and I suppose the three-finger salute applied to nose, eye, ear will be used to reboot your interlocutor in cases of blue funk confusion?
English is already screwed - the spread of textish and the dumbing down of already dumb media will lead, in 200 years, to a society where intellectual pursuits will be viewed as harshly as in the days of Pol Pot - the job of the consumer will be to consume, and thought itself will be a crime.
Reply from abell2218.noname: bytes=32 time>24by TTL=infinite
Ping statistics for abell2218.noname:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in billion years:
Minimum = 24by, Maximum = 24by, Average = 24by
Strictly speaking, of course, we'd never receive the ping reply, because the Sun will have exploded long before.
The author seems to think that in a situation requiring security, not only could someone nefarious get the contract to install the systems, but that any department that didn't have an independent security audit following the installation would be a very silly department indeed.
And if I wanted to tweak any system (closed or open) to make it more vulnerable, it would be as easy as pie - but equally easy for a competent security auditor to pick up.
In short, he's just spreading FUD, and pretty ill-informed FUD at that.
Already got house-sized bikes - they're called the Gold Wing.
Now with a little stabilisation, and the Rising Sun emblazoned on the tank, I can just see hordes of kamikaze Gold Wings descending on the enemy and crushing them to death with their armchair seats, or maybe using the included stereo as an acoustic weapon...
See - it's all part of a masterplan to make you vote Repugnican.
It works lie this - natural Democrat voters, being poor, stupid and dirty, will leave crud all over the portion of the screen pertaining to the Democrat candidate, while Republicans, being fastidious and clean, will have a nice clean area of the screen to press.
The upshot is, those voting after, say, 9 in the morning will have the choice - vote Democrat and catch scabies, or vote Republican and have a finger smelling of eau-de-cologne for the rest of the day.
This will persuade misguided middle-class liberals who care about their health either to abstain, or to vote Repugnican.
I'd favour the reintroduction of ostraca - the small pot shards used for ostracism in Ancient Greece.
Not only could we count these now - but any historical dispute arising up to 2500 years later as to the result of an election would be easily settled - pot shards from 500BC and earlier have been found, and with a bit of care we could even stretch the traceability to 35,000 years (the oldest known ceramics date from around this age).
OK - people have to mark their own pot shard, and it relies on the probity of the counting officials, but it's still a damn sight better than relying on dodgy software and potentially biased private vote counting.
Besides, the thought of the Supreme Court being deluged with shards of pottery in case of dispute is a nice image.
Some of the world's best dirtbike riders wouldn't be able to easily cross stuff your average Land Rover or Land Cruiser would laugh at.
So that's why the motorcycles always finish the Dakar Rally fastest? I always wondered - I've seen motocross races in which 45 year old Triumph Tiger bikes went up hills at 50 mph that a Land Rover would only cry at.
Yes - there's a big problem with stability (though it's worse at low speeds), but a program that can mimic a motorcycle trials rider is going to be able to go places that a 4wd couldn't even dream of.
Having said that, an unmanne motorcycle is going to be way short on payload capacity - something that DARPS probably care deeply about.
Face it - given the navigation problems, solving motorcycle stability as well is cool - and that has to count for a lot.
I thought Winsock was just a port of the BSD stack - OK, there may be some exploitable new mistakes, but surely Microsoft won't have rewritten any more than was needed to make the stack work under the NT kernel?
Ok - here it is - and it's based on the common-sense in the Lord's Prayer - forgive us our trespasses, etc.
Now I'm not a Christian, or any religious type - but I don't like the idea of choosing to destroy a life, but can't project ny feelings on others.
That's why I say I wouldn't countenance it in my own life (and if I was with a woman who wanted to abort, I'd leave her and hope that she was sterile for ever after), but others can and should choose for themselves.
You have seen through my argument, and hit the nail on the head.
The fact remains that the neural tube is formed at around three weeks, with the main structures ofthe brain following on soon after, so even a 3-4 week cutoff is killing a potentially sentient being.
