Kaspersky Lab is a company that has its whole business centered around digging through compromised insecure systems. They wouldn't know a secure design if it bit them in their faces.
Any MythTV will automatically flag commercials and let the user either skip them automatically or do it in one button press regardless of the length of the break (useful when commercial detection produces false positive or negative once in a while). Oh, and skip lists in the stored recording can be edited, so everyone after you will see it with no commercials even if autodetection was wrong.
Too bad, Bible is not an authority on science or logic, and you lack even basic understanding of science. Plenty of things were called foolish, and then very soon were demonstrated to be true. Characters from ancient folklore about fear of death are not among those things, and I can assure you, never will be.
This is how science works. Statements about existence of anything, made without no evidence to support them are supposed to be treated as false unless and until such evidence is provided. With given evidence, it's much more likely that I am a four-headed lizard who lives in a volcano, than that any kind of deity exists, or ever existed.
When I studied English in Russia, the lowest score I got among all subjects I studied since I was 10 to, I think, 19, was for English.
Between ages of 19 and 24, my English was "read-only", and heavily skewed toward Engineering -- I could read technical documentation but was bad at writing, could barely understand spoken English and, obviously, could not speak it.
Then I moved to US, and actually had to communicate with people in English (well, American version of it).
you assume that consciousness = intelligence, or that consciousness is a necessary component of intelligence. With that, I don't agree.
This assumption, regardless of its actual existence, is completely irrelevant. Consciousness does not and can not possibly include anything beyond the behavior of complex data processing system. We know that much.
or the Soviet Union, if you create an easy way to identify "bad" people and take their stuff, it will be abused.
For this precise reason, in Soviet Union that practice was abandoned since at least WWII. Of course, your friendly propaganda workers forgot to tell you that.
Yesss!!! It does not matter that public is deceived by a plagiarist. It does not matter that plagiarist is given credit and authority based on things he copied from somewhere else! It does not matter that real author is deprived of recognition for his work. It's about FEEEEEEELings!
Looking back in history, when Benjamin Franklin and friends were around, you were rewarded (heavily) for your inventions. The inventors, who came up with neat inventions, and allowing for the occasional Edison, got PAID. And until inventors start getting PAID again, humanity's progress will remain at a stand-still, or rather, a mediocre pace.
For every "inventor getting PAID" they had millions failing and dying from typhus. What was perfectly acceptable in a society where you are millions times more likely to die from typhus rather than succeeding in anything notable anyway. Mankind made some significant progress since then in the area of not letting people die from typhus, however you still have to somehow kill millions of unsuccessful inventors to get one successful and rich. Otherwise society will have to somehow support the unsuccessful ones (salary, insurance, bankruptcy) what quickly depletes the amount of money that can be thrown at the few who succeeded. This is why "winner takes all" model does not work anymore -- at least not for intelligent people.
Mutation is "the" origin of diversity in general, however mutations affect all societies equally (see my other comment above for details), and at least in somewhat modern times effect of mutations among population is dwarfed by the results of immigration. Sympatry and parapatry, only work for humans unless enforced through social system (slavery, feudalism) with conditions so bad for one group that it creates evolutionary pressure in some direction. Social system usually changes long before there are any permanent effects, and population always successfully merges back once it becomes possible.
Mutation happens with almost absolutely identical probabilities everywhere, so it can't produce variations between levels of diversity in different societies unless there is a significant difference in survival rate that affects all or some types of mutation. This may be the case in societies with advanced medicine (deviation from the norm caused by harmful mutation is not bad enough to kill the person or prevent procreation), but then it's clearly the result of economic development, not cause of it. Most likely even this, admittedly plausible mechanism, has a negligible effect because most mutations have insignificant effect on survival, and are evenly distributed.
Of course, it does! Established populations around the world developed their own prevalent sets of genes with approximately the same amount of diversity within each such population (save for freak accidents of history where diversity was unusually low due to very small population surviving in extreme isolation). When outsiders come in, they usually have something different, thus increasing the diversity. This process will eventually distribute evenly around the world (as natural selection based on local peculiarities of climate no longer works), but that will take a very long time.
Not a single thing in this world is KNOWN to have no dependence.
That's incorrect. The frequency of stupid outburst from you, does not depend on the phase of the moon, contrary to the belief that originated the word "lunacy".
So... genetics is known to have no influence on behavior?
There is no evidence for any of that in humans (who are not noticeably genetically diverse to begin with), and no proposed mechanism for such influence other than handwaving.
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...said a Social Conservative idiot who thinks, he won't need a job once he will get rich.
lol American patriots are parroting Cold War propaganda again.
That's how my eyes are rolling right now.
Kaspersky Lab is a company that has its whole business centered around digging through compromised insecure systems. They wouldn't know a secure design if it bit them in their faces.
My MAC address is FE:ED:FA:CE:DE:AD:BE:EF, you insensitive clod!
