Some bears are Catholic, but most are Lutheran, owing less to doctrinal agreement than to a species-wide appreciation for large padded pews and good lutefisk.
Hey look, you can read Miss McGrattan's own blog entry about the interview and perhaps provide some intelligent, constructive comments. Remember not to obfuscate!
I think Hognoxious was implying that an underwater hippo fart might sound something like "Joomla!" with or without quotes.
As an aside, back in 1996 when Larry Page first told Sergey Brin about his page-linking thesis project called "BackRub", Brin lauged so hard that coffee came out of his nose. His java-enhanced expletive came out "Google!" and the name stuck.
Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me—but please wait a few minutes before you do.
According to Fujitsu, the password is entered at power-up. I would wager that the drive incorporates a bootable utility in flash which presents the password screen, then logically switches the flash boot drive with the newly-accessible hard drive and boots normally.
I'd hope that the drive stores the password data in auto-erasing SRAM to thwart anything like cold-reboot attacks at the drive level.
Lawyers are not charged with enforcing the law. They are charged with bending it to their own purposes, should that be getting an innocent man out of jail or extorting money from large amounts of people. That's just plain WRONG!!!!
From your site's What is Skewz? section:
Skewz was started by a group of 4 guys with diverse political views who engaged in frequent political sparring. We tired of the coarseness of the public political dialog and the tendency for both sides to talk past each other. The goal was not to make peace between liberals and conservatives. Instead, we wanted to encourage liberal-conservative dialogue by improving on the intelligence and thoughtfulness of the discussions. We hoped that doing so would take focus from the cosmetic appeal of parties and personalities that generate allegiances and place it instead on wit and wisdom of intelligent debate. It seems that your site's focus is currently on cultural/political bias rather than the "wit and wisdom of intelligent debate." If your project is to be true to its goals, shouldn't there be evaluation sliders for an article's wit, insight, wisdom and informativeness? We use a simplified system for that on Slashdot and it works surprisingly well most of the time.
What filters will be available in the future? Will users be able to limit the stories they see to those rated, say, (+4,Reactionary) or above? That would allow your portal to emulate the Drudge Report, the Daily Kos or the John Birch Society homepage at the user's whim, removing the risk of accidental exposure to differing viewpoints.
Quoth The Avarice of York:
orly? Good grab there, Avarice! It has a ring of nobility to it--the sort of Imperial title to which Greedo might have aspired had it not been for that incident in the bar.
Unhelpful detritus often clutters search results, thanks to online publishers who have learned how to game the system. Publishers who modify their web pages to fool an automated search engine generally do so in ways that are immediately obvious to us. As a result, we can generally parse our search results very quickly to get the information we require.
But what if the system being "gamed" is a human-based search engine? Since the publisher must fool humans anyway, the "unhelpful detritus" in the end users' results will blend in. Even if there are fewer false positives, those that remain will be harder to eliminate.
Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever If eWeek's editors were as clever as this new spam, would they have used the correct comparative form cleverer instead?
Evidently, both computer owners in Eastern Kentucky are upset at each other. Actually there's only one computer owner involved. His too-smart-for-her-own-good wife logs in while he's at the State Legislature and makes fun of his Moon Landing Hoax page.
His next legislative target is strong encryption, because he's tired of being unable to read her TrueCrypt volume.
What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight? Assuming you want a copy of the LoC which will allow you to reconstruct the entire collection, you'll need scanned images of all the documents, decent MP3 (or ogg) files of the audio recordings and at least SD-quality copies of all the video. That would require something north of ten petabytes. At 1.64Tbps, that would work out to less than 25 LoC/fortnight--and that's assuming Mom doesn't pick up the kitchen phone and kill your connection.
Do you think totalitarian regimes would do better if they packaged their policies as Personal Rights Management, and sold them as a service? I think that's as close as I'll come to breaking Godwin's law today.
British scientists have discovered a way to move around by walking, making wheeled transportation obsolete. All trips made with this method would be short or very slow due the lack of speed, and there is high chance of being late. I'd like to take a moment to welcome our new ambling overlords and remind them that airplanes are still pretty handy for the really long trips.
S in on one side of keyboard and L is on the other side.
Not on a Dvorak keyboard layout, where L and S are vertically adjacent.
Back on topic, I must say "AOL!" to WED Fan's brilliant riposte. Microsoft (or any other sufficiently large corporation/government/religion/prairie dog town, for that matter) logs enough damnable acts without its enemies having to make up more.
Look at it from the aliens' perspective: A race that can transmit audio and video with electromagnetic radiation may last long enough to pose a threat, perhaps even unintentionally by building an interstellar probe with an accidental grey goo potential, or by producing a wealthy xenophobe willing to blow her fortune on doing it intentionally.
I seriously doubt that any race with interstellar capabilities would consider us a threat, at least in the near term. My guess is, they regard us the way we'd regard some isolated tribe of monkeys. If the monkeys come and poop in their backyard (or we become able to travel beyond our star system), then they might take action, but until then, they'll probably just laugh at our idiocy.
They would be foolish to do so, since the currency of their intel on us is limited to the distance we are from them, and that would likely be sufficient to make any such assessments rather dicey.
Based on our own case, we might assume that space travel is developed at roughly the same point in a species' history as is radio communication. The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System is the most likely terrestrial beacon to be detected at interstellar distances, and it began broadcasting two years after Sputnik. The first interstellar probe left Earth only 12 years later. If that's typical, I'd assume that any radio signal from more than 50 light-years away indicates a civilization that is either already spacefaring or already dead.
