You're just perpetuating the myth and this myth is insidious. It started as a commentary on the progress mankind had made since the dark ages and has grown to include all peoples from the past, including the people who started the myth.
As an example, it is common to regard Columbus as a staunch globist, fighting the good fight against the ignorant flat Earthers of his day. But the Spanish and Portuguese knew the world was not flat and when they argued with Columbus it was because they knew his calculations for the distance from Spain to China was grossly under the actual value. Columbus was just lucky that there was a continent between Spain and China or he and his crew would have starved (more likely mutiny and the plank for him).
"Before the earth was round, it was flat, it's been shaped like a disk."
The idea that 'people in the past thought the Earth was flat' is an invention of the 20th century. Stephen Jay Gould has an excellent article discussing this fact. The Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, etc all had a very good idea about the shape of the earth. Using it as an ad-hominem is ironic.
I think as far as the scientific method goes, it is almost always better to be a denier then a cheerleader.
I'm not opposed to the environment, nor do I want to pollute the Earth, but environmental studies are generally used to prevent progress. Which is what the OP stated. What I am opposed to is using environmental studies and massive regulation to drive up the cost of things some people don't like so they are no longer a viable option.
We know what the environmental impact is of nuclear power. We have standard designs and working plants that we can already study. Hell, we currently track every single part in a nuclear plant, from the main reactor, to the screws on the last exit sign, so don't tell me we don't know. We could go to France, Canada or Japan and see the impact nuclear power has had on their environment or just ask them for the data. Nope, if a new nuke plant is started in the USA, there will be a fresh wave of lawsuits, protests, environmental studies and legislation. Is it any wonder that power companies are building coal fired plants and not nukes?
Screw the will of the people, screw democracy, screw the environment, cause some people thought 'The China Syndrome' was a true story and that they were really doing everyone else, the little people who just don't get it, a favor. I don't know which is more funny, the ones that recently changed their mind or the ones that are holding on to their delusions. Probably have to go with the ones that recently changed who are now finding out that all of the roadblocks that fell so easily into place are going to be hell to remove.
--slightly off topic rant-- Same thing happened to the prison system. People used to get punished in prison, hard labor, bad conditions, etc, but sentences were shorter. It wasn't perfect, but it made sense. Steal something, you get 1 year hard labor, hurt someone and you get 2 years hard labor, murder someone, you get 10 years hard labor. Then a bunch of well meaning morons decided that the prison system should rehabilitate criminals. So they took away the hard labor and bad conditions but increased the sentences so that the prison could rehabilitate the criminals properly. Never mind that they had no proof that they could rehabilitate criminals and no plan to do it even if they could. Flash forward a couple of decades and now we have a prison system that creates criminals and rewards them for good behavior. Yay for us! We're so enlightened! --rant off back on topic--
Even technologies like wind and solar are feeling the heat from the need for environmental studies, which is kind of poetic in an Edgar Allen Poe meets Twilight Zone fashion. Hopefully they can do block studies on some common designs that won't need to keep paying and waiting for new studies to go forward.
I like to tell them the story of the dot, the point from whence we all came in a blinding flash, that created a universe of glowing plasma in an unprecedented expansion that slowly cooled, which clumped together thru the mysterious force we call gravity, resulting in everything we can now see, feel or touch, that the expansion continues even faster today aided by an even more mysterious force we call dark, that accelerates everything away from each other, which may or may not actually exist...
Usually, they are not bothered by my story. Most of the time, they have already heard it and have accepted some parts of it into their world view. You should try that some time. You know, telling them what you believe.
"Don't tell me your doubts, tell me what you know."
The number of people who have a positive view of Microsoft vastly outnumbers the installed user base of Apple. Most people like Microsoft, warts and all, because they can afford a PC and it has everything they need. The fact that Apple is shinier is not lost on them, it just doesn't outweigh all of the fun and power owning a modern PC connected to the internet brings. Only Apple zealots think that PC users are jealous of them. Only Linux zealots think of thrown chairs when someone mentions windows.
It might be cool if the software section has 3 surface stations where multiple people can try out demos or see videos of products. It actually seems more like a PR stunt. Open a few stores in major cities and every time a new Halo or Gears of War game comes out, they'll have lines around the block.
On Slashdot, if it has a GUI then it is not part of the operating system. You really must be new here.
What is really funny is Open Source advocates writing about the 'Browser Market'. It's almost as funny as reading all of the Atheist rants about the evil Christians every time there is a story about science.
If that is a premise of communism, it has never achieved it anywhere. Russia, China and Cuba did not dismantle the state, they just painted everything red and put words like "peoples" in front of all the government names. "Peoples Army", "Peoples Hospital", etc. Your confusing (more like fantasizing) about some communist ideal that has never even been close to becoming a reality.
