There are several minor things such as jaywalking that should not be considered offences
I seem to be posting all the doom and gloom comments, but anyway... they just started to heavily enforce jaywalking violations on the local college campus. It's pretty insane considering the number of people who didn't use the crosswalks until recently. They're also enforcing cars stopping for pedestrians in the crosswalks. There is a good reason for it though. Even though all these people are in college they're not all that brilliant when it comes to crossing the street. Several people have been hit and at least one person was killed by stepping into the road without bothering to look. It doesn't help that the orientation tour guides and older students spread rumors about how the state will legally defend you if you are hit, so cars "will stop or else".
If you roll over a stop sign with absolutely NO ONE near you, there is basically nothing to regulate. Whether you comply or not, it yields no advantages, disadvantages or risks to anyone.
As in this specific sitution there is nothing to regulate, the law itself becomes irrelevant. Rolling over a stop sign in this case (where no one is around to see) is not breaking the law. It is just plain stupid to comply to it.
Whoa there! That's very irresponsible. Would you like to hear the story about a former friend of mine who used your exact logic above and ended up killing three people? You see, it was night and he turned off his headlights for a second as he approached a two way stop sign and determined there was no one coming on the cross street. Like you said, there was no one around so he ran it at about 60mph. Well, guess what, he was wrong and two adults and a child died because of it. It is "just plain stupid" to disobey a law simply because you don't like or agree with it.
But then again, often I do not use it, because NOBODY is around to see it. Does this give a machine the right to issue a ticket for me?
Once again, what gives you the the right to assume that you are correct in thinking there is no one around?
My point is this, if you are omniscient then fine, you can do whatever you want to "when no one else is around". However, if you are not a god, don't make assumptions.
First off, that page seemed very much like a "please give us money or else we're doomed" kind of research proposal. They themselves indicated that they didn't have much data to base things on, and that they needed more money to study it.
Second, the proposal seems to leave out one important fact: What about the massive heating of the tropics due to the fact that the heat isn't radiating to the north any longer? They seem to only focus on what will happen in the Northen Hemisphere. What about the South pole as well?
Third, this kind of change seems logical. If ice is indeed melting due to warmer temperatures then it makes sense that the Earth's systems will rebalance in the other direction. If not, we either wouldn't have any ice or the Earth would be frozen. The only reason we have balance now is that the climate takes care of itself regardless of what we do.
Lastly, I think the claim by the submitter that is "could happen in a decade" is a misread of the article.
BS. If the internet was built to maximize profit, then so many companies would not be trying so hard to mutate it into something that they can use to make money.
That's a very short sited answer. Who cares what other companies are doing to make money online! They have nothing to do with the problem, which is that nearly all the traffic on the net goes through a select set of major pipes. Worldcom, for instance, has created a backbone network that nearly every ISP's traffic flows through. They even say so on their own site: "A significant amount of the traffic that flows between ISP networks passes through WorldCom MAE service facilities." If/when Worldcom goes under, where is all that traffic going to go? That is the price that we pay for letting profits dictate the design of critical infrastructure. Although, please note that I'm not claiming companies should do things for free either. We just need to pay the price for the way the world works.
An old episode of Law & Order use subpoenaed toll information in New York to catch a person in a lie about their alibi. Anyway, just goes to show that someone has already thought of doing it.
This makes me wonder if a motor like this could be used to turn a "shade cog" over itself so once you start the motor going it will continue to run based on its own dark/light cycle. This same shade could have more of these motors under it which generate the actual useful work.
Last October this was just a test site by mrbiiggy, which is the same name that's on all the screen shots on SpyMac. He lists his homepage on his profile as knite.net, which is the same as his primary DNS, and it looks like a DSL connection in Costa Mesa, CA. It's probably the same web server that was doing macthis.org, but is now down for obvious reasons. I would guess that he yanked the IP and server when his phone jack started melting. His secondary DNS was on a cable modem in New York which isn't accepting DNS connections but is still up (as far as I can tell) but I imagine knite.net is the same IP as macthis.org.
Anyway, it boils down to the fact that there probably was a site there, and just because there isn't one now is no indication that they didn't check the link before posting.
We should all go to the various FBI sites such as the one below and report that Sony is releasing CDs with a Trojan virus on them. I mean, if a government employee put this CD their workstation, what might the national security concequences be?;) I say we fight them at their own game.
