This, I think is the secret of fungi. The structures of mushrooms more closely resemble the brain of mammals than almost anything.
It's a trippy concept to think of weird plant brains living under the soil everywhere, and popping up brain pods / mushrooms in random places from their mycelium.
Then when you think about the ones that contain chemicals that allow mammals to have transcendent spiritual experiences, it makes you think about the Plant Brain / Planet Brain thing on a deeper level.
The real problem is that AT&T owns the only box in the area that taps in to the Internet fibre. Nobody else gets to hook up to it and offer service, so there is no competition. It makes no sense that they are being allowed to squat on a public resource and deny competition.
It makes me want to fight my way into starting some kind of Internet company and set up long-range Wifi on towers all over the place, to beat them at their own game. There are network adapters for long-range wifi that could beat the speeds and latency of 4G all day. Just have to lease a plot on the ole Internet pipeline somewhere and get the bandwidth to spread around through the air...
AT&T and Verizon are both working to keep broadband out of people's hands, because they see more money in their shitty expensive "4G" wireless service.
I have a perfect example: I live a half-mile from a major Internet fibre line, which AT&T owns the hardware to access, and I have a max available 3Mb DSL as the only choice for Internet. One of my neighbors would love to get on the same shitty "broadband" that I pay for, but AT&T told him "there are no more ports available" in our area, after multiple attempts to get through to someone with real answers. Same story about copper going away etc.
Taxpayers actually paid for that Internet fibre run that runs nearby, and AT&T somehow keeps anyone from accessing it with their Congress-owning money powers. Fuck those evil bastards.
There is no reason you should not learn to work on the engine in your own car. In this age, all the information you need is available online, for free. If more average day-to-day users of any kind of machine would take a more responsible attitude we'd have much less waste as a global society.
Learn to do everything for yourself and you free yourself from dependency on people you may or may not be able to trust.
There is a chart of recent AV comparative effectiveness tests done by independent labs. Microsoft scored somewhere around 75% effectiveness for "Proactive" (real-time) protection. The best one on that chart for free appears to be Avira.
they were talking about ice shelves that currently sit on top of land - possibly sliding into the sea from the land in the future as a result of the big ass piece of ice that was in front of them sliding off into the ocean (what happened already, the "city-sized ice shelf" breaking free)
I concur with the above statement. Fuck political correctness.
Also, marriage is not a right for anyone. Campaigning for gay marriage is not a "crusade for equal rights" in any sense of the scale of what racial minorities have gone through. Having said that, I will say that there should be no laws against anyone getting married, as marriage is more of a personal/spiritual function than a state function. Having said that, I will even say that I advocate that the State just go on and get the fuck out of everyone's personal lives completely.
Now, regardless of any of the above, including what I or anyone else have said, I think the movie is going to be awesome and I look forward to it. I don't let politics enter my personal entertainment preferences. If I did then I couldn't listen to Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, or Audioslave anymore - they are all too happy with Obama's bullshit.
Frank Herbert writes pretty boring books, IMO.... Dune was cool and all, and then I tried to read The White Plague and was like "blah"
Side note, did you know that David Lynch turned down the opportunity to direct STAR WARS to instead direct the movie adaptation of Dune?
Robert Heinlein. The Dean of Science Fiction.
he predicted everything
People on Slashdot say similar things all the time, with regard to other issues than gay stuff. Suddenly everyone supports the wonderful government we have that is perfectly transparent and benign?
It might actually seem "outlandish" IF WE HAD NOT BEEN HEARING THE SAME FUCKING THINGS FOR YEARS ALREADY
Report after report has come out from non-mainstream news sources such was Wired or CNet citing sources with similar stories, like the guy (Mark Klein I think) working for AT&T who discovered the secret room in SF with the NARUS box siphoning off all the Internet traffic to the NSA. Also several ex-NSA employees like William Binney have blown similar whistles.
Fuck the lies, and wake up. People are tired of the unjustified mission creep that has lead to such horrible violations of our rights. So your paycheck depends on violating your fellow citizens' Constitutional rights? How does that feel? Ever think about honoring your oath to uphold the Constitution? There are plenty of private-sector jobs that pay well enough and don't require violating anyone's rights.
Best of all worlds is the socket 2011 platform - 40 PCIe lanes on-die vs. 16 PCIe lanes on everything else except the even older socket 1366 platform.
