"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein"
Pithy, isn't it? I think a lot of us are much smarter than Albert Einstein nowadays. We can immediately see the weakness of this statement. Imagination is nifty, but it also includes a lot of nonsense. It is simply a tool by which we speculate. Our understanding of the world allows us to cull the ridiculous to find those things which are most likely to be so. Knowledge is therefore equally important.
To be fair to Einstein, he wasn't a thorough deconstructionist, but a dyed in the wool romantic.
In my techie opinion, strong-encrypted tarballs uploaded to something like Amazon S3 or iCloud would be a very safe way to go for indefinite storage. They take care of the redundancy, all you have to do is pay your bill. It's as close as you can get to free, too.
That is a huge flaw in the law. Sounds like the courts just needed a fix. Without being able to force 'innocent' people to do stuff they probably felt wimpy.
So, can you be forced to disclose the location of your hidden diaries if the court decides they need them to prosecute you?
My understanding of the law is that only things "in plain sight" are fair game for a warrant, and that you can't compel someone to open a locked box. In fact, I would argue that the spirit of the 5th Amendment is such that you shouldn't be able to "compel" anyone to disclose anything. If you can't get it through your own efforts, the concept of personal autonomy and respect for the individual says, oh well, too bad. You can't force people (since we are presumed innocent by the law) to disclose anything with the assumption that it will further implicate them. A person has the absolute right to invoke the 5th amendment. The "contempt of court" rule is misapplied to try to force people to reveal their sources, give up passwords, etc. But this is a perversion of the process. A person cannot be compelled to work for the prosecution.
Salvia Divinorum is an amazing compound too. Personality transcending, in lesser amounts simply anti-depressant, breaks through everyday fears and anxieties, not personality-distoriting in lesser quantities. Definitely a plant that should be widely cultivated, examined, and discussed among the psychonautic consciousness-expanding netliterati. The survival of the human mind may depend on it.
Instead of reading the New York Post I'm reading "The Origin of the Species" off Project Gutenberg with the Stanza app. It's a really great book, and it only takes as long to read as -like- 100 perusals of NY Post issues. But the best part is that Darwin isn't poking me in the eye with a stick covered in shit.
Look for a video called "China's Ghost Towns" to see how China is inflating their GDP by building cities that no one can afford to live in. It's freaky to see all these empty supermalls and highrise apartment buildings. When China's bubble explodes it's going to be a whole new disaster for the world economy.
Slash should totally highlight troublesome words in the editor view. The worst ones on the web are:
Loose / lose There / their / they're Definately (sic) Its / it's Lead / led
I've seen lots of 'loose' used for 'lose' especially. The iOS (helpfully) corrects 'its' to 'it's' every time, leading to more of these errors. I have no idea why people think 'lead' is the past tense of -uh- 'lead' nor why 'definately' is such a common mistake, but generally most people are pretty bad spellers, not to mention we have varying degrees of dylsexia.
Most. But a lot more are starting to dual or triple boot Windows and Linux. At the moment on my 2007 white MacBook I've got Mac OS X 10.6 on one partition, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (developer preview) on another, and Ubuntu on a third. (It's a 250GB drive so there's plenty of room!) I am running Windows apps in a variety of different ways as I experiment with the available options on the Mac. So I have VMWare, Virtual Box, and I found a nice WINE installer for OSX. And of course I run WINE in Linux as well.
Mac OS X is my main platform as a web developer/designer and Mac/iPhone developer, because of course XCode is needed for Mac and iPhone development, and because web-wise it's just perfect to have a real Unix running Apache / MySQL / PHP natively, and to be able to download and install GNU stuff in a native environment. And of course in Mac OS X I also have the full Adobe Creative Suite suite including Flash, which I also do a bunch.
