provided that the pyramids (also known as "time capacitors") don't get too large, rotate the R^4 field the Old Kingdom exists in by 90 degrees and vanish into nothingness, leaving only mathematically inclined camels to figure it out - sure, great!
Otherwise, better check the Assasin's Guild for help.
It does bear noting, however, that after the beating, the senator what did the hitting was given a cane with a golden handle by his constituents in case he needed to use it again against another Yank.
A friend and I are of the opinion that should either of us attain a management position in a company, we must immediately strive to hire the other - not because we're capable of good management. Quite the opposite. We figure at that point, the company is totally doomed, but it will be an awesome, Aero-chair filled ride down to the bottom.
you should make sure you have a good firewall and your virus defs. are up to date simply as a Matter Of Course. That, or buy a Mac/install Linux. ( in which case you should still have a good firewall)
that should be, more properly, "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup". It's a take on the tolkien quote "do not meddle in the affiars of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger".
for those of you in search of a solution for exactly this problem that doesn't involve iptables hackery or whatnot, check out denyhosts: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/> . It's a cronjob/daemon that lurks over ssh logs and updates hosts.deny based on rules you specify. simple, quick, gets rid of most of the annoying sshd bots.
the only reason i default to mp3 is because the only portable player i know of that plays flac is the rio karma, and it was discontinued about 6 months ago
after my aunt (a devout AOL user) replied to an email "from AOL" with her credit card information enclosed, and was then SURPRISED when $5000 in false charges came in from pakistan, my brother and I decided that the best course of action for all parties involved would've been to just replace her computer with sock puppets.
2. you hereby waive all rights and/or entitlement to trial by jury in connection with any dispute that arises out of or relates in any way to this eula or the software.
if that reads the way i think it does, then the EULA is... depriving you of constitutional rights? bwhaa?
i do not think that plasma/ionized air conductive methods will work, for a couple of reasons. One, the method itself is extremeley new -- so applying it to an equally new application (vestibular balance modification) is unlikely simply because both technologies aren't developed enough. Second is the issue of precision. a charge imbalance must be applied across the head to affect balance -- and it must be done in locations that are close enough to vestibular neurons to transmit this imbalance to them. There are only two places to do that -- that bony lump right behind your ear. It would be very, very difficult to build a tracking system capable of independendly locking on, and tracking, two very small targets on a moving body. The math behind that, and the computational power needed, is stunningly high for such a "simple" task.
Additionally, your idea of a "remote control field" simply doesn't hold water, again based on the fact that the charge imbalance targeting MUST be so precise. Simply setting up some kind of field of charge (which ain't gonna happen in air, by the way) won't work.
in order to weaponize this system, you'd have to figure out how to attatch electrodes behind the lobes of someone's ears at range -- and i challenge anyone to figure out how to do THAT. As it stands, vestibular stim is a cool new idea on how to improve balance control in risky environments (high iron construction workers faced with strong winds?), or the elderly and people with some form of vestibular impairment. I know of at least once case of essentially permanent dizziness, in which the patient suffered an accident that took out half of the vestibular system, so he is only getting feedback from one side of his body.
As a student at one of the big universities where balance control and vestibular control is studied -- let me be the first to say that all of this is HIGHLY alpha. At best, it's proof-of-concept only. I wouldn't be worried about being "remote controlled" -- but hey, add this to a VR sim and things might get better than the crappy sim software/hardware that we've had since the mid90's -- or do some of the stuff i mentioned above.
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Judeo Christian dogma seems pretty adamant that trying to put yourself on a level with God is a serious sin
yup! so it comes down to intent. Lucifer got booted because he thought he could do a better job than God. Adam, on the other hand, got to name all the beasts, and to name something has very clear connotations of creation here*. It seems to me that provided we aren't greedy, pompous, arrogant assholes, we'll be OK -- in pretty much everything, really.
