""And are you not," said Fook,
leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
blizzard?""
So, maybe the "google" search engine people owe the Adams estate... That would shut them up.
Should just kill those kid's connections, or charge them $50 a month for the "privelage" of being a spammer--then this whole problem goes away. Mind you, the network and its resources are the University's, and not the student's.
From the post: "Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year;)"
Has anyone out there actually put any effort into designing a better interface, or are they just deciding to ape MS on everything? I know for a FACT you guys are creative, come on! Somebody make something NEW!
Uh, no. See, distraction is not intent--notice what I said about equal crime equating to equal punishment?.. What (in this hypothetical situation) happend is an accident, a bummer, but not a criminal homicide (as would be the other example.)
I don't agree with a person losing thier right to drive permanently over a situation like this either. Perhaps short term (a couple of months) but not forever.
Look at it this way: houses have doors, the doors have locks. The locks are designed to keep intruders out. Do the hackers attempt to open every door on every house in their neighboorhood? Probably not, that is illegal and they darn well know it. They wouldn't attempt to pick the lock either. A server's firewall does the same thing (keep out intruders). So picking the lock on a server is damn-near equal to the picking of a lock on a door. That's where my equality comes in.
To use the defense "hey I was just curious" is crappola as well. What if the government was "curious" as to what was in your basement--they'd need a subpoena to find out (or at the very least a bench warrant of some kind.) Curiosity is not a defense, it's just another form of incrimination. People do not have a right to peer into private networks any more than they have a right to peer into bedroom windows.
Word up on that, yo. I don't find his stuff funny either, but my fiancee does. She thinks the dude is hysterical, but I just keep telling her that it's her uterus roaming--then she gives me a silly look. Go figure.
Couldn't you just write a script (or something) to "touch" random files? That would change the dates. Then add a bunch of fake users (some disabled, naturally, as that's a nice target.) That might work.
The first straw was TT last year almost costing me serious cash (lucky for me I had an agency (actual people no less!) double check the TT results. TT was screwing me.) That marked the end fo TT for me, and this MBR tinkering is just more bad mojo. I don't know who's bright idea that was, but that guy should be shaved, sterilized, and destroyed.
From the post: "Also, the human FOXP2 differs only slightly from similar genes in chimpanzees, mice and other animals."
That's why my million monkeys with typewriters haven't churned out any Shakespearian prose yet...Looks like I'll be doing a little gene therapy first, then look out literary world, here I come!;)
Actually, you make excellent points; however, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but all the "members" of the 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' are all literary creations from England... So, I'd say it's England that has the frailty problem (paraphrasing from your initial statements.)
Ya know, it was a good run for the first complex clone (mammal). I bet eventually they get the kinks worked out and cloned everything will be available. But for now, it's like the old addage: "in order to make an omlette, you have to break a few eggs."
Bitching does work! Now that the Senate needs to approve this for it to work, EVERY American who is sick to death of telemarketing calls needs to write, fax, call their Senator and tell them to pass this legislation ASAP!
I'll be a bit brief on this: Standard Big Bang Cosmology is not entirely correct.
What you're saying is that the matter that comprised the singularity from which the Big Bang originated simply "existed" and didn't come from someplace. That's wacky. All things have an origin. If it came from someplace, then it must not have transported itself instantaeously from its origin to the location of the signularity. Unless the point of origin and the location of the singularity are one and the same. Either way, this still indicates existance of Time prior to the formation of the singularity and it indicates equally the existance of matter prior to the Big Bang. Matter does not come into existance on its own, and Matter cannot exist without the weaving framework of Time entering into the mix; however, Time can exist on it's own accord but there will simply be no relative reference point from which to guage events. The first measurable event was the Big Bang. It is from this event we measure time, but just because we can't measure something doesn't mean it wasn't existing or relevent.
"Keep in mind that all of reality is merely a product of our perceptions."
If this were indeed the case it would be our minds that would define and sculpt the Universe. As a result of that, we could think our way to Mars (for instance) and *poof* we'd arrive on top of Olympus Mons. Since it doesn't work, or at least I haven't the power (and I dobut anyone does), I'd have to say that it's untrue.
"This raises the possibility that all events have happened simultaneously and the linear progression of events is imposed by our minds."
Intersting as well, and brings up cool concepts all it's own. Perhaps it's not our mind that is imposing reality upon us, but some other external being. Or perhaps we're just a reflection or echo of events long past and we acutally had this discussion eons ago...this would then bring about the idea that free-will is artificial and we're all plotting along following the paths predetermined by our ancient actions and we cannot alter the ends.
"There were no events before the Big Bang (since the it is the beginning of our universe)..."
Actually this is not correct. The truth is that there was no matter in our Universe prior to the Big Bang, before that event it was just an empty plain of nothingness (a void--neither with matter or energy. It just was.) But if one accepts the traditional belief that all the matter existant was compressed into a singularity and then exploded outward, then there must have been existance (and Time) prior to the event referred to as The Big Bang. Either theory still allows for Time to predate the Big Bang, because Time exists as a construct only to prevent all events from happening simultaneously and you can't compress all the matter that there is in the current Universe into a singularity instantaneously (from a external, reference/relative, point of view).
