If you are going to use an analogy then you should at least carry through with it.
So then you are suggesting that the airlines combat terrorism via legislation. I think that this is hardly a plausable answer. Legislation only tends to beget more legislation. And only in some rare cases completely eliminates the problem that is being addressed.
OT, but I feel the need to rant here. I find the people who use analogies tend to use them much like statistics - very poorly and only when they can make an attmept to show one side...but I digress.
I guess that part of this argument goes back to the programmer vs computer scientist argument. Programmers are concerned with the task that is at hand, while computer scientists are more concerned with the underlying theory and the How and Why.
Personally I find it difficult not to be exposed to some of the history of computer science in my studies, especially in the areas of mathematics. I can't imagine things like crypto existing without things like Fermat's Little Theorem, Geometry without Euclidian Identies and his Five Postulates. You get the idea.
All of these have applications to computer science, but not programming. It all depends on what your area of focus is.
VERY weakly encrypt your hard drive, then if the MPAA decides to wreak MP3 harry carry on your box, then you can sue them for violating their very own DMCA.
It's the stupid people that pass laws to protect themselves that I love. Then you get to use their own laws against them:)
I am a 24 year old male (don't worry, there is a reason that Im telling this). At the time that this occured, I still lived with my parents. One morning after a long night of heavy binge drinking I was awakend at the gawd awful hour of 11:00 to my phone ringing. Since I was the only one home at the time, I picked up. On the other end of the line was a telemarketer who was far too perky for my likings that was inquiring about the availiblilty of my sister.
"Yes, this is so-and-so from such-and-such a company, may I speak with Jessica?"
To which I replied in my gravely, gruff, I-smoke-2-packs-a-day-and-you-just-woke-me-up voice, "Yeah, this is her."
The part that really cracked me up was when the perky telemarketer went on to give me the sales pitch.
I just hung up. I have found that to be a very effective method in ridding myself of telespammers.
I don't run a mac, but after reading this I am considering it. This just goes to show the flexibility and the strength of Open Source. I also am interested if anyone has tried this and how successful it has been for them (read: is performance tolerable).
check your sources (located as answers to the first question)
UNLV is an accredited university. As a senior there, I can attest that they have an excellent staff with excellent facilities who could give two poops about the basketball team.
Granted it is a small college, it is growing quickly and is well recognized for it's research for a university its size.
I don't know if you are refering to the presentation that they gave back in Mackey Auditorium, but I must say that for a bunch of Physicists, they had one of the most entertaining technical presentations I have ever seen.
I was a second year engineering student at CU at the time and was very impressed by the presentation that they gave, it was almost Penn and Teller like before they went into the technical information. At that point they lost me:)
actually there were two justifications that I have heard from a lot of Air Force guys for the crew cut. One was a roman tradition from the times of the Caesars. They kept hair short so that in a hand to hand fight the enemy couldn't grab your hair, tilt your head back and cut your throat. The other explanation was to curb infestations of lice.
Another point that is worth mentioning is the quality of the signal. I have digital cable at home and notice that the picture quality of the digital channels, while better than traditional analog channels, still has some of the MPEG'y look to it. Things like fog / smoke have visible signs of lower color depth. The audio on the stations is pretty good, but the music stations tend to suffer the same fate as some of the video stations.
Having a sensitive ear towards music quality makes me hesitant to look into this too much (and too soon).
Another question that I have, that I didn't see answered on the home page was the coverage areas. Just because it is being offered in Dallas and CA, does this mean that those are the only current coverage areas? If I travel from city to city (more importantly one that isn't currently in their market) will I loose coverage?
I just want to say that it always seems like I have mod points when I don't want them and never have them when I do want them. I wish I had some right now.
The banned Paul McCartney's version of Live and Let Die, but the GnR version didn't make the list.
Aside from that the stations that they have here in Vegas:
101.9 - KFMS - top forty / hip hop / whatever Carson Daly thinks is cool
93.1 - KQOL - oldies - what Carson Daly's parents used to think was cool
106.5 - KSNE - the "sunny" station - every city has one and every city's sucks
95.5 - KWNR - [s]hit kicking country
I can't imagine a single song that they would play on any of these stations. Most of the banned songs were of the metal / hard rock genre and there isn't a station here in town that plays that format. Looks like they played it pretty safe as far as the vegas market is concerned.
