That being said, I totally disagree with the your idea that porn should be avoided. Why? well, I happen to think that people a beautiful when they're naked. I also think that sex and sexual touching are some of the most wonderful things in this world. People should feel free to watch, dream about and do as much of it as possible and I've never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
There is nothing wrong with the body in and of itself. There *is* something wrong with exploiting it whether for monetary or some other gain. Porn does exactly that. It makes a business out of people, their method of reproduction, and what they use to express love for someone else. Maybe I'm wrong but it sounds more like you are talking about making love and not just sex. If so, I'll say that porn is just sex. For that reason it is not the best way to observe human sexual practices. It is the animal side of us. It isn't the human side. What is your goal when watching porn? I can't see any useful, non-self-satisfying reason for watching it because it isn't like you can take part in the emotion that the 2+ people experience that are in the porn video (assuming there was emotion to begin with).
How about instead we just use these internets to send the offending officials some biology texts so that can learn about human sexuality and stop trying to stifle it.
Wow, you need a clue. By applying filters for porn sites, they are not trying to stifle education about human sexuality. You can't learn that from watching porn. Now you could argue the filters may get applied too strictly thus blocking medical websites but that has yet to be seen. So as it stands if you think someone can learn about human sexuality from watching porn I think you may need to see your local area psychologist. What is worse is if there is anyone who thinks anyone (especially kids) *should* learn human sexuality from watching porn. No one under 18 should want porn. It could be argued no one over 18 should watch it either.
For the Judeo-Christian we didn't evolve at all but were created as human and stayed human.
Science is nothing more than the process of discovering what's already there--and we have a long way to go before we can declare anything is 100% certain.
Tell that to those who believe evolution is 100% true (not to mention textbooks which treat evolution as gospel) and berate (to put it nicely) those who disagree.
There is nothing to "interpret" about Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech. anyone who thinks there is has simply demonstrated they are unqualified to read, much less "interpret" basic English.
No one says the people who swear on TV aren't allowed to swear. They can swear all they want at home in front of their kids without being arrested. They can even swear on TV if they don't mind paying the fine that the network will be given by the FCC. So in essence, nothing here is preventing people from continuing to swear on TV. It is just that the networks will be fined if that happens. It is the networks who will in effect tell people to watch their mouth and not air content with specific words in them (we don't need those words anyway) because they don't want to get fined. If anything, the networks are abridging freedom of speech, not Congress. I can't believe there are people who actually want to hear swear words on TV and therefore oppose this action by Congress. Garbage in garbage out I guess.
I fail to see why information like this is posted on Slashdot. 99% of the users of this site already believe in evolution so it isn't like this is necessary to convince them (like trying to kill something that has already died) and the other 1% aren't going to be convinced by a little bit of "research" that someone has done. Maybe these posts are like the posts for MS-related content: they are seeds for flame wars only.
Humans were designed in single origin in heaven.
There, fixed it for you.
Despite others who don't know any better who modded you funny, if you are going to make fun of someone then at least get the joke right. No one, especially on here, has ever claimed that Man was designed/created in Heaven. The belief is you end up in Heaven, you start out on Earth. Idiot.
Why do you have to pay for both the HDTV-compatible receiver and a cableCARD? You should only need the receiver if your TV doesn't have an ATSC tuner in it and you want to use it in conjunction with the cableCARD. If you have the receiver though you don't need the cableCARD since the receiver will authorize you for the channels (which is the sole purpose of the cableCARD).
It's also a content management system because it provides document versioning, check-in/check-out, etc. We use it at work so that each project under the government contract has their own site on the main "portal" site. I say "portal" because we use the free version Windows Sharepoint Services and not the Sharepoint Portal Server which costs money. Each project is free to setup their folder structure however they want. It also provides a search engine using Microsoft Search service which indexes all the content. Content can reside in a MSDE/SQL database or on a file share and be indexed from either of those places. It wasn't difficult to setup for our internal use (as a contractor) nor for our government customer. We actually implemented the Portal version for the gov't and did not have any issues even when setting up load balanced front-end servers with active/passive SQL database cluster to provide high availability. It provides a wizard using a web browser to configure the database for storing all data within the database (both configuration data and individual site data including documents). Considering a free version exists that is really nice I think it is a good product. The pay version isn't much different and actually uses th free version as a base. The pay version mainly provides the glue to stick all the other sites together in a portal structure (but also provides more sophisticated search capabilities).
