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As many have pointed out, I don't think we have to worry about radiation since Europa is in Jupiter's radiation belts.
However, what we do have to worry about is the primitive fish-like people of Europa worshipping our probe like a god! Think of the cultural havok we could wreck on their primitive society!
...if the PS3 is as powerful as they claim it will be.
Fixed.
I'm wary of Sony claims. They always claim that their product will have everything and the kitchen sink, but they always fall short of expectations. I'm actually expecting the PS3 to be the slowest of the next gen consoles, based on Sony's history of claims versus reality.
I have to wonder if this is acutally going to be in the PS3 or if it's just one of Sony's extravagant claims that won't be fulfilled (ala Toy Story level graphics on a console).
On the PS2, PSOne backwards compatibility was easy because the sound processor (I believe) was the same processor as the PSOne. However, since the PS3 plans to use a cluster of Cell processors for everything (the Cell processors which are completely different than either of the previous two processors), it seems like they would actually have to emulate the PS2 and PSOne. How well will this run?
Inside the Chernobyl Plant, you'd need a lead block encased around you to be safe. The radiaction in the vicinity of the pile is still so intense that most electronics malfunction within minutes, if not less.
What about Kibo? Probably the most cultish figure on the internet, a hacker with quite a bit of legend wrapped around him, and yet he isn't on the list. They forsake Kibo and Kibology!
What about Alonzo Church, who probably has just as much of a claim as Turing, both having given equivalent and simultaneous solutions to the Entscheidungsproblem?
In order to guarantee revenue from a subscription based method, the service has to insure you'll stay. The only real way to do this is by making your downloaded music tied to your subscription. If your subscription goes away, so does your music. After all, what is to prevent someone with a big pipe from paying for one month and downloading the entire library and leaving? Because of this, these services are MORE restrictive than iTunes.
iTunes' pricing scheme is $1 for a track or $10 for an album. That is cheap. That's what CDs should be priced at. I praise the prices of iTunes because it offers a reasonable price.
Customers don't always have to be ripped off. But the companies don't have to be ripped off either. Your idea doesn't work and there have been many failed services to prove it. What needs to happen is a happy compromise between the record companies and the consumer. The consumers need to get music for a reasonable price, but the record labels and artists need to get a fair profit. I believe iTunes is as close to this happy medium as we'll get.
And I only think it is because of our Puritan society. I know legally you are required to be 18 to look at porn, but it is a consequence of our overly Puritan society.
Unfortunately, our nation's leaders don't seem to understand that once our children hit puberty (esp. male), they will want to get some sexual gratification.
I say let them look at all the porn they want. If they are male, they probably already are looking at it. And don't deny that you didn't look at it when you were a kid.
The only thing you should forbid them against is blantantly illegal activity, such as cracking into other people's computers. If they become interested in hacking, setting up a local honey pot and let them play around with it.
I have to question this study. Mr. Judge either forgot or never took an Intro to Psychology class. He certainly can't tell the difference between a correlation and a cause/effect relationship.
This study is a correlation. Perhaps there is a high correlation between height and pay. However, this does NOT mean that height causes higher pay. It could, theoretically, just as easily mean that higher pay causes more height. Or it could just as easily mean that there are other factors that affect both height and pay.
You forgot to mention the 6000 retired Jewish people that voted for Buchanan. God knows that retired Jewish people tend to vote for racist candidates who have an acknowledged distaste for Jews.
The difference between morals and ethics is a hotly debated one. By a strict dictionary definition, they are the same thing.
However, everyone interprets the words differently. I've heard people say morality is behavior derived from a religious source, while ethics is behavior derived from an internal source. I've heard your definition.
So, according to your definition, I suppose I do mean ethical. However, I don7t think there is really any difference.
Bill Gates is a very smart business man. This is something you can't argue with. He may not be very moral, but that doesn't matter.
Why would he do this? If he feels that Microsoft's position in the OS market is shaky, the best way to insure survival is to insure that Microsoft will be need in some other way. This seems like a move to position Microsoft in a position to be important to Web commerse, regardless of which server OS you use.
Whether or not you would like to believe it, if Linux triumphs magnificantly and everyone in the world starts using Linux, you'll still be using a lot of Microsoft software. If he can't have one market, he'll make sure he gets another market.
It has? Really now. That's interesting. So, OpenBSD has SSH on by default and has had ONE remote exploit in seven years. Now, take ye olde random Linux and you will quickly notice that there were probably a couple of remote exploits just last month.
Yup. SSH is certainly a big weakness in security infrastructure. One exploitable hole is pretty damned good and certainly much better than almost any other software on the planet.
It seems to me that a package that goes through code security audits regularly and is actually finished is infinitely more secure than an incomplete package?
Why are there people suggesting to go from a secure package to an insecure one?
Interesting. The Linux people bash Windows people when they say "Think of how many more Windows boxes are out there than Linux boxes," but it is alright for the Linux people to say it?
