I don't even think that's funny. They'll emit all kind of hydrocarbons, and you know all "nonenvironmentalists" will be hard pressed to keep their hands off of the virgin oil in its undecomposed state.
Alive, an environmentalist can kill those who are making more of an impact than lighting a few papers on fire every day. Or seriously, influence public policy so everyone is less destructive in their daily lives.
I've actually heard someone say that they'd rather have more money than cleaner air. I guess they don't think breathing well would improve their life.
"I can always buy air filters with my money," or something to that effect. It's gosh darn arrogant goatse-holes like that that make the world a harder place to live.
The RFID tags are not going to be in the food you eat, rather they are in the packaging the food comes in. This presents a problem for things like fruit, since now you might only be able to buy fruit and veggies from a store if they are already in a bag, or in a specific bag with the right ID tag.
It is not a ploy to get you to swallow tags so your toilet can analyse your leavings, like in the recent hit movie "The Island".
Canadian ranchers are also working on getting every cow RFID tagged, and testing each one for BSE before it goes to market.
" There's no problem here. This guy is posing his rant in order to generate interest in his company to better secure his job. We should make every car part interoperable between manufacturers, and make every TV the same size so that everyone sees the same picture. I'm sure it won't stifle development."
Last time I checked, I could phone a phone in the UK or the US without problem, from my home in Canada. Why should it be so hard to get a text message to someone in the same places when we both have Windows [or another popular OS]?
Maybe it's unrealistic for everything to be interoperable, but what's so hard about making a computer based communication medium more transparent like the telephone is?
Yeah, but then those darn Zuluians get to have New Years first, you just can't win.
I think once we have colonies of people on the Moon and Mars, we'll switch to Zulu time or something derivative of that to avoid confusion when talking with people who aren't on earth.
Does the Day start when it's 12:00 AM GMT, or 00:00 Local Standard Time? Or Daylight Time I guess that would be right now? Does everyone celebrate it within the same 24 hour period, or do some countries get to enjoy the day before others?
The Republican government lays yet another blow on science in America. As if Bush coming out and saying he supports Intelligent Design wasn't bad enough, now we're going to lose 300 of our most experienced robotic mission specialists. I hear China is looking to put a robot on the Moon by the end of the decade, maybe they can find work with the communists?
"why is the slashdot community constantly defending freedom when it comes to P2P networks, but the first on the bandwagon to condemn spyware."
Because spyware be definition spies, while Peer2Peer shares. Spyware also resists being removed in many cases, either through poor programming or in a deliberate attempt to evade removal such as Hotbar, CoolWebSearch, or 180Solutions.
If it talks like a virus, and walks like a virus, it's a virus. P2P doesn't act like a virus [in most cases], it's more like a web browser than anything bad like spyware. The key is that the computer user knows they are using it. With spyware they don't want their computer to be used and broken by it because they didn't even put it there on purpose.
But that's not what eBay's legal agreement says when you sign up. They are just the venue, and aren't responsible for the auction results legally. Or at least that's what they claim. I don't know if it's been challenged in the US yet.
Obviously eBay IS the one conducting the auction to some extent, and should be the ones required to be bonded. But they'd charge people much more to sell which would make things a bit safer, but eliminate most of their profits and sellers like me. I only sell for fun, and for funny.
Seriously it's about time we made spyware illegal domesticly, and worry about foriegn installs later. We could also make it illegal to benefit from spyware in any provable way so a domestic company can't simly hire a foriegn spyware company to do the dirty work here at home. It's a crime to look through someone's window with the intent to invade their privacy, and spyware is a heck of a lot more intimate in some cases, it only stands to reason that those people developing it should be held accountable. I mean why are we starting to accuse P2P designers of enabling piracy, yet it's just hunky dory to design a program to gather information as long as it doesn't spread from computer to computer without a hidden legal agreement?
TV has been popular because it's a very cheap way to get mass media. If you don't subscribe to cable, it's less expensive than a newspaper subscription, and comes with as many laughs and information sources if you have good local stations like most people have in Canada.
