Because it mentions horses, and omgponies has been a meme on Slashdot ever since a few years back on April 1st Slashdot had a My Little Pony css theme enabled, with associated stories. It was honestly one of the best April 1st Slashdot ever did.
Get the user to download an executable then pop up a window with your java applet that executes ~\Downloads\JustDownloadedMalware
But it's still a bit far-fetched. By default, newly downloaded executables from the internet have a flag (similar to Windows) that would ask for a confirmation before executing, thus requiring user input to work, I'm not sure if this vulnerability would bypass this.
Very good, and quite similar to what I figure is really going on.
The google guys are intelligent and pay a lot of attentions to details; while bing is probably not a significant threat, it's no excuse to just ignore it. They are almost certainly looking at their competitors, at what they are doing and how they can counter their moves to stay ahead. Google didn't get where they are by being sloppy and ignoring new trends.
I had exactly the same reaction. As if no one can have mixed feelings about something: "you're either with us or against us!". I refuse to participate in such pointless debates, as it is clear the initiator has no intention of actually discussing the matter rationally, and is most likely either stupid, fanatic, or ignorant.
Just because I'm a total skeptic, but I still like to get my facts about totally absurd pseudoscience right, I checked and 2009 was not the year of the pig.
Genes that bring defects that don't affect an individual before its main reproductive period tend to survive more easily. So say a gene defect that kills you the day you are 40, especially for females, will propagate more easily than one that kills you at 10, because you've reproduced and passed those genes on by that time.
There is still an advantage to surviving after the age of reproduction in a species with longer childhood cycles or one where the grandparents care for the offsprings of its offspring (aka its grandchildren). This advantage is lessened because of gene dilution and its (usually) lesser importance compared to straight reproduction, but still if humans mostly reproduce around 15-20y old (historically), around where they reach maturity, then surviving till at least 40 is an advantage because of more care for the offspring up till maturity. For grandchildren, the age can be up to 60 in the same context.
Species with communal care for offspring also get advantaged by members who survive longer because they get more people to care for the offsprings, but then the dilution is even more significant.
So I can see how a gene that brings higher suicide rates of mature subjects can survive for a while, even though it is detrimental.
Although I don't necessarily agree with Wikimedia's heavy-handedness here, the "wikipediaart" project seems like some weird attempt do use Wikipedia to do something which is not what Wikipedia is for. It is not a commentary on Wikipedia itself. Wikipedia doesn't exist so it can be used as a person's playground or for their pet projects. The "project" itself existed only as a Wikipedia page in essence, and was some sort of attempt at self-referential art from what I can gather - thus being inadmissible for its medium per their own rules!
I've been in the tech support business for 11 years, and here is my policy with customers when I find myself in a similar situation. I changed jobs recently and I made sure my new employers were OK with it beforehand.
If the software is already installed and working, I work with it as it is. If I have to actively support software that is clearly unlicensed, I will mention it to the customer and notify them that I cannot support it properly. I won't reinstall or update the software.
If I am asked to install software, I will make sure the customer has a proper license or original media to do the installation. I will not install it on more systems than the customer can prove he has licenses for.
If the customer asks me to administer his network, and not just do spot jobs, the matter is different and closer to your situation. I'll complete a check of licenses used and paid for and deliver a report on licensing making suggestions. Those usually include: getting up to speed on everything, buying licenses as things go and systems are being replaced, or going with OSS.
That's one of the main issues I have with religions: rationalizations.
Whatever argument, point, counter-point, or logic we throw at religious beliefs, it's irrelevant: religious faith is at heart an *irrational* belief system that hinges on an illogical, self-contradicting premise (the existence of a 3O-God) that essentially enables the believers to create rationalizations that may appear reasonable, but are really just random, totally unprovable assertions supposedly explaining the "logic" of theological systems. Believers can invent those as much as they want, because they always have the God cop-out premise to base all their assertions on: "Because God wants it that way".
Rational argumentation with believers is completely useless. It's all insubstantial arguments, sophistry and crooked logic.
And the proof of my point is simple, and known since Aristotle, well before Yeshuah was born: If you base your logic upon false premises, your argument is unproven. But if you base your logic on a self-contradicting premise, you can prove ANYTHING YOU WANT. If you posit that 1=2, almost any mathematical equality becomes provable. It's the same issue here: believers can "prove" anything they want, giving you arguments for creationism, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraceptive, because they can always assert them on the false basis of the existence of their 3O-God.