*sidenote: the notion of naming something == creating something is why the hebraic name for the Divine is intentionally unpronounceable.
an overlooked area of usefulness is the possibility of using these space tourists in the ongoing research into muscle loss, bone density loss, and other physiological changes that take place after spaceflight. Even with their relatively short spacetime, they could provide useful data to biomechanics folks. Perhaps including a stipulation that by agreeing to go to space, they agree to some post-flight study in the mountain of paperwork they presumeably have to wade through before blastoff?
they might be useless in flight, but their bodies are still experiencing zero-g environments and so they're of clinical use when they come back down.
i'm not nessecarily disagreeing with you, here. BUT, my point still stands: most people who download stuff (and believe me, a good 80% of it is ashlee simpson and related garbage) aren't thinking about what you're talking about, simply because they lack the braincells.
You simply can't decide that you don't have to follow the law because you 1) don't like the law and 2) that technology allows you to violate the law easily.
Sure you can! You resign yourself, however, to suffering the full penalties of a law, even if you consider it invalid. It would probably be a gross overestimation to ascribe to any significant proportion of filesharers any kind of truly well-concieved ethical stance, though.
he other problem, as always, is some people/places requiring Word. As a graduate student I had to supply some papers in Word format. I could'nt get away with doing it in LaTeX even though Word was a pain.
If you want to be a total ass, do.dvi>.rtf>.doc. it's a kluge, but hey, why not?
why is this modded funny? it's TRUE. i use LaTeX pretty much exclusively: it writes lovely lab reports, proposals, resumes, and papers. I write technical stuff in it, but i also do "normal" stuff like research papers: if for nothing else than i love the font, i love the autobibliography, and i love being able to make sexy looking documents over a ssh tunnel running your favorite text editor.
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provided that the pyramids (also known as "time capacitors") don't get too large, rotate the R^4 field the Old Kingdom exists in by 90 degrees and vanish into nothingness, leaving only mathematically inclined camels to figure it out - sure, great!
Otherwise, better check the Assasin's Guild for help.
It does bear noting, however, that after the beating, the senator what did the hitting was given a cane with a golden handle by his constituents in case he needed to use it again against another Yank.
A friend and I are of the opinion that should either of us attain a management position in a company, we must immediately strive to hire the other - not because we're capable of good management. Quite the opposite. We figure at that point, the company is totally doomed, but it will be an awesome, Aero-chair filled ride down to the bottom.
i wasn't jesting! I use my server at home and do the laptop thing too. :-D
I really didn't mean for that to get moderated funny. I actually *do* use screen and a python script to get my bittorrent on.
screen + btdownloadcurses.py is all i need. Fie on your graphical programs. Fie, i say.
you should make sure you have a good firewall and your virus defs. are up to date simply as a Matter Of Course. That, or buy a Mac/install Linux. ( in which case you should still have a good firewall)
that should be, more properly, "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup". It's a take on the tolkien quote "do not meddle in the affiars of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger".
glasses are so last week. Drinking Horns is where it's at! once you fill 'em, you can't put them down.
for those of you in search of a solution for exactly this problem that doesn't involve iptables hackery or whatnot, check out denyhosts: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/> . It's a cronjob/daemon that lurks over ssh logs and updates hosts.deny based on rules you specify. simple, quick, gets rid of most of the annoying sshd bots.
the only reason i default to mp3 is because the only portable player i know of that plays flac is the rio karma, and it was discontinued about 6 months ago
Cdex : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos
for windows systems, it's all you need. otherwise:
#!/bin/bash
cdparanoia -B;
for files in *.wav; do lame -b $files; done;
rm *.wav;
easytag &
done
perl /is/ a brand name, pretty much.
after my aunt (a devout AOL user) replied to an email "from AOL" with her credit card information enclosed, and was then SURPRISED when $5000 in false charges came in from pakistan, my brother and I decided that the best course of action for all parties involved would've been to just replace her computer with sock puppets.
