You think environmentalists have power to dictate the course of human progress? That's just funny. Try arguing that it will never be profitable to colonize Mars, you'll be more credible:)
Personally, I think that our climate here on Earth is only going to get less habitable, not more, but technology will continue to improve to allow us to keep expanding anyway, till the point that population will dictate expanding to other planets. By then, there won't be much difference between living in a metal cave on Mars compared to one on Earth. Of course, I doubt this will be within our lifetime.
I have to deal with this here in the US. The apartment complex that I live in has gates at all the entrances (not on the parking lot), to improve security. Of course they do nothing of the sort - I jimmy them open almost once a month when I forget my keys while doing laundry, and the thugs that are too stupid to do this just break the gate - happens about once a year. Only one of the gates has a device to buzz someones apartment, and that is the front-facing gate that no one uses because all the parking is in the rear. Half the people that come visiting either don't have cellphones, so instead they just sit out in the lot and honk their horn until whoever it is they are waiting for comes out. All hours of the day and night.
Just because management thinks these flimsy pieces of metal decrease crime (or know that idiot customers think that) and they are too cheap to put in more call boxes. Can't wait till I get hired on permanently so I can buy a house.
When your posted your stuff, they asked you if it was alright to license your contribution under the GNU FDL, and you agreed. The GFDL allows users to choose either the existing version of the GFDL or any future version, which they pointed out at the time. Now that the FSF has modified the GFDL, users (including wikipedia) can choose to use it for you contributions if they wish.
I'd agree with that. If you're ever in Hawaii, try the Kalua Pork, a traditional dish of theirs, and you'll understand instantly why SPAM became so popular once the military brought it in. It is basically shredded pork (traditionally cooked in a pit) that is quite salty and fairly greasy (compared to the modern idea of pork as a lean meat). Of course it's much tastier than processed meat, but there is a definite similarity there.
Sad thing is that Kerry's stance could be excused. Carter, as a nukeE, should have known better. That is completely backwards for the very reason that you gave. We had just come out of the cold war, and non-proliferation was a big concern. Given there were no economic advantages to reprocessing vs digging up more uranium, Carter was arguably justified in his position. However, the risk of proliferation shifted from countries like US/Europe/Russia to places like Libya, Pakistan, India and now North Korea and Iran, and the policy no longer makes any sense.
While there were good arguments for and against the reprocessing ban in Carter's day, there are no good reasons for it now. While I don't agree with what Carter did, I can understand why he did it. However, I cannot excuse the people who oppose reprocessing today.
One thing that I realized recently while talking to some younger kids, is that most of them have never used a real email client, just webmail. So while we geeks think of email as a standardized flexible protocol that can be used for all sorts of things given the right software, they just think of it as a website where you can leave messages for people.
Facebook is the same thing but with several simple but important improvements. The friends list acts as a mailing list of sorts, something that very few of the kids I have talked to know how to do with webmail. It also acts as a grey-list spam filter, limiting unsolicited messages to your request box where they are more easily ignored. There are features that act as the analog to outlooks meeting request, which is quite useful but you don't ever see used outside of work, I guess because of the implied formality of it.
I guess what it comes down to is that features are useless unless they are accessable, so your level of expertice will dictate whether email or social networks are the more limited of the two.
This only applies if you use their webmail service with server side encryption. They have to have your key in order to encrypt/decrypt server-side, and they have to turn it over to the authorities if they have a valid warrent. It's the law.
If you use their client-side Java applet to do the encryption on your computer - as they strongly recommends that you do - then this is not an issue. Hushmail never see you keys and thus cannot be compelled to hand them over.
Several other sites covered this story earlier in the month all without the crappy sensationalism of slashdot. I first saw it at arstechnica, which linked to an interview with the CEO by wired.
I'm not usually one to hard on individual slashdot editors, but this is the 4th intentionally misleading troll that zonk has posted today. It is crap like this that caused me to not renew my slashdot subscription so many years.