Any MythTV will automatically flag commercials and let the user either skip them automatically or do it in one button press regardless of the length of the break (useful when commercial detection produces false positive or negative once in a while). Oh, and skip lists in the stored recording can be edited, so everyone after you will see it with no commercials even if autodetection was wrong.
Too bad, Bible is not an authority on science or logic, and you lack even basic understanding of science. Plenty of things were called foolish, and then very soon were demonstrated to be true. Characters from ancient folklore about fear of death are not among those things, and I can assure you, never will be.
Cable company's DVR won't skip ads, and I value my own sanity.
This is how science works. Statements about existence of anything, made without no evidence to support them are supposed to be treated as false unless and until such evidence is provided. With given evidence, it's much more likely that I am a four-headed lizard who lives in a volcano, than that any kind of deity exists, or ever existed.
I am so happy that Microsoft is doing that kind of loony shit.
lol more Microsoft shills.
When I studied English in Russia, the lowest score I got among all subjects I studied since I was 10 to, I think, 19, was for English.
Between ages of 19 and 24, my English was "read-only", and heavily skewed toward Engineering -- I could read technical documentation but was bad at writing, could barely understand spoken English and, obviously, could not speak it.
Then I moved to US, and actually had to communicate with people in English (well, American version of it).
you assume that consciousness = intelligence, or that consciousness is a necessary component of intelligence. With that, I don't agree.
This assumption, regardless of its actual existence, is completely irrelevant. Consciousness does not and can not possibly include anything beyond the behavior of complex data processing system. We know that much.
or the Soviet Union, if you create an easy way to identify "bad" people and take their stuff, it will be abused.
For this precise reason, in Soviet Union that practice was abandoned since at least WWII. Of course, your friendly propaganda workers forgot to tell you that.
Don't waste your breath, you are talking to people who believe, mind is a magical gift given to people by an immortal old guy who lives in the sky.
Yesss!!! It does not matter that public is deceived by a plagiarist. It does not matter that plagiarist is given credit and authority based on things he copied from somewhere else! It does not matter that real author is deprived of recognition for his work.
It's about FEEEEEEELings!
Please kill all your friends, then yourself.
Looking back in history, when Benjamin Franklin and friends were around, you were rewarded (heavily) for your inventions. The inventors, who came up with neat inventions, and allowing for the occasional Edison, got PAID. And until inventors start getting PAID again, humanity's progress will remain at a stand-still, or rather, a mediocre pace.
For every "inventor getting PAID" they had millions failing and dying from typhus. What was perfectly acceptable in a society where you are millions times more likely to die from typhus rather than succeeding in anything notable anyway. Mankind made some significant progress since then in the area of not letting people die from typhus, however you still have to somehow kill millions of unsuccessful inventors to get one successful and rich. Otherwise society will have to somehow support the unsuccessful ones (salary, insurance, bankruptcy) what quickly depletes the amount of money that can be thrown at the few who succeeded. This is why "winner takes all" model does not work anymore -- at least not for intelligent people.
Mutation is "the" origin of diversity in general, however mutations affect all societies equally (see my other comment above for details), and at least in somewhat modern times effect of mutations among population is dwarfed by the results of immigration. Sympatry and parapatry, only work for humans unless enforced through social system (slavery, feudalism) with conditions so bad for one group that it creates evolutionary pressure in some direction. Social system usually changes long before there are any permanent effects, and population always successfully merges back once it becomes possible.
Mutation happens with almost absolutely identical probabilities everywhere, so it can't produce variations between levels of diversity in different societies unless there is a significant difference in survival rate that affects all or some types of mutation. This may be the case in societies with advanced medicine (deviation from the norm caused by harmful mutation is not bad enough to kill the person or prevent procreation), but then it's clearly the result of economic development, not cause of it. Most likely even this, admittedly plausible mechanism, has a negligible effect because most mutations have insignificant effect on survival, and are evenly distributed.
Of course, it does! Established populations around the world developed their own prevalent sets of genes with approximately the same amount of diversity within each such population (save for freak accidents of history where diversity was unusually low due to very small population surviving in extreme isolation). When outsiders come in, they usually have something different, thus increasing the diversity. This process will eventually distribute evenly around the world (as natural selection based on local peculiarities of climate no longer works), but that will take a very long time.
War of conquest is a form of immigration.
Fucking is the only cause of genetic diversity.
No, that only creates more combinations of the same genes.
Not a single thing in this world is KNOWN to have no dependence.
That's incorrect. The frequency of stupid outburst from you, does not depend on the phase of the moon, contrary to the belief that originated the word "lunacy".
So... genetics is known to have no influence on behavior?
There is no evidence for any of that in humans (who are not noticeably genetically diverse to begin with), and no proposed mechanism for such influence other than handwaving.
No, Gates is just as stupid, so this foolproofness existed for quite a while. Monopoly causes things like that.
Yeah, and origin of silicon is supposed to determine the frequency of a processor made of it.
Some things are KNOWN to have no dependence either observed or possible, and people like you should shut the fuck up instead of talking about them.