I think some enterprise-class collaboration tools (not for messaging but for documents) need to be made available. If some already exist we need the various Linux distributors to start advertising them on their respective websites.
My point is this: when I was "dead," I never "left my body," I never saw myself and the doctors in the hospital from "above," I never experienced anything. It was like a light-switch was simply flipped. I was just gone. No angels, no bright light, nothing.
This is just me thinking out loud but I would guess that none of that happened simply because it just wasn't your time to go. Biologically speaking there were probably still some processes going on and obviously the heart was able to be kicked back into action to join the rest of your body (including your brain) that was still kicking. I've seen some medical definitions of "death" that include both the brain and the heart which makes it difficult to say when someone can be taken off life support without fear of someone saying you killed the person because they weren't already dead. In your case, it's just about like you did lose consciousness (or like you fainted) because except for the heart stopping, you did just simply go unconscious. Until the brain stops functioning (all of it) you would still be able to know that you had memories and understand their meaning as long as you can regain consciousness (other parts of the brain that work during your consciousness would be active to process those memories). If you really had died and everything that gives you your personality and soul left your body then obviously you wouldn't be hear to tell us about it; at that point there is no turning back, not that you have a choice in the matter. You are definitely very lucky and very unique in that you can say you experienced something like.
Not having gone through it myself I can say it was probably a scary moment for you but it may also have been a comforting moment because you are one of the few who can say they have come the closest you can get to dying so you know what to expect when it really does happen. Many people fear dying because they don't know what to expect. Unfortunately we can't have people who have died tell us exactly what it was like to comfort the rest of us. I'm close to be comfortable with it but the problem I have is that I wouldn't want to leave the people I know here on Earth but I know that when I do I'll be in a better place and won't be able to wait for everyone else to join me in Heaven.
After that, if you have a kid who dives off of heights you should feel proud, scared, and may want to consider gymnastics classes so they'll at least know how to fall correctly.:-)
Hopefully he only lives in a 1 story house but he should still invest in one of those inflatable things that jumpers can land on so they don't kill themselves instead, or maybe buy a trampoline. The kids would love that.
Based on the quality of the images, I can't even tell whether the galaxy is clockwise spiral or anti-clockwise spiral. The quality is horrible. If the galaxy looks like it is at a 45 degree angle, is that edge-on or elliptical or what? I think the images need to be better before this is useful. Help us help you is my message to the owners of that site.
I know it's stripping people of their $DEITY-given right to derive fiduciary advantage from relaying information and opinion, but can we please have some/real/ in-depth software engineering articles for once in a while?
$DEITY is declared static and final and is a member field of the class Universe.
I can't even get the damn ripping part to work. Without fail, either the video is crappy or the audio is out of sync with the video.
What the hell are you doing over there? Just use DVDShrink. It works magic for most of the DVDs out there on retail shelves. If I can download ones that other people make and burn them to disc and play them with no problems it's definitely something that you are doing that is not allowing it to work for you because I don't have artifact issues even though I subject the data to the transmission errors on the Internet. You may also want to slow your burn speed somewhat in order for your older player to read them better. The only time your A/V is out of sync is if you convert the DVD content to Divx or Xvid. If you keep the data in DVD format then there is nothing being changed (especially if you don't shrink the data to fit onto a DVD-R) and no reason to have sync issues. This is definitely a user issue.
And the last reason why I buy DVD's is because burning or copying a DVD takes AGES! To get a similar quality you have a huge honken file.
You must be doing something wrong or your definition of "ages" is different than mine. Obviously you are exaggerating to begin with but maybe you are exaggerating a lot. One word: DVDShrink. You can copy, shrink, and burn a new dvd in under 2 hours, possibly under 1 depending on the movie length and how fast your computer is. I just let other people do the legwork anyway so I don't even rent dvds. I download them from newsgroups.
