I read something just the other day about how so-called "Global Dimming" is balancing out the otherwise catastrophic effects of global warming.
If that really is the case, then wouldn't it be a good idea to artificially increase the amount of particulate matter in the atmosphere to reflect away even more sunlight in proportion to the increasing CO2 levels? Conspiracy nuts even say we're doing this already, with "chemtrails" spewed from fleets of jetliners.
Of course this would just be a bandaid solution, and there's still the law of unintended consequences to worry about in a large chaotic system. The ironic thing to me is that in the nearing carbon-based economy of nanotech, we'll probably have the reverse problem of people extracting too much free carbon out of the atmosphere.
If you want to be truly anonymous you need to employ a vastly more inefficient p2p protocol where peers NEVER directly communicate with each other (which would reveal their IP), but instead route through other random nodes. See FreeNet and Tor for example.
Don't ask me how I got it, but I managed to obtain an *exclusive* corporate promo video of the new robosoldier in question: check it out here.
(actually, the video is an "old" CG animation clip called Tetra Vaal. Still gives me goosebumps to imagine what the powerdrunk elite would probably do if commanding a better-than-human army without a conscience.)
My sig is simply in reponse to Fermi's quote - "where are they?" - about ETs being MIA in the face of the numbers. It's just my opinion that every intelligent civilization evolves exponentially to the point of self-destruction, or singularity (at which point pre-singularity civilizations are as interesting as slime mold, and ignored, but still respected in a prime-directive kind of way).
Repeat after me: It's not "wasting time" if you're having fun.
It's only those obsessed with status & material wealth who get wrapped up in the notion that every worthwhile waking hour should be spent working on advancing careers and whatnot.
This guy Aubrey's not nuts at all to believe that immortality is a near-term inevitablity, except that biological immortality isn't necessarily the end-game.
Getting people to re-evaluate their core beliefs about such "sci-fi" ideas is HARD, but give Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns a read if you want to understand how incredibly fast progress is going to accelerate in the next few decades leading up to our potential[1] Singularity.
Immortality -- even if only biological -- is just ONE of the implications of exponentially evolving technology, but most people will just balk at even this possibility because they can't accept even that tiny bit of future shock.
[1] The odds are that the growing incompatibility between our primitive brains and advancing tech will kill us first.
admitted that bussiness buys the government... I didn't hear any big issues come from that...
Maybe because deep in people's hearts, they secretly want to join those corrupt bastards at the top, and so just accept the system because it's "reality".
More than that, guns usually only kill the poor "little people", while P2P mostly hurts "big business", so please, Senator, won't somebody please think of my mutual funds? Every pirate jailed, every p2p system banned, and every DRM solution enforced by government mandate == a lovely boost in my "intellectual property" portfolio!
A better solution to limiting blogspam is to combine spam blacklists along with simply making it harder to post comments on OLD entries that have scrolled off the main page into history.
Either disable new posts to the archives entirely, or make it difficult to automate by requiring human email and/or captcha security image verification.
I agree about the speed of the xfce videos being too fast. Just chaulk it up to the guy making the videos being too familiar with the interface and not considering his audience, since I doubt he was just showing off.
Place the HDs in the bottom 3-1/2 bay and they'll be cooled by most case front-fans just fine; if not an option, and you're paranoid about heat reducing the life of your drives, then go for 5400rpm or simply buy some cheap HD bay cooling fans. And noise hasn't been a problem for me in quite a while, especially with those fluid dynamic bearings.
Just thought I'd chime in with a quick report on the value of various hard drives.
The best bang/buck EIDE hard drive you can get today is ~40cents per GB for a 160GB drive; any smaller capacity and you'll be paying more for less. For a little less than 50cents/GB you can get a 250,200, or 180GB drive where the increased storage density might be worth the extra few pennies per GB. The 400GB and 300GB monsters are under $1/GB, but still aren't a very good value (unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket and value bragging rights).
So, IMO, the best bang/buck for your average guy is putting two to four 160GB or 250GB drives in RAID 1 or 5.
Yes, it would be more accurate to refer to it as The Law of Accelerating Returns, as it's more general, but unfortunately most people are only aware of the popularized Moore's Law as it applies to transistor count, so it'll continue to get used in its stead. It makes the same point (unless you're a pedant).
what is stopping somebody with bomb-making skills...
Probability is.
There's only about 0.0001% of the population that's angry, desperate & psychopathic enough to consider acts of terruh, times about 0.001% smart enough to plan an overly-complex scheme, times 0.1% motivated enough to follow through, times 50% odds of success. (So, worry about dying in a traffic accident instead.)
Numbers out of my ass, but that's a basic "Drakes Equation" for ya.
Quick! Somebody call the Dept of "HomeSec" on this evildoer, before he makes his "homing glider" plans available to terrerhists like that DIY cruise missile guy tried to. And if they find any Estes model rocket engines in his home (while he's away, of course), I they throw the book at him!
So I dl'd and installed it (the linux version), but their ingame serverlist has been down for hours, and the two gameservers posted are down as well. Maybe later.
So spell it "c a m p e r", "c4mper", "camp3r", "camp-er", "kamper", or any of the other ways you have to to get around those lame censor-nazi rules.
If I find myself on one of those types of auto-censoring servers I make it point to stick around and fvcking swear more than I normally would. I just can't stand the language nazis.
