Good point. Another possibility is having the keyboard configured differently, i.e. a different country's keyboard layout. When I was in Switzerland last fall this problem was tripping me up. My friends kept getting emails with lots of "z"s in inappropriate places! Thought about trying to change the configuration (the little web cafe ran linux), but my memory on how to do it was a bit fuzzy, and I didn't want to be "that dumbass American who mangled our box's setup".
Down as much as 35% of it's 52 week high, currently somewhat higher but still waaaayyyy down. Wait, hold on, I'm about to predict LAST YEAR's super bowl winner.... its, its, the RAMS!
How big a frame (in pixels)? I'm running a 640Kpbs ADSL connection and have found the the stream is almost (but not quite) fast enough to pull in video in realtime from Adcritic.com. It's encoded in Sorenson, and looks to be (rough estimate here) about 250x300 pixels, maybe a little smaller.
Unlike you, I am aware of the meaning of the word "misogynistic" without having to visit a lame website. And it is used in feminist theory to refer to patriarchal discourse aimed at marginalising women and removing them (treating them, if you will, as Other) from the main field of discourse.
This is a bit offtopic, but what the hell: What is it with these intellectual frauds who insist on deliberately misusing vocabulary to buttress their (generally weak) arguments? For hundreds or years, the word "misogyny" has had a commonly argreed upon meaning, and that meaning is more or less what was described in the previous post. If the word you're searching for doesn't gibe with that definition it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the definition, it means you're using the wrong word!
But of course, this dichotomy of meaning is the whole point: The offending author gets to water down the definition of the charge to fit their needs, while the average reader understands the word to mean something far more serious: "Oh my! Person X is misogynist!" vs. "Oh my! Person X pointed out that Esther Dyson dresses inappropriately for a highly powerful posistion!". It would be funny if not for the Orwellian parellels.
But this is half-stepping: Why not take this practice to its ultimate conclusion: "In the context of antithetical theory analysis the word "wrong" is posited to mean correct. For this reason it is impossible to disagree with me. I win."
Could you be more specific? I thought this was an interesting statement, considering the large amount of information available through the linux documentation project. Do you feel that the LDP is inadequate? Or maybe that its organization is unsuited for beginners? Not a flame, a serious question. Anyone else have issues with linux's documentation base?
radical ideas in the constitution you claim to support were a direct outgrowth of Protestantism
Umm, right... John Locke == Protestantism? The Englightenment == Protestantism? Care to explain this? Can this be explained?
Christianity is part of the warp and woof or American society - if you want to rip it out, you're seeking nothing less than the complete destruction of the American ideals founded on it.
Comments like this would lead a person to believe the reading the bible destroys brain cells (Disclaimer: I have nothing against Christians per se; just the stupid ones with a penchant for hyperbole). First of all, the drafters of our Constitution assiduously tried to keep the government out of religion, and vice versa. Its the first amendment, by the way: The First one! First! Have you ever even LOOKED at the Constitution? Have you ever even HEARD of it? And the founding fathers weren't even mainline Protestants, for Christ's sake, they were deists! Do you know ANYTHING about history? Aaaagh!
If this is o2, then that means plants, or at least alage or something. And yes, i know i cant spell the latin for "microscopic plants"
This news item might as well have been titled "logical fallacies from hell". If it is molecular oxygen (which it almost certainly is not), it doesn't even come close to proving the existance of life on that planet. Virtually every other piece of evidence indicates that life similar to that of the Earth would be impossible: Never mind the fact that the planet is insanely hot, its made of GAS for Christ's sake! Where do you suppose the organic molecules which constitute the necessary precursors of life would have accumulated? In thin air? And if you posit that "life could have evolved differently", then the presence of oxygen is no longer strong evidence for life anymore anyway.
LOL... I did check out the lightening show at the Boston Museum of science a few years ago, but I suspect that my experience was a bit different the yours! Do you remember the part of the show where the 10 foot tall muppet-thing rises up out of the box? It was supposed to demonstrate some principle of electricty or other, probably grounding but I'll never know for sure because something went horrible wrong. What did happen was that a huge bolt of electricity shot out and damn near blew the puppet's head off, and the puppet collapsed to the ground. This was of course followed by the cacaphony of a couple of hundred six year olds screaming in mortal terror.
