Strange that noone has posted to this article yet...
Anyway, my $0.02 is that Google is on the right track. Let developers write plugins for the Google desktop, and keep expanding it to eventually be the GoogleOS.
I think the implementation of the broadcast flag will most likely be the same as that of the DVD region codes. That is, it's controlled via the remote control.
Yup, I've got a Brit friend who took his DVD player to a repair shop here in the US and they just punched a few codes into the remote and voila! Region free DVD viewing.
Even if it requires a $0.47 hardware hack from Radio Shack and is considered illegal - who is going to enforce it? Can they track you somehow? No. It's like stealing cable TV... if you let the Comcast guy into your house he'll see the hack, but if you're dumb enough to do that you deserve to get caught.
co-ops are a good alternative, but most people don't know how to go about doing something like that. If you could put together some good documentation and processes that people could follow I think it would get some attention.
Especially for folks that live in small towns that will never be serviced by the telco or cable companies.
Under God, indivisible, with LIBERTY and justice for ALL.
Dear God! How many stupid fucking people are there on slashdot these days?! Almost all of the posts I've seen moderated up have NOTHING to do with the article... they just bitch and moan about the 17 year old slut who fucks guys then sues them. The law is related to MOLESTING KIDS 11 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER!
And that stupid crack about liberty and justice for all... who's liberty? The child or the child molester? Go fuck a dog instead of kids you dumbass piece of shit. As far as I'm concerned giving them a GPS device to track their every move is better than they deserve. They should be locked up in maximum security getting their asses ripped apart by Bubba and the gang for the rest of their lives.
Justice for all, indeed! Justice is being served with this law, you stupid fucking pedophiles just don't want it to happen. oooh, they are invading our privacy! What will happen when they catch me with my kiddie porn collection... woe is me! *whine*sniff*whine* Yeah go to fucking hell you asswipe, or better yet go shoot yourself in the head.
but that only gives data for up to three years after. It doesn't say anything about recidivism after 3 years which may or may not be significant
A quick search
should give you all you need to know.
Of note:
A long term follow-up study of child molesters in Canada found that 42% were reconvicted of sexual or violent crime during the 15-30 year follow-up period
42% is pretty high. If you had kids, would you want convicted child molesters tagged so that an alarm went off when they went within 100m of a school, or other kid-centric area? I know I would. Fuck privacy man, they give it up when they molest a kid.
is one of the sweetest and painless experiences you will ever have. I put in the CD, and it detected EVERY piece of hardware on the machine, and it supports USB perfectly.
If you have a Thinkpad, I highly recommend installing Ubuntu. It's a great distro!
Which is why it is such a great IDE! I can understand all of the minimalists that complain that it's just too hard to use, and want to stick with VIM. I personally love VIM, I still use it on occasion while writing C and PHP. But using VIM for everything is like eating potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner - every day. They're good, but there's a lot more out there.
I have found that Eclipse is one of the greatest software applications ev4r simply because it does so much, and is so complicated. It is not only an IDE, but a complete client application framework that can be used or adapted for just about anything. Most of the applications I write now are built using the Eclipse RCP framework with EMF and SDO connected to some back-end persistence framework. It truly is elegant to use and MUCH better than trying to write this type of framework from scratch.
The best part is that it is backed by IBM and a lot of other big dogs, so you know it's going to be stable.
AH, HAHAHA HAHAHA HAAAAAH! Oh man HEE HEE HAH! That is so goddamn funny, AAAAHHAHAHAHA! Oooh, man stop it pleeeease! HAHAHAHAAAAAA <<hacking cough Ugh, tee hee hee HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! insecure..HAHAHA HAAAH! Oooh man this is good, hehe, because it could FORK! HAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAHAA! Oh shit man, what a fucking joke! Dammit my sides hurt.. HAAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAHAHA!
The biggest thing people HOPEFULLY gain in college is a strong network of friends and acquaintances
I wish I'd done college the conventional way too, but dropped out as a freshman to get a job paying good money. I'm now stuck going back to school for a degree, not because I think I need it (although I do think it may help), but because I have fallen in love with learning new things.
