Okay Mr Hackstraw, oh wise master of all human behavior, how would you handle the situation of a violent man who was ordered to stay away from his ex-wife but refuses to do so? A kindly chat and gentle encouragement?
Perhaps these people are being treated like criminals because they ARE criminals?
1: the problem with hitching a ride on a passing asteroid is that you need to match speed with it if you want to survive the landing. And if you can match its speed then you don't need its help any more, because that takes the same amount of energy as just going there yourself without the asteroid.
Maybe you could use enourmous bungee cords and rocket-propelled grappling hooks to latch on more gently, but if something snaps halfway through the process you'll be flung at high speed in entirely the wrong direction, probably without enough fuel to get back.
2: 1.5Mkps is fast in local terms, but for interstellar travel it's still a piddly 0.2% of c. That's thousands of years to get to the closest (planetless) stars, or billions of years for intergalactic.
To be blunt, human interstellar travel isn't going to happen, not by this or any other method, except a handful of probes. But absolutely nothing even remotely resembling Star Trek.
Umm... that's his whole fucking point. The extra IVF embryos are ALREADY being destroyed, usually by being thrown in a medical-grade incinerator. But for some reason the R2L folks don't protest that even a tenth as much as stem cell research.
BTW, have you considered the possibility that interstellar travel is so difficult that no one does it to any significant degree? There could be a billion year old (stable, mortal) civilization 1000 light years away, with no reasonable way to travel here in person.
Meanwhile, they use tight maser communication with a codec so advanced we couldn't distinguish it from random noise, even if stray signals accidentally pointed at us, which they don't.
They're out there, AND we're effectively all alone. That's my theory.
Q: What if Microsoft did the same thing that Apple is doing now?
A: The rules for a CONVICTED CRIMINAL MONOPOLIST should be -- and are -- stricter than those for a fairly competing business.
If Apple somehow conquers the office suite market, then yes, they should be condemned for closed integration. I have no doubt that monopolist Steve Jobs would be more evil than Gates & Ballmer put together, if he got the chance. That's a mighty big "if".
Windows... bundled with PC, rumors say about $50. Antivirus... $50 + subscription, score one for you (excluding AVG) Antispy..... AdAware, SpyBot, free. Compress.. does anyone actually pay for Winzip? Firewall..... ZoneAlarm, XP builtin, free. Images...... PS Elements, $90 before rebate, or bundled with scanner. IM............ GAIM, Trillian, etc, free. Office....... $150 for MS Home, score two (excluding WPO or OOo) Popup....... Googlebar, Firefox, etc, free.
more likely that multiple spacefaring races started at the same time to be approximately equal, with neither dominanting the others
Except that a matched pair of nearby civs has no special likelihood of being the oldest.
Or if you're saying there would be two very old civs, then there's no reason they would be near each other. By the time they meet, they've taken over most of the galaxy already. Not good for a young planet like ours.
Except that we're still here and uncontacted. Hence, I doubt FTL travel is feasible, and no matter who's out there, we're all pretty much stuck in our own solar systems.
Nope, higher density wouldn't help us meet an equal civ, only make it more likely we have a billion-year-old neighbor.
Remember the birthday game that probability teachers use: in a classroom of 30 students, it's 71% likely that some pair have the same birthday. But the probability that YOU personally share your birthday with a classmate is only 8%. And the odds of that person being right next to you goes DOWN the larger the class is.
Libertarians would repeal DMCA... along with many regulations that prevent big biz from screwing people in other ways. Libertarian policy is logical and non-hypocritical, but also dangerous in its simplicity.
Greens oppose DMCA as a law that takes away from the "common good". It's complicated and meddlesome, trying to stop corporatism without destroying capitalism.
IMO, it's very interesting when these two philosophies can agree on something. Too bad the Remoblicrats also agree about copyright law... in the other direction.
I can accept ordinary computer illiteracy. People who don't know their mouse has multiple buttons, or who don't know how to quit a program, it's okay. I'm sure they're good at something else. But as long as they aren't complete intentional morons, EVEN ILLITERATES CAN BE TRAINED TO USE COMPUTERS PROPERLY.
