No, it doesn't. Most of the national and international news comes from a huge number of people that is growing larger all the time. You even mention "the newspaper that is printed in their city (probably there's only one)". There are many more newspapers now than there were 25 years ago.
Hahahahaha, Sorry I just had to laugh at that one.
25 years ago there were 15 local news papers, today there are 10 local papers. 25 years ago there were 15 companies that owned the 15 papers, today there is 1 that owns all 10.
That same company owns several Radio stations and 5 of the 12 TV stations.
I know my news is filtered, censored, compacted, and regurgitated.
So next time you look at the news, see how many companies own the local papers and keep in mind that Bush has been paying reporters to publish propaganda More Than Once
From my experience, cloning gives a better and more uniform product. I have cloned 1000's of plants and everyone of them is the same.
Next time you see some one protesting cloning, ask if they would like a good joint of Dro to puff on. Good Hydro weed is all clone. This gives a uniform response and eliminates the need to locate the males. Cloning beef is bad! Cloning Weed it good? hmmm.
Ill have to go back when it is not slashdoted. I am not sure what they need but if they just need a good voice reading something ill give it a try. I have been told that I should like the guy on movie phone.:)
I would also love to seen open source dictation software. [shameless plug](See my journal for why)[/shameless plug]
Call me when they can make cough syrup taste good. Then Ill be impressed.
Oh, and M&M's are designed to melt at just above room temp. That way they "Melt in your mouth, not in your hands." There is no need for nano-tech to fix them.
At a friends wedding (Southern Baptist) the preacher stopped in the middle of the service to let everyone know how the "Infidels had attacked the good Christians of America, and it is our job as good Christians to Smite them down in the name of Jesus Christ!" (Reference to 9/11)
I have listened to sermons about how bad gays are and how we will go to hell for letting them marry. Oh and my personal favorite, how sinners have taken over the country and it is the job of every God fearing Christian to take the country back at any cost.
Oh, and what about Pat Robertson?
This is just to name a few. I could go into abortion, other religions, etc.
I have found that the bulk of local Christians are anything but Christian in action or word.
A local church would not let me participate in the bible study because I would not say that I was Christian. They knew that I had over 9 years in seminary and 3 degrees on the subject. To quote them "You will not say you are Christian and you will not join the church so you are not welcome in our bible study."
I have been told that not all christians are like that. Some day when I meet a christian that is not about hatred, anger, fear, and loathing Ill rethink my stance. Untill then all I can do is love them and forgive them, and hope that they some day learn to love others.
And that's even before you think about nuclear weapons, laser guided bombs, global warming, crap TV and movies, contrived sports, moral leadership and all the other good stuff we give the world. No wonder we are God's own country.
Hmmm, I did not think that we exported nuclear weapons and laser guided bombs. I thought they were the free gifts we give to anyone that disagrees with us.:P
As to the "No wonder we are God's own country." God left this country a long time ago. I am sure that when the preachers get up and tell us we should HATE (Insert group of people) or we should "Smite the Unbelievers" or suggest that we kill people in other countries, well that aint God they are speaking for.
That is odd the current projections by the UN's Population Division, based on the 2004 revision of the World Population Prospects database shows that the population of the world is decreasing and this one claims that the US population is increasing.
Seems that while we have fewer people in the world, those that are born head to the US.
Oh and as to the oil usage, So what! Look at what we give the world back for the oil we use.
agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn), industrial supplies (organic chemicals), capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment), and consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) (In order of quantity)
Anyway, this new tax should free up general funds for prisons and prison guards, which burned through about 7.5 billion dollars in 2005. So there is that.
That way we can expand the number of weed busts and add to the prison population.
(Last year) 700,000 busted for possession (DOJ Number) Cost to house, $27,000 a year (DOJ published average)
Total cost $18,900,000,000.00 to house them for a year. Why don't we repeal the weed laws and spend the 18,900,000,000.00 on alternative fuels?
They must not have checked my area. On average my cable line is down 2 days a month. Last month it was down for a week. The local cable company just responded "Sorry, we are working on it." (Time-Warner Cable) No ETA, No reason as to why it was down, No other information.
Heck the last time my ISDN line went down was 3 years ago. VOIP is nice but with the issues that my local cable has keeping the system up and running, Ill wait.
The government loses computers all the time. VA Contractor Loses Computer Containing Personal Data August 7, 2006 A government contractor hired by the Veterans Administration (VA) to help process insurance claims announced that a desktop computer containing information on as many as 38,000 veterans had disappeared from its home office.
