Notice the article opens with the line "While searching for my soulmate...". lol! As to believing things which are dubious, start with phenomenology and the whole conundrum of consciousness, and... who am I talking to again...?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs
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That also depends on appropriate rights being provided according to each deparment's needs. IME if you trust the development team or engineering group completely to responsibly use the tools they need themselves, you will end up with more productive and happier staff. For example, by allowing the team(s) to manage their own development or application server's. And for management, many of the risks can be mitigated at the router. This way most of the 'desktop administration' eventually takes care of itself through effective teamwork.
Several months ago I tested several remote desktop solutions for Unix. Included in the list were various free VNC products. In the end I found that plain old XForwarding over SSH had by far the best smoothness and response time. Currently I use Cygwin's XWin.exe for the client end when I'm on a Win32 based system. On the server side, the only thing required (in OpenBSD) was to set 'X11Forwarding yes' in/etc/ssh/sshd_config. That's it! Of course using a light GUI like fluxbox also helps.
If you embed a signiature of the file into the file, this by definition changes the file's signiature. At best you can append the signiature. However if the file can be modified, so can it's signiature.
If these folks have figured out a way of circumventing this innate paradox, I'm impressed and am dying to hear more about the technology/mathematics behind it! Can you say Nobel Prize nomination?
A recent Globe and Mailarticle features a favorable report on the turn around of Mozilla'sbug trackers. Seems that Mozilla may also have plans to impliment an auto-update feature, or at least auto-notifications.
While the transport industry is the most obvious target for the ire of green-energy proponants, in fact the world's largest consumer of fossil fuels is the agricultural industry which uses massive amounts of petro-chemicals in the form of pesticides and fertilizers. It will take a real shift in global agricultural practices before we truly can break free of the oil industry.
A fair majority of the Iraqi are claiming they desire to take their own responsibility for it, yet the Bush administration won't let them. The latest high profile targets of civil unrest have been oil pipelines. As if that isn't the cause of all this distress. Americans fighting over pipelines. It wouldn't exactly be the first time by a long shot. Noble or otherwise, it's time to let go, go home, and put away all the guns and weapons of terror upon foreign citizens. Neither my fathers nor I harm Jews. And I still say it's time for them to do the same aswell.
Mr. Lynds might be benefitted by reading this article referred to yesterday on/. The part of particular interest being "Misconception #3: Comparing Infinite Quantities".
There has been one of these at the Spadina subway station in Toronto for years. It works pretty well. They use it between two sections of perpendicular subway tunnel that are extraordinarily far apart. After living in Toronto for 8 years, I would say that the escalators and the moving sidewalk are out of order roughly 30% of the time. They're great when they work, but I have to question the cost affectiveness.
...designed a fairly efficient hydrogen electrolysis system which could be scaled up to meet the needs of a fuel cell industry. Assuming the hydrogen engines are efficient and temperature regulated so as not to produce toxic nitrides, hydrogen fuel cells may be extremely enviro-friendly alternative to gasoline powered vehicles. This is particularly true if the storage/transport medium is a relatively light one like the numerous metal hydrides which have been developed over the last 40 odd years for this purpose. Exon has funded studies of this technology since the early 70's, and has found that the only significant impediment is building the delivery infrastructure. The only major concern after this point is the environmental impact of the mining industry, since the fuel itself can easily be generated from any clean source of water available.
-Guanno
Pythagorean elements, I Ching, Odu Ifa, etc, etc
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Numerous very ancient systems of metaphysics and science make use of binary systems of thought at their foundation. While they are not all mathematical in the sense we commonly imagine, like mathematics, each binary based system is intended to symbolise and measure the activity of natural phenomena. In the end, whether a system is mathematical or not is an arbitrary chicken/egg question which reduces to whether one system describes the other better or more precisely according to our personal perspectives.
The Taoist I Ching for instance is a metaphysical understanding of the cosmos founded on the binary yin/yang polarity. These represent the receptive (matter) and active (energy) principals of nature respectively. These purely conceptual polarities are next featured in juxtiposition as trigrams, which arrise from the observation that the triangle is the first geometrically 2D shape. As such they represent the basic building blocks of nature on a qualitative level, and mathematically combine to make up a total of 2^3=8 bagua (elemental trigrams). Since yin and yang are understood to arrise from the essential paradox we call life, it is also understood that they each contain their opposite. Likewise since the trigrams each represent a material quality of yin/yang, they must also have a corresponding energetic quality. As such each of the manifested 8 elements has a yin and yang counterpart in the form of a hexagram. Thus the I Ching is ultimately composed of 8^2=64 hexagrams which represent each of the possible distinct manifestations of yin/yang in nature.
