"[I]t seems to me that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes."
I can vouch for that. I am very outgoing and musical and into drama and acting, like my mom. My sister is very serious and intent and driven, like my dad. Both grew up in a normal family with both parents present, but we are very different from one another, but much like one of our parents.
Aside from my personal experience, I have seen many studies that show that twins, raised separately, such as twin orphans adopted by different couples, will grow up to have very similar personalities.
If anybody can find these studies online, post a link. I'm tired.:-P
I can see it now: at the ISP: "Well, I'll just take this list of child-porn sites that we keep in the file cabinet, and enter it into the filter."
What ignorant jackasses this court has proven itself to be governed by...
Anyways, I don't imagine this will be a serious problem. Just make the plaintiffs send you a list of all child-porn websites or show you where to get one, and have them show you where to get updates without breaking the law, such as seeking such sites out. Or plead with the court to make you immune while you do said searches. I don't think they'll do so. The court will then realize that this request is impossible for you to fulfill without you breaking the law to do so, and have them throw it out. It's not the USPS's job to make sure I don't order seventeen magazine in a brown wrapper. That responsibility belongs to a government investigative body that oversees the USPS. The same goes for ISPs.
And as for ISPs being liable, didn't the DMCA make that impossible?
While being a programmer, I keep an up-to-date computer, other consumer electronics are not neccesary for me, so I can afford to refuse to be their guinea pig. I'll let all you jokers out there spend $300 for the new gaming system or video playing device. I'll wait until the kinks are worked out and I can get it for $49.99 at wal-mart. While I've had a DVD-drive in my PC, I just last month purchased my first DVD component player. 3-disc carousel, plays MP3s, VideoCD, S-Video out, region and macrovision-hackable/hacked. $60 at Sam's club. Now I find if I had waited a bit longer, I could have gotten one that plays DiVXs. A rule that has never let me down is "There's NEVER a reason to buy the first releases of any hardware, tool, or microsoft OS platforms." But if you do and it messes up, I thank you. You're the guys that pay extra money to ensure I can get a quality product for cheap:)
I can prove to you very easily whether or not evolution is a fact. There is a very clear divisor between facts and theories. It's called the scientific method, and *all* scientists believe in it, whether they believe in evolution or not. If you go learn the steps to the scientific method, you will find out what the status of evolution is.
Not to be flamebait, but just to ground this conversation in the actual scientific method, let's remember that at one time most scientists believed the earth was the center of the universe. All of this is conjecture. Don't mistake it for known, proven fact. When approached as just another theory, as it indeed is, however, it is an interesting one.
"It's rather amazing how many small unknown airfields dot the landscape."
I don't know what this has to do with news for nerds or stuff that actually matters, but for that matter, it's intereting how many small still-known and still-used airfields dot the landscape. I live in Tampa, Fl. We have a private airfield that actually crosses I-75 (Major north-sounth route through central florida), we have a private airfield by the bay, one 15 minutes away in plant city (pop. about 20k), another about 35-40 min. in lakeland, not even to mention Tampa Itn'l Airport, St. Pete airport 20 min west of TIA, Sarasota Int'l airport about 1.5hrs south. They're just everywhere. It's crazy.
Microsoft never purported NT to be secure out-of-the-box. If there are files you wish to protect, it is incredibly easy to mark those files or folders as encrypted. You *cannot* get into those without the proper passwords. Take my word for it. When my admin account got corrupted, there went my best porn. Which reminds me: don't encrypt without making an account-recovery disk.:-P
This is not a kluge. (For spelling, see link below.) A kluge is a "rickety," unstable bubblegum MacGuyver-with-a-ballpoint-pen type fix, temporary until real time can be devoted to obtaining the intended result properly. Data over powerlines can hardly be considered a fix or repair to an existing system, let alone a temporary one, so it cannot be a kluge.
Besides, who in their right mind would link to any dictionary but the Jargon File for a computer term?? See kluge there. (Not kludge.)
P.S. WTF happened to www.tuxedo.org's jargon file?? WTF?!
"Also, what kind of equipment will have to be used to produce these so fast? Will the recording process suffer due to the hurry?"
