Two people with their own intellectual prowess create the same idea.
Nearly EVERY important invention you use today was thought up nearly simultaneously by more than one person. It is VERY rare to have an idea that nobody else isn't also having.
1. F/OSS -- Destroyed when Mordak the Executioner bombarded the last of the OSS revolutionary comclaves from space with his "StarWave" hyperlight virtual partical reciprocator. 2. Energy Conservation -- Abandoned when M'hec'ma'har, the galactic cloud made of pure, unadulterated fossil fuel was discovered. 3. Humans -- Structurally reengineered into virtual extinction when Humans had to redesign thier internal atomic structure to be able to survive the Val disturbance, when all atomic matter in the universe went through it's temporary depolarization. 4. Microsoft -- Finally met it's end when one of the Seven All Creators (Steve, not Jabar this time) decided that they had built thier towers too high. 5. Reality TV -- Damn that took a long time. 6. The War on Drugs -- Now that the newly restructured fundamental laws of physics that the new humans were built on are no longer susceptible to drug induced states of euphoria, finally we could end this. 8. The number 7 -- Turns out we didn't really need it after all. 9. All other languages except for English -- After discovering that all sentient races in the Universe speak perfect, American English, and that only a subset of humans spoke strange, non-English dialects, those last few "Language Terrorists" were finally dealt after a bloodly battle resulting in the massacre and total gravatomic annaihilation of seven galaxies... Of course, really the only survivors that really needed to be dealth with were Juan Carlos and his mother, Maria, of Earth, but those other seven galaxies were really pissing us off. 10. Ka'THUR -- Don't tell me I'm the only one glad to see this go. I mean, seriously.
I can remember back at the start of the Afgan war the US was CONSTANTLY blathering on about the terrorists used the internet and encryption to do thier dirty work. Then we found out, oops, all they had was a lame sneaker-net, to the dissapointment of everyone in the military. all thier toys were for naught... I wouldn't be suprised in the least if thier new found technical prowess were not a result of all that discussion...
That, right ther, was the single biggest security breach. By far, the amount of data that is out there is simply too much for a random hacker to grab some data and make a profit from it. He needs to know what data he can use. Professionally data thiefs already know what they want to steal, but they are not the types to simply be stopped by security measures of any kind. If worse comes to worse, he can always just get a job as a janitor, or better yet, a security guard at the place he wants to steal from and flount ALL security measures.
...because we have snivling bio-ethics people who cry about 'playing god'
My typical respinse to these people...
When a human man can will a universe into existance usin nothing more than his own internal desire for somethign to exist, THEN he is playing God. Not before.
In fact, it is an insult to power of ones "God" to imply that such crude means of manipulating the environment are tanatamount to playing with the powers reserved for the divine... My God is not so weak and powerless.
Excerpt taken from a chat session between ESA and NASA lead engineers: NASA: "Our Mars Rovers are both still going strong, moving at over an inch per day, and finding all sorts of great new types of reddish sand. I could possible arrange to send you some sam-"
ESA: "WATER!! YEAH BABY!! WE pWnEd j0000!!! MWA AHHAHAHAHAH!!"
NASA: Damn it, fine, you wanna play? Mike, get over here...
There I met a woman who had lived in Japan all her life, but was the grand parents of imported Korean labor. She was a legal resident, but not a citizen.
It is her fault. The way the kaw works, all she would have to do is give up her Korean name and korean passport. I know tons of people who have done it, and who have NOT done it because theier korean name means to omuch to them. All Japanese citizens have to have "approved" Japanese names, even the Japanese themselves. They can't name thier kid anything they want.
Ok, so the game where you are a gang-banger and you REGULARLY murder people for fun, where beating a cop's brains out with a baseball bat is not only fun, but it gives you points. The game where shooting random strangers in the head is rewarded with cash... THIS game may have some sex in it? And the SEX is the reason why these fuckers are getting upset?
Seriously, get this... Nearly 99.999% of the time, a federal judge can predict the immediate future of a convicted criminal at sentencing time! Seriously, he can predict, with AMAZING accuracy, what will happen to the criminal right after he is sentanced!
I've been programming for 18 years and just got into a PhD program in CS, and I still can't reliably get a wifi card to behave under Linux.