IIRC it will forward up to 10 (maybe it's 20) ports to any computer internally. It is fairly configurable. Allows for static or DHCP internally (as a server and a client). And for $99 it is tough to beat. Sure you can get a POS Linux / *BSD box, but this worked for me literally out of the box. DISCLAIMER: I don't claim to be a huge power user, but for what I use it for (firewalling and fowarding of web, mail and ftp ports) it is ideal and it is simple. Here at my office, I wouldn't think of using something like this on our network, but it does quite nicely for a home user who is concerned about security and just wants more blinking lights:)
It troubles me to hear people suggest that the US should just accept the facts, and do nothing about it. The people who attacked us have a belief, and they wanted to make a statement. While at theis time this statement is not known, and their belief is not know - it is pretty obvious that they disagree with the general consensus of the US belief system, we just don't now which part.
To say that it is unfair to defend a belief system is to say that there is no point in having beliefs. If you owned a piece of land and someone was forcefully threatening to take that land away you would do everything in your means to keep that land. Even if it means a call to arms.
The people of America need to realize that they may attack, but the attack should be provoked (which it justifibly has been) and any retaliation should be specifically targeted at those who threaten the American idea system. It is Americans defending what we believe in, much like it was the same thing when the WTC was targeted the first time.
It is not unfair to defend what you believe in. The attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon show this,
Sim Family for Home Ec
Carmageddeon for Drivers Ed sim (alternate: Crazy Taxi)
Summer Games 2000 for PE (that game sucked so bad they will want to actually go outside and play real sports)
Black and White for theology
BattleChess for the Chess club
I have a question that is a bit off topic, but on topic to this poster's comment. On this page they list the number 5 server as a 'BSD/OS' as the OS and the server as 'Microsoft-IIS/4.0.' I hate to sound completely ignorant, but what am I missing here?
Is it because they have multiple webserver front ends (ie: through a load balancer)? Im a little confused by this one.
My girlfriend's kid just had his 6th birthday and I just bought him the tub of 1200 blocks was about $15 USD. I decided that just having a tub of blocks was boring so I opted to also get the smaller Creator tub (I think there were 500 pieces in there) that was $10 USD. The creator tub has more wheels, windows, people and angled pieces - more fun than just the colored blocks. He naturally unwrapped the big tub first and his eyes were humongous:). He wanted to open up the big box of legos before he had even unwrapped the Creator set. That one got a squeal out of him of "WOW!!! MORE LEGOS!!!" 8D
I think that the pricing of the parent post is fairly accurate, and I would give him mod points, but I just posted here...sorry (you were an AC anyway)
I think that Legos are the perfect gift for any kid. I remember spending hours creating worlds with my cousin, and then destroying them and starting all over.
Personally I liked the Lego stick pieces (1x16?) that had the holes in them. It was fun to put string all over my room and make transports that would glide from city to city with them. An investment in bee's wax made the trips much smoother also. Waxing the strings made the trip go faster for my little Lego customers
one of my programming languages (go figure) professors has an old LISP machine (the name escapes me right now) from the 80's that he still uses. The architecture was deisgned to use lisp as the native language. It was a pretty slick machine, and from what he says (Im only 24 and wasn't really a hardcore programmer back in my wee laddie days) it was considerably faster than running things in an interpreted manner. The machine had a very limited run since there really wasn't a whole lot of demand for a pure LISP machine, but it is still a neat concept none the less.
I don't see a pure Java machine as practical since on the web Java is typically used in conjunction with other languages (HTML, XML etc). This would leave such a machine to go the way of the pure LISP machine. It would be a novel concept, especially in academia, but not necessarily practical in the real (read: business) world.
However, having an embedded JVM that worked at the hardware level and could easily be worked in with current hardware (think math coprocessor on old [3|4]86DX machines) might be something a little more practical. However, since I am a programmer, I could very well be talking out of my ass, so take this post worth a grain of salt.
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I wonder if there is an article about it on MSN - not that I would be able to tell you if there was.
If you are going to use an analogy then you should at least carry through with it.
...but I digress.
So then you are suggesting that the airlines combat terrorism via legislation. I think that this is hardly a plausable answer. Legislation only tends to beget more legislation. And only in some rare cases completely eliminates the problem that is being addressed.