I'm almost finished with my A.S in Computer Sci, but instead of going on to get my B.S. in C.S. I've decided to get one in Physics. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO much more interesting, and order of magnitudes more challenging. I am doing it for the love of the subject, and for the feeling of accomplishment that I will feel when I'm done. Getting a C.S. degree to me would be like going back to 4th grade and having to listen to "See Dick Run!" over and over and over and over again...
Like I said, the unit has not only a GPS unit (global positioning with satellites), but a GPRS (cell phone technology that uses towers). If you are in a city, the GPS unit may not work very well, but the GPRS unit will.
Actually it does. My dad's company builds and markets these devices, and they are pretty advanced technologically.
The devices (at least the ones we use) have a GPS unit, a GPRS unit, and an RF unit. They can be tracked globally pretty much anywhere. The cool thing about these devices though is the tracking system itself. Law enforcement can pull up a web page that displays a map overlaid with the target's position, as well as the history of their positions. So an officer can query the system for the last day, and it will show everywhere that the target has gone and how long they stayed there.
The system also has inclusion and exclusion zones so that if a suspect (let's say a convicted sex offender) goes within 100 meters of a school the unit puts out an alarm that notifies law enforcement. They can pick him up before he even gets to the school.
I think this technology has some good uses. I know that I would definitely sleep better knowing that every convicted sex offender (on probation or released) was wearing one of these devices.
The house we bought a few years ago was wired with coax cable to every room, some rooms have two or three outlets. We use it mostly just for connecting TVs in different rooms to the satellite receiver.
I've tried to get cat5 through the same conduits the coax uses, but it just won't work and I don't want to rip out my walls. Is there a way to run ethernet connections via coax? Maybe some kind of cat5-coax adapter?
There has been some good discussion on this board about advice for the younger generation. Some kids take the advice and wish they hadn't, while others ignore it and wish they hand't. It's a vicious cycle that will repeat itself indefinitely because everyone has regrets about something in life.
Each generation will change and things will be a little bit different, but it doesn't mean that there aren't some things that are the same or similar. It all comes down to individual life circumstances and the way a person decides to live their life.
I have decided that with my children I will try to be as realistic as possible about every bit of information I feed to them. I will explain the concept of actions and consequences, the concept of benevolence, being excellent, individualism, and pursuing happiness. I will then try to explain the situation that the world may put them in, situations like social cliques, peer pressure, the human need for acceptance, etc.
My hope is that my kids will go through life with their eyes as wide open as possible, and make good decisions because of it. After all, life is really about learning to be happy... IMNSHO.
Just so you know, you can only experimentally disprove a theory. You can find data to support a theory, but you can't possibly reproduce experimentally all possible ramifications of the theory, so you can never prove it. If you're looking for theories to be proven true, science isn't for you.;-)
While that may be true, reading your post it suddenly struck me that if you're right the Theory of Evolution would really not be any different than the Theory of Intelligent Design... in theory.:)
It is a hot topic to be sure, I don't think that anyone really looks at the issue with calm common sense anymore. It's all about how one believes, but it is an interesting similarity, eh? You can't really disprove evolution, nor intelligent design. You can only find data to support either, and discredit the other side's "data" based on personal beliefs or individual viewpoints.
Well, this whole discussion has brought up some good things to think about.
We have no evidence of clocks evolving. I am glad you thought I made some good points because they neatly rebut yours.
Touché
But seriously, let me make a point. This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
If that does not make sense, then how can evolution make sense? The answer is that it doesn't, and if it doesn't make sense, you shouldn't teach it in schools. That's right, evolution doesn't make sense ladies and gentlemen.
Heh... seriously though I thought someone would point out that we DO study how our intelligent alien creators made us via the science of biology, chemistry, physics, etc. Sciences that clearly are more scientific than evolution... IMNSHO.
Ah, yes. This has all been great fun. Look! Look at the silly monkey!
You could argue someone influenced the design but when there is a reasonable plausible theory to explain origins that does not involve an intelligent creator, we should automatically choose it over one that does.
