I think he was saying that acts that degrade women and men can be found on the internet and these images are not apprpriate for children. Violent sex acts also are not good.
Porn can give young men unrealistic expectations about women and sex. Real women are not photoshopped. Real women don't eagerly embrace every single sex act you can think of. Real women are rarely into threesomes. Real women generally want a relationship (and to redecorate your kitchen).
Porn is harmless for most adults as long as you realize it is depicting a male fantasy, not a template for real relationships.
It is still an obvious solution that any one "skilled in the art" could come up with in a week. It isn't anything but a common sense application of known techniques - as MOST software patents are
The USTPO is BROKEN. I firmly believe that NO software patents should be granted. If its software then it's math and algorithms which should not be patented.
"In most parts of the world, just walking into someone's house and looking around without the owner's permission would get you beaten or killed by the owner. It's common courtesy and most of these "hackers" seem to lack any of it."
I'm not sure that it true that simple trespass is met with automatic violence in most parts of the world. In many places there are strong social customs that treat trespassers as a guest unless there is evidence that the trespasser has bad intent.
In english commonlaw there is a clear distiction between criminial and civil trespass. Basicly, you have to break in for trespass to be a crime. If you walk in the front door and then leave, it is rude, but not a crime. Also, under English common law the property owner can ask the trespasser to leave, but they are not allowed to force them off the property. The police must be called if the trespasser refuses to leave. Of course, if the trespasser threatens the owner the minimal amount of force to defend yourself is allowed.
As far as I can tell, while most people don't want strangers bounding into their living room, only the USA has the "old west" shoot 'em first and ask questions later mentality.
I can't recall the title, but the worst movie I ever saw was this, very, very, very bad martial arts movie. It was actually two different movies spliced together at random. Movie one was a very bad "American ninja" movie with actors who could not, act, could not fight, and wore head bands that actually said "ninja" on them in English. No dialog at all. They pranced about in bright orange and black ninja costumes and occasionally performed very bad martial arts moves. The other movie was some unnamed Hong Kong kungfu flick set in the 1700's. Period costumes, in Chinese, no subtitles. Now image these two movies split up into 5 minute pieces, thrown up into the air, then spliced together at random. I watched it to the end, fascinated by the shear ineptitude of it.
Oil prices are not high if you adjust them for inflation. They have gone up recently, but the price hasn't even caught up to inflation. The highest price was reached in 1981 at about $3.00 a gallon in the USA.
Gas with inflation chart
Generators without permant magnets have been around since at least 1911. A hydro electric plant built in Vancouver BC in 1911 used main generators that did not have permanent magnets (due to their cost). The generators had two sets of windings. A small generator called an excitor that used permanent magnets was used to generate power to power the main generators windings that replaced the magnets.
To power up:
all water off
turn water on to excitor
excitor generates power using only water power
use power generated by excitor top power the magnet replacing windings in the main generators
turn the water on the main generators
main generators generate electricty without magnets/ul?
It is not the calculation that is the problem, it's adjusting the PHYSICAL device to those tolerances. That would be a very difficult engineering problem.
IT at my work place looks at single sign on every few years as currently uses need anywhere from 1 to 10 ID/passwords depending on the job they do. This is because it is a BIG environment, not a little one. But for most big companies single sign on means getting many different apps to all use the same sercurity method, AND all use one master list for all basic user information, name, id, phone, location, etc... Most new enterprise apps have hooks into popular directories for authentication, but we also have to support legacy apps, and just plain wierd apps. Single sign on would ease admin, no more keeping 10 seperperate user lists up to date, make life easier for users, and improve security as users are less likely to sticky note their passwords ifthey only have one instead ofn 3 or 4.
If you like Harry Potter you should try Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass (also published as Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The first two are excellent, and the third is quite good. I would say the writing is more literate, and for adults there is an obvious religious allegory within the text. Kids will just enjoy the characters and adventure.
While it is called a solar sail, it is in fact light from the Sun that will cause the propulsion - Solar light.
The solar wind can only provide about one thousandth of the "push" that light from the sun will provide. This solar sail will get close to zero propulsion from the solar wind.
The average bank robbery nets less than a thousand dollars, and over 80% of bank robbies are solved due to excellent security and survveilance in the average bank. Unless your bank is poorly run you will notice that there is NO cash up front with the tellers. They have to get cash from a machine designed to dispense cash slowly. Pretty much the only people robbing banks are desperate drug addicts these days.
It is very difficult to steal a large amount of cash these days. Smart jewlery stores only display fake jewlry and store the real goods securely offsite.
I liked Ender's Shadow. The whole point of Ender's Shadow was that Bean could NOT have done what Ender did, despite being "brighter". Bean lacked Ender's social skills, and his "killer instinct". Ender was a natural leader, while Bean was an awkward, self-conscious, loner. Ender could form and lead a team - a task the Bean struggled with. Ender killed his enemies, Bean humilated and angered his.