2. you hereby waive all rights and/or entitlement to trial by jury in connection with any dispute that arises out of or relates in any way to this eula or the software.
if that reads the way i think it does, then the EULA is
thank you for so nicely putting what i didn't feel like explaining.
i do not think that plasma/ionized air conductive methods will work, for a couple of reasons. One, the method itself is extremeley new -- so applying it to an equally new application (vestibular balance modification) is unlikely simply because both technologies aren't developed enough. Second is the issue of precision. a charge imbalance must be applied across the head to affect balance -- and it must be done in locations that are close enough to vestibular neurons to transmit this imbalance to them. There are only two places to do that -- that bony lump right behind your ear. It would be very, very difficult to build a tracking system capable of independendly locking on, and tracking, two very small targets on a moving body. The math behind that, and the computational power needed, is stunningly high for such a "simple" task.
Additionally, your idea of a "remote control field" simply doesn't hold water, again based on the fact that the charge imbalance targeting MUST be so precise. Simply setting up some kind of field of charge (which ain't gonna happen in air, by the way) won't work.
in order to weaponize this system, you'd have to figure out how to attatch electrodes behind the lobes of someone's ears at range -- and i challenge anyone to figure out how to do THAT. As it stands, vestibular stim is a cool new idea on how to improve balance control in risky environments (high iron construction workers faced with strong winds?), or the elderly and people with some form of vestibular impairment. I know of at least once case of essentially permanent dizziness, in which the patient suffered an accident that took out half of the vestibular system, so he is only getting feedback from one side of his body.
As a student at one of the big universities where balance control and vestibular control is studied -- let me be the first to say that all of this is HIGHLY alpha. At best, it's proof-of-concept only. I wouldn't be worried about being "remote controlled" -- but hey, add this to a VR sim and things might get better than the crappy sim software/hardware that we've had since the mid90's -- or do some of the stuff i mentioned above.
Judeo Christian dogma seems pretty adamant that trying to put yourself on a level with God is a serious sin
yup! so it comes down to intent. Lucifer got booted because he thought he could do a better job than God. Adam, on the other hand, got to name all the beasts, and to name something has very clear connotations of creation here*. It seems to me that provided we aren't greedy, pompous, arrogant assholes, we'll be OK -- in pretty much everything, really.
*sidenote: the notion of naming something == creating something is why the hebraic name for the Divine is intentionally unpronounceable.
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an overlooked area of usefulness is the possibility of using these space tourists in the ongoing research into muscle loss, bone density loss, and other physiological changes that take place after spaceflight. Even with their relatively short spacetime, they could provide useful data to biomechanics folks. Perhaps including a stipulation that by agreeing to go to space, they agree to some post-flight study in the mountain of paperwork they presumeably have to wade through before blastoff?
they might be useless in flight, but their bodies are still experiencing zero-g environments and so they're of clinical use when they come back down.
i'm not nessecarily disagreeing with you, here. BUT, my point still stands: most people who download stuff (and believe me, a good 80% of it is ashlee simpson and related garbage) aren't thinking about what you're talking about, simply because they lack the braincells.
You simply can't decide that you don't have to follow the law because you 1) don't like the law and 2) that technology allows you to violate the law easily.
Sure you can! You resign yourself, however, to suffering the full penalties of a law, even if you consider it invalid. It would probably be a gross overestimation to ascribe to any significant proportion of filesharers any kind of truly well-concieved ethical stance, though.
he other problem, as always, is some people/places requiring Word. As a graduate student I had to supply some papers in Word format. I could'nt get away with doing it in LaTeX even though Word was a pain.
.dvi>.rtf>.doc. it's a kluge, but hey, why not?
If you want to be a total ass, do
why is this modded funny? it's TRUE. i use LaTeX pretty much exclusively: it writes lovely lab reports, proposals, resumes, and papers. I write technical stuff in it, but i also do "normal" stuff like research papers: if for nothing else than i love the font, i love the autobibliography, and i love being able to make sexy looking documents over a ssh tunnel running your favorite text editor.