Islam has plenty of its own Terry Joneses. People who agree with the loons in the west on virtually everything, except who the "good guys" are. They all want war, and escalating provocations is how they're trying to get it.
Are you so sure that's what happened in this case? After all, the embassy victims had nothing to do with the film. I've seen Libyan muslims claim that this was a planned attack by anti-American militants (a.k.a al Quaeda) using a demonstration as a pretext.
Even if it was all spontaneous and popular, it's highly likely that the perpetrators have other reasons to hate besides stories about an offensive film.
Just a reminder to all the "skeptics" here: There are plenty of climate markets on Intrade. If you think the anthropogenic influence is overestimated, you can make quite a bit of money betting against the prevailing opinion there.
For some reason, "alarmists" seem a lot more willing to put their money where their mouth is than "skeptics". So far, they have also won a lot more on it.
Kant's argument ignores the fact that neurologically pain is essentially the same process in any mammal.
Well yes, it does, because it's irrelevant for it. Physical facts alone can't tell us anything about what are proper objects of comparison for the purpose of the categorical imperative (in other words, who needs to be considered as the "others" in "do unto others...")
We protect animals because we recognize that they are like us.
Yes, and Kant acknowledges this. When you hurt an animal for fun, you undermine the psychological aversion to hurting something that resembles you. This is a bad thing to do, even if you have concluded that the animal isn't a subject of moral comparison - it makes it easier for you to do directly immoral acts (against people who are proper subjects of moral comparison).
Kant's argument is pretty unfashionable these days, since it rejects the idea that animals have rights for their own sake. It's still the best one, IMO, but good luck selling this to university ethics departments.
Face recognition already exists, and presents privacy problems, sure.
This is about item/object recognition, which is technically a lot more impressive, but by itself does not pose privacy problems. Before, they could find you. Now, they can find you and index the fact that you were wearing a fedora in George Square. But if they're just indexing the hat and the location, and not the face, it's no problem (unless you've got a damn distinctive hat).
Why is rhythmbox written in C, really? Certainly explains its stability issues. I thought the whole reason Gnome/GTK used C was that it's easier to write bindings in.
To turn the sludge lipids into biodiesel, the researchers heated them with methanol.
Yeah, that's basically the way all biodiesel is made... But the problem with biodiesel isn't just the price of feedstock (used fryer oil is cheap enough already!), it's the price of removing stuff from the feedstock that would make the biodiesel of unacceptably low quality (free fatty acids, BCBs).
1. Some deny just man-made warming, but many deny warming too - at the very least some of the observed warming. Your a) and b) are tired and wrong, and just more evidence for my 3.
2. Switching to a better-updated site is hardly a shattering life change. You may have become knowledgeable, but you're unlikely to become much more of it if you hang around here.
3. On the contrary, I'm confident most people deny - and accept climate change for cultural reasons, just like their attitudes to everything from abortion to foreign policy. Few people, even very smart people, adopt a well-reasoned position on everything. They adopt positions consciously on a few issues they care about, and adopt the rest from the kind of people who seem to agree on those issues.
Sorry, but Java has a really nasty track record of exploits - especially considering that client code runs not just in a sandbox, but a sandboxed virtual machine - and that the platform has had a lot of emphasis on security from day one.
So what do you suggest as alternatives? Java does serve a function, you know. There are plenty of things that haven't had an emphasis on security from day one.
The irresponsible thing here is Oracle's update schedule.
Slashdot is one of the oldest nerd/tech blogs in existence, before there even was a word for such a thing. For this reason, it's a bit peculiar:
1. Unbelivable as it may seem, the net had a higher share of libertarians before than today. Libertarians often (not always) deny global warming because a) it gives the uncomfortable feeling that strong government action may be needed to address it, and b) they have no problem assuming they're smarter than climate scientists, because they assume they're smarter than everyone anyway.
2. Since it is so old, many slashdot posters have actually had time to become quite rich from their geek skills. Well-off, established people don't want to believe the world is in trouble and that they need to change.