Energy Department lost computer equipment At least 18 pieces of "computer processing equipment," including at least one laptop, are missing from the Energy Department's Office of Intelligence (IN), and department officials do not know whether any of it was used for or contained classified information, according to a new report from DOE's inspector general
Government Hit by Rash of Data Breaches WASHINGTON (AP) - The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people.
Maybe, with the all the problems the government is having keeping track of their computers, we should ban the government from using computers. It seems to be helping the terrorists.
Heck the ones around here charge $2.25 and then your bank adds another $1.75 for the transaction.
If the ATM is in a remote location or a special event the ATM charge goes up. The last gun show I went to, the ATM was charging $9.56 per transaction. If I could have left and came back with out having to pay the $15 door fee I would have gotten the money from some where else.
Wow that is cool, it was a quick search and I found it!
It says that to enter the management screen you hold the key and press one. Then the default UID is 00 and the default password is 12345 so you should enter 0012345 into the prompt.
I am off to the ATM down stairs. I could use a little extra cash.
This looks like a well calculated attack and response by a few mathematicians with a lawyer thrown in to check the work.
Ill give 2:1 odds that the lawyer has checked the proofs and found that the math is wrong because no one else added in the cash coefficient. He will keep the cash for him self and may give a small percentage of the proceeds to the mathematician if the mathematician can figure it out.
Sure you can USB it @ 12 MBPS I am sure that will work but that is another part to add. What about the CF/MMC card, have you seen the size of a movie in MPEG4 @ 800x600 D1 quality? it is in the range of 2gig an hour.
I wish I would have gone to the University of Virginia. The college I went to would not let you skip or test out of a class for the first 2 years. It was boring and tedious with lots of stuff I could have tested out of. Then I changed my major from something I knew (CS) to something I did not know. If I have to pay for the time I decided I had better learn something:)
Now I work in CS and my degree is worthless in my career. At least I had fun!
This is part of basic, peer-reviewed science. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and figure they've thought of that already. If they report the number as 330, it's reasonable to guess that it's around 330 +- 10. If you really can't find the uncertainties in the professional articles, email the authors. No offense, but I'd be shocked if you've thought of something they haven't.
I would agree that this should be part of basic peer-reviewed science. The issue I have is that it is not in the original reports and when I pulled the actual ice core data it was not listed in it. The reading of modern CO2 ppm (330) has an uncertainty listed. If I remember correctly it is +/- 7 but I am not looking at the report. You may also note the issues with joining two different measurement types, ice-core and instrument.
This is fine, as long as there are lots of measurements. Uncertainties add in quadrature, so we pin down a more narrow confidence level with a great number of measurements.
So what you are saying is that if we have a bunch of measurements that have a varying uncertainties of say +/- 2 to +/-.7 that we can get a more accurate number but averaging them? Sorry, I did not take statistical calculus, but this seems wrong. If I have a bunch of readings and I average them I still have an uncertain average. I could see this being true if we had several readings from the same location with different instruments, then we could work the uncertainties down by finding the variance of the different instruments. What we have is lots of readings from lots of different areas with lots of different instruments that we only have a general uncertainty number on. Sorry, from a programming point of view if you start with garbage you will end with garbage.
Again, and I don't mean any offense, but these seem like simplistic arguments. We might want to be humble enough to assume that these people, most of whom are really smart, and spend their whole professional lives studying just this phenomena, have already considered these things. I'm not advocating a blind appeal to authority, but it's only curteous to assume that the experts in the field carry *some* authoritative weight.
None taken, I posted it to point out my view, and to see if some one could respond and give me any more data.
I would trust them if I did not find so many issues with the data I have been looking at. Just because they are smart and have spent there lives studying this, does not mean that they are right. That is the joy of science, you can study something for your whole life, know in your heart that it is right, and along comes some one like Darwin and your life's work is out the window.
I am going to outline why I think Global warming is bad science. I have spent some time looking into it and what I have found truly makes me wonder why some of these reports get published. It scares me that so many slashdot people believe in it. When I read the reports I find so much missing it is not funny.
The most common omission I find is the error level on charts. Take the ice core samples, what is the error level? Most I have seen have stated that the current PPM of CO2 is at an all time high! It has been stated that the current CO2 levels are 330+ ppm and from ice cores we know it has never been higher, or do we? What is the error level of the ice cores? +/- ??? If it is +/- 500ppm than the charts are junk, if it is +/- 2ppm then they may mean something. To date I have not been able to find anything that states the accuracy of the reading or the error level of the ice cores.
