And being Canadian I want to assure you that myself and the other two Canadians in my presence have never heard the term Canuckistan, but we're from Northwestern Ontario so the closest city is 4 hours away [and it is in the U.S.].
Unfortunately, I believe it to be inevitable that Google will become 'evil'. A single company that controls the search of all the information on the Internet.
Search the web, newsgroups, your desktop etc. It may be all free and good now, but how long before someone pays the right price to access/control what people see.
My experience is that Google search seems to be turning up more noise now than before. Two years ago I could with certainty do a search and get the page I wanted. Now it seems I must scroll through pages of commercial sites and the such to get to the meaty part of the Internet...those little novelty sites that people put up themselves.
The problem is that when the kids graduate school, they'll accept the fact that there have been RFID tags used to track them the past 4-5 years and they won't really think twice when they are then asked to use them at work or somewhere else.
*start story* In university, our school's basketball team was called the Nor'Westers [because of the mountains near us]. All good. In my last year, the Nor'Westers got a wolf for a mascot. My friend nailed it right there. "They have this mascot and in 4 years people will change the name and no-one will notice". Sure enough, a few years later a vote to change the name came up and all the newer students voted yes to change the name to the Thunderwolves. What the heck is a Thunderwolf.
Just an example of how things can be changed so simply.
Not even a prize for wind power necessarily. Just a prize for alternative power. Oh boy. House level Hydrogen cells [or something] that you charge with wind/solar/stationary bike energy or whatever.
Because finding life somewhere other than here on Earth would conclusively show that we are not unique/along in the universe. Fantastic discovery no doubt.
Thank you for that response. You are correct that people from several countries died in that event. You have opened my eyes and caused me to look at it in a different light.
That being said, it seems that the US fight in Iraq is even more misguided. Iraq was specifically being targetted in this war/occupation and there was no direct link between these thousands of Iraqis/Iraqi civilians AND Al Quaeda. And it was originally in direct response to the attacks on the world trade center. And still, there are thousands of civilians dying and taking into account the other nationalities that died in the attack, the ratio of civilians that the U.S. has killed is even higher.
Thank you again for your well thought out response. I wish I was as eloquent a speaker.
How is this "less than 10,000" sonehow okay since it is mostly in places like Fallujah. The US goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties AND THEY STILL KILL 10,000 people. Al Quaeda WAS STRIVING FOR CIVILIAN AMERICAN CASUALTIES and still has had <4000 in 3 years.
I'm not trying to make light of either situation, but I detest attempting to cover up the 10,000 casulaties as somehow being fine. If every one of those 10,000 people knew at least one other person [I bet that they did], you have just created 10,000+ people that absolutely hate the US now. You're breeding terrorists...simple as that.
A quote in the article: An interesting note to end this article: As of January 2004, the United States fulfills all fourteen points of fascism and all seven warning signs are present. But we're not alone. Israel also fulfills all fourteen points and all seven warning signs as well. Welcome to the new republic, redefined, revised and spun. It is not too late to reverse this in either country, but it will be soon. The first step is realizing it. The second step is getting involved. As the propaganda slogan disguising our current war goes, "Freedom isn't free." But our war for freedom isn't abroad, it's here at home.
And people used to make fun of me when I said that there was water in a glass of water that had once been in the body of Christ [sorry, just a historical example...could have been anyone famous from 2000 years ago].
I was then subsequently teased about my 'recycled Jesus' water. Oh, how kids...I mean people in their mid-20's, can be so cruel.
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Another poster who sees the light. I agree completely that the dismissal of the question, which was obviously rated fairly highly by slashdot folks originally, was a little petty.
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I don't believe its a stupid analogy. It seems that for the most part, companies patent software for self protection or Mutually Assured Destruction. "If you sue me, I'll sue you right back."
In terms of comparing it to a nuclear arms race, I think the analogy hit the nail on the head.
Now, just acquiring patents to put the clamps down on innovation is what the original poster was probably referring to and that doesn't really apply to nuclear arms races. Maybe its more like being a rancher [from the movies] that owns thousands of acres of land and tries to squash other smaller cattle ranches out of business just so he can maintain his power. New ranchers can't find a piece of land to use to feed their cattle, so they go out of business.
I also use opera. Mostly because it appears to be quicker than the other browsers [back functions etc]. Also, I've tried the mouse gestures on Firefox [not for very long mind you] and for the most part they are pretty much the same, but there are little differences that make me prefer the faster Opera. I'm not patient enough to learn the gestures and I do believe that the gestures I use in Opera are BETTER in Opera.
