Your comment leads me to ask you this: since you believe you should be able to modify your own possessions in any way you choose, should you be able to rearrange the molecular charges on your harddrive to resemble exactly that of Microsoft Word or Autocad? I believe so, because I agree with your line of reasoning. Do you extend your reasoning this far?
The problem is that depending on the type and amount of spam the person was already receiving, it could easily be clear that the spam was being received from the researchers. Also, knowing that the study has something to do with spam would cause many of the subjects to purposely read the spam, further making this a less realistic study.
All your noise about Bush "being elected" and "exercising constitutional power" doesn't change the fact that he is a corrupt robber baron who will fleece and stomp on the ignorant public that was herded into voting for him.
Shut the fuck up you fucking stinking hippy. What's next, global warming and gun control? He caught the fish, it's his fish, here's a study that shows the fish aren't endangered.
If you can't tell, I'm mocking all the rednecks that seem to inhabit Slashdot these days.
Well, it wouldn't be like changing your password everyweek, because you don't have to go down to the bank every week to change your password. It's also a problem if the person is out of town for a long time, and they don't have the opportunity to update it before the veins change too much. But this does bring up an interesting idea: If you are in a situation (like working at an airforce base) where people are using the scanner frequently, then the vein signature could be updated evertime the person is scanned successfully. There must be some maximum delta from the stored signature that would allow access, and if the new scan is within the delta, then store it in place of the old one.
Seeing this news item really awakened me to the lack of innovation with Internet software these days. Embedding RSS into IE is mundane to the extreme. This pales in comparison to the rate at which ideas were pouring out 5-7 years ago. I suppose the browser is a mature market, but is it really? Perhaps we need to go back and look at some of the older ideas that were ahead of their time now that the Internet infrastructure is more mature. It just feels like we are still staring at the embers of a long-dead bonfire.
I don't think you need to add your complication to this statement. Leave out the part about "as long as it doesn't endanger anyone, deprive them of privacy, deprive them of something else, etc".
Let's change the term hack to "modify", making the statement:...and you should be able to modify anything you own -- it's yours
Now, the statement doesn't need to be more complicated. Using your car example, you don't own the air, so you aren't allowed to modify it outside of legal bounds. If you want to get into details and say you do own the air above your property, then you can emit anything you want as long as it doesn't escape your property.
Damn you, I think I saw that too, and now I can't remember what it was. Was the computer in the shape of a number of pillars that resembled some sort of multi-headed hydra-beast?
The best way to look at is this: The keyboard is best for discreet actions (eg. starting any sort of process), and the mouse for analog (yes I know it's not truly analog, but it is analog in how the user perceives it's use), eg. drawing lines, controlling movement, etc.
The problem arises when the mouse is used for discreet actions, like pushing buttons and selecting menu options and what not, or when the keyboard is used to draw lines and control a plane's flight.
It's not any more complicated than this folks. End of discussion.
First off, the concept of Jewish identity tied to the mother exists in part because it is much easier to prove who gave birth to the baby than who made the mother pregnant
I have heard this line of reasoning before, but it makes no sense. What exactly is being preserved by making sure at least the mother is real? A lineal connection to the original tribe of Israel? What difference does it make? The line's genetics are already so diluted from thousands of years of non-Jewish fathers, that it's probably only 1/1000th original Israeli genes. If there is something special about this 1/1000th genetically jewish baby, then yes, you believe in magic. What about the offspring of Jewish fathers and non Jewish mothers that are far more genetically close to the original tribe, but are not considered Jewish? I'm telling you, it's arbitrary.
Judaism is more than a religion; it encompasses common cultural values.
So would you consider a baby orphaned from Jewish parents, but raised by atheists, a Jew? He is neither practicing nor aware of any of these common cultural values you speak of.
I think your comments are a perfect example of how people's ideas of what defines a Jew is much more fuzzy than they really think, and when you get to the bottom of it, it's all just an illusion, like every other boundry we like to draw to separate people into groups. If you can fuck each other and have babies, you are human, and these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes.
A LOT of confusion regarding many issues surrounding Judaism, including the current topic, comes from the problem of defining a the Jewish people. There are Jews that are non-practicing, so it is clearly not religion or tradition that defines a Jew. There are Ethiopian, Chinese, European, and Middle Eastern Jews, so it clearly is not race that defines a Jew. What does that leave? It leaves lineage. Judiasm is simply a lineage, and a specific one at that - it only travels through the mother. So we could say the definition of Judaism is this:
"A specific tribe of people originating from the middle east that maintains it's lineage through the maternal bloodline"
Since the father doesn't have to be Jewish, that is why so many other races got mixed in over time, e.g. Ashkenazic jews, which are mainly of European genetic heritage and not Middle Eastern.
