When vaccination was discovered, the religious community spoke out against vaccination on the same grounds -- that dying of smallpox was "god's will" and that vaccination was "playing god".
Remember that one of the arguments against vaccination when it was discovered, was that we shouldn't be "playing god". Eg people should just accept death by lethal contagious viruses like smallpox -- vaccination is "playing god".
Just about every significant medical discovery has been opposed with the "playing god" argument.
This is exactly as if you were subscribed to e.g Sprint as your long distance carrier, and then all of a sudden you start getting "past due" bills from MCI.
1) MCI has NO BUSINESS sending me "bills". 2) It's deceptive. 3) It's illegal. 4) The FTC *has* spanked companies over issues like this.
Why should verisign get away with it, just because "others do it too"?
Using that logic, M$ should be let off the hook just because "other companies violate federal law too".
It's likely to have a much longer lifespan than your usual center mount motor fan. The bearings will be a LOT simpler, and there should be far less wear. Also, mounting the magnets on the edges means you should get a LOT more torque than a center mount motor. So even when the bearings go wonky, the magnets should still be able to spin the fan.
The SSSCA is just the result of a lazy slob MPAA/RIAA executives who want the PC industry to build them tailor-made-to-order PC technology to their exacting specifications, without having to invest a single penny or lift a single finger of effort. Oh, the industry won't play along? Let's pass legislation REQUIRING them to.
The MPAA/RIAA are so used to having their way with consumers, that they now believe they can hand the jar of vaseline to the PC industry and have their way with them, too.
And the scary bit is that for the most part, they're right...
Expecting the computer industry to do it for them for free, tailor made to their exacting specifications, and forcing it through legislation is utterly ridiculous.
hollings, valenti, and disney are just pulling off one gigantic circle jerk in front of the mass media, and are expecting consumers to open their mouths and take it all over their faces. Then they go and whine when consumers don't swallow.
Fortunately, in May 2001 a Virginia jury convicted rambus of fraud.
Unfortunately, they fine the jury imposed on Rambus ($3.5m) was reduced to a mere fraction of the original penalty ($350,000) by state laws capping the limit of punitive damages.
A mere slap on the wrist for a company which acted so unethically.
... and contribute to work on vorbis/tarkin instead...
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Is there ANY Itanium hardware that actually delivers good performance for the money yet?
Is there ANYONE doing ANYTHING useful with them yet?
As far as I can tell, current Itanium stuff is a mere curiosity.
Intel is making an enormous gamble with IA-64, it is a huge investment and the whole thing may blow up in their face.
AMD is taking the 'safe road' -- bolting 64bit onto an existing design, taking advantage of the huge momentum of the x86 architecture.
Intel on the other hand is going to have to spend a huge amount of effort getting the Itanic moving.
Will be interesting to see how things develop. Will AMD's 64bit products derail Intel's efforts? Can they crack the 64bit server market fast enough and make IA-64 irrelevant? Stay tuned!!
"Accepting Creationism means tossing out all of established science. Creationism is the adversary of all science, not just Darwinian evolution." Why?
Because if your mental mechanics allow you to believe in something that is basically magic, then your fundamental thought processes are flawed, and any "scientific" works you produce are suspect by default.
... so that we can give our kids the needed tools to spot, analyze, and tear apart ALL intellectual fraud and pseudoscience.
Along those same lines, I would expect to teach:
o) geocentricism, "the moon landings hoax/nasa big lie", "mars face", etc. in astronomy
o) flat earth in geography
o) "free energy", "100mpg carburetor" in physics
o) "breast enlargement pills","penis enlargement pills" in sex ed:-)
o) all the current all-natural/herbal/psychic/magical/religious "cures" in the "health food"/"alternative medicine"/"complimentary medicine" industry.
etc etc etc.
Most of the effort in current teaching methods seems to be emphasis on teaching existing theories, and little to no effort is given on how to dissect and examine "alternative" claims for validity.
I wish the FDA would do the same with "alternative medicine" sites.
The FDA should seed the web with "herbal viagra", "super blue green algae", etc sites, then slap mofo's upside the head when they are stupid enough to actually try ordering.
The LAST thing we need on TV is another faux-WWF show. Gah!!!
Come on, we already have Battlebots, Robotica, etc...
Do we REALLY need ANOTHER?
We need more CONSTRUCTIVE shows like Junkyard Wars / Scrapheap Challenge.
We don't need another idiot 'bang contestants machines against each other till the audience falls asleep from utter boredom'.
I can see it now. A scantily clad cathy rogers draping herself over the contestants machines while robert llewelyn growls and grunts like an idiot white trash WWF announcer.
Just firewall port 6667, and most DDOS would go away...
IRC is THE SINGLE LARGEST TARGET OF DDOS ATTACKS.
If something is going to replace IRC, its going to have to have a much more distributed infrastructure, and anonymity (at least by IP address) of both the servers involved and the clients will be a must. You must remove the identifiable targets if you want DDOS to stop.
Of course the authorities wouldnt much like the anonymized nature of such a network...
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just a friendly reminder.
Is anyone else worried about the fact that this increases background noise radiation across the entire spectrum?
no.
Won't this cause a massive health risk?
no.
UWB gives us a dose of everything
no.
no sale...
better luck next time, creative.
When vaccination was discovered, the religious community spoke out against vaccination on the same grounds -- that dying of smallpox was "god's will" and that vaccination was "playing god".
The claim is as stupid today as it was then.
Remember that one of the arguments against vaccination when it was discovered, was that we shouldn't be "playing god". Eg people should just accept death by lethal contagious viruses like smallpox -- vaccination is "playing god".
Just about every significant medical discovery has been opposed with the "playing god" argument.
