Actually, most hackers are libertarians, which is a sort of odd combination of right-wing economics and left-wing social values; most crackers are anarchists, an odd combination of shall we say skewed economics (sharing some extremely right wing elements with some extremely left wing elements) and extremely left-wing social values. This makes them (us) a rather non-typical political niche.
How do you defeat the modern Republican party? Not by shouting them down; if you shout them down, their ideals and agenda remain obscured. Let them talk themselves out of office. Let Cheney make stupid remarks about "sensitivity" so we can juxtapose them with the President's sensible remarks on the same subject. Let the President speak, so everyone can hear that he can't even figure out basic subject/verb agreement in a sentence. Let Ashcroft speak, so folks can see just how scarily totalitarian some of his ideas are. Let Rumsfeld speak, so everyone can hear just how egomaniacal and lacking in honest awareness of his own failings he really is. The best enemy of the US Republican Party is its own leadership... let them speak.
Ah, but remember, that US states are all different. For instance, the state I live in is one of the bottom for area, but in the top 20 for population, and so comes up near the top in population density. Some states have population densities much higher than Spain's (mine has a population density 10 times higher than Spain's). Go out west to Wyoming or Montana, though, and you'll be basically in emptiville.
Funny, I always thought it was "but if this ever-changing world in which we're living makes you give in and cry". But I looked at a couple of lyrics pages, and they've all got what you've got.
Think about the context of this thread. We're talking about anonymizing air travel. If air travel is anonymized, if you don't know the name of the person getting on the plane, what can you profile them on? Mostly, how they look, how they talk, what they say, how they behave - and given the amount of time available, the most superficial things possible. So the idea that such a profile would have to be based on something like race, language spoken, way they are dressed, way they behave is implied in the response to the thread.
How would a profile have told you that Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, James Earl Ray, Lee Harvey Oswald, Eric Rudolph, John Salvi, and Ted Kaczynski were terrorists?
Exactly. Look, if you want to call it "the internet," that's fine - as long as I can call it "the bible," "the white album," "Plymouth rock," etc. There are certain objects that we refer to by a descriptor which, while not formally a "proper noun," is in effect a proper noun. "The Bible" is the classic example; "The White Album" is another (as that is not the title of the album). I say "Internet" is also one of those. It's all in the Chicago Manual (not the Q&A, but the actual manual) discussing the word "Bible."
To a pre-industrial man, or even more to a pre-literate man, we have already passed through at least one singularity.
I wouldn't say that. Rather I'd say that the first (and only) singularity we have passed through was the development of intelligence itself. Look, a pre-industrial person, even a pre-literate person, is capable of communicating with and even learning to understand our society well enough to live in it. Yarima Good is one example. One of the points of a Singularity (if one beyond our current intelligence is possible, a rather moot question) is that it assumes that those beyond the Singularity will be incomprehensible to those "left behind." To a "transhuman," we would seem like animals - too simple, too limited; to us, a "transhuman" would seem like a human seems to animals - perhaps inexplicable, fickle, arbitrary, with incomprehensible concerns and activities. (This may be a very, very bad thing.)
The point is merely to divide the genres for the purpose of discussion, I think, not to diss fantasy. However, as to your "SF" reference: it's worth remembering that "SF" was used for science fiction long before it was used for speculative fiction, or before sci fi was used for science fiction. SF when used of science fiction tends to be a hallmark of "hard science fiction".
Take a look at Vinge's *Fire Upon the Deep* for some example SF Singularities (the process is called "Transcending"), and Lem's *Fiasco* for a kind of counter-Singularity.
Important difference: there's no actual censorship going on here; the Olympics made a deal with NBC and that deal included blocking any other "broadcasts" (loosely defined) of the Olympics to the US. If you're going to blame someone, blame the IOC for selling us all down the river; the US government's only role here is that its court system enforces the contract and the copyrights (held by the IOC) of the broadcasts. Read the Areopagitica for more on censhorhip.
Yes, Apple has an advanced liquid cooling system - they're already using it in Powerbooks. Also, the 90nm G5s are much cooler than the originals (as well as being smaller).
Remove the keyboard and mouse, and add integrated bluetooth.
Leave in the Airport Extreme card.
Change the screen to a touch screen. Rotate it around and place it flat against the spot where the keyboard was.
Take out the FireWire, one of the two USB ports, the VGA connector, the modem, the ethernet card, and the optical drive, and replace them all with a dock connector.
Shrink the hard drive by replacing it with the new Toshiba 60 GB drive. Shrink the motherboard about the same amount.
Add a little metal stand that has the same freedom of movement that the iMac monitor arm has, but with a base that's just big enough to hold the two USBs, a FireWire port, a modem, ethernet, an integrated Airport Express, the optical drive, the power transformer, and a weight, and has an easy-to-release connector to hold the computer and a Dock connector.
Throw in a stylus, a bluetooth mouse, and a bluetooth keyboard (you can set them up using the stylus on the touchscreen).
What do you have? Maybe a 10-in iBook that's also an iMac?