I disagree. Time did exist before the Big Bang, there just wasn't a reference point from which to measure events. There could have been an "infinite time" of nothing happening before the Big Bang, but since we have no way of knowing we're kind of stuck with the idea that Time as a construct began with the Big Bang. Time exists only to prevent all events from happening simultaneously, since the Universe didn't come into existance and die out at the same instant, we can conjecture that Time pre-existed the Big Bang.
From the initial post: "(someday an Anime will be nominated Best Picture)."
Not freakin' likely. Here's why I feel this way:
(1) Most anime is geared toward otaku fanboys and really don't have much of a story that will pull in a whole family of viewers (which is the category that claims most "Best Picture" awards.); (2) Anime isn't American, like it or not most "Best Picture" winners are from Hollywood, not outside the US; (3) Since all the anime characters look roughly the same, it can be argued by Hollywood that all the stories are the same as well...problematic at best; (4) Bad translations: Nobody should have to learn another language to "understand" or "get it." (For the record, this is a problem with other languages like French and German or Russian as well, it's not a Japanese problem. As proof, take a look at the glowing reviews of movies like "Chloe in the Afternoon" [France] by following this link http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068205, and then watch it yourself and see if this isn't a crap-fest [it is]. Or examine the differences in the dialog of "Akira," for example.)
The Big Bang (if you ask me, and since you did, I'm going to answer) is the result of a "pinhole" in our previously empty Universe. This pinhole is a 3D hole. It lead to another Universe (which is the same size as ours) that is composed of no matter but pure energy. Some of the energy leaked into our Universe, instantaneously converting into Matter and Energy (that whole Einstein thing); and some of the energy reflected back and closed the hole. The result is an expanding matter-Universe which expands in all directions at the speed of light. (Making the Universe a sphere.)
So there you go. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Slashdot Mirror
To quote:
""And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?""
So, maybe the "google" search engine people owe the Adams estate... That would shut them up.
Should just kill those kid's connections, or charge them $50 a month for the "privelage" of being a spammer--then this whole problem goes away. Mind you, the network and its resources are the University's, and not the student's.
From the post: "Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)"
Has anyone out there actually put any effort into designing a better interface, or are they just deciding to ape MS on everything? I know for a FACT you guys are creative, come on! Somebody make something NEW!
Do people take Linus' words from "Ooh, Linus spoke! [insert praise and worship here]", to "Just another businessman trash-talking the competition"?
Linus, is in the chip-manufacturing business, you know. Not everything the man says is gospel from On High.
I know this will get modded as Troll, but you know, fuck it, I'm really tired of when Linus sneezes every OSS person bows down and grovels.
" . . and I know a pretty good actor who will work for scale if you'll let him be in the movie.
;)
Some guy named Wil, I bet
Uh, no. See, distraction is not intent--notice what I said about equal crime equating to equal punishment?.. What (in this hypothetical situation) happend is an accident, a bummer, but not a criminal homicide (as would be the other example.)
I don't agree with a person losing thier right to drive permanently over a situation like this either. Perhaps short term (a couple of months) but not forever.
Look at it this way: houses have doors, the doors have locks. The locks are designed to keep intruders out. Do the hackers attempt to open every door on every house in their neighboorhood? Probably not, that is illegal and they darn well know it. They wouldn't attempt to pick the lock either. A server's firewall does the same thing (keep out intruders). So picking the lock on a server is damn-near equal to the picking of a lock on a door. That's where my equality comes in.
To use the defense "hey I was just curious" is crappola as well. What if the government was "curious" as to what was in your basement--they'd need a subpoena to find out (or at the very least a bench warrant of some kind.) Curiosity is not a defense, it's just another form of incrimination. People do not have a right to peer into private networks any more than they have a right to peer into bedroom windows.
But if those doing the hacking didn't do it, then there'd be no jail service at all.
I think the sentences should be unified. A crime of type is equal to a crime of similar type. That demands equal treatment.
Word up on that, yo. I don't find his stuff funny either, but my fiancee does. She thinks the dude is hysterical, but I just keep telling her that it's her uterus roaming--then she gives me a silly look. Go figure.
Couldn't you just write a script (or something) to "touch" random files? That would change the dates. Then add a bunch of fake users (some disabled, naturally, as that's a nice target.) That might work.
The first straw was TT last year almost costing me serious cash (lucky for me I had an agency (actual people no less!) double check the TT results. TT was screwing me.) That marked the end fo TT for me, and this MBR tinkering is just more bad mojo. I don't know who's bright idea that was, but that guy should be shaved, sterilized, and destroyed.
From the post: "Also, the human FOXP2 differs only slightly from similar genes in chimpanzees, mice and other animals."
;)
That's why my million monkeys with typewriters haven't churned out any Shakespearian prose yet...Looks like I'll be doing a little gene therapy first, then look out literary world, here I come!