Apple used LLVM to improve the performance of software-fallbacks for OpenGL extensions by a hundred fold in Leopard, and the big part of that was because it was good at optimizing high-level routines depending on the low-level features of the chip, such as Altivec/SSE2 32bit/64bit, PPC/x86 etc. So it stands to reason that, to the extent that SSE4 is usefull, LLVM will make good use of it, just like it did for other extensions.
The 248-dimensions that he is talking about are not like the time-space dimensions, which particles move through. They describe the state of the particle itself - things like spin, charge, etc. The standard model has 6(?) properties. Some of the combinations of these properties are allowed, some are not. E8 is a very generalized mathematical model that has 248-properties, where only some of the combinations are allowed. What Garrett Lisi showed is that the rules that describe the allowed combinations of the 6 properties of the standard model show up in E8, and furthermore, the symmetries of gravity can be described with it as well.
Now, there are other valid combinations of properties within E8 beyond the ones that represent the particles in the standard model, and these combinations would represent new particles that we have not seen before, if the model is correct.
bhima's comment was alluding to the fact that while NSA designed and distributed the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm, they had no part in the other two algorithms (that we know of) other than as an outside commentator, and thus could not put a backdoor into them. In other words 'you' referred to the NSA, not to you, a user of the algorithms.
Even you have have no chance of winning voting still can help your cause, in several ways and by refraining from what is a very simple and painless activity, you are giving up some very useful opportunities to help you cause.
You have to recognize this on some level or you wouldn't be giving money to Ron Paul. After all, what is he going to be using that money for than to try and convince people to vote for him? While persuading public opinion will be the main positive effect of his campaign, the rest of the political system will never change in that direction, until the people who he has persuaded are willing to act on it. That includes you.
Third party and outlying candidates getting votes in the polls can absolutely affect the behavior of the major party candidates. I saw that first hand with Montragon's run for Governor of New Mexico as a Green party candidate. Environmentalists/Progressives had been talking about the same ideas for years, but it was his good turn-out in the election that created the political momentum for it to actually happen.
Secondly, many states have ballot access rules that rely on voter turn-out in the presidential and gubernatorial elections. By choosing to vote Libertarian in the presidential election, you could help push that number over 5% which would make it far easier for them to get candidates on the ballot in local elections. Having even a single LP member in a city council or county position can do quite a bit of good. The chance that spending a measly half hour to cast a token vote could potentially save LP members from literally hundreds of thousands of hours of gathering signatures, makes the choice pretty damn easy for me. That is something that no amount of money I have would be able to do.
While it looks like these were done just for fun, one idea I have heard is to place them only in the passing lane, at regular intervals. This would discorage people from staying in that lane any longer than they need to, else be forced to listen to "It's a Small World" at increasingly annoying pitch the faster they drive:)
Customer C sees that an ISP is advertising x MB/s connections for y dollars Show me a single ISP that says that. The all advertise up to X MB/s and it is rare for any of them to actually reach that speed on a consistent basis. I have never seen a consumer grade ISP actually advertise a minimum guaranteed bandwidth, and there is no reason (legally or competitively) for them to do so. As long as you can get X MB/s in some situations you have no legal recourse against throttling, and potentially no recourse at all if there is only broadband provider.
All the fundamental ideas in the WWW, including hyperlinks and mixed text and graphics, over a distributed network had been done before. One of the most complete implementations was demoed as far back as 1968. The reason that Tim Berners-Lee's version took off and others didn't was because of timing - it coincided with the development of a sizable network which made those ideas useful.
Here is the actual Open Handset Alliance Website describing Android. Third party developers will have access to all the hardware capabilities and software libraries that the Google software has access to. So developers can do anything that the phone is technically capable of. I imagine it will be fairly easy for end users to load new software onto the phone.
