However, I am faithful that just like the industrial revolution, these companies will triumph over the people who were willing to overlook the law just to make a profit
Triumph? I think capitalism is no different from the pirate drama played out on the high seas centuries ago. These companies will all come and go, none triumphant. As long as their is money, there will be dishonesty. Not all will be caught.
It's true then. I always ignored the "Michael censors..." crybaby posts written by hormonally challenged teens, but now someone has presented some real evidence that editors bitchslap accounts. I'm sure it only happens to trolls and crapflooders, but I'm still disappointed. Ban IPs or delete accounts if you must, but don't abuse the moderation system that you want your users to hold sacred.
By the time the revolution comes, there are gonna be so many Corporate Newspeak motherfuckers that we'll have to build a bigger wall to put them up against.
Thanks for setting me straight. What do you think about the rest of my gedankenexperiment? Is it even possible, considering that health officials say the virus needs mammal temperatures to survive?
I would mod you up, but none of my UIDs have had mod points in a while (taco hates me or something). I'm thinking of posting all my UIDs/passwords on trolltalk as a form of protest.
It's true--I took the grad-level PLP (COP 5535, IIRC) course last summer. Dr. Bermudez announced in class that around ten students (out of ~100) had suspiciously similar code. I was shocked, since these were all graduate students.
The software compares parse trees, rendering most obfuscation techniques ineffective. Perhaps it also analyzes the machine code, counting jumps and performing statistical analysis of procedure calls. The more industrious cheater can probably resort to #inline directives and nested function calls to beat the detector, but anybody who goes to that length should just do the damn assignment instead.
I'm very grateful for any and all cheating detectors. You missed the point, Taco: collaboration is extremely important, but someone who can't produce code is useless in a production environment
Apollo 12 found bacteria on Surveyor 3 that survived two and a half years on the moon.
If a bacterium can survive those conditions for that long, I'm sure a virus could also--especially since it's just a strand of DNA inside a shield. The first trip to the moon happened in 1969; many virologists place the hypothetical Case 0 in the same year (IIRC, Case 0 was purported to be an airline steward--maybe he swung with astronauts[??]). Maybe the virus was introduced to the earth that way?
Call me crazy, but I don't believe this is the case--I will acknowledge the possibility that it is true. This isn't as crazy as the conspiracy theory of AIDS. Anybody care to elaborate on this?
Apparently, the negative public reaction to n'sync's appearence in episode 2 has caused lucas to drop their cameo
Come on slashdotters, get those anger votes in!!! We can change history and have a Jar-Jar-free Episode II and III. Let's get those Natalie Portman nude scenes in there while we're at it. Gee, I never thought mob rule could be more fun than good ol' democracy...
I quit watching TV as a teen because I was tired of the brainwashing. These days if I'm visiting someone who has it on I will watch with them so as to not be a snob. Recently I caught a little bit of Good Morning America. I was amazed by how much of the show is blatant advertising for products. My friend said most other "information" shows on TV are the same way. Every outlet in our culture is being geared towards the Consumerist movement.
So now the "News" sites on the Internet are doing the same thing. It's sad to see the progression of the Internet from a bastion of equal speech to yet another Consumerism-in-overdrive medium.
If slashdot starts redirecting the "Reply" button to ad sites, I'll post all my karma-capped UIDs/passwords on a first-come, first-served basis. The advertisers will win, and so will the trolls.
Why isn't the parent at a +5 (Insightful/Informative/Underrated) yet? This is one of the most insightful posts *ever* on this forum. If there is sentient, advanced, intelligent life in other galaxies, by the time they arrive they will conclude that we were not intelligent because we managed to kill each other and make the planet uninhabitable for all other Earth species (well, except roaches).
On a side note, have any of the SETI people considered the possibility that sentient beings from other galaxies may not speak English?
I'm definitely getting modded down for this (Moderators: use "Offtopic", please!) off topic post, but frankly I don't get your sig. Do you mean to tell me god has sacks? Does he weigh them out to 7.10 grams?
Ha! Funny pic. Now I wonder what is the difference--to a camera--between a 2-D rendering and a 3-D face? The image of ibn Laden on the photo paper is a reflection (bad pun...) of the lighting, f-stop, and other conditions determined by when/where/how the picture was taken. An image taken of a person walking through the airport security checkpoint will be subjected to the same conditions, unique to the location. There will be some difference--to the camera--between a real-life ibn Laden walking through the checkpoint and a man of different stature walking through with an image of ibn Laden in front of his face.