I was looking into upgrading my system when the Haswell CPUs came out, and I was disappointed. Then I ordered a socket 2011 motherboard with 4 full-length PCIe slots and quad-channel DDR3. It ended up being about $100 more than a comparable Haswell Z87 chipset build, with a faster (MHz) cpu.
I got the (sandybridge-E) core i7 3820 quad core for $249, which is 3.6GHz stock, 3.9GHz turbo. Overclockers have pushed it to 5.5GHz and it is not an "unlocked" K-series cpu. Socket 2011 allows for "old school" base-clock overclocking.
Reading the book "Next" by Michael Crichton awhile back alerted me to the nonsense going on with gene patents. There's even a scene in the book where a guy with a rare genetic mutation is chased by the equivalent of bail bondsmen for a company holding a patent on his genes. They want to capture him and bring him in for running around with "their" genes in his body or something like that.
you're probably right - I was slightly shocked recently when I compared the performance benchmarks of an 8-core AMD to a 4-core Intel. I saw the 8-core on sale for about $179 and thought "wow!" but then I was more like "wow...." after seeing the benches.
basically, the 8-core AMD was slower performance-wise the 4-core Intel with the AMD running a few MHz faster
a good reminder why I don't want to live inside any city's jurisdiction - laws telling you what you can't do with your own land etc... fines for not mowing your yard etc
I'm looking for a new home now, so it's good to keep the cancerous liability of city ordinances in mind.
many people have lawns. Lawns are mowed to look nice. Nice looking lawns are not useful for food production. Kill the grass and plant the whole yard with food for your family, and then maybe they won't have to eat bugs.
also if you have a yard, you could parcel off a small bit of it for a chicken coop for not too much money and grow your own eggs / chickens
I think I'll probably try things like that before I raise insects for food.
Well I did some looking with the Google and found a variety of statistics, and a lot of them showed big graphs with overall declining ownership percentages from the 1970's to the last decade. Couldn't find any that gave 2012 numbers though.... also there's a distinct possibility that poll respondents lied to the pollers about having guns - I would. "Do YOU own any guns or possess them in your home sir?" (cautious reply) "Nope."
BTW, the purpose of owning guns generally is not "feeling safe" because we are all more likely to die by our own hands than at the end of a murderer's gun barrel. Check the CDC stats for causes of death in America - homicides of any kind, including but not limited to gunshot deaths, are the 14th or 15th most frequent cause of death, whereas cancer and heart disease are the top killers. Smoking kills far more people. Car accidents kill far more people. Suicide even kills more than all homicides of any kind.
Back to the "feeling safe" thing - most of my friends and kin have guns for sporting purposes such as hunting or target shooting. Protection from attackers is simply a side-effect of the sporting-related ownership. People buy more guns to use them for different purposes, say a new rifle for long-range hunting or a small pistol for cheap target plinking, or whatever different product to fit into the particular niche of the owner's collection. I seriously doubt anybody compulsively buys guns out of fear, unless it's the fear that they will be unavailable in the future due to tyrannical fascists.
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Interesting enough I printed it to PDF for later perusal
It's a trippy concept to think of weird plant brains living under the soil everywhere, and popping up brain pods / mushrooms in random places from their mycelium.
Then when you think about the ones that contain chemicals that allow mammals to have transcendent spiritual experiences, it makes you think about the Plant Brain / Planet Brain thing on a deeper level.
It makes me want to fight my way into starting some kind of Internet company and set up long-range Wifi on towers all over the place, to beat them at their own game. There are network adapters for long-range wifi that could beat the speeds and latency of 4G all day. Just have to lease a plot on the ole Internet pipeline somewhere and get the bandwidth to spread around through the air...
I have a perfect example: I live a half-mile from a major Internet fibre line, which AT&T owns the hardware to access, and I have a max available 3Mb DSL as the only choice for Internet. One of my neighbors would love to get on the same shitty "broadband" that I pay for, but AT&T told him "there are no more ports available" in our area, after multiple attempts to get through to someone with real answers. Same story about copper going away etc.
Taxpayers actually paid for that Internet fibre run that runs nearby, and AT&T somehow keeps anyone from accessing it with their Congress-owning money powers. Fuck those evil bastards.
Sweet!
Drone surveillance is pretty close to an antithesis to freedom - mindless minions of the faceless Big Brother watching people from the sky
Learn to do everything for yourself and you free yourself from dependency on people you may or may not be able to trust.
