It's not odd, it's common sense. Criminals are not generally very bold and daring people. If you knew someone was most likely caring a gun, would you try to assult them? If you knew that every adult in the school had a weapon, you would think twice before you started shooting. That old bumper sticker that you can see on the back of a redneck's pickup truck "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" is so true to life. If you dumb people down by taking away the ability to make free choices, then you will need to take away all of their freedom. Don't take away someone's ability to break the law; teach them to respect the law. Not so long ago there were communities in which most of the kids routinely carried guns designed with only one purpose- killing things. And believe it or not, they didn't routinely massacre their friends at school.
Ok, ok. It's obvious to all of us that this technology doesn't just zap heat. Nobody ever claimed that. What they're saying is that they've found a very efficient way to pull heat away from a small area. Yes, you will require an old style heat sink to get rid of that heat in the end. But if there's a better method than liquid cooling to get the heat away from my CPU, I'm all for it. If they can make an air conditioner that requires less power I'm all for that, too. I for one am excited about it.
I completely agree. We don't need a blanket law to make everything illegal, and then little amendments to make the kosher things legal. We need enforcement of the perfectly good system that has been around for decades.
I agree with you. The problem that I have isn't with the way theories are generated, it's the way that they are taught as fact- sometimes even after they are blatantly proved wrong.
The biggest hook for me is the fact that our immediate solar system is so incredibly well balanced. I understand (as well as a person can) the sheer size of the universe, and the amount of chances that would have been involved over the vast amounts of time that are routinely suggested by most modern scientists- and I appreciate some of the brilliant ideas that have been proposed. This one strikes me as being one of the best; congrats, you now have a practically infinite amount of time for these perfect conditions to have been randomly generated. But when do you decide that impossible is impossible, no matter how many attempts are involved? I have come to the conclusion that it's statistically impossible for even the simplest life forms to have been thrown together by randomly generated events; let alone involved into intelligent beings that are another [almost] infinite amount more complicated.
There is so much scientific, historical and psychological evidence for biblical creationism that personal experience aside, I would still have to be a creationist. I would welcome any good references for up to date information on evolutionary theory; I don't have the time or the money to become an expert, but I'd love to see what's out there for the casual (and critical) slashdot reader. I have yet to see any good presentations on the subject, but there are a lot of great ones about why it could never work. I'd like to see the other side.
What's wrong with OS X? It's a great operating system. It's downfall is that it only runs on (relatively) expensive hardware. I would be running Mac OS X if it worked on my x86-based system. And I'd still be dual booting Wintendo to play Dark Age of Camelot, unfortunately.
I'm not a huge open source buff, but even I know that Linus is not that excited about Linux. He has repeated time and again that he's not concerned with anything other than his work on the kernel.
We've had a few articles regarding Paypal here, but I have yet to see a Real Person (tm) support the claims made by www.paypalwarning.com using personal experience. Every single person who has posted regarding this subject has said something like "my experience with Paypal has been fine, but my friend heard..." or "this website says.."
Has anyone actually been ripped off by Paypal? I would just assume that www.paypalwarning.com is a hoax, but if it is a hoax, why doesn't Paypal get it shut down? Does anyone have personal experience? I'd like to hear about it.
The point that a few people have made, that most seem to have missed, is that it's possible to make the server refuse to offer this content unless the request is coming from their web page. That's the right way to deal with the issue.
hmm, it sounds like I should read this new Tom Sawyer for uh.. yeah, education. It's a classic, right? Have to read all the classics. It's important. I loved the 90s. It's a crazy world where 21 feels old and outdated.
kids these days... I remember Tom Sawyer. As the story goes, he does not hold a contest. He makes them think that he's having the time of his life and in fact talks them into paying him to be allowed to paint the fence. It was a great idea. And the idea of holding a contest for a cool program for Google is a pretty good idea too.