3. There are today a number of tech/geek sites which are arguably more interesting than slashdot. Most have moved on to these. Those who remain are weighted towards the kind of people who don't approve of unnecessary change, i.e. conservatives, who also tend to deny climate science for cultural reasons. (Not inherent reasons, if you ask me climate change is a prime example of unnecessary change).
I got the LPI Linux certification, but only after I got a Linux job. I wouldn't recommend it, it was little more than a stupid cram of shell commands.
One certification which has a better reputation, though, is RHCE/RHCT.
The easiest way to get a Linux job is just to use it, develop in it, and then apply for a position in a company known to use it (which is almost everyone these days).
Count me as another who would never have had time for RPGing (at least not in a consistent campaign) as an adult, and went over to boardgames. People expect different things from RPGs, though, so you shouldn't be surprised some GMs don't enjoy players drinking during play.
But why D&D based boardgames? I mean, Lords of Waterdeep is OK, but especially original or well-balanced it is not. It's not 7 Wonders, to put it like that. Man, I kicked ass with Rhodos last thursday.
First of all: probably, it's a good thing that guy got caught. That doesn't mean the means used to catch him are necessarily OK.
You compare me to a 9/11 truther who talks about chopping of heads, because I'm concerned about government mining facebook data? Considering Facebook itself does a lot of mining on it, and gets paid for letting other private companies do it, I don't think this suggestion is all that outlandish.
Considering Mastercard's stance on Wikileaks, I'm quite confident that they wouldn't go ahead with this without an explicit arrangement with the US government. And that may well be "ease of nabbing the Silk Road kiddies when they try to cash out".
If your transaction system is sufficiently insecure that your only solution to fraud and money laundering is to block transactions over a certain size, you fail.
If so, BitCoin is certainly not a solution. It's designed for anonymous use of money, in other words money laundering.
But it's a pipe dream. Silk Road has practically no inherent advantages over its many non-bitcoin predecessors, e.g. Darkmarket.
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Islam has plenty of its own Terry Joneses. People who agree with the loons in the west on virtually everything, except who the "good guys" are. They all want war, and escalating provocations is how they're trying to get it.
Are you so sure that's what happened in this case? After all, the embassy victims had nothing to do with the film. I've seen Libyan muslims claim that this was a planned attack by anti-American militants (a.k.a al Quaeda) using a demonstration as a pretext.
Even if it was all spontaneous and popular, it's highly likely that the perpetrators have other reasons to hate besides stories about an offensive film.
Quick quiz: What is more effective for getting more snowfall on a given winter day?
a) lower temperatures
b) more moisture in the air
Just a reminder to all the "skeptics" here: There are plenty of climate markets on Intrade. If you think the anthropogenic influence is overestimated, you can make quite a bit of money betting against the prevailing opinion there.
For some reason, "alarmists" seem a lot more willing to put their money where their mouth is than "skeptics". So far, they have also won a lot more on it.
More accurately, you can pay for drugs with them.
You don't necessarily get drugs.
That's the lovely thing about unmediated transactions where both parties are fully anonymous.
If there's one thing you can all agree on, it's that leakers must be punished harshly!
Well yes, it does, because it's irrelevant for it. Physical facts alone can't tell us anything about what are proper objects of comparison for the purpose of the categorical imperative (in other words, who needs to be considered as the "others" in "do unto others...")
Yes, and Kant acknowledges this. When you hurt an animal for fun, you undermine the psychological aversion to hurting something that resembles you. This is a bad thing to do, even if you have concluded that the animal isn't a subject of moral comparison - it makes it easier for you to do directly immoral acts (against people who are proper subjects of moral comparison).
Kant's argument is pretty unfashionable these days, since it rejects the idea that animals have rights for their own sake. It's still the best one, IMO, but good luck selling this to university ethics departments.
Same reason slashdot doesn't allow unicode: it's based on really old software.
Face recognition already exists, and presents privacy problems, sure.
This is about item/object recognition, which is technically a lot more impressive, but by itself does not pose privacy problems. Before, they could find you. Now, they can find you and index the fact that you were wearing a fedora in George Square. But if they're just indexing the hat and the location, and not the face, it's no problem (unless you've got a damn distinctive hat).
