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  1. Firewall on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    A firewall that isn't all that configurable and poorly documented. At what levels in the protocol stack does it work again? I've been looking for a top to bottom firewall/protocol stack that works properly for quite awhile now. What, the good protocol stack is going to debut in Vista? What's this pbonebook error, the connection is already dialing, when my ISP drops the connection. Why doesn't my dial-up connection show up when I type winipcfg.

  2. Re:Romans on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    Define "form and "nothing"
    If God exists outside of our dimensions how does he affect anything in it? He can't have potency inside our universe and not exist in some form inside it.
    What reason would God have to continue to exist after creating our universe.
    Although, says you, God doesn't exist in our dimensions, so him having any temporal existance is dead out.
    What does our Universe lack that it needs this God character of yours to provide?

    There is a saying "Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could."

  3. So desu ka? on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    If that is so, then construct for me a model where last week serves as a nexus for all the rest of the memories.

  4. It's called a model on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    It's a model I use to map events in a manner that doesn't take as a given that cause and effect necessarily happen in the same manner that we perceive time. See virtually any time travel movie, the last episode of ST:TNG (All good things...), the miniseries "The Triangle", etc. for a rationale for this.

    I also have this theory that the Philidelphia Experiment situations is actually the divergence and reconvergence of two timelines, one in which the experiment happened and one in which it did.

    Using Schrodinger's cat as an analogy, for awhile there we were sitting with both an alive cat and a dead cat, but then the live cat died, the two cats states were identical and so they converged, and then people started explainiing how the cat had actually been dead all that time, so that's the story that won out.

  5. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    You're making a poor assumption that the negative time poured out in the same quantity as positive. I've come up with a mathematical illustration of how the two time periods relate as so:
    Looking at the large numbers that are composed of two primes multiplied together, the large prime must be greater than the square root of the large number, and the smaller prime must be lesser than the square root of the large number. However the space from zero to the square root is always smaller than the space from the square root to the large number. Fix the Genesis event at the square root, negative time going up reaching the large number as positive time reaches 0.

  6. Re:Then maybe you can clear up a few things... on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    Then explain to me how despite:
    Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

    most Christians have to go running to their Pastors every Sunday to have this Bible thing explained to them some more.

    Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do.

    Some people argue that they hate to do what is right due to their evil nature, and use that to justify doing things that appear good but that they don't really feel like doing, but Paul puts the lie to this in Romans 7:19 .

    Romans 7:19 For what I do is not the good I want to do

    Romans 7:6 But now by dying to what bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code

    Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires, but those who live according/in accordance to/with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires.

    They do not need the law or the Bible to set their minds on what the spirit desires, they "have" their minds set on what the spirit desires.

    Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature, but by the spirit, if the spirit of God lives in you.

    Why would someone need the Bible to tell them whether a spirit is the Holy spirt if the Holy spirit lives with them.

    Romans 8:11 And if the spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you.

    Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present(past?) nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ.

    If this is so, then reading or not reading the Bible is to no effect either.

    I am reminded of this truth when I listen to Linkin Park's "In The End"

    It doesn't even matter how hard you try I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter.

    Romans 15:14 I myself am convinced my brothers that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge, and competent to instruct one another. I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again.

    Here he says that they have the knowledge they need, and that he is merely reminding them of certain things. He is not telling them to study his words, but that his words are merely to draw attention to what they already know and possess.

  7. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's quite a bit of evidence to suggest that the universe started at the point in time Genesis suggests it did and that time spilled into the "past" and future equally from that point. Consider this, why did we start finding fossils and oil when we did? It's not hard to look at the evidence and reach the conclusion that they first started popping up when the negative time reached a point equidistant from the Genesis center from us now.

  8. Then maybe you can clear up a few things... on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    Define "God", and define "create". While you're at it, explain why God didn't cease to exist the moment he "created" the Universe. Also explain why God himself didn't need to be "created".

    Oh, and explain what "Begotten" is and how that is different from "created".

    And then maybe we'll get around to addressing the things Jusus said and did that most Christains seem to want to forget, and the whole book of Romans. Most Christians would prefer the book of Romans simply not exist.