So your default stance on science is that it is evil? Guilty until proven innocent?
I can't see any other conclusion from your "Tomorrow..." statement. You are assuming the worst by default.
This is useful information, and proof that verisign is breaking federal law...
Just because others do it doesn't mean it's OK for verisign to do it too.
Every registrar using these deceptive and illegal practices should be fined and/or shutdown by the FTC.
This is exactly as if you were subscribed to e.g Sprint as your long distance carrier, and then all of a sudden you start getting "past due" bills from MCI.
1) MCI has NO BUSINESS sending me "bills".
2) It's deceptive.
3) It's illegal.
4) The FTC *has* spanked companies over issues like this.
Why should verisign get away with it, just because "others do it too"?
Using that logic, M$ should be let off the hook just because "other companies violate federal law too".
"Not only did he not have a clue that hijacking someones SMTP server is bad"
Not only is it bad, it's criminal trespass. IMHO spammers need to do jail time for it.
It's likely to have a much longer lifespan than your usual center mount motor fan. The bearings will be a LOT simpler, and there should be far less wear. Also, mounting the magnets on the edges means you should get a LOT more torque than a center mount motor. So even when the bearings go wonky, the magnets should still be able to spin the fan.
... they can build their own!
The SSSCA is just the result of a lazy slob MPAA/RIAA executives who want the PC industry to build them tailor-made-to-order PC technology to their exacting specifications, without having to invest a single penny or lift a single finger of effort. Oh, the industry won't play along? Let's pass legislation REQUIRING them to.
The MPAA/RIAA are so used to having their way with consumers, that they now believe they can hand the jar of vaseline to the PC industry and have their way with them, too.
And the scary bit is that for the most part, they're right...
... they can fucking build their own!
Expecting the computer industry to do it for them for free, tailor made to their exacting specifications, and forcing it through legislation is utterly ridiculous.
hollings, valenti, and disney are just pulling off one gigantic circle jerk in front of the mass media, and are expecting consumers to open their mouths and take it all over their faces. Then they go and whine when consumers don't swallow.
rambus is disliked because they comitted fraud.
Fortunately, in May 2001 a Virginia jury convicted rambus of fraud.
Unfortunately, they fine the jury imposed on Rambus ($3.5m) was reduced to a mere fraction of the original penalty ($350,000) by state laws capping the limit of punitive damages.
A mere slap on the wrist for a company which acted so unethically.
... and contribute to work on vorbis/tarkin instead ...
Is there ANY Itanium hardware that actually delivers good performance for the money yet?
Is there ANYONE doing ANYTHING useful with them yet?
As far as I can tell, current Itanium stuff is a mere curiosity.
Intel is making an enormous gamble with IA-64, it is a huge investment and the whole thing may blow up in their face.
AMD is taking the 'safe road' -- bolting 64bit onto an existing design, taking advantage of the huge momentum of the x86 architecture.
Intel on the other hand is going to have to spend a huge amount of effort getting the Itanic moving.
Will be interesting to see how things develop. Will AMD's 64bit products derail Intel's efforts? Can they crack the 64bit server market fast enough and make IA-64 irrelevant? Stay tuned!!
"Accepting Creationism means tossing out all of established science. Creationism is the adversary of all science, not just Darwinian evolution." Why?
Because if your mental mechanics allow you to believe in something that is basically magic , then your fundamental thought processes are flawed , and any "scientific" works you produce are suspect by default.
... so that we can give our kids the needed tools to spot, analyze, and tear apart ALL intellectual fraud and pseudoscience.
:-)
Along those same lines, I would expect to teach:
o) geocentricism, "the moon landings hoax/nasa big lie", "mars face", etc. in astronomy
o) flat earth in geography
o) "free energy", "100mpg carburetor" in physics
o) "breast enlargement pills","penis enlargement pills" in sex ed
o) all the current all-natural/herbal/psychic/magical/religious "cures" in the "health food"/"alternative medicine"/"complimentary medicine" industry.
etc etc etc.
Most of the effort in current teaching methods seems to be emphasis on teaching existing theories, and little to no effort is given on how to dissect and examine "alternative" claims for validity.
"NordiCaLite is a trademark of Ümlaut Industries, Ltd."
Who says the feds dont have a sense of humour?
I wish the FDA would do the same with "alternative medicine" sites.
The FDA should seed the web with "herbal viagra", "super blue green algae", etc sites, then slap mofo's upside the head when they are stupid enough to actually try ordering.
The LAST thing we need on TV is another faux-WWF show. Gah!!!
Come on, we already have Battlebots, Robotica, etc...
Do we REALLY need ANOTHER?
We need more CONSTRUCTIVE shows like Junkyard Wars / Scrapheap Challenge.
We don't need another idiot 'bang contestants machines against each other till the audience falls asleep from utter boredom'.
I can see it now. A scantily clad cathy rogers draping herself over the contestants machines while robert llewelyn growls and grunts like an idiot white trash WWF announcer.
Just firewall port 6667, and most DDOS would go away...
IRC is THE SINGLE LARGEST TARGET OF DDOS ATTACKS .
If something is going to replace IRC, its going to have to have a much more distributed infrastructure, and anonymity (at least by IP address) of both the servers involved and the clients will be a must. You must remove the identifiable targets if you want DDOS to stop.
Of course the authorities wouldnt much like the anonymized nature of such a network...
Oh, you prefer a police officer to knock on your door? Fine by me. Go ahead and pull a shotgun in THEIR face.
Thats why the knock on YOUR door will be from a police officer, not me.
"Too bad there isn't a party that takes the best of both worlds and puts it together..."
The Libertarian Party claims to be much of that, but in reality they are just another flavor of conservative republicans.