I don't think this reflects well on my ethical development, but I have to admit I was laughing so hard I was crying...
Maybe the article was unfair to Mr. Gold, but I always thought that the practice of science involved more than tossing around clever ideas... gathering evidence for instance. I didn't see nay mention of Gold actually researching any of his theories. It's a lot easier to be an iconoclast when you don't actually have back up your theories. I also would like to know his track record, i.e., how many disproven ideas has he espoused?
While I loathe attempts at censorship, frankly I find your opinions regarding this subject kind of creepy:
1. Although the most harmful effects of child pornography are obviously inflicted on the child during the actual production, the resulting child porn is still intrisically harmful to the child, due to the psychological distress that the child would suffer knowing that humiliating images of him or herself were being freely distributed. Disagree? Imagine finding a website displaying streaming video of you masturbating in what you that was the privacy of your home. I think that a majority of people would find this experience traumatic.
2. The production of child pornography is illegal. Period. No person, therefore, has a legal right to possess it. I don't doubt that fear of prosecution for possession of child porn inhibits at least some pedophiles from obtaining it. Simple economics: Reduced demand will in turn reduce the incentives for production, thereby preventing at least some children from being exploited this way.
3. Straw-man arguments:
If protection of children *must* happen, *at all costs*, then lets start with video cameras in all rooms of everyone's home. What are you saying? If we can't protect children perfectly against every eventuality that we shouldn't even try to protect them at all?
Just try to define what is art and what is porn, you may know it when you see it, but writing down the difference *for everyone* is another matter How's this for an objective definition of child porn: Images of children involved in sexual activity. You could even go so far as to specify exactly what constitutes sexual activity: E.g., intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, etc.
I really don't give a rat's ass if this kind of information "wants to be free", and I think that be defending this kind of crap you make a very convenient target for people advocating real censorship.
What kind of scum exposes an unprincipaled monopolist's unethical and possible even illegal attempt to subvert a court case! This is an outrage!
With this kind of vermin running loose, what can we look forward to next? Hoodlums voluntarily writing stable, efficient operating systems AND DISTRIBUTING THEM FOR FREE??!!
STOP THE INSANITY, PEOPLE!!!!!!
(for the sarcasm impaired, this was a joke. No flamo please!)
Yep, you're certainly right that snapping pictures in your backyard at night with a digital uv camera is unlikely to really push the envelope of cosmology. OTOH, its not easy to get funding for pure research in this day and age, so it never hurts to hype up spin-off technologies to the PHP's (pointy-haired politicians).
It would be very interesting if they can get aluminum gallium nitride diodes to emit coherent uv radiation, talk about data storage on CD's... Anyone know of other UV laser technologies? I know that there hasn't been any success in creating an X-ray laser yet; X-ray emissions, yes, coherent, no (last I heard).
I'm no apologist for lawyers, but those "statistics" claiming that the US has a higher proportion of lawyers are generally a bunch of BS ("Statistics are BS. But I repeat myself..." (apologies to Mark Twain)). Through either ignorance or mendacity news sources frequently mistate the numbers of lawyers from non-US countries by mis-interpreting common European/Asian legal terms. E.g., a lot of American news-droids don't understand that a British "Barrister" should count towards a headcount of UK lawyers. Those who have undertaken a less sensationalist approach towards estimating the number of law professionals per capita have found most countries to be roughly the same.
Does anyone remember the issue of the Onion containing the headline
"Microsoft patents 0's, 1's"
It's really not that far off, except it would more likely be some sleazebucket trying to trademark it rather than patent it. Besides, M$ would more likely try to "Embrace and Extend" by adding 2's, he he...
of the same thing. While I agree with you that the US government is encroaching on our rights in many of the ways you mentioned, these intrusions come more frequently from right-wing, anti "big-guvment" types than any other flavor of politician.
I don't see any obvious connection between programs such as Head Start and encryption regulations beyond facile "nanny state" comparisons. And you're forgeting that one of our biggest government programs, education, has always been justified by the supposition that democracy requires an educated electorate.
When Jefferson said "Those who would have security over liberty deserve neither", I strongly doubt that he assumed they were mutually exclusive goals.
Umm, last time I checked the military was still part of the government!