They'll probably have a bank of CD-recorders. It would cost an insane amount of money. But if it worked, they'd be able to recoup the loss and start profiting within a relatively small amount of time.
"it reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections"
The first thing I thought of when I read this was a car bra or car paint. Some background for the confused: laser, while not visible to the human eye, is still light. As such, the color of a material will affect how much laser light will be reflected. The darker a material, the less reflection/the more light absorbed. There are already stealth bras you can find. If this material is better, it will only be a matter of time...
I wonder if the various local gov'ts are going to fight this material for this reason, like how they killed the spray-on, peel-off paint idea a while back. (Robbers would use it to change the description of the car after a crime)
p.s. If you're interested in the quantum physics of light, ala why does it reflect or get absorbed, how do mirages and holograms work, etc., go grab QED by Feynman. Fantastic book. Fantastic author.
"If we examine the realities of rocket science, we come across a rather unusual and interesting fact. While some might disagree with me, the shape of a rocket was specifically designed to resemble the human male sexual organ - the penis. Morover, it, no doubt, has a homosexual tilt to it. Therefore we might conclude that rocket science, like linux, *bsd and other silly silly things, is gay."
Unbeknownst to many people, including YOUR ignorant ass, is that the first missiles and rockets WERE shaped like the female human vagina. After many aerodynamic tests, the shape was molded back to the shape we have today, which is actually the remaining clitoris.
Therefore, if you have a problem with the shape of rockets, YOU, my friend, have unconscious issues with females, and ergo, you are the homosexual.
"Sig:(This is where pathetic losers with no lives mention something about their karma, fans, or journal)"
You forgot one. It's also for people who are nobody special to make themselves feel better by insulting complete strangers, usually entire classes of them.
Hmm... Sounds like a trap! You just want to kill him. Terrorist.
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"[..] finally gives us, the gamers, full freedom to do whatever we want to do."
Most games wisely limit what you can do in a character-type game (as opposed to rack-points games like pacman or mario brothers).
I'll never forget the time I learned that due to something I did actual days ago while playing King's Quest II, and all my saved-games being written over, there was no way for me to win the game. While it was a good life lesson, that sometimes we can't go back and change things, and to be more careful in the future, the result was the same. I don't recall if I ever went back to the game. I had spent weeks getting to that point, as I didn't have alot of spare time. Next time the game tries to stop you from killing the whatever, or dropping whatever item, thank it.:P Don't wish for a write-around...
"Code Red made headline news. The FBI, the White House and security companies launched a coordinated campaign to track it, warn the public and take steps to protect vulnerable systems. Crippling of the White House Web site was narrowly avoided; Pentagon Internet connections were temporarily shut off. Damage was significant--estimates are in the billions of dollars--but it would have been worse had the response not been as fast and well organized."
And the end result? They captured the creator of something that did no damage, apparently at the expense of letting the Code Red creator go unpunished. WTF?
"In a few hours, Code Red had eaten into more than 100,000 servers worldwide"
"With 20,000 zombies to click for him, Mr. Leaves could make a killing."
They honed [their skills] battling Code Red. But fighting [Code Red left] Leaves on the back burner.
This is a bad thing?
But here's the best part:
In the aftermath of the attack, companies would spend billions of dollars plugging the holes that let Code Red enter. [...] No perpetrator has [ever] been identified.
[The creator of] Leaves [never used the worm to cause any] major damage before the posse rounded him up. [...] The FBI never [even] found evidence the hacker had stolen money using the worm.
The first is ancient history. The US took it upon them to eradicate that one.
The second one? A fluke. They happen. Hardly an occurence of "terrorism happening" such as being under a constant threat. One guy. One catch. It stopped.
The third one? A guy who recently converted to islam. I'm not saying that he did these things because he was islamic. I'm just saying, read your posts before you click submit, especially for undercurrents such as the third example could contain.
But as for who has killed the most Americans and American allies because of religion, I think those wacky arabs are at the top, with, as another poster pointed out, Irish desert nomads coming in a distant second.
">Two lane highway. Two trucks taking them up. Can't pass horizontally - pass vertically!
get in the way of some high voltage cables, and then crash into a bridge over the highway. 25 deaths and 20.000 persons without electricity for 2 days"
3 significant figures on a death count of 20? What are you, some fricking physicist? Sheesh...