It's like calling Hamas democratically elected and failing to note the opposition and their families thrown from buildings and shot in the streets. Having an election is not the same as being a democracy.
If you can live in space, why trade down for a rock in space?
Why would you listen to materialists? Don't you know that everything they say is just the result of chemical reactions? Take them at their word and move along.
If they could get here, I doubt very much we have anything of interest to them.
If we could survive in space long enough to get to the asteroid belt beyond Mars, we would have access to more mineral wealth then currently exists on Earth. If we could survive in space, we wouldn't have much use for a planet at all.
"Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it."
How can a GPL programmer take code from Apache license and assert copyright on the software? The Apache license does not confer copyright, merely a copyright license. They are not the same thing.
For example, you take Microsoft's Web Sandbox and put it under GPL. Someone else comes along and does the same thing. Neither one of you now owns the copyright. Neither one of you can sue the other for copyright infringement.
Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it is a good standard and I wonder about CSS being a good standard.
I congratulate the committee that created it on actually getting something out the door, that is an accomplishment for any committee. However, I don't think it is too much to ask that the new standard actually work better then what was already there. Tables were clunky and misused, but for formatting a web page, they still work better and are easier to understand. It's frustrating to spend days trying to get CSS to render something simple to only tear it all out and redo it in tables in a few minutes.
Was there really a huge demand for floating elements back in 1998?
Indexing really slows things down. Also, check you AV and Spyware settings and think about turning off any real-time file monitoring. Indexing plus real time file monitoring equals slowness. Finally, run 'msconfig' and check what is starting up at runtime. If you don't know what it is, get rid of it. You can always add it back.
I once looked at a coworkers system and he had processes starting up at runtime that were called, I kid you not, A, B and blank (no name at all). Removing those restored his system.
You are almost right. This type of data collection can not be used for real time or predictive analysis. What it can do is allow the NSA to roll back the clock, so to speak.
Master terrorist A controls terrorists B, C and D who independently control their own teams. Thug Z, who belongs to C's team, gets noticed or caught or commits a terrorist act. The NSA can now look at all of the communication that Z has ever had, which leads them to Z's team members and eventually to C, the team leader. The NSA then repeats the process with C until they get A, the master terrorist. This leads them to B and D and their teams.
Note that at no point is there a need to look at the content of any communications. It merely is a way to track connections. If you look closely at some of the recent cases involving terrorists in this country you will see evidence that this ability to roll back communications exists and is being used.
I am 100% certain that the NSA has run this program past their lawyers and 99.9% certain that it has received congressional approval. One thing about the NSA is that they are fanatics about locking down their own systems and a rogue program would be noticed very quickly.
Don't forget that the Russians were not at war with Japan at that time. They waited until the final moments of the war and only so they could steal islands from the Japanese.
You can blame the US for dropping the 1st bomb, but blame the Japanese for the 2nd.
How exactly is the NSA or anyone for that matter expected to know whether the participants in a conversation are US citizens? Are they supposed to break in at the end and ask? "Hey, guys, uhm, just to cya, none of you are from the US, right?"
Can you imagine this scenario? "Hello, this is Osama Bin Laden. On the phone with me is Chris Burke, an American citizen. Please turn off any wiretaps."
Would the NSA spook listening in count as a party to said communication? As a US citizen that would make every phone call in the world illegal to tap, unless we outsource to India.
The FISA court is simply recognizing that no one has a right to privacy when making an international call. Freedom of Speech does not make any guarantee of privacy, nor does Freedom from Search & Seizure exist at the border. The NSA program specifically targeted phone calls between the US and a foreign country.
The FISA court still needs to exist to temper abuse for domestic wire taps.
I've explained this several times on this site and I'm glad to see the court has finally figured out how to read.
Maybe she really is intelligent but not really familiar with computers. Really, there are still households that do not have a computer and you really don't need a computer to do anything. Einstein never owned one. Really.
Actually, this has been studied. Awareness appears to be more important then consciousness. The cat will be alive or dead irregardless of whether you are conscious or not.
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You're just perpetuating the myth and this myth is insidious. It started as a commentary on the progress mankind had made since the dark ages and has grown to include all peoples from the past, including the people who started the myth.
As an example, it is common to regard Columbus as a staunch globist, fighting the good fight against the ignorant flat Earthers of his day. But the Spanish and Portuguese knew the world was not flat and when they argued with Columbus it was because they knew his calculations for the distance from Spain to China was grossly under the actual value. Columbus was just lucky that there was a continent between Spain and China or he and his crew would have starved (more likely mutiny and the plank for him).
"Before the earth was round, it was flat, it's been shaped like a disk."