By hitchhiking in international trade, the ants have spread to all Mediterranean ecosystems around the world and had huge impacts in other countries. For example, in California they have displaced native ants, decreased the diversity of other native insects, affected the dispersal of seeds and even decreased lizard numbers.
The reason so many women are nurses is inertia. In the beginning, it was nearly impossible for women to become doctors (nearly!), so women interested in health became nurses or studied the "allied health professions" (phlebotomist, dietician, physical therapist, etc.). After all, look at where the name of the profession comes from. Now, women tend to go into nursing because... wait for it... women tend to go into nursing. It's become a "women's thing," as CS has become a "guy's thing." Some women who'd be great at it don't get into CS not because it doesn't interest them, but because it never even occurs to them to try it. That's the point here.
Anyone know just what the NTFS improvements are? ALso, are there any Samba improvements (for instance, Windows 2003 Server connectivity out of the box?).
If there's a non-compete in the employment contract, yes, you're right. If not, too bad for the employer - they're incompetent. I've signed an NDA, but not a non-compete. Easy enough for me; I suppose others where I work have non-competes, but they'd have to be pretty high up to be worth it to take the job with that clause.
In the US, health insurance after termination is governed by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1986, which mandates that an employer supply (at some expense to the former employee) health benefits for a certain number of months after termination. Likewise, unemployment insurance is not subject to the desires of the employer. However, employers can threaten, and be deliberately obstructionist: it's not legal, but the recourse is court.
Last time I checked, light (as in lasers) is a form of electromagnetic radiation (or EM); it is not, however, a form of RF (radio frequency) transmision. So perhaps you should s/em/rf/ .
It is precisely because lasers are tight beams that they would be more likely to be used for interstellar communications; however, I do not think it likely that a laser would be used as a "hailing beacon," an attention-getting signal to attract new nodes (like Earth) to the network - because, of course, they are too tight. RF Seti (like Seti@Home) assumes that there are transmission stations which are broadcasting just such an attention-getting signal in an effort to contact new species; it is assumed that signals intended for other stations more local to the broadcasters would be too weak to be intercepted, and that nobody out there knows about us yet.
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Actually, most hackers are libertarians, which is a sort of odd combination of right-wing economics and left-wing social values; most crackers are anarchists, an odd combination of shall we say skewed economics (sharing some extremely right wing elements with some extremely left wing elements) and extremely left-wing social values. This makes them (us) a rather non-typical political niche.
How do you defeat the modern Republican party? Not by shouting them down; if you shout them down, their ideals and agenda remain obscured. Let them talk themselves out of office. Let Cheney make stupid remarks about "sensitivity" so we can juxtapose them with the President's sensible remarks on the same subject. Let the President speak, so everyone can hear that he can't even figure out basic subject/verb agreement in a sentence. Let Ashcroft speak, so folks can see just how scarily totalitarian some of his ideas are. Let Rumsfeld speak, so everyone can hear just how egomaniacal and lacking in honest awareness of his own failings he really is. The best enemy of the US Republican Party is its own leadership ... let them speak.
Ah, but remember, that US states are all different. For instance, the state I live in is one of the bottom for area, but in the top 20 for population, and so comes up near the top in population density. Some states have population densities much higher than Spain's (mine has a population density 10 times higher than Spain's). Go out west to Wyoming or Montana, though, and you'll be basically in emptiville.
Funny, I always thought it was "but if this ever-changing world in which we're living makes you give in and cry". But I looked at a couple of lyrics pages, and they've all got what you've got.
Think about the context of this thread. We're talking about anonymizing air travel. If air travel is anonymized, if you don't know the name of the person getting on the plane, what can you profile them on? Mostly, how they look, how they talk, what they say, how they behave - and given the amount of time available, the most superficial things possible. So the idea that such a profile would have to be based on something like race, language spoken, way they are dressed, way they behave is implied in the response to the thread.
How would a profile have told you that Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, James Earl Ray, Lee Harvey Oswald, Eric Rudolph, John Salvi, and Ted Kaczynski were terrorists?
Exactly. Look, if you want to call it "the internet," that's fine - as long as I can call it "the bible," "the white album," "Plymouth rock," etc. There are certain objects that we refer to by a descriptor which, while not formally a "proper noun," is in effect a proper noun. "The Bible" is the classic example; "The White Album" is another (as that is not the title of the album). I say "Internet" is also one of those. It's all in the Chicago Manual (not the Q&A, but the actual manual) discussing the word "Bible."
To a pre-industrial man, or even more to a pre-literate man, we have already passed through at least one singularity.
I wouldn't say that. Rather I'd say that the first (and only) singularity we have passed through was the development of intelligence itself. Look, a pre-industrial person, even a pre-literate person, is capable of communicating with and even learning to understand our society well enough to live in it. Yarima Good is one example. One of the points of a Singularity (if one beyond our current intelligence is possible, a rather moot question) is that it assumes that those beyond the Singularity will be incomprehensible to those "left behind." To a "transhuman," we would seem like animals - too simple, too limited; to us, a "transhuman" would seem like a human seems to animals - perhaps inexplicable, fickle, arbitrary, with incomprehensible concerns and activities. (This may be a very, very bad thing.)
