It's 8 hours because slavetrader^H^H^H^H^H^H^H managers *used* to insist on 10-16 hours... until some laws came into effect requiring everything over 8hrs in one day (or 40hrs in a week, depending on where you live) to be overtime. This was about the same time child-labor laws and minimum wage came into effect. (I think it was in the 30's, but please correct me if I'm wrong;)
I'm glad I work in research where time seems non-existent, and deadlines are unheard of. My superiors are too busy to even notice if I just *disappear* for a few days so long as I don't miss a meeting or something...
That is truly amazing, and I have to say that you're one of the few people I've read about besides myself that can actually do this...
My lucid dreams, for most of my life, were about someone or something "out to get me". They were monsters, parents, bullies, government agents, police, ex-boyfriends, animals, aliens, whatever. Anything and everything that could chase me, did. I could usually get away by flying or creating some kind of ingenious device to foil them.. but sometimes they would actually catch up with me. This would normally result in my waking up, but one time it didn't.
During a mild chase dream where police were after me for talking to chickens, I was running from them on a wet street at night, and then I just stopped. When they caught up to me, they tried to arrest me but I responded with "Now look here! This is MY dream and I'm not going to have you arresting me in my own dream! So go away!" I believe they just agreed and left.
For the next three years after that, my dreams were horribly boring and uneventful. There were no puzzles to solve, no monsters to elude or spirits to chase away, just ordinary "enjoyable" stuff. I think the most boring by far was the one where I was watching a kernel compile. (oh, excitement!). I longed for the adventure dreams so much that I actually got them back, but not in the same form as they used to come...
Now it's me doing the chasing, which is very very strange. And I don't get to fly as often.
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Philosophy is discouraged in the US.
It certainly seems to be. While it feels like everyone around me is switching to business, finance or marketing, I decided to go with physics. They all talk down to me like I'm crazy, but I'm simply not willing to sell my brain off for a few bucks. No amount of money could buy for me the knowledge I'll gain (and use!) pursuing intellectual interests.
"Scientists don't get paid crap!", they say. Who gives a rats ass? If I had a bazillion dollars, I would study physics. The good news is that I don't need a bazillion dollars to do it, and that's what matters.
For that reason alone, I can never be outsourced --- I'll always work cheaper than the next guy just for the sake of working.:)
Hmm... that sounds like a plan! You know, regarding this whole "nuke" thing, I know a guy, who knows this other guy, and I think we can make it happen! =P
Since when do you work "less smart" than you really are?
Um, since you've been doing the same job for years and years, and your skills/brainpower have surpassed your accrued responsibilities and paycheck? I believe this is a common problem, which is usually solved by "looking busy", since job title (rather than increased productivity) usually takes precedence in deciding your salary.
This is precisely the reason I quit my job as a corporate tool and returned to school to study physics... so that I never again have to give up my job to someone who's better at "looking busy" than I am.
There are also a lot of items that are legal to possess if they are used for a legal means but are illegal to possess if they are used to break the law (lock picks, drug paraphernalia).
So, if you were doing something illegal with a lockpick, like breaking into someone's house, that doesn't mean the company who made the lockpick or sold it to you would be at fault.
If you were smoking something other than tobacco in your water pipe, no one can sue/arrest the owner of the head shop where you bought it, or the glass-blower who made it! I mean, it clearly said "only for use with tobacco" right on the label!
This is why we have laws regarding search warrants. If law enforcment has reason enough to believe you have illegal items, or are using items such that they are illegal, or are doing something illegal, they have to convince a judge to give them a warrant. This should be no different for pirated media, as it is, and I would have no problem supporting *this* kind of legislation regarding software/media piracy.
No, it's like asserting that your methadone clinic is legal because although most customers prefer the free synthesized heroin, a few actually pay to quit...
Perhaps, but there's no corporate interest in stopping kiddie porn.
There *is* corporate interest in stopping the spread of MP3s and movies, which is probably why there hasn't been significant law enforcement investigation into who's attacking DALNet.
