Sounds like you've been watching a bit too much Fox News or Bill O'Reilly.;)
I think you've overreached when you suggest that humanities and social sciences are "nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness"; your statement is a display of your ignorance.
Just because you're not an OP doesn't mean that I am on a power trip. I can't help it if you have some sort of inferiority complex, where you think IRC OPs are out to persecute innocent you.
The purpose of the OPs is to police the channel for spammers, dickwads that want to squelch speech, and trolls. However, if people use #winprog as your personal Google, they'll get a exactly what they deserve; OPs will participate and won't protect them.
We're not here to make you feel warm and fuzzy and good all over. If you want some of that action, go to #teen.
90% of the questions, on #winprog, can be answered via Google; the #winprog OPs will either ignore the question or, more likely, honestly crush the ego of the person who so wastes their time. The channel promotes open discussion on Windows programming and other topics. The quality of #winprog depends on the quality of the questions, pure and simple.
#winprog is not dead. You just have to ask questions, in the correct manner. If you can't handle that, maybe you should go work behind some fast food counter and ask the customer what they would want with their fries.
Don't treat #winprog as though it's your personal Google and we won't treat you, like you were a dumb asshat fucktard; as you probably deserve.
Yeah I'm an OP on #winprog. Be jealous.
Re:What does it mean to discover a planet?
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The majority of scientists consider the 'wobble' to be an effect of the planet(s) revolving around the star. If you don't accept that planets are the most probable cause, then what your best guess as to what is the cause of the 'wobble'? If you're answer is "I don't know, but they don't know either.", then I think you simply don't know enough to be critical of these PhDs who have made this discovery. (But then again, this is Slashdot, right?).
I think you over-simplify your estimation of how they decided it was rocky. They use, as a model, what they've found in our solar system, as well as basic physics.
As far as I know, this star is simply too faint to be directly observed for planets and detecting the wobble is the best method of detecting the likelyhood of a star system containing planets. If you have a better method of detection other than declaring "your method is not good enough!", please let the scientific community know. They could then use your help and your insightful powers of posting on Slashdot.
I watched the live webcast of the announcement of their discovery as they answered questions from the rest of the astronomical community (via phone/e-mail). Believe me, these people who announced this discovery aren't stupid, and they are using the best scientific theory they have at hand (with 3 years of data supporting their theory, yeah they waited that long before announcing this).
I think this would be a good thing, since this technique would make it feasible to interface your 'preferences' (stored on a wearable computer) to various electronic or smart gadgets (a smart car/house/etc) so that as soon as you touch it, then the smart gadget is customized to you.
I suppose a simple application, would be if all cars supported this, then as soon as you touched the door latch then:
1) The car door would open, since the car verified who you were. 2) The seat would adjust to your body height 3) The radio would automatically tune itself to your preferences 4) Your playlists would be imported into the radio.
Your preferences can be stored in something relatively small. For example your watch can have this technology and it transmit your preferences to whatever smart gadget you touched.
What would really be neat, is if there were some method of biofeedback so that you could configure your preferences by 'thinking about it'. At that point, we would have something similar to the "Ancient's 'Automated' Technology" as shown on StarGate: Atlantis tv show.
The author's conclusion "It (IRC) is a haven for warez and trojans." is inaccurate and tends to suggest that all of IRC is a haven for warez and trojans.
The top 60 channels are popular because most of those channels involve illegally giving away warez, etc. The popularity of those 60 channels is not because of the illegality per se, instead those channels are popular because they encourage leeching of popular items for free. It would have been more accurate for the author of the article to suggest: 99% of the traffic in the top 60 channels involve leeching transactions of illegally distributed software,etc and that the top 60 channels comprise less than 1% of the total channels.
Generally, this is what we do at our site (we're a MS shop). We use a four stage system, where the first two stages are managed by the Developers and the last two stages are managed by the Production team (usually System Engineers and DBAs).
Development
Fully patched Windows XP or Windows 2000 Workstations, installed with all the development tools we need. Developed applications are _NEVER_ executed on the development workstations; this keeps the development platforms from being 'corrupted' by miscoded applications.
