Making the moon base self sufficient would be a trivial problem. There are oxygen supplies in the "soil", and you could get electricity from the sun. With electricity and oxygen, everything else can be generated.
Better to have commercial interests controlling the moon than government interests.
At least with a corporation, you know what their motivation is (money). With the government, who knows what their after? Is the new funding for space exploration part of a deal that will end up censoring the 'net?
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Why use a x/10 scale? Woudn't an x/8 or x/16 scale make significantly more sense?
Public Education does, and will always, crappy ass waste of money. As soon as a government forms a monopoly on something, the quality of that something goes straight downhill.
Legally requiring kids to go to school is also bullshit, especially after they can read/wright/and "do math".
I agree with your comment that moderators should have the ability to moderate as needed.
I also feel that 5 points is too few already, and that if only one point were handed out at a time, that would vastly alter the mechanics of moderation (If it were a reduction to say, 3, I'd say "That sucks" but it being changed to one or two points would just make moderation a completely different thing.)
We used to have to align iron ore with the earths magnetic field, with our bare hands, in the snow, naked, and the only apropriate place to work was ten miles uphill from the safety of our cave complex.
The only way to get back to the cave complex, was to walk back that ten miles, through a saltmarsh, where the water was below the fresh-water-freezing point, but it was still liquid from the salt.
You are perfectly free to cut the wires to you. If your little area of the world decides that they don't want digital communication, that's fine.
If you and people who agree with you, try to remove the connectivity of everyone in your area, then most of the technical people in the area will leave, probably pretty quickly.
This would be good because then we wouldn't have to listen to you any more, and the concentration of smart techies will increase wherever I'm living.
Remember, you have the right to impose your will on yourself. You don't have the right to impose your will on anyone else.
Yes, but you can give a "Generic plugin interface", and then design a quick&easy wrapper for your crypto program, and then you have the crypto program seamlessly embedded in the app.
When I get moderation access (that is, both times I did) the only time I'd score a comment "redundant" is if someone hit "submit" twice.
I wonder if Rob could set things up so that being scored down for redundancy didn't affect karma, because although some redundant comments are from someone not reading the other comments before posting, it's more frequently a "race" situation, or a single person who hit submit twice by mistake.
(I remember once hitting submit twice, and getting *both* comments moderated down for being redundant, even though there were no other similar comments on the thread, huh?)
So, realy, what *is* the problem with Joe Random Pothead dying in his apartement. The death of someone incapible of taking care of themselves, and with no friends or relitives willing to take care of them, is realy probably a Good Thing(tm), especially if this person is not/does not wish to contribute to society.
No no no, The problem is that they *can* and *do* commit the "serious fraud", and in a good percentage of cases, they get away with it.
Why give them the power to mess you over. I could care less if the guy next to me smokes pot or crack, I want to be able to feel safe that I'm not going to get tagged for something that I didn't do that shouldn't be illegal in the first place!
Laws should be minimal. Just because there's a spot where something *can* be regulated/taxed doesn't mean that it *should* be regulated and taxed.
You are forgetting something verry important. There are many sets of different opinions, and if the people of the USA (or any other country) let laws get passed that *reduce* their rights, then these laws will reduce *everyone's* rights.
What you consider to be a good thing, someone else might consider to be a menance to society.
Do you smoke tobacco? Do you like to hunt? Do you have a pet? Do you believe in sexual freedom? (As in being able to engage in sexual activity of any form with another consenting adult) Do you think that people should be able to decorate the exterior of their house however they want to? How bout being able to have your favorite color car? Do you listen to music? Watch movies? Nearly every one of these things is ether currently legally restricted/banned in places, or could verry easily become restricted/banned in *your state/town/country*.
The only good way to prevent restrictions on what *you* like to do, is to not try to restrict what *others* like to do.
I believe rather strongly that if someone wants to do something, and it doesn't majorly harm *me* they have a right to do that, wether it be smoking pot, painting their house bright red, walking around without clothing, practicing some form of christianity, *whatever they want to do is fine*!
Just because I don't want to smoke pot/paint my house red/be christian, doesn't mean that other people shouldn't be allowed to do it. And they shouldn't be allowed to force those practices on me eithor.
I also believe that all surperfolus government laws/programs/etc (With the single exception of NASA) should be terminated. It is the governments responsibility to *implement and inforce such laws as are nessisary to allow people to live their lives*, as well as to build and maintain public resources like interstate highways.