OT, but I feel the need to rant here. I find the people who use analogies tend to use them much like statistics - very poorly and only when they can make an attmept to show one side
all your freedom are belong to CIA
I guess that part of this argument goes back to the programmer vs computer scientist argument. Programmers are concerned with the task that is at hand, while computer scientists are more concerned with the underlying theory and the How and Why.
Personally I find it difficult not to be exposed to some of the history of computer science in my studies, especially in the areas of mathematics. I can't imagine things like crypto existing without things like Fermat's Little Theorem, Geometry without Euclidian Identies and his Five Postulates. You get the idea.
All of these have applications to computer science, but not programming. It all depends on what your area of focus is.
VERY weakly encrypt your hard drive, then if the MPAA decides to wreak MP3 harry carry on your box, then you can sue them for violating their very own DMCA.
:)
It's the stupid people that pass laws to protect themselves that I love. Then you get to use their own laws against them
I am a 24 year old male (don't worry, there is a reason that Im telling this). At the time that this occured, I still lived with my parents. One morning after a long night of heavy binge drinking I was awakend at the gawd awful hour of 11:00 to my phone ringing. Since I was the only one home at the time, I picked up. On the other end of the line was a telemarketer who was far too perky for my likings that was inquiring about the availiblilty of my sister.
"Yes, this is so-and-so from such-and-such a company, may I speak with Jessica?"
To which I replied in my gravely, gruff, I-smoke-2-packs-a-day-and-you-just-woke-me-up voice, "Yeah, this is her."
The part that really cracked me up was when the perky telemarketer went on to give me the sales pitch.
I just hung up. I have found that to be a very effective method in ridding myself of telespammers.
I don't run a mac, but after reading this I am considering it. This just goes to show the flexibility and the strength of Open Source. I also am interested if anyone has tried this and how successful it has been for them (read: is performance tolerable).
Cool hack none the less.
check your sources (located as answers to the first question)
UNLV is an accredited university. As a senior there, I can attest that they have an excellent staff with excellent facilities who could give two poops about the basketball team.
Granted it is a small college, it is growing quickly and is well recognized for it's research for a university its size.
I don't know if you are refering to the presentation that they gave back in Mackey Auditorium, but I must say that for a bunch of Physicists, they had one of the most entertaining technical presentations I have ever seen.
:)
I was a second year engineering student at CU at the time and was very impressed by the presentation that they gave, it was almost Penn and Teller like before they went into the technical information. At that point they lost me
actually there were two justifications that I have heard from a lot of Air Force guys for the crew cut. One was a roman tradition from the times of the Caesars. They kept hair short so that in a hand to hand fight the enemy couldn't grab your hair, tilt your head back and cut your throat. The other explanation was to curb infestations of lice.
nevermind, I found the answer to my last question (coverage area) here
Another point that is worth mentioning is the quality of the signal. I have digital cable at home and notice that the picture quality of the digital channels, while better than traditional analog channels, still has some of the MPEG'y look to it. Things like fog / smoke have visible signs of lower color depth. The audio on the stations is pretty good, but the music stations tend to suffer the same fate as some of the video stations.
Having a sensitive ear towards music quality makes me hesitant to look into this too much (and too soon).
Another question that I have, that I didn't see answered on the home page was the coverage areas. Just because it is being offered in Dallas and CA, does this mean that those are the only current coverage areas? If I travel from city to city (more importantly one that isn't currently in their market) will I loose coverage?
I just want to say that it always seems like I have mod points when I don't want them and never have them when I do want them. I wish I had some right now.
EULA says that you can't have any MS slander on your page; you use the MSNBC news headline component
does this imply that MS can sue you if there is an MSNBC headline that slanders MS?
rm -rf /bin/laden
The banned Paul McCartney's version of Live and Let Die, but the GnR version didn't make the list.
Aside from that the stations that they have here in Vegas:
101.9 - KFMS - top forty / hip hop / whatever Carson Daly thinks is cool
93.1 - KQOL - oldies - what Carson Daly's parents used to think was cool
106.5 - KSNE - the "sunny" station - every city has one and every city's sucks
95.5 - KWNR - [s]hit kicking country
I can't imagine a single song that they would play on any of these stations. Most of the banned songs were of the metal / hard rock genre and there isn't a station here in town that plays that format. Looks like they played it pretty safe as far as the vegas market is concerned.