All his shit feels the same and looks the same I can't agree with this, as I have reacted differently to everything he has done. Roseanne, Buffy, and Firefly are each very different shows.
I was always fairly indifferent to Roseanne, it was funny sometimes, and annoying sometimes, but for the most part didn't do much for me. But what people did like about it was that it was very down to earth and completely non-PC. Then you have Buffy, which was practically the opposite. The dialog, while often irreverent, was delivered in a very liberal-arts pseudo-intellectual manner, which I absolutely hated. And then he turns around and makes Firefly. I absolutely loved that show - the premise, the characters, the mix of comedy and emotion, everything.
But most importantly, none of those shows were the standard run-of-the-mill sitcom - they all did something different, some of which I liked, some of which I didn't. My impression of Joss is that he is a good writer that takes risks, unlike most of the formulaic crap on TV. His type of writing will never appeal to everyone all the time, but the people who do like it *love* it. I'd much rather have more of that on television, and so I'm curious to see what he does with this new show.
I'm trying to remember the details, but I do recall reading a blog entry by one of the Mozilla developers explaining that the reason for the horrible performance of Flash on the Mac was the result of a bone-headed decision in the Netscape plug-in architecture. Something to do with excessive polling being required. He claimed there wasn't much that Macromedia^W Adobe could do to fix the problem until the Safari/Mozilla/Other developers got together and developed a new plug-in architecture for the Mac.
Agreed. Unfortunately if that poor soul installed Logitech drivers, or other third party software they might have APE installed without even knowing it.
The way I understand this, the RIAA subpoenaed the identity of the person using a certain IP at a certain time. The university responded that they don't know and it isn't their job to find out. So couldn't the RIAA just modify their subpoena to ask for the information that the university does have (the dorm room, MAC address, OS info, etc), and then do further investigation on their own? At that point they still have to convince a judge that they have enough evidence to go to court (provided they don't scare the students into settling). I definitely agree that this is not enough information by itself to find someone liable for copyright infringement, but I guess I don't see why that is a valid excuse for the university to not provide the information that they have.
No, that would be in violation of both the No original research policy and the Autobiography guideline. I have yet to hear about an article being deleted which deserved to be and didn't already break one of the other rules. The notability guidelines are nothing but cultural elitism - that some shared experiences are worthy of being called culture and enshrined in an "encyclopedia" while others are not. There is no legitimate reason for this except disk space.
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You think environmentalists have power to dictate the course of human progress? That's just funny. :)
Try arguing that it will never be profitable to colonize Mars, you'll be more credible
Personally, I think that our climate here on Earth is only going to get less habitable, not more, but technology will continue to improve to allow us to keep expanding anyway, till the point that population will dictate expanding to other planets. By then, there won't be much difference between living in a metal cave on Mars compared to one on Earth. Of course, I doubt this will be within our lifetime.
I have to deal with this here in the US. The apartment complex that I live in has gates at all the entrances (not on the parking lot), to improve security. Of course they do nothing of the sort - I jimmy them open almost once a month when I forget my keys while doing laundry, and the thugs that are too stupid to do this just break the gate - happens about once a year. Only one of the gates has a device to buzz someones apartment, and that is the front-facing gate that no one uses because all the parking is in the rear. Half the people that come visiting either don't have cellphones, so instead they just sit out in the lot and honk their horn until whoever it is they are waiting for comes out. All hours of the day and night.
Just because management thinks these flimsy pieces of metal decrease crime (or know that idiot customers think that) and they are too cheap to put in more call boxes. Can't wait till I get hired on permanently so I can buy a house.
Where are the mods when you need them?
When your posted your stuff, they asked you if it was alright to license your contribution under the GNU FDL, and you agreed. The GFDL allows users to choose either the existing version of the GFDL or any future version, which they pointed out at the time. Now that the FSF has modified the GFDL, users (including wikipedia) can choose to use it for you contributions if they wish.