Why do we celebrate our age from the time of exiting our mother's womb? Why not conception? And what is a year exactly? Calendar year, sidereal year, local time or standard Earth time? How about if I travelled faster and slower during the year, and relativity effects kick in? How do we know the dates are correct? Humanity's obsession with these things is fascinating, and I get caught in it myself sometimes, but then I stand back and realize it's all arbitrary.
Yet it is not meaningless. The point isn't to celebrate the specific day or year, but to select a moment to celebrate an event that means something to us. The date selection might be arbitrary, or incorrect, but that's not the point. We are celebrating a reasonably long time (around 15 years) of the Linux kernel having been established and reaching a point where it was stable enough that the main developer chose to give it a 1.0 version.
Three factors differentiate fission from fusion: - energy production is much higher (4x and +) - size of material required is much smaller (like 100 times less) - the material required is the most abundant in the universe, instead of rare elements
And fission could, now, provide much cheaper, more efficient, less polluting energy than almost any other source, barring hydro-electricity. But people don't want it.
Nanobots will not do it alone, though. Fusion reactors are part of that equation. Imagine so much energy available to us that it will, for all intents and purposes, make energy almost infinite and free. Combine it with some technology to use that energy and use it to transform matter and...
Forget coal & fuel. Forget rarity of metals: we can simulate the work of the stars themselves and *make rare metals* ourselves (although mining most of those in the asteroid belt or on jupiterian moons might more efficient eventually). Scarcity is suddenly much less of a problem. Society is redefined.
Nothing is EVER simple. The Universe is an infinitely complex set of interrelated systems. We use models to simply them so we can understand them, or work out abstraction layers. But despite our best efforts to make things simpler, the underlying truth remains: everything is complex. Things only seem simple because we ignore the complexity or we kid ourselves into believing our simplifications.
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DPI is very useful for security scanning and network monitoring. Would you make security tools illegal? Like nmap in Germany?
Of course I find a screenshot just after hitting submit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soopahviv/121120624/
Because it mentions horses, and omgponies has been a meme on Slashdot ever since a few years back on April 1st Slashdot had a My Little Pony css theme enabled, with associated stories. It was honestly one of the best April 1st Slashdot ever did.
Get the user to download an executable then pop up a window with your java applet that executes ~\Downloads\JustDownloadedMalware
But it's still a bit far-fetched. By default, newly downloaded executables from the internet have a flag (similar to Windows) that would ask for a confirmation before executing, thus requiring user input to work, I'm not sure if this vulnerability would bypass this.
Very good, and quite similar to what I figure is really going on.
The google guys are intelligent and pay a lot of attentions to details; while bing is probably not a significant threat, it's no excuse to just ignore it. They are almost certainly looking at their competitors, at what they are doing and how they can counter their moves to stay ahead. Google didn't get where they are by being sloppy and ignoring new trends.
I had exactly the same reaction. As if no one can have mixed feelings about something: "you're either with us or against us!". I refuse to participate in such pointless debates, as it is clear the initiator has no intention of actually discussing the matter rationally, and is most likely either stupid, fanatic, or ignorant.
Just because I'm a total skeptic, but I still like to get my facts about totally absurd pseudoscience right, I checked and 2009 was not the year of the pig.
Just making that clear.
Genes that bring defects that don't affect an individual before its main reproductive period tend to survive more easily. So say a gene defect that kills you the day you are 40, especially for females, will propagate more easily than one that kills you at 10, because you've reproduced and passed those genes on by that time.
There is still an advantage to surviving after the age of reproduction in a species with longer childhood cycles or one where the grandparents care for the offsprings of its offspring (aka its grandchildren). This advantage is lessened because of gene dilution and its (usually) lesser importance compared to straight reproduction, but still if humans mostly reproduce around 15-20y old (historically), around where they reach maturity, then surviving till at least 40 is an advantage because of more care for the offspring up till maturity. For grandchildren, the age can be up to 60 in the same context.
Species with communal care for offspring also get advantaged by members who survive longer because they get more people to care for the offsprings, but then the dilution is even more significant.
So I can see how a gene that brings higher suicide rates of mature subjects can survive for a while, even though it is detrimental.
Apple keynotes have been reported this way for YEARS now.
Jefferson
God uses $HARDWARE:
1. Mac: 34M
2. PC: 3.8M
3. Atari: 122k
4. Smartphone: 109k
5. C64: 88k
6. Amiga: 54k
Clearly, God uses a Mac running Linux
Although I don't necessarily agree with Wikimedia's heavy-handedness here, the "wikipediaart" project seems like some weird attempt do use Wikipedia to do something which is not what Wikipedia is for. It is not a commentary on Wikipedia itself. Wikipedia doesn't exist so it can be used as a person's playground or for their pet projects. The "project" itself existed only as a Wikipedia page in essence, and was some sort of attempt at self-referential art from what I can gather - thus being inadmissible for its medium per their own rules!
