Not to further belittle anti-evolutionsts, but their retorts are so clearly identical to my own when I was in grade school that I must lament the disgraceful state of much of our educational system.
Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, but niether is it something to be proud of and defend. If you don't know how bacteria evolved into fish try doing some research. Email people, read books, read the web (wikipedia is excellent for such quandries), EDUCATE yourself and then re-evalute your question and you'll realize how simple it sounds to the educated masses.
Now in response; Why should this particular church involve itself AT ALL with scientific topics? If a love of Christ and following his word are sufficient sufferage for any issue why not stick with teaching how to follow Christ in Sunday School? If it were me, I'd be angry that my children's sunday school was being politicized so heaviliy especially given how hot an issue this is currently.
I mean, cmon. It's Sunday school. Teach the gospel, teach moral and ethical basis that formed the foundation of our country and leave the politics for adults.
Can tell you that the answer is less government and more faith in the free market to address the concerns of "the majority of Americans".
An ISP that offers pr0n blocking services will better serve that segment of the market that desires such services. I'd imagine any ISP in Utah (a conservative state, by all measurements)would have a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE over those who didn't. No need to force compliance with something that is profitable to start with. Let the Dollar set policy and the will of the people will be done because its more profitable to give people what they want...unless people want Porn.
As a footnote, "Cybercrimes" have been demonized sufficiently to be lumped in with outright "terrorism", despite the poorly defined actual damages such crimes cost. Trespassing in a system is enough to land you in prison, so if you're a geek and get laid off/ fired/quit it's probably in your best interest to avoid former employer's systems.
Now, sending an assesment of their systems' security holes along with a request for a positive reference is a different story...
There's nothing wrong with the phrase you are referring to or the ideas behind it.
The problem is that when their hypothesis that something intelligent designed an organism they STOP investigating believing they have reached a terminal answer instead of submitting thier process for review.
They believe correctly that they'll be laughed at by real scientists, so they refuse to revise their findings or look for a real answer.
"Intelligent Design" is necessaryily either science fiction or religion with no real wiggle room for unlikely, or even EXTREMELY unlikely natural processes.
After reading some ID literature, I confess that their argument is fairly compelling, if not based upon a fairly fuzzy assumption that any event more unlikely than 1:10^15 is essentially unacceptable as an event that could occurr naturally.
If I concede their position and logic are completely correct, then we are all the product of specific and intentional design and not of complete chance. This means we 100% were designed or guided by non-human intelligence. If this is supposed to be a secular, non-religous "science" they're saying that Aliens created life on Earth.
Part of the reason is likely the investment in astronauts by both the government and society as a whole. Most of them are veteran conventional or experimental aircraft pilots or seasoned scientists. Their public face and minor celebrity guarantee that we care about them.
In comparison, there is minimal investment in the cannon fodder being shipped from the inner-cities of the US overseas. The national emotional attachment to, say, the first Teacher in space is far greater and far more personal than one of a thousand minority youths joining the Army to one day be able to pay for college.
Aren't we all over-analyzing this? How many people think it GOOD to polute the environment? show of hands? not too many...hmmm, maybe we should work on not poluting the environment then.
Ada has one great supporting factor: its the officially recognized standard language for Department of Defense Software projects.
I learned Ada as my first language in the Air Force and despite its verbosity, its got some great features and a lot of proprietary or "classified" DoD tools for working in it.
State University red tape and undergrads running network infrastructure will usually result in lots of wasted cash.
As a SBU alumnus (class of 01) I know I personally had to work with the kids running the network for campus residences to demonstrate the bandwith usage of Diablo II to persuade them to unblock the ports it needed to run. They had some interesting networks with some HUGE bottlenecks due to the size of the campus and where lines were run between buildings/quads. Of course, that was the hayday of napster and other bandwidth hogs.
File sharing and p2p software is still a very new development and ill-understood even by those who use such programs on a regular basis. Legislating technological restrictions is a knee-jerk reaction by law makings who have lobbyists beating down their doors because the latest greatest p2p software might someday cost them their monopoly on digital/analog content distribution.
