with the proliferation of wifi, I am surprised no one has mentioned kismet yet. It allows for live capture of 802.11a/b/g traffic which can then be analyzed by ethereal. Also passively watches the network for programs like netstumbler and alerts you to their presence.
Though this lackluster piece of journalism raises some interesting questions, it does not get to the heart of the matter.
Philosophy and reason, I believe, are the true tools neccessary to "unearth" the deeper issues of the creation/evolution debate.
I am a student, and thus am always open to the truth. Currently, truth seems to dictate that things that exist have either:
A. Been created by something else>
B. Always existed.
For either argument to hold water, there must be something that is eternal. I am unaware of science's position on this, and would be interested to know what they hold to be eternal (matter & energy?). Obviously, creationists believe in the eternal existance of God.
I have struggled in the past over the question "Well then who created God?"
Let me preface what follows; I am not an expert on temporal matters by any means, unless firsthand experience counts (ie, I exist temporally). Having said that, it makes sense to me that God did not require a creator. Living in a temporal realm, everything that I see has a beginning and an end. Entropy takes its nasty toll on everything. The very way things are able to be dated is by their radioactive decay. So what does this have to do with God needing no other cause? What I am trying to get at is that outside of time, which seemingly everything in the universe is bound by, there is no beginning or end. Personally, it is more than my mind can wrestle with sometimes (a fact which is likely evident in this post). I guess the only reason a question like "Who created God?" is asked is because the asker is bound by time. We need to step out of the bubble of time and see existence in a larger sense, namely, eternity.
I remember a while back/. had an article about some people selling large lots of vintage unopened video games on eBay and getting a nice price too. Although, even at $1 per cart, a cool million won't be bad.
I have played Civ since I had the original on my old 286-12MHz with 1MB of RAM. I bought Civ2, which I still play, Call to Power, which I sold on eBay (hope he likes it better than me:-), and finally Test of Time, which is nice.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my "childhood" where an entire day would be filled with conquest, exploration, and adventure in a randomly generated map. With all of the customization possibilities, the game is never the same...why play anything else when one has it all?
Stints with 3D graphics and big guns come and go, but Civ is always there to entertain and challenge.
Not much of a boost for all the men out there named Hal... maybe the next/. poll should be directed towards those poor fellows:
"How often does your child confuse your name with the word 'hell'?"
A. Once a year.
B. One a month.
C. Once a week.
D. Once a day.
E. Multiple times in a day.
F. I have legally changed my name to 'hell' to thwart further confusion.
Hals of the world, unite.
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with the proliferation of wifi, I am surprised no one has mentioned kismet yet. It allows for live capture of 802.11a/b/g traffic which can then be analyzed by ethereal. Also passively watches the network for programs like netstumbler and alerts you to their presence.
dowski
Try this on Windows with the Win32all package:
r = conn.cursor()
import dbi,odbc
conn = odbc.odbc("datasourcename/username/password")
cu
cur.execute("SELECT whateveryouwant FROM yourchoice WHERE yourcriteria = 'met'")
data = cur.fetchall()
The "concept cover" for Pulitzer's magazine looks strangely similar to the cover of Wired's December issue
Philosophy and reason, I believe, are the true tools neccessary to "unearth" the deeper issues of the creation/evolution debate.
I am a student, and thus am always open to the truth. Currently, truth seems to dictate that things that exist have either:
A. Been created by something else>
B. Always existed.
For either argument to hold water, there must be something that is eternal. I am unaware of science's position on this, and would be interested to know what they hold to be eternal (matter & energy?). Obviously, creationists believe in the eternal existance of God.
I have struggled in the past over the question "Well then who created God?"
Let me preface what follows; I am not an expert on temporal matters by any means, unless firsthand experience counts (ie, I exist temporally). Having said that, it makes sense to me that God did not require a creator. Living in a temporal realm, everything that I see has a beginning and an end. Entropy takes its nasty toll on everything. The very way things are able to be dated is by their radioactive decay. So what does this have to do with God needing no other cause? What I am trying to get at is that outside of time, which seemingly everything in the universe is bound by, there is no beginning or end. Personally, it is more than my mind can wrestle with sometimes (a fact which is likely evident in this post). I guess the only reason a question like "Who created God?" is asked is because the asker is bound by time. We need to step out of the bubble of time and see existence in a larger sense, namely, eternity.
I remember a while back /. had an article about some people selling large lots of vintage unopened video games on eBay and getting a nice price too. Although, even at $1 per cart, a cool million won't be bad.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my "childhood" where an entire day would be filled with conquest, exploration, and adventure in a randomly generated map. With all of the customization possibilities, the game is never the same...why play anything else when one has it all?
Stints with 3D graphics and big guns come and go, but Civ is always there to entertain and challenge.
Not much of a boost for all the men out there named Hal ... maybe the next /. poll should be directed towards those poor fellows:
"How often does your child confuse your name with the word 'hell'?"
A. Once a year.
B. One a month.
C. Once a week.
D. Once a day.
E. Multiple times in a day.
F. I have legally changed my name to 'hell' to thwart further confusion.
Hals of the world, unite.