People that run huge companies/interests have usually lost most touch with reality, so if they're really bent on getting something to happen, they'll find someone willing to do it.
As pointed out in David Deutsche's The Fabric of Reality, no encryption based on large primes is ever indefinitely secure.
While the factorization of large prime numbers is currently an intractable task, quantum computing is very likely to make it as tractable as multiplication.
For instance, Shor's Algorithm, first discovered in 1994, has already been implemented to factor the number 15 -- to 3 and 5 with 80% accuracy. (If anyone knows what it got the other 20% of the time, I'm interested!)
Now certainly 15 isn't comparable to a 1024-bit RSA key, but it's only a start for quantum computers. Using entanglement and interference, one can have very large primes factored in a matter of minutes! All we have left to do is actually build a device that does it... and currently decoherence is the largest obstacle to overcome.
So, if you really want information to be secure, and remain secure indefinitely, a better method of encryption which does not rely on the factorization of large primes needs to be implemented.
HAHAH... SOHO's "how to" on making UFO's kind of takes the doubt out about whether or not UFO-ish artifacts can be created...
I mean, if you really think a second independent group needs to "prove" that you can use photoshop to interpolate a bad pixel, then gimme some money and you've got yourself an article!
Hmm.. if you still don't believe it, perhaps you can explain away similar bad pixels that show up in particle-detector data at Fermilab or CERN as itty-bitty UFO's haunting the collider? Or maybe they're little angels taking the dead particles away to heaven?
Now I'd like to see *that* headline in UFO magazine...
Are you saying you have a more ready supply of methane or hydrogen gas then you do electricity?
Actually, aside from 'technology', the enormous abundance of methane on Earth is the most easily-detectable sign that life exists here.
And what produces more methane than bovine flatulance? Nothing.(well maybe a Mexian rodeo)
Why do you think space aliens are always stealing/mutilating cows? It's because they think the cows are the dominant form of life here. And they might be right. =P
So anyway, eat a bean burrito and fill up your fuel cell, it's cheaper than buying batteries.;)
As long the cat's not in a sealed box with a Uranium-238 atom and a geiger-counter wired to a shotgun, your conversations can be carried on indefnitely.
Recently Gnome suddenly started refusing to start up.
Have you tried Enlightenment? You can install it (like anything else) in your home directory, without root access, by conifurging it with something like --prefix=/home/dozer/enlightenment and adding the executable to your.xinitrc or.xsession file.
Luckily with Linux you have an alternative to using mem-heavy UI's like KDE and GNOME, while still getting the benefits from having their libraries installed. (You can still run programs that require Gnome, without running the Gnome environment).
As a side note, you probably could have used Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server and edit those files on the console rather than using a M$ machine to do it;)
No decent text editor. gedit stinks.
Download NEdit. You get syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a whole bunch of other nifty stuff without feeling "bloated" while using it. It even comes precompiled for most platforms;)
Motif apps. Mathematica and Matlab are big, slow...
The rest of the world agrees. Write a letter to Wolfram. =P
No word processor....Can't copy and paste pictures.
Sounds like it's time to take an hour and learn LaTeX. Afterwords, you'll never want to use a word processor or paste pictures again. Additionally, your term papers and reports will be written faster and look more professional. An added benefit comes when you consider that most science journals would require you to submit a paper in LaTeX, so it's better to learn *now* than *later* after you've written your 100+ page thesis in M$ Word and have to transfer all of it.
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Tyranny by any other name still bites you in the ass.
It's 8 hours because slavetrader^H^H^H^H^H^H^H managers *used* to insist on 10-16 hours ... until some laws came into effect requiring everything over 8hrs in one day (or 40hrs in a week, depending on where you live) to be overtime. This was about the same time child-labor laws and minimum wage came into effect. (I think it was in the 30's, but please correct me if I'm wrong ;)
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I'm glad I work in research where time seems non-existent, and deadlines are unheard of. My superiors are too busy to even notice if I just *disappear* for a few days so long as I don't miss a meeting or something
I guess you could argue that removing the adds is voilating the copyright they hold on the ads???