Well, there is a big difference between what Scooter Libby did and what these guys are doing. Scooter was prosecuted for perjury. His "recollection" of a conversation was different than that of the guy he spoke with. No one was in danger over what Scooter did.
What these FBI guys are doing is unforgivable. They are literally endangering the lives of all of us. By abusing the PATRIOT Act, they are risking having it taken away from those agents who would use it legally to prevent some sort of terrorist attack from happening again.
That is inexcusable... or unpardonable.
It may be unpardonable but maybe it will be commutable.
in the article that the types of crimes they are mining data for are not their responsibility? Also, all databases have at least some data integrity issues. This is especially the case if the data is entered by hand and at some point the data is almost always generated somewhere along the line by a human and then possibly turned into a machine-readable form for insertion into a database. The millions of digital fingerprints in storage now are subject to the quality of the print when it was on the card (however high quality scanners are used). Any system has a garbage in rate and a garbage out rate. The FBI knows that and they aren't going to use a system that is going to give them bad results. If enough false positives show up the FBI will realize they are just wasting their time tracking down false leads. This doesn't preclude them from requesting and paying for a system to be designed that may include bad data, but at least after using it and seeing the error of their requests they won't use the system. Because of this the ACLU is wasting their time complaining about data quality. This isn't any different than huge database owned by banks or credit companies (which would contain an order of magnitude more records) and I don't see anyone complaining about the data quality of those databases (they can still be mined too).
like so 'cheat 99% program' thereby insuring that the programs would get 99% of the CPU cycles, regardless of the presence of any other applications in the system, and in some cases (like Linux), in a way that keeps the program invisible from CPU monitoring tools
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That being said, I totally disagree with the your idea that porn should be avoided. Why? well, I happen to think that people a beautiful when they're naked. I also think that sex and sexual touching are some of the most wonderful things in this world. People should feel free to watch, dream about and do as much of it as possible and I've never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
There is nothing wrong with the body in and of itself. There *is* something wrong with exploiting it whether for monetary or some other gain. Porn does exactly that. It makes a business out of people, their method of reproduction, and what they use to express love for someone else. Maybe I'm wrong but it sounds more like you are talking about making love and not just sex. If so, I'll say that porn is just sex. For that reason it is not the best way to observe human sexual practices. It is the animal side of us. It isn't the human side. What is your goal when watching porn? I can't see any useful, non-self-satisfying reason for watching it because it isn't like you can take part in the emotion that the 2+ people experience that are in the porn video (assuming there was emotion to begin with).
How about instead we just use these internets to send the offending officials some biology texts so that can learn about human sexuality and stop trying to stifle it.
Wow, you need a clue. By applying filters for porn sites, they are not trying to stifle education about human sexuality. You can't learn that from watching porn. Now you could argue the filters may get applied too strictly thus blocking medical websites but that has yet to be seen. So as it stands if you think someone can learn about human sexuality from watching porn I think you may need to see your local area psychologist. What is worse is if there is anyone who thinks anyone (especially kids) *should* learn human sexuality from watching porn. No one under 18 should want porn. It could be argued no one over 18 should watch it either.
Maybe it's chance that we evolved?
For the Judeo-Christian we didn't evolve at all but were created as human and stayed human.
Science is nothing more than the process of discovering what's already there--and we have a long way to go before we can declare anything is 100% certain.
Tell that to those who believe evolution is 100% true (not to mention textbooks which treat evolution as gospel) and berate (to put it nicely) those who disagree.
There is nothing to "interpret" about Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech. anyone who thinks there is has simply demonstrated they are unqualified to read, much less "interpret" basic English.
No one says the people who swear on TV aren't allowed to swear. They can swear all they want at home in front of their kids without being arrested. They can even swear on TV if they don't mind paying the fine that the network will be given by the FCC. So in essence, nothing here is preventing people from continuing to swear on TV. It is just that the networks will be fined if that happens. It is the networks who will in effect tell people to watch their mouth and not air content with specific words in them (we don't need those words anyway) because they don't want to get fined. If anything, the networks are abridging freedom of speech, not Congress. I can't believe there are people who actually want to hear swear words on TV and therefore oppose this action by Congress. Garbage in garbage out I guess.