The Pelco system must use some very loose logic to indicate a probable Hit. This will lead to higher Type II/III errors and greater mistrust of the system. Not before Pelco profits outrageously, though.
This facial recognition has a near-zero Hit rate and a high false-positive (Type III error???) rate. The false-positive rate is a killer because it may cause system operators to miss a Hit (true positive). So what do we end up with: an authoritarian tool that is completely worthless.
Meanwhile, the failure of this project can be a selling point for Larry Ellison's proposed National ID card system. Perhaps the streetlamp cameras in Ybor City will soon be replaced by turnstiles manned by undereducated, undermotivated, understimulated, minimum-wage-earning Security Engineers (read: displaced airport security screeners) checking each person's National ID card. These people probably won't be able to grasp the concept of Type II/III errors; thus the implementation of the National ID Card will suffer from the same problems as the facial recognition system.
In summary the two vendors will profit substantially from their products--which won't make the public any safer--and we will be eased into acceptance of the mercantilist authoritarian police state.
...the stronger my belief in a creator. Over the last century we have been in a race to end death through bio-chemistry/bio-engineering. Now we are getting closer to the imaginary finish line and many people believe now that all cancer will be curable or preventable within a few years. Now we find that aging may fend off cancer.
Silly mortals! I propose that whomever designed us intentionally created these apparent paradoxes to force all doubters to eventually believe.
Why not protect people who work hard to make their intellectual products?
Unfortunately, this action doesn't do that. The artists got screwed when they signed the contract before they recorded the album/film/etc... This action serves to protect the leech class. Even then, it doesn't really protect them unless all Ukranian manufacturers are strictly pirates. With the ubiquity of CD burners, I doubt that to be true--what need is there for a centralized pirating operation when all the equipment has been decentralized?
In summary, this is just yet another instance of the U.S.A. bullying a small country (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Grenada, Lebanon, Somalia, Cuba, Colombia, ad vomitum...) so leaders of other small countries can see what happens if they don't comply when asked. Such a leader gets to choose between "Sign this piece of paper" or "get assassinated by the CIA or a CIA-supported group and vilified posthumously by American media". Frankly I'm amazed that the Ukraine is standing up for freedom.
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On December 3 1984, a large quantity of Methyl Isocyanate (IIRC) was accidentally released from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. Over 4,000 people were killed; over 200,000 were injured.
We all know what happened on September 11 2001.
The apologists among you are already preparing your rebuttal, building the argument that the WTC deaths were intentional and the Bhopal deaths were an accident. Union Carbide, an American company (now owned or otherwise absorbed by Dow) manufacturing a dangerous product demanded by American manufacturers or consumers was very much aware of the dangers of Methyl Isocyanate--precisely the reason why the plant was not built in America. I'm sure profit (the modern-day "prophet") figured into it as well. So by consciously building a ticking time bomb in a poor country halfway around the world, Union Carbide made it clear that the lives near its location were worthless--just as Atta and his crew did as they boarded their planes on that fateful morning.
Take for example a standard Dell laptop with a front loadable battery... then had the Li core removed, replaced with an explosive of some sort and inserted into the expansion slot.... Voila, you've breached security purposefully.
I'm sure that today you will be visited by members of the FBI and Secret Service, who wish to know of your al-Qaeda links. Please post your experience in a follow-up.
One thing I'm always grateful for is a clear sky on a dark night and the humbling power of the billions and billions of stars that are visible to my eye. A few months ago, there was an article on light pollution, along with links to nighttime shots of earth to illustrate the intensity of light pollution. Along with that article was the revelation that there are a growing number of people who have never seen a starry night. Sounds trivial to you, but such a simple thing is very important because it forces the alert human to put things into perspective and to see that there are greater things than man can create.
Light pollution isn't the only threat to our ability to witness astronomically significant events: space billboards will probably debut as soon as the economy goes back into upswing. Laugh if you must, but don't be surprised if future articles warn you "you'll have to squint to see Jupiter tonight, because the Coca-Cola® billboard will be about 3 to the east..." or similar.