No, but with logic he can prove he cannot exist!
I've been in the tech support business for 11 years, and here is my policy with customers when I find myself in a similar situation. I changed jobs recently and I made sure my new employers were OK with it beforehand.
If the software is already installed and working, I work with it as it is. If I have to actively support software that is clearly unlicensed, I will mention it to the customer and notify them that I cannot support it properly. I won't reinstall or update the software.
If I am asked to install software, I will make sure the customer has a proper license or original media to do the installation. I will not install it on more systems than the customer can prove he has licenses for.
If the customer asks me to administer his network, and not just do spot jobs, the matter is different and closer to your situation. I'll complete a check of licenses used and paid for and deliver a report on licensing making suggestions. Those usually include: getting up to speed on everything, buying licenses as things go and systems are being replaced, or going with OSS.
What's wrong with celebrating sex?
You must be a puritan American :-)
That's one of the main issues I have with religions: rationalizations.
Whatever argument, point, counter-point, or logic we throw at religious beliefs, it's irrelevant: religious faith is at heart an *irrational* belief system that hinges on an illogical, self-contradicting premise (the existence of a 3O-God) that essentially enables the believers to create rationalizations that may appear reasonable, but are really just random, totally unprovable assertions supposedly explaining the "logic" of theological systems. Believers can invent those as much as they want, because they always have the God cop-out premise to base all their assertions on: "Because God wants it that way".
Rational argumentation with believers is completely useless. It's all insubstantial arguments, sophistry and crooked logic.
And the proof of my point is simple, and known since Aristotle, well before Yeshuah was born: If you base your logic upon false premises, your argument is unproven. But if you base your logic on a self-contradicting premise, you can prove ANYTHING YOU WANT. If you posit that 1=2, almost any mathematical equality becomes provable. It's the same issue here: believers can "prove" anything they want, giving you arguments for creationism, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraceptive, because they can always assert them on the false basis of the existence of their 3O-God.
All birthdays are arbitrary.
Why do we celebrate our age from the time of exiting our mother's womb? Why not conception? And what is a year exactly? Calendar year, sidereal year, local time or standard Earth time? How about if I travelled faster and slower during the year, and relativity effects kick in? How do we know the dates are correct? Humanity's obsession with these things is fascinating, and I get caught in it myself sometimes, but then I stand back and realize it's all arbitrary.
Yet it is not meaningless. The point isn't to celebrate the specific day or year, but to select a moment to celebrate an event that means something to us. The date selection might be arbitrary, or incorrect, but that's not the point. We are celebrating a reasonably long time (around 15 years) of the Linux kernel having been established and reaching a point where it was stable enough that the main developer chose to give it a 1.0 version.
Anyone who still doubts we are ruled by a corpocratic oligarchy just needs to look at that list to understand they are the people calling the shots.
That's the alternative to capitalism. The only one.
Hahaha
"Everything has a price" is a consequence of scarcity economics and greed.
Someone mod this guy up...
Someone mod this guy higher...
Three factors differentiate fission from fusion:
- energy production is much higher (4x and +)
- size of material required is much smaller (like 100 times less)
- the material required is the most abundant in the universe, instead of rare elements
And fission could, now, provide much cheaper, more efficient, less polluting energy than almost any other source, barring hydro-electricity. But people don't want it.
Nanobots will not do it alone, though. Fusion reactors are part of that equation. Imagine so much energy available to us that it will, for all intents and purposes, make energy almost infinite and free. Combine it with some technology to use that energy and use it to transform matter and...
Forget coal & fuel. Forget rarity of metals: we can simulate the work of the stars themselves and *make rare metals* ourselves (although mining most of those in the asteroid belt or on jupiterian moons might more efficient eventually). Scarcity is suddenly much less of a problem. Society is redefined.
Someone mod this guy up.
Nothing is EVER simple. The Universe is an infinitely complex set of interrelated systems. We use models to simply them so we can understand them, or work out abstraction layers. But despite our best efforts to make things simpler, the underlying truth remains: everything is complex. Things only seem simple because we ignore the complexity or we kid ourselves into believing our simplifications.
Open Source coding and hardware + paper receipts + paper trail.
Add in an expert commission to review the machines and report their findings publicly, so they can be looked at by independent expert in turn.