Hey, don't underestimate Paris Hilton... according to www.routergod.com she's a full CCIE! Personly, I also think Jesica Simpson should have made the list... check out her comments on open source routers:
"Next time at the super, buy farm raised fish. Every little bit helps..."
Umm that actually hurts far more than it helps. It hurts both the person who eats the farm raised fish as well as non-farm raised fish. You can educate yourself on the process of fish farming on the web. Below are a couple of very relevant websites:
WILD VS FARM RAISED FISH, WHICH IS SAFER? FROM: http://www.deliciousorganics.com/Controversies/wil dvsfarmfish.htm "Farmed salmon have more antibiotics administered by weight than any other form of livestock. Farmed salmon have significantly higher levels of PCBs, dioxin, and other cancer causing agents over wild salmon."
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T EAT FARM RAISED FISH: (PDF) http://www.davidsuzuki.org/files/PSF_Salmon_Brochu re.pdf FROM: "Farmed salmon are grown in floating netcages and impact wild salmon and other marine species by spreading diseases and parasites. Farmed salmon are given antibiotics and pesticides and other drugs. Drug laden waste from surplus food and feces of these fish pollute the marine environment (ever looked at the surrounding sea floor under a netcage used for farming fish? All the plant sea-life is dead). Most farm raised fish are not the natural species to where they are being farmed, and escaped fish (often by the thousands) can become new predetors to other rare forms of fish and marine life."
1) "We're running out of IPv4 address space!" - People, even if every possible human house hold item requires an IP in the next 5 years, NAT in IPv4 will handle this just fine. Same goes for corporations. We've been running out of IP space for 10+ years now... but have we ran out? Nope, tonnes & tonnes left! 2) "IPV6 supports IPSEC natively" - Yeah, so what? We've had IPSEC VPNs on IPv4 for like a decade now. 3) "IPV6 supports QoS!' - Ummm... VoIP & video w/QoS has been working just fine since at least 2002 with IPv4. TOS & DSCP Ethernet header options have been around for ages before then. 4) "But IPV6 supports GPRS for modern mobile networks" - Newsflash: Most mobile networks are still running IPv4 just fine and will continue to do so. 5) "But the US DOD is migrating to IPv6 now!" - Yeah, maybe it's because they need to implement security through obscurity... seeing as barely anyone understands IPv6" 6) "What about most of Korea being on IPv6?" - What about it? North America 'started' the Internet, so we have more IPv4 public address space than late adopters like South Korea. 7) "IPv6 does Multicasting natively" - Er... Have you actually looked at how complex Multicasting is in a private network? Now imagine trying to implement that on the Internet with 128 bit HEX addresses that come with our lovely IPv6. Plus like everything else, Multicasting is working just fine with IPv4.
People, a migration to IPv6 for most Enterprises is a hella complex & expensive nightmare. Until there's actual BUSINESS needs to do so, it's really just make(alot_of)-work projects. So far every conceivable advatange of IPv6 has been resolved by 3rd party IPv4 protocols (i.e. DHCP, IPSEC, QoS, etc); plus there's analytical studies out there that claim migration to IPv6 may have a significance performance impact on your expensive WAN links due to packet header sizes being dramatically bigger. Some estimate as much as 50% WAN link speed increase requirements for the same amount of payload (considering 64 byte average payload per packet).
Wake me up when we ACTUALLY run out of IPv4 address space... Adeptus
Now I can cheat on my math exam, by uploading OCR'ed versions of my math text book into my calculator's flash drive. Geez, some people have no imagination.:P
There was a brilliant foxtrot cartoon about a year or so back that went something like this:
(picture Jason sitting in his room, in front of his computer and with an evil twinkle in his eye...)
Andy: "What are you doing?" Jason: "Composing digital music."
Jason: "This first song I call "Zero." This second one I call "One." Naturally, I'll hold the copyrights to both."
Jason: "Now anytime the record industry releases a CD, It'll constitute several billion instances of music piracy and I can sue them for trillions!"
Andy: "Remind me to keep you out of law school." Jason: "Ah, to live in America." (rubbing hands, evil grin even bigger)
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Not only are the pics too small... (come on Google, with all those PHD's this should be a quick fix),... but also the game needs some additional serious improvements such as: 1) There needs to be a "NEXT" button. For some images 1 minute and 30 seconds is too much time. I get the feeling a lot of people confuse "pass" with 'moving on to the next picture', so I think a lot of effort is wasted here as I imagine that "pass" means discard the data from both users and move on to next pic. 2) There should be a real time score matching as each person enters labels, this would really motivate players 3) Matching with random players doesn't work in most games because people want to play with others who are either at the same level of skill (in this case also speed - its boring as hell waiting 1 minute for your 8 year old (or 80 year old) partner to type in 1 label). Or allow people to do international competitions. I.E. Canada vs. USA or whatever. 4) I hope labels get spell checked before they are compared, otherwise there's a lot of misses 5) The label typing box should be smaller. For the first 3 or 4 times I tried it, I intuitively typed many labels separated by commas, only later to realize that all those sequencial words only counted as 1 label. 6) I have two internet connections with two different providers, on both PCs, the next image to come up took several seconds to show up... what's up with that Oh Google of infinite bandwidth?