Testing
VMware server, running a simulated NT domain as well as simulated test platforms. Our VMware simulated test platforms are 'out of the box(OEM)' Windows or Linux images as well as images which match the Pre-Production environment. As the Pre-Production Acceptance environment changes, we can simulate those changes in the test environment to see how our applications may break. We then work on a solution. When we find a solution, we commit the Pre-Production Acceptance environment changes to the test platforms. Applications which pass the Q/A tests, are then sent to the Pre-Production Acceptance.
Pre-Production Acceptance The Pre-Production Acceptance is an environment managed by the Production team (not the developers!). This is where Application bugs found in the Pre-Production Acceptance environment are sent back down as reports to the Developers. This is where the application is integrated, and the latency and load testing are done, using real production data and load which is replicated from the Production environment.
Production
Applications that pass the Pre-Production Acceptance finally are integrated here by the Production Team.
I know this is offtopic, however Slashdot should seriously consider Coralizing popular links by appending.nyud.net:8090 to the URL. At the very least the first page would be cached by the Coral servers.
why not do both a md5sum and a sha-0 on the same data? Isn't it more difficult to spoof a binary and have matching collisions in both hashes at the same time? If either of the md5sum or the sha-0 don't match then you know that the data has been tampered with, right?
Port 135 is used at least by MS Exchange Server. Blocking 135 internally (behind the firewall) would not necessarily be a good thing if the organization uses Exchange Server to handle messaging (e-mail), contacts, address book, and calender for all its Users. Blocking ports really depends on what type of network services are allowed and used by the organization.
If the W32.Welchia.Worm was meant as a "good worm" by the writer, then the emergent DOS behavior of the W32.Welchia.Worm obviously shows that the writer has a complete lack of sophistication and critical judgment.
It seems to me that in the movie A.I. the robot child David either was not programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics or on his own seriously violated those Laws. For example:
a) Allowed himself to be injured by the sadist children at the pool when according to the second law of Robotics, David should have run away to protect himself.
b) Grabbed onto his "orga" brother and fell into the swimming pool and did not let go, thereby putting his "orga" brother into danger by drowning.
Having robots (even robot children) obey the Three Laws of Robotics seems to be a good thing, at least for us humans!
Just because some people think ownership of firearms may be antiquated with little or no merit in modern society does not mean that firearm owners do not have the right to exercise their right to protest or lobby congress.
Contrary to common belief, there is no constitutional right to vote (there is an amendment that does not allow the right to vote to be limited by sex or race). It is my understanding that the right to vote is regulated by the individual States or if not specifically regulated by the States is then given to the citizen.
The reason why convicted felons are not allowed to vote is because the State representatives do not trust those convicted felons to vote in the best interest of society. The States recognize that curtailing the vote of convicted felons is permitted by the Constitution and that that curtailing the free speech rights of firearms owners is not permitted.
The lack of such laws suggests that the average US citizen knows the futility of attemping to measure such things as sanity and the law abiding potential of a citizen. Yet at the same time the average US citizen knows it is better to believe that the majority of citizens are sane and law abiding and have the potential for firearm training and are smart enough to secure their firearms, rather than create and enforce laws based upon the idea that all the citizens of the US are insane and are criminals that can not ever have the right to purchase and own firearms.
In other words the average US citizen believes that many illegal acts using a firearm does not mean that all US citizens must be punished via restrictions on the legal purchase and legal ownership of firearms.
If a United States citizen is sane, law abiding, has the proper training, and properly secures their firearm, then there should be no reason why that citizen should not be able to purchase and own a legal firearm.
At the start of the armed conflict, wouldn't the attacker just take out the active defending RADARs using some sort of RADAR seeking missle, just like the U.S. did the Gulf War?
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Sounds like you've been watching a bit too much Fox News or Bill O'Reilly. ;)
I think you've overreached when you suggest that humanities and social sciences are "nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness"; your statement is a display of your ignorance.
Enlighten yourself and read what comprises humanities and social sciences.
You're making the baby Knuth cry. Please read "The Art of Computer Programming" before proceeding any further.