This would be interesting to see. In The Natural Mind, Dr. Andrew Weil elaborates on his 1960's Harvard research which showed that short-term recall and task performance were dependent on whether the task/info was learned while the subject was in the same state of mind for the testing (learned stoned, performed straight; learned stoned, performed stoned;...). Emperical evidence illustrated that difficulty in short-term recall was a product of the subject's anxiety about being stoned in a test situation.
But let's see some biology in action and the physical results. Don't get your hopes up, though: Presidents Nixon and Reagan declared drug wars despite the findings of scientists they commissioned to study the effects of illegal drug usage on society.
Now they can watch live streaming video, courtesy of cnn.com, of their plane crashing into a building after being hijacked by some sick bastard. Until that happens, it's a great way to pass the time in those cramped cabins.
By the way, I hope it's not connected at all to any of the plane's navigation/communication/control systems...
This is the parable from Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin:
The Gift of the Magi Indian Giver
Carolyn wanted so much to give Roger something nice for Christmas, but they didn't have much money, and they had to spend every last cent on cancy for the baby. She walked down the icy streets and peered into shop windows.
"Roger is so proud of his shinbones. If only I could find some way to get money to buy shinbone polish."
Just then, a sign caught her eye. "Cuticles bought and sold." Many people had told Carolyn of her beautiful cuticles, and Roger was especially proud of them, but she thought, "This is the way I could buy Roger the shinbone polish!" And she rushed into the store.
Later at home, she waited anxiously as Roger came up the steps of their flat. He opened the door and wobbled over to the fireplace, suspiciously holding one arm behind his back.
"Merry Christmas!" they both said, almost simultaneously.
Roger spoke. "Hey, Nutsy, I got you a little something for Christmas."
"Me too," said Carolyn, and they exchanged packages.
Carolyn hurriedly opened her package staring in disbelief. "Cuticle Frames?! But Roger, I sold my cuticles so I could afford to buy you some shinbone polish!"
"Shinbone polish!" said Roger, "I sold my shinbones to buy you the cuticle frames!" Roger wobbled over to her.
"Well, I'll be hog-tied," said Carolyn.
"You will? Oh, boy!" said Roger.
And it turned out to be a great Christmas after all.
We're just too occupied with them. That's why gift giving (and gift receiving) is so hard. We're supposed to know what we want on this arbitrarily-chosen day, and we're supposed to know what others expect.
Each and every year, deficit consumer spending increases unfailingly. The level of desperation increases as the Big Day comes closer. People argue, fight, kill, steal, lie, and defraud in order to have a Merry Christmas. Now the human element can be removed completely with a service that allows for automated exchanges.
All this to commemorate the birth of the man (the God?) whose life was an example of salvation from the concept of "mine". This is why I don't cringe or lash out with anger when Usama ibn Laden calls us the Great Satan.
Now it makes more sense--thanks for the enlightenment. Also I finally grokked that the procedure will be performed a few more times over the next year, when the positions of planets and asteroids are significantly different from today's positions.
I learned in physics that waves don't have mass, then learned later (on/. maybe???) that they can be affected by gravity (and other forces, ostensibly). I'll play devil's advocate here and suggest that the transmitters' waves can themselves be affected by other forces besides the elusive gravity waves. Agree/disagree.
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I can have a second penis. Thank you science!
Triumph? I think capitalism is no different from the pirate drama played out on the high seas centuries ago. These companies will all come and go, none triumphant. As long as their is money, there will be dishonesty. Not all will be caught.
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It's true then. I always ignored the "Michael censors..." crybaby posts written by hormonally challenged teens, but now someone has presented some real evidence that editors bitchslap accounts. I'm sure it only happens to trolls and crapflooders, but I'm still disappointed. Ban IPs or delete accounts if you must, but don't abuse the moderation system that you want your users to hold sacred.
So let's see if I have all of these straight:
By the time the revolution comes, there are gonna be so many Corporate Newspeak motherfuckers that we'll have to build a bigger wall to put them up against.
Thanks for setting me straight. What do you think about the rest of my gedankenexperiment? Is it even possible, considering that health officials say the virus needs mammal temperatures to survive?
I would mod you up, but none of my UIDs have had mod points in a while (taco hates me or something). I'm thinking of posting all my UIDs/passwords on trolltalk as a form of protest.
It's true--I took the grad-level PLP (COP 5535, IIRC) course last summer. Dr. Bermudez announced in class that around ten students (out of ~100) had suspiciously similar code. I was shocked, since these were all graduate students.
