Not nobody. My firefox accepts cookies and run scripts only if they're whitelisted, precisely to defeat google analytics (and a few others). I use gmail (and nothing but gmail) in Chrome, and otherwise stay logged out of google. If I really need to go to a website with a malware-capable browser, I use a guest account.
Security through obscurity works for me! I try to keep my passwords obscured from public view. If I told everybody that my password was CmdrTacoLover99, my account wouldn't be terribly secure anymore.
Gee, thanks. I made a hex grid in gedit and solved it in that referencing the pdf for the clues. And NOW you post the widget. On the puzzle: that was a blast! I want more! My only disappointment with the puzzle is that a certain amount of meta-puzzling (this part of that clue provides no info unless...) proved to be useful -- I never used that knowledge 'just in case', but it was never wrong. I prefer puzzles with misleading meta-hints to trap fools. (instead of me being made the fool)
All it takes is one genius to figure it out. With flat, serial processors (even billions of them), we're probably hundreds of years away. With processors built from components that work like (even simple) neurons... who knows.
Meh. You can be replaced by sufficiently advanced algorithms. I'm mathematician, FFS. There are already automated theorem provers which can solve undergrad-level problems. As computers evolve, they'll be just as good as people and loads cheaper than people at everything we do, up to and including the creation of art.
If we progress to the point where all of our jobs can be done by computers... what should we do? At the point where artificial intelligence becomes genuine intelligence, it will rapidly outpace human intelligence. This is evolution. We are breeding our replacements.
What have the anti-science nuts learned this century??
I dunno, but you're certainly out of touch with Christianity in the US. Most American Christians think of Catholicism as a totally different (i.e. fundamentally non-Christian) religion, like with Mormons and Witnesses. So pointing out a lesson learned by Catholics is like pointing out a lesson learned in communist Russia. Falls on deaf ears every time.
Summary is off by at least a century. Chorded keyboards have been around since at least 1868. Chorded braille keyboards have been around since 1892. Coincidentally, these were each apparently brought to the computer a century after their analogue versions were made.
What? No it wasn't. I did not misunderstand the summary or article. My complaint is that the entire basis for this article is bullshit -- it's just a play on "they used the words 'death sentence' and somebody died". Of course that isn't what they're saying in the article. But that's the sensation they're selling it on.
Seriously? Death sentence? Yes. They used the words "death sentence" but it was for their access to JSTOR, not anything to do with Swartz. This is not news, this is grasping at straws.
rtb61, I equate nothing. You seem to think that because two things are classified as "civil disobedience", they are the same. That's like saying a derringer is the same as Big Bertha because both are guns.
There are a number of forms of direct action that are quite violent, towards people and property. "Sick idiot" I may be, but one man's civil disobedience is another man's outrage -- as outraged as I'd be about this hypothetical KKK member's hypothetical behavior, I do acknowledge that it may fit some definitions of civil disobedience.
A similar example: suppose I sat outside of a dog show killing puppies to protest the puppy mill-style breeding that goes on to produce show dogs. No matter how misguided it is, it's still civil disobedience. Just like the KKK member, I'd (rightly) end up jail. Many civil disobedients do end up going to jail and serving full sentences for their crime -- even if their actions lead to the law being changed.
From wikipedia: "Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power." So yeah, spousal abuse could be seen to be civil disobedience if the KKK member in question was flagrant about it. Bottom line is, civil disobedience means breaking the law. Not every cause is just, and a court's job is to uphold the law -- the people who go to jail might just stay there.
Slashdot editors apparently support this notion of "publish anything, regardless of quality." Is a glowing review from the author's (de facto) agent relevant? Who cares! Publish!
It's (mostly) true! The current generation of kids are consumers, not tinkerers. Chances are, you're a consumer too, and your skills are a result of a childhood well spent. Unless you keep tinkering and raise your kids to do the same, you're safe.
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All that for a hot glue gun?
Not nobody. My firefox accepts cookies and run scripts only if they're whitelisted, precisely to defeat google analytics (and a few others). I use gmail (and nothing but gmail) in Chrome, and otherwise stay logged out of google. If I really need to go to a website with a malware-capable browser, I use a guest account.