The decline of TV is near, because when a company like Itunes takes over TV "broadcasting" we'll see people moving away from watching TV in the evening as their primary source of entertainment. Since gathering with neighbours is out of the question because of the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt that suberbia thrives on, the Internet and interactive gaming will probably be the wave of the entertainment future. Just look at today's 8 year olds, and see what they find when they go online - it's online games and IM. That's what it could be like for most adults once they turn 25.
Ther are some constants to human entertainment throughout the ages and they are: gathering music dancing alcohol being an audience playing games
It works for me now I'm pleased to say. I don't know if I noticed it before, but there are boot options that involve typing: linux noapci nolapci or something like that, and then the install proceeded to work. I'm writing this comment now from Firefox in Ubuntu. Gaim is working as is my sound, network, and apparently my video card. I'm pretty pleased right now. It even offered to update to the latest security patches as soon as I started, and installed without trouble.
Now I just have to configure the bootloader to load Windows by default, and I'm back in business.
Good point about photo paper being different for laser and INKjets [bubble can't be laser and everyone knows it's ink].
Not many PEOPLE have access to a $27K printer though. And at that price you have to print a lot of photos to bring your total cost per page down if you take into account the cost of the printer too [which I didn't for this example so you get away free from that nitpick].
My overall point though is of course that inkjet printers are the new disposable razors, or the kind where you replace the blade. The ink is the consumable blade, and once you have the "handle" [printer] they can charge whatever they want for the "blade" [ink cartridge].
I may not pay $0.66CND for a photo paper sheet, but if you went into Staples you'd probably find they cost about that much. Where do you buy it? I don't buy any paper; I don't print photos, I only take them and put them on CDs and websites.
Do you have an estimate for how many sheets your ink lasts?
Isn't the issue though about a few powerful monopolies killing the competition or taking advantage of there being no competition [thus not capitalism], and caluding with other monopolies to raise profits above a reasonable level?
You might ask what's reasonable? Reasonable is the point where you can continue to grow the company and profits. Beyond that is what you have with the oil industry these days; another case of price fixing that consumers don't stand for [or at least pretend they don't stand for it].
RAM is as essential a commodity these days as gasoline is, in almost any 1st world economy.
Does this open the door to a class action lawsuit against Samsun or other chip manufacturers, so that we can recover some of the lost money we paid out in an agreement we though was fair at the time [or at least fair enough to bother buying?].
How is the consumer going to see any of this fine money otherwise?
"How many other states than Kansas are teaching intelligent design? Can you name one? " Georgia for one. Penn. is another obviously because there's a legal battle right now in the courts about religion myth creeping into science rooms in a sanctioned way. Georgia had at least one county that was required to hire students this past winter to remove stickers on text books calling into question the validity of evolution; some nonsense about "evolution being only a theory [well duh, it just happens to be a darn good theory with mountains of evidence], and alternative views existing". I dare you to google it and see for yourself. I'm too afraid I'll get depressed if I know the exact staggering number of states that support ID in the classroom [in at least one school district].
Religion is one, although not the ONLY enemy of science education around the world. The funny thing is that science education isn't really an enemy of religion. You can be a scientist and still be religious, and it's possible to be a religious person who respects science as the best way to discover the physical world around you. It's just that a great many scientists don't care to have the world's children be taught crappy ideas with no basis in fact, in a deliberate attempt to hide observable facts.
" "Hundreds of years ago the most read books were written by scientists like Newton."
Got data for that? "
Nope, that would be a good thing to have though I agree. First one to find it wins the science challenge. First one to declare they are right because God says so wins the religious dogma challenge.
I believe he's talking about things as if it were a perfect world. Obvously the religious fundamentalists do have significant influence on schools as indicated by the number of states like Kansas that adopted Intelligent Design, or stickers questioning the validity of evolution.
In a more perfect world, the Supreme court would hear the challenge within days and the proper science ciriculum would be restored before any damage to kids was done.
