don't freak out. its just advertising, like anything else. yea, advertising sucks, because it isn't a logical discussion as to your level of want for something, its trying to use human psychology against you to get you to use something... i do agree with a certain aspect of advertising in general. It is an effective way to get the word out that a certain product exists in the first place. You being a citibank card holder means that you 'like' that product on some level, and that maybe you'll like something else from them. Maybe you heard about how this bank makes available certain benefits to its cardholders, and thats why you have it, I mean, that is how they do business with their products.
anyway, I was over at my parents house, and I saw all these advertisings for credit cards on the television. Now, these people hate to get marketing calls, and vocalise their dislike for it... yet they sit there and mindlessly watch all of these commercials. Why doesn't he shut the TV off or change the channel? Just like the phone, it is a thing that he bought, and that he should have control over, and thats why tivo's and for the phone telezappers are around. Yet he has neither, but as i said, vocal about his dislike for being bothered by the phone call. Is it that picking up the phone is an active thing, where as watching tv is passive? Actually, watching tv is only passive after you turn it on, look for your program, etc. Anyways, would it help if a phone call was passive? If you just had speakers/mics around the house, and the phone picked itself up, and the person just started talking, or that you could just shut it off when you didn't want it to be on anymore? Just like you could miss that 'important' call, you could miss that important blizzard warning that the TV would flash. Anyways, I'll leave it at these thoughts for now. Peace
I read the article as well, and I am curious about the science that it uses to push its mystical slant.
Maybe a link to something that was just about the science would have been more palletable to the slashdot crowd. After filtering out the BS, I can say that I at least find the possibility of this scientific theory at the very least intriguing.
Now, as to the reference within the article refering to the universe being a hologram, I find that a nice model of what is really happening. Please though, do not confuse the model with the reality. Useing the hologram analogy in your logical counter-argument, may be flawed in and of itself. Saying that one thing might be wrong means the whole thing is wrong may need some deeper reflection. Anyways, just think of it as an example for non physicists such as myself, to understand a more technical concept.
Umm, why shouldn't it be susceptible to 'virii', like windows is? Never mind that linux can be infected with a virus... Now your telling me that something that was reverse engineered to run windows programs, with bug for bug compatibility, can't run some virus that is running win32 specific code?
i cant see the numbers associated to the months in my head, i just gotta count out the months on my finger. which makes me mad, because i know it comes from when i was in first grade, and they said it was ok to addd on your fingers. so, even though i know how to add in my head, i freak out if i cant do it on my fingers first.
iirc, i thought it was a by product of anarobic respiration of yeast, using the contained sugar. this happens within the sugar solution up to about 15% by volume, where then the yeast die..
you filter out the solid particles.
then you perform distilation on that
be careful not to drink the stuff that dribbles out first
the stuff comming out in a steady stream is your alchohol
and the stuff that dribbles out last, dont use that either
just curious, the post above yours refers to nitroglycerin... and you say just just nitro in your post.. are you saying that they use nitroglycerin in cars to use as a fuel for engines, or do you mean nitrous as in nitrous oxide?
... are they adding methanol to nitrous oxide (like fast and the furious)? Or, do some people use nitroglycerin to power engines? Ive never thought the last option possible...not trying to flame or anything though, just genuinely curious.
May I also remind you that the ethanol you buy at the store is denatured with methanol anyway. You probably already have a good amout of this toxic stuff already sitting in your medicine cabinet.
denatured ethanol is the sort of stuff you buy at hardware stores to use as a solvent and things like that, not the stuff you put in your medicine cabinet to clean out wounds.
Since I am not a regular reader of bugtraq or anything of the like, I think its nice when a big hole in a product appears on slashdot. With that being said, if every little open or closed source bug appeared on slashdot, smack on the front page, then I should say that this page's focus would be altered.
I do see your point however, that some bugs seem to be presented in a more obfucated way than others are.
I have no reason to dissagree with you on this, however my post was more to point out that using things like bio-diesel and the like are less likely to cause large excesses of carbon dioxide.
The world is more or less set up as a closed eco-system. Any sort of process occuring that is a build up of any substance probably has something that gets rid of it. Trees turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, and we turn oxygen into carbon dioxide. Everything is in equallibrium. I even heard this theory that if you burned a certain number of plants, the system wouldn't collapse right away, and even if you burned a lot of plants, the whole ecosystem wouldn't collapse, just scale down in size, thus keeping the equallibrium.
