A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Ha, your sig says it all, I feel sorry for the students with the misfortune of attending your school district. I was lucky enough to have teachers that encouraged me to explore computers. Under your guidance I would have gotten expelled by the second grade. You seem to think the student's job is to just follow orders, and the teacher's role to shepherd a bunch of barely trained animals through a maze.
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HP will guarantee that this installation of Linux will be reliable to 6 sigma
sigma typically refers to standard deviation, which has nothing to do with measuring availability. Perhaps you meant 6 nines?
Yes, what has been discovered about biology and medicine in the last 50 years is staggering. Saying there's no progress because we can't cure Mr. Grove's Parkinson's is like saying there has been no progress in the semiconductor world because Intel can't sell me a gallium arsenide CPU, or a diamond substrate CPU... we're still stuck with crappy old silicon, after 50 years!
I use this device to make carbonated drinks. It only costs $11 and works great. The target market is homebrewers who already have a draft beer setup. But even if you didn't want the beer setup, you could still buy a CO2 regulator and fittings for about $40. CO2 is quite cheap when purchase from local gas suppliers, and you can usually scrounge a used tank for cheap.
The fair housing act doesn't always apply, there are times when it is legal to discriminate based on gender etc.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/yourrights. cfm
There is an exemption for owner occupied buildings (i.e. you want to rent out that extra bedroom in your house). Also if you are just looking for a roommate, you are not the landlord so it would similarly not apply, in fact I would think this would be protected under the 1st amendment as freedom of association.
Unless you are told/informed/read other wise, a network is NOT public.
When a base station is broadcasting it's SSID, without a request for authentication, that is informing me otherwise. The base station is broadcasting an invitation, and instructions, to any receiver on how to join the network.
Computers can negotiate access rights between themselves, and do it all the time. For example, BGP negotiates between routers over who will carry others' traffic. Another example - how to you know you have permission to retreive a given document on the web? Is not the HTTP server's response to your inquiry implicit permission?
Have you ever tried? Where I live, the power company is required to disclose this to anyone who asks. It's a very common practice if you are buying a house (or even looking for an apartment to rent) to call the utility company and get the current occupant's bills, as a way to estimate what your own utility costs will be.
Note that we're looking only at technology that has arisen since the dawn of the personal computer, so don't expect to see the cotton gin and the transistor radio on the list.
Smash up a tissue sample (or, in this case, whole organisms)
Add a lysis buffer (soap + salt)
Add ethanol to precipitate the DNA
The next step, cloning, is also easy to automate:
Add a restriction enzyme (such as EcoR1) to break up the DNA into smaller pieces
You now have random DNA fragments; put them into a vector (plasmid, a circular chromosome)
Trick some nice friendly bacteria (like E. Coli) into taking the plasmids into their nucleus
Feed the bacteria something yummy, and spread them very thinly on a glass plate
Let them grow, they will form colonies (little white spots on the plate). Each colony contains a random, but identical fragment from your original source. That's why they're called clones.
Using a robotic colony picker, nab some of each colony and put them away for sequencing
It's OK now - after negotiating with Ms. Shell she agreed to place the contents of her site into the public domain. Here's a copy of our contract:
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: By accepting this HTTP GET request you agree to release into the public domain the entire contents of this web site.
Host: www.profane-justice.org
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: */*
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:11:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
Hrmm, this is a very cool idea. A couple other gotchas I can think of:
If the embedded electronics can be tampered with, someone could make a lot of money by "upgrading" their batteries status and swapping it (sort of like odometer fraud, except fill-up happen a lot more often than car sales). Perhaps some kind of global database that records a serial number for each battery, and it's last known value, so that tampering could be detected.
Another issue - If filling stations all standardized on one battery format, it could totally kill development of new battery technology. With a build in-battery, all that needs to be standardized is the power plug. One plug can charge many formats - different sizes, capacities, shapes, and chemistry. But if filling stations had to handle batteries, it would be nearly impossible to convince everyone to upgrade to a new format, and they would still have to maintain backwards compatibility with old formats.
Where I live (midwest US) we already have this. The county tax assessor has a photo of every house on their public web site. It's really no big deal, and I've actually found it useful at times.
they are highly unsophisticatedly mechanical that, you can trust it to always work as it is tough to break
surely your joking, I have a cluster of 1U servers in which about 2/3 of the floppy drives don't work. The average lifespan for the floppies availble these days seems to be about 1 month.
Yeah, my guess would be either a collission, or he fell overboard, which would explain why he wasn't able to call for help. Certainly a boat that nice would be equipped with SSB and an EPIRB. I did some cruising this summer in the northwest, and also had to deal with heavy fog and shipping traffic. Somewhat scary as the huge container ships move at about 25 knots! Mostly we tried to stay the hell out of the VTS lanes. I did find that when we had to cross a VTS lane, a brief message to VTS reporting our approx. position and heading was always recieved politely.
From where did this "Islamofascist" expression came?
I think it comes from the fact that most people (english speakers anyway) confuse fascism with authoritarianism. The term gets thrown around very casually, much the same way the word nazi has come to be used. It's common to hear the labels 'fascist' or 'nazi' applied to someone who is strict or fanatical about anything, no matter how trivial.
Coming up with a good historical definition for fascism is hard, the best is probably from Roger Griffin: "palingenetic ultranationalist populism". This is hard to say, and harder to understand.
Another reason, I think, that the Bush administration has not declared war on "Islamic theocrats" is that they aspire to be theocrats themselves.
Which isn't much different than someone not delivering boxes of good old fashioned paper ballots
While this is true, it's much less likely that an inadaquately trained poll worker would forget the paper ballots. A paper system is simply easier for regular people to understand, so they are less likely to make errors.
