Someone who got a hold of the DB (in whatever way) could also control where people are allowed to go, when they are allowed to go there, and with who they are allowed to go.
Ever hear of the Anti Christ? Oh wait....I bet you don't believe in that. Of course, whether you do or not doesn't mean it can't happen, and it will. A national and even worse, a global ID system, is just what the antichrist would want/need to allow his reign to be crueler, easier, and more powerful. The terrorists are playing right into the master plan of the universe.
By the way, I guess no one ever proposed a national/global ID system for those who actually NEED tracked like criminals and terrorists instead of the general public. The public has done nothing wrong so why should they need tracked? Track those who need it. Sure, it won't stop any new terrorists from doing anything but then again, stopping any new Middle Eastern people from entering the country would help tremendously.
Muons which have a mass greater than an electron move very close to the speed of light, close enough to have a very high time dilation factor. Artifically created muons (as opposed to muons created in the atmosphere by radiation hitting our atmosphere) have achieved speeds as much as 99.7% the speed of light. That gives a time dilation factor of 12. Ref.: About Time by Paul Davies, pp. 55-58
I can't even begin to explain the reason (unfortunately) however Igor Novikov in his lecture at Kip Thorne's 60th birthday party explains the reasoning behind why we know that paradoxes cannot occur. His lecture is reprinted in a book called The Future of Spacetime. The relevant section is on pages 81 and 82. Basically all events concerning a paradox are resolved correctly such that no paradox could ever occur in the first place.
I guess I'll attempt a quick explanation.
You have a very sensitive bomb drifting toward a wormhole (that allows time travel). It enters the wormhole at just the right angle and speed such that once it enters the wormhole and reappears coming out of a nearby wormhole it is able to collide with itself (the bomb in the past before it went into the wormhole) and thus explode. Well this is a paradox. If it explodes before it enters the first wormhole how is it able to exit the 2nd wormhole and hit itself to even detonate?
Novikov says that the proper sequence of events occurs such that the bomb enters the first wormhole but only a fragment exits the 2nd wormhole. The reason being the "bomb" actually did hit the past form of itself but only a fragment ended up entering the wormhole because of the explosion thus causing the fragment to reappear from the 2nd wormhole and causing the original explosion.
The book explains a couple other examples of paradoxes resolving themselves.
If their intent IS as good as it claims, then I say good for Microsoft. Of course, would them sticking their hands in Open Source make things better or worse?
And IS their intent as good as it claims?
1) I've always found them to be extremely fragile. The number of people I know with Sony notebooks that haven't (badly) cracked or broken the cheap plastic case within one year is still zero.
Too bad you don't know me or that number would be at least a 1. I've had my Vaio Z505HS for over 2 years now and I don't have a crack in the case. Maybe your friends just don't know how to treat a $2000 laptop? I actually paid more than that for mine but you get the point.
As for someone else mentioning that no OS works on them except the one that is shipped on the system already I can only say that "policy" must be a new one since I got my laptop 2 years ago because I put Linux on it within weeks of having it and it's worked fine since. The modem is a winmodem so of course I can't use that but the jogdial is even supported now, the port replicator of course works fine, and the floppy drive works with the usb mass storage driver. I just wish the damn batteries lasted more than a year or so. I get a whole 5 min of usage on battery power right now and a new battery last time I checked cost $200+ and it still only lasts 70 min approx.
We might as well let the UN take over the world right now if we're going to colonize *anything* beyond this planet. The UN is a bad thing. It isn't good to have 1 ruling power because it is simply *too* much power. U.S. troops already don't even fight for the U.S. anymore; they fight for the UN and anyone who says they want to fight for the U.S. and not the UN doesn't get in or gets thrown out. Whoever gets to the moon or Mars first can start colonizing and making their own laws for their territories just like they did as the U.S. was being created.
It might just be a good idea to fix problems here at home first before we venture out into space. Hundreds of murders, robberies, rapes, suicides, terrorist activities, etc. are performed each year and yet we are worried about the remote possiblity that an asteroid *might* hit the earth 3000 years from now.
Fix the problems *here* and *now* and only after those are solved should we go out into space. If those problems never get solved so be it.
As someone once said, we keep looking for intelligent life "out there" but yet we haven't quite found it here. Let's get our priorities straight.
Greatest reward i could wish for is that we stop pretending to be God by deciding who lives and who dies and stop the abortionists, the suicide bombers, the homicide bombers, the terrorists, the rapists, the child molesters, the wife beaters, the embezzlers, the extortionists and anyone else who likes to think that absolute morals don't matter and after all that is accomplished God says "thank you, finally".
