...understanding of the world around us that science reveals that contradicts the mythology of religion.
not always true. if you look beyond your basic bias here you'd find that science (and particularly archaelogy) actually confirms more than you'd suspect... and it certainly *doesn't disprove* most of the important points of most religions...
Yes, but it's the fact that those who depend on religion never give it up in the face of science that makes history so interesting. And by extension, that's what makes it so interesting when sci-fi evokes religion, rather than just dismissing it as something for the unenlightened. Smaller mp3 players aren't the issue as much as the camera that steals your soul, and how the people that believe that react to a world where cameras are everywhere.
I agree on the interesting point: I've told my wife that the scifi that I enjoy the most isn't just where someone makes up a story loaded
with futuristic technology, but where an author works hard to tell a story set in a future, showing how people as we know them *react* to,
live with, and incorporate differences in technology and culture into their lives and society.
In other words, it's not just cool tech, but making an extension from here/now and looking at how differences could affect us.
Or, even not making those differences a focal point at all, but telling a good story about human (and other/alien?) interaction, that is set in a time and society that happens to have these differences... but that holds together with what we know about ourselves.
I'm not a religious person at all, but your reaction to the concept of religion existing in the future is what makes it good drama: you think that it's irrational, but you have this gnawing feeling deep down inside that there will still be a good population of religious fanatics no matter how advanced our science becomes. That's why it's so great to have religion in sci-fi. Tension beyond compare.
Gee, thanks for calling the majority of humanity 'fanatics,' 'irrational' and 'unenlightened.'
Don't you think that perhaps *someone* sometime in history *might* possibly have been smarter than you or known something you don't believe? And that perhaps they were right?
You all are awfully dismissive of religion. It's not just mythology for the ignorant. If you'd take your own science-colored religion-biased glasses off for a second you might find that there is more to it than your over-simplified and insulting posts here imply.
... and an awful lot of scientists happen to understand science quite well, yet still believe in their religion... Science doesn't disprove religion... no matter how much you wish it does.
and, unlike some of the other mappers, it seems to understand main roads at various zoom levels, so it doesn't give you the names of some random neighborhood roads while leaving off the main route roads you really care about.
The maps are certainly beautiful and much clearer and easier to read than some of the other services.
... and if you stick it to your forehead, it'll actually make you smarter!
You see, it absorbs all the dumb thoughts that go around in your brain, preventing the crystallization of the pituitary gland, and raising your resulting IQ to 248!
sheesh, they have pretty pictures so they obviously spent well on webdesign and marketing and so forth to look legitimate, but a magical sticker that just goes on the outside of batteries to make them work better doesn't pass the 'thinking-about-it-for-more-than-2-seconds' test.
Gotta like their FAQ: "Why don't the handset and battery manufacturers include BatMax's technology in their products ?
Answer: Because, at the moment, the integration process and material costs can adversely affect the end user price, but discussions with cellphone and computer manufacturers are actually in process. Actually, several manufacturers and cellular carriers are planning to distribute BatMax as a branded accessory." --- of course the real reason is that battery manufactuers realize this is complete garbage...
... of course, if you stick it to your genitals, it solves all your recharge problems there too...;-)
it seems to me that every movie that ever had a spy agency tracking someone did this kind of thing... where the phone call or network connection being traced shows up on a map as they are back-tracking it.
IANAL but it sounds like prior art to me.;-)
OTOH, if the various spy/security agencies really have been doing this sort of thing for a long time, perhaps they'd be willing to offer proof of prior art. (not holding my breath;-)
Check out the easily downloadable themes. View | Apply Theme | Get New Themes takes you to http://www.mozilla.org/themes/download/. There are a lot of others available.
Personally I install Orbit 3+1 with small buttons first thing.
It helps a lot with integration with webmail interfaces, making mailto's and various mail calls bring up the appropriate webmail screen. Works with gmail, yahoomail, hotmail, mail.com and a ton of others including custom setups.
If that doesn't cover what you are asking in terms of integration, then what else did you have in mind? I'm sure it's an area that would be improved upon with thought. (though I'm sure no browser wants to build in too many specific bits just for one specific mail provider.)
you wrote "Make it easier to disable flash temporarily so I can turn it off on those sites that abuse it."