You made some good points, but I don't know if this is necessarily the best decision. Yes, we can study theories that explain origins that do not involve an intelligent creator, and I think we should. However, why not also study theories that explain how an intelligent creator could have done it's creation.
I'll use your analogy with the clock. If we just look at how a clock could have evolved over millions of years and try to piece together bits of other clocks and say "look, it's evolution, these pieces of other clocks look similar over a period of time", sure it can help us understand clocks... but what if we look at a clock and say, "hmmm. I wonder how it's creator built it? And if a creator built it, how would it have designed it, and how would it relate to other things that it may have built?" This can also yield some good information about the clock, as well as understanding how a creator could use the same architecture patterns in other "creations" it may have made. This helps us understand a lot more than just a clock.
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On the other hand, if the skies crack open and a thundering voice bellows "This is God. Evolution is a crock. Check out genes #43.125-43.234 in starfish and humans" and it turns out those genes contain a binary encoded (C/G=1, T/A=0) message saying "(c) YHWH, 4000BC, nobody mess with my copyrites, I rulez0rs, go forth and multiply suckas!", well, then that could quite possibly be a good way to disprove evolution..
OMFG! This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while! Oh shit, just picturing Jesus bellowing l337 speak from the skies was enough to cause me to literally belt out laughing.
Seriously though, I agree with you. I've never really understood how the evolutionary scientists can tell me that evolution is REAL, and we descended from APES or something when they can't prove it at all.
What? Really, they can prove it? I call bullshit. No, fuck you. Ok then produce me an APE and make it into a man. Oh, you can't. HAHA. Ok then, show me a situation where that happened. No, no, showing me bones that are millions of years old and saying "see how similar these two skulls look?" doesn't fly worth shit. It only proves that there were either some really fucked up looking humans, or some fucked up looking apes, or some other animal that lived back then.
Oh stop whining about it, you know you can't prove it. It's just a THEORY right? Fine then, show me some DNA from these crazy bones that relates to some HUMAN DNA from REAL HUMANS. Ah, right, you can't. So stop proseletyzing your stupid fucking beliefs on me, and own up to the fact that evolution is just another religion... Oh, right, ok fine, it is a THEORY... it's just an unprovable one. Just like intelligent design, eh?
Discover Financial Services (Discover Card) has just created a new Information Security department. I'm not sure if they're hiring, but it wouldn't hurt to send in your resume.
If people lived to be regularly older than 100 years I predict (hope) that there would be less wars due to the higher life maturity/experience level, but if not I would guess that the people who are older would jump at the chance to go to war if not just because they've had more life than they could ever want.
It would be nice for parents not to have to worry about their children dying in some far away place at such a young age. Draft the old people if they still have the ability and fitness to be soldiers. That's what I say.
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Anyway, my $0.02 is that Google is on the right track. Let developers write plugins for the Google desktop, and keep expanding it to eventually be the GoogleOS.
I like it.
Is she an ophthamologist or oculoplastic surgeon?
Yup, I've got a Brit friend who took his DVD player to a repair shop here in the US and they just punched a few codes into the remote and voila! Region free DVD viewing.
Even if it requires a $0.47 hardware hack from Radio Shack and is considered illegal - who is going to enforce it? Can they track you somehow? No. It's like stealing cable TV... if you let the Comcast guy into your house he'll see the hack, but if you're dumb enough to do that you deserve to get caught.
Long Live The Media Outlaw Masses!
Especially for folks that live in small towns that will never be serviced by the telco or cable companies.
Dear God! How many stupid fucking people are there on slashdot these days?! Almost all of the posts I've seen moderated up have NOTHING to do with the article... they just bitch and moan about the 17 year old slut who fucks guys then sues them. The law is related to MOLESTING KIDS 11 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER!
And that stupid crack about liberty and justice for all... who's liberty? The child or the child molester? Go fuck a dog instead of kids you dumbass piece of shit. As far as I'm concerned giving them a GPS device to track their every move is better than they deserve. They should be locked up in maximum security getting their asses ripped apart by Bubba and the gang for the rest of their lives.