Just because you're not an OP doesn't mean that I am on a power trip. I can't help it if you have some sort of inferiority complex, where you think IRC OPs are out to persecute innocent you.
The purpose of the OPs is to police the channel for spammers, dickwads that want to squelch speech, and trolls. However, if people use #winprog as your personal Google, they'll get a exactly what they deserve; OPs will participate and won't protect them.
We're not here to make you feel warm and fuzzy and good all over. If you want some of that action, go to #teen.
90% of the questions, on #winprog, can be answered via Google; the #winprog OPs will either ignore the question or, more likely, honestly crush the ego of the person who so wastes their time. The channel promotes open discussion on Windows programming and other topics. The quality of #winprog depends on the quality of the questions, pure and simple.
#winprog is not dead. You just have to ask questions, in the correct manner. If you can't handle that, maybe you should go work behind some fast food counter and ask the customer what they would want with their fries.
Don't treat #winprog as though it's your personal Google and we won't treat you, like you were a dumb asshat fucktard; as you probably deserve.
Yeah I'm an OP on #winprog. Be jealous.
The majority of scientists consider the 'wobble' to be an effect of the planet(s) revolving around the star. If you don't accept that planets are the most probable cause, then what your best guess as to what is the cause of the 'wobble'? If you're answer is "I don't know, but they don't know either.", then I think you simply don't know enough to be critical of these PhDs who have made this discovery. (But then again, this is Slashdot, right?).
I think you over-simplify your estimation of how they decided it was rocky. They use, as a model, what they've found in our solar system, as well as basic physics.
As far as I know, this star is simply too faint to be directly observed for planets and detecting the wobble is the best method of detecting the likelyhood of a star system containing planets. If you have a better method of detection other than declaring "your method is not good enough!", please let the scientific community know. They could then use your help and your insightful powers of posting on Slashdot.
I watched the live webcast of the announcement of their discovery as they answered questions from the rest of the astronomical community (via phone/e-mail). Believe me, these people who announced this discovery aren't stupid, and they are using the best scientific theory they have at hand (with 3 years of data supporting their theory, yeah they waited that long before announcing this).
I think this would be a good thing, since this technique would make it feasible to interface your 'preferences' (stored on a wearable computer) to various electronic or smart gadgets (a smart car/house/etc) so that as soon as you touch it, then the smart gadget is customized to you.
I suppose a simple application, would be if all cars supported this, then as soon as you touched the door latch then: 1) The car door would open, since the car verified who you were. 2) The seat would adjust to your body height 3) The radio would automatically tune itself to your preferences 4) Your playlists would be imported into the radio.
Your preferences can be stored in something relatively small. For example your watch can have this technology and it transmit your preferences to whatever smart gadget you touched.
What would really be neat, is if there were some method of biofeedback so that you could configure your preferences by 'thinking about it'. At that point, we would have something similar to the "Ancient's 'Automated' Technology" as shown on StarGate: Atlantis tv show.
The author's conclusion "It (IRC) is a haven for warez and trojans." is inaccurate and tends to suggest that all of IRC is a haven for warez and trojans.
The top 60 channels are popular because most of those channels involve illegally giving away warez, etc. The popularity of those 60 channels is not because of the illegality per se, instead those channels are popular because they encourage leeching of popular items for free. It would have been more accurate for the author of the article to suggest: 99% of the traffic in the top 60 channels involve leeching transactions of illegally distributed software,etc and that the top 60 channels comprise less than 1% of the total channels.
Development
Fully patched Windows XP or Windows 2000 Workstations, installed with all the development tools we need. Developed applications are _NEVER_ executed on the development workstations; this keeps the development platforms from being 'corrupted' by miscoded applications.
Testing
VMware server, running a simulated NT domain as well as simulated test platforms. Our VMware simulated test platforms are 'out of the box(OEM)' Windows or Linux images as well as images which match the Pre-Production environment. As the Pre-Production Acceptance environment changes, we can simulate those changes in the test environment to see how our applications may break. We then work on a solution. When we find a solution, we commit the Pre-Production Acceptance environment changes to the test platforms. Applications which pass the Q/A tests, are then sent to the Pre-Production Acceptance.