With Roberts and Miers headed to the court though, it remains to be seen if science is safe even in the long term challenges we face.
Media in a lot of respects is responsible for the slide into a dumbing down of our society. The venerable Jon Stewart for example may have common sense when it comes to domestic politics and comedy, but he sucks at science. His eyes glaze over whenever a scientific topic comes up, and the jokes are always lame when he's discussing space or discovery.
Hundreds of years ago the most read books were written by scientists like Newton. Now that anyone can write for the world to read it, it only stands to reason that the quality will go down. The problem is that too many people believe the drivel they read, and don't think about it in a critical way.
Stewart had Outkast on his show, and the guy was playing with his PDA the entire time. Stewart obviously made a joke about it. But what saddened me is Outkast was bragging about his new home water filtration system, and was telling Steward how dirty the home water was before he had the filter installed. What obviously happened is that Outkast was tricked by a scam I learned of in University, where tap water is put into a clean glass, and then two electrodes are put into the water where a current is then passed through it. After a while the water becomes cloudy and yucky. The scam artist tells the victim that their water has that junk hidden in it, then he takes "filtered" water and does the same thing. The result in the filtered water is no clouds, because it's distilled water and doesn't conduct the electricity like the tap water does. The clouds are coming from the metal in the electrodes when it interacts with the minerals in the water.
This scam was given to the public at a science/chemistry lecture at the University of Regina in about 2001 on a topic concerning an erosion of scientific understanding at home about "chemicals".
In response to a radio programme about Intelligent Design, I wrote the following, concerning the potential erorsion of science in Saskatchewan classrooms:
John Gormley of 980 CJME.com had two guests debate Intelligent Design, and sadly almost 2:1 callers thought that ID should be in the science classroom. Every one that gave a reason why they thought that, presented a flawed understanding they held about a scientific concept. As one caller pointed out, only the United States is looking at this debate seriously, and every country in Europe is laughing at it because it's so stupid. Intelligent Design is an attack on science by Christian fundamentalists who want to get their foot in the secular school door. An understanding of science is a blow to the culture of ignorance that a few of the fundamentalist leaders count on to maintain control over a bewildered and sheep like flock.
Here's what I wrote to Gormley, but he was only taking calls so it wasn't read on the air:
Thank you for having a discussion about Intelligent Design today. Your guest Larry Krause put it so well when he said that the effort to insert creationism into the science classroom is a perhaps "well meaning attack on science". Intelligent Design makes no sense in Saskatchewan, where it's apparent that we'll have a half Aboriginal population in a few decades. If we're to require a creator to initiate our earth's development, why should it be a Christian God that puts it all in motion? There are a number of creation theories, and I've seen nothing that the Intelligent Design crowd has put forward that discounts a mythological figure from Aboriginal history being the earth's true creator. -
I don't think it serves our children any better to have Aboriginal creation myths taught in science class than it does to teach them God created your little bits and it wasn't the laws of the universe that did it. But I wanted to make the point that this is about religion, and if someone who's for ID is against Aboriginal creation myth, then they show their true stripes. It isn't about an "intelligent designer" it's about Christianity's God. It isn't about the "science" behind ID [which there is none], it's about injecting Christian myth into a class that our future drug designers, and doctors rely upon to be effective professionals.
It didn't for me, at least the 5.06 version didn't I mean. I have an ATI card though, and I've had bad luck installing most other linux systems, so maybe it's my computer, and not the suckines of the OS install routine. Most linux distros hang upon an installation attempt on my AMD 1800+ with an ATI 8500DV Radeon AIW.
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I don't even think that's funny. They'll emit all kind of hydrocarbons, and you know all "nonenvironmentalists" will be hard pressed to keep their hands off of the virgin oil in its undecomposed state.
Alive, an environmentalist can kill those who are making more of an impact than lighting a few papers on fire every day. Or seriously, influence public policy so everyone is less destructive in their daily lives.