It is not the responsibility of government to provide health care! It is not the responsibility of government to keep alive those who cannot get jobs! These people have families. These people have friends. And realy, if a person has no family/friends/aquantences or a job, do they realy need to be kept alive by the govtment?
The government doesn't need to store a picture of my face, and to keep a record of my doings to perform it's nessisary tasks. Even the effort required to do that is a waste of valuable tax dollars that could be spent on something worthwile. (Like NASA)
That still doesn't explain away the fact that a joystick simply doesn't provide enough controls to effectively control a ship in 3 dementional space (You need at least for axies of motion, that joystick provided two).
When I tried a session of meta-moderation, I had two problems.
One message showed up twice
When I pressed submit, the resulting page said "Database Error Contact Rob and tell him what you were doing." Well, you see, I was trying to meta-moderate, and I then hit "submit" =P
As to having the (normal) moderation controls visible always, who would actualy use them? With a 1/50 chance that it actually would effect anything, would *you* bother with them?
Dude, the problem is that (at least with SUN's VM) Java is so slow that it's painful to even use a Java *chat* program, not to mention anything that takes any actual computing power.
You can't just ignore performance, if performance is too bad, people just won't use your app. I've seen 3 or four sweet java apps which were awesome, except for being so upsettingly slow that they were unusable. If you want an example, here's one: WebRPG.
Nah, as you said, they couldn't even power the thing up, so there's no chance they could have studied the internal computer system, figured out how the mother ship worked, found a security hole, and designed a virus. Also, they most assuredly couldn't have delivered that virus from a *Powerbook*.
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Making the moon base self sufficient would be a trivial problem. There are oxygen supplies in the "soil", and you could get electricity from the sun. With electricity and oxygen, everything else can be generated.
You know the saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?
Well, the earth is a small, and very fragile basket.
Better to have commercial interests controlling the moon than government interests.
At least with a corporation, you know what their motivation is (money). With the government, who knows what their after? Is the new funding for space exploration part of a deal that will end up censoring the 'net?
Why use a x/10 scale? Woudn't an x/8 or x/16 scale make significantly more sense?
Public Education does, and will always, crappy ass waste of money. As soon as a government forms a monopoly on something, the quality of that something goes straight downhill.
Legally requiring kids to go to school is also bullshit, especially after they can read/wright/and "do math".
Privatize Public Schools!
Note: You're right, the education is Shit(TM).
And there are good reasons why everyone should have the right to own guns, as the formers of the US constitution understood.
I agree with your comment that moderators should have the ability to moderate as needed.
I also feel that 5 points is too few already, and that if only one point were handed out at a time, that would vastly alter the mechanics of moderation (If it were a reduction to say, 3, I'd say "That sucks" but it being changed to one or two points would just make moderation a completely different thing.)
This is offtopic because it's title is "First?".
Posts that say "First Post!" are discouraged here on Slashdot.
Mabie let you teach your children/sibling's children/friend's children to code in a simpler way?
But then, you probably wouldn't want then to devop the bad habits or dependances that learning to code in an IDE tends to cause.
I guess if you can code well with "traditional tools", an IDE would be a collossal waste of bytes for you.
If you are so "hard core" you can skip all the wizards in VC and code in Win32 API.
I think that when refering to him as hardcore, it's impolite to asume that he's into S&M.
You had magnets and Iron?
We used to have to align iron ore with the earths magnetic field, with our bare hands, in the snow, naked, and the only apropriate place to work was ten miles uphill from the safety of our cave complex.
The only way to get back to the cave complex, was to walk back that ten miles, through a saltmarsh, where the water was below the fresh-water-freezing point, but it was still liquid from the salt.
We didn't have shoes eithor.
You are perfectly free to cut the wires to you. If your little area of the world decides that they don't want digital communication, that's fine.
If you and people who agree with you, try to remove the connectivity of everyone in your area, then most of the technical people in the area will leave, probably pretty quickly.
This would be good because then we wouldn't have to listen to you any more, and the concentration of smart techies will increase wherever I'm living.
Remember, you have the right to impose your will on yourself. You don't have the right to impose your will on anyone else.
Yes, but you can give a "Generic plugin interface", and then design a quick&easy wrapper for your crypto program, and then you have the crypto program seamlessly embedded in the app.
No problem.
When I get moderation access (that is, both times I did) the only time I'd score a comment "redundant" is if someone hit "submit" twice.
I wonder if Rob could set things up so that being scored down for redundancy didn't affect karma, because although some redundant comments are from someone not reading the other comments before posting, it's more frequently a "race" situation, or a single person who hit submit twice by mistake.
