Speaking of the conspiracy theorist...this is a clip from "Down the Rabbit Hole" that goes over the whole double slit experiment, very informational, until it gets to the point of...well....detection.:P Good for the layman if you have a salt lick available:
So for the layman here, just so I understand, the old "act of monitoring gives a different outcome" because whatever detection method you use messes with the outcome is probably in play here, throwing the results off?
Thus the conspiracy theorist that think that at a quantum level particles are smart and know when they're being watched?;)
Oddly, DBZ is one of the few series that deals with time travel of the idea that the present can't be altered by travelling into the past. The brief synopsis is that in the near future, a pair of androids appear and kill all of those powerful enough to stop them, and more or less wipe out the human race. The reason no one was powerful enough to stop them was two-fold - one, no one saw it coming, and two, the one man that might have been strong enough to stop them died before they arrived from a virus that attacks the heart. There was no cure for this virus, but in the future one was created. Mirai Trunks (or Future Trunks if you will) a time machine to go into the past with a cure for that man, and to warn those who were killed that in 3 years the androids would appear. The man lived, and they all prepared for the next 3 years to stop the android threat. When Trunks returned to his own time, everyone was still wiped out. The man still died from the virus. Trunks then travelled back to a point 3 years later and even helped fight and defeat the androids. When he returned to his own time, the man was STILL dead, the androids were still running around, and everyone was still wiped out. He then proceeded to defeat the androids in his own time.
Just thought it was related and interesting, albeit horribly geeky.:P
The problem is that there appear to be 2 or 3 (maybe more?) going models of what time is. One says that time isn't a dimension, all that is exists is now, there is no before or after. The human mind tricks us into thinking otherwise do to memory.
Another states that time is linear, where if we send something into the past, we alter the present. So far as I understand, this has been more or less ruled out.
The third states that there are infinitely parallel universes with every possibly outcome occurring simultaneously (string theory?) and that the universe has many more dimensions than three or four, possibly ten or more dimensions.
So that's the real catch. If someone cuts down a tree in the forest, sends it to the past, and it falls in another dimension, no one is ever around to hear it....wait, where was I going with that?;)
I know, I know. 480p vs 720p vs 1080p...blah blah blah.
Listen, how much is it REALLY worth to go drop $1000+ on an HD player that only reads certain discs? I've intentionally been waiting for dual/triple format players to hit the market before buying.
Also, I've been quietly hoping inside someone would step up with a better format that isn't DRM encumbered. I'd likely suffocate holding my breath though.:P
Meh. I'll do what I've always done: wait for the price to drop. I won't pay that much for a game console, period. Once upon a time, my hard and fast limit was $100. In recent years it's been $150. $200 is my upward limit right now, and both the 360 and the PS3 exceed that. I'll wait, kthx.
I'm just going out on a limb here. Let's say I send you an email. I come from hksilver.net. If you resolve hksilver.net, it would return (currently) 208.231.66.99. Now, right away you're going to come across a problem. I host my own domain, I have gotten my ISP to put a PTR record for my host. So reversing it will return mail.hksilver.net. If you were to go by netblock 208.231.66/24, and you're checking to make sure the email sources from that netblock, you'd be okay in my case about 75% of the time. The other 25% I'm sending from my laptop and relaying through my business partners' exchangers. Now, in an ideal world, I'd use SMTP Auth and always relay out of my own netblock, but at present I don't (simply haven't had time to set it up!), and I'm pretty savvy.
Now, go replace me with an Exchange admin. Uh huh.:\ That rule will "work", but false positives will be VERY high.
You may find this as a shock, but many of the people that frequent/. are very intelligent. Really.
Hans Reiser was no moron. If indeed he did this (only time will tell...), what scares me is that he could very well have found a way to make her just "go away".
Good luck to the detectives if that is what happened. Although makes me wonder HOW.
There's really not much more to say about this. Let 'em wallow in their own stupidity, and they'll come around. Sometimes, like children, you have to let someone learn the hard way, and they'll never do it again.:)
"You'll shoot your eye out! You'll shoot your eye out!"
Side note - anyone else lose their login cookie this morning only forced to log back in and fill out a captcha? Weirdness. Worse, I saw no option for the visually impaired to log in either. Tsk tsk tsk....guys, come on. I'm not meaning to toss flames around, but you've got to provide some sort of opt-out link for those who can't see your captcha images.:(
That's because I do run my updates on a production box.;)
That is to say, I run the update on a test box first, make sure it's working, fix any quirks, THEN apply the binary fix to the production box.