Right now my Ubuntu install is more of a curiosity thing, but I have also been trying out cross-platform game development in C++ with SDL - having the very same code compile within XCode, Eclipse, and Virtual Studio is a hoot! I've been liking Ubuntu a lot as a working environment. I am pleasantly surprised at how much more mature the desktop and GUI apps have become since my last foray into Linux half a decade ago. It's not nearly as rich, robust, or as solid as Windows 7, let alone Snow Leopard, but it makes up for it with configurability that Mac and Windows can't touch, and some genuinely cool workspace options.
I'm glad to hear you went for the Mac hardware, because regardless of which OS you run on it, it's just the best laptop hands-down, and it makes a big difference in the whole workflow when your laptop (the one you bought already) isn't advertising itself to you with lights and buttons all around the screen, like so many commodity laptops now have. Getting the refurb was also a great idea. It's the only way I buy Apple stuff anymore. And, oops, when I received my laptop Apple had put in an extra gig of RAM by mistake.:-)
...and I would add, J. Allen Hynek (who happens to have had a cameo in Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
I read a book by J. Allen Hynek and Jaques Valée when I was a kid which really captured my imagination. As an adult I am comfortable in the certainty that no alien beings or vessels have yet visited Earth. (And if Jesus existed, he was just another guru.) But I understand lots and lots of people have had psychological experiences similar to the effects of DMT. George Ellery Hale, for instance had an "elf" advisor which visited him at night.
What do you mean by "evolution isn't 'science' because it is a theory, and theories aren't science"? How is that any different from saying "a slice of bread isn't a sandwich"? Science observes reality, takes measurements, and produces theories. The theory of gravity and the theory of evolution are two such theories. That evolution and biogenesis are real phenomena isn't even a debatable proposition.
Frankly, if you want to understand biology, genetics, cellular metabolism, hereditary disease, etc., then you'll get a lot farther if you understand the theory of evolution. Moreover, the theory is still in active development, and new science is being done based on it every day.
Me: vegan, no car, mid-40's, computer geek, Buddhist, atheist, totally love nuke power, still hoping for better but realistic. Seriously, why assume the lowest common denominator has any bearing on what will actually happen? Or are you trying to demonstrate that straw men make better fuel?
It's called "conventional wisdom" and it allows the media to readily program any person who identifies with a group. In other words, ~90% of our zombie populace.
Not everything the military does is treasonous. Generally, they're more interested in being effective. And sometimes good consciences do get overridden in the name of The Cause. The importance of transparency is that people with broader and deeper concerns have a chance to review and these institutions have an opportunity to reform. Anything that improves transparency is very good. Every person in the world deserves to know just what's what so they can act a smidgen more rationally.
It's arguable that the earliest sci-fi exists in Hindu literature dating to ~2500 years ago. Flying machines, missiles, energy beams, and space ships are all featured in the Ramayana. Sure, the main characters are godlike beings, but they definitely haz the high tex!
We have a similar deal, and it fuels our veggie-oil powered full-size International school bus for the entire warm half of the year. On the road we look for strip malls with Chinese restaurants and siphon the oil out back. Never had a complaint!
Whether JC could read or write, who knows? Is there an account of his reading or writing in the New Testament? You know those books are apocryphal, not journalistic anyway. One should not conclude one way or the other, even based on probabilities. One presumes if Jesus could write he would have put down more on paper, as did the Buddha and many ancient writers much older who survive to this day. But it appears this prophet, twin to Horus in most respects, is more of a legend than a founder. Fascinating phenomenon, religion!
Good thing you point out there. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all emerged within the last 2 millennia. Buddhism is over a millennium older, and Hinduism even older still. Comparing the older traditions to the newer ones, it looks like a game of telephone that got really out of hand. It also gives strong evidence that the laws of entropy hold for all forms of information. Indeed the insights of the East have only very recently been properly disseminated to the West. Prior to the modern age these rich traditions only made it to the West in the most obfuscated and corrupted forms. Thus the Abrahamic religions are a ridiculous muddle of nonsense interpreted by fools.
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Not so much. "iOS 4.3.4 prevents you from hacking or jailbreaking..." would be better.