It looks like it installs itself as a separate program called "b3p". I'm not sure it it completely goes away, but b3p is certainly a "Brilliant" product. You'll have to close all browsers, and I had to reboot to get the uninstall to run.
Go to the page and hit reload a bunch of times. You'll get a few different banners on the right side, under the word ADVERTISEMENT. Sometime these ads look like story links. People are having trouble seeing what the big deal is because they are probably only getting the picture ads, not the link based ones. Anyway, as it has been adequately pointed out, it IS indicated that they are ads.
Now, the thing that puzzles me is that this guys theory isn't any different from the previous theory.
The "explosion" (aka impact by comet or something) theory says that the act of the moon heating up as it reformed caused volcanic like activity, which stopped when the moon finally settled.
The new theory says that some random and undetermined force (maybe tidal forces, maybe something else) caused the moon to heat up and cause volcanic like activity. Um, that's the same thing! All this theory does is say "no, it wasn't an impact that caused this! It was... Something Else!" What else? "Well, we're not sure, but man this is getting me good publicity for my PhD!"
I can't believe the reactions that have been shown by slashdotters! Do you think Anderson hasn't been checking logs to find out that some of the UNIX/Linux clients are returning packets back with IMPOSSIBLE times!? Are you guys stupid or something to think that it's a baseless comment? It's easy to trace this kind of thing and I'm sure they have. The fact that he refers specifically to the UNIX/Linux versions as being the culprits is that it's really only possible to do this kind of thing with those versions of the client. Add to this the hacker mentality that ANYONE running a version of UNIX automatically has and you will understand that the "hacker mentality" mentioned is using "hacker" in the good sense of the word, and is only pointing out that people using versions of UNIX are more likely to screw with things. If that bothers you, and if you don't admit that that is true, then you have a problem, not them. I believe it is entirely true that "MOST OF THE HEADACHES" have come from the UNIX/Linux community. That is a perfectly true statement, because only the UNIX versions can be messed with like this. Therefor, "most" of the problems DO come from this community. In any case, this is an offhand comment taken out of context, most likely prompted by the reporter, and anyone offened by it is damn insecure in my book.
The fact that Wired got some idiot to email them with a stupid figure of the amount of fuel wasted makes me want to cancel my Wired subscription, not my SETI participation! My computers have been on anyway! It's not like I would constantly shut my machines down if it weren't for SETI! More stupidity and FUD and I'd be ashamed if I were one of the people who have fallen for it.
I'm just sitting here waiting for all the ABSOLUTELY PERFECT distributed computing clients that all the complainers will be writing and releasing, because obviously SETI doesn't know what it's doing but the people who have complained and vowed never to run SETI again do. I mean, come on people! Get off the high horse and get a clue! Nothing is perfect, especially in the first few months of release, and if you think otherwise then , once again, that's your problem, not theirs.
I will be running SETI on as many machines as I can as long as I keep getting a packet at least once a month. It doesn't cost me anything, it looks really neat, and I still feel like I'm doing something useful and wonderful. I'm also not going to give up at the first sign of trouble as many seem to have. Hell, I wouldn't even have an OS on any of my machines if I gave up every time something didn't work perfectly (and this goes for Microsoft, Mac and any UNIX variety you can name. None of them have worked as advertised). To give up so easily on something so noble and possibly Earth shattering simply because the administration got dumped into something over their heads is pathetic. Cut em some slack! Because of all your complaint mail they probably haven't had time to tell you that the pipeline was screwed (which they did point out once they got the time). Like I said, where are all those perfect distributed clients guys? Haven't you had time yet to test them with 1,000,000 simulated users? You haven't? Wow, maybe that's the same problem SETI@Home is having? Gee, imagine that, nobody IS perfect after all...
To expect perfection is to invite your own failure.
I suppose it would be useless to point out that they already create and store antimatter for use in particle accelerators. In fact, they have been for years. I wouldn't want to muddle the discussion with facts, though...
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There are several minor things such as jaywalking that should not be considered offences
I seem to be posting all the doom and gloom comments, but anyway... they just started to heavily enforce jaywalking violations on the local college campus. It's pretty insane considering the number of people who didn't use the crosswalks until recently. They're also enforcing cars stopping for pedestrians in the crosswalks. There is a good reason for it though. Even though all these people are in college they're not all that brilliant when it comes to crossing the street. Several people have been hit and at least one person was killed by stepping into the road without bothering to look. It doesn't help that the orientation tour guides and older students spread rumors about how the state will legally defend you if you are hit, so cars "will stop or else".