If you're happy with that, good luck to you.
As a non-religious type, I'm not happy with that at all.
Let miscarriages take their place, but above all let all pregnancies come to term, and let all humans have a chance.
Allowing abortion is akin to allowing the exposure of infants on hillsides, so far as I am concerned - it is inhuman and a great wrong.
Saddam's logic - Israel has nuclear weapons, therefore Iraq needs them for self defence.
Pakistan and India, similarly. Libya - a chemical weapons plant in the desert, and plans for a nuclear bomb.
Is all that all right?
If something's bad, it's bad, no matter who has it - you may be happy with Britain having the bomb now, but what if the BNP came to power? (they're the British ultra-nationalists, in case you didn't know).
Missing out on this will not put you in danger of attack, but it might impair some companies from making a profit.
Personally, I'd rather not see this happen at all, but if it does, I don't want any responsibility or culpability to fall on me or my elected representatives.
simply that I would not want to be a party to one - I would not be willing to stop what nature has set in motion unless it was to save the life of the mother and the foetus would not survive anyway.
As for other people - it's their decision, and their life. I'm agnostic about abortion as a whole, but could not countenance it in my own life.
My objection is to the use of an egg in the process - let's by all means look at culturing adult stem cells directly, but not by means of creating what might be a viable human being, then stopping the process.
Nature does enough of that already, and there is no need for us to willfully add to it.
Sounds good - but just to be on the conservative (no politics intended) side, let's define that as when the neural fold (which becomes the spinal column and then the brain) starts.
I think that's a fair limit to set - but it's so early in the embryonic stage that no abortioninst or selfish woman could ever accept it.
Just try getting your average women's selfishness campaigner to accept a three-week cutoff for legitimate abortions - it's not possible.
Well, I'm an atheist, and you'd have to make a Group C - 'it's fucking stupid and dangerous' for me.
If it were possible to grow single organs from stem cells, or to inject stem cells where they were needed and effect a cure, then I might be persuaded that the sacrifice of an egg to be injected with my DNA and then grown on for a few generations is justified.
But it isn't - and this research adds little if anything to the sum of human knowledge.
But then, I'm against abortion and fertility treatment on purely irrational grounds, too.
Now research into making my own cells turn into stem cells - that's where I'd like to see the money spent. No ethical issues, no religious objections (at least, none associated with foetuses), anda reasonable chance of success, since genetic identity is guaranteed.
Our Grey's psychotic - he hates men, and will only interact with women.
He recognises the names of different foods, and you can list them - banana, carrot, beans, peas, nuts, etc - and he will say 'Want Some!' when you get to what he wants, and he will ask for particular items if he sees you eating them.
Trouble is, only my girlfriend and daughter can feed him - I have to lob whatever it is in his dish, or he'll try to take my finger off.
Pepperberg was on BBC Radio the other week - it was a great half-hour of radio.
And being able to plug straight into a router and configure it with a pocket sized device, rather than jugging a laptop around, is great when having to work down in London - carrying laptops on the Tube is and always will be a fag.
Sadly, mine died when it fell on a tiled foor and killed the LCD:(.
I don't know who's modded you down as 'overrated', but I think you raise some good points, which need arguing with.
Your point about firewalls is spot on - but they work best when placed at or near the end nodes, doing egress as well as ingress filtering. That way, it is the responsibility of the end nodes to protect themselves from others, and others from themselves - the network in the middle is just a dumb resilient transport for data.
Where I would take issue with you is on the matter of traffic shaping - given that the Internet is an assemblage of routers and links, and that the resilience is based on redundant routes, the complexity imposed by the requirements of traffic shaping would require all routers to support said shaping, and all routers to be configured similarly to support the traffic shaping, from any end-point to any other. The correct answer to VOIP is to make the protocol more resilient, not to interfere with the essentially dumb nature of the transport network.