That statement makes me think I'm looking in the mirror. Never had a beer or anything [although I believe I have had a sip when I was younger...thimblefull maybe] and no cigarettes either. But when it comes to chocolate oh dear. A bag of any candy/chips/whatever...once open must be finished.
Ahhhh, Shrek Sized M&M's.....how come they aren't the standard size.;)
I had a joke theory similar to what you just mentioned, except it involved people in health clubs pumping the water to pay for their memberships. You walk into a cardio room and 20/20 machines are in use, each person generating 100-300 watts [I don't know anything about power units, just what the stationary bike tells me] you're getting a bit of power.
My idea was to feed the electricity back into the grid or...pump water for storage.
Although I enjoy cardio workouts, I always thought it was a little funny that all the machines were plugged in for their displays/calorie counters when the users were generating more than enough power to run a little processor and a bank of LED's.
Why not generate hashes that use both SHA-1 and MD5. The combined result would be that more unique. Finding two files that generate the same hash value in BOTH algorithms would be that much more improbable.
Take the hash generated by SHA-1 and concatentate it [with a sensible delimiter if required] with the hash generated by MD5. Ta dah.
That was not only informative, but that was my longest trip through Wikipedia yet. Sapir-Whorf led to Neologism, Robert Dilts and Spivak and Splat pronouns.
Thank you Wikipedia and thank you stromthurman for sending me there.
Wouldn't it be an order more difficult to find a second file that contains gibberish data that has the same MD5 checksum AND the same SHA-0? I figure that generating the two hashes and using them for identification would make it [perhaps] impossible to find a pile of gibberish that produces the same results as the legitimate program you are identifying.
What about just recording your fingerprint as BEING at a certain place in time. If you use the same lockers/bank of lockers, "they" may be able to predict where you'll be and when. Just because its not associated with a name/address, the fingerprint IS an identifier. Plus, all the points of comparing it against other databases etc.
They've been pushing bio-informatics for years now so that its in the back of our mind as being okay. Everytime a finger is pressed against a scanner, it can be compared to known information. Minority Report was scary with the retinal scanning all the time. This is the same thing.
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Anonymous coward speaking of cowards. How ironic....or perhaps fitting.
And being Canadian I want to assure you that myself and the other two Canadians in my presence have never heard the term Canuckistan, but we're from Northwestern Ontario so the closest city is 4 hours away [and it is in the U.S.].
Apparently he's posted the last 10 stories or so. Never seen the name before. Or else I never noticed.
Unfortunately, I believe it to be inevitable that Google will become 'evil'. A single company that controls the search of all the information on the Internet.
Search the web, newsgroups, your desktop etc. It may be all free and good now, but how long before someone pays the right price to access/control what people see.
My experience is that Google search seems to be turning up more noise now than before. Two years ago I could with certainty do a search and get the page I wanted. Now it seems I must scroll through pages of commercial sites and the such to get to the meaty part of the Internet...those little novelty sites that people put up themselves.
Oh well, that's progress.
The problem is that when the kids graduate school, they'll accept the fact that there have been RFID tags used to track them the past 4-5 years and they won't really think twice when they are then asked to use them at work or somewhere else.
*start story*
In university, our school's basketball team was called the Nor'Westers [because of the mountains near us]. All good. In my last year, the Nor'Westers got a wolf for a mascot. My friend nailed it right there. "They have this mascot and in 4 years people will change the name and no-one will notice". Sure enough, a few years later a vote to change the name came up and all the newer students voted yes to change the name to the Thunderwolves. What the heck is a Thunderwolf.
Just an example of how things can be changed so simply.
It was the original poster's UID. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not even a prize for wind power necessarily. Just a prize for alternative power. Oh boy. House level Hydrogen cells [or something] that you charge with wind/solar/stationary bike energy or whatever.
Just get us off the OIL.
Because finding life somewhere other than here on Earth would conclusively show that we are not unique/along in the universe. Fantastic discovery no doubt.
Thank you for that response. You are correct that people from several countries died in that event. You have opened my eyes and caused me to look at it in a different light.
That being said, it seems that the US fight in Iraq is even more misguided. Iraq was specifically being targetted in this war/occupation and there was no direct link between these thousands of Iraqis/Iraqi civilians AND Al Quaeda. And it was originally in direct response to the attacks on the world trade center. And still, there are thousands of civilians dying and taking into account the other nationalities that died in the attack, the ratio of civilians that the U.S. has killed is even higher.
Thank you again for your well thought out response. I wish I was as eloquent a speaker.
How is this "less than 10,000" sonehow okay since it is mostly in places like Fallujah. The US goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties AND THEY STILL KILL 10,000 people. Al Quaeda WAS STRIVING FOR CIVILIAN AMERICAN CASUALTIES and still has had <4000 in 3 years.
