This happens when your government supports the profits of the corporations over the rights of the citizens. Mussolini called it "corporatism" but that moniker didn't really take off so we're left with just plain old fashioned "Fascism".
A good friend liked this book so much he bought a copy for me and hovered until I read it.
Bottom line: It's not a very well written book but the conclusions it draws are scientifically sound and inescapable. There is something going on which is poorly described and poorly understood by science. Also what ever it is, is above and beyond statistical randomness. (and well below these fools running around talking to dead, bending spoons, and reading minds)
This doesn't surprise me at all. Pity there's so much idiocy in the world that figuring it out is beyond us.
Oh and on a side note: you knee jerk deniers with your cutesy "They should have seen it coming" bullshit. Fuck Off; you aren't funny, you're lame and you are just as much part of the problem as the fools on Art Bell talking with Elvis.
I was just in the US and I was shocked at the increase of racist things my family & I were subjected to, as compared to around 5 years ago when we moved away from the US. I realize that's it is pretty obvious my girlfriend isn't Anglo (She's Cambodian) and our daughter is... well *ours* and that we don't speak English amongst ourselves. But I will never for the life of me understand why someone would use insults aimed at Mexicans at a family of mixed race speaking Czech in the US.
It amazes me how effectively the Mexicans have been turned into the new enemy in the US.
The general consensus among the experts in cryptology is that a competition is far more effective than other methods of designing algorithms. Presumably the 3 years is a function of how long the world can wait as compared to how the experts need to crack it. The thing that makes me wonder is why they waited so long to begin it.
Characterizing this process as a "serial security-by-obscurity strategy" is completely wrong because due to the very nature of the competition the algorithm is known from the start.
Re:Performance, anyone?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'll hazard a few guesses:
1: It is popular among people who are solving problems LISP is well suited for. 2: There are other languages that are more suited for what most developers do. 3: There are other languages that are more successfully marketed.
I've earned more money in less time using COBOL than any other language but you don't hear me telling kids to pick it up. Nor do you see me selling COBOL for new projects.
I don't think all of this "what language is 'leet" talk is productive or illuminating. You have a problem, so you use the best tool you can find and learn how to use to solve that problem. If anything I find LISP excels at allowing me to solve certain problems in very interesting ways. Ways that perhaps using the currently popular language wouldn't have allowed.
Interestingly this was universally the first thing my friends & family noticed when I quit supporting their HP and Packard Bell MS Windows computers and forced them to update to iMacs. I always wondered why Apple doesn't bring that up in their adverts.
Nope not a student not trust fund kid... to old for both.
I'm not a contractor and I'm not all that high paid (I've swapped raises for more time off 60% of the time for the last 10 years)
I made choices, just like every else does. Only difference is I chose not to be part of the consumer culture and I chose to be a big part of my kid's life.
They choose to accept 2 weeks per year holiday.
They choose to work in an environment which will not allow their absence.
They choose to consume to such an extent they are required to work the amount they work.
They choose to purchase these things on credit so they are indebted to a third party.
I'll be the first to say that the capitalist system is virtually designed to create this situation but it is by no means the only way to live your life... or even the most desirable or healthy.
Getting away from such things can be the fastest way to healthy and happy life style.
Myself, I get around 100 days per year off and I wouldn't want any other way.
These reports are their livelihood... I don't think they'd publish a page without first being paid.
besides I don't tend to believe anything having to do with politicized science until it's had a vigorous peer review... I'll bet next week someone will publish a 'stinging rebuttal' and we'll we right back where were this morning.
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That makes two of us.
My Gran got no end of amusement out making it too.
In Korea, only old people use Dominos.
Man, I can't believe I just said that... I'm going for a shower.
6: The Chicago Bomb Squad will blow it up.
Lightroom & Aperture do different things than Photoshop.
I'll very, very few people use either Lightroom or Aperture and don't use Photoshop.
No. Not Mercantilism, Corporatism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
This happens when your government supports the profits of the corporations over the rights of the citizens. Mussolini called it "corporatism" but that moniker didn't really take off so we're left with just plain old fashioned "Fascism".
So, has anyone managed to program the PS3 to decrypt a Blu-Ray movie disk yet?
What's the big deal? All of my apps have scrolling that on Mac OS X.
Presumably it's part of the Microsoft Intellimouse driver.
