What's next....banning books that have too much violent, sadistic content? Sure its not as flashy as the video game, but, it still promotes the same messages....
It certainly sounds like a good way to get kids to read more books!
all the particle colliders of the most recent generation (like the Tevatron at Fermilab or the Relativistic Heavy Ion collider in New York) have the capability (if certain theoretical models are accurate enough) to generate very tiny (around nine millimeters), but stable black holes (though the probability is extremely low)
Well, yeah, but the probability is about the same as that of you generating a small black hole by clapping your hands together really hard.
And being attacked for criticizing Scientology is something that could have happened to you. For, let's say, talking bad about those Sons-of-a-Bitch here on Slashdot.
This has, in fact, happened. As far as I am aware this is the only time in history that a Slashdot comment has been edited.
Noon is supposed to mean the sun is overhead, mid-day.
If I recall, there are only four days a year when local solar noon and local mean noon are the same thing, and neither have anything to do with standard time, unless you're standing on a meridian that's a multiple of 15.
Yeah, they're, like, up to 0.9 of a whole second different.
This is the key problem. People think that because they don't understand something, that means it's wrong. If your computer starts behaving really strangely, it's not because you introduced a seriously complex problem to the operating system when you deleted those critical files, it's not because you didn't select the correct set of options on your mail merge, it's because the computer is stupid. Schroedinger's Equation? "Oh, I never got math when I was in school!" Newsflash: Schroedinger's Equation doesn't care.
Science is really, really complicated. It is, in many instances, exceedingly counter-intuitive. Nothing anybody can do will ever change that. But just because it's amazingly hard to understand without a lot of training - or, for many people, simply impossible to understand at all - doesn't mean it's wrong. Sooner or later there comes a point where the vast majority of people - even we learned Slashdotters - have to take what the smart guys are saying on faith.
And here, I suspect, is the real issue: a lot of people in America (and other countries) only have room for one kind of faith.
But it doesn't matter. We'll see whose science works, the one which directly contradicts reality or the one which models it as closely as possible. We'll see who cures the most diseases. It's just a matter of time.
See, the problem here is that it isn't their "property".
Actually, it is. Most music contracts involve surrendering the copyright to the record label. Check the back of any CD and it'll be "Copyright Atlantic Records" not "Copyright U2" or whoever.
This may be unfair to the creator, sure. Nasty business practice, absolutely. But it's not actually illegal.
Songs, stories, movies--- once they're publicly released, they belong to all of us.
Even if the rest was true, this would STILL be incorrect. Songs, stories and movies don't intrinsically belong to all of us. They don't belong to you. They shouldn't belong to the **AA (but they do). They SHOULD belong to the CREATOR. As a writer, I should have the sole right to profit from my work, at least for a reasonable amount of time, does that make sense?
Copyright is not evil in and of itself. It has its place, but that place is protecting creators, not corporations, and THAT is the problem.
they often leave it in gear to keep it from rolling in the lot
Evidently they don't understand the mechanics of a manual transmission either. Or, indeed, any car. That's what the handbrake is for.
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If I may be insanely paranoid for a moment: that only works as a feature as long as not too many people are aware of it. There must always be a gap between the size of the first encrypted volume and the size of the bogus "hidden files" in the volume, and that gap must be big enough to hide all your genuinely secret stuff. If, for example, you have ~15GB of stuff to hide, but only 50MB of "hidden files" in your 15GB encrypted volume, that's going to raise red flags. You have to be careful.
It's worse than that. The end of the world is EASY to deal with. But the chances are, whatever asteroid eventually hits us will NOT kill everybody on Earth. Extinction level events are far rarer than simple cataclysms. If you live inland, you'll survive. And it will be you who has to pick up the pieces. Looking forward to it? I know I'm not.
I have experienced similar issues in my studies of mathematics, though not to nearly the extent you did.
The conclusion I came to is not that the lecturers and supervisors didn't know what they were doing. They were all clearly exceptional mathematicians. The problem was that that simply wasn't enough. Just because you can do mathematics doesn't mean you have any kind of ability to teach it. The ability to teach is not something that comes as naturally as mathematical ability does, it is very much a learned skill, and I think many of them needed more training in this area.
It's really easy to say, "Terrorists routinely do this."
Exactly my sentiments. If terrorism is a problem, where are the terrorists? Where are the endless terrorist attacks and counter-terrorist busts? We got bombed once, like a year and a half ago. America hasn't been attacked at all in half a decade. Is that supposed to constitute a persistent looming threat? Because I, for one, could not care less.
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That doesn't mean we should stop trying.