Remember that bandwidth is the measure of the width of the pipe (common sense, right?) so a fiber line can *carry* more data at once but not send the individual packets any faster to their destination.
speed= distance/time
bandwidth = data-amount/time
You will always have latency even with fat pipes, mainly due to speed of light constraints which other people have already mentioned.
The Honda Civic will be $20k and of course you will actually save money in the long run because you won't need to buy as much gas.
The 2004 model year for automobiles will be very interesting as Jeep (Liberty), Ford (Escape), and DaimlerChrysler (Durango) will all be produced as hybrid SUVs which get 40 mpg ( for an SUV!! ).
It's easy to determine whether a site has a lean to pornography with its pictures. A medical site with pictures of breasts is obviously not a porn site. Any domain names with the word sex in the title would obviously be required to change its domain. Other ways can be easily implemented. It doesn't take a genius. Automation of the process is another story but it is hardly a difficult issue to overcome. If you want to split hairs over what is right and wrong then go ahead but if you would stop and think and let the process take its course through common sense then progress would actually be made. Democrats need to learn that soon. Don't make the issue more complicated than it needs to be. The context of the pictures, among other things, can easily determine if the site's TLD should be changed.
In the mid 90's, we were told that cable modems were a 'year away'. Funnily, we were told this in 96, 97, 98, and 99, when the trials started to roll out. A similar thing occured with DSL.
This sounds like what AT&T has done in my area of the US. I live in a relatively small town in northern WV, an hour from Pittsburgh, PA. I've called them every few months and they tell me sometimes that my town is just on the list of future markets. At other times I get a response of "it will be just another few months". Last October it was "you will definitely have it by Christmas". Just 2 days ago I found out the area of the town 5 min from me at the bottom of the hill has access finally and AT&T is hooking people up block by block. Gee, and it only took 6 years from the time I first heard of the technology to actually be able to subscribe to it. AT&T had service to every town north of here up the Ohio river for at least 2 years but why it took so long for our town to get it is beyond me.
Any old object can have more mass then a black hole, there isn't a critical mass where you "become" a black hole. There is a density where you become a black hole. It just happens that once you get a certain amount of mass you end up collapsing into a blackhole because the mass on the outside has no opposite force to oppose the internal collapsing in which I am guessing your average nuclear forces would keep that from happening to most regular objects.
This is correct. The mass of the object has to be confined with a certain space. This space is the Schwarzschild radius that another poster already mentioned. What starts the collapse is that the star runs out of fuel and the pressure that used to be there from the burning fuel is no longer enough to oppose the star's own gravitational force so it collapses on itself. Interestingly the bigger the star is the shorter it's life span because it has to burn fuel faster in order to prevent itself from collapsing from it's own enormous gravitational field. Small stars live longer because they have smaller gravitational fields.
We already kill babies whether they are outside of the mother or not. We already allow numerous variations of the act of sex on television. We allow kids to be taught sex education when they are 10 years old. Since when has the protection of our high moral standards ever been an issue before based on the previous statements? Obviously the government and media don't care about our standards. All the above has happened in the last 50 years or less. I'd guess it won't take 4 generations to get to the point you describe above. I'm guessing your 4 year guess will be more on target.
We already think we are allowed to kill a human at any stage in the life of that human. Why not go a step further and try to be even more like God and create humans at will without any need for the usual, initial 2 human interaction (sex)?
My dad has left the cover off of his case for over 3 months now because he has been working with it so it has been getting an air flow into the case. And as the OP mentioned in his response to this mesg, my Dad has also said that he experiences these issues within just a few seconds of turning the machine on. The last time I messed with it was this past weekend and I the first boot got into XP just fine. I was there less than 2 min. I then rebooted and entered the BIOS and changed a few settings. The next reboot didn't complete. In fact I never got the initial BIOS sscreen to appear before the system locked up. It's definitely not a heat issue.
You have to play games with it just to enter the BIOS sometimes as well which is ridiculous and uncalled for. If you don't hit Del at the right time you get a black screen with a blue bar at the bottom and all you can do is reboot again. It is pathetic.