The general consensus is that the global temp is up 0.5c +/-.2c. So the warming trend may be as high as.7c and as low as.3c. I can see this, but add to this that the temperature measurements have a posted error correction of +/-.7c we now have a problem. The global warming that may be happening is within the error rate of the temperature measurement. If Microsoft tried to use numbers like this we would tare them apart but the global warming crowd uses them and they are ok?
To those how would point to the chart that shows us warming, they all seem to start around 1880. This is odd as this marks the end of the little ice age, to say that we are warmer now than we were during the little ice age is, well, duh!
To those that would point to the hockey stick, this has been shown to have issues. The least of which is the 15th century portion. This portion of the hockey stick graph is based on tree ring measurements from a single tree. Once they started averaging the numbers, it skewed the chart. Not to count the errors in temperature readings before 1960.
So where is the good solid science? And please do not point to local anomies as a sign of global warming. Heck recently I heard some one say that it is getting cooler because of global warming. What? Sounds like a setup for "we will win!" Ill make you a deal, we will play tic-tac-toe and as long as I can stop you from getting three in a row, I win.
I am sorry, the science seems off and with out solid science to back it up I just can not believe the hype.
So the next person to be taken to court for violation of copyright should claim that it was Microsoft's idea, they told me it would be OK to do it.
I knew it was only a matter of time before this type stuff started happening to DRM. With the DCMA backing up DRM and the vendor lockin to players, it will not be long before congress steps in and makes some changes. Just wait until one of there kids has an issue with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like Micro$oft is just thanking them for the great ideas, which they will add to the next version of IE. They always were a step behind.
No, it doesn't. Most of the national and international news comes from a huge number of people that is growing larger all the time. You even mention "the newspaper that is printed in their city (probably there's only one)". There are many more newspapers now than there were 25 years ago.
Hahahahaha, Sorry I just had to laugh at that one.
25 years ago there were 15 local news papers, today there are 10 local papers.
25 years ago there were 15 companies that owned the 15 papers, today there is 1 that owns all 10.
That same company owns several Radio stations and 5 of the 12 TV stations.
I know my news is filtered, censored, compacted, and regurgitated.
So next time you look at the news, see how many companies own the local papers and keep in mind that Bush has been paying reporters to publish propaganda More Than Once
The real question is simple and not answered. Is the addiction detrimental to ones life, health, etc.
:)
You can easily get addicted to anything that you enjoy, from Pot to Sex it is all addicting. There is no real story here.
Just don't let your addictions rule your life and you will be fine
From my experience, cloning gives a better and more uniform product. I have cloned 1000's of plants and everyone of them is the same.
Next time you see some one protesting cloning, ask if they would like a good joint of Dro to puff on. Good Hydro weed is all clone. This gives a uniform response and eliminates the need to locate the males. Cloning beef is bad! Cloning Weed it good? hmmm.
Ill have to go back when it is not slashdoted. I am not sure what they need but if they just need a good voice reading something ill give it a try. I have been told that I should like the guy on movie phone. :)
I would also love to seen open source dictation software. [shameless plug](See my journal for why)[/shameless plug]
Call me when they can make cough syrup taste good. Then Ill be impressed.
Oh, and M&M's are designed to melt at just above room temp. That way they "Melt in your mouth, not in your hands." There is no need for nano-tech to fix them.
In your opinion, what are the 10 most common mistakes open source-based startups make when seeking venture capitol?
I have to commend you on this one. It is the best description I have seen and I am mailing it to a few friends that just don't get it.
Thanks
I have met many!
At a friends wedding (Southern Baptist) the preacher stopped in the middle of the service to let everyone know how the "Infidels had attacked the good Christians of America, and it is our job as good Christians to Smite them down in the name of Jesus Christ!" (Reference to 9/11)
I have listened to sermons about how bad gays are and how we will go to hell for letting them marry. Oh and my personal favorite, how sinners have taken over the country and it is the job of every God fearing Christian to take the country back at any cost.
Oh, and what about Pat Robertson?
This is just to name a few. I could go into abortion, other religions, etc.
I have found that the bulk of local Christians are anything but Christian in action or word.
A local church would not let me participate in the bible study because I would not say that I was Christian. They knew that I had over 9 years in seminary and 3 degrees on the subject. To quote them "You will not say you are Christian and you will not join the church so you are not welcome in our bible study."
