Is anyone else weirded out that a piece of paper Certifying your Birth, your License to Drive and your Social Security card are the main means of identifying you? It's all cobbled together in a strange and nasty web of connected requirements. I need all three to get a Passport, but then I can't use my Passport to get a Driver's license.
Now logically you should be able to get one from the others.
But I digress.
I know we all fear the national ID number... but we already have it. If you have a passport, it's that. If you have a SSN, it's that. Driver's license? These are all ID. If you Nationalize ID's, then we can put limits on what they can and can't be used for, but right now these other numbers are unprotected. Take your SSN and post it as a reply and you'll see what I mean.
3 people in Brookland get hit by cars when using iPods. Over the same period of time hundreds of people won the lottery. In fact, most people who get hit by cars either have lottery tickets in their pockets or have purchased them in the last week. Ok, I don't know that for a fact, but I'm pretty convinced this is just a guy making noise to get in the news. Good job. It worked. What were the odds?
It's because encyclopedias are not authoritative, in that they do not research information but merely collate it.
By this criteria, a Dictionary is not authoritative either. It only collates information about common usage. However I dare you to write a resume and skip on spell checking against a Dictionary...
I want to flip open my satch and have a flexible keyboard and monitor with WIFI for surfing the web, ssh, and reading email (which for me is ssh since I read in PINE). Some way to put this into a satchel and still be able to use it as a bag would rock. I still want to carry around my sketch book and pens/pencils in the cafe.
The hard part seems to be the monitor. How to keep it safe and light weight.
In an effort help with police crowd control, scientist have inject all newborns with Brain-Bombs what can either be activated to stun perpetrators or in extreme situations kill them. Each Brain-Bomb is encoded with a special ID tag that is a carefully modified version of the babies SSN (MD5 hash). There is only minimal risk that any two people might have the same number.
The President applauded the new measure and said he would "like to take measures to have everyone in the country fitted with such devices." He noted that it would be invaluable in the upcoming War Draft.
Come on. 4% is a hell of a lot better than your odds of winning the lottery and that happens *everyday*.
Plus he's not taking into account multiple alien races. So that's like double 4% which is almost 8%. Do that a few hundred times and you get 108%. This guy clearly doesn't understand math.
What next? Are you going to suggest we only have 10 mili-hours in a day? Will a dozen donuts now only be 10 and a baker's dozen 11? Can you imagine the look in my wife's eyes when I bring her 10 roses on valentines day? "Honey, it's the metric system, I'm not being cheap."
There's nothing wrong with base 12. Just look at your fingers!!
Some folks are already looking to the future where we probably won't see WoW on consoles, but may see it with security dongles. 0.1% of the Earth's population can't all be wrong.
Why doesn't Blizzard just make their own hardware? The ultimate dongle is a single game console. Cheap enough to capture an entirely new market, and since it's really the per month payments they want they can cut the price. Plug in your ethernet and a USB keyboard/mouse/joystick and away you go.
I know Blizzard isn't a hardware company, but this seems like an obvious "Apple"-esc move.
This variable should be SCRUBBED FOR CODE before I get it. That's the secure thing to do. If you want an unscrubbed version with php code in it, then I should as for it with an insecure variable like $_GET(code,insecure);
Don't let the newbie make the newbie mistakes. Let the advanced user have what he needs the.01% of the time it's warranted. (How often do you really want code in your $_GET()?
My personal pet peeve with these distros, and it's something that Ubuntu does well, is the naming of the applications. No one who isn't a uber-geek knows what GIMP is, but if you call it "Image Editor" in the application menu then at least people can use it. Likewise with "Word Processor" (OpenOffice), "Instant Messenger" (GAIM) and "Webpage" (HTTPS).
And don't get me started on all the K-foo names for anything ported to everyone elses favorite desktop.
If he can make up numbers, then I cam make up words,
this whole thing is utterly stuipfluous.
Actually you're more qualified to make up words than he is at making up new numbers. All a new word needs is to be used (repeatedly) in the common language to be considered a proper word.