The idea that 'people in the past thought the Earth was flat' is an invention of the 20th century. Stephen Jay Gould has an excellent article discussing this fact. The Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, etc all had a very good idea about the shape of the earth. Using it as an ad-hominem is ironic.
I think as far as the scientific method goes, it is almost always better to be a denier then a cheerleader.
Windows mobile already has touch screen support and has had it for a long while.
I'm not opposed to the environment, nor do I want to pollute the Earth, but environmental studies are generally used to prevent progress. Which is what the OP stated. What I am opposed to is using environmental studies and massive regulation to drive up the cost of things some people don't like so they are no longer a viable option.
We know what the environmental impact is of nuclear power. We have standard designs and working plants that we can already study. Hell, we currently track every single part in a nuclear plant, from the main reactor, to the screws on the last exit sign, so don't tell me we don't know. We could go to France, Canada or Japan and see the impact nuclear power has had on their environment or just ask them for the data. Nope, if a new nuke plant is started in the USA, there will be a fresh wave of lawsuits, protests, environmental studies and legislation. Is it any wonder that power companies are building coal fired plants and not nukes?
Screw the will of the people, screw democracy, screw the environment, cause some people thought 'The China Syndrome' was a true story and that they were really doing everyone else, the little people who just don't get it, a favor. I don't know which is more funny, the ones that recently changed their mind or the ones that are holding on to their delusions. Probably have to go with the ones that recently changed who are now finding out that all of the roadblocks that fell so easily into place are going to be hell to remove.
--slightly off topic rant--
Same thing happened to the prison system. People used to get punished in prison, hard labor, bad conditions, etc, but sentences were shorter. It wasn't perfect, but it made sense. Steal something, you get 1 year hard labor, hurt someone and you get 2 years hard labor, murder someone, you get 10 years hard labor. Then a bunch of well meaning morons decided that the prison system should rehabilitate criminals. So they took away the hard labor and bad conditions but increased the sentences so that the prison could rehabilitate the criminals properly. Never mind that they had no proof that they could rehabilitate criminals and no plan to do it even if they could. Flash forward a couple of decades and now we have a prison system that creates criminals and rewards them for good behavior. Yay for us! We're so enlightened!
--rant off back on topic--
Even technologies like wind and solar are feeling the heat from the need for environmental studies, which is kind of poetic in an Edgar Allen Poe meets Twilight Zone fashion. Hopefully they can do block studies on some common designs that won't need to keep paying and waiting for new studies to go forward.
"Plants, as we all know, consume CO2."
Except when the sun aint shining. Guess what they do then.
"So excepting anyone drinking fossil fuels straight from the tap, human body processes, including breathing, are inherently carbon-neutral."
Unless they are robots, drinking fossil fuels is also carbon-neutral.
"This being the case, your charge of hypocrisy doesn't fly."
You're right, I should have just told him it was a stupid idea, that will not solve the imaginary problem he is reacting too.
I'm not holding my breath until they do, but if you don't, you're a hypocrite for exhaling (dumping) your CO2 into the atmosphere.
I'm sure we can find more examples of your using the atmosphere, oceans and earth for your private little toilet. You should stop now. Seriously.
I like to tell them the story of the dot, the point from whence we all came in a blinding flash, that created a universe of glowing plasma in an unprecedented expansion that slowly cooled, which clumped together thru the mysterious force we call gravity, resulting in everything we can now see, feel or touch, that the expansion continues even faster today aided by an even more mysterious force we call dark, that accelerates everything away from each other, which may or may not actually exist...
Usually, they are not bothered by my story. Most of the time, they have already heard it and have accepted some parts of it into their world view. You should try that some time. You know, telling them what you believe.
"Don't tell me your doubts, tell me what you know."
The number of people who have a positive view of Microsoft vastly outnumbers the installed user base of Apple. Most people like Microsoft, warts and all, because they can afford a PC and it has everything they need. The fact that Apple is shinier is not lost on them, it just doesn't outweigh all of the fun and power owning a modern PC connected to the internet brings. Only Apple zealots think that PC users are jealous of them. Only Linux zealots think of thrown chairs when someone mentions windows. It might be cool if the software section has 3 surface stations where multiple people can try out demos or see videos of products. It actually seems more like a PR stunt. Open a few stores in major cities and every time a new Halo or Gears of War game comes out, they'll have lines around the block.
On Slashdot, if it has a GUI then it is not part of the operating system. You really must be new here.
What is really funny is Open Source advocates writing about the 'Browser Market'. It's almost as funny as reading all of the Atheist rants about the evil Christians every time there is a story about science.
If that is a premise of communism, it has never achieved it anywhere. Russia, China and Cuba did not dismantle the state, they just painted everything red and put words like "peoples" in front of all the government names. "Peoples Army", "Peoples Hospital", etc. Your confusing (more like fantasizing) about some communist ideal that has never even been close to becoming a reality.