The point is merely to divide the genres for the purpose of discussion, I think, not to diss fantasy. However, as to your "SF" reference: it's worth remembering that "SF" was used for science fiction long before it was used for speculative fiction, or before sci fi was used for science fiction. SF when used of science fiction tends to be a hallmark of "hard science fiction".
Take a look at Vinge's *Fire Upon the Deep* for some example SF Singularities (the process is called "Transcending"), and Lem's *Fiasco* for a kind of counter-Singularity.
The IOC could certainly have tried to make a deal with PBS that would have allowed for coverage similar to BBCs. They wanted the money.
Important difference: there's no actual censorship going on here; the Olympics made a deal with NBC and that deal included blocking any other "broadcasts" (loosely defined) of the Olympics to the US. If you're going to blame someone, blame the IOC for selling us all down the river; the US government's only role here is that its court system enforces the contract and the copyrights (held by the IOC) of the broadcasts. Read the Areopagitica for more on censhorhip.
*Scratches head* I'm not going to go as far as some press has gone and say Google's been botching the IPO
I would. First the Playboy article, then this?
My mistake, I thought it was the Powerbooks, but you are right that it is the Powermacs. Mods, note error.
Yes, Apple has an advanced liquid cooling system - they're already using it in Powerbooks. Also, the 90nm G5s are much cooler than the originals (as well as being smaller).
Take an iBook.
Remove the keyboard and mouse, and add integrated bluetooth.
Leave in the Airport Extreme card.
Change the screen to a touch screen. Rotate it around and place it flat against the spot where the keyboard was.
Take out the FireWire, one of the two USB ports, the VGA connector, the modem, the ethernet card, and the optical drive, and replace them all with a dock connector.
Shrink the hard drive by replacing it with the new Toshiba 60 GB drive. Shrink the motherboard about the same amount.
Add a little metal stand that has the same freedom of movement that the iMac monitor arm has, but with a base that's just big enough to hold the two USBs, a FireWire port, a modem, ethernet, an integrated Airport Express, the optical drive, the power transformer, and a weight, and has an easy-to-release connector to hold the computer and a Dock connector.
Throw in a stylus, a bluetooth mouse, and a bluetooth keyboard (you can set them up using the stylus on the touchscreen).
What do you have? Maybe a 10-in iBook that's also an iMac?
By hitchhiking in international trade, the ants have spread to all Mediterranean ecosystems around the world and had huge impacts in other countries. For example, in California they have displaced native ants, decreased the diversity of other native insects, affected the dispersal of seeds and even decreased lizard numbers.
So much for "take me to your lizards."
The reason so many women are nurses is inertia. In the beginning, it was nearly impossible for women to become doctors (nearly!), so women interested in health became nurses or studied the "allied health professions" (phlebotomist, dietician, physical therapist, etc.). After all, look at where the name of the profession comes from. Now, women tend to go into nursing because ... wait for it ... women tend to go into nursing. It's become a "women's thing," as CS has become a "guy's thing." Some women who'd be great at it don't get into CS not because it doesn't interest them, but because it never even occurs to them to try it. That's the point here.
Attorneys who file ligitation that is obviously meritless and do so repeatedly can face sanctions; I don't know about litigants. IANAL.
Anyone know just what the NTFS improvements are? ALso, are there any Samba improvements (for instance, Windows 2003 Server connectivity out of the box?).
If there's a non-compete in the employment contract, yes, you're right. If not, too bad for the employer - they're incompetent. I've signed an NDA, but not a non-compete. Easy enough for me; I suppose others where I work have non-competes, but they'd have to be pretty high up to be worth it to take the job with that clause.
In the US, health insurance after termination is governed by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1986, which mandates that an employer supply (at some expense to the former employee) health benefits for a certain number of months after termination. Likewise, unemployment insurance is not subject to the desires of the employer. However, employers can threaten, and be deliberately obstructionist: it's not legal, but the recourse is court.
Last time I checked, light (as in lasers) is a form of electromagnetic radiation (or EM); it is not, however, a form of RF (radio frequency) transmision. So perhaps you should s/em/rf/ .
It is precisely because lasers are tight beams that they would be more likely to be used for interstellar communications; however, I do not think it likely that a laser would be used as a "hailing beacon," an attention-getting signal to attract new nodes (like Earth) to the network - because, of course, they are too tight. RF Seti (like Seti@Home) assumes that there are transmission stations which are broadcasting just such an attention-getting signal in an effort to contact new species; it is assumed that signals intended for other stations more local to the broadcasters would be too weak to be intercepted, and that nobody out there knows about us yet.
Yes, but be careful, as aspell probably would have wrongly told you that "apologise" is mis-spelled: but DNA was British.
Do they have a no-compete clause in his contract? If not, they're going to lose, as that's standard practice in cases like this.