Crap, how do you delete posts?
Security through obscurity works for me! I try to keep my passwords obscured from public view. If I told everybody that my password was CmdrTacoLover99, my account wouldn't be terribly secure anymore.
...with separate revision control software
Idiot. Women are to be kept in binders, not databases.
Gee, thanks. I made a hex grid in gedit and solved it in that referencing the pdf for the clues. And NOW you post the widget. On the puzzle: that was a blast! I want more! My only disappointment with the puzzle is that a certain amount of meta-puzzling (this part of that clue provides no info unless...) proved to be useful -- I never used that knowledge 'just in case', but it was never wrong. I prefer puzzles with misleading meta-hints to trap fools. (instead of me being made the fool)
All it takes is one genius to figure it out. With flat, serial processors (even billions of them), we're probably hundreds of years away. With processors built from components that work like (even simple) neurons... who knows.
You don't seem to understand the word "sufficient". And that future may not be as far off as you think. Then again, it may be.
Meh. You can be replaced by sufficiently advanced algorithms. I'm mathematician, FFS. There are already automated theorem provers which can solve undergrad-level problems. As computers evolve, they'll be just as good as people and loads cheaper than people at everything we do, up to and including the creation of art.
If we progress to the point where all of our jobs can be done by computers... what should we do? At the point where artificial intelligence becomes genuine intelligence, it will rapidly outpace human intelligence. This is evolution. We are breeding our replacements.
What have the anti-science nuts learned this century??
I dunno, but you're certainly out of touch with Christianity in the US. Most American Christians think of Catholicism as a totally different (i.e. fundamentally non-Christian) religion, like with Mormons and Witnesses. So pointing out a lesson learned by Catholics is like pointing out a lesson learned in communist Russia. Falls on deaf ears every time.
Got a reference for any of these claims?
Okay, I just googled it, ....
FTFY.
You'll find a good scientist plenty inventive, and a good inventor plenty scientific. How bloody fucking stupid are you?
Meh. If somebody takes my legal advice, they've got another thing comin'.
Yeah -- unless you're using their software, you can't violate their TOS.
I think a "Magic Bullet" blender might fit... will it blend?
Summary is off by at least a century. Chorded keyboards have been around since at least 1868. Chorded braille keyboards have been around since 1892. Coincidentally, these were each apparently brought to the computer a century after their analogue versions were made.
What? No it wasn't. I did not misunderstand the summary or article. My complaint is that the entire basis for this article is bullshit -- it's just a play on "they used the words 'death sentence' and somebody died". Of course that isn't what they're saying in the article. But that's the sensation they're selling it on.
Seriously? Death sentence? Yes. They used the words "death sentence" but it was for their access to JSTOR, not anything to do with Swartz. This is not news, this is grasping at straws.
rtb61, I equate nothing. You seem to think that because two things are classified as "civil disobedience", they are the same. That's like saying a derringer is the same as Big Bertha because both are guns.
There are a number of forms of direct action that are quite violent, towards people and property. "Sick idiot" I may be, but one man's civil disobedience is another man's outrage -- as outraged as I'd be about this hypothetical KKK member's hypothetical behavior, I do acknowledge that it may fit some definitions of civil disobedience.
A similar example: suppose I sat outside of a dog show killing puppies to protest the puppy mill-style breeding that goes on to produce show dogs. No matter how misguided it is, it's still civil disobedience. Just like the KKK member, I'd (rightly) end up jail. Many civil disobedients do end up going to jail and serving full sentences for their crime -- even if their actions lead to the law being changed.
From wikipedia: "Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power." So yeah, spousal abuse could be seen to be civil disobedience if the KKK member in question was flagrant about it. Bottom line is, civil disobedience means breaking the law. Not every cause is just, and a court's job is to uphold the law -- the people who go to jail might just stay there.
Slashdot editors apparently support this notion of "publish anything, regardless of quality." Is a glowing review from the author's (de facto) agent relevant? Who cares! Publish!
It's (mostly) true! The current generation of kids are consumers, not tinkerers. Chances are, you're a consumer too, and your skills are a result of a childhood well spent. Unless you keep tinkering and raise your kids to do the same, you're safe.