Acting in "self-defense" doesn't make an action morally defensible.
That's plain wrong in any moral codex I (or most people) live by. Stabbing a stranger with a knife is normally not morally defensible. If said stranger is in the process of killing me and my family (and I have no other resort) I believe stabbing him would actually be a moral requirement. No?
Most terrorists do not exactly subscribe to the latest scientific journals. A lightbulb will go off in one of their dim minds and they'll try to ram a plane into the cable, or the tower, or whatever, hoping it will somehow dislodge the asteroid from orbit and send it crashing into Washington D.C. or something.
You are underestimating our opponents. Dangerous, very dangerous. The al-Qaida terrorists are not cowards. They are not stupid. (Except in the "blind faith" sense.) They are evil but that's unfortunately something else entirely. How do you wage "war on terror" when your desire to render the terrorists ugly clouds your mind like that? Don't you think the WTC attacks took a lot of planning, with analysis of the likely effects? What makes you think an attack on the space elevator (if ever built) would be preceded by less planning and analysis? Of course, this analysis would probably prove an attack too hard to be worthwhile, but that's another story.
there must be some kind of propulsion in the counterweight, pushing it prograde whenever cargo ascends and pushing retrograde when cargo descends.
No propulsion needed. The spinning Earth will drag the counterweight back into position. The kinetic energy (and equivalently, the angular momentum) will be stolen from the Earths rotation.
Earth has a HUUUGE amount of angular momentum so there's plenty to spare. (Why does this sound as famous last words from a cheesy disaster movie?)
If we suddenly have 100 miles of superstrong material slamming down at hypersonic speed, it's going to be extremely bad
It'll be more like a 100-mile piece of paper fluttering to the ground. The ribbon will be extremely light. It needs to be, or it can't hold up its own weight. Why don't you go read the Space Elevator FAQ before displaying your ignorance?
The Secure harddisk eraser is a Linux boot floppy that overwrites your drive with random bits. Comes in a 3-pass and a 35-pass version. Insert, boot, wait for beep. Free as in GPL.
Ok, so we've got our new NRAM machine. When it's powered on the (N)RAM is the same as when it was powered off, but the CPU and all external units (networking, graphics, printer etc.) will have to be re-initialized. Is it feasible for the current Linux kernel to exploit these features to the max with a few patches, or is a thorough redesign needed?
What should software be like, when "save" and "save as" make little sense since the file stays in (N)RAM anyway? Wouldn't "saving your document" be replaced with something more akin to tagging a CVS branch? (Perhaps such a system would be a good idea even today with the price and speed of modern hard drives.)
The AdTI has a survey
asking people to report factual inaccuracies in the "Samizdat". But don't send your data to the AdTI - you've seen how they twist facts. Instead someone should quickly set up a similar site with results posted publicly for the benefit of truth. We'd end up with a very thorough rebuttal of the entire aggregation of manure. Any takers?
Here's the text of the survey: Report "Samizdat" inaccuracies
A due-diligence review on behalf of the directors of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. If you would like to report more than one inaccuracy, please submit one entry and then use a fresh form -- multiple entries are allowed.
Have you located any inaccurate statements in Kenneth Brown's report, "Samizdat"?
Yes
No
Please enter the page number of "Samizdat" on which the inaccuracy occurs:
Please quote exactly the section of Samizdat that you wish to report is inaccurate:
Please enter any information you wish to supply which demonstrates that the section of "Samizdat" you cite is incorrect.
Please enter your email address below. Thank you for participting.
Achtung, alle Slassendotters!
Das sign is nicht für goatse und first posten. Ist easy timeouts zu generieren, kracking und Distributed Service denichten! Das anonymen kauards standen from keywerk back, ist to post comments to polls. Die palen geeks going heraus in sunlight and girls meeting. Alle relaxen, while blinkenlights sowjetrussen watschen.
Thanks for mirroring, but this is the FCC "notice of inquiry" which i believe is already public. The really interesting stuff is the RIAA-CEA dialogue, but it's slashdotted beyond hope.
Did anyone get to them while they were up?
A lot of the spam I get is "We detected a virus in your mail" when in fact the sender of the infected mail just spoofed my address.
It would probably be better if the AntiVirus companies didn't send such "warnings" at all, but if they want to, they should standardize on including a header such as X-virus-warning-bounce. Then the rest of us could just filter them out. It would save some of my precious mental bandwidth.