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Last time I broke my arm, I was about half a mile from the ski lodge. I wanted so bad to snowboard down to it, but anytime I got to my feet my vision would go dim and I'd start to lose consciousness.
Last time I broke a bit on my CNC router, it continued to run until I hit the stop button.
I'd say that drones are more capable in some ways of performing with disabilities than we are.
And the reason to make metal robots is that flest robots are afraid to die. Metal robots don't have to be.
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I don't understand the Slashdot community's response to this. It's better than a bike because it's powered; no work involved. It's better than both a bike and a scooter because you can ride it into the mall, you can keep it with you while you shop, you rarely have to find a parking spot and it doesn't make a lot of noise. Think about last time you were at an air show or an expo or something. Remember the golf carts? Yes. No more golf carts. There's a reason those people like golf carts more than bikes or scooters- you don't have to balance, you can stop and look around, you don't have to put your feet down to keep in your place and you can just leave it where it's at and go running without putting the kick stand down. Speaking of golf carts, when is the last time you went golfing? I'd sure like my golf bag to have wheels on it and balance itself and follow me around on my own IT. The potential is there.
I think everyone has missed the point. Hardware and software that makes it possible (and easy) to illegally distribute copyrighted data is not a problem. The problem is that people (yes, us) use these networks and applications to distribute data illegally. Napster didn't do anything wrong. The people using the service did. They don't need to breach our freedom to stop this. They need to bring charges against the people who are breaking the law. It's not a difficult thing to find someone who is sharing files on a P2P network, especially if you can get search warrants for server rooms and things of that nature. Leave my rights (digital and otherwise) alone.
My friend has a 15 CD (full) collection of new popular music videos that he has downloaded for free from the internet. The same issue exists with the copying of music videos.
Right now? No. Not enough places use a unified login. In the future? Perhaps. In the future, I hope to go to a web site and have the choice of "Use my Microsoft Passport account" or "Use my [insert name of open source alternative here] account". I'd love to have my web-based e-mail, ebay, slashdot and all of my online merchants use the same login and password- without the risk of someone working at ebay stealing my password and using it at cdw.com or something. I'd love to be able to just give my authorization and have my secure payments made without the hassle of a credit card- and then choose from my list of authorized shipping addresses. Basically, I want a paypal that everyone accepts. That's what Microsoft.NET promises me. And I'd prefer to not use a Microsoft product.
I work for a small business with limited credit. We have about 6 credit cards. I'm constantly getting a new number from the accountant when he says "Luke's card is maxed out, use Steve's" or something like that... it's not a big deal, it's just a little extra hassle. And the way I understand the.NET initiative, its going to take care of that problem for me.
The benefit to you, Joe Consumer, is that with one unified login you can purchase things and sign up for services that DO need that information. It keeps you from needing a list of logins, passwords, credit card numbers and paper records of all your purchases.
All of that information will be online, secure (in theory) and no matter where you are in the world it will be there for you.
It's a great service. The only downside is that the world's biggest monopoly owns it, and wants to make bank from it. And they will.
Now would be a Really Good Time for the open source community to step up and offer a truly secure alternative with better functionality. Good luck guys.
Maybe it's just me and maybe I'm on crack. But has nobody else seriously considered the possibility that this might actually be secret message? The character Bert may have nothing to do with it, but these people aren't stupid. They knew enough to learn how to fly and hijack four planes. They know what kind of media coverage they get, and they know that a picture of Bert on a poster at a pro bin Ladin demonstration would be totally out of place and attract attention. The posters are huge, there are lots of clear pictures of them and the photographs around the perimeter could easily be seen as sequential (most likely counter clockwise around his head, since Arabic is read left-to-right) and symbolic. Does anyone know where those pictures came from originally and what events he was speaking at when they were taken and stuff?