In Western mathematics we find a similar line of thinking expressed by Empedocles who was an initiate of the Pythagorean order. As a mystic philosopher, Empedocles gives us a profound and simple insight into the concepts upon which Pythagorean cosmology, and therefore also our Western math are based. As Aristotle explains in his essay on generation and corruption, Empedocles cosmology is based upon two primal opposites (our binary system), from which all other elements take shape. Aristotle likens the two most basic elements to matter and energy specifically, though they take their basis in myth from a more subjective qualitative pair, love and strife respectively. Love is thus the conceptual force which draws together and binds things, and strife that which seperates and repells. Empedocles likened Love to the element of earth and Strife to fire, though as I mentioned Aristotle clarifies the poetic inference to mean matter and energy respectively. Here is where things diverge from the Chinese system. Empedocles explains that these two elements mix to form the mediating elements of water and air. In affect he is indicating the phases of matter, though much more than this is implied since it is not merely a science of physical observation as much as it is a profound insight into the extreme conceptual qualities of all our percievable existance. The duad of primal western math are none other than the immovable object and irresistable force. Plato takes the geometric configuration of the elements into 3 dimensions in his discussion of the Platonic Solids, though they also feature symbolically in the essential circle (matter) and line (energy) of Euclidian geometry. The roots of math are as deep as the human condition, love and war, and the harmony which is born of these equal and undeniable laws of human nature. It's not practical to note all of the many permutations of this system of thought which arrose from the mediteranean, but suffice it to say that the 5 elements of occult fame, still have relevance and preoccupy the minds of scientists of all sorts to this day, though they don't know it and would likely deny it were even the mere possibility suggested. Nonetheless, the same system of mathematical/metaphysical symbolism found it's way from Grecian philosophy to Hebrew mysticism and doctrine, from Theogony and Isopsephia to Kabbalah and Gematria respectively.
Similar systems of cosmology and mathematics arrise in many other diverse systems such
In fact it's even encoded in our written language (just to show how old the idea is). The Phoenician, Hebrew, Norse and probably other written languages all have as their first letter, the idea of money or wealth, in the form of cattle. The letter "A" for instance is originally a pictogram depicting the (inverted) head of a bull. The Romans got it from the Greeks who got it from the Phoenicians, a people who came right from the cradle of "civilisation" and the originators of written language. That inverted bull's head signifies the primacy of material wealth in ancient agricultural civilisation. It's still true. He who has the most cattle, gets to be the King.
-Guanno
Imagine the heatsinks...
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...you could make with this technology were it in production. Those old Durons and heat-sinkless video cards could translate to some funky server room back-lighting. Just think of the kinds of case mods which would be possible...
As a 'Canuckistani' I can tell you that the biggest trouble we have with the US is the electoral politics. Corporate lobbies are the steering wheel of US government.
Take the eternally recurrent cycle of tarrifs on Canadian wheat and lumber for example. Every time there is an election, we get this BS from the US government with whom we have a standing FREE TRADE agreement.
Why? Is it because after several arbitrations with the WTO over the years, Canadians have been found to have shady business practices? No. It's because acquiescing to US economic lobbies means votes for the party currently in power and seeking reelection. Canadians suffer unfairly as a result.. over and over. THAT is what pisses off Canadians about the US. To see it you only have to take a look at the wheeling and dealing going on right now over business contracts to rebuild the infrastructure in Iraq and Afganistan. There have been a few/. articles on this already. Canadians are not as likely to try and blow up the WTC towers as a result, but there are citizens of other nations likewise treated who aren't necessarily intent on pacifistic solutions.
Of course this is not to mention clueless Buffalo NY citizens driving over the border in >90*F July weather looking for our closest skii resort.