If you roll over a stop sign with absolutely NO ONE near you, there is basically nothing to regulate. Whether you comply or not, it yields no advantages, disadvantages or risks to anyone.
As in this specific sitution there is nothing to regulate, the law itself becomes irrelevant. Rolling over a stop sign in this case (where no one is around to see) is not breaking the law. It is just plain stupid to comply to it.
Whoa there! That's very irresponsible. Would you like to hear the story about a former friend of mine who used your exact logic above and ended up killing three people? You see, it was night and he turned off his headlights for a second as he approached a two way stop sign and determined there was no one coming on the cross street. Like you said, there was no one around so he ran it at about 60mph. Well, guess what, he was wrong and two adults and a child died because of it. It is "just plain stupid" to disobey a law simply because you don't like or agree with it.
But then again, often I do not use it, because NOBODY is around to see it. Does this give a machine the right to issue a ticket for me?
Once again, what gives you the the right to assume that you are correct in thinking there is no one around?
My point is this, if you are omniscient then fine, you can do whatever you want to "when no one else is around". However, if you are not a god, don't make assumptions.
First off, that page seemed very much like a "please give us money or else we're doomed" kind of research proposal. They themselves indicated that they didn't have much data to base things on, and that they needed more money to study it.
Second, the proposal seems to leave out one important fact: What about the massive heating of the tropics due to the fact that the heat isn't radiating to the north any longer? They seem to only focus on what will happen in the Northen Hemisphere. What about the South pole as well?
Third, this kind of change seems logical. If ice is indeed melting due to warmer temperatures then it makes sense that the Earth's systems will rebalance in the other direction. If not, we either wouldn't have any ice or the Earth would be frozen. The only reason we have balance now is that the climate takes care of itself regardless of what we do.
Lastly, I think the claim by the submitter that is "could happen in a decade" is a misread of the article.
BS. If the internet was built to maximize profit, then so many companies would not be trying so hard to mutate it into something that they can use to make money.
That's a very short sited answer. Who cares what other companies are doing to make money online! They have nothing to do with the problem, which is that nearly all the traffic on the net goes through a select set of major pipes. Worldcom, for instance, has created a backbone network that nearly every ISP's traffic flows through. They even say so on their own site: "A significant amount of the traffic that flows between ISP networks passes through WorldCom MAE service facilities." If/when Worldcom goes under, where is all that traffic going to go? That is the price that we pay for letting profits dictate the design of critical infrastructure. Although, please note that I'm not claiming companies should do things for free either. We just need to pay the price for the way the world works.
I thought the Internet was already decentralized, so I'm curious about what exactly they're fixing.
The Internet is designed to be decentralized but it is built to maximize profit.
Yeah, and iCal is also a Windows based web calendar server. What, does Apple block employees from Google or something?
An old episode of Law & Order use subpoenaed toll information in New York to catch a person in a lie about their alibi. Anyway, just goes to show that someone has already thought of doing it.
This makes me wonder if a motor like this could be used to turn a "shade cog" over itself so once you start the motor going it will continue to run based on its own dark/light cycle. This same shade could have more of these motors under it which generate the actual useful work.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://macthis.org
Last October this was just a test site by mrbiiggy, which is the same name that's on all the screen shots on SpyMac. He lists his homepage on his profile as knite.net, which is the same as his primary DNS, and it looks like a DSL connection in Costa Mesa, CA. It's probably the same web server that was doing macthis.org, but is now down for obvious reasons. I would guess that he yanked the IP and server when his phone jack started melting. His secondary DNS was on a cable modem in New York which isn't accepting DNS connections but is still up (as far as I can tell) but I imagine knite.net is the same IP as macthis.org.
Anyway, it boils down to the fact that there probably was a site there, and just because there isn't one now is no indication that they didn't check the link before posting.