(I remember once hitting submit twice, and getting *both* comments moderated down for being redundant, even though there were no other similar comments on the thread, huh?)
So, realy, what *is* the problem with Joe Random Pothead dying in his apartement. The death of someone incapible of taking care of themselves, and with no friends or relitives willing to take care of them, is realy probably a Good Thing(tm), especially if this person is not/does not wish to contribute to society.
Come on, the US Government is rivalling Microsoft Windows 98 and Office 2000 combined in level of bloatedness!
The evidence I present is that there exists a department of government with the spare time to compile a database of people's faces/SSNs.
Reguardless of wich one of you is correct, a *less complex* government is better than a more complex coverment.
The KISS priciple pretty much applys to everything, especially to law and government.
No no no, The problem is that they *can* and *do* commit the "serious fraud", and in a good percentage of cases, they get away with it.
Why give them the power to mess you over. I could care less if the guy next to me smokes pot or crack, I want to be able to feel safe that I'm not going to get tagged for something that I didn't do that shouldn't be illegal in the first place!
Laws should be minimal. Just because there's a spot where something *can* be regulated/taxed doesn't mean that it *should* be regulated and taxed.
You are forgetting something verry important. There are many sets of different opinions, and if the people of the USA (or any other country) let laws get passed that *reduce* their rights, then these laws will reduce *everyone's* rights.
What you consider to be a good thing, someone else might consider to be a menance to society.
Do you smoke tobacco?
Do you like to hunt?
Do you have a pet?
Do you believe in sexual freedom? (As in being able to engage in sexual activity of any form with another consenting adult)
Do you think that people should be able to decorate the exterior of their house however they want to?
How bout being able to have your favorite color car?
Do you listen to music?
Watch movies?
Nearly every one of these things is ether currently legally restricted/banned in places, or could verry easily become restricted/banned in *your state/town/country*.
The only good way to prevent restrictions on what *you* like to do, is to not try to restrict what *others* like to do.
I believe rather strongly that if someone wants to do something, and it doesn't majorly harm *me* they have a right to do that, wether it be smoking pot, painting their house bright red, walking around without clothing, practicing some form of christianity, *whatever they want to do is fine*!
Just because I don't want to smoke pot/paint my house red/be christian, doesn't mean that other people shouldn't be allowed to do it. And they shouldn't be allowed to force those practices on me eithor.
I also believe that all surperfolus government laws/programs/etc (With the single exception of NASA) should be terminated. It is the governments responsibility to *implement and inforce such laws as are nessisary to allow people to live their lives*, as well as to build and maintain public resources like interstate highways.
It is not the responsibility of government to provide health care! It is not the responsibility of government to keep alive those who cannot get jobs! These people have families. These people have friends. And realy, if a person has no family/friends/aquantences or a job, do they realy need to be kept alive by the govtment?
The government doesn't need to store a picture of my face, and to keep a record of my doings to perform it's nessisary tasks. Even the effort required to do that is a waste of valuable tax dollars that could be spent on something worthwile. (Like NASA)
I don't know about you, but I don't *want* the government to be able to look me up in a database.
"Lets see, how bout we sign up everyone with a middle initial of ASD or F for the draft for WWIII"
This fits right in to my plan to *not* get a driver's licence next year when I reach the age of drivers-licence-qualification.
>gnupg 1.0.0 is available as an rpm in ftp://ftp.replay.co m/pub/crypto/incoming/gnupg-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
(2:37pm EDT 9-8-99)
This URL is already slashdotted/down.
That still doesn't explain away the fact that a joystick simply doesn't provide enough controls to effectively control a ship in 3 dementional space (You need at least for axies of motion, that joystick provided two).
When I tried a session of meta-moderation, I had two problems.
As to having the (normal) moderation controls visible always, who would actualy use them? With a 1/50 chance that it actually would effect anything, would *you* bother with them?
Dude, the problem is that (at least with SUN's VM) Java is so slow that it's painful to even use a Java *chat* program, not to mention anything that takes any actual computing power.
You can't just ignore performance, if performance is too bad, people just won't use your app. I've seen 3 or four sweet java apps which were awesome, except for being so upsettingly slow that they were unusable. If you want an example, here's one: WebRPG.
Nah, as you said, they couldn't even power the thing up, so there's no chance they could have studied the internal computer system, figured out how the mother ship worked, found a security hole, and designed a virus. Also, they most assuredly couldn't have delivered that virus from a *Powerbook*.