Why would a passenger vessel capable of hopping between stars in the blink of an eye have manufacturing centers?
Nobody said they are all passenger vessels - it's whatever ships happened to escape destruction, so there are plenty of various industrial ships, as well (a refinery ship was featured specifically several times). Overall, they seem to be pretty advanced technologically, and at least some ships (the BSG itself, especially) were designed to be self-sufficient for extended periods of time - I'm sure it wasn't beyond them to get some basic manufacturing activities up and running.
Anyway, they are still very much at your Step 1, and not doing terribly well at that, either.
Most humans on BSG (at least the ones the show centers around) only show a token devotion to their Gods (if at all).
Some do, but I got the impression that's not very indicative of their society as a whole.
Baltar is an atheist (at least at the start) as is Adama (he thinks Earth is a myth)
Baltar is The Scientist archetype, so of course he's an atheist, it's the setup for his whole "unlikely prophet" arc (not terribly original, but it's a thing). At least I got the impression that his atheism was somewhat uncommon by their standards. Adama doesn't believe in prophecy (or even just that particular prophecy), I don't believe he was ever actually presented as not believing the whole Lords of Kobol thing (I could be wrong, I can't recall anything specific one way or the other).
Rosalind is a believer but is not above using religious posturing for her own political ends.
So? Her actions are entirely informed by prophecy at this point, doesn't get any more religious than that.
My main point was that their society, as a whole, is shown to be far more religious than ours. For one thing, they clearly have a state-endorsed (or enforced?) religion that informs much of their politics. The educated elite might be pretty secularized, but aren't they always?
I believe there's an intentional parallel with western secular 'Christians' and extremist Muslims.
I think that's pretty tenuous (and kinda simplistic if that was the actual intention). For one thing, the cylons' devotion is constantly contrasted with the ritual (and superstition) of the human practices. If the intention is for "us" - predominantly Christian Westerners - to identify with the BSG humans, then why have them be "stuck" in polytheism (there's actually hints of "monolatry" to it, kinda akin to later Roman cultic worship), while the cylons develop theistically along lines very similar to our own culture? And it's not like large segments of Western society aren't every bit as religious as any Muslim - religious belief and fanatical "extremism" aren't exactly the same thing.
Basically what I mean is, is it just a coincidence that the cylons have a more developed, and nuanced, theosophy than the humans?
For that matter, the vast majority of the BSG humans wouldn't have a problem exterminating the cylons on religious grounds (according to their religion the cylons aren't sentient). While the cylons, ostensibly, are only hunting the humans because they perceive them as a threat. In fact, it's the overtly religious models that seem to come by some misgivings about exterminating the whole species.
Actually, I guess when I say "the cylons" I pretty much mean "the Sixes", I don't believe the others were shown to embrace those views quite as wholeheartedly. But still, while they are deeply religious, I wouldn't say their religion is shown as fundamentalist.
I guess I'm just hoping it's a little more complex than "fundamentalism == extremism == bad", cause, I mean, duh...
They probably forgot to implement the three laws? You know, the ones from Asimov and 'I Robot'?
Or maybe it happened because they did implement the Three Laws? Sometimes I wonder if any of the people constantly referencing those laws have actually read Asimov.
Anyway, the humans view the cylons as servile machines, the cylons think of humans as primitives undeserving of God's grace (at least according to the Sixes) - not hard to imagine that relationship souring.
I mean yeah they're the enemy but they're obviously intelligent and sentient and they're not even given basic human rights.
The humans on BSG are deeply religious and believe that humanity is defined by a Gods-given soul, which a man-made machine cannot have - it's a pretty major part of the show, if a little unsubtle. Goes along with the whole theme of the cylons having a more "evolved" religion than the humans (by our Western standards, of course, where monotheism > highly ritualistic polytheism).
Of course, the cylons did also exterminate the human race, some people would hold a grudge.
So if you're in England a248.e.akamai.net might resolve to an IP located in Londan, but in New York City it would resolve to an IP somewhere in New York.
Great. I wonder if the fact that DNS was specifically designed with this sort of thing in mind undermines Akamai's inventiveness here?
