I like to call the logical consequence of this study, "Now everyone on the net has Asperger syndrome.":)
I actually came to the same conclusion many years ago. (I've been regularly using e-mail since '89) I found that the best way to counteract misinterpretation was to try my best to not interpret, to not assume I knew what the other person was thinking/feeling. As a result I have to ask people what they think and feel all of the time, but that's OK. Communication ensues, and that's the whole point, ain't it?
I'm more interested in the cultural impact of a genetic therapy that effects social memory of defeat. I mean, think about it: it's the perfect way to control a population. You get all of the benefits of tight social control with none of the downsides. Under influence of this therapy (and other, more fine tuned ones) the population could conceivably remain perfectly happy and productive while remaining under the tight grip of totalitarianism. (Which usually reduces productivity through unexpressed social unrest and incites rebellion.)
We know that, for four years, there's been an illegal secret program to monitor the communications of US citizens on US soil. Is it paranoid to think there may be more illegal activity?
Nope.
I think it would be rather naive to not think that.
The known ones, listed in the links I gave, show how many wiretaps there are...
I think this qualifies for the fastest contradiction in/. history. "The known ones...show how many wiretaps there are..." No, the known ones are the ones you know about, not how many actually exist. (i.e. how many there are) They're the ones the government is willing to tell you about. How many more are there? We just don't know.
Are you seriously comparing putting curly braces "in the wrong place" to murder?
Gee, if you're comparing code standards to destroying democracy...umm...yeah?
If you can't differentiate between natural rights and an unquestionably non-right...
So, so you get to decide what's a "natural right" and what's an "unquestionably non-right," ya? You get to decide this, and not me? How incredibly arrogant of you! You're imposing your values on me!
You just fail to see where your ideas go, fromagepuppy. And, in your original post you called anyone who didn't share them incompetent. Just callin' you on the carpet, son.
Now you are attacking the tenets of freedom, choice, and democracy?
Well, then, with your own reasoning you're attacking the rule of law. Why stifle everyone's right to kill whomever they please? Laws against murder are attacking that right, yes? Laws force members of society to submit to the will of the state. Do you think all laws are bad? Or do you just want the ones you agree with? Would you force people to submit to the laws you liked, and only those? How arrogant and tyrannical of you!
You can't win. Stop now while you're ahead, fromagepuppy.
Do grown men really still argue about where to put the curly braces, tabs, spaces, whitespace, etc.?
You can't seem to see beyond this. No matter.
You want to impose chaos. You want to force everyone to do things your way. (Which is the "everyone should do things their own way" way.) No different from what you rail against. It's kinda funny, actually.
Try the Merriam-Webster definition: "an extremely sensitive, vain, or undisciplined person"
You apparently can't see that code format standards have some use other than stroking the ego of those who create them. Seems you're rather stuck on the ego thing. Hence, the primadonna tag.
For me this is different. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm both creative and intelligent. I find that if I don't have some sort of distraction to "siphon off" some of my creativity I can't focus. It's like I've got to dangle something shiny in front of my right lobes so that 100% of the left and 50% of the right can work on a the problem at hand. Many things can serve as a distraction, including music, tv in the background, or physical/mental fatigue. (I tend to do my best programming at midnight after a full day of work, for instance.)
Interestingly, one of the biggest unforeseen hurdles for this project was the fire ants....
Ah, that's a bunch of hooey. I live in Dallas and spent every spring since '78 in Waxahachie. You get beyond the fire ants once you dig bellow 6'. The SSC tunnels went considerably deeper than that.
And besides, there's one thing I learned from my misspent youth: want to get rid of a fire ant mound? One gallon of gas and a match do the trick right nice.:)
You too can bring down an administration official on your lunch break.
Don't mistake the spark for the flame. It wouldn't have been possible without three things:
1) The media picking it up. 2) The "cronyism" meme already present. ("Heck of a job, Brownie!") 3) Luck.
Now, there may be a dogpile of investigation into political appointees. If we're lucky they'll be branded as "Republican affirmitive action" or some such. If we're lucky it'll be managed so there's a trickle of revelation for the next few months, then a surge 1-2 months before the midterm elections.
Erwin soon landed a gig as the top Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official managing the finances of Iraq's civilian security forces...
All this administration needs (and probably wants) are warm bodies it can manipulate. These eager young kids are a dime a dozen, and can be replaced at the drop of a hat once they're exposed. Just look at the amount if work it took to expose and out the NASA guy: one week of intense media pressure. How many hundreds...thousands more are there dispersed through the government?
Actually, that is a incorrect statement. If it weren't for patent trolls, the system wouldn't be broken.
Your correction is incorrect.:) That's like saying, "If there were no virus writers, Windows would be totally secure!" It's still insecure, whether folks write virii or not. The difference is that when someone exploits the flaws we now know how to fix the system, if we're willing and able to do so.
