Not necessarily autistic people. Rather, people with a more childlike view of the world. Depending on the depth and severity of the autism, an autistic person may have a more immature view of the world than a non-autistic person. Certainly, most peopl diagnosed with autism exhibit this immaturity.
(I have to nitpick when I see things like this; I'm one of the lucky, "high-functioning," autistics.)
I know a couple people who mod their cars. The impression I get is that, for them, the joy is in the journey, not the destination. One guy I know sells cars and boats off once he's done fixing them up.
For every knowledgeable enthusiast, there are many more misinformed or incorrect speculators whose opinions usually spring from personal preference or a need to hear themselves talk.
Sounds like just about every discussion board I've ever read.
Erm...you can do the same thing to Windows NT/200/XP systems. Not that you can recompile your kernel, but you can probably configure the bootloader to load DOS instead of XP.
I suspect few people realize we've launched nuclear materials into space on many occasions. IIRC, the Pioneer probes are nuclear-powered.
Who knows? We may even have had some of those probes fail to launch properly, in which case the nuclear material had no major ill effects. (That I'm aware of, anyway.)
Robot battles are best done on your computer. Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, though.
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Your hands just seem to...sink...into the control panel. After that, you're mental interface with the computer will be good enough to cause an addiction.
It's worked for me since 0.9; You might need to upgrade. IIRC, there are a couple significant security flaws that weren't patched in 0.8. 0.9.x is up to 0.9.3, and I'm running 0.10.1
If there are any ionic substances on the surface of the board, such as salt in dried sweat, your formerly distilled water will very quickly begin to conduct.
Other posters have mentioned anti-corrosive additives. If they're ionic, then your water is likely to conduct.
Er...that was the basis of my original point, that the ease of collecting, organizing, searching and analyzing data is a greater threat to privacy than the fact that the data is out there in the first place.
Many (though certainly not all) people assume that sharing information about themselves is fine, because it's too difficult for malicious persons to collect, organize and analyze that data.
And the only way to keep the data private is to become a hermit. The only other solution is to slow the process of analysis.
I refuse to become a hermit. I'd rather take part in EFF Action Alerts to slow the passage of legislation that makes data about me easier to analyze.
My point is that the ease of searching data is more important than the data itself.
If you go through my comment history, you'll find out all sorts of things about me. But will you? Probably not. It's not worth your time to sift through all the data.
However, with data analysis algorithms, you could have a computer tell you all you need to know about my posting habits, and possibly even find cyclical behaviors and suspicious gaps in my posting.
Add other users' histories into the mix, and you might think you've stumbled onto a conspiracy.
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666 is Anonymous Coward.
I can't prove it any more, though. This method used to work, but doesn't, and this method is taking to long.
*nitpick*
Not necessarily autistic people. Rather, people with a more childlike view of the world. Depending on the depth and severity of the autism, an autistic person may have a more immature view of the world than a non-autistic person. Certainly, most peopl diagnosed with autism exhibit this immaturity.
(I have to nitpick when I see things like this; I'm one of the lucky, "high-functioning," autistics.)
It seems to me that, for corporations, threats are always legal. Taking action, on the other hand, occasionally backfires.
C/C++.
And as an armchair advocate of distinction between the two, that scares me.
And a pre-emptive strike against FUD: No, it doesn't run on the Java VM.
I'd tack on a "Pot vs kettle" argument, but I think I've made my point.
I know a couple people who mod their cars. The impression I get is that, for them, the joy is in the journey, not the destination. One guy I know sells cars and boats off once he's done fixing them up.
For every knowledgeable enthusiast, there are many more misinformed or incorrect speculators whose opinions usually spring from personal preference or a need to hear themselves talk.
Sounds like just about every discussion board I've ever read.
Erm...you can do the same thing to Windows NT/200/XP systems. Not that you can recompile your kernel, but you can probably configure the bootloader to load DOS instead of XP.
Yeah, that's right, the citizens of the communities.
So let Verizon recoup their costs, then open it up.
Last time I used unstable (I don't think they were calling it "sid" yet), the Perl packages broke.
Ever since, I've been using testing.
Cute, but still not true.
To upgrade to the latest software, replace "stable" with "testing" in your sources.list file. If you need further direction, look here.
The "testing" repositories usually contain the latest releases of software, and sometimes packages compiled from CVS.
I suspect few people realize we've launched nuclear materials into space on many occasions. IIRC, the Pioneer probes are nuclear-powered.
Who knows? We may even have had some of those probes fail to launch properly, in which case the nuclear material had no major ill effects. (That I'm aware of, anyway.)
Robot battles are best done on your computer. Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, though.
Your hands just seem to...sink...into the control panel. After that, you're mental interface with the computer will be good enough to cause an addiction.
That's a big RAID Array...
What kind of advancements to CPU design would improve their use in AI? Shorter pipelines? Greater emphasis on bus speed vs cache?
Transmeta CPUs are x86 compatible. And you can configure your kernel specifically for them.
It's worked for me since 0.9; You might need to upgrade. IIRC, there are a couple significant security flaws that weren't patched in 0.8. 0.9.x is up to 0.9.3, and I'm running 0.10.1
Erm...I just middle-click on links in messages. Works fine.
If there are any ionic substances on the surface of the board, such as salt in dried sweat, your formerly distilled water will very quickly begin to conduct.
Other posters have mentioned anti-corrosive additives. If they're ionic, then your water is likely to conduct.
Er...that was the basis of my original point, that the ease of collecting, organizing, searching and analyzing data is a greater threat to privacy than the fact that the data is out there in the first place.
Here's the problem with your argument:
Many (though certainly not all) people assume that sharing information about themselves is fine, because it's too difficult for malicious persons to collect, organize and analyze that data.
And the only way to keep the data private is to become a hermit. The only other solution is to slow the process of analysis.
I refuse to become a hermit. I'd rather take part in EFF Action Alerts to slow the passage of legislation that makes data about me easier to analyze.
My point is that the ease of searching data is more important than the data itself.
If you go through my comment history, you'll find out all sorts of things about me. But will you? Probably not. It's not worth your time to sift through all the data.
However, with data analysis algorithms, you could have a computer tell you all you need to know about my posting habits, and possibly even find cyclical behaviors and suspicious gaps in my posting.
Add other users' histories into the mix, and you might think you've stumbled onto a conspiracy.
That's the thing about privacy. It doesn't matter so much that your data is available. What matters is how easy it is to search, compare and use.
That's why I don't like things like federal databases, or even cross-company commercial database integration.