Of course it's pretty pointless speculating here, since TFA has exactly zero information about what's specifically being infringed here: could be something of substance, or could be the old "use a more or less complex implementation to get a ridiculously broad patent and then sue everyone solving the same problem" approach.
We know that many of our emails never reach their destination.
Seriously? I can't say I've ever experienced an email simply getting lodged in a tube and never reaching its destination.
Not including the usual "Why yes, professor, I emailed you that homework assignment last week. What do you mean you didn't get it?", of course.
Anyway, I've never really thought about it, but POTS does seem to be exceptionally reliable - I can't think of a single other utility/service that can match it. Power, water, cable, etc all go up and down more than the drawers of an indecisive prostitute. Hell, has anyone looked at the "uptime" of public transportation recently?
So, why do we "put up" with a few hours of downtime per year? Because we are not being ridiculous.
They think! They reason! They apply varying degrees of effort depending on the importance of the task!
Heh, that made me chuckle. What country are you in? I'd like to go meet some of your government employees someday, they sound like quite the curiosity.
I've come to think of journaled filesystems as pretty much ubiquitous at this point, is FreeBSD really only now getting them? Or do they mean something else?
whereas small-scale sharing without any money being made would fall under civil law, which is what this case is interpreting
I'm pretty sure that the scale and (lack of) money involved doesn't make a difference - copyright infringement is a criminal offense. The reason that the RIAA are trying for damages in civil suits is that it'd be nigh-impossible to actually convict anyone for file sharing in a criminal case (plus, probably no prosecutor is insane enough to waste resources on such things).
So I'm pretty sure the law is the same, it's just a matter of who chooses to bring suit and where. And no, you can't be charged with copyright infringement for offering to make bootleg CDs (there might very well be something they can charge you with, though).
I think best practices and the ideal implementation in your code is beyond the scope of a tutorial or a book.
Personally I can't think of anymore more in-scope for a tutorial book. There's already enough of worthless "tutorial" books that cobble together a useless example and then just cat a bunch of man pages together to pad out the rest of it (in fact, we seem to get a "review" of one of those every couple of weeks here on slashdot).
Well, if this was the Manly Things Forum dedicated to beer, monster trucks, and movies prominently featuring drill sergeants, I would've gone with the other thing.
BDSM is also a sign that something is not quite right in your head, but presumably not to the degree of homicide. You might want to ses a psychiatrist, sadomasochism is considered a psychological disorder.
In common parlance, "sadomasochism" refers to just about any kind of power play, and has absolutely nothing to do with clinical psychopathy.
Here's a tip: if you need to look up the definition of a sexual practice on Wikipedia, you are probably not entirely qualified to categorize the whole thing as a psychological disorder.
Of course, it all depends on what they actually mean by "serious" BDSM; given his other proclivities it could easily lie well outside the definition that most people who are actually into BDSM would use.
Let's put it in Slashdot-friendly terms: adding BDSM to the list of evidence of being a crazy person is about as justified as claiming that the presence of encryption software on a computer is evidence of criminal intent.
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Why would a passenger vessel capable of hopping between stars in the blink of an eye have manufacturing centers?
Nobody said they are all passenger vessels - it's whatever ships happened to escape destruction, so there are plenty of various industrial ships, as well (a refinery ship was featured specifically several times). Overall, they seem to be pretty advanced technologically, and at least some ships (the BSG itself, especially) were designed to be self-sufficient for extended periods of time - I'm sure it wasn't beyond them to get some basic manufacturing activities up and running.
Anyway, they are still very much at your Step 1, and not doing terribly well at that, either.
Most humans on BSG (at least the ones the show centers around) only show a token devotion to their Gods (if at all).
Some do, but I got the impression that's not very indicative of their society as a whole.
Baltar is an atheist (at least at the start) as is Adama (he thinks Earth is a myth)
Baltar is The Scientist archetype, so of course he's an atheist, it's the setup for his whole "unlikely prophet" arc (not terribly original, but it's a thing). At least I got the impression that his atheism was somewhat uncommon by their standards. Adama doesn't believe in prophecy (or even just that particular prophecy), I don't believe he was ever actually presented as not believing the whole Lords of Kobol thing (I could be wrong, I can't recall anything specific one way or the other).