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=1 42&grid=5
:)
IIRC it will forward up to 10 (maybe it's 20) ports to any computer internally. It is fairly configurable. Allows for static or DHCP internally (as a server and a client). And for $99 it is tough to beat. Sure you can get a POS Linux / *BSD box, but this worked for me literally out of the box. DISCLAIMER: I don't claim to be a huge power user, but for what I use it for (firewalling and fowarding of web, mail and ftp ports) it is ideal and it is simple. Here at my office, I wouldn't think of using something like this on our network, but it does quite nicely for a home user who is concerned about security and just wants more blinking lights
fear this:
http://www.azzam.com/html/talibanhelp.htm
It troubles me to hear people suggest that the US should just accept the facts, and do nothing about it. The people who attacked us have a belief, and they wanted to make a statement. While at theis time this statement is not known, and their belief is not know - it is pretty obvious that they disagree with the general consensus of the US belief system, we just don't now which part.
To say that it is unfair to defend a belief system is to say that there is no point in having beliefs. If you owned a piece of land and someone was forcefully threatening to take that land away you would do everything in your means to keep that land. Even if it means a call to arms.
The people of America need to realize that they may attack, but the attack should be provoked (which it justifibly has been) and any retaliation should be specifically targeted at those who threaten the American idea system. It is Americans defending what we believe in, much like it was the same thing when the WTC was targeted the first time.
It is not unfair to defend what you believe in. The attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon show this,
It doesn't really teach theology in the sense of understanding God and religion so much as it teaches you how to BE god.
Sim Family for Home Ec
Carmageddeon for Drivers Ed sim (alternate: Crazy Taxi)
Summer Games 2000 for PE (that game sucked so bad they will want to actually go outside and play real sports)
Black and White for theology
BattleChess for the Chess club
I have a question that is a bit off topic, but on topic to this poster's comment. On this page they list the number 5 server as a 'BSD/OS' as the OS and the server as 'Microsoft-IIS/4.0.' I hate to sound completely ignorant, but what am I missing here?
Is it because they have multiple webserver front ends (ie: through a load balancer)? Im a little confused by this one.
My girlfriend's kid just had his 6th birthday and I just bought him the tub of 1200 blocks was about $15 USD. I decided that just having a tub of blocks was boring so I opted to also get the smaller Creator tub (I think there were 500 pieces in there) that was $10 USD. The creator tub has more wheels, windows, people and angled pieces - more fun than just the colored blocks. He naturally unwrapped the big tub first and his eyes were humongous :). He wanted to open up the big box of legos before he had even unwrapped the Creator set. That one got a squeal out of him of "WOW!!! MORE LEGOS!!!" 8D
I think that the pricing of the parent post is fairly accurate, and I would give him mod points, but I just posted here...sorry (you were an AC anyway)
I think that Legos are the perfect gift for any kid. I remember spending hours creating worlds with my cousin, and then destroying them and starting all over.
Personally I liked the Lego stick pieces (1x16?) that had the holes in them. It was fun to put string all over my room and make transports that would glide from city to city with them. An investment in bee's wax made the trips much smoother also. Waxing the strings made the trip go faster for my little Lego customers
Ahhh, nostalgia
...that there is less gravity in West Virginia?
one of my programming languages (go figure) professors has an old LISP machine (the name escapes me right now) from the 80's that he still uses. The architecture was deisgned to use lisp as the native language. It was a pretty slick machine, and from what he says (Im only 24 and wasn't really a hardcore programmer back in my wee laddie days) it was considerably faster than running things in an interpreted manner. The machine had a very limited run since there really wasn't a whole lot of demand for a pure LISP machine, but it is still a neat concept none the less.
I don't see a pure Java machine as practical since on the web Java is typically used in conjunction with other languages (HTML, XML etc). This would leave such a machine to go the way of the pure LISP machine. It would be a novel concept, especially in academia, but not necessarily practical in the real (read: business) world.
However, having an embedded JVM that worked at the hardware level and could easily be worked in with current hardware (think math coprocessor on old [3|4]86DX machines) might be something a little more practical. However, since I am a programmer, I could very well be talking out of my ass, so take this post worth a grain of salt.
cheers