As a frequent users of P2P technologies, I often download music but infrequently download Movies. Why? Because $10 is a reasonable price to pay for legally owning a movie, especially when there are "extras" or "special features" not readily available through the p2p channels. The RIAA has its head up its ass thinking its ok to charge, and get $20 for a new mass produced pop CD with a single respectable song on it. The ROI just isnt there so I can either tape the song off the radio or download over a p2p network.
Lawmakers really need to wait on passing legilation until there is some demonstrable harm to the economy resulting from file sharing.
What ever happened to the "less government" mantra. I miss the REAL Republicans...
If you're a mathematical/engineering sort who enjoys elegant proofs and clear inductive/deductive logic you'll have serious philosophical issues with macro-economics and the philosophies it spawns. Micro-economics is not only the foundation of macro, but its reviewed accurately in TFA as the provable mathematical underpinning of business and the economy. Furthermore, you CAN usually reduce local markets and well-defined vertical markets to strictly micro-economic definitions without concerning yourself too much with international influence from currency fluctiation or the rice harvest yield in China.
I've heard it said that Macro economics is made of equal parts micro and bull$hit. Perhaps thats an unfair judgement, but its awefully close.
I'd be curous to learn what the dictated punishment is for attempted larceny. Regardless of the scale of what you try to steal, unless you actually steal something you're not a thief...even though you were trying to be a thief.
Just like smoking oregano while thinking its pot is stupid, its also not using drugs and you won't go to jail for attempted possesion of drugs.
If you want to argue that they illegally accessed a computer system they had no right accessing, ok, fair enough, but that should be separate from the act of trying to snatch credit card numbers.
Maybe there is a clause for trespassing with malicious intent, or something, but I find it REDICULOUS that this guy is going to federal pound me in the ass prison for 9 years.
This is a white collar, non-violent crime. They should fine the piss out of him (to the tune of everything he has) and sentence him to infinity probation with lots of public service.
White Collar criminals are more likely to be "Reformed" than violent ones because they know how to fit into society and have often proven good at doing so.
1. Find new browser hijack exploit 2. Find millions of unsuspecting users 3. ??? 4. Profit!
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End Users of today are certainly more and more capable of performing IT tasks, however the complexity of those tasks, even once simplified, is more than they care to do.
End Users of IT are not IT people. They're business people, medical people, etc who have no interest in doing ANY IT work, whether or not its easy to learn.
There will ALWAYS be an IT guy to fix their computer, find out why solitaire wont run, or perform other assorted IT tasks they 100% could do but dont care to.
Running a company's network may no longer require an army of IT people, but to be sure, the good ones will be there forever becuase people want to do what they're good at and ignore everthing else, ESPECIALLY computers.
The reason you would NOT opt for a single 6800GT is that the performance of a SINGLE 6800 is substantially less than DUAL 6600s.
Maybe not an order of magnitude of difference, but the a reasonable estimate would certainly be at least a 50% jump over a stock, single 6800GT
The 6600Gts are availalbe at ~180 on pricewatch btw
Even if the AGP version of the 6600GT outperforms the PCI express version slightly, there is still the value of the PCI ex version to function on the new SLI boards, whenever they come out.
The 6600 cards are pretty reasonably priced, so picking up two of them and getting 180% performance of a single 6600GT AGP is pretty attractive and a sufficient reason to drool over the new NForce4 boards(for the AMD enthusiasts among us).
The Current intel boards with SLI are considerably more expensive than the new NForce4 boards figure to be, so while there is still a few weeks till I can get my hands on one, I can't wait to get a pair of 6600GTs running in SLI mode with a respectable AMD 64 chip.
Clearly the voting machines in my home state of FL were deployed pre-programmed to elect the Governor's Brother...until they took on a life of their own and started killing people.
As an "boots on the ground" IT professional it would be nice to have a consumer grade "grid computing" solution to offer some small business customers as an alternative to buying a server farm for the two days a month they actually put strain on it.