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"[I]t seems to me that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes."
:-P
I can vouch for that. I am very outgoing and musical and into drama and acting, like my mom. My sister is very serious and intent and driven, like my dad. Both grew up in a normal family with both parents present, but we are very different from one another, but much like one of our parents.
Aside from my personal experience, I have seen many studies that show that twins, raised separately, such as twin orphans adopted by different couples, will grow up to have very similar personalities.
If anybody can find these studies online, post a link. I'm tired.
"if someone were to link to documents that have his address in them.
r Re lief.pdf"
:-P
http://www.wa.gov/ago/pubs/ChippynetComplaintfo
It would be a shame if you knew how to link so the lameness filter didn't break up the URL.
Noob
I can see it now: at the ISP: "Well, I'll just take this list of child-porn sites that we keep in the file cabinet, and enter it into the filter."
What ignorant jackasses this court has proven itself to be governed by...
Anyways, I don't imagine this will be a serious problem. Just make the plaintiffs send you a list of all child-porn websites or show you where to get one, and have them show you where to get updates without breaking the law, such as seeking such sites out. Or plead with the court to make you immune while you do said searches. I don't think they'll do so. The court will then realize that this request is impossible for you to fulfill without you breaking the law to do so, and have them throw it out. It's not the USPS's job to make sure I don't order seventeen magazine in a brown wrapper. That responsibility belongs to a government investigative body that oversees the USPS. The same goes for ISPs.
And as for ISPs being liable, didn't the DMCA make that impossible?
While being a programmer, I keep an up-to-date computer, other consumer electronics are not neccesary for me, so I can afford to refuse to be their guinea pig. I'll let all you jokers out there spend $300 for the new gaming system or video playing device. I'll wait until the kinks are worked out and I can get it for $49.99 at wal-mart. While I've had a DVD-drive in my PC, I just last month purchased my first DVD component player. 3-disc carousel, plays MP3s, VideoCD, S-Video out, region and macrovision-hackable/hacked. $60 at Sam's club. Now I find if I had waited a bit longer, I could have gotten one that plays DiVXs. A rule that has never let me down is "There's NEVER a reason to buy the first releases of any hardware, tool, or microsoft OS platforms." But if you do and it messes up, I thank you. You're the guys that pay extra money to ensure I can get a quality product for cheap :)
Interesting. Also, you just reminded me that I'd heard that USF itself was built on an airstrip. I wonder if there's any credence to that.
Then why do they call it the theory of evolution?
I can prove to you very easily whether or not evolution is a fact. There is a very clear divisor between facts and theories. It's called the scientific method, and *all* scientists believe in it, whether they believe in evolution or not. If you go learn the steps to the scientific method, you will find out what the status of evolution is.
Not to be flamebait, but just to ground this conversation in the actual scientific method, let's remember that at one time most scientists believed the earth was the center of the universe. All of this is conjecture. Don't mistake it for known, proven fact. When approached as just another theory, as it indeed is, however, it is an interesting one.
"It's rather amazing how many small unknown airfields dot the landscape."
I don't know what this has to do with news for nerds or stuff that actually matters, but for that matter, it's intereting how many small still-known and still-used airfields dot the landscape. I live in Tampa, Fl. We have a private airfield that actually crosses I-75 (Major north-sounth route through central florida), we have a private airfield by the bay, one 15 minutes away in plant city (pop. about 20k), another about 35-40 min. in lakeland, not even to mention Tampa Itn'l Airport, St. Pete airport 20 min west of TIA, Sarasota Int'l airport about 1.5hrs south. They're just everywhere. It's crazy.
Microsoft never purported NT to be secure out-of-the-box. If there are files you wish to protect, it is incredibly easy to mark those files or folders as encrypted. You *cannot* get into those without the proper passwords. Take my word for it. When my admin account got corrupted, there went my best porn. :-P
Which reminds me: don't encrypt without making an account-recovery disk.
Some links are broken, some are just too darn slow. Hope these help:
(thanks, archive.org and google!)
A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
Bart's Dating Guide for Geeks
Try this link.
"I remember trying to do the 100 dashes and having you thumb fall of becuase[...]"