Does it strike anyone else as ridiculous that any group of individuals identifies themselves and conglomerates through maternal bloodlines, let alone religion (be it Judiasm or Christianity or Islam)? This arbitrary grouping is absurd to the extreme and is based on some magical fiction passed down for millenia. It's crazy! And it's causing SO MUCH pain for everyone involved! Why?
We can project a 3 dimensional object onto a two dimensional plane (a standard monitor), and get a good idea of what the object would look like if it was in 3D. I've seen animations of 4D objects on a 2D display, and I just don't grok the nature of the objects. If someone writes a visualization that projects a 4D object onto this 3D display, will it be much easier for the average person to grasp and understand?
I don't see why this is so surprising... many frat boys use another drug, alcohol, to gain the trust of their female cohorts. What I'm wondering is if this Oxytocin has any noticable side effects, like intoxication. Also, if it is the same drug that is released by the body during human bonding experiences, it would seem to me that it's effects would be longer lasting.
ummmm, what about the part that this information was gathered by a PUBLIC agency funded by the PUBLIC, and therefore should be available freely to the PUBLIC? Why is everyone not trumping this as the MAIN reason that this information should not be privatized?
Does anyone know of a utility to encrypt the entire USB key drive, except for a loader of some sort, so that it requires a password to get access to the data on the drive? Or is this a pretty standard capability for these things?
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Actually, you can't see the roof. Instead of pixelizing or blocking out the Whitehouse, instead they just filled in the roof with a solid color.
LS
Your comment leads me to ask you this: since you believe you should be able to modify your own possessions in any way you choose, should you be able to rearrange the molecular charges on your harddrive to resemble exactly that of Microsoft Word or Autocad? I believe so, because I agree with your line of reasoning. Do you extend your reasoning this far?
LS
The problem is that depending on the type and amount of spam the person was already receiving, it could easily be clear that the spam was being received from the researchers. Also, knowing that the study has something to do with spam would cause many of the subjects to purposely read the spam, further making this a less realistic study.
LS
When will the MODERATORS get fricken' laser beams to take out posters of this most overused of jokes???
All your noise about Bush "being elected" and "exercising constitutional power" doesn't change the fact that he is a corrupt robber baron who will fleece and stomp on the ignorant public that was herded into voting for him.
LS
Understood, but it still makes no f'n sense. The justice system is seriously flawed.
Shut the fuck up you fucking stinking hippy. What's next, global warming and gun control? He caught the fish, it's his fish, here's a study that shows the fish aren't endangered.
If you can't tell, I'm mocking all the rednecks that seem to inhabit Slashdot these days.
Well, it wouldn't be like changing your password everyweek, because you don't have to go down to the bank every week to change your password. It's also a problem if the person is out of town for a long time, and they don't have the opportunity to update it before the veins change too much. But this does bring up an interesting idea: If you are in a situation (like working at an airforce base) where people are using the scanner frequently, then the vein signature could be updated evertime the person is scanned successfully. There must be some maximum delta from the stored signature that would allow access, and if the new scan is within the delta, then store it in place of the old one.
LS
Don't mean to sound like a pot-smoking hippie here...
and what exactly is wrong with pot-smoking hippies? You sound like those people who say "There's nothing wrong with being gay, but..."
Seeing this news item really awakened me to the lack of innovation with Internet software these days. Embedding RSS into IE is mundane to the extreme. This pales in comparison to the rate at which ideas were pouring out 5-7 years ago. I suppose the browser is a mature market, but is it really? Perhaps we need to go back and look at some of the older ideas that were ahead of their time now that the Internet infrastructure is more mature. It just feels like we are still staring at the embers of a long-dead bonfire.
LS
I don't think you need to add your complication to this statement. Leave out the part about "as long as it doesn't endanger anyone, deprive them of privacy, deprive them of something else, etc".
...and you should be able to modify anything you own -- it's yours
Let's change the term hack to "modify", making the statement:
Now, the statement doesn't need to be more complicated. Using your car example, you don't own the air, so you aren't allowed to modify it outside of legal bounds. If you want to get into details and say you do own the air above your property, then you can emit anything you want as long as it doesn't escape your property.