The software compares parse trees, rendering most obfuscation techniques ineffective. Perhaps it also analyzes the machine code, counting jumps and performing statistical analysis of procedure calls. The more industrious cheater can probably resort to #inline directives and nested function calls to beat the detector, but anybody who goes to that length should just do the damn assignment instead.
I'm very grateful for any and all cheating detectors. You missed the point, Taco: collaboration is extremely important, but someone who can't produce code is useless in a production environment
If a bacterium can survive those conditions for that long, I'm sure a virus could also--especially since it's just a strand of DNA inside a shield. The first trip to the moon happened in 1969; many virologists place the hypothetical Case 0 in the same year (IIRC, Case 0 was purported to be an airline steward--maybe he swung with astronauts[??]). Maybe the virus was introduced to the earth that way?
Call me crazy, but I don't believe this is the case--I will acknowledge the possibility that it is true. This isn't as crazy as the conspiracy theory of AIDS. Anybody care to elaborate on this?
Come on slashdotters, get those anger votes in!!! We can change history and have a Jar-Jar-free Episode II and III. Let's get those Natalie Portman nude scenes in there while we're at it. Gee, I never thought mob rule could be more fun than good ol' democracy...
I quit watching TV as a teen because I was tired of the brainwashing. These days if I'm visiting someone who has it on I will watch with them so as to not be a snob. Recently I caught a little bit of Good Morning America. I was amazed by how much of the show is blatant advertising for products. My friend said most other "information" shows on TV are the same way. Every outlet in our culture is being geared towards the Consumerist movement.
So now the "News" sites on the Internet are doing the same thing. It's sad to see the progression of the Internet from a bastion of equal speech to yet another Consumerism-in-overdrive medium.
If slashdot starts redirecting the "Reply" button to ad sites, I'll post all my karma-capped UIDs/passwords on a first-come, first-served basis. The advertisers will win, and so will the trolls.
Sorry, I just have a problem with arbitrary limitations
Why isn't the parent at a +5 (Insightful/Informative/Underrated) yet? This is one of the most insightful posts *ever* on this forum. If there is sentient, advanced, intelligent life in other galaxies, by the time they arrive they will conclude that we were not intelligent because we managed to kill each other and make the planet uninhabitable for all other Earth species (well, except roaches).
On a side note, have any of the SETI people considered the possibility that sentient beings from other galaxies may not speak English?
I'm definitely getting modded down for this (Moderators: use "Offtopic", please!) off topic post, but frankly I don't get your sig. Do you mean to tell me god has sacks? Does he weigh them out to 7.10 grams?
Ha! Funny pic. Now I wonder what is the difference--to a camera--between a 2-D rendering and a 3-D face? The image of ibn Laden on the photo paper is a reflection (bad pun...) of the lighting, f-stop, and other conditions determined by when/where/how the picture was taken. An image taken of a person walking through the airport security checkpoint will be subjected to the same conditions, unique to the location. There will be some difference--to the camera--between a real-life ibn Laden walking through the checkpoint and a man of different stature walking through with an image of ibn Laden in front of his face.
The Pelco system must use some very loose logic to indicate a probable Hit. This will lead to higher Type II/III errors and greater mistrust of the system. Not before Pelco profits outrageously, though.
This facial recognition has a near-zero Hit rate and a high false-positive (Type III error???) rate. The false-positive rate is a killer because it may cause system operators to miss a Hit (true positive). So what do we end up with: an authoritarian tool that is completely worthless.
Meanwhile, the failure of this project can be a selling point for Larry Ellison's proposed National ID card system. Perhaps the streetlamp cameras in Ybor City will soon be replaced by turnstiles manned by undereducated, undermotivated, understimulated, minimum-wage-earning Security Engineers (read: displaced airport security screeners) checking each person's National ID card. These people probably won't be able to grasp the concept of Type II/III errors; thus the implementation of the National ID Card will suffer from the same problems as the facial recognition system.
In summary the two vendors will profit substantially from their products--which won't make the public any safer--and we will be eased into acceptance of the mercantilist authoritarian police state.
Silly mortals! I propose that whomever designed us intentionally created these apparent paradoxes to force all doubters to eventually believe.
Now I can see the BSODs everywhere!