Justice for all, indeed! Justice is being served with this law, you stupid fucking pedophiles just don't want it to happen. oooh, they are invading our privacy! What will happen when they catch me with my kiddie porn collection... woe is me! *whine*sniff*whine* Yeah go to fucking hell you asswipe, or better yet go shoot yourself in the head.
A quick search should give you all you need to know.
Of note:
A long term follow-up study of child molesters in Canada found that 42% were reconvicted of sexual or violent crime during the 15-30 year follow-up period 42% is pretty high. If you had kids, would you want convicted child molesters tagged so that an alarm went off when they went within 100m of a school, or other kid-centric area? I know I would. Fuck privacy man, they give it up when they molest a kid.Thanks.
If you have a Thinkpad, I highly recommend installing Ubuntu. It's a great distro!
... I just think Eclipse is way too complicated.
Which is why it is such a great IDE! I can understand all of the minimalists that complain that it's just too hard to use, and want to stick with VIM. I personally love VIM, I still use it on occasion while writing C and PHP. But using VIM for everything is like eating potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner - every day. They're good, but there's a lot more out there.I have found that Eclipse is one of the greatest software applications ev4r simply because it does so much, and is so complicated. It is not only an IDE, but a complete client application framework that can be used or adapted for just about anything. Most of the applications I write now are built using the Eclipse RCP framework with EMF and SDO connected to some back-end persistence framework. It truly is elegant to use and MUCH better than trying to write this type of framework from scratch.
The best part is that it is backed by IBM and a lot of other big dogs, so you know it's going to be stable.
AH, HAHAHA HAHAHA HAAAAAH! Oh man HEE HEE HAH! That is so goddamn funny, AAAAHHAHAHAHA! Oooh, man stop it pleeeease! HAHAHAHAAAAAA <<hacking cough Ugh, tee hee hee HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! insecure..HAHAHA HAAAH! Oooh man this is good, hehe, because it could FORK! HAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAHAA! Oh shit man, what a fucking joke! Dammit my sides hurt.. HAAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAHAHA!
I wish I'd done college the conventional way too, but dropped out as a freshman to get a job paying good money. I'm now stuck going back to school for a degree, not because I think I need it (although I do think it may help), but because I have fallen in love with learning new things.
I'm almost finished with my A.S in Computer Sci, but instead of going on to get my B.S. in C.S. I've decided to get one in Physics. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO much more interesting, and order of magnitudes more challenging. I am doing it for the love of the subject, and for the feeling of accomplishment that I will feel when I'm done. Getting a C.S. degree to me would be like going back to 4th grade and having to listen to "See Dick Run!" over and over and over and over again...
So... are you rich then?
Like I said, the unit has not only a GPS unit (global positioning with satellites), but a GPRS (cell phone technology that uses towers). If you are in a city, the GPS unit may not work very well, but the GPRS unit will.
Actually it does. My dad's company builds and markets these devices, and they are pretty advanced technologically.
The devices (at least the ones we use) have a GPS unit, a GPRS unit, and an RF unit. They can be tracked globally pretty much anywhere. The cool thing about these devices though is the tracking system itself. Law enforcement can pull up a web page that displays a map overlaid with the target's position, as well as the history of their positions. So an officer can query the system for the last day, and it will show everywhere that the target has gone and how long they stayed there.
The system also has inclusion and exclusion zones so that if a suspect (let's say a convicted sex offender) goes within 100 meters of a school the unit puts out an alarm that notifies law enforcement. They can pick him up before he even gets to the school.
I think this technology has some good uses. I know that I would definitely sleep better knowing that every convicted sex offender (on probation or released) was wearing one of these devices.
I've tried to get cat5 through the same conduits the coax uses, but it just won't work and I don't want to rip out my walls. Is there a way to run ethernet connections via coax? Maybe some kind of cat5-coax adapter?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Java-Gnome binds gtk with java. Very nice.