Why is rhythmbox written in C, really? Certainly explains its stability issues. I thought the whole reason Gnome/GTK used C was that it's easier to write bindings in.
Yeah, that's basically the way all biodiesel is made... But the problem with biodiesel isn't just the price of feedstock (used fryer oil is cheap enough already!), it's the price of removing stuff from the feedstock that would make the biodiesel of unacceptably low quality (free fatty acids, BCBs).
No no, you cannot put it into the same processor. That changes everything right there.
1. Some deny just man-made warming, but many deny warming too - at the very least some of the observed warming. Your a) and b) are tired and wrong, and just more evidence for my 3.
2. Switching to a better-updated site is hardly a shattering life change. You may have become knowledgeable, but you're unlikely to become much more of it if you hang around here.
3. On the contrary, I'm confident most people deny - and accept climate change for cultural reasons, just like their attitudes to everything from abortion to foreign policy. Few people, even very smart people, adopt a well-reasoned position on everything. They adopt positions consciously on a few issues they care about, and adopt the rest from the kind of people who seem to agree on those issues.
I didn't say all early adopters are AGW deniers. But you can look for youself next time there's a climate story.
So, in order to play Minecraft safely (requires Sun Java 6, sucks with OpenJDK or later versions for some reason), I need to pay Oracle $3300? Got it.
Well, I don't think it's likely that the exploit is at a level where Djallben would have inadverdently duplicated it.
So what do you suggest as alternatives? Java does serve a function, you know. There are plenty of things that haven't had an emphasis on security from day one.
The irresponsible thing here is Oracle's update schedule.
Slashdot is one of the oldest nerd/tech blogs in existence, before there even was a word for such a thing. For this reason, it's a bit peculiar:
1. Unbelivable as it may seem, the net had a higher share of libertarians before than today. Libertarians often (not always) deny global warming because a) it gives the uncomfortable feeling that strong government action may be needed to address it, and b) they have no problem assuming they're smarter than climate scientists, because they assume they're smarter than everyone anyway.
2. Since it is so old, many slashdot posters have actually had time to become quite rich from their geek skills. Well-off, established people don't want to believe the world is in trouble and that they need to change.
3. There are today a number of tech/geek sites which are arguably more interesting than slashdot. Most have moved on to these. Those who remain are weighted towards the kind of people who don't approve of unnecessary change, i.e. conservatives, who also tend to deny climate science for cultural reasons. (Not inherent reasons, if you ask me climate change is a prime example of unnecessary change).
I got the LPI Linux certification, but only after I got a Linux job. I wouldn't recommend it, it was little more than a stupid cram of shell commands.
One certification which has a better reputation, though, is RHCE/RHCT.
The easiest way to get a Linux job is just to use it, develop in it, and then apply for a position in a company known to use it (which is almost everyone these days).
Count me as another who would never have had time for RPGing (at least not in a consistent campaign) as an adult, and went over to boardgames. People expect different things from RPGs, though, so you shouldn't be surprised some GMs don't enjoy players drinking during play.
But why D&D based boardgames? I mean, Lords of Waterdeep is OK, but especially original or well-balanced it is not. It's not 7 Wonders, to put it like that. Man, I kicked ass with Rhodos last thursday.
First of all: probably, it's a good thing that guy got caught. That doesn't mean the means used to catch him are necessarily OK.
You compare me to a 9/11 truther who talks about chopping of heads, because I'm concerned about government mining facebook data? Considering Facebook itself does a lot of mining on it, and gets paid for letting other private companies do it, I don't think this suggestion is all that outlandish.
Considering Mastercard's stance on Wikileaks, I'm quite confident that they wouldn't go ahead with this without an explicit arrangement with the US government. And that may well be "ease of nabbing the Silk Road kiddies when they try to cash out".
If so, BitCoin is certainly not a solution. It's designed for anonymous use of money, in other words money laundering.
But it's a pipe dream. Silk Road has practically no inherent advantages over its many non-bitcoin predecessors, e.g. Darkmarket.
That's exactly what we don't know. It could be. It could also be that this was caught in a driftnet fishing operation on all of Facebook's data.