I've actually heard someone say that they'd rather have more money than cleaner air. I guess they don't think breathing well would improve their life.
"I can always buy air filters with my money," or something to that effect. It's gosh darn arrogant goatse-holes like that that make the world a harder place to live.
I thought Toyota would work on a hybrid, it only makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is why they'd try to make a car run on Goatse guy's leavings.
Please Slashdot, don't get hacked/fooled again. Too many eyes are counting on you to keep us pure.
The RFID tags are not going to be in the food you eat, rather they are in the packaging the food comes in. This presents a problem for things like fruit, since now you might only be able to buy fruit and veggies from a store if they are already in a bag, or in a specific bag with the right ID tag.
It is not a ploy to get you to swallow tags so your toilet can analyse your leavings, like in the recent hit movie "The Island".
Canadian ranchers are also working on getting every cow RFID tagged, and testing each one for BSE before it goes to market.
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There's no problem here. This guy is posing his rant in order to generate interest in his company to better secure his job. We should make every car part interoperable between manufacturers, and make every TV the same size so that everyone sees the same picture. I'm sure it won't stifle development."
Last time I checked, I could phone a phone in the UK or the US without problem, from my home in Canada. Why should it be so hard to get a text message to someone in the same places when we both have Windows [or another popular OS]?
Maybe it's unrealistic for everything to be interoperable, but what's so hard about making a computer based communication medium more transparent like the telephone is?
"Microsoft and Yahoo! waved the interoperability flag"
/sometimes Trillian, and Gaim user speaking.
But they both included the Evil Bit, so I don't understand why they don't work together already.
" I will be on that flight."
Who are you? The remains of Scotty, or an Inanimate Carbon Rod?
" Everyone should be on Zulu time "
Yeah, but then those darn Zuluians get to have New Years first, you just can't win.
I think once we have colonies of people on the Moon and Mars, we'll switch to Zulu time or something derivative of that to avoid confusion when talking with people who aren't on earth.
Does the Day start when it's 12:00 AM GMT, or 00:00 Local Standard Time? Or Daylight Time I guess that would be right now? Does everyone celebrate it within the same 24 hour period, or do some countries get to enjoy the day before others?
The Republican government lays yet another blow on science in America. As if Bush coming out and saying he supports Intelligent Design wasn't bad enough, now we're going to lose 300 of our most experienced robotic mission specialists. I hear China is looking to put a robot on the Moon by the end of the decade, maybe they can find work with the communists?
"why is the slashdot community constantly defending freedom when it comes to P2P networks, but the first on the bandwagon to condemn spyware."
Because spyware be definition spies, while Peer2Peer shares. Spyware also resists being removed in many cases, either through poor programming or in a deliberate attempt to evade removal such as Hotbar, CoolWebSearch, or 180Solutions.
If it talks like a virus, and walks like a virus, it's a virus. P2P doesn't act like a virus [in most cases], it's more like a web browser than anything bad like spyware. The key is that the computer user knows they are using it. With spyware they don't want their computer to be used and broken by it because they didn't even put it there on purpose.
But that's not what eBay's legal agreement says when you sign up. They are just the venue, and aren't responsible for the auction results legally. Or at least that's what they claim. I don't know if it's been challenged in the US yet.
Obviously eBay IS the one conducting the auction to some extent, and should be the ones required to be bonded. But they'd charge people much more to sell which would make things a bit safer, but eliminate most of their profits and sellers like me. I only sell for fun, and for funny.
...to welcome our legislating overlords.
Seriously it's about time we made spyware illegal domesticly, and worry about foriegn installs later. We could also make it illegal to benefit from spyware in any provable way so a domestic company can't simly hire a foriegn spyware company to do the dirty work here at home. It's a crime to look through someone's window with the intent to invade their privacy, and spyware is a heck of a lot more intimate in some cases, it only stands to reason that those people developing it should be held accountable. I mean why are we starting to accuse P2P designers of enabling piracy, yet it's just hunky dory to design a program to gather information as long as it doesn't spread from computer to computer without a hidden legal agreement?