It certainly sounds like a good way to get kids to read more books!
I rather think surviving for a million years is, if anything, an even harder task than getting to another solar system.
Just because Hawking hasn't written any science fiction doesn't make his opinion worthless!
Exactly. If you're going for photorealism, why not use real film? Why use CGI at all?
Perhaps, to oppose creationism, you must fight on their terms - with a rapid-fire listing of faults and shortcomings in creationism?
Well, yeah, but the probability is about the same as that of you generating a small black hole by clapping your hands together really hard.
You may thinking of L. Ron's 1978 book A New Kind of Scients
This has, in fact, happened. As far as I am aware this is the only time in history that a Slashdot comment has been edited.
Quite right. Otherwise my sperm would have precisely the same rights as I do.
I think there's a song about that.
Yeah, they're, like, up to 0.9 of a whole second different.
Think of Shakespeare as the Peter Jackson of his day.
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This is the key problem. People think that because they don't understand something, that means it's wrong. If your computer starts behaving really strangely, it's not because you introduced a seriously complex problem to the operating system when you deleted those critical files, it's not because you didn't select the correct set of options on your mail merge, it's because the computer is stupid. Schroedinger's Equation? "Oh, I never got math when I was in school!" Newsflash: Schroedinger's Equation doesn't care.
Science is really, really complicated. It is, in many instances, exceedingly counter-intuitive. Nothing anybody can do will ever change that. But just because it's amazingly hard to understand without a lot of training - or, for many people, simply impossible to understand at all - doesn't mean it's wrong. Sooner or later there comes a point where the vast majority of people - even we learned Slashdotters - have to take what the smart guys are saying on faith.
And here, I suspect, is the real issue: a lot of people in America (and other countries) only have room for one kind of faith.
But it doesn't matter. We'll see whose science works, the one which directly contradicts reality or the one which models it as closely as possible. We'll see who cures the most diseases. It's just a matter of time.
Actually, it is. Most music contracts involve surrendering the copyright to the record label. Check the back of any CD and it'll be "Copyright Atlantic Records" not "Copyright U2" or whoever.
This may be unfair to the creator, sure. Nasty business practice, absolutely. But it's not actually illegal.
Even if the rest was true, this would STILL be incorrect. Songs, stories and movies don't intrinsically belong to all of us. They don't belong to you. They shouldn't belong to the **AA (but they do). They SHOULD belong to the CREATOR. As a writer, I should have the sole right to profit from my work, at least for a reasonable amount of time, does that make sense?
Copyright is not evil in and of itself. It has its place, but that place is protecting creators, not corporations, and THAT is the problem.
Evidently they don't understand the mechanics of a manual transmission either. Or, indeed, any car. That's what the handbrake is for.
If I may be insanely paranoid for a moment: that only works as a feature as long as not too many people are aware of it. There must always be a gap between the size of the first encrypted volume and the size of the bogus "hidden files" in the volume, and that gap must be big enough to hide all your genuinely secret stuff. If, for example, you have ~15GB of stuff to hide, but only 50MB of "hidden files" in your 15GB encrypted volume, that's going to raise red flags. You have to be careful.
It's worse than that. The end of the world is EASY to deal with. But the chances are, whatever asteroid eventually hits us will NOT kill everybody on Earth. Extinction level events are far rarer than simple cataclysms. If you live inland, you'll survive. And it will be you who has to pick up the pieces. Looking forward to it? I know I'm not.
One of these days I want to do an "Ask Slashdot: What would you do with the Star Trek franchise?"
I have experienced similar issues in my studies of mathematics, though not to nearly the extent you did.
The conclusion I came to is not that the lecturers and supervisors didn't know what they were doing. They were all clearly exceptional mathematicians. The problem was that that simply wasn't enough. Just because you can do mathematics doesn't mean you have any kind of ability to teach it. The ability to teach is not something that comes as naturally as mathematical ability does, it is very much a learned skill, and I think many of them needed more training in this area.
Slashdot text boxes are huge. You should have said you couldn't get all the symbols and numbers past the lameness filter ;)
Tied up in a burlap sack and dragged backwards through the Andes behind a donkey?
Shouldn't that be "A Developer's Security Bugs Primer"?
This site has editors, right?
Exactly my sentiments. If terrorism is a problem, where are the terrorists? Where are the endless terrorist attacks and counter-terrorist busts? We got bombed once , like a year and a half ago. America hasn't been attacked at all in half a decade. Is that supposed to constitute a persistent looming threat? Because I, for one, could not care less.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. ID cards won't stop terrorism. Suicide bombers don't care if they get identified.