There's a ton of nonsequtur in here. I'm not going to go into, but I would like to point out that asbestos *is* just a mineral. It's only bad for you when you breath the fine particles of it. I have held a brick of it in matrix in my hand... no cancer.
The thing you have to remember is that we (as in science) have known that breathing minerals will kill you for like 200 years.
There's an enormous difference between a company bribing it's way through the approval process, and covering up science.
I'm sure the scientists all knew that breathing the rocks is bad and just shook their heads the criminals who installed the stuff. They did later get their pants sued right off...
Sometimes corporate science brings us all kinds of good things. CDs, geostationary orbit, cellular, really good insulation, medicine, *better food*. It's not always bad just because it's a corporation that's doing it.
Anyhoo. The kinds of traits their breeding in are the kinds of things that'll be needed if we're going to feed a world population of 11billion (the conservative estimate). Personally, I'd rather have GM foods to eat than no food at all.
We're going to have massive starvations either way, but GM will put it off for a while.
It's still not that unusual. Viruses do that very thing all the time. It'd take a really long time to do it the sexual way, but it's nothing that can't be done with enough patience. GM is just really really fast breeding. Get over it.
... since when is passing rude? When you give up and pass on the right, it's because the rude guy is on the left. When did getting around the people disrupting the flow of traffic (ie, driving slowly in the left lane) become the rude part? If you're in the left lane and you're not passing, you're in violation of the law -- even when you move over to "let people on."
So, when did getting around people disrupting the flow of traffic, become the rude part?
They'd be less offensive to me if they said, "40% of the drivers drive like they have a destination in mind."
Think of it like you're in a mall, rather than a freeway. In the mall you'd go: um, excuse me. And you'd walk around the rude people. The guy walking around isn't the rude one, sorry.
If IE is forced to support SVG (yeah right); then maybe opera will be forced to finally accept plugins? The browser is really nice, but it's pretty much worthless if you're accustomed to plugins.
I tried custom style sheets for FF. Not really the same thing. FF still allows sites to resize fonts, but only relative to your set size. So smallish stuff doesn't get 1px high... but can still be smaller. I don't think that's really a substitute. Depends how opera does it, but I don't really find opera usable anyway (no plugins means no lastpass).
I'm sure a huge precomputed hash database is handy and everything, but are we sure that's what a rainbow table is?
I tried very hard to make sense of the Oechslin paper on rainbow attacks and it doesn't mention anything about pre-computing individual hashes. It's about reconstructing cipher chains (or something like that). Perhaps the term has just become diluted over the years. Seems wrong to me.
One of firefox most important features, which keeps me completely locked in because the competition doesn't have it: the ability to set fonts I like and forbit sites from changing it. My entire web experience is all in one font and it's all big enough to read. Opera and Chrome are completely ruled out for not having this.
it's his code and he has the right to do whatever he wants with it.
Very doubtful. Usually the code you create for class belongs to the university, not you -- this is especially important if you work you did was actually worth anything, because the university might want to patent it. You may disagree with patents and this wakky ownership model (I certainly do); but it doesn't make it any less the case.
Recently, I pushed code from class online, but I asked the teacher first. I didn't get in trouble.
The things that are important will get copied by others and the things that aren't won't necessarily be copied. In actual fact, the preservation of important records will be more automatic than it was in the past. Take important photos for example: http://images.google.com/images?q=eddie+adams -- automatically backed up by people that think it's interesting!
There are three main strikes against noscript though... 1) it's irritating and doesn't necessarily protect against 1x1 pixel or iframe attacks anyway; 2) it sucks and breaks things like OpenID, which are necessarily cross site scripting; 3) the guy's a total fuck head (see adblock).
This is one of the more insightful things I've read in the comments on slashdot... I wish I had mod points today. I *do* forget the above, but it's true. Also, the kind of person that would go through the trouble to be a president isn't the kind of person you'd ever want to be your president.
There's no grind in guild wars. It's against their philosophy. In fact, when I played, my dude was maxed out way before I ran out of quests. The game has a few problems, but the grind isn't one of them.
Investing in stocks is a game of luck unless you have the resources of buffet or lynch. It's a random walk and no amount of studying of historical data is going to predict the future. Remember when world comm was a sure thing and nothing could ever unseat the car companies?
> Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Yet. But I'm reading about wireless that can function in the 100Mb range, broadcasting to a car moving 100mph. It's safe to say that in 10 years it'll be unthinkable to try a car trip without your 100Mb internets to keep the kids busy.
The hilarious part is that it only froze up on the people that paid to have DRM installed on their machines. The stolen copies are just fine I'm sure.
I think the secret is, if you really really want to give them your money: buy a copy, never open it, and install a stolen version.
I have two copies of Titan's Quest (never opened), a copy of Flatout 2 (never opened), two copies of NWN2 (no), a copy of Jedi Outcast (no), Jedi Academy (no)...
Mostly it isn't even the DRM, simply having to even put the CD in is an unnecessary hardship. Why should I be inconvenienced because I bought it and the people who stole it get the good copy?
I think it's time the stop treating customers like shit and I say so on my registration cards. Fat lot of good it's done.
It seems like there should be a place for authors to go to look up things for their plot devices...
I know Clarke once went to a physics department to ask about reasonable sounding propulsion units for his Songs of Distant Earth story.
Personally, I'd really really like to see a physicist on the set of most movies. I'm not saying they can't have creative freedom, but the physicist could point out things that might look as cool without being r-tarded...
Anyway, it's not like those are the only two fields that get mistreated in films and books. Hell even rock climbing gets screwed up in films.
If only there were some huge network of computers that could be used to connect authors with experts...
But they *do* have to disclose the fact that there's a significant chance that he'll be stepping down. They don't have to say: he has liver cancer, but they do have to say: he may have to step down because of health problems.
I'd expect Java to go faster in windows. I don't think the reasons for using Linux are speed and software availability. I'd expect much more attention is paid to the windows versions.
I was really into the article until I got to that comment. I really like python, but I find it's anything but restrictive. It seems like there's exactly one way to do things in python and if you deviate at all the other python coders will get insanely angry with you.
I find it more restrictive than java. Elegant, but extremely restrictive. It makes me feel boxed in. I prefer languages where you can do things in various different ways depending on your mood and temperament.
Again, I like python very much, but it's not "unrestrictive." That's just silly.
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The thing you have to remember is that we (as in science) have known that breathing minerals will kill you for like 200 years.
There's an enormous difference between a company bribing it's way through the approval process, and covering up science.
I'm sure the scientists all knew that breathing the rocks is bad and just shook their heads the criminals who installed the stuff. They did later get their pants sued right off...
Sometimes corporate science brings us all kinds of good things. CDs, geostationary orbit, cellular, really good insulation, medicine, *better food*. It's not always bad just because it's a corporation that's doing it.
Anyhoo. The kinds of traits their breeding in are the kinds of things that'll be needed if we're going to feed a world population of 11billion (the conservative estimate). Personally, I'd rather have GM foods to eat than no food at all.
We're going to have massive starvations either way, but GM will put it off for a while.
It's still not that unusual. Viruses do that very thing all the time. It'd take a really long time to do it the sexual way, but it's nothing that can't be done with enough patience. GM is just really really fast breeding. Get over it.
Does it support plugins yet? No, then who cares....
So, when did getting around people disrupting the flow of traffic, become the rude part?
They'd be less offensive to me if they said, "40% of the drivers drive like they have a destination in mind."
Think of it like you're in a mall, rather than a freeway. In the mall you'd go: um, excuse me. And you'd walk around the rude people. The guy walking around isn't the rude one, sorry.
If IE is forced to support SVG (yeah right); then maybe opera will be forced to finally accept plugins? The browser is really nice, but it's pretty much worthless if you're accustomed to plugins.
I tried custom style sheets for FF. Not really the same thing. FF still allows sites to resize fonts, but only relative to your set size. So smallish stuff doesn't get 1px high... but can still be smaller. I don't think that's really a substitute. Depends how opera does it, but I don't really find opera usable anyway (no plugins means no lastpass).
I'm sure a huge precomputed hash database is handy and everything, but are we sure that's what a rainbow table is? I tried very hard to make sense of the Oechslin paper on rainbow attacks and it doesn't mention anything about pre-computing individual hashes. It's about reconstructing cipher chains (or something like that). Perhaps the term has just become diluted over the years. Seems wrong to me.
