The belief that blacks are at the same "level" of being human as whites is relatively new since that time. Condemning the founding fathers for what was a societal standard at the time would be like saying that all medieval technology was wrong because they thought the earth was the center of the universe. You judge what you can in the context of how it exists. They understood what it meant to be free, and what kinds of rules it took to enable that. They didn't contemplate freedom of their slaves any more than most farmers contemplate freedom of cattle. Just because THAT part of society back then was wrong does not imply that EVERY part of it was wrong.
Don't let your prejudices get in the way of your thinking abilities.
Good for you. How many girls are like you, though? No one is saying ALL girls are disinterested in science, or even masculine things. But as a group? Even chimpanzees exhibit gender specific learning tendencies. MOST girls will like the dolls and social play. YOU played with Legos and Ninja Turtles.
An anecdote is a single data point, it is not a broad brush;)
Many feminists won't be happy until there are NO male-dominated fields. Which would mean that all fields are female-dominated, but that's nicely glossed over in the enlistment literature;)
But that's cultural, not according to the color of their skin;) Construction work is back-breaking manual labor, and that's a work ethic we lost about 50 years ago here in the US.
Just because you guarantee that a racial stereotype isn't true doesn't make it so. Why aren't there more white guys playing football or basketball at the pro level? It's not because of lack of interest. It's because there are actually differences other than skin color sometimes. Not that differences are a bad thing, but there are differences. Hell, look at things like malaria resistance through sickle-cell anemia. You think things like that exist, but there are absolutely no neurological differences between races, impacting both cultural and other abilities? What kinda fantasy world do you live in?
The only computerized solution for a "choose the 3 cats in these 10 images" problem is random guessing, which is a 1/720 chance of getting it right, just as you said. Spam it wrongly enough times, and you get blocked. CAPTCHA's are much more resistant to random brute force by your odds, but they're much more vulnerable to image processing vulnerabilities, so the computer isn't guessing out of 56 billion unique solutions. It's just reading the correct one, just like a human would. Which is the entire point of this article.
The thing is, it's hard for a computer to make out what a "cat" is. Orders of magnitude harder than it is for it to make out an alphanumeric character.
Even if it's not financially profitable, it's at least not financially draining. How many suckers do you think you could catch with "Invest $500, and you could get thousands in return!" pitch? That's all most of these spamming things are, and many people can come up with $500 on the "chance" that it'll pay off.
So get to where you say "which 3 of these pictures are of kittens?" and you show 10 pictures. Random chance will fuck you, the brute-force approach will be far inferior to a human.
Oh, right. You're one of the jock types who thinks that since something is somewhat cartoony, it can't be fun. My bad. Should have known you "grew up". It can't be a real game if it doesn't have a fuckton of time spent on graphics, and none spent on gameplay or actual, you know, fun, right? And of course it can't be for adults if it doesn't have killing or sex of some for involved.
I'm glad you're happy with your 360. I just think you haven't actually ever met a real girl. All the girls I know (and many of the guys) prefer the multiplayer games on the Wii since they're fun, and they're made for multiple people playing it on the same console. The only game like that I know of on the 360 is Guitar Hero. Whoop de fuck. The graphics aren't mind-blowing like they are on the 360, but they're good enough. There's a reason the Wii has sold almost half again as many consoles as the 360, and it's not just the price.
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia reference to Blackmail, in English law:
if, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another, he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief:
(a) that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand; and
(b) that the use of the menaces is a means of reinforcing the demand.
As it's not unwarranted, and I think any court would agree that he has reasonable grounds for making the demands he made, it's not legally blackmail. It's just prudent CYA behavior.
That's what small claims court is for. They're really not that hard to deal with, and as expensive as reference books are, I'd think that it'd be worth the trouble. You don't need a lawyer to file, either.
Open box specials are totally worth it. It's how I convinced my wife to get our 61";) If you get a DLP, I'd highly recommend an LED engine one, that way you don't have to worry about bulbs. It's not as bright as an LCD, but damn if it isn't a pretty picture, and cheaper and lighter than anything else out there.
As a completely anecdotal data point to go along with your assertion, my wife and I only have a Wii, but we have a 61" 1080p TV. She loves playing the Wii games (and regularly kicks my ass at Mario Kart). We've got something like 12 games for the Wii so far. The PS3 just hasn't had anything to interest us... the main reason I'm planning on getting one after the process shrink is because we don't have a Blu Ray player, and there are a few games like FFXIII and GTA4 that I'd like to play.
If you're social, get a Wii with the component cables. The party games on it are much better than on any other system, and they're made to be multi-player. Mario Kart, Mario Party 8, Raving Rabbids 1 & 2 are all great for guys and girls, and don't require a steep learning curve. And even if it's not as high def as the 360/PS3, 480p is pretty sweet even on my 61" 1080p DLP display.
