If we've got a program that can recognize porn based on content, can we have a program that will help geeks find good porn, instead of blocking it? Seems feasible...
What's the availability of tech jobs in NH like? Also, what are the housing prices like in the more suburban areas? Also, are the Free Staters all concentrated in a certain locale, or are they spread all over the state? I am interested in joining the project, but I have never lived outside my home state of Washington before and moving to an area I don't know much about intimidates me.
"With House Bill 1582, The New Hampshire House of Representatives has taken the first steps towards defying the Federal Government on the infamous Real ID act, which last year passed 100-0. This bill does not express disagreement with the Real ID act, it prohibits the state DMV from amending licensing procedures altogether, and it passed 270-84. Several impassioned testimonies were given at the House, and even those against the bill expressed displeasure with the Real ID act. It now moves on to the 24-member state Senate. The afternoon's proceedings can be viewed or listened to via the NH General Court website under the afternoon of March 8th."
Could you have mentioned that the empassioned debate takes place during the last thirty fucking minutes FOUR AND A HALF HOUR session? I sat through the first three hours of the session of the house before deciding to try skipping ahead. For anyone else that wants to hear the debate, it begins near 4:08:40 with the statement, "My intention is that this will be the last bill of the day."
The Free State Project is an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property. The success of the Project would likely entail reductions in taxation and regulation, reforms at all levels of government to expand individual rights and free markets, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.
I haven't joined the project, but I do admire its proponents.
EXACTLY. This is what people are failing to understand. It isn't about child porn, it's about childrens' access to porn. It's more "for the children" bullshit. To quote George Carlin, "Fuck the children."
I don't get this at all really...suppose they pass a law stating that you need to make it harder for kids to find porn online. So then everyone will simply host their websites overseas, circumventing the jurisdiction of the USA and keeping their porn easily accessible. What does the new law then accomplish? Answer: nothing!
Yeah, I hear that. When I first heard about Gigabyte's I-RAM peripheral I was really excited, until I found out that it used the SATA bus which is a huge bottleneck for such a device. A company called Cenatek makes something known as the RocketDrive which is actually a PCI card which interfaces via the PCI bus for 0.6 microsecond access times. It is, however, $3,000 for one with 4GB of RAM on it. They're just regular DIMMs, too (PC133 IIRC) so I can't see why it's so damn expensive. They used to sell just the bare card, but they stopped doing so a year or two ago (probably because everybody bought the bare card and put their own DIMMs in it, and their profit margin on the bare cards was not high enough). When I first heard about the I-RAM, I thought it was going to be extra-spiffy like the RocketDrive.
I'm running an Opteron 165 with 2GB of RAM and I have considered turning off my pagefile for quite some time. The apps you use are pretty much in line with what I use, with the exception that I sometimes have twice as many tabs open in Firefox (80 to 100 is not uncommon). I think I'm gonna turn off my pagefile when I get home...
My vote is for something fishy. If a fire can burn in a building over 20+ floors for 20+ hours without bringing it down, I question that a fire burning for less than an hour over four floors would be able to do any measurable amount of weakening to the internal structure. The twin towers were even designed to survive being struck by a 707 aircraft, which is shorter nose-to-tail, but wider, and also only 6,000 pounds lighter when empty. Also, the entire internal steel structure of the building would have acted as a giant heatsink, rapidly dissipating any localized heat.
Is it a good beginner's language? Hell no it isn't. It gives the programmer unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved with the computer. Too many of the inner workings of the computer are withheld from the programmer for them to really understand how things WORK.
Personally, I think it's a toy language because it separates the programmer from the bare metal of the machine, with too many layers of abstraction, confining the programmer to a "digital playpen" much as you would confine an infant. I have similar feelings about C#.
I started with C64 BASIC, moved on to C, then C++, then I learned MSVC and VB at about the same time, and after that I picked up ASM.
I really think I learned a lot by following that path, and I'm glad I learned how much work went into writing a GUI long before I dragged and dropped my first VB app.
My generalization wasn't that "people are dumb because they're from rural areas." My generalization was "People from rural America who are under-educated and lack opportunities in their hometown make up a significant portion of our armed forces." I was describing a specific group of people, those who enlist in the military. I was not describing people in general. When I said "these people" I meant the soldiers, not the residents of rural America in general. In re-reading what I said, I realize that could have been clearer about that, sorry.
How about you point out where I've mistaken correlation for causation and we'll debate that point? I don't believe I've done any such thing.