Ahh, ok, for those of you not fluent or not studying Mandarin, here's the translation:
"zhe4 zhen1 shi4 (yi) ge kuai4 le4 de jin4 zhan3."
This really is a happy development
"tian1 sheng1 de yi4 dui1 ben4 rou4"
the nature of a pile of stupid meat.
LS
"ben4 rou4" you3 shen2me yi4si??
Damn you, I think I saw that too, and now I can't remember what it was. Was the computer in the shape of a number of pillars that resembled some sort of multi-headed hydra-beast?
LS
The best way to look at is this: The keyboard is best for discreet actions (eg. starting any sort of process), and the mouse for analog (yes I know it's not truly analog, but it is analog in how the user perceives it's use), eg. drawing lines, controlling movement, etc.
The problem arises when the mouse is used for discreet actions, like pushing buttons and selecting menu options and what not, or when the keyboard is used to draw lines and control a plane's flight.
It's not any more complicated than this folks. End of discussion.
LS
First off, the concept of Jewish identity tied to the mother exists in part because it is much easier to prove who gave birth to the baby than who made the mother pregnant
I have heard this line of reasoning before, but it makes no sense. What exactly is being preserved by making sure at least the mother is real? A lineal connection to the original tribe of Israel? What difference does it make? The line's genetics are already so diluted from thousands of years of non-Jewish fathers, that it's probably only 1/1000th original Israeli genes. If there is something special about this 1/1000th genetically jewish baby, then yes, you believe in magic. What about the offspring of Jewish fathers and non Jewish mothers that are far more genetically close to the original tribe, but are not considered Jewish? I'm telling you, it's arbitrary.
Judaism is more than a religion; it encompasses common cultural values.
So would you consider a baby orphaned from Jewish parents, but raised by atheists, a Jew? He is neither practicing nor aware of any of these common cultural values you speak of.
I think your comments are a perfect example of how people's ideas of what defines a Jew is much more fuzzy than they really think, and when you get to the bottom of it, it's all just an illusion, like every other boundry we like to draw to separate people into groups. If you can fuck each other and have babies, you are human, and these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes.
LS
There are a lot of chubby mo-fo's sitting in front of computers late at night these days. This guy must be pretty damn big...
LS
A LOT of confusion regarding many issues surrounding Judaism, including the current topic, comes from the problem of defining a the Jewish people. There are Jews that are non-practicing, so it is clearly not religion or tradition that defines a Jew. There are Ethiopian, Chinese, European, and Middle Eastern Jews, so it clearly is not race that defines a Jew. What does that leave? It leaves lineage. Judiasm is simply a lineage, and a specific one at that - it only travels through the mother. So we could say the definition of Judaism is this:
"A specific tribe of people originating from the middle east that maintains it's lineage through the maternal bloodline"
Since the father doesn't have to be Jewish, that is why so many other races got mixed in over time, e.g. Ashkenazic jews, which are mainly of European genetic heritage and not Middle Eastern.
Does it strike anyone else as ridiculous that any group of individuals identifies themselves and conglomerates through maternal bloodlines, let alone religion (be it Judiasm or Christianity or Islam)? This arbitrary grouping is absurd to the extreme and is based on some magical fiction passed down for millenia. It's crazy! And it's causing SO MUCH pain for everyone involved! Why?
We can project a 3 dimensional object onto a two dimensional plane (a standard monitor), and get a good idea of what the object would look like if it was in 3D. I've seen animations of 4D objects on a 2D display, and I just don't grok the nature of the objects. If someone writes a visualization that projects a 4D object onto this 3D display, will it be much easier for the average person to grasp and understand?
LS
I don't see why this is so surprising... many frat boys use another drug, alcohol, to gain the trust of their female cohorts. What I'm wondering is if this Oxytocin has any noticable side effects, like intoxication. Also, if it is the same drug that is released by the body during human bonding experiences, it would seem to me that it's effects would be longer lasting.
LS
Even your sig is a troll...
"Paid for by taxpayers" .... "Our game, our rules." Ok, go ahead and delude yourself as long as you wish
ummmm, what about the part that this information was gathered by a PUBLIC agency funded by the PUBLIC, and therefore should be available freely to the PUBLIC? Why is everyone not trumping this as the MAIN reason that this information should not be privatized?
LS
Sorry, but I usually knock sexy beasts and THEN they become used...
Does anyone know of a utility to encrypt the entire USB key drive, except for a loader of some sort, so that it requires a password to get access to the data on the drive? Or is this a pretty standard capability for these things?
LS