[Another loser looks up from MolecularDesigner v0.12b] Oh yeah? I snagged some DNA from Jolene Blalock at the last Star Trek convention! I'm almost done with my T'Pol mods: real vulcan ears; nympho-nnet-brain-1.2; ; >censored>; and green eyes.
[Gets the 105 pounds of feedstock matter ready for the Molecular Assembler]
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See also: The Cluetrain Manifesto. It came first.
If that really is the case, then wouldn't it be a good idea to artificially increase the amount of particulate matter in the atmosphere to reflect away even more sunlight in proportion to the increasing CO2 levels? Conspiracy nuts even say we're doing this already, with "chemtrails" spewed from fleets of jetliners.
Of course this would just be a bandaid solution, and there's still the law of unintended consequences to worry about in a large chaotic system. The ironic thing to me is that in the nearing carbon-based economy of nanotech, we'll probably have the reverse problem of people extracting too much free carbon out of the atmosphere.
If you want to be truly anonymous you need to employ a vastly more inefficient p2p protocol where peers NEVER directly communicate with each other (which would reveal their IP), but instead route through other random nodes. See FreeNet and Tor for example.
(actually, the video is an "old" CG animation clip called Tetra Vaal. Still gives me goosebumps to imagine what the powerdrunk elite would probably do if commanding a better-than-human army without a conscience.)
You're either with the New World Order, or you're against us. You aren't chipped, are you, terrorist?
My sig is simply in reponse to Fermi's quote - "where are they?" - about ETs being MIA in the face of the numbers. It's just my opinion that every intelligent civilization evolves exponentially to the point of self-destruction, or singularity (at which point pre-singularity civilizations are as interesting as slime mold, and ignored, but still respected in a prime-directive kind of way).
September 2004 - 2% Mozilla
October 2004 - 2% Mozilla
November 2004 - 3% Mozilla
December 2004 - 3% Mozilla
January 2005 - 5% Mozilla???
It's only those obsessed with status & material wealth who get wrapped up in the notion that every worthwhile waking hour should be spent working on advancing careers and whatnot.
Getting people to re-evaluate their core beliefs about such "sci-fi" ideas is HARD, but give Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns a read if you want to understand how incredibly fast progress is going to accelerate in the next few decades leading up to our potential[1] Singularity.
Immortality -- even if only biological -- is just ONE of the implications of exponentially evolving technology, but most people will just balk at even this possibility because they can't accept even that tiny bit of future shock.
[1] The odds are that the growing incompatibility between our primitive brains and advancing tech will kill us first.
Maybe because deep in people's hearts, they secretly want to join those corrupt bastards at the top, and so just accept the system because it's "reality".
"AMERICA! AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!"
Either disable new posts to the archives entirely, or make it difficult to automate by requiring human email and/or captcha security image verification.
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Nice rant -- can't wait to hear your conniption when SDR (Software Defined Radio) becomes mainstream.
I agree about the speed of the xfce videos being too fast. Just chaulk it up to the guy making the videos being too familiar with the interface and not considering his audience, since I doubt he was just showing off.
- vnc2swf
- vncrec + transcode
- xvidcap
- Use the "better" Windows capture software to capture whatever you want running in VMWare, on a FAST machine.
- (point a camcorder at the screen and encode later)
If you also want to sync audio recording along with the video, it takes some extra work.I go by the best price you can get without special deals. @ pricewatch
Place the HDs in the bottom 3-1/2 bay and they'll be cooled by most case front-fans just fine; if not an option, and you're paranoid about heat reducing the life of your drives, then go for 5400rpm or simply buy some cheap HD bay cooling fans. And noise hasn't been a problem for me in quite a while, especially with those fluid dynamic bearings.
The best bang/buck EIDE hard drive you can get today is ~40cents per GB for a 160GB drive; any smaller capacity and you'll be paying more for less. For a little less than 50cents/GB you can get a 250,200, or 180GB drive where the increased storage density might be worth the extra few pennies per GB. The 400GB and 300GB monsters are under $1/GB, but still aren't a very good value (unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket and value bragging rights).
So, IMO, the best bang/buck for your average guy is putting two to four 160GB or 250GB drives in RAID 1 or 5.
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Yes, it would be more accurate to refer to it as The Law of Accelerating Returns, as it's more general, but unfortunately most people are only aware of the popularized Moore's Law as it applies to transistor count, so it'll continue to get used in its stead. It makes the same point (unless you're a pedant).
Probability is.
There's only about 0.0001% of the population that's angry, desperate & psychopathic enough to consider acts of terruh, times about 0.001% smart enough to plan an overly-complex scheme, times 0.1% motivated enough to follow through, times 50% odds of success. (So, worry about dying in a traffic accident instead.)
Numbers out of my ass, but that's a basic "Drakes Equation" for ya.
Quick! Somebody call the Dept of "HomeSec" on this evildoer, before he makes his "homing glider" plans available to terrerhists like that DIY cruise missile guy tried to. And if they find any Estes model rocket engines in his home (while he's away, of course), I they throw the book at him!
So I dl'd and installed it (the linux version), but their ingame serverlist has been down for hours, and the two gameservers posted are down as well. Maybe later.
If I find myself on one of those types of auto-censoring servers I make it point to stick around and fvcking swear more than I normally would. I just can't stand the language nazis.
Is there a connection? Where have all the bananas gone?
[Gets the 105 pounds of feedstock matter ready for the Molecular Assembler]