Also, there's a difference between "alarming regularity" and "once in a while on slashdot." But I still invite you to highlight where I've mistaken correlation for causation, please.
Given that most of the soldiers involved in this war are fresh out of highschool looking to get a few grand for college, they aren't the most intelligent, educated folk to begin with. Mostly from rural America, they tend to be rednecks and minorities who come from places where opportunities are few and military recruiters are everywhere. Don't even get me started on how incredibly poor the education capacity of rural America is...these people are the type who make the "correlation is causation" mistake with alarming regularity.
The simple explanation is the simplest of all: because they are dumber than a sack of doorknobs.
Tangentially, 9 of the 19 supposed 9/11 hijackers have been found alive in the middle east. Fire has never in the history of buildings brought down a skyscraper (A building in Venezuela I believe it was, which was built at the same time as the twin towers, burned for some 20+ hours and spread over two dozen floors. No collapse). Oh, also, in the mid '40s when a B-25 (a smaller plane, admittedly, than a 757) crashed into the Empire State Building, it didn't collapse, even after burning for longer than either of the twin towers did) This stupidity affliction seems to be a little more widespread, affecting more than just our military.
letting a score of thugs strongly interested in parking jets in large builds into the country.
Who are you talking about? The purported 9/11 "hijackers" ? 9 of the 19 accused have been found alive in the Middle East. Twelve days after the attacks, four of them were confirmed alive, according to this article at the BBC. I can't find a source that most people would trust which claims the figure of 9, but most of the conspiracy theory documentaries out there quote that number and explain where the various individuals are at.
What I'm trying to say here is that you're pointing the finger in the wrong direction.
Coming from an administration that took 411 days to set up a Public Inquiry into 9/11
And who spent less money investigating 9/11 than was spent on investigating Clinton's blowjobs by something like a factor of ten. (I believe it's $50M investigating fellatio and $5M investigating 3,000+ counts of murder)
<rant on=true> Since we're on the topic of 9/11, go to www.fbi.gov and look at the most wanted list. Look at Osama Bin Laden's profile. Note the curious absence of any specific mention of 9/11. Weird, huh? (Even weirder: watch the original video of Bin Laden which was released first. Examine his face. Notice his jewelry. Realize that in the video, he is writing a note with his right hand. Bin Laden is hard-line Islamic and NEVER wears jewelry, and is according to the FBI's website, left-handed. The man in the video is not Bin Laden. We've been set up. Weird huh?)
I hate to take this conversation in an unintended direction, but I'm sorry, I think it's necessary. The crime scene evidence was shipped overseas to China immediately to be melted down into new steel. The purported cause of the buildings' collapse was "internal fires" marking the first time buildings have ever collapsed due to internal fires in the history of skyscrapers (and we've had some twenty-plus hour fifteen-plus storey fires in that history), not to mention that the fires could not have been hot enough, fueled by atmospheric gases under atmospheric pressures in order to generate enough heat to melt steel, period. Popular Mechanics put out an article "debunking" the conspiracy theories. You know who wrote that article? The cousin of the head of the Department of Homeland Security (Michael Chertoff). One month before the attacks, the owner of the twin towers took out a multi-billion dollar insurance policy on the towers and has recently cashed in on it, TWICE, because 2 airplanes = 2 acts of terrorism. 9 of the 19 supposed hijackers have been found alive elsewhere in the world, mostly in Arab countries.
I'm going to tell you now why we didn't investigate 9/11 until it was too late: Because it was, yes, a great terrorist attack, but it was an attack orchestrated by Americans, Americans who knew that if they had enough time to clean things up, they could point the finger wherever they wanted with no questions asked. Who benefits from all this, though? Anyone who has a contract to rebuild Afghanistan or Iraq, anyone who can cash in on a multi-billion dollar insurance policy, anyone who has a vested interest in us having a reliable supply of energy in the years to come. Anyone who thinks their way is the only "right" way to do things and would force their ways on others. ("We don't like your government, you need democracy!") In other words, anyone in the current administration. </rant>
WTF (that's "What the fuck") is with the warning that the link contains profanity? There's enough profanity on Slashdot that I would think it doesn't need to be stated that you might see some naughty words. I think we're all plenty prepared, seriously, thanks.
Fun would be a particular reason to go online. Saying that one has no particular reason for going online is saying that one may have more than one reason for doing so, not necessarily just "fun."
Slashdot Mirror
or some other place where I can actually buy it
Some other place like eBay?