On IM, I am completely agmostic - it has never seemed particularly useful to me, other than as a tool for use within an organisation - outside the organisation email can be used just as easily, more securely and with greater traceability, so I don't care what AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo do, just so long as it doesn't impact on the security of whatever network I happen to be running.
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English is already screwed - the spread of textish and the dumbing down of already dumb media will lead, in 200 years, to a society where intellectual pursuits will be viewed as harshly as in the days of Pol Pot - the job of the consumer will be to consume, and thought itself will be a crime.
it's because it will soon be able to see God's face!
Perhaps they have already, and are hiding it, like Cydonia?
/me removes tongue from cheek ;)
Pinging abell2218.noname with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from abell2218.noname: bytes=32 time>24by TTL=infinite
Ping statistics for abell2218.noname:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in billion years: Minimum = 24by, Maximum = 24by, Average = 24by
Strictly speaking, of course, we'd never receive the ping reply, because the Sun will have exploded long before.
The author seems to think that in a situation requiring security, not only could someone nefarious get the contract to install the systems, but that any department that didn't have an independent security audit following the installation would be a very silly department indeed.
And if I wanted to tweak any system (closed or open) to make it more vulnerable, it would be as easy as pie - but equally easy for a competent security auditor to pick up.
In short, he's just spreading FUD, and pretty ill-informed FUD at that.
Now with a little stabilisation, and the Rising Sun emblazoned on the tank, I can just see hordes of kamikaze Gold Wings descending on the enemy and crushing them to death with their armchair seats, or maybe using the included stereo as an acoustic weapon...
It works lie this - natural Democrat voters, being poor, stupid and dirty, will leave crud all over the portion of the screen pertaining to the Democrat candidate, while Republicans, being fastidious and clean, will have a nice clean area of the screen to press.
The upshot is, those voting after, say, 9 in the morning will have the choice - vote Democrat and catch scabies, or vote Republican and have a finger smelling of eau-de-cologne for the rest of the day.
This will persuade misguided middle-class liberals who care about their health either to abstain, or to vote Repugnican.
It's all a Zionist Neocon plot, I tell you!
Not only could we count these now - but any historical dispute arising up to 2500 years later as to the result of an election would be easily settled - pot shards from 500BC and earlier have been found, and with a bit of care we could even stretch the traceability to 35,000 years (the oldest known ceramics date from around this age).
OK - people have to mark their own pot shard, and it relies on the probity of the counting officials, but it's still a damn sight better than relying on dodgy software and potentially biased private vote counting.
Besides, the thought of the Supreme Court being deluged with shards of pottery in case of dispute is a nice image.
So that's why the motorcycles always finish the Dakar Rally fastest? I always wondered - I've seen motocross races in which 45 year old Triumph Tiger bikes went up hills at 50 mph that a Land Rover would only cry at.
Yes - there's a big problem with stability (though it's worse at low speeds), but a program that can mimic a motorcycle trials rider is going to be able to go places that a 4wd couldn't even dream of.
Having said that, an unmanne motorcycle is going to be way short on payload capacity - something that DARPS probably care deeply about.
Face it - given the navigation problems, solving motorcycle stability as well is cool - and that has to count for a lot.
Automobiles should be restricted to 4 mph, and preceded by a man carrying a red flag (an presumably singing the Internationale for good measure).
Machines such as the Spinning Jenny will destroy our way of life.
I salute you, Ned Ludd, for your foresight and insight into the human condition.
Ok - you may miss out on some profits if you don't join in, but that's tough - it's part of living in an ethical society.
It's not as if there's a threat to you - it's just money. Forget it, and feel virtuous.
Now I'm not a Christian, or any religious type - but I don't like the idea of choosing to destroy a life, but can't project ny feelings on others.
That's why I say I wouldn't countenance it in my own life (and if I was with a woman who wanted to abort, I'd leave her and hope that she was sterile for ever after), but others can and should choose for themselves.
You have seen through my argument, and hit the nail on the head.