You got that right. My dad bought the regular Dragon board, 512 megs PC2100 DDR Ram, the Athlon 1.4ghz, and a 430 watt PS. He has had nothing but problems. He first had an Abit with the KT133 chipset and things didn't work out so he got a new cpu, new ram, and the Dragon board. Things got worse. He gets random lockups like you do and most of the time now the system won't even boot up. It will lock up on the BIOS SCREEN. It also locks up in scandisk, web browsing, you name it. Win98 was on his system and I put XP Pro on it and it just didn't do a bit of good. He has an ATI AiW Radeon by the way and he still has these problems so it's not related to the video card. It's the damn VIA chipset (a VIA chipset was in the ABit board he got initailly coincidentally). he has spent 6 months and $800 trying to get it all working. Lately I read of the 100mhz "fix" and after doing that in the BIOS and rebooting the system woudln't even turn the monitor on anymore. I gave up. He is in the process of looking for a new board.
He doesn't know where he went wrong b/c like you he bought it b/c of the awards and rave reviews it got and yet he has had nothing but trouble.
Oh, I'm aware that there are problems with evolution if you are one of these Biblical literalists who believe that every last word of the Bible is 100% true and that the Universe is 6,000 years old.
Why would you pick and choose what you choose to believe in a book that defines your own religion? I know I don't but I realize thousands do and I just don't see why. I guess those people feel like they can have the freedom to say "well, let's see, murder is definitely too strong for my tastes, but hey, stealing is just fine by me" or "I believe God created us but He created monkeys first and therefore indirectly He created us."
It is said in the Bible if you question God's word then you are going to be damned. So don't you dare tell me I'm a Biblical literalist because it isn't right to just pick and choose with any religion what you will believe. Too bad I won't be around to see the look on peoples' faces when they realize they were wrong and we (me and the other Christians) were right.
Why doesn't someone make a program that answers the age old question of how many clicks does it take to get to the center of the Internet? That is something interesting is it not? With as many pages as Google has I'm sure the answer would be a fairly good estimate.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone who got a hold of the DB (in whatever way) could also control where people are allowed to go, when they are allowed to go there, and with who they are allowed to go.
Ever hear of the Anti Christ? Oh wait....I bet you don't believe in that. Of course, whether you do or not doesn't mean it can't happen, and it will. A national and even worse, a global ID system, is just what the antichrist would want/need to allow his reign to be crueler, easier, and more powerful. The terrorists are playing right into the master plan of the universe.
By the way, I guess no one ever proposed a national/global ID system for those who actually NEED tracked like criminals and terrorists instead of the general public. The public has done nothing wrong so why should they need tracked? Track those who need it. Sure, it won't stop any new terrorists from doing anything but then again, stopping any new Middle Eastern people from entering the country would help tremendously.
just a quick question-
what if you don't use a module for your cdrom drive, then what?
So everyone can remove the "dirty bits" of DVDs. For the right-wingers, that's kissing, nipples, evolution. For the test[sic] of us - Jar Jar
And for left-wingers, that pretty much means that The Ten Commandments, if ever put on DVD, will be 2-3 hours of blackness on your screen.
Muons which have a mass greater than an electron move very close to the speed of light, close enough to have a very high time dilation factor. Artifically created muons (as opposed to muons created in the atmosphere by radiation hitting our atmosphere) have achieved speeds as much as 99.7% the speed of light. That gives a time dilation factor of 12. Ref.: About Time by Paul Davies, pp. 55-58
and what gives it that all knowing power to realize it will collide with itself? A bomb has no brain.
by the way, I didn't say that. Igor Novikov did and I believe he is much smarter than either one of us.
I can't even begin to explain the reason (unfortunately) however Igor Novikov in his lecture at Kip Thorne's 60th birthday party explains the reasoning behind why we know that paradoxes cannot occur. His lecture is reprinted in a book called The Future of Spacetime. The relevant section is on pages 81 and 82. Basically all events concerning a paradox are resolved correctly such that no paradox could ever occur in the first place.
I guess I'll attempt a quick explanation.
You have a very sensitive bomb drifting toward a wormhole (that allows time travel). It enters the wormhole at just the right angle and speed such that once it enters the wormhole and reappears coming out of a nearby wormhole it is able to collide with itself (the bomb in the past before it went into the wormhole) and thus explode. Well this is a paradox. If it explodes before it enters the first wormhole how is it able to exit the 2nd wormhole and hit itself to even detonate?
Novikov says that the proper sequence of events occurs such that the bomb enters the first wormhole but only a fragment exits the 2nd wormhole. The reason being the "bomb" actually did hit the past form of itself but only a fragment ended up entering the wormhole because of the explosion thus causing the fragment to reappear from the 2nd wormhole and causing the original explosion.