I also enjoyed seeing the events of enders Game from a new viewpoint.
And I agree that "Children of the Mind" was not that good. "Speaker for the Dead" was very good, Xenocide was ok.
I'm surprised there was no reccomendation to make it legal to do security research. The USA has passed a few laws lately (and the French seem to do the same thing) that makes security reseach illegal.
Publish information about how poor the security is in an ebook and get arrested? Publish information about a vulnerbility in an OS and risk being sued?
Why would anyone want to do security research that may help existing systems when the only thanks you will get is a court date?
There are experts. In the "hard" sciences where objective evidence is common place there is generally a large group of experts who will agree on most points on a subject. There are people who have studied a subject for years who know more about that subject than most people. Even in the softer sciences, there will be people who have spent the time and effort to learn about all (or much) that has been collectivley learned about the subject.
The fact that our understanding of verious subjects changes over the years as new evidence is unearthed, new experiments run, and new theories tested does not mean that there are no experts - it means that science is working correctly. An expert is not someone who knows the one and only truth. An expert is a person who knows a lot about a subject, more than most people. A person who has studied the subject. Read other peoples work on the subject, and ideally, added to our collective knowledge on the subject. Being human experts are fallible. The "expert" viewpoint can be wrong, but that doesn't mean that there are no experts.
Your example regarding "experts" believing that "blacks are sub-human" is a good example of how society has changed over the years, and how people will rationalize behaviour that they know is wrong. At that time and place the person promoting what we now view as morally repuslive and scientificlly invalid, was in an expert. Experts provide the best answer we can get, given the knowledge we have currently. It is normal for this knowledge to improve, and for experts to admit mistakes. Even Hawking recently admited to a mistake in physics recently. I still think of Hawkings as an expert in physics.
That technique was used in the movie "The Score". I'm not sure that it would work on a real safe using a small charge. Also, you would have to drill two holes, one to let water in and one to let air out, or it is going to take a long time to fill.
As someone else already pointed out, the Earth and Mars have been swapping material for billions of years via meteors. You do recall that we find meteorites from Mars here on the Earth at regular intervals - and they weren't sterlized.
I think building commercially viable FUSION reactors to fuse all the He3 is a much bigger problem still than mining and transporting the stuff to the Earth.
Last time I checked we were still "50" years away from a commercially practical fusion reactor.
Agents spent their time tracking down the evil toy copyright infringer instead of looking for "terrorists", or even large scale knock off artists and other bigger fish.
Somehow I doubt that the operator of this toy store is the biggest criminal left for them to investigate.
We are used to the "other way" and are not changing after 20 years, ie we are stubborn.
I learned my c indenting style on my first job with a bos that had strong opinions about indenting style. I only modified his style slightly over the years. I now will reformat any code I have to debug in "my style" as I cannot match up blocks of code to save my life unless it is in "my style" now.
I did that back in 83 on the job, but it was a long c for loop that scrolled off the screen by exactly one char: the semi-colon. And the editor did not indicate long lines so I see the last ), not the ; and can't figure out why my loop always runs once.
There was no debugger. I still remember it because it was such a silly mistake and it took so long to discover.
Thousands of people illegally cross back and forth over the USA / Mexico border daily, and as big business wants the cheap labour virtually nothing is done to stop it. These blimps let the politicians says that they are "fighting terrorism" while funding pork, and ignoring all the real security problems that the USA has.
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I think he was saying that acts that degrade women and men can be found on the internet and these images are not apprpriate for children. Violent sex acts also are not good.
Porn is harmless for most adults as long as you realize it is depicting a male fantasy, not a template for real relationships.
The USTPO is BROKEN. I firmly believe that NO software patents should be granted. If its software then it's math and algorithms which should not be patented.
I'm not sure that it true that simple trespass is met with automatic violence in most parts of the world. In many places there are strong social customs that treat trespassers as a guest unless there is evidence that the trespasser has bad intent.
In english commonlaw there is a clear distiction between criminial and civil trespass. Basicly, you have to break in for trespass to be a crime. If you walk in the front door and then leave, it is rude, but not a crime. Also, under English common law the property owner can ask the trespasser to leave, but they are not allowed to force them off the property. The police must be called if the trespasser refuses to leave. Of course, if the trespasser threatens the owner the minimal amount of force to defend yourself is allowed.
As far as I can tell, while most people don't want strangers bounding into their living room, only the USA has the "old west" shoot 'em first and ask questions later mentality.