... I doubt "refusing to look at copyrighted work" somehow violates copyright.
I don't see how
That is truly amazing, and I have to say that you're one of the few people I've read about besides myself that can actually do this ...
.. but sometimes they would actually catch up with me. This would normally result in my waking up, but one time it didn't.
My lucid dreams, for most of my life, were about someone or something "out to get me". They were monsters, parents, bullies, government agents, police, ex-boyfriends, animals, aliens, whatever. Anything and everything that could chase me, did. I could usually get away by flying or creating some kind of ingenious device to foil them
During a mild chase dream where police were after me for talking to chickens, I was running from them on a wet street at night, and then I just stopped. When they caught up to me, they tried to arrest me but I responded with "Now look here! This is MY dream and I'm not going to have you arresting me in my own dream! So go away!" I believe they just agreed and left.
For the next three years after that, my dreams were horribly boring and uneventful. There were no puzzles to solve, no monsters to elude or spirits to chase away, just ordinary "enjoyable" stuff. I think the most boring by far was the one where I was watching a kernel compile. (oh, excitement!). I longed for the adventure dreams so much that I actually got them back, but not in the same form as they used to come...
Now it's me doing the chasing, which is very very strange. And I don't get to fly as often.
Philosophy is discouraged in the US.
:)
It certainly seems to be. While it feels like everyone around me is switching to business, finance or marketing, I decided to go with physics. They all talk down to me like I'm crazy, but I'm simply not willing to sell my brain off for a few bucks. No amount of money could buy for me the knowledge I'll gain (and use!) pursuing intellectual interests.
"Scientists don't get paid crap!", they say. Who gives a rats ass? If I had a bazillion dollars, I would study physics. The good news is that I don't need a bazillion dollars to do it, and that's what matters.
For that reason alone, I can never be outsourced --- I'll always work cheaper than the next guy just for the sake of working.
What do you mean "where will they work?" Where do they work now?
No one's going to outsource WalMart jobs!
Hmm ... that sounds like a plan! You know, regarding this whole "nuke" thing, I know a guy, who knows this other guy, and I think we can make it happen! =P
My cousin in the UK was actually *sent* to India by the company she works for, so they could pay her less.
... now if I could just figure out how to tie this damn towel onto my head ...
So, yes, this is a viable alternative
Heh, it reminds me of that Mr.Show sketch with the CEO who fires everyone ...
"Heh heh heh! Everyone fired! Now it's just me! That oughta boost profits, right? Right? Hello?"
Since when do you work "less smart" than you really are?
... so that I never again have to give up my job to someone who's better at "looking busy" than I am.
Um, since you've been doing the same job for years and years, and your skills/brainpower have surpassed your accrued responsibilities and paycheck? I believe this is a common problem, which is usually solved by "looking busy", since job title (rather than increased productivity) usually takes precedence in deciding your salary.
This is precisely the reason I quit my job as a corporate tool and returned to school to study physics
There are also a lot of items that are legal to possess if they are used for a legal means but are illegal to possess if they are used to break the law (lock picks, drug paraphernalia).
So, if you were doing something illegal with a lockpick, like breaking into someone's house, that doesn't mean the company who made the lockpick or sold it to you would be at fault.
If you were smoking something other than tobacco in your water pipe, no one can sue/arrest the owner of the head shop where you bought it, or the glass-blower who made it! I mean, it clearly said "only for use with tobacco" right on the label!
This is why we have laws regarding search warrants. If law enforcment has reason enough to believe you have illegal items, or are using items such that they are illegal, or are doing something illegal, they have to convince a judge to give them a warrant. This should be no different for pirated media, as it is, and I would have no problem supporting *this* kind of legislation regarding software/media piracy.