Rosalind is a believer but is not above using religious posturing for her own political ends.
So? Her actions are entirely informed by prophecy at this point, doesn't get any more religious than that.
My main point was that their society, as a whole, is shown to be far more religious than ours. For one thing, they clearly have a state-endorsed (or enforced?) religion that informs much of their politics. The educated elite might be pretty secularized, but aren't they always?
I believe there's an intentional parallel with western secular 'Christians' and extremist Muslims.
I think that's pretty tenuous (and kinda simplistic if that was the actual intention). For one thing, the cylons' devotion is constantly contrasted with the ritual (and superstition) of the human practices. If the intention is for "us" - predominantly Christian Westerners - to identify with the BSG humans, then why have them be "stuck" in polytheism (there's actually hints of "monolatry" to it, kinda akin to later Roman cultic worship), while the cylons develop theistically along lines very similar to our own culture? And it's not like large segments of Western society aren't every bit as religious as any Muslim - religious belief and fanatical "extremism" aren't exactly the same thing.
Basically what I mean is, is it just a coincidence that the cylons have a more developed, and nuanced, theosophy than the humans?
For that matter, the vast majority of the BSG humans wouldn't have a problem exterminating the cylons on religious grounds (according to their religion the cylons aren't sentient). While the cylons, ostensibly, are only hunting the humans because they perceive them as a threat. In fact, it's the overtly religious models that seem to come by some misgivings about exterminating the whole species.
Actually, I guess when I say "the cylons" I pretty much mean "the Sixes", I don't believe the others were shown to embrace those views quite as wholeheartedly. But still, while they are deeply religious, I wouldn't say their religion is shown as fundamentalist.
I guess I'm just hoping it's a little more complex than "fundamentalism == extremism == bad", cause, I mean, duh...
is that the only character that follows clear moral principles is karl "helo" agathon; every other character on the show has obvious flaws
Isn't that the classic tragic flaw? Uncompromising goodness usually ends badly for the hero.
(sidenote for non-classics geeks: his name is a nod to this too, agathos means "good" in Greek, often in the sense of "noble" or "virtuous")
They probably forgot to implement the three laws? You know, the ones from Asimov and 'I Robot'?
Or maybe it happened because they did implement the Three Laws? Sometimes I wonder if any of the people constantly referencing those laws have actually read Asimov.
Anyway, the humans view the cylons as servile machines, the cylons think of humans as primitives undeserving of God's grace (at least according to the Sixes) - not hard to imagine that relationship souring.
Thanks, I was having trouble placing one of the most iconic images in the world.
Yes, I can see how if you watch the downloads now, and then buy the DVD when it comes out, you are a deeply immoral person.
I mean yeah they're the enemy but they're obviously intelligent and sentient and they're not even given basic human rights.
The humans on BSG are deeply religious and believe that humanity is defined by a Gods-given soul, which a man-made machine cannot have - it's a pretty major part of the show, if a little unsubtle. Goes along with the whole theme of the cylons having a more "evolved" religion than the humans (by our Western standards, of course, where monotheism > highly ritualistic polytheism).
Of course, the cylons did also exterminate the human race, some people would hold a grudge.
So if you're in England a248.e.akamai.net might resolve to an IP located in Londan, but in New York City it would resolve to an IP somewhere in New York.
Great. I wonder if the fact that DNS was specifically designed with this sort of thing in mind undermines Akamai's inventiveness here?
Of course it's pretty pointless speculating here, since TFA has exactly zero information about what's specifically being infringed here: could be something of substance, or could be the old "use a more or less complex implementation to get a ridiculously broad patent and then sue everyone solving the same problem" approach.
Non-obviousness, a requirement of Patents (35 USC 102?), isn't proven by looking at something and saying "Duh!" You need to show prior art
So, the first person to do something obvious gets a patent on it?