There has been some good discussion on this board about advice for the younger generation. Some kids take the advice and wish they hadn't, while others ignore it and wish they hand't. It's a vicious cycle that will repeat itself indefinitely because everyone has regrets about something in life.
Each generation will change and things will be a little bit different, but it doesn't mean that there aren't some things that are the same or similar. It all comes down to individual life circumstances and the way a person decides to live their life.
I have decided that with my children I will try to be as realistic as possible about every bit of information I feed to them. I will explain the concept of actions and consequences, the concept of benevolence, being excellent, individualism, and pursuing happiness. I will then try to explain the situation that the world may put them in, situations like social cliques, peer pressure, the human need for acceptance, etc.
My hope is that my kids will go through life with their eyes as wide open as possible, and make good decisions because of it. After all, life is really about learning to be happy... IMNSHO.
While that may be true, reading your post it suddenly struck me that if you're right the Theory of Evolution would really not be any different than the Theory of Intelligent Design... in theory. :)
It is a hot topic to be sure, I don't think that anyone really looks at the issue with calm common sense anymore. It's all about how one believes, but it is an interesting similarity, eh? You can't really disprove evolution, nor intelligent design. You can only find data to support either, and discredit the other side's "data" based on personal beliefs or individual viewpoints.
Well, this whole discussion has brought up some good things to think about.
Don't you mean Newton's Law of Gravity? Not quite the same thing...
Theory != Law
... but it hasn't been proven yet. Just a theory.
Touché
But seriously, let me make a point. This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
If that does not make sense, then how can evolution make sense? The answer is that it doesn't, and if it doesn't make sense, you shouldn't teach it in schools. That's right, evolution doesn't make sense ladies and gentlemen.
Heh... seriously though I thought someone would point out that we DO study how our intelligent alien creators made us via the science of biology, chemistry, physics, etc. Sciences that clearly are more scientific than evolution... IMNSHO.
Ah, yes. This has all been great fun. Look! Look at the silly monkey!
You made some good points, but I don't know if this is necessarily the best decision. Yes, we can study theories that explain origins that do not involve an intelligent creator, and I think we should. However, why not also study theories that explain how an intelligent creator could have done it's creation.
I'll use your analogy with the clock. If we just look at how a clock could have evolved over millions of years and try to piece together bits of other clocks and say "look, it's evolution, these pieces of other clocks look similar over a period of time", sure it can help us understand clocks... but what if we look at a clock and say, "hmmm. I wonder how it's creator built it? And if a creator built it, how would it have designed it, and how would it relate to other things that it may have built?" This can also yield some good information about the clock, as well as understanding how a creator could use the same architecture patterns in other "creations" it may have made. This helps us understand a lot more than just a clock.
Hah! I'm flaimbait! Tee hee.
OMFG! This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while! Oh shit, just picturing Jesus bellowing l337 speak from the skies was enough to cause me to literally belt out laughing.
Seriously though, I agree with you. I've never really understood how the evolutionary scientists can tell me that evolution is REAL, and we descended from APES or something when they can't prove it at all.
What? Really, they can prove it? I call bullshit. No, fuck you. Ok then produce me an APE and make it into a man. Oh, you can't. HAHA. Ok then, show me a situation where that happened. No, no, showing me bones that are millions of years old and saying "see how similar these two skulls look?" doesn't fly worth shit. It only proves that there were either some really fucked up looking humans, or some fucked up looking apes, or some other animal that lived back then.
Oh stop whining about it, you know you can't prove it. It's just a THEORY right? Fine then, show me some DNA from these crazy bones that relates to some HUMAN DNA from REAL HUMANS. Ah, right, you can't. So stop proseletyzing your stupid fucking beliefs on me, and own up to the fact that evolution is just another religion... Oh, right, ok fine, it is a THEORY... it's just an unprovable one. Just like intelligent design, eh?
Tee hee.
They're headquartered in Chicago (Riverwoods).
It would be nice for parents not to have to worry about their children dying in some far away place at such a young age. Draft the old people if they still have the ability and fitness to be soldiers. That's what I say.