Congress passes these ever more bigoted laws (in the name of diversity of course, gotta love NewSpeak) so they can feel good about having 'done something'
Come, now! You wouldn't want to prevent the government from fighting terrorism, now would you? What if some evil employer were only hiring arab workers? We should be able to control exactly who a company hires and fires, just in case they want to launder money to terrorist groups through their employment rolls. It's all in the name of your safety and security. The "diversity" stuff is just to hide the law's true purpose: fighting the scourge that hit us on 9/11.
It's kind of like saying drunk drivers are good for teaching us how unsafe our cars really are.
But they are good for that, in the most dramatic and cruel way possible. It's just that society, in general, tends to ignore the education drunk drivers give us. We treat the symptom (drunk folks killing innocents on the highway) but we ignore the causes. (pervasive availability of alcohol, inherent danger of controlling a mass of metal at high velocities.)
And we also tacitly accept the risk and sacrifice...until it happens to us personally.
That's a bunch of hooey. You only pick your battles when the fighting is difficult. The Republicans control everything. They can do anything. On nuclear, they've done nothing. They've done less than nothing, really: all talk, no action.
For me it's frustrating. I'm a lifelong Democrat, and voted so in the last two elections. For me the only silver lining in Bush being elected was, "maybe something will finally be done about nuclear power." No such luck. Only empty promises. When a party controls every branch of the government and says they'll do something, I expect them to do it. With every part of Bush's agenda this has been the case. (Even with social security, even though he's failed so far.) He should at least try. There's no excuse.
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Gods.
This is eight years old, (1998) and has been fixed for five years.
FIVE YEARS. Join the 21st century, for god's sake.
java.lang.StrictMath
How long will people repeat this, even though it's been fixed for five years, in java 1.3? The latest beta VM is 1.6...
The US currently does not reprocess spent fuel.
Currently true, but hopefully not soon
I'm waiting for something like this to go 1024x768, then I'll probably get one. LED lamp. No heat, long life. Not terribly bright, though.
I like to call the logical consequence of this study, "Now everyone on the net has Asperger syndrome." :)
I actually came to the same conclusion many years ago. (I've been regularly using e-mail since '89) I found that the best way to counteract misinterpretation was to try my best to not interpret, to not assume I knew what the other person was thinking/feeling. As a result I have to ask people what they think and feel all of the time, but that's OK. Communication ensues, and that's the whole point, ain't it?
I'm more interested in the cultural impact of a genetic therapy that effects social memory of defeat. I mean, think about it: it's the perfect way to control a population. You get all of the benefits of tight social control with none of the downsides. Under influence of this therapy (and other, more fine tuned ones) the population could conceivably remain perfectly happy and productive while remaining under the tight grip of totalitarianism. (Which usually reduces productivity through unexpressed social unrest and incites rebellion.)
...it just drives home your superior intellect.
Damn straight it does, as we all know that might makes right, war is peace, and ignorance is strength. Fnord.
How can you know the unknown?
We know that, for four years, there's been an illegal secret program to monitor the communications of US citizens on US soil. Is it paranoid to think there may be more illegal activity?
Nope.
I think it would be rather naive to not think that.
I am sure that will make a great story over lattes tonight.
I don't plan on sipping any lattes tonight. Bench press 315lb, yes. Lattes, no.
Why does it matter, anyway?
I thought just not releasing patches for the microsoft-worm-of-the-week would be enough
You seem to forget Microsoft's mission statement: Nothing is ever enough
The known ones, listed in the links I gave, show how many wiretaps there are...
/. history. "The known ones...show how many wiretaps there are..." No, the known ones are the ones you know about, not how many actually exist. (i.e. how many there are) They're the ones the government is willing to tell you about. How many more are there? We just don't know.
I think this qualifies for the fastest contradiction in
Newsflash: Reports indicate that sealevel has risen 44% in the last 4 years due to melting of the polar ice caps...
funwithBSD: Only 44 percent? That's restrained! I would have expected it to rise even more. Sure, most of our major cities are gone...
Are you seriously comparing putting curly braces "in the wrong place" to murder?
Gee, if you're comparing code standards to destroying democracy...umm...yeah?
If you can't differentiate between natural rights and an unquestionably non-right...
So, so you get to decide what's a "natural right" and what's an "unquestionably non-right," ya? You get to decide this, and not me? How incredibly arrogant of you! You're imposing your values on me!
You just fail to see where your ideas go, fromagepuppy. And, in your original post you called anyone who didn't share them incompetent. Just callin' you on the carpet, son.
Now you are attacking the tenets of freedom, choice, and democracy?
Well, then, with your own reasoning you're attacking the rule of law. Why stifle everyone's right to kill whomever they please? Laws against murder are attacking that right, yes? Laws force members of society to submit to the will of the state. Do you think all laws are bad? Or do you just want the ones you agree with? Would you force people to submit to the laws you liked, and only those? How arrogant and tyrannical of you!