The book explains a couple other examples of paradoxes resolving themselves.
I hope this resolves any questions.
If their intent IS as good as it claims, then I say good for Microsoft. Of course, would them sticking their hands in Open Source make things better or worse? And IS their intent as good as it claims?
It depends on what your defintion of is is.
1) I've always found them to be extremely fragile. The number of people I know with Sony notebooks that haven't (badly) cracked or broken the cheap plastic case within one year is still zero.
Too bad you don't know me or that number would be at least a 1. I've had my Vaio Z505HS for over 2 years now and I don't have a crack in the case. Maybe your friends just don't know how to treat a $2000 laptop? I actually paid more than that for mine but you get the point.
As for someone else mentioning that no OS works on them except the one that is shipped on the system already I can only say that "policy" must be a new one since I got my laptop 2 years ago because I put Linux on it within weeks of having it and it's worked fine since. The modem is a winmodem so of course I can't use that but the jogdial is even supported now, the port replicator of course works fine, and the floppy drive works with the usb mass storage driver. I just wish the damn batteries lasted more than a year or so. I get a whole 5 min of usage on battery power right now and a new battery last time I checked cost $200+ and it still only lasts 70 min approx.
If you don't want to look at your wife I'll look at it for you and let you know what I see.
(yes I know the filename isn't referring to *your* wife)
We might as well let the UN take over the world right now if we're going to colonize *anything* beyond this planet. The UN is a bad thing. It isn't good to have 1 ruling power because it is simply *too* much power. U.S. troops already don't even fight for the U.S. anymore; they fight for the UN and anyone who says they want to fight for the U.S. and not the UN doesn't get in or gets thrown out. Whoever gets to the moon or Mars first can start colonizing and making their own laws for their territories just like they did as the U.S. was being created.
It might just be a good idea to fix problems here at home first before we venture out into space. Hundreds of murders, robberies, rapes, suicides, terrorist activities, etc. are performed each year and yet we are worried about the remote possiblity that an asteroid *might* hit the earth 3000 years from now.
Fix the problems *here* and *now* and only after those are solved should we go out into space. If those problems never get solved so be it.
As someone once said, we keep looking for intelligent life "out there" but yet we haven't quite found it here. Let's get our priorities straight.
Greatest reward i could wish for is that we stop pretending to be God by deciding who lives and who dies and stop the abortionists, the suicide bombers, the homicide bombers, the terrorists, the rapists, the child molesters, the wife beaters, the embezzlers, the extortionists and anyone else who likes to think that absolute morals don't matter and after all that is accomplished God says "thank you, finally".
Remember that bandwidth is the measure of the width of the pipe (common sense, right?) so a fiber line can *carry* more data at once but not send the individual packets any faster to their destination.
speed= distance/time
bandwidth = data-amount/time
You will always have latency even with fat pipes, mainly due to speed of light constraints which other people have already mentioned.
The Honda Civic will be $20k and of course you will actually save money in the long run because you won't need to buy as much gas.
The 2004 model year for automobiles will be very interesting as Jeep (Liberty), Ford (Escape), and DaimlerChrysler (Durango) will all be produced as hybrid SUVs which get 40 mpg ( for an SUV!! ).
I'd love to have the concept car shown here.
It's easy to determine whether a site has a lean to pornography with its pictures. A medical site with pictures of breasts is obviously not a porn site. Any domain names with the word sex in the title would obviously be required to change its domain. Other ways can be easily implemented. It doesn't take a genius. Automation of the process is another story but it is hardly a difficult issue to overcome. If you want to split hairs over what is right and wrong then go ahead but if you would stop and think and let the process take its course through common sense then progress would actually be made. Democrats need to learn that soon. Don't make the issue more complicated than it needs to be. The context of the pictures, among other things, can easily determine if the site's TLD should be changed.
In the mid 90's, we were told that cable modems were a 'year away'. Funnily, we were told this in 96, 97, 98, and 99, when the trials started to roll out. A similar thing occured with DSL.
This sounds like what AT&T has done in my area of the US. I live in a relatively small town in northern WV, an hour from Pittsburgh, PA. I've called them every few months and they tell me sometimes that my town is just on the list of future markets. At other times I get a response of "it will be just another few months". Last October it was "you will definitely have it by Christmas". Just 2 days ago I found out the area of the town 5 min from me at the bottom of the hill has access finally and AT&T is hooking people up block by block. Gee, and it only took 6 years from the time I first heard of the technology to actually be able to subscribe to it. AT&T had service to every town north of here up the Ohio river for at least 2 years but why it took so long for our town to get it is beyond me.