I'm not trying to make light of either situation, but I detest attempting to cover up the 10,000 casulaties as somehow being fine. If every one of those 10,000 people knew at least one other person [I bet that they did], you have just created 10,000+ people that absolutely hate the US now. You're breeding terrorists...simple as that.
Here is the link to the article.
Could someone either backup or refute what this article is telling me. It is pretty scary.
Since you mention this topic, I remember seeing this in someone's signature months ago.
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A quote in the article:
An interesting note to end this article:
As of January 2004, the United States fulfills all fourteen points of fascism and all seven warning signs are present. But we're not alone. Israel also fulfills all fourteen points and all seven warning signs as well. Welcome to the new republic, redefined, revised and spun. It is not too late to reverse this in either country, but it will be soon. The first step is realizing it. The second step is getting involved. As the propaganda slogan disguising our current war goes, "Freedom isn't free." But our war for freedom isn't abroad, it's here at home.
And people used to make fun of me when I said that there was water in a glass of water that had once been in the body of Christ [sorry, just a historical example...could have been anyone famous from 2000 years ago].
I was then subsequently teased about my 'recycled Jesus' water. Oh, how kids...I mean people in their mid-20's, can be so cruel.
Another poster who sees the light. I agree completely that the dismissal of the question, which was obviously rated fairly highly by slashdot folks originally, was a little petty.
I don't believe its a stupid analogy. It seems that for the most part, companies patent software for self protection or Mutually Assured Destruction. "If you sue me, I'll sue you right back."
In terms of comparing it to a nuclear arms race, I think the analogy hit the nail on the head.
Now, just acquiring patents to put the clamps down on innovation is what the original poster was probably referring to and that doesn't really apply to nuclear arms races. Maybe its more like being a rancher [from the movies] that owns thousands of acres of land and tries to squash other smaller cattle ranches out of business just so he can maintain his power. New ranchers can't find a piece of land to use to feed their cattle, so they go out of business.
I also use opera. Mostly because it appears to be quicker than the other browsers [back functions etc]. Also, I've tried the mouse gestures on Firefox [not for very long mind you] and for the most part they are pretty much the same, but there are little differences that make me prefer the faster Opera. I'm not patient enough to learn the gestures and I do believe that the gestures I use in Opera are BETTER in Opera.
That statement makes me think I'm looking in the mirror. Never had a beer or anything [although I believe I have had a sip when I was younger...thimblefull maybe] and no cigarettes either. But when it comes to chocolate oh dear. A bag of any candy/chips/whatever...once open must be finished.
;)
Ahhhh, Shrek Sized M&M's.....how come they aren't the standard size.
I wonder how many of us read it 'election'. I know I did. The presidential election is big this year and I'm not even an American.
I had a joke theory similar to what you just mentioned, except it involved people in health clubs pumping the water to pay for their memberships. You walk into a cardio room and 20/20 machines are in use, each person generating 100-300 watts [I don't know anything about power units, just what the stationary bike tells me] you're getting a bit of power.
My idea was to feed the electricity back into the grid or...pump water for storage.
Although I enjoy cardio workouts, I always thought it was a little funny that all the machines were plugged in for their displays/calorie counters when the users were generating more than enough power to run a little processor and a bank of LED's.
Why not generate hashes that use both SHA-1 and MD5. The combined result would be that more unique. Finding two files that generate the same hash value in BOTH algorithms would be that much more improbable. Take the hash generated by SHA-1 and concatentate it [with a sensible delimiter if required] with the hash generated by MD5. Ta dah.
Where is the obligatory Wikipedia link to Goedel reasoning? You're not helping me out here. ;)
That was not only informative, but that was my longest trip through Wikipedia yet. Sapir-Whorf led to Neologism, Robert Dilts and Spivak and Splat pronouns.
Thank you Wikipedia and thank you stromthurman for sending me there.
That's funny. No mod points though.
Wouldn't it be an order more difficult to find a second file that contains gibberish data that has the same MD5 checksum AND the same SHA-0? I figure that generating the two hashes and using them for identification would make it [perhaps] impossible to find a pile of gibberish that produces the same results as the legitimate program you are identifying.
What about just recording your fingerprint as BEING at a certain place in time. If you use the same lockers/bank of lockers, "they" may be able to predict where you'll be and when. Just because its not associated with a name/address, the fingerprint IS an identifier. Plus, all the points of comparing it against other databases etc.
They've been pushing bio-informatics for years now so that its in the back of our mind as being okay. Everytime a finger is pressed against a scanner, it can be compared to known information. Minority Report was scary with the retinal scanning all the time. This is the same thing.