...You may define atheism as a lack of belief or the negation of all kinds of Gods...
But it's not this definition, per se, that recalls fanaticism, but the way some people try to impose their beliefs.
I'm a Christian, but I don't ask any of my atheists friends to come to church with me, just as they don't ask me not to go to church. If any of us would cross these bounds to the point of disrespecting each others beliefs, than it would be fanaticism (by either of the parts).
To some it's some kind of religion, yes, even though I'd say that it would be more appropriate to call it a doctrine. You may define atheism as a lack of belief or the negation of God (and these are somewhat different definitions that are followed by different kind of adepts.)
Hence it's perfectly possible to be fanatic in negating God.
The thing is, the act of faith means accepting the book as literal truth.
Hmm, no it doesn't. Interpreting the words of the Bible as literal truth is an act of totalitarianism of some members of the clergy (and lately politicians as well). If every word were meant to be taken literally, then the Bible would be void of parables. Those who take it literally are usually with some kind of hidden agenda, trying to lead the cattle.
Anyway, it's impossible to get in such a discussion with most people here, since some are bordering fanaticism with their atheistic views.
Not the point... you could still allow developers to execute from some random directory in another fs that is mounted with exec permissions.
A virus would have to look for mounted fs without "noexec" set, than search for a writable dir. This would be a major tell-tale for anti-virus software.
Besides, if you couple that with something such as systrace, you could certainly train your developers not to allow Firefox to write to such "exec dirs" when they don't really want to. It's a much clearer scenario, easier to understand, than the current Windows model.
Had the same problem at San Jose's Airport. Removed my laptop but forgot my PlayStation2 inside my backpack. The screener came and said that he was going to take every item in my backpack out and get them again through the X-Ray.
Oddly enough, he did not remove the PS2 from its box, so if it really were possible to conceal anything hazardous behind a PS2, I surely could've put it inside the box.
More to the point, I think that only batteries, for its dense signature on the X-Ray, would be able to hide something from view. And even at this point, we are talking only about guns and knives, since any explosive should be detected by its own detector.
Modern Satellite Navigation systems use a recently developed standard called RDS-TMC (Radio Data System - Traffic Message Channel) for receiving traffic information over FM broadcast. The protocol allows communication of traffic events such as accidents and queues. If information affects the current route plotted by the user the information is used for calculating and suggesting detours and alternate routes. We are going to show how to receive and decode RDS-TMC packets using cheap homemade hardware, the goal is understanding the protocol so that eventually we may show how trivial it is to inject false information.
As I said somewhere else in this thread, I do own a DataHand. You cannot type as fast as with a regular keyboard, but since you are less error prone (not moving your hands around helps a lot in hitting the right key), the speed of the DataHand is comparable to that of a regular keyboard.
The only thing that's really slow when compared to its counterpart is the mouse. You can't really draw with it and it moves without much precision (or too slow).
I do own a DataHand Pro-II keyboard (8 years now) and I can tell you it's worth every penny (and that's a lot to put together:-)) When I started looking for a solution I was just a few months away from having a painful surgery for my carpal tunnel problem. Now I hardly feel any discomfort even after long typing sessions (granted that I stretch a lot too).
The keyboard sits very comfortably on my lap, allowing my elbows and shoulders to relax, and I can kinda twist it so that it will fit better to my natural wrist disposition. After acquiring some experience with it (it comes with tutorials and exercises), I was able to type really fast -- not as fast as with a regular keyboard, but certainly with less typos, since it does not require you to move your hands to find the keys, which eliminates typos caused by incorrectly positioning the hands.
The only downside is the mouse. It's noticeably slower, even after so many years of daily usage, and I'll never be able to draw a close-to-perfect circle. It's close to impossible to use this keyboard to perform less-than-complicated drawings, let alone use a CAD.
BitTorrent's problem is that anyone that can afford to pay them for their services can probably afford to distribute their content over HTTP from a centralized server, and why wouldn't they given the much lower barrier to entry for their users? This is only true as long as the content is only moderately popular. For really popular content, they'd rather distribute the load among the users downloading it.
Plus, if this turns out to be a highly desirable feature, browsers will soon support P2P without the need for external/plugin software.
I think we could argue forever and will never settle on one or another position.
I just want to add something to your comment:
But if you wish to persist in this argument, I claim that evolution is random because the Devil keeps jogging God's hand as he fiddles with life. So, if you want to claim that God intervenes, you are going to have to disprove my Devil hypothesis.... If someone wants to believe in that, that's all OK. I don't have to disprove your "Devil hypothesis" because I don't contest it, even though I don't believe in it. It's tolerance again.
If, as we are now sure, evolution is a random process of natural selection, there is simply no need for a God to be involved. You say it's random, I say it's God involvement. You can't prove that we evolved by lucky, and I can't prove that God helped the process. That's my point.