:-P
You thumb fall of? Trouble with the R key and the F key leads me to believe your right-hand index finger is the more damaged of your digits...
This is not a kluge. (For spelling, see link below.) A kluge is a "rickety," unstable bubblegum MacGuyver-with-a-ballpoint-pen type fix, temporary until real time can be devoted to obtaining the intended result properly. Data over powerlines can hardly be considered a fix or repair to an existing system, let alone a temporary one, so it cannot be a kluge.
Besides, who in their right mind would link to any dictionary but the Jargon File for a computer term?? See kluge there. (Not kludge.)
P.S. WTF happened to www.tuxedo.org 's jargon file?? WTF?!
Why haven't you read the SlashDot FAQ yet?
"Also, what kind of equipment will have to be used to produce these so fast? Will the recording process suffer due to the hurry?"
They'll probably have a bank of CD-recorders. It would cost an insane amount of money. But if it worked, they'd be able to recoup the loss and start profiting within a relatively small amount of time.
Oh yeah, FP!
"it reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections"
The first thing I thought of when I read this was a car bra or car paint. Some background for the confused: laser, while not visible to the human eye, is still light. As such, the color of a material will affect how much laser light will be reflected. The darker a material, the less reflection/the more light absorbed. There are already stealth bras you can find. If this material is better, it will only be a matter of time...
I wonder if the various local gov'ts are going to fight this material for this reason, like how they killed the spray-on, peel-off paint idea a while back. (Robbers would use it to change the description of the car after a crime)
p.s. If you're interested in the quantum physics of light, ala why does it reflect or get absorbed, how do mirages and holograms work, etc., go grab QED by Feynman. Fantastic book. Fantastic author.
"If we examine the realities of rocket science, we come across a rather unusual and interesting fact. While some might disagree with me, the shape of a rocket was specifically designed to resemble the human male sexual organ - the penis. Morover, it, no doubt, has a homosexual tilt to it. Therefore we might conclude that rocket science, like linux, *bsd and other silly silly things, is gay."
Unbeknownst to many people, including YOUR ignorant ass, is that the first missiles and rockets WERE shaped like the female human vagina. After many aerodynamic tests, the shape was molded back to the shape we have today, which is actually the remaining clitoris.
Therefore, if you have a problem with the shape of rockets, YOU, my friend, have unconscious issues with females, and ergo, you are the homosexual.
"Sig:(This is where pathetic losers with no lives mention something about their karma, fans, or journal)"
You forgot one. It's also for people who are nobody special to make themselves feel better by insulting complete strangers, usually entire classes of them.
- stay away from television
- learn one more language
- travel
-----------Hmm... Sounds like a trap! You just want to kill him. Terrorist.
"[..] finally gives us, the gamers, full freedom to do whatever we want to do."
:P
Most games wisely limit what you can do in a character-type game (as opposed to rack-points games like pacman or mario brothers).
I'll never forget the time I learned that due to something I did actual days ago while playing King's Quest II, and all my saved-games being written over, there was no way for me to win the game. While it was a good life lesson, that sometimes we can't go back and change things, and to be more careful in the future, the result was the same. I don't recall if I ever went back to the game. I had spent weeks getting to that point, as I didn't have alot of spare time. Next time the game tries to stop you from killing the whatever, or dropping whatever item, thank it.
Don't wish for a write-around...
And the end result? They captured the creator of something that did no damage, apparently at the expense of letting the Code Red creator go unpunished. WTF?
But here's the best part:
But that's the guy we caught.
But as for who has killed the most Americans and American allies because of religion, I think those wacky arabs are at the top, with, as another poster pointed out, Irish desert nomads coming in a distant second.
"FLAC Joins The Xiph Family"
Finally we can get some reasonable supplemental health care. I love those duck commercials!
Take each page number in the index, and add two. :)
Other than that, it looks very nice
">Two lane highway. Two trucks taking them up. Can't pass horizontally - pass vertically!
get in the way of some high voltage cables, and then crash into a bridge over the highway. 25 deaths and 20.000 persons without electricity for 2 days"
3 significant figures on a death count of 20? What are you, some fricking physicist? Sheesh...