TV has been popular because it's a very cheap way to get mass media. If you don't subscribe to cable, it's less expensive than a newspaper subscription, and comes with as many laughs and information sources if you have good local stations like most people have in Canada.
The decline of TV is near, because when a company like Itunes takes over TV "broadcasting" we'll see people moving away from watching TV in the evening as their primary source of entertainment. Since gathering with neighbours is out of the question because of the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt that suberbia thrives on, the Internet and interactive gaming will probably be the wave of the entertainment future. Just look at today's 8 year olds, and see what they find when they go online - it's online games and IM. That's what it could be like for most adults once they turn 25.
Ther are some constants to human entertainment throughout the ages and they are:
gathering
music
dancing
alcohol
being an audience
playing games
It works for me now I'm pleased to say. I don't know if I noticed it before, but there are boot options that involve typing:
linux noapci nolapci or something like that, and then the install proceeded to work. I'm writing this comment now from Firefox in Ubuntu. Gaim is working as is my sound, network, and apparently my video card. I'm pretty pleased right now. It even offered to update to the latest security patches as soon as I started, and installed without trouble.
Now I just have to configure the bootloader to load Windows by default, and I'm back in business.
Good point about photo paper being different for laser and INKjets [bubble can't be laser and everyone knows it's ink].
Not many PEOPLE have access to a $27K printer though. And at that price you have to print a lot of photos to bring your total cost per page down if you take into account the cost of the printer too [which I didn't for this example so you get away free from that nitpick].
My overall point though is of course that inkjet printers are the new disposable razors, or the kind where you replace the blade. The ink is the consumable blade, and once you have the "handle" [printer] they can charge whatever they want for the "blade" [ink cartridge].
I may not pay $0.66CND for a photo paper sheet, but if you went into Staples you'd probably find they cost about that much. Where do you buy it? I don't buy any paper; I don't print photos, I only take them and put them on CDs and websites.
Do you have an estimate for how many sheets your ink lasts?
"the feds denying your reward on investment?"
Isn't the issue though about a few powerful monopolies killing the competition or taking advantage of there being no competition [thus not capitalism], and caluding with other monopolies to raise profits above a reasonable level?
You might ask what's reasonable? Reasonable is the point where you can continue to grow the company and profits. Beyond that is what you have with the oil industry these days; another case of price fixing that consumers don't stand for [or at least pretend they don't stand for it].
RAM is as essential a commodity these days as gasoline is, in almost any 1st world economy.
Does this open the door to a class action lawsuit against Samsun or other chip manufacturers, so that we can recover some of the lost money we paid out in an agreement we though was fair at the time [or at least fair enough to bother buying?].
How is the consumer going to see any of this fine money otherwise?
"How many other states than Kansas are teaching intelligent design? Can you name one? "
Georgia for one. Penn. is another obviously because there's a legal battle right now in the courts about religion myth creeping into science rooms in a sanctioned way. Georgia had at least one county that was required to hire students this past winter to remove stickers on text books calling into question the validity of evolution; some nonsense about "evolution being only a theory [well duh, it just happens to be a darn good theory with mountains of evidence], and alternative views existing". I dare you to google it and see for yourself. I'm too afraid I'll get depressed if I know the exact staggering number of states that support ID in the classroom [in at least one school district].
Religion is one, although not the ONLY enemy of science education around the world. The funny thing is that science education isn't really an enemy of religion. You can be a scientist and still be religious, and it's possible to be a religious person who respects science as the best way to discover the physical world around you. It's just that a great many scientists don't care to have the world's children be taught crappy ideas with no basis in fact, in a deliberate attempt to hide observable facts.
" "Hundreds of years ago the most read books were written by scientists like Newton."
Got data for that? "
Nope, that would be a good thing to have though I agree. First one to find it wins the science challenge. First one to declare they are right because God says so wins the religious dogma challenge.