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Notice the article opens with the line "While searching for my soulmate...". lol! As to believing things which are dubious, start with phenomenology and the whole conundrum of consciousness, and ... who am I talking to again ...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca
Haikus are poems
with seventeen syllables
in three lines of verse
That also depends on appropriate rights being provided according to each deparment's needs. IME if you trust the development team or engineering group completely to responsibly use the tools they need themselves, you will end up with more productive and happier staff. For example, by allowing the team(s) to manage their own development or application server's. And for management, many of the risks can be mitigated at the router. This way most of the 'desktop administration' eventually takes care of itself through effective teamwork.
I wonder if tor works from inside the great firewall of China. Any Chinese folks who've tried it and care to comment?
Several months ago I tested several remote desktop solutions for Unix. Included in the list were various free VNC products. In the end I found that plain old XForwarding over SSH had by far the best smoothness and response time. Currently I use Cygwin's XWin.exe for the client end when I'm on a Win32 based system. On the server side, the only thing required (in OpenBSD) was to set 'X11Forwarding yes' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. That's it! Of course using a light GUI like fluxbox also helps.
If you embed a signiature of the file into the file, this by definition changes the file's signiature. At best you can append the signiature. However if the file can be modified, so can it's signiature.
If these folks have figured out a way of circumventing this innate paradox, I'm impressed and am dying to hear more about the technology/mathematics behind it! Can you say Nobel Prize nomination?
Feed your password to md5sum and use the result as your password. Works for remote access and root passwords at least.
Just found the page for Handling Mozilla Security Bugs.
A recent Globe and Mail article features a favorable report on the turn around of Mozilla's bug trackers. Seems that Mozilla may also have plans to impliment an auto-update feature, or at least auto-notifications.
...is not vulnerable.
While the transport industry is the most obvious target for the ire of green-energy proponants, in fact the world's largest consumer of fossil fuels is the agricultural industry which uses massive amounts of petro-chemicals in the form of pesticides and fertilizers. It will take a real shift in global agricultural practices before we truly can break free of the oil industry.
A fair majority of the Iraqi are claiming they desire to take their own responsibility for it, yet the Bush administration won't let them. The latest high profile targets of civil unrest have been oil pipelines. As if that isn't the cause of all this distress. Americans fighting over pipelines. It wouldn't exactly be the first time by a long shot. Noble or otherwise, it's time to let go, go home, and put away all the guns and weapons of terror upon foreign citizens. Neither my fathers nor I harm Jews. And I still say it's time for them to do the same aswell.
Peace.
Mr. Lynds might be benefitted by reading this article referred to yesterday on /. The part of particular interest being "Misconception #3: Comparing Infinite Quantities".
There has been one of these at the Spadina subway station in Toronto for years. It works pretty well. They use it between two sections of perpendicular subway tunnel that are extraordinarily far apart. After living in Toronto for 8 years, I would say that the escalators and the moving sidewalk are out of order roughly 30% of the time. They're great when they work, but I have to question the cost affectiveness.
I beg to differ. Apple's core competence is in making systems that are sexy. :)
-Guanno
...designed a fairly efficient hydrogen electrolysis system which could be scaled up to meet the needs of a fuel cell industry. Assuming the hydrogen engines are efficient and temperature regulated so as not to produce toxic nitrides, hydrogen fuel cells may be extremely enviro-friendly alternative to gasoline powered vehicles. This is particularly true if the storage/transport medium is a relatively light one like the numerous metal hydrides which have been developed over the last 40 odd years for this purpose. Exon has funded studies of this technology since the early 70's, and has found that the only significant impediment is building the delivery infrastructure. The only major concern after this point is the environmental impact of the mining industry, since the fuel itself can easily be generated from any clean source of water available.
-Guanno
Numerous very ancient systems of metaphysics and science make use of binary systems of thought at their foundation. While they are not all mathematical in the sense we commonly imagine, like mathematics, each binary based system is intended to symbolise and measure the activity of natural phenomena. In the end, whether a system is mathematical or not is an arbitrary chicken/egg question which reduces to whether one system describes the other better or more precisely according to our personal perspectives.
The Taoist I Ching for instance is a metaphysical understanding of the cosmos founded on the binary yin/yang polarity. These represent the receptive (matter) and active (energy) principals of nature respectively. These purely conceptual polarities are next featured in juxtiposition as trigrams, which arrise from the observation that the triangle is the first geometrically 2D shape. As such they represent the basic building blocks of nature on a qualitative level, and mathematically combine to make up a total of 2^3=8 bagua (elemental trigrams). Since yin and yang are understood to arrise from the essential paradox we call life, it is also understood that they each contain their opposite. Likewise since the trigrams each represent a material quality of yin/yang, they must also have a corresponding energetic quality. As such each of the manifested 8 elements has a yin and yang counterpart in the form of a hexagram. Thus the I Ching is ultimately composed of 8^2=64 hexagrams which represent each of the possible distinct manifestations of yin/yang in nature.