You said:
Unfortunately, this action doesn't do that. The artists got screwed when they signed the contract before they recorded the album/film/etc... This action serves to protect the leech class. Even then, it doesn't really protect them unless all Ukranian manufacturers are strictly pirates. With the ubiquity of CD burners, I doubt that to be true--what need is there for a centralized pirating operation when all the equipment has been decentralized?In summary, this is just yet another instance of the U.S.A. bullying a small country (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Grenada, Lebanon, Somalia, Cuba, Colombia, ad vomitum...) so leaders of other small countries can see what happens if they don't comply when asked. Such a leader gets to choose between "Sign this piece of paper" or "get assassinated by the CIA or a CIA-supported group and vilified posthumously by American media". Frankly I'm amazed that the Ukraine is standing up for freedom.
On December 3 1984, a large quantity of Methyl Isocyanate (IIRC) was accidentally released from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. Over 4,000 people were killed; over 200,000 were injured.
We all know what happened on September 11 2001.
The apologists among you are already preparing your rebuttal, building the argument that the WTC deaths were intentional and the Bhopal deaths were an accident. Union Carbide, an American company (now owned or otherwise absorbed by Dow) manufacturing a dangerous product demanded by American manufacturers or consumers was very much aware of the dangers of Methyl Isocyanate--precisely the reason why the plant was not built in America. I'm sure profit (the modern-day "prophet") figured into it as well. So by consciously building a ticking time bomb in a poor country halfway around the world, Union Carbide made it clear that the lives near its location were worthless--just as Atta and his crew did as they boarded their planes on that fateful morning.
I'm sure that today you will be visited by members of the FBI and Secret Service, who wish to know of your al-Qaeda links. Please post your experience in a follow-up.
One thing I'm always grateful for is a clear sky on a dark night and the humbling power of the billions and billions of stars that are visible to my eye. A few months ago, there was an article on light pollution, along with links to nighttime shots of earth to illustrate the intensity of light pollution. Along with that article was the revelation that there are a growing number of people who have never seen a starry night. Sounds trivial to you, but such a simple thing is very important because it forces the alert human to put things into perspective and to see that there are greater things than man can create.
Light pollution isn't the only threat to our ability to witness astronomically significant events: space billboards will probably debut as soon as the economy goes back into upswing. Laugh if you must, but don't be surprised if future articles warn you "you'll have to squint to see Jupiter tonight, because the Coca-Cola® billboard will be about 3 to the east..." or similar.
This would be interesting to see. In The Natural Mind, Dr. Andrew Weil elaborates on his 1960's Harvard research which showed that short-term recall and task performance were dependent on whether the task/info was learned while the subject was in the same state of mind for the testing (learned stoned, performed straight; learned stoned, performed stoned; ...). Emperical evidence illustrated that difficulty in short-term recall was a product of the subject's anxiety about being stoned in a test situation.
But let's see some biology in action and the physical results. Don't get your hopes up, though: Presidents Nixon and Reagan declared drug wars despite the findings of scientists they commissioned to study the effects of illegal drug usage on society.
Now they can watch live streaming video, courtesy of cnn.com, of their plane crashing into a building after being hijacked by some sick bastard. Until that happens, it's a great way to pass the time in those cramped cabins.
By the way, I hope it's not connected at all to any of the plane's navigation/communication/control systems...
The Gift of the Magi Indian Giver
Truly heartwarming!
We're just too occupied with them. That's why gift giving (and gift receiving) is so hard. We're supposed to know what we want on this arbitrarily-chosen day, and we're supposed to know what others expect.
Each and every year, deficit consumer spending increases unfailingly. The level of desperation increases as the Big Day comes closer. People argue, fight, kill, steal, lie, and defraud in order to have a Merry Christmas. Now the human element can be removed completely with a service that allows for automated exchanges.
All this to commemorate the birth of the man (the God?) whose life was an example of salvation from the concept of "mine". This is why I don't cringe or lash out with anger when Usama ibn Laden calls us the Great Satan.
Now it makes more sense--thanks for the enlightenment. Also I finally grokked that the procedure will be performed a few more times over the next year, when the positions of planets and asteroids are significantly different from today's positions.
I learned in physics that waves don't have mass, then learned later (on /. maybe???) that they can be affected by gravity (and other forces, ostensibly). I'll play devil's advocate here and suggest that the transmitters' waves can themselves be affected by other forces besides the elusive gravity waves. Agree/disagree.