Try the prefbar. It lets you hit F8 to bring up the prefbar, click a flash checkbox, and F8 again to hide prefbar.
prefbar has always been the first extension I install in mozilla. (though now you can install it to your profile so you don't have to reinstall at every moz upgrade)
nah, VHDL isn't not that tough... I love it. (I'm using it for FPGAs with Synplicity Pro, Modelsim and Altera or Xilinx software so I do have an advantage of having great tools available.)
and our company uses it far more than we use verilog...
btw, if you are editing vhdl, check out the Emacs mode for VHDL.
It's far more powerful than vhdl editing aids in any other editors I've used. (And, yes, you *can* use GNU emacs in Windows too)
The problem is that those problems that disappear mysteriously without you knowing why they stopped are very likely to return at the least convenient time, generally after the system is shipped, or during a customer demo.
That's why I hate to leave those kinds of problems unsolved, where 'solved' is defined as "I know why it went away"
FWIW, in hardware design Heisenbugs often occur due to things like metastability, race conditions, or noise. There are plenty of boards that will work when you put them on an extender to trouble-shoot them. That often means adding some length or capacitance to i/o just changed things enough to work... yes, they suck as much as software heisenbugs...;-(
they're also proving that a configuration that is very common in machines is *very* vulnerable
... and that 'news' which when publicized in a mainstream (ie non-tech) paper can help convince joe-homeowner and everyone's parents to get their machines patched and to install firewalls.
it is a useful thing to do. and they did include patched (SP2) windows machines to compare. this wasn't set up a windows-bashing vs linux, and including this variety of unpatched win machines provides useful information...
if every machine out there, or even a high majority, were patched to SP2, then perhaps it'd be less useful... but they aren't.
The stats in the article mention 848 attacks on the pc with zonealarm, yet say that that machine was not compromised.
If you were only detecting the ones that got through the firewall, then what is this saying? did attacks get past ZA? If so, why didn't they succeed then?
the guardian article talks about a few of the things on the list, but I can't seem to find the actual list anywhere, even on the New Scientist mag website (yeah, we probably have to subscribe first, sigh)
sounds interesting... so what does it do? give you little sounds when you are probed? like rain drops? first a few, then a downpour when you get hit a lot?
by "take the minimal risk that anyone could actually prosecute me on it"
I meant, of course, that the risk was minimal of being successfully prosecuted *OR* that the punishment would be worse than my cut of the bounty...
$250,000 for some of the 'sentences' I've read about seems like a pretty good deal.
Of course the risks of being beaten to a pulp in prison when the other prisoners found out you are a spammer should be factored in...;-) I hear child molestors don't fare well in prison once word gets around - I wonder how spammers fare?
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Yes, but it's the fact that those who depend on religion never give it up in the face of science that makes history so interesting. And by extension, that's what makes it so interesting when sci-fi evokes religion, rather than just dismissing it as something for the unenlightened. Smaller mp3 players aren't the issue as much as the camera that steals your soul, and how the people that believe that react to a world where cameras are everywhere.
I agree on the interesting point: I've told my wife that the scifi that I enjoy the most isn't just where someone makes up a story loaded with futuristic technology, but where an author works hard to tell a story set in a future, showing how people as we know them *react* to, live with, and incorporate differences in technology and culture into their lives and society.
In other words, it's not just cool tech, but making an extension from here/now and looking at how differences could affect us.
Or, even not making those differences a focal point at all, but telling a good story about human (and other/alien?) interaction, that is set in a time and society that happens to have these differences... but that holds together with what we know about ourselves.
I'm not a religious person at all, but your reaction to the concept of religion existing in the future is what makes it good drama: you think that it's irrational, but you have this gnawing feeling deep down inside that there will still be a good population of religious fanatics no matter how advanced our science becomes. That's why it's so great to have religion in sci-fi. Tension beyond compare.
Gee, thanks for calling the majority of humanity 'fanatics,' 'irrational' and 'unenlightened.'Don't you think that perhaps *someone* sometime in history *might* possibly have been smarter than you or known something you don't believe? And that perhaps they were right?
You all are awfully dismissive of religion. It's not just mythology for the ignorant. If you'd take your own science-colored religion-biased glasses off for a second you might find that there is more to it than your over-simplified and insulting posts here imply.
... and an awful lot of scientists happen to understand science quite well, yet still believe in their religion...
Science doesn't disprove religion... no matter how much you wish it does.
he said 'luxuries beyond beer'... ;-)
obviously beer is a necessity, not a luxury.
The maps are certainly beautiful and much clearer and easier to read than some of the other services.
I do like having 'link to this map' right there.
DHTML doesn't require a plug-in for one thing...