Yeah, it took me almost twenty minutes of reading and tring to finally figure out how this works. Don't feel bad. I know LOTS of Computer Science PhDs who aren't worth crap. They still get good jobs running companies into the ground.
the very first words the judge will tell everyone is this. "if you plead not guilty, i will send you back to your seat. i will hear all other cases first. your case will be last. we will then have the officer give his testimony, which i will consider truthful and accurate. if i convict you in a trial, then i will not give you any lenancy. if you plead guilty, and you don't have a criminal history, i will most likely give you supervision, which means your conviction is sealed and after 1 year it is removed. if you are found guilty, i will not give you supervision".
I have always wondered about this... Is it illegal to lie to a police officer, or anyone, when not under oath? Because, who says you are telling the truth if you admit fault? Maybe you just wanted to assuage the other driver's fears and make him feel more at ease so he wouldn't try to run... Does the court just automatically accept the very first thing you say as 100% truth with no extenuating circunstances and then, should that story change, everything else you say from that point forward is a lie?
the very first words the judge will tell everyone is this. "if you plead not guilty, i will send you back to your seat. i will hear all other cases first. your case will be last. we will then have the officer give his testimony, which i will consider truthful and accurate. if i convict you in a trial, then i will not give you any lenancy. if you plead guilty, and you don't have a criminal history, i will most likely give you supervision, which means your conviction is sealed and after 1 year it is removed. if you are found guilty, i will not give you supervision".
I am curious about people who want a trial by jury... Is the judge saying he is not allowing this? Why does he assume he will be deciding the case?
"'survival of the fittest' is not a moral philisophy in any sense of the word."
This is simply not true. Survival of the fittest is strongly linked to morals in two ways.
First, moral behavior is simply applying the survival behavior to all of society.
Second, societies develop morals which make society stronger, or fail to develop morals and then fail to thrive.
Actually, what YOU just argued is that morality is an evolutionary fitness strategy, NOT that "survival of the fittest" is a morality play. Darwin's laws do not have anything to do with morality any more than newtons laws do. The least fit will dye out regardless of thier morality just as things will fall to the the Earth regardless of thier divine inspriation.
However, you may be right in seeing morality as a survivial strategy.
I have nothing against eating animals either, but 'survival of the fittest' is not a moral philisophy in any sense of the word. It is pure power relations, i.e. "you can kill someone if it helps you and they can't punish you for doing it."
Close, but it is even more complex than that... If you can kill me without reprocusions, but I can outbreed you... Well, then the fittest may not be the one you think it is. Fittest is exactly what it says, most fit, its best. If you are the weakest creature in the universe, a light breeze is enough to kill you instantly, but you are living happily in an environment without wind (say, outer space), then your species is WAY more fit than, say, humans seeing as you don't need a space suit to survive.
It doesn't even have to do with direct confrontation. If you and I both eat the same kind of plant, but you are only away at nigth and I am only awake during the day, we could still be competing withou ever actually meeting. Fitness in that case will simply be a measure of efficiency and breeding rates.
Fit has absolutly nothing to do with 24-hour "fitness centers" kind of fit. The survival of the fittest simply means the one who is best able to survive in a particular environment.
and the people working there tend to be below par by Slashdot standards
Worked at a company that dealt with banks a couple of years ag, and I have to agree. MORE THAN ONE of them used the name of the bank backwards a the passwords to thier vpns... seriously people, BANKS!
why does the IEEE/SAE/etc. sit on their hands when the word "Engineer" is abused?
Wow, wouldn't THAT shake the foundations of computings... Don't forget, a healthy percentage of the "engineers" that created the entire industry are college dropouts. I suspect at least a few on the IEEE board are not technically qualified (acedemically, I am talking) to judge others...
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A. Sue the makers of popular non-microsoft IDEs... maybe?
How the hell did you get that through the junk filter!?!
Two people with their own intellectual prowess create the same idea.
Nearly EVERY important invention you use today was thought up nearly simultaneously by more than one person. It is VERY rare to have an idea that nobody else isn't also having.
Don't worry sweetie, Apple is a big company with LOTS of money, they won't lose in court just because som silly legal code goes against them.