I have a system running asterisk that actually has better uptime than several of my FreeBSD asterisk servers. It was a bit stunning when I first realized it.
What this article fails to mention is that done right, Gentoo rivals FreeBSD in the stability department. That isn't to draw flames either. When you're counting 9's, that is just plain awesome.
Now this puts you into the "public IP's" area, but seriously.
You can still effectively firewall. You don't HAVE to NAT to have an effective firewall. Somewhere along the line this came into thought. Granted, that means all IP's are world-accessible, but that doesn't mean you have to allow traffic to reach those machines from outside.
allow tcp 22 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed ssh) allow tcp 80 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed web access) block icmp from any to (ipv6 network) block from any to any
You can get fancier than that if you want. Not a major problem. Only issue is that IPv6 can reach IPv4, but not the other way around. You have to encapsulate IPv6 into IPv4, but there's software for handling that.
Why do people keep calling "Cinema Graphics" CGI? CGI is "Common Gateway Interface", used for CGI Scripts.
Cinema Graphics are CG. Nothing more, nothing less. Not trying to be a jerk, just confused why people are using an acronym for something that doesn't fit.
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Speaking of the conspiracy theorist...this is a clip from "Down the Rabbit Hole" that goes over the whole double slit experiment, very informational, until it gets to the point of...well....detection. :P Good for the layman if you have a salt lick available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsSNXQMJso
So for the layman here, just so I understand, the old "act of monitoring gives a different outcome" because whatever detection method you use messes with the outcome is probably in play here, throwing the results off?
;)
Thus the conspiracy theorist that think that at a quantum level particles are smart and know when they're being watched?
Materia is made from lifestream! We must blow up the reactors or the planet will die! :)
Okay, I can't believe I'm about to make a Dragonball Z reference here, but I am. :\
:P
For those not familiar with the series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_Trunks
Oddly, DBZ is one of the few series that deals with time travel of the idea that the present can't be altered by travelling into the past. The brief synopsis is that in the near future, a pair of androids appear and kill all of those powerful enough to stop them, and more or less wipe out the human race. The reason no one was powerful enough to stop them was two-fold - one, no one saw it coming, and two, the one man that might have been strong enough to stop them died before they arrived from a virus that attacks the heart. There was no cure for this virus, but in the future one was created. Mirai Trunks (or Future Trunks if you will) a time machine to go into the past with a cure for that man, and to warn those who were killed that in 3 years the androids would appear. The man lived, and they all prepared for the next 3 years to stop the android threat. When Trunks returned to his own time, everyone was still wiped out. The man still died from the virus. Trunks then travelled back to a point 3 years later and even helped fight and defeat the androids. When he returned to his own time, the man was STILL dead, the androids were still running around, and everyone was still wiped out. He then proceeded to defeat the androids in his own time.
Just thought it was related and interesting, albeit horribly geeky.
IANAP.
;)
The problem is that there appear to be 2 or 3 (maybe more?) going models of what time is. One says that time isn't a dimension, all that is exists is now, there is no before or after. The human mind tricks us into thinking otherwise do to memory.
Another states that time is linear, where if we send something into the past, we alter the present. So far as I understand, this has been more or less ruled out.
The third states that there are infinitely parallel universes with every possibly outcome occurring simultaneously (string theory?) and that the universe has many more dimensions than three or four, possibly ten or more dimensions.
So that's the real catch. If someone cuts down a tree in the forest, sends it to the past, and it falls in another dimension, no one is ever around to hear it....wait, where was I going with that?
The visual benefits are marginal right now.
:P
I know, I know. 480p vs 720p vs 1080p...blah blah blah.
Listen, how much is it REALLY worth to go drop $1000+ on an HD player that only reads certain discs? I've intentionally been waiting for dual/triple format players to hit the market before buying.
Also, I've been quietly hoping inside someone would step up with a better format that isn't DRM encumbered. I'd likely suffocate holding my breath though.
Meh. I'll do what I've always done: wait for the price to drop. I won't pay that much for a game console, period. Once upon a time, my hard and fast limit was $100. In recent years it's been $150. $200 is my upward limit right now, and both the 360 and the PS3 exceed that. I'll wait, kthx.