A new number would required... would require... I can't think of what it would require but it would be very cloes to a nullity.
I played a thought experiment with a very smart fellow. The goal of the experiment was to come up with a safe way to create self replicating nanites that could cure cancer. We had 1 nanite that would cure cancer, but it was, of course, slow. The goal was to create enough to heal an entire body.
So the best way to make more nanites is to have the nanites make more of themselves. Seems pretty straight forward... only everytime we go about doing it we run into this little problem.
Mutations.
So we build these guys to start replicating and to stop replicating when we want them to... but when you make a billion of something you end up with some odd mutations. Even if you are talking about.001% mutation that's still 100,000 self replicating mistakes. If even one of those 100,000 mistakes is a mutation that just doesn't turn off self replication you now have a very bad problem.
Released, this nanite could theoretically convert the earth (see "grey goo") into a giant ball of itself.
Now I know this thread is going to be long, because so many of you very smart people will have so many smart ideas about how to make this safe. I'm glad you have these ideas and I'm glad you're voicing them. Some of them might even work.
What scares the hell out of me is that you're not the people working on this.
Get the rights before the pharma-corps make them intellectual property. I'd like life extension, cures for cancer and the like to be in the public domain, not $100,000 per use.
I'm tired of people not realizing that "Prizes" are really just Patronage in desguise. I'm not saying Patronage is a bad thing... far from it. But the idea that Prizes are somehow working shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone with knowledge of 15th century aristocracy.
Pay the people who do the work, don't get people to work for pay.
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I meant *just my passport*.
Is anyone else weirded out that a piece of paper Certifying your Birth, your License to Drive and your Social Security card are the main means of identifying you? It's all cobbled together in a strange and nasty web of connected requirements. I need all three to get a Passport, but then I can't use my Passport to get a Driver's license.
Now logically you should be able to get one from the others.
But I digress.
I know we all fear the national ID number... but we already have it. If you have a passport, it's that. If you have a SSN, it's that. Driver's license? These are all ID. If you Nationalize ID's, then we can put limits on what they can and can't be used for, but right now these other numbers are unprotected. Take your SSN and post it as a reply and you'll see what I mean.
3 people in Brookland get hit by cars when using iPods. Over the same period of time hundreds of people won the lottery. In fact, most people who get hit by cars either have lottery tickets in their pockets or have purchased them in the last week. Ok, I don't know that for a fact, but I'm pretty convinced this is just a guy making noise to get in the news. Good job. It worked. What were the odds?
It's because encyclopedias are not authoritative, in that they do not research information but merely collate it.
By this criteria, a Dictionary is not authoritative either. It only collates information about common usage. However I dare you to write a resume and skip on spell checking against a Dictionary...
My laptop shocks me all the time. I thought this was a feature to keep me awake on long flights.
Won't change anything, and at least you can buy a nice winter coat.
Pong - winner stays, loser has to give you his resume.
Headline reads "Smell-a-Vision replaces Television".
They sued your for leaving. Then they escort you from the building before your two weeks is up.
So which is it; they want you or they don't want you.
I want to flip open my satch and have a flexible keyboard and monitor with WIFI for surfing the web, ssh, and reading email (which for me is ssh since I read in PINE). Some way to put this into a satchel and still be able to use it as a bag would rock. I still want to carry around my sketch book and pens/pencils in the cafe.
The hard part seems to be the monitor. How to keep it safe and light weight.
Power is another problem.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/03/09/2211203.s html
Would make a hell of a game.
In an effort help with police crowd control, scientist have inject all newborns with Brain-Bombs what can either be activated to stun perpetrators or in extreme situations kill them. Each Brain-Bomb is encoded with a special ID tag that is a carefully modified version of the babies SSN (MD5 hash). There is only minimal risk that any two people might have the same number.
The President applauded the new measure and said he would "like to take measures to have everyone in the country fitted with such devices." He noted that it would be invaluable in the upcoming War Draft.
Come on. 4% is a hell of a lot better than your odds of winning the lottery and that happens *everyday*.