I believe he's talking about things as if it were a perfect world. Obvously the religious fundamentalists do have significant influence on schools as indicated by the number of states like Kansas that adopted Intelligent Design, or stickers questioning the validity of evolution.
In a more perfect world, the Supreme court would hear the challenge within days and the proper science ciriculum would be restored before any damage to kids was done.
With Roberts and Miers headed to the court though, it remains to be seen if science is safe even in the long term challenges we face.
Media in a lot of respects is responsible for the slide into a dumbing down of our society. The venerable Jon Stewart for example may have common sense when it comes to domestic politics and comedy, but he sucks at science. His eyes glaze over whenever a scientific topic comes up, and the jokes are always lame when he's discussing space or discovery.
Hundreds of years ago the most read books were written by scientists like Newton. Now that anyone can write for the world to read it, it only stands to reason that the quality will go down. The problem is that too many people believe the drivel they read, and don't think about it in a critical way.
Stewart had Outkast on his show, and the guy was playing with his PDA the entire time. Stewart obviously made a joke about it. But what saddened me is Outkast was bragging about his new home water filtration system, and was telling Steward how dirty the home water was before he had the filter installed. What obviously happened is that Outkast was tricked by a scam I learned of in University, where tap water is put into a clean glass, and then two electrodes are put into the water where a current is then passed through it. After a while the water becomes cloudy and yucky. The scam artist tells the victim that their water has that junk hidden in it, then he takes "filtered" water and does the same thing. The result in the filtered water is no clouds, because it's distilled water and doesn't conduct the electricity like the tap water does. The clouds are coming from the metal in the electrodes when it interacts with the minerals in the water.
This scam was given to the public at a science/chemistry lecture at the University of Regina in about 2001 on a topic concerning an erosion of scientific understanding at home about "chemicals".
In response to a radio programme about Intelligent Design, I wrote the following, concerning the potential erorsion of science in Saskatchewan classrooms:
John Gormley of 980 CJME.com had two guests debate Intelligent Design, and sadly almost 2:1 callers thought that ID should be in the science classroom. Every one that gave a reason why they thought that, presented a flawed understanding they held about a scientific concept. As one caller pointed out, only the United States is looking at this debate seriously, and every country in Europe is laughing at it because it's so stupid. Intelligent Design is an attack on science by Christian fundamentalists who want to get their foot in the secular school door. An understanding of science is a blow to the culture of ignorance that a few of the fundamentalist leaders count on to maintain control over a bewildered and sheep like flock.
Here's what I wrote to Gormley, but he was only taking calls so it wasn't read on the air:
Thank you for having a discussion about Intelligent Design today. Your guest Larry Krause put it so well when he said that the effort to insert creationism into the science classroom is a perhaps "well meaning attack on science". Intelligent Design makes no sense in Saskatchewan, where it's apparent that we'll have a half Aboriginal population in a few decades. If we're to require a creator to initiate our earth's development, why should it be a Christian God that puts it all in motion? There are a number of creation theories, and I've seen nothing that the Intelligent Design crowd has put forward that discounts a mythological figure from Aboriginal history being the earth's true creator.
-
I don't think it serves our children any better to have Aboriginal creation myths taught in science class than it does to teach them God created your little bits and it wasn't the laws of the universe that did it. But I wanted to make the point that this is about religion, and if someone who's for ID is against Aboriginal creation myth, then they show their true stripes. It isn't about an "intelligent designer" it's about Christianity's God. It isn't about the "science" behind ID [which there is none], it's about injecting Christian myth into a class that our future drug designers, and doctors rely upon to be effective professionals.
" Fair *and* Balanced. "
That depends on what your definition of the word "and" is.
Ba-dum-DA!
" It just works. "
It didn't for me, at least the 5.06 version didn't I mean. I have an ATI card though, and I've had bad luck installing most other linux systems, so maybe it's my computer, and not the suckines of the OS install routine. Most linux distros hang upon an installation attempt on my AMD 1800+ with an ATI 8500DV Radeon AIW.