Pre-Production Acceptance
The Pre-Production Acceptance is an environment managed by the Production team (not the developers!). This is where Application bugs found in the Pre-Production Acceptance environment are sent back down as reports to the Developers. This is where the application is integrated, and the latency and load testing are done, using real production data and load which is replicated from the Production environment.
Production
Applications that pass the Pre-Production Acceptance finally are integrated here by the Production Team.
I know this is offtopic, however Slashdot should seriously consider Coralizing popular links by appending .nyud.net:8090 to the URL. At the very least the first page would be cached by the Coral servers.
why not do both a md5sum and a sha-0 on the same data? Isn't it more difficult to spoof a binary and have matching collisions in both hashes at the same time? If either of the md5sum or the sha-0 don't match then you know that the data has been tampered with, right?
Cutler was the original architect of NT.
The final scene of movie reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, wherein the 'prisoner' emerges from the Cave and sees the Sun.
You should get more sleep. ;)
Port 135 is used at least by MS Exchange Server. Blocking 135 internally (behind the firewall) would not necessarily be a good thing if the organization uses Exchange Server to handle messaging (e-mail), contacts, address book, and calender for all its Users. Blocking ports really depends on what type of network services are allowed and used by the organization.
If the W32.Welchia.Worm was meant as a "good worm" by the writer, then the emergent DOS behavior of the W32.Welchia.Worm obviously shows that the writer has a complete lack of sophistication and critical judgment.
It seems to me that in the movie A.I. the robot child David either was not programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics or on his own seriously violated those Laws. For example:
a) Allowed himself to be injured by the sadist children at the pool when according to the second law of Robotics, David should have run away to protect himself.
b) Grabbed onto his "orga" brother and fell into the swimming pool and did not let go, thereby putting his "orga" brother into danger by drowning.
Having robots (even robot children) obey the Three Laws of Robotics seems to be a good thing, at least for us humans!
Just because some people think ownership of firearms may be antiquated with little or no merit in modern society does not mean that firearm owners do not have the right to exercise their right to protest or lobby congress.
Contrary to common belief, there is no constitutional right to vote (there is an amendment that does not allow the right to vote to be limited by sex or race). It is my understanding that the right to vote is regulated by the individual States or if not specifically regulated by the States is then given to the citizen.
The reason why convicted felons are not allowed to vote is because the State representatives do not trust those convicted felons to vote in the best interest of society. The States recognize that curtailing the vote of convicted felons is permitted by the Constitution and that that curtailing the free speech rights of firearms owners is not permitted.
The lack of such laws suggests that the average US citizen knows the futility of attemping to measure such things as sanity and the law abiding potential of a citizen. Yet at the same time the average US citizen knows it is better to believe that the majority of citizens are sane and law abiding and have the potential for firearm training and are smart enough to secure their firearms, rather than create and enforce laws based upon the idea that all the citizens of the US are insane and are criminals that can not ever have the right to purchase and own firearms.
In other words the average US citizen believes that many illegal acts using a firearm does not mean that all US citizens must be punished via restrictions on the legal purchase and legal ownership of firearms.
If a United States citizen is sane, law abiding, has the proper training, and properly secures their firearm, then there should be no reason why that citizen should not be able to purchase and own a legal firearm.
At the start of the armed conflict, wouldn't the attacker just take out the active defending RADARs using some sort of RADAR seeking missle, just like the U.S. did the Gulf War?
Microsoft == Sauron, creates the One Ring (the CLR, the Common Language Runtime)
The Rings of Power == various implementations of programming language to C# parsers, for example C to C#
Miquel == Saruman, creates his own "Ring of Power" (MONO) to use against Sauron (Microsoft)
The question is, who/what will be the hobbit that will cast the .NET back into the fires of Mount Doom? ;)
One CLR to rule them all, .NET to find them,
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One CLR to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
This would not be a target for terrorists because a space elevator would not be a symbol of US foreign policy.