A good friend liked this book so much he bought a copy for me and hovered until I read it.
Bottom line: It's not a very well written book but the conclusions it draws are scientifically sound and inescapable. There is something going on which is poorly described and poorly understood by science. Also what ever it is, is above and beyond statistical randomness. (and well below these fools running around talking to dead, bending spoons, and reading minds)
This doesn't surprise me at all. Pity there's so much idiocy in the world that figuring it out is beyond us.
Oh and on a side note: you knee jerk deniers with your cutesy "They should have seen it coming" bullshit. Fuck Off; you aren't funny, you're lame and you are just as much part of the problem as the fools on Art Bell talking with Elvis.
I was just in the US and I was shocked at the increase of racist things my family & I were subjected to, as compared to around 5 years ago when we moved away from the US. I realize that's it is pretty obvious my girlfriend isn't Anglo (She's Cambodian) and our daughter is... well *ours* and that we don't speak English amongst ourselves. But I will never for the life of me understand why someone would use insults aimed at Mexicans at a family of mixed race speaking Czech in the US.
It amazes me how effectively the Mexicans have been turned into the new enemy in the US.
``This isn't a smoking gun; This is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles.''
The general consensus among the experts in cryptology is that a competition is far more effective than other methods of designing algorithms. Presumably the 3 years is a function of how long the world can wait as compared to how the experts need to crack it. The thing that makes me wonder is why they waited so long to begin it.
Characterizing this process as a "serial security-by-obscurity strategy" is completely wrong because due to the very nature of the competition the algorithm is known from the start.
I'll hazard a few guesses:
1: It is popular among people who are solving problems LISP is well suited for.
2: There are other languages that are more suited for what most developers do.
3: There are other languages that are more successfully marketed.
I've earned more money in less time using COBOL than any other language but you don't hear me telling kids to pick it up.
Nor do you see me selling COBOL for new projects.
I don't think all of this "what language is 'leet" talk is productive or illuminating. You have a problem, so you use the best tool you can find and learn how to use to solve that problem. If anything I find LISP excels at allowing me to solve certain problems in very interesting ways. Ways that perhaps using the currently popular language wouldn't have allowed.
Interestingly this was universally the first thing my friends & family noticed when I quit supporting their HP and Packard Bell MS Windows computers and forced them to update to iMacs. I always wondered why Apple doesn't bring that up in their adverts.
That is just not fair... I just ate lunch at the canteen at work and it sucked.
However at least they have snow, there isn't much around here... which makes for generally cranky Austrians
What else is there to do over that way? I was just looking into booking an overnight train to spend a long weekend there.
perhaps it would be better for the dollar to regain its value?
Do you honestly think that banks don't pass every single expense they incur along to the customer?
No matter who pays at first, in the end we all pay more because of shitty security.
Not only no but hell no.
sorry, it's the inevitable consequence of reading das Schloss while traveling to the USA.
How many truly good movies are in this list? Several
How many truly bad movies are in this list? Several
How many mediocre movies are on this list: The majority
Sorry man but the majority aren't worth what costs for Me, my GF, and my daughter to see them.
Nope not a student not trust fund kid... to old for both.
I'm not a contractor and I'm not all that high paid (I've swapped raises for more time off 60% of the time for the last 10 years)
I made choices, just like every else does. Only difference is I chose not to be part of the consumer culture and I chose to be a big part of my kid's life.
Nothing special, nothing sinister, nothing unattainable.
The real problem is not very many people even try. Honestly that's all I did... I asked.
Yes I do live in a nice world and I don't doubt you don't recognize it; but it's there... really.
People make their own decisions:
They choose to accept 2 weeks per year holiday.
They choose to work in an environment which will not allow their absence.
They choose to consume to such an extent they are required to work the amount they work.
They choose to purchase these things on credit so they are indebted to a third party.
I'll be the first to say that the capitalist system is virtually designed to create this situation but it is by no means the only way to live your life... or even the most desirable or healthy.
Getting away from such things can be the fastest way to healthy and happy life style.
Myself, I get around 100 days per year off and I wouldn't want any other way.
one more: Is that Web 3.0 for windows?
These reports are their livelihood... I don't think they'd publish a page without first being paid.
besides I don't tend to believe anything having to do with politicized science until it's had a vigorous peer review... I'll bet next week someone will publish a 'stinging rebuttal' and we'll we right back where were this morning.