I'm just going out on a limb here. Let's say I send you an email. I come from hksilver.net. If you resolve hksilver.net, it would return (currently) 208.231.66.99. Now, right away you're going to come across a problem. I host my own domain, I have gotten my ISP to put a PTR record for my host. So reversing it will return mail.hksilver.net. If you were to go by netblock 208.231.66/24, and you're checking to make sure the email sources from that netblock, you'd be okay in my case about 75% of the time. The other 25% I'm sending from my laptop and relaying through my business partners' exchangers. Now, in an ideal world, I'd use SMTP Auth and always relay out of my own netblock, but at present I don't (simply haven't had time to set it up!), and I'm pretty savvy.
:\ That rule will "work", but false positives will be VERY high.
Now, go replace me with an Exchange admin. Uh huh.
The dev version already is.
I've installed into Qemu before without issues. This is actually a pretty common thing on the irc chans.
This scares me more than anything.
/. are very intelligent. Really.
You may find this as a shock, but many of the people that frequent
Hans Reiser was no moron. If indeed he did this (only time will tell...), what scares me is that he could very well have found a way to make her just "go away".
Good luck to the detectives if that is what happened. Although makes me wonder HOW.
Make what you will of that last sentence.
Way to chase those search engines off our shores and into places where they won't be bothered! :P
I want some answers too, but when it comes right down to it, can we really bully these private companies into giving out this kind of info?
Where are you two when we need to hear from you? :)
:)
j/k
(Note: Given that caitsith was a fake, how do we know that caitsith01 ISN'T a fake?
There's really not much more to say about this. Let 'em wallow in their own stupidity, and they'll come around. Sometimes, like children, you have to let someone learn the hard way, and they'll never do it again. :)
:(
"You'll shoot your eye out! You'll shoot your eye out!"
Side note - anyone else lose their login cookie this morning only forced to log back in and fill out a captcha? Weirdness. Worse, I saw no option for the visually impaired to log in either. Tsk tsk tsk....guys, come on. I'm not meaning to toss flames around, but you've got to provide some sort of opt-out link for those who can't see your captcha images.
You're absolutely right. My mistake.
(or rather you're correct presuming only 2 axis for rotation, and given that its a 2d game...well...)
Glad someone did. /. is getting harsh these days. I can't be getting THAT old.
...and I grew up playing Contra. ...and could beat it without losing a life.
:P
Okay, so the game is from 9 years ago, and I consider that recent.
Okay, yeah, I'm getting old.
That depends upon what axis you're referring to. ;)
I'm glad to see the Dracula X2 developers landed on their feet! :)
Not to mention that I think Taco asked the wrong question. The right question is:
"Show of hands, who here plans on buying a display capable of 1080p in the next 5 years?"
Ah...
;)
That's because I do run my updates on a production box.
That is to say, I run the update on a test box first, make sure it's working, fix any quirks, THEN apply the binary fix to the production box.
I have a system running asterisk that actually has better uptime than several of my FreeBSD asterisk servers. It was a bit stunning when I first realized it.
Agreed.
What this article fails to mention is that done right, Gentoo rivals FreeBSD in the stability department. That isn't to draw flames either. When you're counting 9's, that is just plain awesome.
You mean George W. Bush is *wrong* about something.
Someone get me a glass of water. I think I'm going to faint and fall off of my segway!
I'm gonna be rich! w00t!
BTW, if you do this, you'll want the following too:
block smb from IPv6 network to world
block databasing from IPv6 to world
Probably a few others you'll want to toss in there that really should never go to the outside world. With windows hosts, you have to be careful.
Now this puts you into the "public IP's" area, but seriously.
You can still effectively firewall. You don't HAVE to NAT to have an effective firewall. Somewhere along the line this came into thought. Granted, that means all IP's are world-accessible, but that doesn't mean you have to allow traffic to reach those machines from outside.
allow tcp 22 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed ssh)
allow tcp 80 from any to (ipv6 hosts allowed web access)
block icmp from any to (ipv6 network)
block from any to any
You can get fancier than that if you want. Not a major problem. Only issue is that IPv6 can reach IPv4, but not the other way around. You have to encapsulate IPv6 into IPv4, but there's software for handling that.
Why do people keep calling "Cinema Graphics" CGI? CGI is "Common Gateway Interface", used for CGI Scripts.
Cinema Graphics are CG. Nothing more, nothing less. Not trying to be a jerk, just confused why people are using an acronym for something that doesn't fit.