to.
I realize this is off topic, but... There was a good, dark, sci-fi short story I read as a kid about how in the future there are only 2 classes, those who drive and those who don't. Those who drove were the elite's, they had useless, shriveled appendages that used to be legs, since they never got used. The 'walkers' were the lower class eking out an existence and were considered fair game to be made into road kill. It might have been written by Clifford D. Simak, maybe someone here on /. will remember. That story would be a good premise for a movie or tv series today.
The EV1 was a GM test run of battery powered vehicles that was crushed out of existance by the Bush administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
In the '90s the California area tested out battery powered vehicles, owners were quite happy and satisfied with their vehicles. At the end of the 'study', the leased vehices were taken back and crushed, despite protestations and offers from the lessee's to outright buy the cars. It seems that the electric car worked too well, which scared certain oil families whose name rhymes with 'mush'.
Here's a Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F as citation.
In the '90s the California area tested out battery powered vehicles, owners were quite happy and satisfied with their vehicles. At the end of the 'study', the leased vehices were taken back and crushed, despite protestations and offers from the lessee's to outright buy the cars. It seems that the electric car worked too well, which scared certain oil families whose name rhymes with 'mush'.
No matter how you look at it, girlfriends cost a lot of time.
Yeah, but you can't have sex with your computer.., at least, not YET...
"With Firefox 14, Mozilla will automatically encrypt searches conducted via Google's search engine in the browser's location bar, search box, or the right-click menu. The idea is to "protect your data from potentially prying eyes, like network administrators when you use public or shared WiFi networks," Mozilla said in a blog post. At this point, Google is the only search engine that will support encrypted searches, "but we look forward to supporting additional search engines with this feature in the future," Mozilla said." (From the PC Mag article) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407263,00.asp
An unsympathetic and skeptical cop who has no legal basis for asking for an explanation.
It isn't illegal to be in possession of a key.
Not at all, it'd just be illegal to use it to attempt escape from a lawful arrest. Prisons are filled with dumb people.
That's a good one. Thanks AC!
And I made mine in cargo shorts, but what we wear while we type is neither here nor there.
Now THAT was funny!
Born Marissa Ann Mayer May 30, 1975 (age 37) Wausau, Wisconsin, USA Residence San Francisco, Palo Alto Nationality American Alma mater Stanford University Occupation President & CEO, Yahoo! [1] Computer programming instructor, Stanford University Employer Yahoo Stanford University Board member of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum [2] Spousehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer Zachary Bogue (2009–present) [3] (from Wikipedia)
Here's the FAQ page link http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs Pic is here, looks cool! Arstechnica has an article about a Korean made, $129 Arm device http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/korean-company-offers-3-5-inch-quad-core-arm-linux-computer-for-129/?comments=1#comments-bar
Any chance of a YouTube version of the video?
Why, thank you very kindly for that link. And here's a link expressly made just for you... http://don-brock.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-do-people-insult-other-people.html?m=1 ;-)
Those are both interesting reads, thanks. No need to apologize This is why I dig Slashdot, I'm always learning something new here.
Ok, just to get it out of the way, here's the obligatory question: This happened millions of years ago! How is it news for nerds?
p.s. anyone who answers this as if it were a legitimate question shall be dunked into a tank full of melted asteroids. :)
Because it's Slow-News-Day Sunday on Slashdot. **holds nose for dunking**