BTW, changing your engine timing is really easy.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Oct12-Apr13-12.jpg
There is a chart of recent AV comparative effectiveness tests done by independent labs. Microsoft scored somewhere around 75% effectiveness for "Proactive" (real-time) protection. The best one on that chart for free appears to be Avira.
they were talking about ice shelves that currently sit on top of land - possibly sliding into the sea from the land in the future as a result of the big ass piece of ice that was in front of them sliding off into the ocean (what happened already, the "city-sized ice shelf" breaking free)
he predicted sea levels would rise around the turn of the 21st century and that the coastal areas of the southeast US would be underwater etc
Also, marriage is not a right for anyone. Campaigning for gay marriage is not a "crusade for equal rights" in any sense of the scale of what racial minorities have gone through. Having said that, I will say that there should be no laws against anyone getting married, as marriage is more of a personal/spiritual function than a state function. Having said that, I will even say that I advocate that the State just go on and get the fuck out of everyone's personal lives completely.
Now, regardless of any of the above, including what I or anyone else have said, I think the movie is going to be awesome and I look forward to it. I don't let politics enter my personal entertainment preferences. If I did then I couldn't listen to Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, or Audioslave anymore - they are all too happy with Obama's bullshit.
Robert Heinlein. The Dean of Science Fiction.
he predicted everything
People on Slashdot say similar things all the time, with regard to other issues than gay stuff. Suddenly everyone supports the wonderful government we have that is perfectly transparent and benign?
I don't like Java 7, it feels dirty. I will keep on with 6 for now
Report after report has come out from non-mainstream news sources such was Wired or CNet citing sources with similar stories, like the guy (Mark Klein I think) working for AT&T who discovered the secret room in SF with the NARUS box siphoning off all the Internet traffic to the NSA. Also several ex-NSA employees like William Binney have blown similar whistles.
Fuck the lies, and wake up. People are tired of the unjustified mission creep that has lead to such horrible violations of our rights. So your paycheck depends on violating your fellow citizens' Constitutional rights? How does that feel? Ever think about honoring your oath to uphold the Constitution? There are plenty of private-sector jobs that pay well enough and don't require violating anyone's rights.
This is like the US Gov't version of the Chinese astroturfers, I bet.
It's like the "Electronic Plantation" that Jello Biafra once hollered about
I was looking into upgrading my system when the Haswell CPUs came out, and I was disappointed. Then I ordered a socket 2011 motherboard with 4 full-length PCIe slots and quad-channel DDR3. It ended up being about $100 more than a comparable Haswell Z87 chipset build, with a faster (MHz) cpu.
I got the (sandybridge-E) core i7 3820 quad core for $249, which is 3.6GHz stock, 3.9GHz turbo. Overclockers have pushed it to 5.5GHz and it is not an "unlocked" K-series cpu. Socket 2011 allows for "old school" base-clock overclocking.
Good job, SCOTUS
basically, the 8-core AMD was slower performance-wise the 4-core Intel with the AMD running a few MHz faster
I'm looking for a new home now, so it's good to keep the cancerous liability of city ordinances in mind.
it's definitely better than eating bugs. previous reply person "h4rr4r" can have all of my share of bugs and I will keep the vile creatures
also if you have a yard, you could parcel off a small bit of it for a chicken coop for not too much money and grow your own eggs / chickens
I think I'll probably try things like that before I raise insects for food.
Throw them in the fire! Then piss into the fire with a frosty Heineken pee pee....
Cauterize the germs!
My main question is how the rootkit process made its way into the RAM of the afflicted machines (?).
BTW, the purpose of owning guns generally is not "feeling safe" because we are all more likely to die by our own hands than at the end of a murderer's gun barrel. Check the CDC stats for causes of death in America - homicides of any kind, including but not limited to gunshot deaths, are the 14th or 15th most frequent cause of death, whereas cancer and heart disease are the top killers. Smoking kills far more people. Car accidents kill far more people. Suicide even kills more than all homicides of any kind.
Back to the "feeling safe" thing - most of my friends and kin have guns for sporting purposes such as hunting or target shooting. Protection from attackers is simply a side-effect of the sporting-related ownership. People buy more guns to use them for different purposes, say a new rifle for long-range hunting or a small pistol for cheap target plinking, or whatever different product to fit into the particular niche of the owner's collection. I seriously doubt anybody compulsively buys guns out of fear, unless it's the fear that they will be unavailable in the future due to tyrannical fascists.