What we really need is for one of these electronic voting systems to produce an outrageous, obviously bogus outcome (like electing Fidel Castro governor of Maryland or something). Maybe then People will wake up...
Plus, good OCR could help recognize image spam (where they send the text in an image attachment, to avoid filtering, and fill the message body with "bayes poison").
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HP will guarantee that this installation of Linux will be reliable to 6 sigma
sigma typically refers to standard deviation, which has nothing to do with measuring availability. Perhaps you meant 6 nines?
Yes, what has been discovered about biology and medicine in the last 50 years is staggering. Saying there's no progress because we can't cure Mr. Grove's Parkinson's is like saying there has been no progress in the semiconductor world because Intel can't sell me a gallium arsenide CPU, or a diamond substrate CPU... we're still stuck with crappy old silicon, after 50 years!
He sounds like he's either 14 years old, off his meds, or both.
Or, perhaps he works for Microsoft...
I use this device to make carbonated drinks. It only costs $11 and works great. The target market is homebrewers who already have a draft beer setup. But even if you didn't want the beer setup, you could still buy a CO2 regulator and fittings for about $40. CO2 is quite cheap when purchase from local gas suppliers, and you can usually scrounge a used tank for cheap.
The fair housing act doesn't always apply, there are times when it is legal to discriminate based on gender etc. http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/yourrights. cfm
There is an exemption for owner occupied buildings (i.e. you want to rent out that extra bedroom in your house). Also if you are just looking for a roommate, you are not the landlord so it would similarly not apply, in fact I would think this would be protected under the 1st amendment as freedom of association.
Unless you are told/informed/read other wise, a network is NOT public.
When a base station is broadcasting it's SSID, without a request for authentication, that is informing me otherwise. The base station is broadcasting an invitation, and instructions, to any receiver on how to join the network.
Computers can negotiate access rights between themselves, and do it all the time. For example, BGP negotiates between routers over who will carry others' traffic. Another example - how to you know you have permission to retreive a given document on the web? Is not the HTTP server's response to your inquiry implicit permission?
Bullshit; I can't see my neighbor's power bill.
Have you ever tried? Where I live, the power company is required to disclose this to anyone who asks. It's a very common practice if you are buying a house (or even looking for an apartment to rent) to call the utility company and get the current occupant's bills, as a way to estimate what your own utility costs will be.
Don't believe me? Just ask Al Gore.
Extracting DNA is very easy:
- Smash up a tissue sample (or, in this case, whole organisms)
- Add a lysis buffer (soap + salt)
- Add ethanol to precipitate the DNA
The next step, cloning, is also easy to automate:It's OK now - after negotiating with Ms. Shell she agreed to place the contents of her site into the public domain. Here's a copy of our contract:
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: By accepting this HTTP GET request you agree to release into the public domain the entire contents of this web site.
Host: www.profane-justice.org
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: */*
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:11:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
Hrmm, this is a very cool idea. A couple other gotchas I can think of:
If the embedded electronics can be tampered with, someone could make a lot of money by "upgrading" their batteries status and swapping it (sort of like odometer fraud, except fill-up happen a lot more often than car sales). Perhaps some kind of global database that records a serial number for each battery, and it's last known value, so that tampering could be detected.
Another issue - If filling stations all standardized on one battery format, it could totally kill development of new battery technology. With a build in-battery, all that needs to be standardized is the power plug. One plug can charge many formats - different sizes, capacities, shapes, and chemistry. But if filling stations had to handle batteries, it would be nearly impossible to convince everyone to upgrade to a new format, and they would still have to maintain backwards compatibility with old formats.
Where I live (midwest US) we already have this. The county tax assessor has a photo of every house on their public web site. It's really no big deal, and I've actually found it useful at times.
Yeah, my guess would be either a collission, or he fell overboard, which would explain why he wasn't able to call for help. Certainly a boat that nice would be equipped with SSB and an EPIRB. I did some cruising this summer in the northwest, and also had to deal with heavy fog and shipping traffic. Somewhat scary as the huge container ships move at about 25 knots! Mostly we tried to stay the hell out of the VTS lanes. I did find that when we had to cross a VTS lane, a brief message to VTS reporting our approx. position and heading was always recieved politely.
Yes, gatorade probably would have saved her life. Not sure why parent is modded funny?
Bah, I've already got one of these, and I don't have cancer yet.
Electrons are not visible with the naked eye and as such should not be a critical part of the voting process.
Damn straight! Now if only we could find a source of electron-free paper...
Maybe of interest to you: Google calculator also understands many units, allowing you to do the calculation directly: http://www.google.com/search?q=100+KWh+/+5+minutes
Yeah, the Kill-A-Watt totally rocks. http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4 400/P4400-CE.html
From where did this "Islamofascist" expression came?
I think it comes from the fact that most people (english speakers anyway) confuse fascism with authoritarianism. The term gets thrown around very casually, much the same way the word nazi has come to be used. It's common to hear the labels 'fascist' or 'nazi' applied to someone who is strict or fanatical about anything, no matter how trivial.
Coming up with a good historical definition for fascism is hard, the best is probably from Roger Griffin: "palingenetic ultranationalist populism". This is hard to say, and harder to understand.
Another reason, I think, that the Bush administration has not declared war on "Islamic theocrats" is that they aspire to be theocrats themselves.
Which isn't much different than someone not delivering boxes of good old fashioned paper ballots
While this is true, it's much less likely that an inadaquately trained poll worker would forget the paper ballots. A paper system is simply easier for regular people to understand, so they are less likely to make errors.
What we really need is for one of these electronic voting systems to produce an outrageous, obviously bogus outcome (like electing Fidel Castro governor of Maryland or something). Maybe then People will wake up...
Plus, good OCR could help recognize image spam (where they send the text in an image attachment, to avoid filtering, and fill the message body with "bayes poison").