It is as pointless to even think about it as it would be to imagine that evolution was controlled by, say, fairies. Some people may believe that fairies controlled the evolution, and I can't dispute that (and neither can you) because you cannot disprove fairies (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster). You see my point again? If you can't disprove someone's beliefs, than you can't bash it (but you can disagree, though). This is tolerance.
This is irrelevant. It is like shuffling a deck of cards. Any particular arrangement of cards has a small chance of appearing, but some arrangement had to appear. How many particular arrangements would be useful on a deck so large as the one that represents evolution? What are the odds that something alive comes out of these arrangements?
And if this were not the case, it is no evidence for intervention. It's no evidence for denying it either.
No, it is not just a feeling. There is overwhelming evidence for it. Evidence proving that all this happened by chance?! Please show me the evidence.
We know how evolution works, and we can explain how it can happen by itself, but that does not stop some people claiming that God intervenes. Can you explain and prove how life started on Earth? Can you prove that God did not influence the process?
I cannot prove that God intervenes in evolution, but you can't prove otherwise either. And even though we know how evolution works, there are plenty of it that had a small chance of happening. I can't prove that is God's work, though I believe on that, but you can't prove it's not.
You may well say that was purely by chance, and you are entitled this belief. But it's your feeling (i.e. how you see it) and not a proof.
Actually, it's your comment that does not make sense. Your car runs mechanically and you (or at least someone) can prove that.
You cannot prove or disprove God or any other deity. Even the Bible does not try to rule other deities out, it just states that they are not the true creator.
We actually have a solution that works like a charm: our bug-tracking and development-request system shows all the tasks that are the responsibility of a developer, and it counts down the days to each task's expiration date.
When the expiration date is 10 business days away, the task becomes yellow colored. 5 days away, and it becomes red. 2 days, and you'll find it black colored. With this setting, it's really easy for our manager to visually check how the group is performing (we have groups ranging from 5 to 30 developers).
If you miss the deadline to often, your manager calls you up and sets a meeting to question your performance. Perform too poorly, and you're history:-)
It looks simple, and it is. The developer can do whatever s/he wants, we really don't care, as long as her/his tasks are being dealt with AND our QA team isn't finding too many bugs on her/his implementations and fixes.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, we use (argh) Lotus Notes for task control.
I've done may different plans during the course of my life, and it's being mostly enjoyable making them and seeing the different pieces fall in the right place.
Some plans have failed, others have come true, but most of them simply changed as I matured. Does it mean that they were of no purpose? Of course not, they were a fun part of my life, that gave me hope and healthy expectation for the future.
If I were to discover that I have only 3 months to live, I would try to fulfill my desires the best I could, but some things simply can't be done in such a short time frame. And plus, shattering my dreams for the future would make me a little bitter.
This would be different if I had kids, since I would need to leave things right for them, but at currently my wife would be taken good care of (good life insurance and loving, emotionally supporting family).
We all know how good, greasy fat pipes are a botnet-master dream. Maybe that's why I see so much SPAM from S.Korean IPs.
Also, a major flaw in MS-Win could render this country's Internet infrastructure and systems useless.
They really should reconsider this decision. Strategically it isn't a good one. And I don't mean creating another monopoly with Linux or whatever, just give the users a choice, so that their OS environment gets more colored.
I think Cryptonomicon would result in a wonderful movie. Parts of it take place in breath-taking locations and it's full of history trivia and important facts.
Also, the story is thrilling and more in touch with a regular audience, since it connects more cleanly with reality.
Tell me about it... I have to help my brother-in-law with his buggy Windows because he HAS to run these software (mostly AutoCAD and SolidWorks, but also CATIA sometimes).
He didn't even know what SP2 was when I asked him about the updates (argh!)
I doubt the resource-intensiveness of these software would allow them to run over an emulation level, though.
If anyone knows equivalent (or close) software that could substitute them, please enumerate them.
This is not reasonable. I was applying for a job position in the US, to work with English speaking colleagues.
It's not the same as saying that someone from California should understand someone from Texas (or England, or somewhere else).
It's not an accent problem, but rather wrong pronunciation. People just can't come here and expect to be understood just like you can't go to a foreign country and decide how to vocalize some words.
Again, please keep in mind it's not just an accent problem.
Written and spoken interaction can be classified to several degrees of comprehension and production, until you reach what is agreed as "fluency". IMO, if someone is assigned the task of interviewing candidates for an English-speaking position, this person must have fluency in English.
Once I did a phone interview for a position at MS. The guy on the other end was certainly from India, and a terrible English speaker.