If this is a valid claim, then it is equally valid to claim that the reason why Windows computers (in general) are hacked more is because it has more penetration.
If this report was paired with a statistic of pentration of Windows Servers vs Linux Servers, etc., it would be a lot better. Anyone have a recent study with such information?
This would be very interesting if Windows had more penetration. It would be less interesting if Linux had a 65% share of the server market.
Every year, we only produce about 30k tons of spent fuel. Compare this to nearly 300 million tons of chemical waste produced each year.
If you took all the nuclear waste produced ever, it would only cover a football field five metres deep.
Of the 360 mrem that the average person is exposed to every year,.2 mrem comes from nuclear power plants or nuclear waste. Compare this to the 50 mrem people recieve from X-Ray machines at hostpitals. Or the 50 mrem we recieve from cosmic radiation. Hell, even breathing air accounts for 5 mrem.
In my opinion, nuclear waste is bad, but it is a lesser evil compared to the pollution that coal powerplants produce (which actually releases more radioactive elements into the air than nuclear power!).
As many people have already pointed out, there is simply a correlation between technology and unhappy, depressed, anti-social geniuses. This is the easiest mistake a person can make when looking at correlations.
As any beginning psychology student can (should) tell you is that a correlation does not indicate a cause and effect. So, from this, we see that unhappy, depressed, anti-social geniuses use a lot of technology. We have a strong positive correlation between technology and depressed geniuses. It could be that technology causes it, or it could be that depressed geniuses like technology, or it could just be a coincidence.
In order figure out which it is, experiments need to be performed. Observation alone cannot figure this out.
I heard that a HDD becomes more susceptible to shock when it has more platters. I know that the iPod uses a single platter HDD card. I'm guessing that the Nomad Zen uses a 2+ platter HDD. Will this make the Zen more susceptible to shock?
I ask because the primary concern I have when considering these devices is how bad a drop is for the device. Obviously, dropping a device is bad for any device, but is potentially a lot worse for a device with a HDD in it. If the iPod is less likely to fail after a drop or two, I'd definately get it over the Zen.
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As many have pointed out, I don't think we have to worry about radiation since Europa is in Jupiter's radiation belts.
However, what we do have to worry about is the primitive fish-like people of Europa worshipping our probe like a god! Think of the cultural havok we could wreck on their primitive society!
...if the PS3 is as powerful as they claim it will be.
Fixed.
I'm wary of Sony claims. They always claim that their product will have everything and the kitchen sink, but they always fall short of expectations. I'm actually expecting the PS3 to be the slowest of the next gen consoles, based on Sony's history of claims versus reality.
I have to wonder if this is acutally going to be in the PS3 or if it's just one of Sony's extravagant claims that won't be fulfilled (ala Toy Story level graphics on a console).
On the PS2, PSOne backwards compatibility was easy because the sound processor (I believe) was the same processor as the PSOne. However, since the PS3 plans to use a cluster of Cell processors for everything (the Cell processors which are completely different than either of the previous two processors), it seems like they would actually have to emulate the PS2 and PSOne. How well will this run?
Inside the Chernobyl Plant, you'd need a lead block encased around you to be safe. The radiaction in the vicinity of the pile is still so intense that most electronics malfunction within minutes, if not less.
I have a shinier sixpence in my pocket that says most people that use MP3s won't know the difference and will use it out of ignorance.
For every anti-DRM nerd out there, there are 50 (or more!) common people that just want to listen to music.
What about Kibo? Probably the most cultish figure on the internet, a hacker with quite a bit of legend wrapped around him, and yet he isn't on the list. They forsake Kibo and Kibology!
What about Alonzo Church, who probably has just as much of a claim as Turing, both having given equivalent and simultaneous solutions to the Entscheidungsproblem?
In order to guarantee revenue from a subscription based method, the service has to insure you'll stay. The only real way to do this is by making your downloaded music tied to your subscription. If your subscription goes away, so does your music. After all, what is to prevent someone with a big pipe from paying for one month and downloading the entire library and leaving? Because of this, these services are MORE restrictive than iTunes.
iTunes' pricing scheme is $1 for a track or $10 for an album. That is cheap. That's what CDs should be priced at. I praise the prices of iTunes because it offers a reasonable price.
Customers don't always have to be ripped off. But the companies don't have to be ripped off either. Your idea doesn't work and there have been many failed services to prove it. What needs to happen is a happy compromise between the record companies and the consumer. The consumers need to get music for a reasonable price, but the record labels and artists need to get a fair profit. I believe iTunes is as close to this happy medium as we'll get.
And I only think it is because of our Puritan society. I know legally you are required to be 18 to look at porn, but it is a consequence of our overly Puritan society.
Unfortunately, our nation's leaders don't seem to understand that once our children hit puberty (esp. male), they will want to get some sexual gratification.
I say let them look at all the porn they want. If they are male, they probably already are looking at it. And don't deny that you didn't look at it when you were a kid.