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It's not odd, it's common sense. Criminals are not generally very bold and daring people. If you knew someone was most likely caring a gun, would you try to assult them? If you knew that every adult in the school had a weapon, you would think twice before you started shooting. That old bumper sticker that you can see on the back of a redneck's pickup truck "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" is so true to life. If you dumb people down by taking away the ability to make free choices, then you will need to take away all of their freedom. Don't take away someone's ability to break the law; teach them to respect the law. Not so long ago there were communities in which most of the kids routinely carried guns designed with only one purpose- killing things. And believe it or not, they didn't routinely massacre their friends at school.
Ok, ok. It's obvious to all of us that this technology doesn't just zap heat. Nobody ever claimed that. What they're saying is that they've found a very efficient way to pull heat away from a small area. Yes, you will require an old style heat sink to get rid of that heat in the end. But if there's a better method than liquid cooling to get the heat away from my CPU, I'm all for it. If they can make an air conditioner that requires less power I'm all for that, too. I for one am excited about it.
I completely agree. We don't need a blanket law to make everything illegal, and then little amendments to make the kosher things legal. We need enforcement of the perfectly good system that has been around for decades.
I agree with you. The problem that I have isn't with the way theories are generated, it's the way that they are taught as fact- sometimes even after they are blatantly proved wrong.
The biggest hook for me is the fact that our immediate solar system is so incredibly well balanced. I understand (as well as a person can) the sheer size of the universe, and the amount of chances that would have been involved over the vast amounts of time that are routinely suggested by most modern scientists- and I appreciate some of the brilliant ideas that have been proposed. This one strikes me as being one of the best; congrats, you now have a practically infinite amount of time for these perfect conditions to have been randomly generated. But when do you decide that impossible is impossible, no matter how many attempts are involved? I have come to the conclusion that it's statistically impossible for even the simplest life forms to have been thrown together by randomly generated events; let alone involved into intelligent beings that are another [almost] infinite amount more complicated.
There is so much scientific, historical and psychological evidence for biblical creationism that personal experience aside, I would still have to be a creationist. I would welcome any good references for up to date information on evolutionary theory; I don't have the time or the money to become an expert, but I'd love to see what's out there for the casual (and critical) slashdot reader. I have yet to see any good presentations on the subject, but there are a lot of great ones about why it could never work. I'd like to see the other side.
What's wrong with OS X? It's a great operating system. It's downfall is that it only runs on (relatively) expensive hardware. I would be running Mac OS X if it worked on my x86-based system. And I'd still be dual booting Wintendo to play Dark Age of Camelot, unfortunately.
I'm not a huge open source buff, but even I know that Linus is not that excited about Linux. He has repeated time and again that he's not concerned with anything other than his work on the kernel.
Guam. The national ID is handled using a spreadsheet. We stopped printing a hard copy every day ever since it started taking more than one page.
We've had a few articles regarding Paypal here, but I have yet to see a Real Person (tm) support the claims made by www.paypalwarning.com using personal experience. Every single person who has posted regarding this subject has said something like "my experience with Paypal has been fine, but my friend heard..." or "this website says.."
Has anyone actually been ripped off by Paypal? I would just assume that www.paypalwarning.com is a hoax, but if it is a hoax, why doesn't Paypal get it shut down? Does anyone have personal experience? I'd like to hear about it.
The point that a few people have made, that most seem to have missed, is that it's possible to make the server refuse to offer this content unless the request is coming from their web page. That's the right way to deal with the issue.
hmm, it sounds like I should read this new Tom Sawyer for uh.. yeah, education. It's a classic, right? Have to read all the classics. It's important. I loved the 90s. It's a crazy world where 21 feels old and outdated.
kids these days... I remember Tom Sawyer. As the story goes, he does not hold a contest. He makes them think that he's having the time of his life and in fact talks them into paying him to be allowed to paint the fence. It was a great idea. And the idea of holding a contest for a cool program for Google is a pretty good idea too.
Last time I broke my arm, I was about half a mile from the ski lodge. I wanted so bad to snowboard down to it, but anytime I got to my feet my vision would go dim and I'd start to lose consciousness.