I can't recall the title, but the worst movie I ever saw was this, very, very, very bad martial arts movie. It was actually two different movies spliced together at random. Movie one was a very bad "American ninja" movie with actors who could not, act, could not fight, and wore head bands that actually said "ninja" on them in English. No dialog at all. They pranced about in bright orange and black ninja costumes and occasionally performed very bad martial arts moves. The other movie was some unnamed Hong Kong kungfu flick set in the 1700's. Period costumes, in Chinese, no subtitles. Now image these two movies split up into 5 minute pieces, thrown up into the air, then spliced together at random. I watched it to the end, fascinated by the shear ineptitude of it.
Oil prices are not high if you adjust them for inflation. They have gone up recently, but the price hasn't even caught up to inflation. The highest price was reached in 1981 at about $3.00 a gallon in the USA. Gas with inflation chart
To power up:
It is not the calculation that is the problem, it's adjusting the PHYSICAL device to those tolerances. That would be a very difficult engineering problem.
IT at my work place looks at single sign on every few years as currently uses need anywhere from 1 to 10 ID/passwords depending on the job they do. This is because it is a BIG environment, not a little one. But for most big companies single sign on means getting many different apps to all use the same sercurity method, AND all use one master list for all basic user information, name, id, phone, location, etc... Most new enterprise apps have hooks into popular directories for authentication, but we also have to support legacy apps, and just plain wierd apps. Single sign on would ease admin, no more keeping 10 seperperate user lists up to date, make life easier for users, and improve security as users are less likely to sticky note their passwords ifthey only have one instead ofn 3 or 4.
Which version of the bible is the true one?
If you like Harry Potter you should try Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass (also published as Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The first two are excellent, and the third is quite good. I would say the writing is more literate, and for adults there is an obvious religious allegory within the text. Kids will just enjoy the characters and adventure.
The solar wind can only provide about one thousandth of the "push" that light from the sun will provide. This solar sail will get close to zero propulsion from the solar wind.
The average bank robbery nets less than a thousand dollars, and over 80% of bank robbies are solved due to excellent security and survveilance in the average bank. Unless your bank is poorly run you will notice that there is NO cash up front with the tellers. They have to get cash from a machine designed to dispense cash slowly. Pretty much the only people robbing banks are desperate drug addicts these days.
It is very difficult to steal a large amount of cash these days. Smart jewlery stores only display fake jewlry and store the real goods securely offsite.
the above information is not biased.
I also enjoyed seeing the events of enders Game from a new viewpoint.
And I agree that "Children of the Mind" was not that good. "Speaker for the Dead" was very good, Xenocide was ok.
Publish information about how poor the security is in an ebook and get arrested? Publish information about a vulnerbility in an OS and risk being sued?
Why would anyone want to do security research that may help existing systems when the only thanks you will get is a court date?
The fact that our understanding of verious subjects changes over the years as new evidence is unearthed, new experiments run, and new theories tested does not mean that there are no experts - it means that science is working correctly. An expert is not someone who knows the one and only truth. An expert is a person who knows a lot about a subject, more than most people. A person who has studied the subject. Read other peoples work on the subject, and ideally, added to our collective knowledge on the subject. Being human experts are fallible. The "expert" viewpoint can be wrong, but that doesn't mean that there are no experts.
Your example regarding "experts" believing that "blacks are sub-human" is a good example of how society has changed over the years, and how people will rationalize behaviour that they know is wrong. At that time and place the person promoting what we now view as morally repuslive and scientificlly invalid, was in an expert. Experts provide the best answer we can get, given the knowledge we have currently. It is normal for this knowledge to improve, and for experts to admit mistakes. Even Hawking recently admited to a mistake in physics recently. I still think of Hawkings as an expert in physics.
That technique was used in the movie "The Score". I'm not sure that it would work on a real safe using a small charge. Also, you would have to drill two holes, one to let water in and one to let air out, or it is going to take a long time to fill.
A guide to science in movies - comments on the movie the score
We seemed to have survived.
Last time I checked we were still "50" years away from a commercially practical fusion reactor.
Can someone without a pro-usa axe to grind please mod this up.
Agents spent their time tracking down the evil toy copyright infringer instead of looking for "terrorists", or even large scale knock off artists and other bigger fish.
Somehow I doubt that the operator of this toy store is the biggest criminal left for them to investigate.
I learned my c indenting style on my first job with a bos that had strong opinions about indenting style. I only modified his style slightly over the years. I now will reformat any code I have to debug in "my style" as I cannot match up blocks of code to save my life unless it is in "my style" now.
There was no debugger. I still remember it because it was such a silly mistake and it took so long to discover.
Thousands of people illegally cross back and forth over the USA / Mexico border daily, and as big business wants the cheap labour virtually nothing is done to stop it. These blimps let the politicians says that they are "fighting terrorism" while funding pork, and ignoring all the real security problems that the USA has.