If there were an easy way to cluster their workstations they wouldnt need to invest in an underutilized server farm. They could just schedule their processor/disk intensive reports and processes for off hours or rely on grid load balancing to take the extra cycles from the computer of the CSO (Chief Solitaire Officer) so that the impact would be imperceptible to the average user.
The current problem with the concept of grid computing is the lack of an easy way to deploy it in a standard business environment. What the article and its links are driving at is coming up with a cheap and easily implimented mechanism to turn every office, and chain of offices into a grid.
In theory, you could sell your unused processor cycles the same way people who generate their own power sell power back to their power companies. You ISP could actually, someday become a processor cycle reseller and you could operate on a minimal set of hardare in the typical office enviroment becuase you can always pick up extra cycles from your ISP when you need them.
Just because you can't understand someone on tech support doesn't necessarily mean they are an Indian, or other foreign-based call center. There are plenty of American Citizens with poor command of the English Language. I have had several people call me for various telemarketing reasons who could hardly read their script. I promptly laughed at them and hung up, but their accent was clearly an American one.
The problem has nothing to do with where call centers are located but rather who's doing the work on the phone with you. All good support personnel should be trained in "standard" American English to help avoid ambiguity, since everyone can understand the version of English you hear on the CNN or other standard media outlets, even if you dont' normally speak that way.
I myself work with customers on the phone and make a point of suppressing my slight New York accent and not using any slang that might not be clear.
It's difficult enough trying to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical people without a 2-way language barrier getting in the way. A support rep should be able to decipher people's accents, within reason and should be trained in speaking a relatively standard form of the language they are providing support in.
This doesn't just apply to English, but also Spanish. We have support rep where I work who is responsible for helping spanish speaking customers. When on the phone with a customer she speaks "standard" spanish that you would usually hear on Telemundo or Univision. There is a definite difference between the dialect she speaks on the phone and what she uses when she's on the phone with her husband for example.
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Not to further belittle anti-evolutionsts, but their retorts are so clearly identical to my own when I was in grade school that I must lament the disgraceful state of much of our educational system. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, but niether is it something to be proud of and defend. If you don't know how bacteria evolved into fish try doing some research. Email people, read books, read the web (wikipedia is excellent for such quandries), EDUCATE yourself and then re-evalute your question and you'll realize how simple it sounds to the educated masses.
To summarize the parent, "Don't rock the boat".
Now in response; Why should this particular church involve itself AT ALL with scientific topics? If a love of Christ and following his word are sufficient sufferage for any issue why not stick with teaching how to follow Christ in Sunday School? If it were me, I'd be angry that my children's sunday school was being politicized so heaviliy especially given how hot an issue this is currently.
I mean, cmon. It's Sunday school. Teach the gospel, teach moral and ethical basis that formed the foundation of our country and leave the politics for adults.
Can tell you that the answer is less government and more faith in the free market to address the concerns of "the majority of Americans".
An ISP that offers pr0n blocking services will better serve that segment of the market that desires such services. I'd imagine any ISP in Utah (a conservative state, by all measurements)would have a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE over those who didn't. No need to force compliance with something that is profitable to start with. Let the Dollar set policy and the will of the people will be done because its more profitable to give people what they want...unless people want Porn.
As a footnote, "Cybercrimes" have been demonized sufficiently to be lumped in with outright "terrorism", despite the poorly defined actual damages such crimes cost. Trespassing in a system is enough to land you in prison, so if you're a geek and get laid off/ fired/quit it's probably in your best interest to avoid former employer's systems.
Now, sending an assesment of their systems' security holes along with a request for a positive reference is a different story...
There's nothing wrong with the phrase you are referring to or the ideas behind it. The problem is that when their hypothesis that something intelligent designed an organism they STOP investigating believing they have reached a terminal answer instead of submitting thier process for review. They believe correctly that they'll be laughed at by real scientists, so they refuse to revise their findings or look for a real answer.
So you're saying the Bible is a Mainframe app? interesting...
"Intelligent Design" is necessaryily either science fiction or religion with no real wiggle room for unlikely, or even EXTREMELY unlikely natural processes.
After reading some ID literature, I confess that their argument is fairly compelling, if not based upon a fairly fuzzy assumption that any event more unlikely than 1:10^15 is essentially unacceptable as an event that could occurr naturally.