I fail to see why information like this is posted on Slashdot. 99% of the users of this site already believe in evolution so it isn't like this is necessary to convince them (like trying to kill something that has already died) and the other 1% aren't going to be convinced by a little bit of "research" that someone has done. Maybe these posts are like the posts for MS-related content: they are seeds for flame wars only.
Humans were designed in single origin in heaven. There, fixed it for you.
Despite others who don't know any better who modded you funny, if you are going to make fun of someone then at least get the joke right. No one, especially on here, has ever claimed that Man was designed/created in Heaven. The belief is you end up in Heaven, you start out on Earth. Idiot.
Why do you have to pay for both the HDTV-compatible receiver and a cableCARD? You should only need the receiver if your TV doesn't have an ATSC tuner in it and you want to use it in conjunction with the cableCARD. If you have the receiver though you don't need the cableCARD since the receiver will authorize you for the channels (which is the sole purpose of the cableCARD).
It's also a content management system because it provides document versioning, check-in/check-out, etc. We use it at work so that each project under the government contract has their own site on the main "portal" site. I say "portal" because we use the free version Windows Sharepoint Services and not the Sharepoint Portal Server which costs money. Each project is free to setup their folder structure however they want. It also provides a search engine using Microsoft Search service which indexes all the content. Content can reside in a MSDE/SQL database or on a file share and be indexed from either of those places. It wasn't difficult to setup for our internal use (as a contractor) nor for our government customer. We actually implemented the Portal version for the gov't and did not have any issues even when setting up load balanced front-end servers with active/passive SQL database cluster to provide high availability. It provides a wizard using a web browser to configure the database for storing all data within the database (both configuration data and individual site data including documents). Considering a free version exists that is really nice I think it is a good product. The pay version isn't much different and actually uses th free version as a base. The pay version mainly provides the glue to stick all the other sites together in a portal structure (but also provides more sophisticated search capabilities).
I think some enterprise-class collaboration tools (not for messaging but for documents) need to be made available. If some already exist we need the various Linux distributors to start advertising them on their respective websites.
You might want something like SharePortal and Office 2007.
That would be SharePoint, not SharePortal.
My point is this: when I was "dead," I never "left my body," I never saw myself and the doctors in the hospital from "above," I never experienced anything. It was like a light-switch was simply flipped. I was just gone. No angels, no bright light, nothing.
This is just me thinking out loud but I would guess that none of that happened simply because it just wasn't your time to go. Biologically speaking there were probably still some processes going on and obviously the heart was able to be kicked back into action to join the rest of your body (including your brain) that was still kicking. I've seen some medical definitions of "death" that include both the brain and the heart which makes it difficult to say when someone can be taken off life support without fear of someone saying you killed the person because they weren't already dead. In your case, it's just about like you did lose consciousness (or like you fainted) because except for the heart stopping, you did just simply go unconscious. Until the brain stops functioning (all of it) you would still be able to know that you had memories and understand their meaning as long as you can regain consciousness (other parts of the brain that work during your consciousness would be active to process those memories). If you really had died and everything that gives you your personality and soul left your body then obviously you wouldn't be hear to tell us about it; at that point there is no turning back, not that you have a choice in the matter. You are definitely very lucky and very unique in that you can say you experienced something like.
Not having gone through it myself I can say it was probably a scary moment for you but it may also have been a comforting moment because you are one of the few who can say they have come the closest you can get to dying so you know what to expect when it really does happen. Many people fear dying because they don't know what to expect. Unfortunately we can't have people who have died tell us exactly what it was like to comfort the rest of us. I'm close to be comfortable with it but the problem I have is that I wouldn't want to leave the people I know here on Earth but I know that when I do I'll be in a better place and won't be able to wait for everyone else to join me in Heaven.
The US troops could always invite the Taliban over for a meal and slip them some of this new drug. That should make for some useful target practice.
After that, if you have a kid who dives off of heights you should feel proud, scared, and may want to consider gymnastics classes so they'll at least know how to fall correctly. :-)
Hopefully he only lives in a 1 story house but he should still invest in one of those inflatable things that jumpers can land on so they don't kill themselves instead, or maybe buy a trampoline. The kids would love that.