I know my grammar slips a lot (I blame the Internet for deteriorating my English:-) ), but understanding the questions under stress was hard enough without understanding the freaking English he was speaking.
Several times I had to ask him to repeat the question, and I could notice that at some point he became upset about it. Even though I correctly answered > of the questions (they were in the line of "can you create a P-time program to solve this NP-time problem?"), they sent me the "We decided to pursue other candidates at this time" e-mail.
If there are MS recruiters reading this post (we all know you read/.), please refrain from using poor-English-speaking programmers on job interviews.
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All rephrase what I said:
...You may define atheism as a lack of belief or the negation of all kinds of Gods...
But it's not this definition, per se, that recalls fanaticism, but the way some people try to impose their beliefs.
I'm a Christian, but I don't ask any of my atheists friends to come to church with me, just as they don't ask me not to go to church. If any of us would cross these bounds to the point of disrespecting each others beliefs, than it would be fanaticism (by either of the parts).
To some it's some kind of religion, yes, even though I'd say that it would be more appropriate to call it a doctrine. You may define atheism as a lack of belief or the negation of God (and these are somewhat different definitions that are followed by different kind of adepts.)
Hence it's perfectly possible to be fanatic in negating God.
The thing is, the act of faith means accepting the book as literal truth.
Hmm, no it doesn't. Interpreting the words of the Bible as literal truth is an act of totalitarianism of some members of the clergy (and lately politicians as well). If every word were meant to be taken literally, then the Bible would be void of parables. Those who take it literally are usually with some kind of hidden agenda, trying to lead the cattle.
Anyway, it's impossible to get in such a discussion with most people here, since some are bordering fanaticism with their atheistic views.
Hmmm, what about Concast? I remember their "It's Concastic!" campaign, and they said "unlimited" several times during each insertion.
Even though they are probably the most limited of them all, they clearly said it. The last time I've seen their ad was in August last year...
OTOH, if you are being DDoS'ed (agreed, not what the GP meant), you should at least have some way of not being charged for that.
Suppose you have to pay for any traffic that goes to your IP. What happens and 50k computers start flood-pinging you? Sometimes it's not your fault...
Not the point... you could still allow developers to execute from some random directory in another fs that is mounted with exec permissions.
A virus would have to look for mounted fs without "noexec" set, than search for a writable dir. This would be a major tell-tale for anti-virus software.
Besides, if you couple that with something such as systrace, you could certainly train your developers not to allow Firefox to write to such "exec dirs" when they don't really want to. It's a much clearer scenario, easier to understand, than the current Windows model.
Had the same problem at San Jose's Airport. Removed my laptop but forgot my PlayStation2 inside my backpack. The screener came and said that he was going to take every item in my backpack out and get them again through the X-Ray.
Oddly enough, he did not remove the PS2 from its box, so if it really were possible to conceal anything hazardous behind a PS2, I surely could've put it inside the box.
More to the point, I think that only batteries, for its dense signature on the X-Ray, would be able to hide something from view. And even at this point, we are talking only about guns and knives, since any explosive should be detected by its own detector.
The opening paragraph goes like this:
In Soviet Russia, the MOVIE does the tech on you!
Or, maybe, In Soviet Russia, YOU kill the internet.
As I said somewhere else in this thread, I do own a DataHand. You cannot type as fast as with a regular keyboard, but since you are less error prone (not moving your hands around helps a lot in hitting the right key), the speed of the DataHand is comparable to that of a regular keyboard.
The only thing that's really slow when compared to its counterpart is the mouse. You can't really draw with it and it moves without much precision (or too slow).
I do own a DataHand Pro-II keyboard (8 years now) and I can tell you it's worth every penny (and that's a lot to put together :-)) When I started looking for a solution I was just a few months away from having a painful surgery for my carpal tunnel problem. Now I hardly feel any discomfort even after long typing sessions (granted that I stretch a lot too).
The keyboard sits very comfortably on my lap, allowing my elbows and shoulders to relax, and I can kinda twist it so that it will fit better to my natural wrist disposition. After acquiring some experience with it (it comes with tutorials and exercises), I was able to type really fast -- not as fast as with a regular keyboard, but certainly with less typos, since it does not require you to move your hands to find the keys, which eliminates typos caused by incorrectly positioning the hands.
The only downside is the mouse. It's noticeably slower, even after so many years of daily usage, and I'll never be able to draw a close-to-perfect circle. It's close to impossible to use this keyboard to perform less-than-complicated drawings, let alone use a CAD.
This would be very interesting to see. Could you please post back what applications didn't work while executing under DEP W^X?
Plus, if this turns out to be a highly desirable feature, browsers will soon support P2P without the need for external/plugin software.