If I concede their position and logic are completely correct, then we are all the product of specific and intentional design and not of complete chance. This means we 100% were designed or guided by non-human intelligence. If this is supposed to be a secular, non-religous "science" they're saying that Aliens created life on Earth.
OK, lets teach our kids that, I'm all for it.
*Silver Lining: this same law would allow you to watch ONLY the raunchy and violent parts of a movie and cut out all the annoying dialog and plot.
Crank up the chick flicks baby! Soft Porn for all.
Part of the reason is likely the investment in astronauts by both the government and society as a whole. Most of them are veteran conventional or experimental aircraft pilots or seasoned scientists. Their public face and minor celebrity guarantee that we care about them.
In comparison, there is minimal investment in the cannon fodder being shipped from the inner-cities of the US overseas. The national emotional attachment to, say, the first Teacher in space is far greater and far more personal than one of a thousand minority youths joining the Army to one day be able to pay for college.
Aren't we all over-analyzing this? How many people think it GOOD to polute the environment? show of hands? not too many...hmmm, maybe we should work on not poluting the environment then.
Ada has one great supporting factor: its the officially recognized standard language for Department of Defense Software projects.
I learned Ada as my first language in the Air Force and despite its verbosity, its got some great features and a lot of proprietary or "classified" DoD tools for working in it.
State University red tape and undergrads running network infrastructure will usually result in lots of wasted cash.
As a SBU alumnus (class of 01) I know I personally had to work with the kids running the network for campus residences to demonstrate the bandwith usage of Diablo II to persuade them to unblock the ports it needed to run. They had some interesting networks with some HUGE bottlenecks due to the size of the campus and where lines were run between buildings/quads. Of course, that was the hayday of napster and other bandwidth hogs.
Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will suprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George S. Patton Jr., US ARMY
File sharing and p2p software is still a very new development and ill-understood even by those who use such programs on a regular basis. Legislating technological restrictions is a knee-jerk reaction by law makings who have lobbyists beating down their doors because the latest greatest p2p software might someday cost them their monopoly on digital/analog content distribution.
As a frequent users of P2P technologies, I often download music but infrequently download Movies. Why? Because $10 is a reasonable price to pay for legally owning a movie, especially when there are "extras" or "special features" not readily available through the p2p channels. The RIAA has its head up its ass thinking its ok to charge, and get $20 for a new mass produced pop CD with a single respectable song on it. The ROI just isnt there so I can either tape the song off the radio or download over a p2p network.
Lawmakers really need to wait on passing legilation until there is some demonstrable harm to the economy resulting from file sharing.
What ever happened to the "less government" mantra. I miss the REAL Republicans...
If you're a mathematical/engineering sort who enjoys elegant proofs and clear inductive/deductive logic you'll have serious philosophical issues with macro-economics and the philosophies it spawns. Micro-economics is not only the foundation of macro, but its reviewed accurately in TFA as the provable mathematical underpinning of business and the economy. Furthermore, you CAN usually reduce local markets and well-defined vertical markets to strictly micro-economic definitions without concerning yourself too much with international influence from currency fluctiation or the rice harvest yield in China.
I've heard it said that Macro economics is made of equal parts micro and bull$hit. Perhaps thats an unfair judgement, but its awefully close.
I'd be curous to learn what the dictated punishment is for attempted larceny. Regardless of the scale of what you try to steal, unless you actually steal something you're not a thief...even though you were trying to be a thief.
Just like smoking oregano while thinking its pot is stupid, its also not using drugs and you won't go to jail for attempted possesion of drugs.
If you want to argue that they illegally accessed a computer system they had no right accessing, ok, fair enough, but that should be separate from the act of trying to snatch credit card numbers.
Maybe there is a clause for trespassing with malicious intent, or something, but I find it REDICULOUS that this guy is going to federal pound me in the ass prison for 9 years.
This is a white collar, non-violent crime. They should fine the piss out of him (to the tune of everything he has) and sentence him to infinity probation with lots of public service.