I'd agree with that. If you're ever in Hawaii, try the Kalua Pork, a traditional dish of theirs, and you'll understand instantly why SPAM became so popular once the military brought it in. It is basically shredded pork (traditionally cooked in a pit) that is quite salty and fairly greasy (compared to the modern idea of pork as a lean meat). Of course it's much tastier than processed meat, but there is a definite similarity there.
While there were good arguments for and against the reprocessing ban in Carter's day, there are no good reasons for it now. While I don't agree with what Carter did, I can understand why he did it. However, I cannot excuse the people who oppose reprocessing today.
One thing that I realized recently while talking to some younger kids, is that most of them have never used a real email client, just webmail. So while we geeks think of email as a standardized flexible protocol that can be used for all sorts of things given the right software, they just think of it as a website where you can leave messages for people.
Facebook is the same thing but with several simple but important improvements. The friends list acts as a mailing list of sorts, something that very few of the kids I have talked to know how to do with webmail. It also acts as a grey-list spam filter, limiting unsolicited messages to your request box where they are more easily ignored. There are features that act as the analog to outlooks meeting request, which is quite useful but you don't ever see used outside of work, I guess because of the implied formality of it.
I guess what it comes down to is that features are useless unless they are accessable, so your level of expertice will dictate whether email or social networks are the more limited of the two.
This only applies if you use their webmail service with server side encryption. They have to have your key in order to encrypt/decrypt server-side, and they have to turn it over to the authorities if they have a valid warrent. It's the law.
If you use their client-side Java applet to do the encryption on your computer - as they strongly recommends that you do - then this is not an issue. Hushmail never see you keys and thus cannot be compelled to hand them over.
Several other sites covered this story earlier in the month all without the crappy sensationalism of slashdot. I first saw it at arstechnica, which linked to an interview with the CEO by wired.
I'm not usually one to hard on individual slashdot editors, but this is the 4th intentionally misleading troll that zonk has posted today. It is crap like this that caused me to not renew my slashdot subscription so many years.
Apple used LLVM to improve the performance of software-fallbacks for OpenGL extensions by a hundred fold in Leopard, and the big part of that was because it was good at optimizing high-level routines depending on the low-level features of the chip, such as Altivec/SSE2 32bit/64bit, PPC/x86 etc. So it stands to reason that, to the extent that SSE4 is usefull, LLVM will make good use of it, just like it did for other extensions.
That sounds pretty practical to me.
The 248-dimensions that he is talking about are not like the time-space dimensions, which particles move through. They describe the state of the particle itself - things like spin, charge, etc. The standard model has 6(?) properties. Some of the combinations of these properties are allowed, some are not. E8 is a very generalized mathematical model that has 248-properties, where only some of the combinations are allowed. What Garrett Lisi showed is that the rules that describe the allowed combinations of the 6 properties of the standard model show up in E8, and furthermore, the symmetries of gravity can be described with it as well.
Now, there are other valid combinations of properties within E8 beyond the ones that represent the particles in the standard model, and these combinations would represent new particles that we have not seen before, if the model is correct.
bhima's comment was alluding to the fact that while NSA designed and distributed the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm, they had no part in the other two algorithms (that we know of) other than as an outside commentator, and thus could not put a backdoor into them. In other words 'you' referred to the NSA, not to you, a user of the algorithms.
Even you have have no chance of winning voting still can help your cause, in several ways and by refraining from what is a very simple and painless activity, you are giving up some very useful opportunities to help you cause.
You have to recognize this on some level or you wouldn't be giving money to Ron Paul. After all, what is he going to be using that money for than to try and convince people to vote for him? While persuading public opinion will be the main positive effect of his campaign, the rest of the political system will never change in that direction, until the people who he has persuaded are willing to act on it. That includes you.