Nahh, it's just mediocre, and rather sloppily edited popular science. It's very clear to me that this is a misprint:
So, Deutsch writes in "Fabric of Reality", this is what is causing the interference, "[W]hen a photon passes through one of four slits, some shadow photons pass through the other three slits." The shadow protons, then, are blocking the tangible protons, causing only three shadow slits. (my emph.)
I don't know why, he probably had to meet a deadline, or his spellchecker cheated him.
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How are they supposed to be making money on this?
It's not a way of making money, it's a way of spending them. It's run by the Internet Archive, founded and funded by Brewster Kahle. It's there for your free enjoyment - revel in the goodness of humanity!
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How are they supposed to be making money onhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle this?
It's not a way of making money, it's a way of spending them. It's run by the Internet Archive, founded and funded by Brewster Kahle. It's there for your free enjoyment - revel in the goodness of humanity!
Quick, before some of these destructive science zealots publish their findings, sending the entire GDP to India with the latest copy of Nature!
Here's what science did to Denmark: In 1820 H. C. Oersted discovered electromagnetism, and immediately the lunatic published it! It is estimated that the annual value of electromagnetism exceeds $240bn - all ruthlessly snatched from the hands of danish children (telling this really hurts).
If only this knowledge had stayed within the the nation we wouldn't have been a wasteland populated by warring tribes today. (Our main produce is low-quality mud) Oh, the horror, do not let this destiny befall you!
However, making advanced graphs and plots with ROOT requires a whomping manual
Why not try R? There's not much point and click, but the command are quite ok, and as you can see from their page it generates some VERY good-looking graphs. Its GPL'ed:-)
I'd like a subtitle application. A smart application analyses voices and sends subtitles only I can see.
Now what I'd like to see in the display is:
Name: Bob Greenham (92% certainty) Last met: Acme Conference june '06 Current position: Cyan Inc. (99% certainty) "Bob Greenham" found in one mail thread: Spokes for Acme Wheels (July '06, 3 mails)
The Irish presidency is now handling the software patent issue. After the EU Commission proposal got blasted by the Parliament (thanks Parliament!), Ireland has now put forth a "compromise" that's even more pro-swpat than the original Commission one. So why not remind them of the main anti-software-patent organization and the 300'000 signatures by spelling "FFII" across the Dublin sky?
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Acting in "self-defense" doesn't make an action morally defensible.
That's plain wrong in any moral codex I (or most people) live by. Stabbing a stranger with a knife is normally not morally defensible. If said stranger is in the process of killing me and my family (and I have no other resort) I believe stabbing him would actually be a moral requirement. No?
Yet again english fails through being non-associative... It's a wonder that we're able to communicate at all :-)
winning 5 and possibly now 6 of them in a row is completely unprecedented
Winning 5 was done by Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain. Winning 6 would be unprecedented.
Most terrorists do not exactly subscribe to the latest scientific journals. A lightbulb will go off in one of their dim minds and they'll try to ram a plane into the cable, or the tower, or whatever, hoping it will somehow dislodge the asteroid from orbit and send it crashing into Washington D.C. or something.
You are underestimating our opponents. Dangerous, very dangerous. The al-Qaida terrorists are not cowards. They are not stupid. (Except in the "blind faith" sense.) They are evil but that's unfortunately something else entirely. How do you wage "war on terror" when your desire to render the terrorists ugly clouds your mind like that? Don't you think the WTC attacks took a lot of planning, with analysis of the likely effects? What makes you think an attack on the space elevator (if ever built) would be preceded by less planning and analysis? Of course, this analysis would probably prove an attack too hard to be worthwhile, but that's another story.
there must be some kind of propulsion in the counterweight, pushing it prograde whenever cargo ascends and pushing retrograde when cargo descends.
No propulsion needed. The spinning Earth will drag the counterweight back into position. The kinetic energy (and equivalently, the angular momentum) will be stolen from the Earths rotation.
Earth has a HUUUGE amount of angular momentum so there's plenty to spare. (Why does this sound as famous last words from a cheesy disaster movie?)
If we suddenly have 100 miles of superstrong material slamming down at hypersonic speed, it's going to be extremely bad
It'll be more like a 100-mile piece of paper fluttering to the ground. The ribbon will be extremely light. It needs to be, or it can't hold up its own weight. Why don't you go read the Space Elevator FAQ before displaying your ignorance?
...never break the law. They write it.
What they should have used: Secure Harddisk Eraser
The Secure harddisk eraser is a Linux boot floppy that overwrites your drive with random bits. Comes in a 3-pass and a 35-pass version. Insert, boot, wait for beep. Free as in GPL.
Current death toll from Amnesty International's actions in Nepal: 9000
Could you elaborate on that?