You see, it absorbs all the dumb thoughts that go around in your brain, preventing the crystallization of the pituitary gland, and raising your resulting IQ to 248!
sheesh, they have pretty pictures so they obviously spent well on webdesign and marketing and so forth to look legitimate, but a magical sticker that just goes on the outside of batteries to make them work better doesn't pass the 'thinking-about-it-for-more-than-2-seconds' test.
Gotta like their FAQ: "Why don't the handset and battery manufacturers include BatMax's technology in their products ? Answer: Because, at the moment, the integration process and material costs can adversely affect the end user price, but discussions with cellphone and computer manufacturers are actually in process. Actually, several manufacturers and cellular carriers are planning to distribute BatMax as a branded accessory." --- of course the real reason is that battery manufactuers realize this is complete garbage...
... of course, if you stick it to your genitals, it solves all your recharge problems there too... ;-)
IANAL but it sounds like prior art to me. ;-)
OTOH, if the various spy/security agencies really have been doing this sort of thing for a long time, perhaps they'd be willing to offer proof of prior art. (not holding my breath ;-)
"Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars."
however you read it, you probably don't want to get any on yourself... ug. ;-)
very creative... time to up your meds again though. ;-)
Personally I install Orbit 3+1 with small buttons first thing.
You've got to be kidding. It's not much larger than many of the monthly MS security patches.
It helps a lot with integration with webmail interfaces, making mailto's and various mail calls bring up the appropriate webmail screen. Works with gmail, yahoomail, hotmail, mail.com and a ton of others including custom setups.
If that doesn't cover what you are asking in terms of integration, then what else did you have in mind? I'm sure it's an area that would be improved upon with thought. (though I'm sure no browser wants to build in too many specific bits just for one specific mail provider.)
Try the prefbar. It lets you hit F8 to bring up the prefbar, click a flash checkbox, and F8 again to hide prefbar.
prefbar has always been the first extension I install in mozilla. (though now you can install it to your profile so you don't have to reinstall at every moz upgrade)
and our company uses it far more than we use verilog...
btw, if you are editing vhdl, check out the Emacs mode for VHDL.
It's far more powerful than vhdl editing aids in any other editors I've used.
(And, yes, you *can* use GNU emacs in Windows too)
verify all input, then try to figure out if any 'hostile but perhaps generally valid' inputs could cause trouble...
That's why I hate to leave those kinds of problems unsolved, where 'solved' is defined as "I know why it went away"
FWIW, in hardware design Heisenbugs often occur due to things like metastability, race conditions, or noise. There are plenty of boards that will work when you put them on an extender to trouble-shoot them. That often means adding some length or capacitance to i/o just changed things enough to work... yes, they suck as much as software heisenbugs... ;-(
THEN download the windows updates...
or order the winxp SP2 cd from microsoft and install it before connecting, much faster than downloading all of SP2 anyway, and free...
a little preparation goes a long way towards a smooth install or upgrade...
... and that 'news' which when publicized in a mainstream (ie non-tech) paper can help convince joe-homeowner and everyone's parents to get their machines patched and to install firewalls.
it is a useful thing to do. and they did include patched (SP2) windows machines to compare. this wasn't set up a windows-bashing vs linux, and including this variety of unpatched win machines provides useful information...
if every machine out there, or even a high majority, were patched to SP2, then perhaps it'd be less useful... but they aren't.
If you were only detecting the ones that got through the firewall, then what is this saying? did attacks get past ZA? If so, why didn't they succeed then?
Or is this attempts that ZA blocked and logged?
Is it anywhere online/public?
considering my slow dial-up connection at home, the appropriate sound for my traffic is probably low, slow deep-voiced whale-song. ;-)
going by this way of thinking, that would mean someone bigger than us is trying to use them to get rid of us!
Are you considered the infestation in some alien kitchen today? ;-)
sounds interesting... so what does it do? give you little sounds when you are probed? like rain drops? first a few, then a downpour when you get hit a lot?
... or to meet US Homeland Security and FBI officers personally...
I think that falls under "justifiable homicide" ;-)
I meant, of course, that the risk was minimal of being successfully prosecuted *OR* that the punishment would be worse than my cut of the bounty...
$250,000 for some of the 'sentences' I've read about seems like a pretty good deal.
Of course the risks of being beaten to a pulp in prison when the other prisoners found out you are a spammer should be factored in... ;-) I hear child molestors don't fare well in prison once word gets around - I wonder how spammers fare?