Nobody will be comfortable in the same sitting position for 12 hours
Hi, I'm Nobody. Pleased to meet you.
If we've got a program that can recognize porn based on content, can we have a program that will help geeks find good porn, instead of blocking it? Seems feasible...
I think some RGB LEDs would solve the problem rather nicely...
What's the availability of tech jobs in NH like? Also, what are the housing prices like in the more suburban areas? Also, are the Free Staters all concentrated in a certain locale, or are they spread all over the state? I am interested in joining the project, but I have never lived outside my home state of Washington before and moving to an area I don't know much about intimidates me.
New Hampshire is also home to the Free State Project: I haven't joined the project, but I do admire its proponents.
EXACTLY. This is what people are failing to understand. It isn't about child porn, it's about childrens' access to porn. It's more "for the children" bullshit. To quote George Carlin, "Fuck the children."
I don't get this at all really...suppose they pass a law stating that you need to make it harder for kids to find porn online. So then everyone will simply host their websites overseas, circumventing the jurisdiction of the USA and keeping their porn easily accessible. What does the new law then accomplish? Answer: nothing!
You mean 51% of the 25% that voted.
Yeah, I hear that. When I first heard about Gigabyte's I-RAM peripheral I was really excited, until I found out that it used the SATA bus which is a huge bottleneck for such a device. A company called Cenatek makes something known as the RocketDrive which is actually a PCI card which interfaces via the PCI bus for 0.6 microsecond access times. It is, however, $3,000 for one with 4GB of RAM on it. They're just regular DIMMs, too (PC133 IIRC) so I can't see why it's so damn expensive. They used to sell just the bare card, but they stopped doing so a year or two ago (probably because everybody bought the bare card and put their own DIMMs in it, and their profit margin on the bare cards was not high enough). When I first heard about the I-RAM, I thought it was going to be extra-spiffy like the RocketDrive.
I'm running an Opteron 165 with 2GB of RAM and I have considered turning off my pagefile for quite some time. The apps you use are pretty much in line with what I use, with the exception that I sometimes have twice as many tabs open in Firefox (80 to 100 is not uncommon). I think I'm gonna turn off my pagefile when I get home...
Generally, heat is a form of energy associated with the motion of atoms, molecules and other particles which comprise matter. (according to wikipedia)
If you have that much highly energetic motion, why is it inconceivable that some of the atoms underwent fusion?
My vote is for something fishy. If a fire can burn in a building over 20+ floors for 20+ hours without bringing it down, I question that a fire burning for less than an hour over four floors would be able to do any measurable amount of weakening to the internal structure. The twin towers were even designed to survive being struck by a 707 aircraft, which is shorter nose-to-tail, but wider, and also only 6,000 pounds lighter when empty. Also, the entire internal steel structure of the building would have acted as a giant heatsink, rapidly dissipating any localized heat.
Have you seen "Loose Change" ?
Is it a good beginner's language? Hell no it isn't. It gives the programmer unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved with the computer. Too many of the inner workings of the computer are withheld from the programmer for them to really understand how things WORK.
Personally, I think it's a toy language because it separates the programmer from the bare metal of the machine, with too many layers of abstraction, confining the programmer to a "digital playpen" much as you would confine an infant. I have similar feelings about C#.
I started with C64 BASIC, moved on to C, then C++, then I learned MSVC and VB at about the same time, and after that I picked up ASM.
I really think I learned a lot by following that path, and I'm glad I learned how much work went into writing a GUI long before I dragged and dropped my first VB app.
My generalization wasn't that "people are dumb because they're from rural areas." My generalization was "People from rural America who are under-educated and lack opportunities in their hometown make up a significant portion of our armed forces." I was describing a specific group of people, those who enlist in the military. I was not describing people in general. When I said "these people" I meant the soldiers, not the residents of rural America in general. In re-reading what I said, I realize that could have been clearer about that, sorry.
How about you point out where I've mistaken correlation for causation and we'll debate that point? I don't believe I've done any such thing.
Also, there's a difference between "alarming regularity" and "once in a while on slashdot." But I still invite you to highlight where I've mistaken correlation for causation, please.
Given that most of the soldiers involved in this war are fresh out of highschool looking to get a few grand for college, they aren't the most intelligent, educated folk to begin with. Mostly from rural America, they tend to be rednecks and minorities who come from places where opportunities are few and military recruiters are everywhere. Don't even get me started on how incredibly poor the education capacity of rural America is...these people are the type who make the "correlation is causation" mistake with alarming regularity.