Any old object can have more mass then a black hole, there isn't a critical mass where you "become" a black hole. There is a density where you become a black hole. It just happens that once you get a certain amount of mass you end up collapsing into a blackhole because the mass on the outside has no opposite force to oppose the internal collapsing in which I am guessing your average nuclear forces would keep that from happening to most regular objects.
This is correct. The mass of the object has to be confined with a certain space. This space is the Schwarzschild radius that another poster already mentioned. What starts the collapse is that the star runs out of fuel and the pressure that used to be there from the burning fuel is no longer enough to oppose the star's own gravitational force so it collapses on itself. Interestingly the bigger the star is the shorter it's life span because it has to burn fuel faster in order to prevent itself from collapsing from it's own enormous gravitational field. Small stars live longer because they have smaller gravitational fields.
We already kill babies whether they are outside of the mother or not. We already allow numerous variations of the act of sex on television. We allow kids to be taught sex education when they are 10 years old. Since when has the protection of our high moral standards ever been an issue before based on the previous statements? Obviously the government and media don't care about our standards. All the above has happened in the last 50 years or less. I'd guess it won't take 4 generations to get to the point you describe above. I'm guessing your 4 year guess will be more on target.
We already think we are allowed to kill a human at any stage in the life of that human. Why not go a step further and try to be even more like God and create humans at will without any need for the usual, initial 2 human interaction (sex)?
Lawsuits will be flying like crazy.
My dad has left the cover off of his case for over 3 months now because he has been working with it so it has been getting an air flow into the case. And as the OP mentioned in his response to this mesg, my Dad has also said that he experiences these issues within just a few seconds of turning the machine on. The last time I messed with it was this past weekend and I the first boot got into XP just fine. I was there less than 2 min. I then rebooted and entered the BIOS and changed a few settings. The next reboot didn't complete. In fact I never got the initial BIOS sscreen to appear before the system locked up. It's definitely not a heat issue.
You have to play games with it just to enter the BIOS sometimes as well which is ridiculous and uncalled for. If you don't hit Del at the right time you get a black screen with a blue bar at the bottom and all you can do is reboot again. It is pathetic.
You got that right. My dad bought the regular Dragon board, 512 megs PC2100 DDR Ram, the Athlon 1.4ghz, and a 430 watt PS. He has had nothing but problems. He first had an Abit with the KT133 chipset and things didn't work out so he got a new cpu, new ram, and the Dragon board. Things got worse. He gets random lockups like you do and most of the time now the system won't even boot up. It will lock up on the BIOS SCREEN. It also locks up in scandisk, web browsing, you name it. Win98 was on his system and I put XP Pro on it and it just didn't do a bit of good. He has an ATI AiW Radeon by the way and he still has these problems so it's not related to the video card. It's the damn VIA chipset (a VIA chipset was in the ABit board he got initailly coincidentally). he has spent 6 months and $800 trying to get it all working. Lately I read of the 100mhz "fix" and after doing that in the BIOS and rebooting the system woudln't even turn the monitor on anymore. I gave up. He is in the process of looking for a new board.
He doesn't know where he went wrong b/c like you he bought it b/c of the awards and rave reviews it got and yet he has had nothing but trouble.
Oh, I'm aware that there are problems with evolution if you are one of these Biblical literalists who believe that every last word of the Bible is 100% true and that the Universe is 6,000 years old.
Why would you pick and choose what you choose to believe in a book that defines your own religion? I know I don't but I realize thousands do and I just don't see why. I guess those people feel like they can have the freedom to say "well, let's see, murder is definitely too strong for my tastes, but hey, stealing is just fine by me" or "I believe God created us but He created monkeys first and therefore indirectly He created us."
It is said in the Bible if you question God's word then you are going to be damned. So don't you dare tell me I'm a Biblical literalist because it isn't right to just pick and choose with any religion what you will believe. Too bad I won't be around to see the look on peoples' faces when they realize they were wrong and we (me and the other Christians) were right.
Why doesn't someone make a program that answers the age old question of how many clicks does it take to get to the center of the Internet? That is something interesting is it not? With as many pages as Google has I'm sure the answer would be a fairly good estimate.