The price isn't news since the QX6800s debuted at $999 with some online stores putting a $250 markup on them.
Based on the quality of the images, I can't even tell whether the galaxy is clockwise spiral or anti-clockwise spiral. The quality is horrible. If the galaxy looks like it is at a 45 degree angle, is that edge-on or elliptical or what? I think the images need to be better before this is useful. Help us help you is my message to the owners of that site.
You are posting on /. Do you even know what a woman looks like without a web browser to see them?
Of course, I use Thunderbird's usenet-reading capability.
I know it's stripping people of their $DEITY-given right to derive fiduciary advantage from relaying information and opinion, but can we please have some /real/ in-depth software engineering articles for once in a while?
$DEITY is declared static and final and is a member field of the class Universe.
Keep in mind ProcessExplorer is not free for commercial use anymore. Thanks MS!
I can't even get the damn ripping part to work. Without fail, either the video is crappy or the audio is out of sync with the video.
What the hell are you doing over there? Just use DVDShrink. It works magic for most of the DVDs out there on retail shelves. If I can download ones that other people make and burn them to disc and play them with no problems it's definitely something that you are doing that is not allowing it to work for you because I don't have artifact issues even though I subject the data to the transmission errors on the Internet. You may also want to slow your burn speed somewhat in order for your older player to read them better. The only time your A/V is out of sync is if you convert the DVD content to Divx or Xvid. If you keep the data in DVD format then there is nothing being changed (especially if you don't shrink the data to fit onto a DVD-R) and no reason to have sync issues. This is definitely a user issue.
And the last reason why I buy DVD's is because burning or copying a DVD takes AGES! To get a similar quality you have a huge honken file.
You must be doing something wrong or your definition of "ages" is different than mine. Obviously you are exaggerating to begin with but maybe you are exaggerating a lot. One word: DVDShrink. You can copy, shrink, and burn a new dvd in under 2 hours, possibly under 1 depending on the movie length and how fast your computer is. I just let other people do the legwork anyway so I don't even rent dvds. I download them from newsgroups.
Well, there is a big difference between what Scooter Libby did and what these guys are doing. Scooter was prosecuted for perjury. His "recollection" of a conversation was different than that of the guy he spoke with. No one was in danger over what Scooter did.
What these FBI guys are doing is unforgivable. They are literally endangering the lives of all of us. By abusing the PATRIOT Act, they are risking having it taken away from those agents who would use it legally to prevent some sort of terrorist attack from happening again.
That is inexcusable... or unpardonable.
It may be unpardonable but maybe it will be commutable.
Last mile fibre to the home is no more difficult than establishing copper to the home in a typical urban environment.
Maybe in the UK the media is "fibre" but in the US the media is "fiber" and the protocol used by some SANs is "fibre" channel.
in the article that the types of crimes they are mining data for are not their responsibility? Also, all databases have at least some data integrity issues. This is especially the case if the data is entered by hand and at some point the data is almost always generated somewhere along the line by a human and then possibly turned into a machine-readable form for insertion into a database. The millions of digital fingerprints in storage now are subject to the quality of the print when it was on the card (however high quality scanners are used). Any system has a garbage in rate and a garbage out rate. The FBI knows that and they aren't going to use a system that is going to give them bad results. If enough false positives show up the FBI will realize they are just wasting their time tracking down false leads. This doesn't preclude them from requesting and paying for a system to be designed that may include bad data, but at least after using it and seeing the error of their requests they won't use the system. Because of this the ACLU is wasting their time complaining about data quality. This isn't any different than huge database owned by banks or credit companies (which would contain an order of magnitude more records) and I don't see anyone complaining about the data quality of those databases (they can still be mined too).
like so 'cheat 99% program' thereby insuring that the programs would get 99% of the CPU cycles, regardless of the presence of any other applications in the system, and in some cases (like Linux), in a way that keeps the program invisible from CPU monitoring tools
So what's the deductible on this insurance?
Are books better than book reviews?
Are movie trailers better than the movies? Oh wait..