I'm curious: How is it that at age 2 you already knew enough to demand to be vaccinated? Maybe your parents had something to do with it? Do you suppose we should just write off those kids unlucky enough to be born to irresponsible parents?
As for your assertion that you didn't use federal student loans, congratulations for having well-off parents. For those of us who are not born of the manor however, student loans/state universities are often the difference b/w a good job and working at the cannery. And even if you went to a private college you were still the indirect beneficiary of a lot of governmental largesse via federal grants.
Our taxes are the lowest in the industrialized world. Get over it already.
Crap. Don't try to dignify anti-social behavior as "protest". The whole point of culture jamming is to gain a voice in media that ordinary people (read: not rich) are shut out of. Most folks can't afford a billboard, a 30 second TV commercial or even a half page ad in the local newspaper. Virtually anyone can get their content onto the web however, and could probably even do it for FREE if they talked to enough people. And if no one wants to hit gHell's web site to drink of their wit and wisdom, well cry me a river... Everyone should be guaranteed the right to speak their mind, but NOBODY has the right to be guaranteed an audience! Let's face it, by hijacking a web site these dolts are forcing people (however briefly) to view something that they had no intention of viewing, as well as denying those people whose sites are hacked the right to express their own views. And don't even start with that "The MAN has no rights because he's so bad" crap: Free speech means free to everyone, else it ain't free now, is it?
I've never tried the stuff personally, probably b/c the commercials promoting the stuff appear to be designed with the sub 80 IQ demographic in mind. Maybe they're trying to exploit a new market niche: thirsty illiterates. I learned one thing from their god-awful ads though: No lower boundary exists to the stupidity of TV marketing.
What is this, some kind of libertarian trolling goin' on? Privatize NASA? Why? Who's stopping private industry from do launches now? (The short answer, BTW, is nobody.)
That's not a reasonable analogy, b/c the cause of the hang is a configuration issue, not a bug. You could argue that they should of expected the extreme loads they got, but in their defense you would think that people would have known better than to try a ping flood as an "exploit". Even folks who've never cracked anything more than a can of beer (like me =) ) ought to know better than that...
Really, who is going to keep M$ honest about the results of this PR event? Admitedly I don't know a whole lot about the subject, but it would seem easy enough to simply moniter the system and take it down when it was cracked. Redmond could claim a DoS, or fake the logs, or whatever. The Mindcraft imbroglio showed that there isn't much that they aren't willing to stoop to. Maybe I'm missing something here, but who in their right mind thinks that they would ever admit to being cracked?
Really, who is going to keep M$ honest about the results of this PR event? Admitedly I don't know a whole lot about the subject (I do back-end almost exclusively), but it would seem easy enough to simply moniter the system and take it down when it was cracked. Redmond could claim a DoS, or fake the logs, or whatever. The Mindcraft imbroglio showed that there isn't much that they aren't willing to stoop to. Maybe I'm missing something here, but who in their right mind thinks that they would ever admit to being cracked?
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Good point. Another possibility is having the keyboard configured differently, i.e. a different country's keyboard layout. When I was in Switzerland last fall this problem was tripping me up. My friends kept getting emails with lots of "z"s in inappropriate places! Thought about trying to change the configuration (the little web cafe ran linux), but my memory on how to do it was a bit fuzzy, and I didn't want to be "that dumbass American who mangled our box's setup".
Down as much as 35% of it's 52 week high, currently somewhat higher but still waaaayyyy down. Wait, hold on, I'm about to predict LAST YEAR's super bowl winner.... its, its, the RAMS!
A mpeg movie takes about 128Kb/s.
How big a frame (in pixels)? I'm running a 640Kpbs ADSL connection and have found the the stream is almost (but not quite) fast enough to pull in video in realtime from Adcritic.com. It's encoded in Sorenson, and looks to be (rough estimate here) about 250x300 pixels, maybe a little smaller.
This is a bit offtopic, but what the hell: What is it with these intellectual frauds who insist on deliberately misusing vocabulary to buttress their (generally weak) arguments? For hundreds or years, the word "misogyny" has had a commonly argreed upon meaning, and that meaning is more or less what was described in the previous post. If the word you're searching for doesn't gibe with that definition it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the definition, it means you're using the wrong word!