Third party and outlying candidates getting votes in the polls can absolutely affect the behavior of the major party candidates. I saw that first hand with Montragon's run for Governor of New Mexico as a Green party candidate. Environmentalists/Progressives had been talking about the same ideas for years, but it was his good turn-out in the election that created the political momentum for it to actually happen.
Secondly, many states have ballot access rules that rely on voter turn-out in the presidential and gubernatorial elections. By choosing to vote Libertarian in the presidential election, you could help push that number over 5% which would make it far easier for them to get candidates on the ballot in local elections. Having even a single LP member in a city council or county position can do quite a bit of good. The chance that spending a measly half hour to cast a token vote could potentially save LP members from literally hundreds of thousands of hours of gathering signatures, makes the choice pretty damn easy for me. That is something that no amount of money I have would be able to do.
While it looks like these were done just for fun, one idea I have heard is to place them only in the passing lane, at regular intervals. This would discorage people from staying in that lane any longer than they need to, else be forced to listen to "It's a Small World" at increasingly annoying pitch the faster they drive :)
The Nigerian officials are just upset the supplier is the one being bribed and not them :)
All the fundamental ideas in the WWW, including hyperlinks and mixed text and graphics, over a distributed network had been done before. One of the most complete implementations was demoed as far back as 1968. The reason that Tim Berners-Lee's version took off and others didn't was because of timing - it coincided with the development of a sizable network which made those ideas useful.
Here is the actual Open Handset Alliance Website describing Android. Third party developers will have access to all the hardware capabilities and software libraries that the Google software has access to. So developers can do anything that the phone is technically capable of. I imagine it will be fairly easy for end users to load new software onto the phone.
I was always fairly indifferent to Roseanne, it was funny sometimes, and annoying sometimes, but for the most part didn't do much for me. But what people did like about it was that it was very down to earth and completely non-PC. Then you have Buffy, which was practically the opposite. The dialog, while often irreverent, was delivered in a very liberal-arts pseudo-intellectual manner, which I absolutely hated. And then he turns around and makes Firefly. I absolutely loved that show - the premise, the characters, the mix of comedy and emotion, everything.
But most importantly, none of those shows were the standard run-of-the-mill sitcom - they all did something different, some of which I liked, some of which I didn't. My impression of Joss is that he is a good writer that takes risks, unlike most of the formulaic crap on TV. His type of writing will never appeal to everyone all the time, but the people who do like it *love* it. I'd much rather have more of that on television, and so I'm curious to see what he does with this new show.
I'm trying to remember the details, but I do recall reading a blog entry by one of the Mozilla developers explaining that the reason for the horrible performance of Flash on the Mac was the result of a bone-headed decision in the Netscape plug-in architecture. Something to do with excessive polling being required. He claimed there wasn't much that Macromedia^W Adobe could do to fix the problem until the Safari/Mozilla/Other developers got together and developed a new plug-in architecture for the Mac.
Agreed. Unfortunately if that poor soul installed Logitech drivers, or other third party software they might have APE installed without even knowing it.
The way I understand this, the RIAA subpoenaed the identity of the person using a certain IP at a certain time. The university responded that they don't know and it isn't their job to find out. So couldn't the RIAA just modify their subpoena to ask for the information that the university does have (the dorm room, MAC address, OS info, etc), and then do further investigation on their own? At that point they still have to convince a judge that they have enough evidence to go to court (provided they don't scare the students into settling). I definitely agree that this is not enough information by itself to find someone liable for copyright infringement, but I guess I don't see why that is a valid excuse for the university to not provide the information that they have.
What king-matic didn't tell you is all that extra power is dissipated via X-Rays. It is called Skulltrail after all.
No, that would be in violation of both the No original research policy and the Autobiography guideline. I have yet to hear about an article being deleted which deserved to be and didn't already break one of the other rules. The notability guidelines are nothing but cultural elitism - that some shared experiences are worthy of being called culture and enshrined in an "encyclopedia" while others are not. There is no legitimate reason for this except disk space.