Plus he's not taking into account multiple alien races. So that's like double 4% which is almost 8%. Do that a few hundred times and you get 108%. This guy clearly doesn't understand math.
Too many people were complaining in multi-player mode that the shotguns were "gay". That and the pipe bombs didn't work. Basically the game sucks.
What next? Are you going to suggest we only have 10 mili-hours in a day? Will a dozen donuts now only be 10 and a baker's dozen 11? Can you imagine the look in my wife's eyes when I bring her 10 roses on valentines day? "Honey, it's the metric system, I'm not being cheap."
There's nothing wrong with base 12. Just look at your fingers!!
Some folks are already looking to the future where we probably won't see WoW on consoles, but may see it with security dongles. 0.1% of the Earth's population can't all be wrong.
Why doesn't Blizzard just make their own hardware? The ultimate dongle is a single game console. Cheap enough to capture an entirely new market, and since it's really the per month payments they want they can cut the price. Plug in your ethernet and a USB keyboard/mouse/joystick and away you go.
I know Blizzard isn't a hardware company, but this seems like an obvious "Apple"-esc move.
This variable should be SCRUBBED FOR CODE before I get it. That's the secure thing to do. If you want an unscrubbed version with php code in it, then I should as for it with an insecure variable like $_GET(code,insecure);
.01% of the time it's warranted. (How often do you really want code in your $_GET()?
Don't let the newbie make the newbie mistakes. Let the advanced user have what he needs the
"What?"
The terms of service. Did you read the Terms of Service?
"What?"
English, do you speak it? Say 'what' one more time. Say 'what' one more mother fucking time.
"No, no, I didn't read it."
Then why you trying to treat PayPal like you read it?
Absolutely not true. I'm 100% sure that Balmer is sitting on a nice big stool of his on creation.
My personal pet peeve with these distros, and it's something that Ubuntu does well, is the naming of the applications. No one who isn't a uber-geek knows what GIMP is, but if you call it "Image Editor" in the application menu then at least people can use it. Likewise with "Word Processor" (OpenOffice), "Instant Messenger" (GAIM) and "Webpage" (HTTPS).
And don't get me started on all the K-foo names for anything ported to everyone elses favorite desktop.
If he can make up numbers, then I cam make up words,
... would require ... I can't think of what it would require but it would be very cloes to a nullity.
this whole thing is utterly stuipfluous.
Actually you're more qualified to make up words than he is at making up new numbers. All a new word needs is to be used (repeatedly) in the common language to be considered a proper word.
A new number would required
But networks don't bump someone else's ad down in quality to put their ad on. The analogy is flawed.
I played a thought experiment with a very smart fellow. The goal of the experiment was to come up with a safe way to create self replicating nanites that could cure cancer. We had 1 nanite that would cure cancer, but it was, of course, slow. The goal was to create enough to heal an entire body.
.001% mutation that's still 100,000 self replicating mistakes. If even one of those 100,000 mistakes is a mutation that just doesn't turn off self replication you now have a very bad problem.
So the best way to make more nanites is to have the nanites make more of themselves. Seems pretty straight forward... only everytime we go about doing it we run into this little problem.
Mutations.
So we build these guys to start replicating and to stop replicating when we want them to... but when you make a billion of something you end up with some odd mutations. Even if you are talking about
Released, this nanite could theoretically convert the earth (see "grey goo") into a giant ball of itself.
Now I know this thread is going to be long, because so many of you very smart people will have so many smart ideas about how to make this safe. I'm glad you have these ideas and I'm glad you're voicing them. Some of them might even work.
What scares the hell out of me is that you're not the people working on this.
Get the rights before the pharma-corps make them intellectual property. I'd like life extension, cures for cancer and the like to be in the public domain, not $100,000 per use.
I'm tired of people not realizing that "Prizes" are really just Patronage in desguise. I'm not saying Patronage is a bad thing... far from it. But the idea that Prizes are somehow working shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone with knowledge of 15th century aristocracy.
Pay the people who do the work, don't get people to work for pay.