I just want to add something to your comment: But if you wish to persist in this argument, I claim that evolution is random because the Devil keeps jogging God's hand as he fiddles with life. So, if you want to claim that God intervenes, you are going to have to disprove my Devil hypothesis.... If someone wants to believe in that, that's all OK. I don't have to disprove your "Devil hypothesis" because I don't contest it, even though I don't believe in it. It's tolerance again.
I cannot prove that God intervenes in evolution, but you can't prove otherwise either. And even though we know how evolution works, there are plenty of it that had a small chance of happening. I can't prove that is God's work, though I believe on that, but you can't prove it's not.
You may well say that was purely by chance, and you are entitled this belief. But it's your feeling (i.e. how you see it) and not a proof.
Actually, it's your comment that does not make sense. Your car runs mechanically and you (or at least someone) can prove that.
You cannot prove or disprove God or any other deity. Even the Bible does not try to rule other deities out, it just states that they are not the true creator.
We actually have a solution that works like a charm: our bug-tracking and development-request system shows all the tasks that are the responsibility of a developer, and it counts down the days to each task's expiration date.
:-)
When the expiration date is 10 business days away, the task becomes yellow colored. 5 days away, and it becomes red. 2 days, and you'll find it black colored. With this setting, it's really easy for our manager to visually check how the group is performing (we have groups ranging from 5 to 30 developers).
If you miss the deadline to often, your manager calls you up and sets a meeting to question your performance. Perform too poorly, and you're history
It looks simple, and it is. The developer can do whatever s/he wants, we really don't care, as long as her/his tasks are being dealt with AND our QA team isn't finding too many bugs on her/his implementations and fixes.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, we use (argh) Lotus Notes for task control.
I agree with you here.
I've done may different plans during the course of my life, and it's being mostly enjoyable making them and seeing the different pieces fall in the right place.
Some plans have failed, others have come true, but most of them simply changed as I matured. Does it mean that they were of no purpose? Of course not, they were a fun part of my life, that gave me hope and healthy expectation for the future.
If I were to discover that I have only 3 months to live, I would try to fulfill my desires the best I could, but some things simply can't be done in such a short time frame. And plus, shattering my dreams for the future would make me a little bitter.
This would be different if I had kids, since I would need to leave things right for them, but at currently my wife would be taken good care of (good life insurance and loving, emotionally supporting family).
No, they do not!
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Stop repeating that!
They don't use telnet, and that plaintext you see when sniffing their network is your natural ability to crack encryption.
How many times do I have to tell you that you're special?!
Now, back to the task I've given you. The NSA won't be lending me your brain again if you spend all my alloted time on
We all know how good, greasy fat pipes are a botnet-master dream. Maybe that's why I see so much SPAM from S.Korean IPs.
Also, a major flaw in MS-Win could render this country's Internet infrastructure and systems useless.
They really should reconsider this decision. Strategically it isn't a good one. And I don't mean creating another monopoly with Linux or whatever, just give the users a choice, so that their OS environment gets more colored.
I think Cryptonomicon would result in a wonderful movie. Parts of it take place in breath-taking locations and it's full of history trivia and important facts.
Also, the story is thrilling and more in touch with a regular audience, since it connects more cleanly with reality.
Tell me about it... I have to help my brother-in-law with his buggy Windows because he HAS to run these software (mostly AutoCAD and SolidWorks, but also CATIA sometimes).
He didn't even know what SP2 was when I asked him about the updates (argh!)
I doubt the resource-intensiveness of these software would allow them to run over an emulation level, though.
If anyone knows equivalent (or close) software that could substitute them, please enumerate them.
This is not reasonable. I was applying for a job position in the US, to work with English speaking colleagues.
It's not the same as saying that someone from California should understand someone from Texas (or England, or somewhere else).
It's not an accent problem, but rather wrong pronunciation. People just can't come here and expect to be understood just like you can't go to a foreign country and decide how to vocalize some words.
Again, please keep in mind it's not just an accent problem.
Written and spoken interaction can be classified to several degrees of comprehension and production, until you reach what is agreed as "fluency". IMO, if someone is assigned the task of interviewing candidates for an English-speaking position, this person must have fluency in English.
Once I did a phone interview for a position at MS. The guy on the other end was certainly from India, and a terrible English speaker.
:-) ), but understanding the questions under stress was hard enough without understanding the freaking English he was speaking.
/.), please refrain from using poor-English-speaking programmers on job interviews.
I know my grammar slips a lot (I blame the Internet for deteriorating my English
Several times I had to ask him to repeat the question, and I could notice that at some point he became upset about it. Even though I correctly answered > of the questions (they were in the line of "can you create a P-time program to solve this NP-time problem?"), they sent me the "We decided to pursue other candidates at this time" e-mail.
If there are MS recruiters reading this post (we all know you read