But here we are at MyDoom.N, which is the 14th virus in a series that requires the user to:
receive an infected email
read the email and believe its contents
download the attachment
unzip the attachment, often password protected
run the resulting executable
After ignoring 13 previous warnings, I must move from sympathy to malice. For the sake of all humanity, I beg the author(s) of the MyDoom series and other viruses, in your next version, please include the following instructions:
locate a nearby table lamp with the light on
remove pants
break the bulb while it is glowing
insert testicles into bulb socket
If they're dumb enough to get fooled by MyDoom again, they're dumb enough to get themselves out of the gene pool.
That seems to be the most offensive viewpoint I think a parent could take towards their child
Well then, Mr FroMan (I'm guessing unmarried and childless), prepare to be offended. I know over a dozen mothers in their 30s and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM had that exact feeling at least once during each pregnancy.
It's a natural reaction, because it happens to be true.
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Okay Mr Hackstraw, oh wise master of all human behavior, how would you handle the situation of a violent man who was ordered to stay away from his ex-wife but refuses to do so? A kindly chat and gentle encouragement?
Perhaps these people are being treated like criminals because they ARE criminals?
...which is why you're a techie instead of a manager.
Not a flame, just a fact about the way the world works.
1: the problem with hitching a ride on a passing asteroid is that you need to match speed with it if you want to survive the landing. And if you can match its speed then you don't need its help any more, because that takes the same amount of energy as just going there yourself without the asteroid.
Maybe you could use enourmous bungee cords and rocket-propelled grappling hooks to latch on more gently, but if something snaps halfway through the process you'll be flung at high speed in entirely the wrong direction, probably without enough fuel to get back.
2: 1.5Mkps is fast in local terms, but for interstellar travel it's still a piddly 0.2% of c. That's thousands of years to get to the closest (planetless) stars, or billions of years for intergalactic.
To be blunt, human interstellar travel isn't going to happen, not by this or any other method, except a handful of probes. But absolutely nothing even remotely resembling Star Trek.
A pack of hungry auditors might convince them that linux is a good idea.
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Lies, lies, lies. Not quite on par with "Iraq was involved in 9/11", but still lies.
Pipelining will speed up SOME sites, but break others. Maxrequests is internally capped at 8, you can't go higher.
Zero paint delay is an optical illusion. You think the page is loading faster, but it's actually loading slower.
Umm... that's his whole fucking point. The extra IVF embryos are ALREADY being destroyed, usually by being thrown in a medical-grade incinerator. But for some reason the R2L folks don't protest that even a tenth as much as stem cell research.
BTW, have you considered the possibility that interstellar travel is so difficult that no one does it to any significant degree? There could be a billion year old (stable, mortal) civilization 1000 light years away, with no reasonable way to travel here in person.
Meanwhile, they use tight maser communication with a codec so advanced we couldn't distinguish it from random noise, even if stray signals accidentally pointed at us, which they don't.
They're out there, AND we're effectively all alone. That's my theory.
Q: What if Microsoft did the same thing that Apple is doing now?
A: The rules for a CONVICTED CRIMINAL MONOPOLIST should be -- and are -- stricter than those for a fairly competing business.
If Apple somehow conquers the office suite market, then yes, they should be condemned for closed integration. I have no doubt that monopolist Steve Jobs would be more evil than Gates & Ballmer put together, if he got the chance. That's a mighty big "if".
Okay Mr Blanks, you don't trust any potentially-exploitable browser. So... do you surf Slashdot with wget or with curl?
"I'm not really a PERL developer."
Obviously not. You think Perl is an acronym.
BTW, even as a novice Perl developer, I can confirm that repeated use of <> and $_ will add several cm to your manhood.
No, he said she has a "pump-organ". This is a 19th century euphemism. It is a tool for pumping up a particular organ.
... a PENIS ENLARGER. The wooden rods and leather straps should make much more sense now.