Last time I broke a bit on my CNC router, it continued to run until I hit the stop button.
I'd say that drones are more capable in some ways of performing with disabilities than we are.
And the reason to make metal robots is that flest robots are afraid to die. Metal robots don't have to be.
I don't understand the Slashdot community's response to this. It's better than a bike because it's powered; no work involved. It's better than both a bike and a scooter because you can ride it into the mall, you can keep it with you while you shop, you rarely have to find a parking spot and it doesn't make a lot of noise. Think about last time you were at an air show or an expo or something. Remember the golf carts? Yes. No more golf carts. There's a reason those people like golf carts more than bikes or scooters- you don't have to balance, you can stop and look around, you don't have to put your feet down to keep in your place and you can just leave it where it's at and go running without putting the kick stand down. Speaking of golf carts, when is the last time you went golfing? I'd sure like my golf bag to have wheels on it and balance itself and follow me around on my own IT. The potential is there.
I think everyone has missed the point. Hardware and software that makes it possible (and easy) to illegally distribute copyrighted data is not a problem. The problem is that people (yes, us) use these networks and applications to distribute data illegally. Napster didn't do anything wrong. The people using the service did. They don't need to breach our freedom to stop this. They need to bring charges against the people who are breaking the law. It's not a difficult thing to find someone who is sharing files on a P2P network, especially if you can get search warrants for server rooms and things of that nature. Leave my rights (digital and otherwise) alone.
My friend has a 15 CD (full) collection of new popular music videos that he has downloaded for free from the internet. The same issue exists with the copying of music videos.
Right now? No. Not enough places use a unified login. In the future? Perhaps. In the future, I hope to go to a web site and have the choice of "Use my Microsoft Passport account" or "Use my [insert name of open source alternative here] account". I'd love to have my web-based e-mail, ebay, slashdot and all of my online merchants use the same login and password- without the risk of someone working at ebay stealing my password and using it at cdw.com or something. I'd love to be able to just give my authorization and have my secure payments made without the hassle of a credit card- and then choose from my list of authorized shipping addresses. Basically, I want a paypal that everyone accepts. That's what Microsoft .NET promises me. And I'd prefer to not use a Microsoft product.
Funny, the top 5 places where I buy things on the net on a regular basis all require accounts.
... it's not a big deal, it's just a little extra hassle. And the way I understand the .NET initiative, its going to take care of that problem for me.
www.cdw.com
www.compuplus.com
www.ebay.com (uses e-mail address, thankfully)
www.microx-press.com
www.gothicauctions.com
I work for a small business with limited credit. We have about 6 credit cards. I'm constantly getting a new number from the accountant when he says "Luke's card is maxed out, use Steve's" or something like that
The benefit to you, Joe Consumer, is that with one unified login you can purchase things and sign up for services that DO need that information. It keeps you from needing a list of logins, passwords, credit card numbers and paper records of all your purchases.
All of that information will be online, secure (in theory) and no matter where you are in the world it will be there for you.
It's a great service. The only downside is that the world's biggest monopoly owns it, and wants to make bank from it. And they will.
Now would be a Really Good Time for the open source community to step up and offer a truly secure alternative with better functionality. Good luck guys.
Maybe it's just me and maybe I'm on crack. But has nobody else seriously considered the possibility that this might actually be secret message? The character Bert may have nothing to do with it, but these people aren't stupid. They knew enough to learn how to fly and hijack four planes. They know what kind of media coverage they get, and they know that a picture of Bert on a poster at a pro bin Ladin demonstration would be totally out of place and attract attention. The posters are huge, there are lots of clear pictures of them and the photographs around the perimeter could easily be seen as sequential (most likely counter clockwise around his head, since Arabic is read left-to-right) and symbolic. Does anyone know where those pictures came from originally and what events he was speaking at when they were taken and stuff?