But of course, this dichotomy of meaning is the whole point: The offending author gets to water down the definition of the charge to fit their needs, while the average reader understands the word to mean something far more serious: "Oh my! Person X is misogynist!" vs. "Oh my! Person X pointed out that Esther Dyson dresses inappropriately for a highly powerful posistion!". It would be funny if not for the Orwellian parellels.
But this is half-stepping: Why not take this practice to its ultimate conclusion: "In the context of antithetical theory analysis the word "wrong" is posited to mean correct. For this reason it is impossible to disagree with me. I win."
"Linux has soft-spots (e.g. documentation)"
Could you be more specific? I thought this was an interesting statement, considering the large amount of information available through the linux documentation project. Do you feel that the LDP is inadequate? Or maybe that its organization is unsuited for beginners? Not a flame, a serious question. Anyone else have issues with linux's documentation base?
Umm, right... John Locke == Protestantism? The Englightenment == Protestantism? Care to explain this? Can this be explained?
Christianity is part of the warp and woof or American society - if you want to rip it out, you're seeking nothing less than the complete destruction of the American ideals founded on it.
Comments like this would lead a person to believe the reading the bible destroys brain cells
(Disclaimer: I have nothing against Christians per se; just the stupid ones with a penchant for hyperbole). First of all, the drafters of our Constitution assiduously tried to keep the government out of religion, and vice versa. Its the first amendment, by the way: The First one! First! Have you ever even LOOKED at the Constitution? Have you ever even HEARD of it? And the founding fathers weren't even mainline Protestants, for Christ's sake, they were deists! Do you know ANYTHING about history? Aaaagh!
This news item might as well have been titled "logical fallacies from hell". If it is molecular oxygen (which it almost certainly is not), it doesn't even come close to proving the existance of life on that planet. Virtually every other piece of evidence indicates that life similar to that of the Earth would be impossible: Never mind the fact that the planet is insanely hot, its made of GAS for Christ's sake! Where do you suppose the organic molecules which constitute the necessary precursors of life would have accumulated? In thin air? And if you posit that "life could have evolved differently", then the presence of oxygen is no longer strong evidence for life anymore anyway.
Pro-troll evidence:
Obvious logical fallacy, grandiose statements, AC & AOL-STYLE SHOUTING TEXT!!!.
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Generally earnest tone, not overtly antogonistic & name is signed at end.
Do you remember the part of the show where the 10 foot tall muppet-thing rises up out of the box? It was supposed to demonstrate some principle of electricty or other, probably grounding but I'll never know for sure because something went horrible wrong. What did happen was that a huge bolt of electricity shot out and damn near blew the puppet's head off, and the puppet collapsed to the ground. This was of course followed by the cacaphony of a couple of hundred six year olds screaming in mortal terror.
I don't think this reflects well on my ethical development, but I have to admit I was laughing so hard I was crying...
While I loathe attempts at censorship, frankly I find your opinions regarding this subject kind of creepy:
1. Although the most harmful effects of child pornography are obviously inflicted on the child during the actual production, the resulting child porn is still intrisically harmful to the child, due to the psychological distress that the child would suffer knowing that humiliating images of him or herself were being freely distributed. Disagree? Imagine finding a website displaying streaming video of you masturbating in what you that was the privacy of your home. I think that a majority of people would find this experience traumatic.
2. The production of child pornography is illegal. Period. No person, therefore, has a legal right to possess it. I don't doubt that fear of prosecution for possession of child porn inhibits at least some pedophiles from obtaining it. Simple economics: Reduced demand will in turn reduce the incentives for production, thereby preventing at least some children from being exploited this way.
3. Straw-man arguments:
If protection of children *must* happen, *at all costs*, then lets start with video cameras in all rooms of everyone's home.
What are you saying? If we can't protect children perfectly against every eventuality that we shouldn't even try to protect them at all?
Just try to define what is art and what is porn, you may know it when you see it, but writing down the difference *for everyone* is another matter
How's this for an objective definition of child porn: Images of children involved in sexual activity. You could even go so far as to specify exactly what constitutes sexual activity: E.g., intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, etc.
I really don't give a rat's ass if this kind of information "wants to be free", and I think that be defending this kind of crap you make a very convenient target for people advocating real censorship.
What kind of scum exposes an unprincipaled monopolist's unethical and possible even illegal attempt to subvert a court case! This is an outrage!