One of firefox most important features, which keeps me completely locked in because the competition doesn't have it: the ability to set fonts I like and forbit sites from changing it. My entire web experience is all in one font and it's all big enough to read. Opera and Chrome are completely ruled out for not having this.
it's his code and he has the right to do whatever he wants with it.
Very doubtful. Usually the code you create for class belongs to the university, not you -- this is especially important if you work you did was actually worth anything, because the university might want to patent it. You may disagree with patents and this wakky ownership model (I certainly do); but it doesn't make it any less the case.
Recently, I pushed code from class online, but I asked the teacher first. I didn't get in trouble.
The things that are important will get copied by others and the things that aren't won't necessarily be copied. In actual fact, the preservation of important records will be more automatic than it was in the past. Take important photos for example: http://images.google.com/images?q=eddie+adams -- automatically backed up by people that think it's interesting!
There are three main strikes against noscript though... 1) it's irritating and doesn't necessarily protect against 1x1 pixel or iframe attacks anyway; 2) it sucks and breaks things like OpenID, which are necessarily cross site scripting; 3) the guy's a total fuck head (see adblock).
This is one of the more insightful things I've read in the comments on slashdot... I wish I had mod points today. I *do* forget the above, but it's true. Also, the kind of person that would go through the trouble to be a president isn't the kind of person you'd ever want to be your president.
> all MMOs
There's no grind in guild wars. It's against their philosophy. In fact, when I played, my dude was maxed out way before I ran out of quests. The game has a few problems, but the grind isn't one of them.
Investing in stocks is a game of luck unless you have the resources of buffet or lynch. It's a random walk and no amount of studying of historical data is going to predict the future. Remember when world comm was a sure thing and nothing could ever unseat the car companies?
The problem for alums like this is that tweens don't often think as clearly as their 30/40 iteration would wishes.
Is the Internet life, liberty or property? While clearly lacking due process, I don't think this is depriving you of any of those three.
That is still you are. I consider ur used for your as the exact same misspelling.
> Satellite radio has its own problems but the iPhone isn't one of them.
Yet. But I'm reading about wireless that can function in the 100Mb range, broadcasting to a car moving 100mph. It's safe to say that in 10 years it'll be unthinkable to try a car trip without your 100Mb internets to keep the kids busy.
The hilarious part is that it only froze up on the people that paid to have DRM installed on their machines. The stolen copies are just fine I'm sure.
I think the secret is, if you really really want to give them your money: buy a copy, never open it, and install a stolen version.
I have two copies of Titan's Quest (never opened), a copy of Flatout 2 (never opened), two copies of NWN2 (no), a copy of Jedi Outcast (no), Jedi Academy (no)...
Mostly it isn't even the DRM, simply having to even put the CD in is an unnecessary hardship. Why should I be inconvenienced because I bought it and the people who stole it get the good copy?
I think it's time the stop treating customers like shit and I say so on my registration cards. Fat lot of good it's done.
It seems like there should be a place for authors to go to look up things for their plot devices...
I know Clarke once went to a physics department to ask about reasonable sounding propulsion units for his Songs of Distant Earth story.
Personally, I'd really really like to see a physicist on the set of most movies. I'm not saying they can't have creative freedom, but the physicist could point out things that might look as cool without being r-tarded...
Anyway, it's not like those are the only two fields that get mistreated in films and books. Hell even rock climbing gets screwed up in films.
If only there were some huge network of computers that could be used to connect authors with experts ...
> scorched earth policies make as much sense here as they do in international relations.
Scorched earth policies aren't for relations, they're to get an attacking army to leave passively and it works rather well. That's a bad example.
But they *do* have to disclose the fact that there's a significant chance that he'll be stepping down. They don't have to say: he has liver cancer, but they do have to say: he may have to step down because of health problems.
sounds like a dare
To no-one's surprise, Ubuntu was faster
I'm surprised.
I'd expect Java to go faster in windows. I don't think the reasons for using Linux are speed and software availability. I'd expect much more attention is paid to the windows versions.
I was really into the article until I got to that comment. I really like python, but I find it's anything but restrictive. It seems like there's exactly one way to do things in python and if you deviate at all the other python coders will get insanely angry with you.
I find it more restrictive than java. Elegant, but extremely restrictive. It makes me feel boxed in. I prefer languages where you can do things in various different ways depending on your mood and temperament.
Again, I like python very much, but it's not "unrestrictive." That's just silly.