1. F/OSS -- Destroyed when Mordak the Executioner bombarded the last of the OSS revolutionary comclaves from space with his "StarWave" hyperlight virtual partical reciprocator.
2. Energy Conservation -- Abandoned when M'hec'ma'har, the galactic cloud made of pure, unadulterated fossil fuel was discovered.
3. Humans -- Structurally reengineered into virtual extinction when Humans had to redesign thier internal atomic structure to be able to survive the Val disturbance, when all atomic matter in the universe went through it's temporary depolarization.
4. Microsoft -- Finally met it's end when one of the Seven All Creators (Steve, not Jabar this time) decided that they had built thier towers too high.
5. Reality TV -- Damn that took a long time.
6. The War on Drugs -- Now that the newly restructured fundamental laws of physics that the new humans were built on are no longer susceptible to drug induced states of euphoria, finally we could end this.
8. The number 7 -- Turns out we didn't really need it after all.
9. All other languages except for English -- After discovering that all sentient races in the Universe speak perfect, American English, and that only a subset of humans spoke strange, non-English dialects, those last few "Language Terrorists" were finally dealt after a bloodly battle resulting in the massacre and total gravatomic annaihilation of seven galaxies... Of course, really the only survivors that really needed to be dealth with were Juan Carlos and his mother, Maria, of Earth, but those other seven galaxies were really pissing us off.
10. Ka'THUR -- Don't tell me I'm the only one glad to see this go. I mean, seriously.
I can remember back at the start of the Afgan war the US was CONSTANTLY blathering on about the terrorists used the internet and encryption to do thier dirty work. Then we found out, oops, all they had was a lame sneaker-net, to the dissapointment of everyone in the military. all thier toys were for naught... I wouldn't be suprised in the least if thier new found technical prowess were not a result of all that discussion...
If they are English, I'd like to see them. I suspect that a really incredible drinking game can be created out of terrorist web-sites..
Tell me the things you most want to keep secret
That, right ther, was the single biggest security breach. By far, the amount of data that is out there is simply too much for a random hacker to grab some data and make a profit from it. He needs to know what data he can use. Professionally data thiefs already know what they want to steal, but they are not the types to simply be stopped by security measures of any kind. If worse comes to worse, he can always just get a job as a janitor, or better yet, a security guard at the place he wants to steal from and flount ALL security measures.
...because we have snivling bio-ethics people who cry about 'playing god'
My typical respinse to these people...
When a human man can will a universe into existance usin nothing more than his own internal desire for somethign to exist, THEN he is playing God. Not before.
In fact, it is an insult to power of ones "God" to imply that such crude means of manipulating the environment are tanatamount to playing with the powers reserved for the divine... My God is not so weak and powerless.
Excerpt taken from a chat session between ESA and NASA lead engineers:
NASA: "Our Mars Rovers are both still going strong, moving at over an inch per day, and finding all sorts of great new types of reddish sand. I could possible arrange to send you some sam-"
ESA: "WATER!! YEAH BABY!! WE pWnEd j0000!!! MWA AHHAHAHAHAH!!"
NASA: Damn it, fine, you wanna play? Mike, get over here...
Mike: Yeah?
NASA: Point the rovers north.
Mike: Sure thing boss!
ESA: Jerk.
Rupert?
There I met a woman who had lived in Japan all her life, but was the grand parents of imported Korean labor. She was a legal resident, but not a citizen.
It is her fault. The way the kaw works, all she would have to do is give up her Korean name and korean passport. I know tons of people who have done it, and who have NOT done it because theier korean name means to omuch to them. All Japanese citizens have to have "approved" Japanese names, even the Japanese themselves. They can't name thier kid anything they want.
Ok, so the game where you are a gang-banger and you REGULARLY murder people for fun, where beating a cop's brains out with a baseball bat is not only fun, but it gives you points. The game where shooting random strangers in the head is rewarded with cash... THIS game may have some sex in it? And the SEX is the reason why these fuckers are getting upset?
Seriously, get this... Nearly 99.999% of the time, a federal judge can predict the immediate future of a convicted criminal at sentencing time! Seriously, he can predict, with AMAZING accuracy, what will happen to the criminal right after he is sentanced!