In Western mathematics we find a similar line of thinking expressed by Empedocles who was an initiate of the Pythagorean order. As a mystic philosopher, Empedocles gives us a profound and simple insight into the concepts upon which Pythagorean cosmology, and therefore also our Western math are based. As Aristotle explains in his essay on generation and corruption, Empedocles cosmology is based upon two primal opposites (our binary system), from which all other elements take shape. Aristotle likens the two most basic elements to matter and energy specifically, though they take their basis in myth from a more subjective qualitative pair, love and strife respectively. Love is thus the conceptual force which draws together and binds things, and strife that which seperates and repells. Empedocles likened Love to the element of earth and Strife to fire, though as I mentioned Aristotle clarifies the poetic inference to mean matter and energy respectively. Here is where things diverge from the Chinese system. Empedocles explains that these two elements mix to form the mediating elements of water and air. In affect he is indicating the phases of matter, though much more than this is implied since it is not merely a science of physical observation as much as it is a profound insight into the extreme conceptual qualities of all our percievable existance. The duad of primal western math are none other than the immovable object and irresistable force. Plato takes the geometric configuration of the elements into 3 dimensions in his discussion of the Platonic Solids, though they also feature symbolically in the essential circle (matter) and line (energy) of Euclidian geometry. The roots of math are as deep as the human condition, love and war, and the harmony which is born of these equal and undeniable laws of human nature. It's not practical to note all of the many permutations of this system of thought which arrose from the mediteranean, but suffice it to say that the 5 elements of occult fame, still have relevance and preoccupy the minds of scientists of all sorts to this day, though they don't know it and would likely deny it were even the mere possibility suggested. Nonetheless, the same system of mathematical/metaphysical symbolism found it's way from Grecian philosophy to Hebrew mysticism and doctrine, from Theogony and Isopsephia to Kabbalah and Gematria respectively.
Similar systems of cosmology and mathematics arrise in many other diverse systems such
In fact it's even encoded in our written language (just to show how old the idea is). The Phoenician, Hebrew, Norse and probably other written languages all have as their first letter, the idea of money or wealth, in the form of cattle. The letter "A" for instance is originally a pictogram depicting the (inverted) head of a bull. The Romans got it from the Greeks who got it from the Phoenicians, a people who came right from the cradle of "civilisation" and the originators of written language. That inverted bull's head signifies the primacy of material wealth in ancient agricultural civilisation. It's still true. He who has the most cattle, gets to be the King.
-Guanno
...you could make with this technology were it in production. Those old Durons and heat-sinkless video cards could translate to some funky server room back-lighting. Just think of the kinds of case mods which would be possible...
-guanno
I'd say Beaver belongs on that list too! ;)
As a 'Canuckistani' I can tell you that the biggest trouble we have with the US is the electoral politics. Corporate lobbies are the steering wheel of US government.
.. over and over. THAT is what pisses off Canadians about the US. To see it you only have to take a look at the wheeling and dealing going on right now over business contracts to rebuild the infrastructure in Iraq and Afganistan. There have been a few /. articles on this already. Canadians are not as likely to try and blow up the WTC towers as a result, but there are citizens of other nations likewise treated who aren't necessarily intent on pacifistic solutions.
Take the eternally recurrent cycle of tarrifs on Canadian wheat and lumber for example. Every time there is an election, we get this BS from the US government with whom we have a standing FREE TRADE agreement.
Why? Is it because after several arbitrations with the WTO over the years, Canadians have been found to have shady business practices? No. It's because acquiescing to US economic lobbies means votes for the party currently in power and seeking reelection. Canadians suffer unfairly as a result
Of course this is not to mention clueless Buffalo NY citizens driving over the border in >90*F July weather looking for our closest skii resort.
Looks like they are back up. Still no english news coverage, but presumably that's only a normal matter of triage priorities.
The Roman coliseum is still standing.
...would rather not wait on hold (ie. are smart enough not to bother).