... and in what universe does any device go unmolested? That there are crackers is just a given at this point.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein"
Pithy, isn't it? I think a lot of us are much smarter than Albert Einstein nowadays. We can immediately see the weakness of this statement. Imagination is nifty, but it also includes a lot of nonsense. It is simply a tool by which we speculate. Our understanding of the world allows us to cull the ridiculous to find those things which are most likely to be so. Knowledge is therefore equally important.
To be fair to Einstein, he wasn't a thorough deconstructionist, but a dyed in the wool romantic.
In my techie opinion, strong-encrypted tarballs uploaded to something like Amazon S3 or iCloud would be a very safe way to go for indefinite storage. They take care of the redundancy, all you have to do is pay your bill. It's as close as you can get to free, too.
That is a huge flaw in the law. Sounds like the courts just needed a fix. Without being able to force 'innocent' people to do stuff they probably felt wimpy.
So, can you be forced to disclose the location of your hidden diaries if the court decides they need them to prosecute you?
My understanding of the law is that only things "in plain sight" are fair game for a warrant, and that you can't compel someone to open a locked box. In fact, I would argue that the spirit of the 5th Amendment is such that you shouldn't be able to "compel" anyone to disclose anything. If you can't get it through your own efforts, the concept of personal autonomy and respect for the individual says, oh well, too bad. You can't force people (since we are presumed innocent by the law) to disclose anything with the assumption that it will further implicate them. A person has the absolute right to invoke the 5th amendment. The "contempt of court" rule is misapplied to try to force people to reveal their sources, give up passwords, etc. But this is a perversion of the process. A person cannot be compelled to work for the prosecution.
Salvia Divinorum is an amazing compound too. Personality transcending, in lesser amounts simply anti-depressant, breaks through everyday fears and anxieties, not personality-distoriting in lesser quantities. Definitely a plant that should be widely cultivated, examined, and discussed among the psychonautic consciousness-expanding netliterati. The survival of the human mind may depend on it.
Instead of reading the New York Post I'm reading "The Origin of the Species" off Project Gutenberg with the Stanza app. It's a really great book, and it only takes as long to read as -like- 100 perusals of NY Post issues. But the best part is that Darwin isn't poking me in the eye with a stick covered in shit.
Look for a video called "China's Ghost Towns" to see how China is inflating their GDP by building cities that no one can afford to live in. It's freaky to see all these empty supermalls and highrise apartment buildings. When China's bubble explodes it's going to be a whole new disaster for the world economy.
homonyms actually
Adding a fake bug report form... Good idea!
And how could I forget 'to' / 'too'?
Slash should totally highlight troublesome words in the editor view. The worst ones on the web are:
Loose / lose
There / their / they're
Definately (sic)
Its / it's
Lead / led
I've seen lots of 'loose' used for 'lose' especially. The iOS (helpfully) corrects 'its' to 'it's' every time, leading to more of these errors. I have no idea why people think 'lead' is the past tense of -uh- 'lead' nor why 'definately' is such a common mistake, but generally most people are pretty bad spellers, not to mention we have varying degrees of dylsexia.
I wonder how many Mac owners run just OSX
Most. But a lot more are starting to dual or triple boot Windows and Linux. At the moment on my 2007 white MacBook I've got Mac OS X 10.6 on one partition, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (developer preview) on another, and Ubuntu on a third. (It's a 250GB drive so there's plenty of room!) I am running Windows apps in a variety of different ways as I experiment with the available options on the Mac. So I have VMWare, Virtual Box, and I found a nice WINE installer for OSX. And of course I run WINE in Linux as well.
Mac OS X is my main platform as a web developer/designer and Mac/iPhone developer, because of course XCode is needed for Mac and iPhone development, and because web-wise it's just perfect to have a real Unix running Apache / MySQL / PHP natively, and to be able to download and install GNU stuff in a native environment. And of course in Mac OS X I also have the full Adobe Creative Suite suite including Flash, which I also do a bunch.