This discussion leads us to how fossil fuels are causing us harm. See, these fuels are plants that died a long time ago, and for all intents and puroposes, are not within this above ground ecosystem naturally. Thus, we are bringing from outside an ammount of carbon dioxide that this system is able to handle. With nothing to process it or use it, we are creating an excess of it with nowhere to go except up.:)
plus, AM and FM broadcast bands are using totally different frequencies, (nevermind the wave modualtion for a second). So, you really don't need as many watts of RF energy to get your signal far, due to the property of the wave at the 500 kHz - 1600 kHz (aprox.). FM (iirc) needs more watts of rf being pumped out because of the nature of the modulation type as well.
"IP over Everything" is so passe, it refers to using IP over various layer one media, such as CAT5, Fiber, Token Ring, and copper wire. Seems obvious.
... humm, iirc, I dont think those are all osi layer one. copper wire by itself might be, cat 5 might be, fiber might be, but i dont think Token ring is. If you mean to say that since cat5 (containing copper wire) and Fiber all have above have protocols built atop them that easily use IP, and are already in place, we should use them. I agree with that.
But T-1 is , iirc, usually copper, intrinsically never needs IP to do communication by itself, and has been doing so for a while. (...or you can call it ds-1 and not tie it to being used with a particular medium.) Yes, you can abstract IP information into it, but you don't have to. no flames intended on my part, and i'm probably more wrong than right. Just my thoughts on it though.
This sort of reminds me of a time i was at a computer con, and a guy gave a speech about how phone networks work. All the people in the room were having brain hemorages trying to look at it all in terms of tcp/ip. Finally the guy sorta said,
"...look the whole damn world doesn't run tcp/ip over ethernet, get over it..."
ever since this brick up side the head, I see communications networks in a new light. I mean, IP has its place, but more agree with you than not, that IP may not be the best tool for every job.
Corporations using this kind of tactic to wield influence has always bothered me.(duh) It isn't enough for there to be a good idea that can be implimented on a large scale. There has to be a corporation behind it. But...
its not like these guys got together and said, hey wouldn't this be good for humanity/technological progression. They counted the available beans and said, "More!". I guess money is how ideas are measured.
Slashdot Mirror
Look in the CVS.
The smart kids just set up a shell account at home and tunnel connections through it.
Any one here who speaks German here who could point out the specifics of using a washing machine in the beer making process? Thanks in advance.
Maybe you mean a Golem? I could be wrong.. I merely seek clarification.
already discussed on slashdot
nsa.gov maybe instead? and not nsa.mil?
don't freak out. its just advertising, like anything else. yea, advertising sucks, because it isn't a logical discussion as to your level of want for something, its trying to use human psychology against you to get you to use something... i do agree with a certain aspect of advertising in general. It is an effective way to get the word out that a certain product exists in the first place. You being a citibank card holder means that you 'like' that product on some level, and that maybe you'll like something else from them. Maybe you heard about how this bank makes available certain benefits to its cardholders, and thats why you have it, I mean, that is how they do business with their products.
anyway, I was over at my parents house, and I saw all these advertisings for credit cards on the television. Now, these people hate to get marketing calls, and vocalise their dislike for it... yet they sit there and mindlessly watch all of these commercials. Why doesn't he shut the TV off or change the channel? Just like the phone, it is a thing that he bought, and that he should have control over, and thats why tivo's and for the phone telezappers are around. Yet he has neither, but as i said, vocal about his dislike for being bothered by the phone call. Is it that picking up the phone is an active thing, where as watching tv is passive? Actually, watching tv is only passive after you turn it on, look for your program, etc. Anyways, would it help if a phone call was passive? If you just had speakers/mics around the house, and the phone picked itself up, and the person just started talking, or that you could just shut it off when you didn't want it to be on anymore? Just like you could miss that 'important' call, you could miss that important blizzard warning that the TV would flash. Anyways, I'll leave it at these thoughts for now. Peace
Here is a link.
I read the article as well, and I am curious about the science that it uses to push its mystical slant. Maybe a link to something that was just about the science would have been more palletable to the slashdot crowd. After filtering out the BS, I can say that I at least find the possibility of this scientific theory at the very least intriguing.
Now, as to the reference within the article refering to the universe being a hologram, I find that a nice model of what is really happening. Please though, do not confuse the model with the reality. Useing the hologram analogy in your logical counter-argument, may be flawed in and of itself. Saying that one thing might be wrong means the whole thing is wrong may need some deeper reflection. Anyways, just think of it as an example for non physicists such as myself, to understand a more technical concept.