Registrant:
macthis.org
2371 Purdue Drive
Costa Mesa, California 92626
US
Domain Name: MACTHIS.ORG
Created on: 24-AUG-01
Expires on: 24-AUG-02
Last Updated on: 24-AUG-01
We should all go to the various FBI sites such as the one below and report that Sony is releasing CDs with a Trojan virus on them. I mean, if a government employee put this CD their workstation, what might the national security concequences be? ;) I say we fight them at their own game.
http://www.nipc.gov/incident/cirr.htm
It looks like it installs itself as a separate program called "b3p". I'm not sure it it completely goes away, but b3p is certainly a "Brilliant" product. You'll have to close all browsers, and I had to reboot to get the uninstall to run.
Go to the page and hit reload a bunch of times. You'll get a few different banners on the right side, under the word ADVERTISEMENT. Sometime these ads look like story links. People are having trouble seeing what the big deal is because they are probably only getting the picture ads, not the link based ones. Anyway, as it has been adequately pointed out, it IS indicated that they are ads.
Images are here:
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http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/etp/uranus/uran_moons.ht
Now, the thing that puzzles me is that this guys theory isn't any different from the previous theory.
The "explosion" (aka impact by comet or something) theory says that the act of the moon heating up as it reformed caused volcanic like activity, which stopped when the moon finally settled.
The new theory says that some random and undetermined force (maybe tidal forces, maybe something else) caused the moon to heat up and cause volcanic like activity. Um, that's the same thing! All this theory does is say "no, it wasn't an impact that caused this! It was... Something Else!" What else? "Well, we're not sure, but man this is getting me good publicity for my PhD!"
*sigh*
I can't believe the reactions that have been shown by slashdotters! Do you think Anderson hasn't been checking logs to find out that some of the UNIX/Linux clients are returning packets back with IMPOSSIBLE times!? Are you guys stupid or something to think that it's a baseless comment? It's easy to trace this kind of thing and I'm sure they have. The fact that he refers specifically to the UNIX/Linux versions as being the culprits is that it's really only possible to do this kind of thing with those versions of the client. Add to this the hacker mentality that ANYONE running a version of UNIX automatically has and you will understand that the "hacker mentality" mentioned is using "hacker" in the good sense of the word, and is only pointing out that people using versions of UNIX are more likely to screw with things. If that bothers you, and if you don't admit that that is true, then you have a problem, not them. I believe it is entirely true that "MOST OF THE HEADACHES" have come from the UNIX/Linux community. That is a perfectly true statement, because only the UNIX versions can be messed with like this. Therefor, "most" of the problems DO come from this community. In any case, this is an offhand comment taken out of context, most likely prompted by the reporter, and anyone offened by it is damn insecure in my book.
The fact that Wired got some idiot to email them with a stupid figure of the amount of fuel wasted makes me want to cancel my Wired subscription, not my SETI participation! My computers have been on anyway! It's not like I would constantly shut my machines down if it weren't for SETI! More stupidity and FUD and I'd be ashamed if I were one of the people who have fallen for it.
I'm just sitting here waiting for all the ABSOLUTELY PERFECT distributed computing clients that all the complainers will be writing and releasing, because obviously SETI doesn't know what it's doing but the people who have complained and vowed never to run SETI again do. I mean, come on people! Get off the high horse and get a clue! Nothing is perfect, especially in the first few months of release, and if you think otherwise then , once again, that's your problem, not theirs.
I will be running SETI on as many machines as I can as long as I keep getting a packet at least once a month. It doesn't cost me anything, it looks really neat, and I still feel like I'm doing something useful and wonderful. I'm also not going to give up at the first sign of trouble as many seem to have. Hell, I wouldn't even have an OS on any of my machines if I gave up every time something didn't work perfectly (and this goes for Microsoft, Mac and any UNIX variety you can name. None of them have worked as advertised). To give up so easily on something so noble and possibly Earth shattering simply because the administration got dumped into something over their heads is pathetic. Cut em some slack! Because of all your complaint mail they probably haven't had time to tell you that the pipeline was screwed (which they did point out once they got the time). Like I said, where are all those perfect distributed clients guys? Haven't you had time yet to test them with 1,000,000 simulated users? You haven't? Wow, maybe that's the same problem SETI@Home is having? Gee, imagine that, nobody IS perfect after all...
To expect perfection is to invite your own failure.
I suppose it would be useless to point out that they already create and store antimatter for use in particle accelerators. In fact, they have been for years. I wouldn't want to muddle the discussion with facts, though...