The simple explanation is the simplest of all: because they are dumber than a sack of doorknobs.
Tangentially, 9 of the 19 supposed 9/11 hijackers have been found alive in the middle east. Fire has never in the history of buildings brought down a skyscraper (A building in Venezuela I believe it was, which was built at the same time as the twin towers, burned for some 20+ hours and spread over two dozen floors. No collapse). Oh, also, in the mid '40s when a B-25 (a smaller plane, admittedly, than a 757) crashed into the Empire State Building, it didn't collapse, even after burning for longer than either of the twin towers did) This stupidity affliction seems to be a little more widespread, affecting more than just our military.
letting a score of thugs strongly interested in parking jets in large builds into the country.
Who are you talking about? The purported 9/11 "hijackers" ? 9 of the 19 accused have been found alive in the Middle East. Twelve days after the attacks, four of them were confirmed alive, according to this article at the BBC. I can't find a source that most people would trust which claims the figure of 9, but most of the conspiracy theory documentaries out there quote that number and explain where the various individuals are at.
What I'm trying to say here is that you're pointing the finger in the wrong direction.
Oh right, there could never be a Springfield elsewhere.
If slashdot was tracking IPs, then the posts wouldn't be "anonymous."
Coming from an administration that took 411 days to set up a Public Inquiry into 9/11
And who spent less money investigating 9/11 than was spent on investigating Clinton's blowjobs by something like a factor of ten. (I believe it's $50M investigating fellatio and $5M investigating 3,000+ counts of murder)
<rant on=true>
Since we're on the topic of 9/11, go to www.fbi.gov and look at the most wanted list. Look at Osama Bin Laden's profile. Note the curious absence of any specific mention of 9/11. Weird, huh? (Even weirder: watch the original video of Bin Laden which was released first. Examine his face. Notice his jewelry. Realize that in the video, he is writing a note with his right hand. Bin Laden is hard-line Islamic and NEVER wears jewelry, and is according to the FBI's website, left-handed. The man in the video is not Bin Laden. We've been set up. Weird huh?)
I hate to take this conversation in an unintended direction, but I'm sorry, I think it's necessary. The crime scene evidence was shipped overseas to China immediately to be melted down into new steel. The purported cause of the buildings' collapse was "internal fires" marking the first time buildings have ever collapsed due to internal fires in the history of skyscrapers (and we've had some twenty-plus hour fifteen-plus storey fires in that history), not to mention that the fires could not have been hot enough, fueled by atmospheric gases under atmospheric pressures in order to generate enough heat to melt steel, period. Popular Mechanics put out an article "debunking" the conspiracy theories. You know who wrote that article? The cousin of the head of the Department of Homeland Security (Michael Chertoff). One month before the attacks, the owner of the twin towers took out a multi-billion dollar insurance policy on the towers and has recently cashed in on it, TWICE, because 2 airplanes = 2 acts of terrorism. 9 of the 19 supposed hijackers have been found alive elsewhere in the world, mostly in Arab countries.
I'm going to tell you now why we didn't investigate 9/11 until it was too late: Because it was, yes, a great terrorist attack, but it was an attack orchestrated by Americans, Americans who knew that if they had enough time to clean things up, they could point the finger wherever they wanted with no questions asked. Who benefits from all this, though? Anyone who has a contract to rebuild Afghanistan or Iraq, anyone who can cash in on a multi-billion dollar insurance policy, anyone who has a vested interest in us having a reliable supply of energy in the years to come. Anyone who thinks their way is the only "right" way to do things and would force their ways on others. ("We don't like your government, you need democracy!") In other words, anyone in the current administration.
</rant>
Sorry, 9/11 is a touchy topic with me.
I wish I had points to mod you funny. That link was hilarious.
At 96kbit/sec, 8gb (67,108,864 kbits) would net you about 699,051 seconds of recording.
That's eight days of recorded audio.
Relatedly: 86,400 seconds in a day * 96kbit/sec = 8,294,400 kbits per day, or 0.988769531 gigabytes per day.
Definitely within the realm of feasibility.
WTF (that's "What the fuck") is with the warning that the link contains profanity? There's enough profanity on Slashdot that I would think it doesn't need to be stated that you might see some naughty words. I think we're all plenty prepared, seriously, thanks.
Fun would be a particular reason to go online. Saying that one has no particular reason for going online is saying that one may have more than one reason for doing so, not necessarily just "fun."