So pay $70 to get a WRT54GL, then use some different firmware like DD-WRT or tomato on it. Cheap, and they even make installing it and all easy, as easy as the "normal" routers are to configure, and it'll get you those long uptimes.
If you don't like your crappy router, fix it. It's not that hard.
I used to have that problem, but DD-WRT on my WRT54GL fixed it. I can run torrents day and night, tons of connections, and it never gets upset. It tends to run out of memory like you said, it tries to manage state incorrectly or something, the connections don't time out soon enough.
If you have an older WRT54G (pre v4), you can just load DD-WRT, or I'd highly recommend the investment in a WRT54GL so you can run DD-WRT.
DD-WRT on my WRT54GL, I've never had to reboot it for those issues. I even have a couple separate VLAN's set up, two DHCP pools on separate interfaces, etc. I've had uptimes of over 80 days before I tweaked something else on it that required me to reboot it.
It's not the hardware... it's the generic crap software that they run on.
Specific? You mean, small and airborne, where they are essentially nanoparticles, which is the only way for asbestos to get into your lungs in the first place?
No one's saying that looking at asbestos wrong will kill you. But it is a very dangerous material that needs special precautions on handling and usage. If some nanomaterials are the same, it would be prudent to test that BEFORE industries start exposing people to large concentrations of them.
*double whoosh*. I think the GPP got the joke, but was trying to go along with it. Anyone who is literate and says that $14K is "pretty much on par" for even a portion of that skillset has to be joking;)
It's not that hard to tell a good candidate from a false one if the interviewer is skilled in the art. Or even has a passing familiarity.
Problem with many companies is that they hire based on a checklist, through an HR person who knows HR, and doesn't know the technology, and often either isn't allowed to or doesn't get input from more technical staff members.
Just for some more info, it's a 4600+, an AMD RS690 video card (integrated X1250), 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 (I think... it may be 800MHz), and all the video data is on a software RAID5 array of 250GB SATA 1.5Gbps disks. The display (61" Samsung LED engine DLP) is detected at 1920x1080, so there's no downsampling or anything of the video going on. I have noticed a "tear" or two going on every now and then, but that's it. I haven't explicitly checked for dropped frames, but the quality of the playback has been good enough that I haven't wanted to investigate it.
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The belief that blacks are at the same "level" of being human as whites is relatively new since that time. Condemning the founding fathers for what was a societal standard at the time would be like saying that all medieval technology was wrong because they thought the earth was the center of the universe. You judge what you can in the context of how it exists. They understood what it meant to be free, and what kinds of rules it took to enable that. They didn't contemplate freedom of their slaves any more than most farmers contemplate freedom of cattle. Just because THAT part of society back then was wrong does not imply that EVERY part of it was wrong.
Don't let your prejudices get in the way of your thinking abilities.
Good for you. How many girls are like you, though? No one is saying ALL girls are disinterested in science, or even masculine things. But as a group? Even chimpanzees exhibit gender specific learning tendencies. MOST girls will like the dolls and social play. YOU played with Legos and Ninja Turtles.
An anecdote is a single data point, it is not a broad brush ;)
Many feminists won't be happy until there are NO male-dominated fields. Which would mean that all fields are female-dominated, but that's nicely glossed over in the enlistment literature ;)
The program helps 1/10th of mothers raise better children, but it enables 9/10ths of them to raise new criminals. Sounds great to me!
But that's cultural, not according to the color of their skin ;) Construction work is back-breaking manual labor, and that's a work ethic we lost about 50 years ago here in the US.
Just because you guarantee that a racial stereotype isn't true doesn't make it so. Why aren't there more white guys playing football or basketball at the pro level? It's not because of lack of interest. It's because there are actually differences other than skin color sometimes. Not that differences are a bad thing, but there are differences. Hell, look at things like malaria resistance through sickle-cell anemia. You think things like that exist, but there are absolutely no neurological differences between races, impacting both cultural and other abilities? What kinda fantasy world do you live in?
The only computerized solution for a "choose the 3 cats in these 10 images" problem is random guessing, which is a 1/720 chance of getting it right, just as you said. Spam it wrongly enough times, and you get blocked. CAPTCHA's are much more resistant to random brute force by your odds, but they're much more vulnerable to image processing vulnerabilities, so the computer isn't guessing out of 56 billion unique solutions. It's just reading the correct one, just like a human would. Which is the entire point of this article.
How the hell did that post get modded insightful?
The thing is, it's hard for a computer to make out what a "cat" is. Orders of magnitude harder than it is for it to make out an alphanumeric character.
Even if it's not financially profitable, it's at least not financially draining. How many suckers do you think you could catch with "Invest $500, and you could get thousands in return!" pitch? That's all most of these spamming things are, and many people can come up with $500 on the "chance" that it'll pay off.