With this kind of vermin running loose, what can we look forward to next? Hoodlums voluntarily writing stable, efficient operating systems AND DISTRIBUTING THEM FOR FREE??!!
STOP THE INSANITY, PEOPLE!!!!!!
(for the sarcasm impaired, this was a joke. No flamo please!)
It would be very interesting if they can get aluminum gallium nitride diodes to emit coherent uv radiation, talk about data storage on CD's... Anyone know of other UV laser technologies? I know that there hasn't been any success in creating an X-ray laser yet; X-ray emissions, yes, coherent, no (last I heard).
"Microsoft patents 0's, 1's"
It's really not that far off, except it would more likely be some sleazebucket trying to trademark it rather than patent it. Besides, M$ would more likely try to "Embrace and Extend" by adding 2's, he he...
I don't see any obvious connection between programs such as Head Start and encryption regulations beyond facile "nanny state" comparisons. And you're forgeting that one of our biggest government programs, education, has always been justified by the supposition that democracy requires an educated electorate.
When Jefferson said "Those who would have security over liberty deserve neither", I strongly doubt that he assumed they were mutually exclusive goals.
I'm curious: How is it that at age 2 you already knew enough to demand to be vaccinated? Maybe your parents had something to do with it? Do you suppose we should just write off those kids unlucky enough to be born to irresponsible parents?
As for your assertion that you didn't use federal student loans, congratulations for having well-off parents. For those of us who are not born of the manor however, student loans/state universities are often the difference b/w a good job and working at the cannery. And even if you went to a private college you were still the indirect beneficiary of a lot of governmental largesse via federal grants.
Our taxes are the lowest in the industrialized world. Get over it already.
Crap. Don't try to dignify anti-social behavior as "protest". The whole point of culture jamming is to gain a voice in media that ordinary people (read: not rich) are shut out of. Most folks can't afford a billboard, a 30 second TV commercial or even a half page ad in the local newspaper. Virtually anyone can get their content onto the web however, and could probably even do it for FREE if they talked to enough people. And if no one wants to hit gHell's web site to drink of their wit and wisdom, well cry me a river... Everyone should be guaranteed the right to speak their mind, but NOBODY has the right to be guaranteed an audience! Let's face it, by hijacking a web site these dolts are forcing people (however briefly) to view something that they had no intention of viewing, as well as denying those people whose sites are hacked the right to express their own views. And don't even start with that "The MAN has no rights because he's so bad" crap: Free speech means free to everyone, else it ain't free now, is it?
I've never tried the stuff personally, probably b/c the commercials promoting the stuff appear to be designed with the sub 80 IQ demographic in mind. Maybe they're trying to exploit a new market niche: thirsty illiterates. I learned one thing from their god-awful ads though: No lower boundary exists to the stupidity of TV marketing.
FTR, the AC in question in NOT the Audit Defense Network poster -- the racist comment has been moderated away :)
AC, you're either a troll or an idiot, or more likely both. Somebody with moderater points PLEASE knock his moronically bigoted comment down now.
What is this, some kind of libertarian trolling goin' on? Privatize NASA? Why? Who's stopping private industry from do launches now? (The short answer, BTW, is nobody.)
That's not a reasonable analogy, b/c the cause of the hang is a configuration issue, not a bug. You could argue that they should of expected the extreme loads they got, but in their defense you would think that people would have known better than to try a ping flood as an "exploit". Even folks who've never cracked anything more than a can of beer (like me =) ) ought to know better than that...
Really, who is going to keep M$ honest about the results of this PR event? Admitedly I don't know a whole lot about the subject, but it would seem easy enough to simply moniter the system and take it down when it was cracked. Redmond could claim a DoS, or fake the logs, or whatever. The Mindcraft imbroglio showed that there isn't much that they aren't willing to stoop to. Maybe I'm missing something here, but who in their right mind thinks that they would ever admit to being cracked?
Really, who is going to keep M$ honest about the results of this PR event? Admitedly I don't know a whole lot about the subject (I do back-end almost exclusively), but it would seem easy enough to simply moniter the system and take it down when it was cracked. Redmond could claim a DoS, or fake the logs, or whatever. The Mindcraft imbroglio showed that there isn't much that they aren't willing to stoop to. Maybe I'm missing something here, but who in their right mind thinks that they would ever admit to being cracked?