I have been told that not all christians are like that. Some day when I meet a christian that is not about hatred, anger, fear, and loathing Ill rethink my stance. Untill then all I can do is love them and forgive them, and hope that they some day learn to love others.
And that's even before you think about nuclear weapons, laser guided bombs, global warming, crap TV and movies, contrived sports, moral leadership and all the other good stuff we give the world. No wonder we are God's own country.
:P
Hmmm, I did not think that we exported nuclear weapons and laser guided bombs. I thought they were the free gifts we give to anyone that disagrees with us.
As to the "No wonder we are God's own country." God left this country a long time ago. I am sure that when the preachers get up and tell us we should HATE (Insert group of people) or we should "Smite the Unbelievers" or suggest that we kill people in other countries, well that aint God they are speaking for.
Romans 13:10
That is odd the current projections by the UN's Population Division, based on the 2004 revision of the World Population Prospects database shows that the population of the world is decreasing and this one claims that the US population is increasing.
Seems that while we have fewer people in the world, those that are born head to the US.
Source
You may also note the US population growth rate @ 0.91%
Oh and as to the oil usage, So what! Look at what we give the world back for the oil we use.
agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn), industrial supplies (organic chemicals), capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment), and consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) (In order of quantity)
Anyway, this new tax should free up general funds for prisons and prison guards, which burned through about 7.5 billion dollars in 2005. So there is that.
That way we can expand the number of weed busts and add to the prison population.
(Last year) 700,000 busted for possession (DOJ Number)
Cost to house, $27,000 a year (DOJ published average)
Total cost $18,900,000,000.00 to house them for a year. Why don't we repeal the weed laws and spend the 18,900,000,000.00 on alternative fuels?
I think my 18 trillion beats your 7.5 billion
They must not have checked my area. On average my cable line is down 2 days a month. Last month it was down for a week. The local cable company just responded "Sorry, we are working on it." (Time-Warner Cable) No ETA, No reason as to why it was down, No other information.
Heck the last time my ISDN line went down was 3 years ago. VOIP is nice but with the issues that my local cable has keeping the system up and running, Ill wait.
The government loses computers all the time.
VA Contractor Loses Computer Containing Personal Data
August 7, 2006
A government contractor hired by the Veterans Administration (VA) to help process insurance claims announced that a desktop computer containing information on as many as 38,000 veterans had disappeared from its home office.
Energy Department lost computer equipment
At least 18 pieces of "computer processing equipment," including at least one laptop, are missing from the Energy Department's Office of Intelligence (IN), and department officials do not know whether any of it was used for or contained classified information, according to a new report from DOE's inspector general
Government Hit by Rash of Data Breaches
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people.
So why the House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill The government can not even keep track of their own computers. Let them monitor, then some one will lose the computer it is on.
Maybe, with the all the problems the government is having keeping track of their computers, we should ban the government from using computers. It seems to be helping the terrorists.
No, I am just a cheep bastard :)
$1.25????
Heck the ones around here charge $2.25 and then your bank adds another $1.75 for the transaction.
If the ATM is in a remote location or a special event the ATM charge goes up. The last gun show I went to, the ATM was charging $9.56 per transaction. If I could have left and came back with out having to pay the $15 door fee I would have gotten the money from some where else.
No need, A little tape and some paper. Approach from the side and slap it on.
Wow that is cool, it was a quick search and I found it!
It says that to enter the management screen you hold the key and press one. Then the default UID is 00 and the default password is 12345 so you should enter 0012345 into the prompt.
I am off to the ATM down stairs. I could use a little extra cash.
This looks like a well calculated attack and response by a few mathematicians with a lawyer thrown in to check the work.
Ill give 2:1 odds that the lawyer has checked the proofs and found that the math is wrong because no one else added in the cash coefficient. He will keep the cash for him self and may give a small percentage of the proceeds to the mathematician if the mathematician can figure it out.
My Hardware MPEG4 card @ 800x600 25FPS NTSC runs 2gig an hour with compression off. I tend to turn the compression off because of quality.
What good is a DVR with out a hard drive?
Sure you can USB it @ 12 MBPS I am sure that will work but that is another part to add. What about the CF/MMC card, have you seen the size of a movie in MPEG4 @ 800x600 D1 quality? it is in the range of 2gig an hour.
Include an IDE or SATA drive bay and ill buy one.