Ok, so we've got our new NRAM machine. When it's powered on the (N)RAM is the same as when it was powered off, but the CPU and all external units (networking, graphics, printer etc.) will have to be re-initialized. Is it feasible for the current Linux kernel to exploit these features to the max with a few patches, or is a thorough redesign needed?
What should software be like, when "save" and "save as" make little sense since the file stays in (N)RAM anyway? Wouldn't "saving your document" be replaced with something more akin to tagging a CVS branch? (Perhaps such a system would be a good idea even today with the price and speed of modern hard drives.)
The AdTI has a survey asking people to report factual inaccuracies in the "Samizdat". But don't send your data to the AdTI - you've seen how they twist facts. Instead someone should quickly set up a similar site with results posted publicly for the benefit of truth. We'd end up with a very thorough rebuttal of the entire aggregation of manure. Any takers?
Here's the text of the survey:
Report "Samizdat" inaccuracies
A due-diligence review on behalf of the directors of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. If you would like to report more than one inaccuracy, please submit one entry and then use a fresh form -- multiple entries are allowed.
Have you located any inaccurate statements in Kenneth Brown's report, "Samizdat"?
Yes
No
Please enter the page number of "Samizdat" on which the inaccuracy occurs:
Please quote exactly the section of Samizdat that you wish to report is inaccurate:
Please enter any information you wish to supply which demonstrates that the section of "Samizdat" you cite is incorrect.
Please enter your email address below. Thank you for participting.
Achtung, alle Slassendotters!
Das sign is nicht für goatse und first posten. Ist easy timeouts zu generieren, kracking und Distributed Service denichten! Das anonymen kauards standen from keywerk back, ist to post comments to polls. Die palen geeks going heraus in sunlight and girls meeting. Alle relaxen, while blinkenlights sowjetrussen watschen.
Shouldn't it also be possible to play the wife of the Czech factory worker caught up in the middle of it all?
Sorry, only got the first file
Thanks for mirroring, but this is the FCC "notice of inquiry" which i believe is already public. The really interesting stuff is the RIAA-CEA dialogue, but it's slashdotted beyond hope. Did anyone get to them while they were up?
RTFA. ITER is what this article is about.
A lot of the spam I get is "We detected a virus in your mail" when in fact the sender of the infected mail just spoofed my address.
It would probably be better if the AntiVirus companies didn't send such "warnings" at all, but if they want to, they should standardize on including a header such as X-virus-warning-bounce. Then the rest of us could just filter them out. It would save some of my precious mental bandwidth.
Your ultimate spam solution will not work.
Is this a joke article?
Nahh, it's just mediocre, and rather sloppily edited popular science. It's very clear to me that this is a misprint:
So, Deutsch writes in "Fabric of Reality", this is what is causing the interference, "[W]hen a photon passes through one of four slits, some shadow photons pass through the other three slits." The shadow protons, then, are blocking the tangible protons, causing only three shadow slits. (my emph.)
I don't know why, he probably had to meet a deadline, or his spellchecker cheated him.
How are they supposed to be making money on this?
It's not a way of making money, it's a way of spending them. It's run by the Internet Archive, founded and funded by Brewster Kahle. It's there for your free enjoyment - revel in the goodness of humanity!
How are they supposed to be making money onhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle this?
It's not a way of making money, it's a way of spending them. It's run by the Internet Archive, founded and funded by Brewster Kahle. It's there for your free enjoyment - revel in the goodness of humanity!
Quick, before some of these destructive science zealots publish their findings, sending the entire GDP to India with the latest copy of Nature!
Here's what science did to Denmark: In 1820 H. C. Oersted discovered electromagnetism, and immediately the lunatic published it! It is estimated that the annual value of electromagnetism exceeds $240bn - all ruthlessly snatched from the hands of danish children (telling this really hurts).
If only this knowledge had stayed within the the nation we wouldn't have been a wasteland populated by warring tribes today. (Our main produce is low-quality mud) Oh, the horror, do not let this destiny befall you!
However, making advanced graphs and plots with ROOT requires a whomping manual
:-)
Why not try R? There's not much point and click, but the command are quite ok, and as you can see from their page it generates some VERY good-looking graphs. Its GPL'ed
Now what I'd like to see in the display is:
The Irish presidency is now handling the software patent issue. After the EU Commission proposal got blasted by the Parliament (thanks Parliament!), Ireland has now put forth a "compromise" that's even more pro-swpat than the original Commission one. So why not remind them of the main anti-software-patent organization and the 300'000 signatures by spelling "FFII" across the Dublin sky?