I've been programming for 18 years and just got into a PhD program in CS, and I still can't reliably get a wifi card to behave under Linux.
Yeah, it took me almost twenty minutes of reading and tring to finally figure out how this works. Don't feel bad. I know LOTS of Computer Science PhDs who aren't worth crap. They still get good jobs running companies into the ground.
the very first words the judge will tell everyone is this. "if you plead not guilty, i will send you back to your seat. i will hear all other cases first. your case will be last. we will then have the officer give his testimony, which i will consider truthful and accurate. if i convict you in a trial, then i will not give you any lenancy. if you plead guilty, and you don't have a criminal history, i will most likely give you supervision, which means your conviction is sealed and after 1 year it is removed. if you are found guilty, i will not give you supervision".
I have always wondered about this... Is it illegal to lie to a police officer, or anyone, when not under oath? Because, who says you are telling the truth if you admit fault? Maybe you just wanted to assuage the other driver's fears and make him feel more at ease so he wouldn't try to run... Does the court just automatically accept the very first thing you say as 100% truth with no extenuating circunstances and then, should that story change, everything else you say from that point forward is a lie?
the very first words the judge will tell everyone is this. "if you plead not guilty, i will send you back to your seat. i will hear all other cases first. your case will be last. we will then have the officer give his testimony, which i will consider truthful and accurate. if i convict you in a trial, then i will not give you any lenancy. if you plead guilty, and you don't have a criminal history, i will most likely give you supervision, which means your conviction is sealed and after 1 year it is removed. if you are found guilty, i will not give you supervision".
I am curious about people who want a trial by jury... Is the judge saying he is not allowing this? Why does he assume he will be deciding the case?
just play a file called "email_sound.wav", then have a cron job symbolically link a random sound to it every minute.
90% of them only know how to start Outlook if the icon is sitting directly on the desktop.
Oh, you mean when not obscured by powerpoint?
my commute was uphill BOTH WAYS!
Hey, I live in San Francisco... EVERWHERE is uphill!
"'survival of the fittest' is not a moral philisophy in any sense of the word."
This is simply not true. Survival of the fittest is strongly linked to morals in two ways.
First, moral behavior is simply applying the survival behavior to all of society.
Second, societies develop morals which make society stronger, or fail to develop morals and then fail to thrive.
Actually, what YOU just argued is that morality is an evolutionary fitness strategy, NOT that "survival of the fittest" is a morality play. Darwin's laws do not have anything to do with morality any more than newtons laws do. The least fit will dye out regardless of thier morality just as things will fall to the the Earth regardless of thier divine inspriation.
However, you may be right in seeing morality as a survivial strategy.
I have nothing against eating animals either, but 'survival of the fittest' is not a moral philisophy in any sense of the word. It is pure power relations, i.e. "you can kill someone if it helps you and they can't punish you for doing it."
Close, but it is even more complex than that... If you can kill me without reprocusions, but I can outbreed you... Well, then the fittest may not be the one you think it is. Fittest is exactly what it says, most fit, its best. If you are the weakest creature in the universe, a light breeze is enough to kill you instantly, but you are living happily in an environment without wind (say, outer space), then your species is WAY more fit than, say, humans seeing as you don't need a space suit to survive.
It doesn't even have to do with direct confrontation. If you and I both eat the same kind of plant, but you are only away at nigth and I am only awake during the day, we could still be competing withou ever actually meeting. Fitness in that case will simply be a measure of efficiency and breeding rates.
Fit has absolutly nothing to do with 24-hour "fitness centers" kind of fit. The survival of the fittest simply means the one who is best able to survive in a particular environment.
and the people working there tend to be below par by Slashdot standards
Worked at a company that dealt with banks a couple of years ag, and I have to agree. MORE THAN ONE of them used the name of the bank backwards a the passwords to thier vpns... seriously people, BANKS!
...exactly how much money did they save by doing this?
why does the IEEE/SAE/etc. sit on their hands when the word "Engineer" is abused?
Wow, wouldn't THAT shake the foundations of computings... Don't forget, a healthy percentage of the "engineers" that created the entire industry are college dropouts. I suspect at least a few on the IEEE board are not technically qualified (acedemically, I am talking) to judge others...