We don't know how long it will take to develop relativistic interstellar travel or robust self-replicating nanotech. Suppose, though, that an alien race has theorized that it takes at least x years for any species to advance from detectable radio to the point of "escaping containment," either with dangerous probes or colony ships. Let's also assume that a proactively defensive race's nearest signal-detection-and-response capability is d light-years away, and it takes t years for their interstellar salvo to reach relativistic speed. That gives them at most x-2d-.5t years to respond to any found signal with a reasonable certainty that they have contained the threat.
So if their nearest garrison is at Vega, they detected the BMEWS signal almost immediately and they got up to speed in two years, we have until about 2013 before all warranties expire simultaneously. Chances are we won't be able to escape the Solar system before then. If their nearest outpost orbits Regulus, however, we have until at least 2115 to put our eggs in more baskets.
As an interesting aside (to me at least), what if someday we do detect a transmission from another world x light-years away, and find that they're at roughly the same technological level that we were x years before? Would our priority be to destroy them before they can do the same to us, or to spread humanity beyond their reach? And what would theirs be?
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When mentioning Diebold, it is always crucial to mention that they now call themselves Premier Election Systems...
Fine. Tell them that when we're ready to elect a premier, we'll get back to them.
Some bears are Catholic, but most are Lutheran, owing less to doctrinal agreement than to a species-wide appreciation for large padded pews and good lutefisk.
Armored bears are atheists, of course.
...of a joke going over over a mime's head?
how about a link to the firefox extension that autolinkifies plain text urls?
That would be Linkification, now at version 1.3.5 and Firefox 3.0.x compatible.
Abuse RAID enthusiasts?
Hey look, you can read Miss McGrattan's own blog entry about the interview and perhaps provide some intelligent, constructive comments. Remember not to obfuscate!
I think Hognoxious was implying that an underwater hippo fart might sound something like "Joomla!" with or without quotes.
As an aside, back in 1996 when Larry Page first told Sergey Brin about his page-linking thesis project called "BackRub", Brin lauged so hard that coffee came out of his nose. His java-enhanced expletive came out "Google!" and the name stuck.
Check Wikipedia if you don't believe me—but please wait a few minutes before you do.
Too bad it's not a ternary processor as well, that would be quite an interesting product.
According to Fujitsu, the password is entered at power-up. I would wager that the drive incorporates a bootable utility in flash which presents the password screen, then logically switches the flash boot drive with the newly-accessible hard drive and boots normally.
I'd hope that the drive stores the password data in auto-erasing SRAM to thwart anything like cold-reboot attacks at the drive level.
Do you have a silly walk as well?
It should be, um, large numbers of people.
What filters will be available in the future? Will users be able to limit the stories they see to those rated, say, (+4,Reactionary) or above? That would allow your portal to emulate the Drudge Report, the Daily Kos or the John Birch Society homepage at the user's whim, removing the risk of accidental exposure to differing viewpoints.
...I'd want "The Avarice of York" as my alias. Who'll bet that it's taken by the end of the day?
But what if the system being "gamed" is a human-based search engine? Since the publisher must fool humans anyway, the "unhelpful detritus" in the end users' results will blend in. Even if there are fewer false positives, those that remain will be harder to eliminate.
His next legislative target is strong encryption, because he's tired of being unable to read her TrueCrypt volume.
...if /. were only available at night?
... Analog Rights Management.
Do you think totalitarian regimes would do better if they packaged their policies as Personal Rights Management, and sold them as a service? I think that's as close as I'll come to breaking Godwin's law today.
This move will not affect the still profitable Gen Con Indy event which wills till happen August 14-17, 2008.
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British scientists have discovered a way to move around by walking, making wheeled transportation obsolete. All trips made with this method would be short or very slow due the lack of speed, and there is high chance of being late. I'd like to take a moment to welcome our new ambling overlords and remind them that airplanes are still pretty handy for the really long trips.
S in on one side of keyboard and L is on the other side.
Not on a Dvorak keyboard layout, where L and S are vertically adjacent.
Back on topic, I must say "AOL!" to WED Fan's brilliant riposte. Microsoft (or any other sufficiently large corporation/government/religion/prairie dog town, for that matter) logs enough damnable acts without its enemies having to make up more.
Based on our own case, we might assume that space travel is developed at roughly the same point in a species' history as is radio communication. The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System is the most likely terrestrial beacon to be detected at interstellar distances, and it began broadcasting two years after Sputnik. The first interstellar probe left Earth only 12 years later. If that's typical, I'd assume that any radio signal from more than 50 light-years away indicates a civilization that is either already spacefaring or already dead.
We don't know how long it will take to develop relativistic interstellar travel or robust self-replicating nanotech. Suppose, though, that an alien race has theorized that it takes at least x years for any species to advance from detectable radio to the point of "escaping containment," either with dangerous probes or colony ships. Let's also assume that a proactively defensive race's nearest signal-detection-and-response capability is d light-years away, and it takes t years for their interstellar salvo to reach relativistic speed. That gives them at most x-2d-.5t years to respond to any found signal with a reasonable certainty that they have contained the threat.
So if their nearest garrison is at Vega, they detected the BMEWS signal almost immediately and they got up to speed in two years, we have until about 2013 before all warranties expire simultaneously. Chances are we won't be able to escape the Solar system before then. If their nearest outpost orbits Regulus, however, we have until at least 2115 to put our eggs in more baskets.
As an interesting aside (to me at least), what if someday we do detect a transmission from another world x light-years away, and find that they're at roughly the same technological level that we were x years before? Would our priority be to destroy them before they can do the same to us, or to spread humanity beyond their reach? And what would theirs be?