Or you just don't use Windows. I actually enjoy running worms and viruses in Wine to watch them die a confused death ;)
So get to where you say "which 3 of these pictures are of kittens?" and you show 10 pictures. Random chance will fuck you, the brute-force approach will be far inferior to a human.
Oh, right. You're one of the jock types who thinks that since something is somewhat cartoony, it can't be fun. My bad. Should have known you "grew up". It can't be a real game if it doesn't have a fuckton of time spent on graphics, and none spent on gameplay or actual, you know, fun, right? And of course it can't be for adults if it doesn't have killing or sex of some for involved.
I'm glad you're happy with your 360. I just think you haven't actually ever met a real girl. All the girls I know (and many of the guys) prefer the multiplayer games on the Wii since they're fun, and they're made for multiple people playing it on the same console. The only game like that I know of on the 360 is Guitar Hero. Whoop de fuck. The graphics aren't mind-blowing like they are on the 360, but they're good enough. There's a reason the Wii has sold almost half again as many consoles as the 360, and it's not just the price.
You think it'd work nicely. Physics and actual rocket scientists would disagree, though.
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia reference to Blackmail, in English law:
if, with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another, he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief:
(a) that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand; and
(b) that the use of the menaces is a means of reinforcing the demand.
As it's not unwarranted, and I think any court would agree that he has reasonable grounds for making the demands he made, it's not legally blackmail. It's just prudent CYA behavior.
That's what small claims court is for. They're really not that hard to deal with, and as expensive as reference books are, I'd think that it'd be worth the trouble. You don't need a lawyer to file, either.
Open box specials are totally worth it. It's how I convinced my wife to get our 61" ;) If you get a DLP, I'd highly recommend an LED engine one, that way you don't have to worry about bulbs. It's not as bright as an LCD, but damn if it isn't a pretty picture, and cheaper and lighter than anything else out there.
As a completely anecdotal data point to go along with your assertion, my wife and I only have a Wii, but we have a 61" 1080p TV. She loves playing the Wii games (and regularly kicks my ass at Mario Kart). We've got something like 12 games for the Wii so far. The PS3 just hasn't had anything to interest us... the main reason I'm planning on getting one after the process shrink is because we don't have a Blu Ray player, and there are a few games like FFXIII and GTA4 that I'd like to play.
If you're social, get a Wii with the component cables. The party games on it are much better than on any other system, and they're made to be multi-player. Mario Kart, Mario Party 8, Raving Rabbids 1 & 2 are all great for guys and girls, and don't require a steep learning curve. And even if it's not as high def as the 360/PS3, 480p is pretty sweet even on my 61" 1080p DLP display.
So pay $70 to get a WRT54GL, then use some different firmware like DD-WRT or tomato on it. Cheap, and they even make installing it and all easy, as easy as the "normal" routers are to configure, and it'll get you those long uptimes.
If you don't like your crappy router, fix it. It's not that hard.
I used to have that problem, but DD-WRT on my WRT54GL fixed it. I can run torrents day and night, tons of connections, and it never gets upset. It tends to run out of memory like you said, it tries to manage state incorrectly or something, the connections don't time out soon enough.
If you have an older WRT54G (pre v4), you can just load DD-WRT, or I'd highly recommend the investment in a WRT54GL so you can run DD-WRT.
DD-WRT on my WRT54GL, I've never had to reboot it for those issues. I even have a couple separate VLAN's set up, two DHCP pools on separate interfaces, etc. I've had uptimes of over 80 days before I tweaked something else on it that required me to reboot it.
It's not the hardware... it's the generic crap software that they run on.
Specific? You mean, small and airborne, where they are essentially nanoparticles, which is the only way for asbestos to get into your lungs in the first place?
No one's saying that looking at asbestos wrong will kill you. But it is a very dangerous material that needs special precautions on handling and usage. If some nanomaterials are the same, it would be prudent to test that BEFORE industries start exposing people to large concentrations of them.
*double whoosh*. I think the GPP got the joke, but was trying to go along with it. Anyone who is literate and says that $14K is "pretty much on par" for even a portion of that skillset has to be joking ;)
It's not that hard to tell a good candidate from a false one if the interviewer is skilled in the art. Or even has a passing familiarity.
Problem with many companies is that they hire based on a checklist, through an HR person who knows HR, and doesn't know the technology, and often either isn't allowed to or doesn't get input from more technical staff members.
Hate replying to myself:
Just for some more info, it's a 4600+, an AMD RS690 video card (integrated X1250), 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 (I think... it may be 800MHz), and all the video data is on a software RAID5 array of 250GB SATA 1.5Gbps disks. The display (61" Samsung LED engine DLP) is detected at 1920x1080, so there's no downsampling or anything of the video going on. I have noticed a "tear" or two going on every now and then, but that's it. I haven't explicitly checked for dropped frames, but the quality of the playback has been good enough that I haven't wanted to investigate it.