It's like calling Hamas democratically elected and failing to note the opposition and their families thrown from buildings and shot in the streets. Having an election is not the same as being a democracy.
If you can live in space, why trade down for a rock in space?
Why would you listen to materialists? Don't you know that everything they say is just the result of chemical reactions? Take them at their word and move along.
If they could get here, I doubt very much we have anything of interest to them.
If we could survive in space long enough to get to the asteroid belt beyond Mars, we would have access to more mineral wealth then currently exists on Earth. If we could survive in space, we wouldn't have much use for a planet at all.
From gnu.org...
"Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it."
How can a GPL programmer take code from Apache license and assert copyright on the software? The Apache license does not confer copyright, merely a copyright license. They are not the same thing.
For example, you take Microsoft's Web Sandbox and put it under GPL. Someone else comes along and does the same thing. Neither one of you now owns the copyright. Neither one of you can sue the other for copyright infringement.
Apparently it is okay on Tuesday for the EU to mandate multiple versions, but on Wednesday it is a crime if MS offers multiple versions.
Keep up the good work! We're that much closer to determining the speed of hypocrisy (currently somewhere between sound and light).
Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it is a good standard and I wonder about CSS being a good standard.
I congratulate the committee that created it on actually getting something out the door, that is an accomplishment for any committee. However, I don't think it is too much to ask that the new standard actually work better then what was already there. Tables were clunky and misused, but for formatting a web page, they still work better and are easier to understand. It's frustrating to spend days trying to get CSS to render something simple to only tear it all out and redo it in tables in a few minutes.
Was there really a huge demand for floating elements back in 1998?
So your beef is that the users shouldn't have to choose a particular browser, but instead choose any browser of their choice?
IANAL either, but I don't think that is an improvement.
What misconception? The soviet attack occurred between the dropping of the first and second bombs and 3 months after the fall of the third reich.
Indexing really slows things down. Also, check you AV and Spyware settings and think about turning off any real-time file monitoring. Indexing plus real time file monitoring equals slowness. Finally, run 'msconfig' and check what is starting up at runtime. If you don't know what it is, get rid of it. You can always add it back.
I once looked at a coworkers system and he had processes starting up at runtime that were called, I kid you not, A, B and blank (no name at all). Removing those restored his system.
You are almost right. This type of data collection can not be used for real time or predictive analysis. What it can do is allow the NSA to roll back the clock, so to speak.
Master terrorist A controls terrorists B, C and D who independently control their own teams. Thug Z, who belongs to C's team, gets noticed or caught or commits a terrorist act. The NSA can now look at all of the communication that Z has ever had, which leads them to Z's team members and eventually to C, the team leader. The NSA then repeats the process with C until they get A, the master terrorist. This leads them to B and D and their teams.
Note that at no point is there a need to look at the content of any communications. It merely is a way to track connections. If you look closely at some of the recent cases involving terrorists in this country you will see evidence that this ability to roll back communications exists and is being used.
I am 100% certain that the NSA has run this program past their lawyers and 99.9% certain that it has received congressional approval. One thing about the NSA is that they are fanatics about locking down their own systems and a rogue program would be noticed very quickly.
Don't forget that the Russians were not at war with Japan at that time. They waited until the final moments of the war and only so they could steal islands from the Japanese.
You can blame the US for dropping the 1st bomb, but blame the Japanese for the 2nd.
There's roughly 20 people on this planet for every American. Please stop blaming the smell on us.
How exactly is the NSA or anyone for that matter expected to know whether the participants in a conversation are US citizens? Are they supposed to break in at the end and ask? "Hey, guys, uhm, just to cya, none of you are from the US, right?"
Can you imagine this scenario? "Hello, this is Osama Bin Laden. On the phone with me is Chris Burke, an American citizen. Please turn off any wiretaps."
Would the NSA spook listening in count as a party to said communication? As a US citizen that would make every phone call in the world illegal to tap, unless we outsource to India.
Naive? Yeah, I think so.
The FISA court is simply recognizing that no one has a right to privacy when making an international call. Freedom of Speech does not make any guarantee of privacy, nor does Freedom from Search & Seizure exist at the border. The NSA program specifically targeted phone calls between the US and a foreign country.
The FISA court still needs to exist to temper abuse for domestic wire taps.
I've explained this several times on this site and I'm glad to see the court has finally figured out how to read.
Maybe she really is intelligent but not really familiar with computers. Really, there are still households that do not have a computer and you really don't need a computer to do anything. Einstein never owned one. Really.
Actually, this has been studied. Awareness appears to be more important then consciousness. The cat will be alive or dead irregardless of whether you are conscious or not.