Umm, why shouldn't it be susceptible to 'virii', like windows is? Never mind that linux can be infected with a virus... Now your telling me that something that was reverse engineered to run windows programs, with bug for bug compatibility, can't run some virus that is running win32 specific code?
So, is the submitter the same person as the author?
i cant see the numbers associated to the months in my head, i just gotta count out the months on my finger. which makes me mad, because i know it comes from when i was in first grade, and they said it was ok to addd on your fingers. so, even though i know how to add in my head, i freak out if i cant do it on my fingers first.
doesnt matter, they're not yours. the companies still hold the right to those games.
just curious, the post above yours refers to nitroglycerin... and you say just just nitro in your post.. are you saying that they use nitroglycerin in cars to use as a fuel for engines, or do you mean nitrous as in nitrous oxide?
... are they adding methanol to nitrous oxide (like fast and the furious)? Or, do some people use nitroglycerin to power engines? Ive never thought the last option possible...not trying to flame or anything though, just genuinely curious.
... not to mention getting rid of that idea of flying between the buildings. ( think fifth element...et al)
May I also remind you that the ethanol you buy at the store is denatured with methanol anyway. You probably already have a good amout of this toxic stuff already sitting in your medicine cabinet.
denatured ethanol is the sort of stuff you buy at hardware stores to use as a solvent and things like that, not the stuff you put in your medicine cabinet to clean out wounds.
Since I am not a regular reader of bugtraq or anything of the like, I think its nice when a big hole in a product appears on slashdot. With that being said, if every little open or closed source bug appeared on slashdot, smack on the front page, then I should say that this page's focus would be altered.
I do see your point however, that some bugs seem to be presented in a more obfucated way than others are.
I have no reason to dissagree with you on this, however my post was more to point out that using things like bio-diesel and the like are less likely to cause large excesses of carbon dioxide.
Think of it more like this.
:)
The world is more or less set up as a closed eco-system. Any sort of process occuring that is a build up of any substance probably has something that gets rid of it. Trees turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, and we turn oxygen into carbon dioxide. Everything is in equallibrium. I even heard this theory that if you burned a certain number of plants, the system wouldn't collapse right away, and even if you burned a lot of plants, the whole ecosystem wouldn't collapse, just scale down in size, thus keeping the equallibrium.
This discussion leads us to how fossil fuels are causing us harm. See, these fuels are plants that died a long time ago, and for all intents and puroposes, are not within this above ground ecosystem naturally. Thus, we are bringing from outside an ammount of carbon dioxide that this system is able to handle. With nothing to process it or use it, we are creating an excess of it with nowhere to go except up.
plus, AM and FM broadcast bands are using totally different frequencies, (nevermind the wave modualtion for a second). So, you really don't need as many watts of RF energy to get your signal far, due to the property of the wave at the 500 kHz - 1600 kHz (aprox.). FM (iirc) needs more watts of rf being pumped out because of the nature of the modulation type as well.
"IP over Everything" is so passe, it refers to using IP over various layer one media, such as CAT5, Fiber, Token Ring, and copper wire. Seems obvious.
... humm, iirc, I dont think those are all osi layer one. copper wire by itself might be, cat 5 might be, fiber might be, but i dont think Token ring is. If you mean to say that since cat5 (containing copper wire) and Fiber all have above have protocols built atop them that easily use IP, and are already in place, we should use them. I agree with that.
But T-1 is , iirc, usually copper, intrinsically never needs IP to do communication by itself, and has been doing so for a while. (...or you can call it ds-1 and not tie it to being used with a particular medium.) Yes, you can abstract IP information into it, but you don't have to.
no flames intended on my part, and i'm probably more wrong than right. Just my thoughts on it though.
This sort of reminds me of a time i was at a computer con, and a guy gave a speech about how phone networks work. All the people in the room were having brain hemorages trying to look at it all in terms of tcp/ip. Finally the guy sorta said,
"...look the whole damn world doesn't run tcp/ip over ethernet, get over it..."
ever since this brick up side the head, I see communications networks in a new light. I mean, IP has its place, but more agree with you than not, that IP may not be the best tool for every job.
Corporations using this kind of tactic to wield influence has always bothered me.(duh) It isn't enough for there to be a good idea that can be implimented on a large scale. There has to be a corporation behind it. But...
its not like these guys got together and said, hey wouldn't this be good for humanity/technological progression. They counted the available beans and said, "More!". I guess money is how ideas are measured.