You can't win. Stop now while you're ahead, fromagepuppy.
Do grown men really still argue about where to put the curly braces, tabs, spaces, whitespace, etc.?
You can't seem to see beyond this. No matter.
You want to impose chaos. You want to force everyone to do things your way. (Which is the "everyone should do things their own way" way.) No different from what you rail against. It's kinda funny, actually.
Do we agree so far?
No.
Try the Merriam-Webster definition: "an extremely sensitive, vain, or undisciplined person"
You apparently can't see that code format standards have some use other than stroking the ego of those who create them. Seems you're rather stuck on the ego thing. Hence, the primadonna tag.
For me this is different. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm both creative and intelligent. I find that if I don't have some sort of distraction to "siphon off" some of my creativity I can't focus. It's like I've got to dangle something shiny in front of my right lobes so that 100% of the left and 50% of the right can work on a the problem at hand. Many things can serve as a distraction, including music, tv in the background, or physical/mental fatigue. (I tend to do my best programming at midnight after a full day of work, for instance.)
Interestingly, one of the biggest unforeseen hurdles for this project was the fire ants....
:)
Ah, that's a bunch of hooey. I live in Dallas and spent every spring since '78 in Waxahachie. You get beyond the fire ants once you dig bellow 6'. The SSC tunnels went considerably deeper than that.
And besides, there's one thing I learned from my misspent youth: want to get rid of a fire ant mound? One gallon of gas and a match do the trick right nice.
Here's how to tell that the people that surround you, um, how to put this delicately... 'lack critical thinking skills'
And here, kids, is how you can tell a co-worker is a primadonna and will be a pain in the ass to work with. Avoid them like the plague.
You too can bring down an administration official on your lunch break.
Don't mistake the spark for the flame. It wouldn't have been possible without three things:
1) The media picking it up.
2) The "cronyism" meme already present. ("Heck of a job, Brownie!")
3) Luck.
Now, there may be a dogpile of investigation into political appointees. If we're lucky they'll be branded as "Republican affirmitive action" or some such. If we're lucky it'll be managed so there's a trickle of revelation for the next few months, then a surge 1-2 months before the midterm elections.
But somehow I doubt that'll happen.
Before you put someone in front of a camera to represent you, you make sure of their job credientials.
This is only if you care about the truth being exposed. This is only if you think the truth will ever be exposed.
And maybe they put so many unqualified people in top appointments that we could never find and expose them all...
Erwin soon landed a gig as the top Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official managing the finances of Iraq's civilian security forces...
All this administration needs (and probably wants) are warm bodies it can manipulate. These eager young kids are a dime a dozen, and can be replaced at the drop of a hat once they're exposed. Just look at the amount if work it took to expose and out the NASA guy: one week of intense media pressure. How many hundreds...thousands more are there dispersed through the government?
Actually, that is a incorrect statement. If it weren't for patent trolls, the system wouldn't be broken.
:) That's like saying, "If there were no virus writers, Windows would be totally secure!" It's still insecure, whether folks write virii or not.
Your correction is incorrect.
The difference is that when someone exploits the flaws we now know how to fix the system, if we're willing and able to do so.
Congress passes these ever more bigoted laws (in the name of diversity of course, gotta love NewSpeak) so they can feel good about having 'done something'
Come, now! You wouldn't want to prevent the government from fighting terrorism, now would you? What if some evil employer were only hiring arab workers? We should be able to control exactly who a company hires and fires, just in case they want to launder money to terrorist groups through their employment rolls. It's all in the name of your safety and security. The "diversity" stuff is just to hide the law's true purpose: fighting the scourge that hit us on 9/11.
It's kind of like saying drunk drivers are good for teaching us how unsafe our cars really are.
But they are good for that, in the most dramatic and cruel way possible. It's just that society, in general, tends to ignore the education drunk drivers give us. We treat the symptom (drunk folks killing innocents on the highway) but we ignore the causes. (pervasive availability of alcohol, inherent danger of controlling a mass of metal at high velocities.)
And we also tacitly accept the risk and sacrifice...until it happens to us personally.
I think, they are simply picking their battles.
That's a bunch of hooey. You only pick your battles when the fighting is difficult. The Republicans control everything. They can do anything. On nuclear, they've done nothing. They've done less than nothing, really: all talk, no action.
For me it's frustrating. I'm a lifelong Democrat, and voted so in the last two elections. For me the only silver lining in Bush being elected was, "maybe something will finally be done about nuclear power." No such luck. Only empty promises. When a party controls every branch of the government and says they'll do something, I expect them to do it. With every part of Bush's agenda this has been the case. (Even with social security, even though he's failed so far.) He should at least try. There's no excuse.