White Collar criminals are more likely to be "Reformed" than violent ones because they know how to fit into society and have often proven good at doing so.
Its in the Band!
1. Find new browser hijack exploit
2. Find millions of unsuspecting users
3. ???
4. Profit!
End Users of today are certainly more and more capable of performing IT tasks, however the complexity of those tasks, even once simplified, is more than they care to do.
End Users of IT are not IT people. They're business people, medical people, etc who have no interest in doing ANY IT work, whether or not its easy to learn.
There will ALWAYS be an IT guy to fix their computer, find out why solitaire wont run, or perform other assorted IT tasks they 100% could do but dont care to.
Running a company's network may no longer require an army of IT people, but to be sure, the good ones will be there forever becuase people want to do what they're good at and ignore everthing else, ESPECIALLY computers.
The reason you would NOT opt for a single 6800GT is that the performance of a SINGLE 6800 is substantially less than DUAL 6600s. Maybe not an order of magnitude of difference, but the a reasonable estimate would certainly be at least a 50% jump over a stock, single 6800GT The 6600Gts are availalbe at ~180 on pricewatch btw
Even if the AGP version of the 6600GT outperforms the PCI express version slightly, there is still the value of the PCI ex version to function on the new SLI boards, whenever they come out.
The 6600 cards are pretty reasonably priced, so picking up two of them and getting 180% performance of a single 6600GT AGP is pretty attractive and a sufficient reason to drool over the new NForce4 boards(for the AMD enthusiasts among us).
The Current intel boards with SLI are considerably more expensive than the new NForce4 boards figure to be, so while there is still a few weeks till I can get my hands on one, I can't wait to get a pair of 6600GTs running in SLI mode with a respectable AMD 64 chip.
Sort of a ho-hum TFA.
A paragraph and a blurry picture: sure to inspire flame wars.
Clearly the voting machines in my home state of FL were deployed pre-programmed to elect the Governor's Brother...until they took on a life of their own and started killing people.
That is all.
As an "boots on the ground" IT professional it would be nice to have a consumer grade "grid computing" solution to offer some small business customers as an alternative to buying a server farm for the two days a month they actually put strain on it.
If there were an easy way to cluster their workstations they wouldnt need to invest in an underutilized server farm. They could just schedule their processor/disk intensive reports and processes for off hours or rely on grid load balancing to take the extra cycles from the computer of the CSO (Chief Solitaire Officer) so that the impact would be imperceptible to the average user.
The current problem with the concept of grid computing is the lack of an easy way to deploy it in a standard business environment. What the article and its links are driving at is coming up with a cheap and easily implimented mechanism to turn every office, and chain of offices into a grid.
In theory, you could sell your unused processor cycles the same way people who generate their own power sell power back to their power companies. You ISP could actually, someday become a processor cycle reseller and you could operate on a minimal set of hardare in the typical office enviroment becuase you can always pick up extra cycles from your ISP when you need them.
Ah, the pipe dream.
Just because you can't understand someone on tech support doesn't necessarily mean they are an Indian, or other foreign-based call center. There are plenty of American Citizens with poor command of the English Language. I have had several people call me for various telemarketing reasons who could hardly read their script. I promptly laughed at them and hung up, but their accent was clearly an American one.
The problem has nothing to do with where call centers are located but rather who's doing the work on the phone with you. All good support personnel should be trained in "standard" American English to help avoid ambiguity, since everyone can understand the version of English you hear on the CNN or other standard media outlets, even if you dont' normally speak that way.
I myself work with customers on the phone and make a point of suppressing my slight New York accent and not using any slang that might not be clear.
It's difficult enough trying to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical people without a 2-way language barrier getting in the way. A support rep should be able to decipher people's accents, within reason and should be trained in speaking a relatively standard form of the language they are providing support in.
This doesn't just apply to English, but also Spanish. We have support rep where I work who is responsible for helping spanish speaking customers. When on the phone with a customer she speaks "standard" spanish that you would usually hear on Telemundo or Univision. There is a definite difference between the dialect she speaks on the phone and what she uses when she's on the phone with her husband for example.