Apparently the patent system is working as intended, after all.
Doesn't seem so obvious now, does it?
All I'm seeing is the same thing as the summary, just with more words.
If you think this is the sort of thing that needs patent protection, you are high; no matter how many "wherein"'s they throw in there.
I'm sure they are in fact a very innovative company, that doesn't stop this patent from being complete bullshit.
We know that many of our emails never reach their destination.
Seriously? I can't say I've ever experienced an email simply getting lodged in a tube and never reaching its destination.
Not including the usual "Why yes, professor, I emailed you that homework assignment last week. What do you mean you didn't get it?", of course.
Anyway, I've never really thought about it, but POTS does seem to be exceptionally reliable - I can't think of a single other utility/service that can match it. Power, water, cable, etc all go up and down more than the drawers of an indecisive prostitute. Hell, has anyone looked at the "uptime" of public transportation recently?
So, why do we "put up" with a few hours of downtime per year? Because we are not being ridiculous.
Japanese robotics roboticist
Impressive, that's actually one of the most popular kinds of roboticists.
They think! They reason! They apply varying degrees of effort depending on the importance of the task!
Heh, that made me chuckle. What country are you in? I'd like to go meet some of your government employees someday, they sound like quite the curiosity.
I've come to think of journaled filesystems as pretty much ubiquitous at this point, is FreeBSD really only now getting them? Or do they mean something else?
(Not trolling, I know next to nothing about *BSD)
All it takes is being willing to be bothered to look up the relevant law and read it.
Well then, goes to show how much time I'm willing to be bothered to spend on Slashdot posts.
There are serious questions regarding the safety of immunizations
Luckily, questions regarding the safety of polio and bacterial meningitis are a lot simpler.
Well then, goes to show why IANAL.
whereas small-scale sharing without any money being made would fall under civil law, which is what this case is interpreting
I'm pretty sure that the scale and (lack of) money involved doesn't make a difference - copyright infringement is a criminal offense. The reason that the RIAA are trying for damages in civil suits is that it'd be nigh-impossible to actually convict anyone for file sharing in a criminal case (plus, probably no prosecutor is insane enough to waste resources on such things).
So I'm pretty sure the law is the same, it's just a matter of who chooses to bring suit and where. And no, you can't be charged with copyright infringement for offering to make bootleg CDs (there might very well be something they can charge you with, though).
Only if you also salt the hash of the encrypted salted hash - otherwise you are just playing with fire!
I think best practices and the ideal implementation in your code is beyond the scope of a tutorial or a book.
Personally I can't think of anymore more in-scope for a tutorial book. There's already enough of worthless "tutorial" books that cobble together a useless example and then just cat a bunch of man pages together to pad out the rest of it (in fact, we seem to get a "review" of one of those every couple of weeks here on slashdot).
Well, if this was the Manly Things Forum dedicated to beer, monster trucks, and movies prominently featuring drill sergeants, I would've gone with the other thing.
Well, I am sorry to say it, but AMD is dying at this moment.
Dang, and I was so looking forward to building that Opteron-based BSD box - guess that's really not happening now.
full metal gates
Some kind of Microsoft-themed manga?
Performing the steps in a system is not prior art to defining that system.
An idea about how to do something obvious is not a fucking "system".
Is there any way we can get that taped above every patent reviewer's desk?
BDSM is also a sign that something is not quite right in your head, but presumably not to the degree of homicide. You might want to ses a psychiatrist, sadomasochism is considered a psychological disorder.
In common parlance, "sadomasochism" refers to just about any kind of power play, and has absolutely nothing to do with clinical psychopathy.
Here's a tip: if you need to look up the definition of a sexual practice on Wikipedia, you are probably not entirely qualified to categorize the whole thing as a psychological disorder.
Of course, it all depends on what they actually mean by "serious" BDSM; given his other proclivities it could easily lie well outside the definition that most people who are actually into BDSM would use.
Let's put it in Slashdot-friendly terms: adding BDSM to the list of evidence of being a crazy person is about as justified as claiming that the presence of encryption software on a computer is evidence of criminal intent.