The only thing you should forbid them against is blantantly illegal activity, such as cracking into other people's computers. If they become interested in hacking, setting up a local honey pot and let them play around with it.
Too bad those CDs will degrade in a few years and your reserves consist soley of Britney Spears and N'Sync.
I have to question this study. Mr. Judge either forgot or never took an Intro to Psychology class. He certainly can't tell the difference between a correlation and a cause/effect relationship.
This study is a correlation. Perhaps there is a high correlation between height and pay. However, this does NOT mean that height causes higher pay. It could, theoretically, just as easily mean that higher pay causes more height. Or it could just as easily mean that there are other factors that affect both height and pay.
You forgot to mention the 6000 retired Jewish people that voted for Buchanan. God knows that retired Jewish people tend to vote for racist candidates who have an acknowledged distaste for Jews.
All the people that were saying that the lsh code just 'looked' better than the OpenSSH code, a word of advice: looks don't mean jack or shit.
I don't know much about the development process of lsh, but I'm betting it doesn't do any security audits like OpenSSH does.
The difference between morals and ethics is a hotly debated one. By a strict dictionary definition, they are the same thing.
However, everyone interprets the words differently. I've heard people say morality is behavior derived from a religious source, while ethics is behavior derived from an internal source. I've heard your definition.
So, according to your definition, I suppose I do mean ethical. However, I don7t think there is really any difference.
Bill Gates is a very smart business man. This is something you can't argue with. He may not be very moral, but that doesn't matter.
Why would he do this? If he feels that Microsoft's position in the OS market is shaky, the best way to insure survival is to insure that Microsoft will be need in some other way. This seems like a move to position Microsoft in a position to be important to Web commerse, regardless of which server OS you use.
Whether or not you would like to believe it, if Linux triumphs magnificantly and everyone in the world starts using Linux, you'll still be using a lot of Microsoft software. If he can't have one market, he'll make sure he gets another market.
It has? Really now. That's interesting. So, OpenBSD has SSH on by default and has had ONE remote exploit in seven years. Now, take ye olde random Linux and you will quickly notice that there were probably a couple of remote exploits just last month.
Yup. SSH is certainly a big weakness in security infrastructure. One exploitable hole is pretty damned good and certainly much better than almost any other software on the planet.
It seems to me that a package that goes through code security audits regularly and is actually finished is infinitely more secure than an incomplete package?
Why are there people suggesting to go from a secure package to an insecure one?
Interesting. The Linux people bash Windows people when they say "Think of how many more Windows boxes are out there than Linux boxes," but it is alright for the Linux people to say it?
If this is a valid claim, then it is equally valid to claim that the reason why Windows computers (in general) are hacked more is because it has more penetration.
If this report was paired with a statistic of pentration of Windows Servers vs Linux Servers, etc., it would be a lot better. Anyone have a recent study with such information?
This would be very interesting if Windows had more penetration. It would be less interesting if Linux had a 65% share of the server market.
Every year, we only produce about 30k tons of spent fuel. Compare this to nearly 300 million tons of chemical waste produced each year.
.2 mrem comes from nuclear power plants or nuclear waste. Compare this to the 50 mrem people recieve from X-Ray machines at hostpitals. Or the 50 mrem we recieve from cosmic radiation. Hell, even breathing air accounts for 5 mrem.
If you took all the nuclear waste produced ever, it would only cover a football field five metres deep.
Of the 360 mrem that the average person is exposed to every year,
In my opinion, nuclear waste is bad, but it is a lesser evil compared to the pollution that coal powerplants produce (which actually releases more radioactive elements into the air than nuclear power!).
Civil disobedience is when a very large number of people purposely break a law because they view it as unjust.
Now, millions of people share music illegally. Isn't this civil disobedience? Doesn't this mean that the copyright laws should be changed?
As many people have already pointed out, there is simply a correlation between technology and unhappy, depressed, anti-social geniuses. This is the easiest mistake a person can make when looking at correlations.
As any beginning psychology student can (should) tell you is that a correlation does not indicate a cause and effect. So, from this, we see that unhappy, depressed, anti-social geniuses use a lot of technology. We have a strong positive correlation between technology and depressed geniuses. It could be that technology causes it, or it could be that depressed geniuses like technology, or it could just be a coincidence.
In order figure out which it is, experiments need to be performed. Observation alone cannot figure this out.
I heard that a HDD becomes more susceptible to shock when it has more platters. I know that the iPod uses a single platter HDD card. I'm guessing that the Nomad Zen uses a 2+ platter HDD. Will this make the Zen more susceptible to shock?
I ask because the primary concern I have when considering these devices is how bad a drop is for the device. Obviously, dropping a device is bad for any device, but is potentially a lot worse for a device with a HDD in it. If the iPod is less likely to fail after a drop or two, I'd definately get it over the Zen.
"What is your greatest weakness?"
I wonder how they would react if you said something like, "A small spot on my heel which is the only place on my body that is vulnerable to damage."