  9. Re:Nah... on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    No, I'm thinking of the fact that he has a law degree, has been registered with the Bar in Ohio, but has been working as a salesman at Kaufmann's for many years now.

  10. Just download it on Burned CDs Last 5 years Max -- Use Tape? · · Score: 1

    http://www.mandelbrot-dazibao.com/Programs/Program s.htm
    Has a copy, so do plenty of other sites. FreeBASIC http://freebasic.net/ also compiles many QuickBASIC Programs if they are saved in Text and not Quick format.

  11. I read it more along the lines of... on IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's their excuse this time?

  12. Re:Context? on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    Nah, books give more data. It is up to the reader to process it itno information and apply context.

  13. Re:Your Sig: The 9th Amendment on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    Back up to the first part: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United State"

    http://www.constitution.org/col/intent_14th.htm
    Has interesting commentary.

  14. You asked if I had read "Roe vs. Wade" on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    because my content didn't reflect what the Justices reported in Roe vs. Wade. My point was that even though my post didn't reflect such matters, having read Roe vs. Wade would not necessitate a cange in my writing. Besides, it doesn't seem the court gave it much consideration, briging it up only to evade charges of "Well. why didn't you!"

  15. Nah... on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    Based on my interactions with numerous people holing degrees up to doctorates, I've come to the conclusion that degrees just mean the person might be a walking encyclopedia or some such sort... But then my Dad, holding a Law doctorate, CLEPed out of as many classes he could, and I understand he did only the workload for a few of them, never attending. Then I deal with Psychaiatrists that drug people so that their behavior meets some sort of aesthetic standard, and what have you?

    Then you have the professionals that think they should be turned to as the first resort as opposed to people attempting to figure out things on their own first, so have at you!

  16. Context? on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    In context of what?

  17. Re:Your Sig: The 9th Amendment on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    Define murder, and if innocence comes into the definition, then I'll save a bit of an exchange and ask you to define that too. However, you are an Anonymous Coward, and as such can't check your message queue, so this is open to any taker.

  18. Re:Your Sig: The 9th Amendment on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    At which point you run foul of the 14th amendment. Your serve!

  19. The Art of Controversy on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to "The Art of Controversy"
    http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/

  20. Re:I love academia on Panel Confirms S. Korean Cloning Fraud · · Score: 1

    They had to decide to what degree they want the world to believe he committed fraud. for example di they want the world to believe he also committed fraud on the cloned dog. Do they want the world to believe that his misbehavior extended solely to the misappropriation of the eggs. Don't think these things happen to inform you, but to control information.

  21. Re:Never Microsoft Windows again. on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No. Pain you keep, Pain you always keep. It'll just be new pains on the new OS. Along that line, I can now crash a fully patched WinXP P4 box consistently by attempting to open a Start Menu subfolder and the error reports are going their merry way to Microsoft.

  22. Your Sig: The 9th Amendment on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, the Courts pretend that the 9th amendment doesn't exist, or the debate over the "right to privacy" in the Roe vs. Wade case in the Supreme Court would not have happened. I wonder what would have happened if somebody sat them down and said, "Of course the right to privacy exists, read the 9th Amendment!" Yeah, I thought as much.

  23. Webage promotion on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    Your page is on every post you make, and so is mine. Additionaly for me, my e-mail is in the clear in every post I make, so it's not like the webpage in the article itself is going to drive search engine traffic, follow or nofollow.

  24. The discussion always gets drowned out... on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    The way the system works, a good number of people post to the first relevant post like I'm doing now, and all too often that thread becomes the discussion. The moderations are irrelevant(insightful) and inconsequential(informative). Everyone should have mod points, and people should be able to label the posts whatever they like. People should be able to see what labels other people use, and how many people use a given label. In fact scrap mod points altogether and allow the viewer of the label to decide whether they want the label to indicate +1 or -1 or even have a label from one user be a +1 while another person using the same label gets their mods to count 0 and still another using the label to count -1 to the viewer's customized moderations to the posts.

    http://okcupid.com/ uses a similar system and it works rather well.

    Now for the attributions. If the person has a slashdot account, it should link to that account, if not, then no link. Alternatively an email address can be used. No page URL's!

  25. You didn't look, did you on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: 1

    You didn't look at the result of the Google search I posted, did you?