Actually, you make excellent points; however, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but all the "members" of the 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' are all literary creations from England... So, I'd say it's England that has the frailty problem (paraphrasing from your initial statements.)
Dolly the sheep died,
Now we investigate why,
May she(ep) rest in peace.
This lame haiku brought to you by bordom and the numbers 5, 7, and 5...
Ya know, it was a good run for the first complex clone (mammal). I bet eventually they get the kinks worked out and cloned everything will be available. But for now, it's like the old addage: "in order to make an omlette, you have to break a few eggs."
Now I can get spam no matter where I am!
I wonder how long this will take for it to be abused. What, maybe 2 seconds?
Bitching does work! Now that the Senate needs to approve this for it to work, EVERY American who is sick to death of telemarketing calls needs to write, fax, call their Senator and tell them to pass this legislation ASAP!
I don't think so, mainly because there is at least one US Telemarketing firm that is completely relocating its operations to Canada.
How do I know? Why the US DoD told me so...
Seriously, did anyone not see this coming?
Just as the belief that "nothing happened" is imposition of bias...
I'll be a bit brief on this: Standard Big Bang Cosmology is not entirely correct.
What you're saying is that the matter that comprised the singularity from which the Big Bang originated simply "existed" and didn't come from someplace. That's wacky. All things have an origin. If it came from someplace, then it must not have transported itself instantaeously from its origin to the location of the signularity. Unless the point of origin and the location of the singularity are one and the same. Either way, this still indicates existance of Time prior to the formation of the singularity and it indicates equally the existance of matter prior to the Big Bang. Matter does not come into existance on its own, and Matter cannot exist without the weaving framework of Time entering into the mix; however, Time can exist on it's own accord but there will simply be no relative reference point from which to guage events. The first measurable event was the Big Bang. It is from this event we measure time, but just because we can't measure something doesn't mean it wasn't existing or relevent.
"Keep in mind that all of reality is merely a product of our perceptions."
If this were indeed the case it would be our minds that would define and sculpt the Universe. As a result of that, we could think our way to Mars (for instance) and *poof* we'd arrive on top of Olympus Mons. Since it doesn't work, or at least I haven't the power (and I dobut anyone does), I'd have to say that it's untrue.
"This raises the possibility that all events have happened simultaneously and the linear progression of events is imposed by our minds."
Intersting as well, and brings up cool concepts all it's own. Perhaps it's not our mind that is imposing reality upon us, but some other external being. Or perhaps we're just a reflection or echo of events long past and we acutally had this discussion eons ago...this would then bring about the idea that free-will is artificial and we're all plotting along following the paths predetermined by our ancient actions and we cannot alter the ends.
"There were no events before the Big Bang (since the it is the beginning of our universe)..."
Actually this is not correct. The truth is that there was no matter in our Universe prior to the Big Bang, before that event it was just an empty plain of nothingness (a void--neither with matter or energy. It just was.) But if one accepts the traditional belief that all the matter existant was compressed into a singularity and then exploded outward, then there must have been existance (and Time) prior to the event referred to as The Big Bang. Either theory still allows for Time to predate the Big Bang, because Time exists as a construct only to prevent all events from happening simultaneously and you can't compress all the matter that there is in the current Universe into a singularity instantaneously (from a external, reference/relative, point of view).
I disagree. Time did exist before the Big Bang, there just wasn't a reference point from which to measure events. There could have been an "infinite time" of nothing happening before the Big Bang, but since we have no way of knowing we're kind of stuck with the idea that Time as a construct began with the Big Bang. Time exists only to prevent all events from happening simultaneously, since the Universe didn't come into existance and die out at the same instant, we can conjecture that Time pre-existed the Big Bang.
From the initial post: "(someday an Anime will be nominated Best Picture)."
Not freakin' likely. Here's why I feel this way:
(1) Most anime is geared toward otaku fanboys and really don't have much of a story that will pull in a whole family of viewers (which is the category that claims most "Best Picture" awards.);
(2) Anime isn't American, like it or not most "Best Picture" winners are from Hollywood, not outside the US;
(3) Since all the anime characters look roughly the same, it can be argued by Hollywood that all the stories are the same as well...problematic at best;
(4) Bad translations: Nobody should have to learn another language to "understand" or "get it." (For the record, this is a problem with other languages like French and German or Russian as well, it's not a Japanese problem. As proof, take a look at the glowing reviews of movies like "Chloe in the Afternoon" [France] by following this link http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068205, and then watch it yourself and see if this isn't a crap-fest [it is]. Or examine the differences in the dialog of "Akira," for example.)
The Big Bang (if you ask me, and since you did, I'm going to answer) is the result of a "pinhole" in our previously empty Universe. This pinhole is a 3D hole. It lead to another Universe (which is the same size as ours) that is composed of no matter but pure energy. Some of the energy leaked into our Universe, instantaneously converting into Matter and Energy (that whole Einstein thing); and some of the energy reflected back and closed the hole. The result is an expanding matter-Universe which expands in all directions at the speed of light. (Making the Universe a sphere.)
So there you go. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.