Right now my Ubuntu install is more of a curiosity thing, but I have also been trying out cross-platform game development in C++ with SDL - having the very same code compile within XCode, Eclipse, and Virtual Studio is a hoot! I've been liking Ubuntu a lot as a working environment. I am pleasantly surprised at how much more mature the desktop and GUI apps have become since my last foray into Linux half a decade ago. It's not nearly as rich, robust, or as solid as Windows 7, let alone Snow Leopard, but it makes up for it with configurability that Mac and Windows can't touch, and some genuinely cool workspace options.
I'm glad to hear you went for the Mac hardware, because regardless of which OS you run on it, it's just the best laptop hands-down, and it makes a big difference in the whole workflow when your laptop (the one you bought already) isn't advertising itself to you with lights and buttons all around the screen, like so many commodity laptops now have. Getting the refurb was also a great idea. It's the only way I buy Apple stuff anymore. And, oops, when I received my laptop Apple had put in an extra gig of RAM by mistake. :-)
...and I would add, J. Allen Hynek (who happens to have had a cameo in Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
I read a book by J. Allen Hynek and Jaques Valée when I was a kid which really captured my imagination. As an adult I am comfortable in the certainty that no alien beings or vessels have yet visited Earth. (And if Jesus existed, he was just another guru.) But I understand lots and lots of people have had psychological experiences similar to the effects of DMT. George Ellery Hale, for instance had an "elf" advisor which visited him at night.
What do you mean by "evolution isn't 'science' because it is a theory, and theories aren't science"? How is that any different from saying "a slice of bread isn't a sandwich"? Science observes reality, takes measurements, and produces theories. The theory of gravity and the theory of evolution are two such theories. That evolution and biogenesis are real phenomena isn't even a debatable proposition.
Frankly, if you want to understand biology, genetics, cellular metabolism, hereditary disease, etc., then you'll get a lot farther if you understand the theory of evolution. Moreover, the theory is still in active development, and new science is being done based on it every day.
Me: vegan, no car, mid-40's, computer geek, Buddhist, atheist, totally love nuke power, still hoping for better but realistic. Seriously, why assume the lowest common denominator has any bearing on what will actually happen? Or are you trying to demonstrate that straw men make better fuel?
It's called "conventional wisdom" and it allows the media to readily program any person who identifies with a group. In other words, ~90% of our zombie populace.
Not everything the military does is treasonous. Generally, they're more interested in being effective. And sometimes good consciences do get overridden in the name of The Cause. The importance of transparency is that people with broader and deeper concerns have a chance to review and these institutions have an opportunity to reform. Anything that improves transparency is very good. Every person in the world deserves to know just what's what so they can act a smidgen more rationally.
It's arguable that the earliest sci-fi exists in Hindu literature dating to ~2500 years ago. Flying machines, missiles, energy beams, and space ships are all featured in the Ramayana. Sure, the main characters are godlike beings, but they definitely haz the high tex!
We have a similar deal, and it fuels our veggie-oil powered full-size International school bus for the entire warm half of the year. On the road we look for strip malls with Chinese restaurants and siphon the oil out back. Never had a complaint!
You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working classes...
Whether JC could read or write, who knows? Is there an account of his reading or writing in the New Testament? You know those books are apocryphal, not journalistic anyway. One should not conclude one way or the other, even based on probabilities. One presumes if Jesus could write he would have put down more on paper, as did the Buddha and many ancient writers much older who survive to this day. But it appears this prophet, twin to Horus in most respects, is more of a legend than a founder. Fascinating phenomenon, religion!
Good thing you point out there. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all emerged within the last 2 millennia. Buddhism is over a millennium older, and Hinduism even older still. Comparing the older traditions to the newer ones, it looks like a game of telephone that got really out of hand. It also gives strong evidence that the laws of entropy hold for all forms of information. Indeed the insights of the East have only very recently been properly disseminated to the West. Prior to the modern age these rich traditions only made it to the West in the most obfuscated and corrupted forms. Thus the Abrahamic religions are a ridiculous muddle of nonsense interpreted by fools.
This would have been awesome. If he had gotten away with it.