No, it's like asserting that your methadone clinic is legal because although most customers prefer the free synthesized heroin, a few actually pay to quit ...
Oh wait, they ARE LEGAL!!
Perhaps, but there's no corporate interest in stopping kiddie porn.
There *is* corporate interest in stopping the spread of MP3s and movies, which is probably why there hasn't been significant law enforcement investigation into who's attacking DALNet.
People that run huge companies/interests have usually lost most touch with reality, so if they're really bent on getting something to happen, they'll find someone willing to do it.
As pointed out in David Deutsche's The Fabric of Reality , no encryption based on large primes is ever indefinitely secure.
... and currently decoherence is the largest obstacle to overcome.
...
While the factorization of large prime numbers is currently an intractable task, quantum computing is very likely to make it as tractable as multiplication.
For instance, Shor's Algorithm, first discovered in 1994, has already been implemented to factor the number 15 -- to 3 and 5 with 80% accuracy. (If anyone knows what it got the other 20% of the time, I'm interested!)
Now certainly 15 isn't comparable to a 1024-bit RSA key, but it's only a start for quantum computers. Using entanglement and interference, one can have very large primes factored in a matter of minutes! All we have left to do is actually build a device that does it
So, if you really want information to be secure, and remain secure indefinitely, a better method of encryption which does not rely on the factorization of large primes needs to be implemented.
Peter Shor even wrote a poem about it. =P
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If you don't take responsibility
for what goes into your mind
Someone Else Will!
HAHAH ... SOHO's "how to" on making UFO's kind of takes the doubt out about whether or not UFO-ish artifacts can be created ...
.. if you still don't believe it, perhaps you can explain away similar bad pixels that show up in particle-detector data at Fermilab or CERN as itty-bitty UFO's haunting the collider? Or maybe they're little angels taking the dead particles away to heaven?
...
I mean, if you really think a second independent group needs to "prove" that you can use photoshop to interpolate a bad pixel, then gimme some money and you've got yourself an article!
Hmm
Now I'd like to see *that* headline in UFO magazine
Are you saying you have a more ready supply of methane or hydrogen gas then you do electricity?
;)
Actually, aside from 'technology', the enormous abundance of methane on Earth is the most easily-detectable sign that life exists here.
And what produces more methane than bovine flatulance? Nothing.(well maybe a Mexian rodeo)
Why do you think space aliens are always stealing/mutilating cows? It's because they think the cows are the dominant form of life here. And they might be right. =P
So anyway, eat a bean burrito and fill up your fuel cell, it's cheaper than buying batteries.
As long the cat's not in a sealed box with a Uranium-238 atom and a geiger-counter wired to a shotgun, your conversations can be carried on indefnitely.
Recently Gnome suddenly started refusing to start up. Have you tried Enlightenment? You can install it (like anything else) in your home directory, without root access, by conifurging it with something like --prefix=/home/dozer/enlightenment and adding the executable to your .xinitrc or .xsession file.
Luckily with Linux you have an alternative to using mem-heavy UI's like KDE and GNOME, while still getting the benefits from having their libraries installed. (You can still run programs that require Gnome, without running the Gnome environment).
As a side note, you probably could have used Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server and edit those files on the console rather than using a M$ machine to do it ;)
No decent text editor. gedit stinks.
Download NEdit. You get syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a whole bunch of other nifty stuff without feeling "bloated" while using it. It even comes precompiled for most platforms ;)
Motif apps. Mathematica and Matlab are big, slow ...
The rest of the world agrees. Write a letter to Wolfram. =P
No word processor. ...Can't copy and paste pictures.
Sounds like it's time to take an hour and learn LaTeX. Afterwords, you'll never want to use a word processor or paste pictures again. Additionally, your term papers and reports will be written faster and look more professional. An added benefit comes when you consider that most science journals would require you to submit a paper in LaTeX, so it's better to learn *now* than *later* after you've written your 100+ page thesis in M$ Word and have to transfer all of it.