I wish I would have gone to the University of Virginia. The college I went to would not let you skip or test out of a class for the first 2 years. It was boring and tedious with lots of stuff I could have tested out of. Then I changed my major from something I knew (CS) to something I did not know. If I have to pay for the time I decided I had better learn something :)
Now I work in CS and my degree is worthless in my career. At least I had fun!
This is part of basic, peer-reviewed science. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and figure they've thought of that already. If they report the number as 330, it's reasonable to guess that it's around 330 +- 10. If you really can't find the uncertainties in the professional articles, email the authors. No offense, but I'd be shocked if you've thought of something they haven't.
.7 that we can get a more accurate number but averaging them? Sorry, I did not take statistical calculus, but this seems wrong. If I have a bunch of readings and I average them I still have an uncertain average. I could see this being true if we had several readings from the same location with different instruments, then we could work the uncertainties down by finding the variance of the different instruments. What we have is lots of readings from lots of different areas with lots of different instruments that we only have a general uncertainty number on. Sorry, from a programming point of view if you start with garbage you will end with garbage.
I would agree that this should be part of basic peer-reviewed science. The issue I have is that it is not in the original reports and when I pulled the actual ice core data it was not listed in it. The reading of modern CO2 ppm (330) has an uncertainty listed. If I remember correctly it is +/- 7 but I am not looking at the report. You may also note the issues with joining two different measurement types, ice-core and instrument.
This is fine, as long as there are lots of measurements. Uncertainties add in quadrature, so we pin down a more narrow confidence level with a great number of measurements.
So what you are saying is that if we have a bunch of measurements that have a varying uncertainties of say +/- 2 to +/-
Again, and I don't mean any offense, but these seem like simplistic arguments. We might want to be humble enough to assume that these people, most of whom are really smart, and spend their whole professional lives studying just this phenomena, have already considered these things. I'm not advocating a blind appeal to authority, but it's only curteous to assume that the experts in the field carry *some* authoritative weight.
None taken, I posted it to point out my view, and to see if some one could respond and give me any more data.
I would trust them if I did not find so many issues with the data I have been looking at. Just because they are smart and have spent there lives studying this, does not mean that they are right. That is the joy of science, you can study something for your whole life, know in your heart that it is right, and along comes some one like Darwin and your life's work is out the window.
I am going to outline why I think Global warming is bad science. I have spent some time looking into it and what I have found truly makes me wonder why some of these reports get published. It scares me that so many slashdot people believe in it. When I read the reports I find so much missing it is not funny.
.2c. So the warming trend may be as high as .7c and as low as .3c. I can see this, but add to this that the temperature measurements have a posted error correction of +/- .7c we now have a problem. The global warming that may be happening is within the error rate of the temperature measurement. If Microsoft tried to use numbers like this we would tare them apart but the global warming crowd uses them and they are ok?
The most common omission I find is the error level on charts. Take the ice core samples, what is the error level? Most I have seen have stated that the current PPM of CO2 is at an all time high! It has been stated that the current CO2 levels are 330+ ppm and from ice cores we know it has never been higher, or do we? What is the error level of the ice cores? +/- ??? If it is +/- 500ppm than the charts are junk, if it is +/- 2ppm then they may mean something. To date I have not been able to find anything that states the accuracy of the reading or the error level of the ice cores.
The general consensus is that the global temp is up 0.5c +/-
To those how would point to the chart that shows us warming, they all seem to start around 1880. This is odd as this marks the end of the little ice age, to say that we are warmer now than we were during the little ice age is, well, duh!
To those that would point to the hockey stick, this has been shown to have issues. The least of which is the 15th century portion. This portion of the hockey stick graph is based on tree ring measurements from a single tree. Once they started averaging the numbers, it skewed the chart. Not to count the errors in temperature readings before 1960.
So where is the good solid science? And please do not point to local anomies as a sign of global warming. Heck recently I heard some one say that it is getting cooler because of global warming. What? Sounds like a setup for "we will win!" Ill make you a deal, we will play tic-tac-toe and as long as I can stop you from getting three in a row, I win.
I am sorry, the science seems off and with out solid science to back it up I just can not believe the hype.
So the next person to be taken to court for violation of copyright should claim that it was Microsoft's idea, they told me it would be OK to do it.
I knew it was only a matter of time before this type stuff started happening to DRM. With the DCMA backing up DRM and the vendor lockin to players, it will not be long before congress steps in and makes some changes. Just wait until one of there kids has an issue with it.