The fact remains that the neural tube is formed at around three weeks, with the main structures ofthe brain following on soon after, so even a 3-4 week cutoff is killing a potentially sentient being.
If you're happy with that, good luck to you.
As a non-religious type, I'm not happy with that at all.
Let miscarriages take their place, but above all let all pregnancies come to term, and let all humans have a chance.
Allowing abortion is akin to allowing the exposure of infants on hillsides, so far as I am concerned - it is inhuman and a great wrong.
Pakistan and India, similarly. Libya - a chemical weapons plant in the desert, and plans for a nuclear bomb.
Is all that all right?
If something's bad, it's bad, no matter who has it - you may be happy with Britain having the bomb now, but what if the BNP came to power? (they're the British ultra-nationalists, in case you didn't know).
Missing out on this will not put you in danger of attack, but it might impair some companies from making a profit.
Personally, I'd rather not see this happen at all, but if it does, I don't want any responsibility or culpability to fall on me or my elected representatives.
As for other people - it's their decision, and their life. I'm agnostic about abortion as a whole, but could not countenance it in my own life.
Nature does enough of that already, and there is no need for us to willfully add to it.
I think that's a fair limit to set - but it's so early in the embryonic stage that no abortioninst or selfish woman could ever accept it.
Just try getting your average women's selfishness campaigner to accept a three-week cutoff for legitimate abortions - it's not possible.
That's easier than some sort of 'neoferric park' scenario.
Anyway - Beowulf lives in Tintwistle, just next to Royston Vaisey.
If it were possible to grow single organs from stem cells, or to inject stem cells where they were needed and effect a cure, then I might be persuaded that the sacrifice of an egg to be injected with my DNA and then grown on for a few generations is justified.
But it isn't - and this research adds little if anything to the sum of human knowledge.
But then, I'm against abortion and fertility treatment on purely irrational grounds, too.
Now research into making my own cells turn into stem cells - that's where I'd like to see the money spent. No ethical issues, no religious objections (at least, none associated with foetuses), anda reasonable chance of success, since genetic identity is guaranteed.
They've been sat in a rack, processors happily humming away, and are probably nicer than you'll buy in a shop.
If brains wore out as fast as processors, yours would still be useful.
I'd never thought of snakes as social before, but this looks like interesting research.
Our Grey's psychotic - he hates men, and will only interact with women.
He recognises the names of different foods, and you can list them - banana, carrot, beans, peas, nuts, etc - and he will say 'Want Some!' when you get to what he wants, and he will ask for particular items if he sees you eating them.
Trouble is, only my girlfriend and daughter can feed him - I have to lob whatever it is in his dish, or he'll try to take my finger off.
Pepperberg was on BBC Radio the other week - it was a great half-hour of radio.
Sorry, you're too young ;-P>.
And being able to plug straight into a router and configure it with a pocket sized device, rather than jugging a laptop around, is great when having to work down in London - carrying laptops on the Tube is and always will be a fag.
Sadly, mine died when it fell on a tiled foor and killed the LCD :(.
Your point about firewalls is spot on - but they work best when placed at or near the end nodes, doing egress as well as ingress filtering. That way, it is the responsibility of the end nodes to protect themselves from others, and others from themselves - the network in the middle is just a dumb resilient transport for data.
Where I would take issue with you is on the matter of traffic shaping - given that the Internet is an assemblage of routers and links, and that the resilience is based on redundant routes, the complexity imposed by the requirements of traffic shaping would require all routers to support said shaping, and all routers to be configured similarly to support the traffic shaping, from any end-point to any other. The correct answer to VOIP is to make the protocol more resilient, not to interfere with the essentially dumb nature of the transport network.
On IM, I am completely agmostic - it has never seemed particularly useful to me, other than as a tool for use within an organisation - outside the organisation email can be used just as easily, more securely and with greater traceability, so I don't care what AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo do, just so long as it doesn't impact on the security of whatever network I happen to be running.
Hope someone mods you back up soon.