To spell it out in modern terms
This is exactly the correct answer. There are hundreds of tons of reasons to vote for John Kerry, but the DMCA is not one of them.
First we prevent the Eschaton. After that we can work on the details of IP law.
Umm...you're way overpricing that software.
... bundled with PC, rumors say about $50. ... $50 + subscription, score one for you (excluding AVG) ..... AdAware, SpyBot, free. .. does anyone actually pay for Winzip? ..... ZoneAlarm, XP builtin, free. ...... PS Elements, $90 before rebate, or bundled with scanner. ............ GAIM, Trillian, etc, free. ....... $150 for MS Home, score two (excluding WPO or OOo) ....... Googlebar, Firefox, etc, free.
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...back in the 1860s, and it's even less likely to work in the age of jet warplanes.
A thousand gun nuts with AR-15s or whatever still are no match for a small squad of AH-64s or whatever.
Sure, you could go guerrilla and turn America into an Iraq-style hellhole, but there's no way you could actually WIN.
And most importantly, the media would just call you terrorist kooks and you'd get no support from the flabby masses.
more likely that multiple spacefaring races started at the same time to be approximately equal, with neither dominanting the others
Except that a matched pair of nearby civs has no special likelihood of being the oldest.
Or if you're saying there would be two very old civs, then there's no reason they would be near each other. By the time they meet, they've taken over most of the galaxy already. Not good for a young planet like ours.
Except that we're still here and uncontacted. Hence, I doubt FTL travel is feasible, and no matter who's out there, we're all pretty much stuck in our own solar systems.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
d e+ quotel y/aa121 800a.htm
I've attributed it to him in the past, but it's probably not. Hooray for google leading me to the right page.
http://www.google.com/search?q=count+votes+deci
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/week
Nope, higher density wouldn't help us meet an equal civ, only make it more likely we have a billion-year-old neighbor.
Remember the birthday game that probability teachers use: in a classroom of 30 students, it's 71% likely that some pair have the same birthday. But the probability that YOU personally share your birthday with a classmate is only 8%. And the odds of that person being right next to you goes DOWN the larger the class is.
Over 30 posts and no one has pimped BugMeNot yet?
Libertarians would repeal DMCA ... along with many regulations that prevent big biz from screwing people in other ways. Libertarian policy is logical and non-hypocritical, but also dangerous in its simplicity.
... in the other direction.
Greens oppose DMCA as a law that takes away from the "common good". It's complicated and meddlesome, trying to stop corporatism without destroying capitalism.
IMO, it's very interesting when these two philosophies can agree on something. Too bad the Remoblicrats also agree about copyright law
Flares must have destroyed it in the past hour! The latest SOHO images only show a black rectangle saying "NO VIDEO".
But here we are at MyDoom.N, which is the 14th virus in a series that requires the user to:
After ignoring 13 previous warnings, I must move from sympathy to malice. For the sake of all humanity, I beg the author(s) of the MyDoom series and other viruses, in your next version, please include the following instructions:
- locate a nearby table lamp with the light on
- remove pants
- break the bulb while it is glowing
- insert testicles into bulb socket
If they're dumb enough to get fooled by MyDoom again, they're dumb enough to get themselves out of the gene pool.Since Doom 3 is OpenGL, what does DirectX 9 do for you? Is there some sort of DX vs OpenGL comparison chart to explain this?
I figured I wasn't the only person doing that. Wonder how much it costs them...
Since some people here don't get the above joke...
Results 1 - 10 of about 188,000 for hentai tentacle
188,000. If I were a Japanese parent I'd be worried about that, not to mention super loose socks and other bizarre anime-derived fetishes.
Of course, RFID probably won't help with that.
That seems to be the most offensive viewpoint I think a parent could take towards their child
Well then, Mr FroMan (I'm guessing unmarried and childless), prepare to be offended. I know over a dozen mothers in their 30s and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM had that exact feeling at least once during each pregnancy.
It's a natural reaction, because it happens to be true.