This thing needs some serious improvements before it becomes addicting... right now its closer to 'lame' & if your partner is too slow... 'annoying'.
In other news... scientists are baffled why our cancer rates just keep going up and up?!
If only they would train doctors in med school to use wireless protocol analyzers to measure activity around a patient's environment, then quickly prescribe a healthy dosage of tinfoil hats & tinfoil body suits.
Hey I bet 7 of 9's tight Star Trek clothing already has a thin layer of tin foil in there... So just be sure to prescribe those to all the nice ladies;-) Hot cancerless chicks, will be the IN thing for sure!
Rational & logical scientists have little chance of understanding things like telepathy, because they limit themselves to studying physical aspects of the Universe with physical tools. In doing this, they ignore 2/3rds of reality, where things like Telepathy operate. You can not understand things that occur in another "dimension", when the tools & 'eyes' being used are in this dimension.
One might argue that telepathy could be verified in relatively simple experiments of a subject with telepathic powers consistently reading another person's mind, and might I add, that this has been done many times, yet the results of such successful experiments (and yes there have been many unsuccessful as well) rarely fall into public domain because:
a) While it can be verified, it can not be understood, as there are no scientifc theories confirmed or otherwise that can explain the phenomenon.
b) It is still considered a taboo subject for Scientific study, and the scientist would likely lose credibility amongst his peers, so many stay away from it.
c) The possibility of such a faculty may be far too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands, and so it is best for large governments to deny its existance and to debunk scientists who strive to understand it. The reality is that mysteries such as Telepathy are self-veiling, and can only be abused by those whom already have the capability. The real evil one's lack the basic requirements to ever develop such capabilities on their own had they had the knowledge. So the fear here is mostly misplaced.
d) The vast majority of humanity is not ready to accept such concepts as reality, and it may be too shocking for too many people, and fear may be widespread as to the rumoured but ignorant possibilities.
Yet despite all this, there have been many numerous books written on the subject (likely in the hundreds) which actually explain how one might attain such a faculty (no, it is not genetic, although it is common place that if parents have such abilities, a child may be born with strong tendencies to develop this faculty without much effort - but still this has nothing to do with genetics and it may be developed by a person from non-telepathic parents).
Anybody who is seriously interested in the subject, could within a few months or at most, within a couple of years have a strong understanding of how telepathy works simply by reading the numerous books written about it. Unfortunately, there are many crappy books as well, and the challenge is actually finding and knowing when one is in possessin of the right material. But only one or two good ones are necessary.
Concepts such as telepathy have actually been understood & practiced for milenia, and evidence of this is written in many a scripture of many different religions. Today, of the surviving texts, the study of Yoga offers the best & clearest instruction on attaining such faculties, and any good contemporary books on the subject have their roots in Yogic instruction. But most skeptical western intelectual men have egos far too big & have been too conditioned by their social & cultural surroundings to realize that such possibilities in fact exist, so they rarely venture into this area.
An open minded scientist lucky enough to find a person with such capability (which by the way can vary hugely in degree of accuracy & frequency of being able to engage the faculty), could at best, perform tests that verify some unknown law is at play with enough frequency of occurance that can not be ignored, dismissed or be explained by some other already known factor/phenomenon.
That said, the scientist, by means of his physical tools, will be at a loss to explain HOW this concept works; "How" being the traditional job of a scientist, let alone even having a chance to answer the "WHY" of the philosophers.
Often, the persons exhibiting this faculty, much like some well known public paranormal he
Eventually when memory (RAM & HD) are nearly free and nearly infinite, visuals in games may come close to paralelling reality (i.e. a tree in a game may look more like a real tree than it does today). A game that is developed today even with the most advanced mathematical algorythms applied in a graphics platform to be expandable to future, will not be imediately upgradable (from an end-users's perspective) to benefit from an instant graphics upgrade. I.e. you can't just shove the game in the latest new console and expect it to have graphics magically upgraded to the latest high standards. Somebody will still have to go through the entire game and add granularity to each wall, floor, and animated characters in the game which mathematics can not auto-magically generate with accuracy enough to come close to paralleling the randomness & beautify of reality. So the only alternative, I can see is to have the games of today allow future artists to ADD new graphic content into the old game with some newer gaming technology... but somebody still has to put in the effort to create & import all the new graphics.
So I think perhaps the article is misleading. Again, from an end-users's perspective, the game can't just magically upgrade all its graphics and have it equal in looks to whatever the latest high benchmark of impressiveness might be. At best, the end-user plugs in the CD/DVD into the new console (assuming it even accepts older formats) and over the internet, for a fee, newer graphics are downloadable... will users pay a small fee for this service? And more importantly, will gaming companies bother to re-create nicer graphics for old games? Is this a sustainable business model? I would venture to guess that only the most popular addictive games of all times might justify this kind of effort in a gaming company's project list.
Having said all that, I'm all for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reality
The law of man from time immemorial is ever changing which suggests it was, is and shall continue to be imperfect. This is why the law of God is above the law of man. That said, when imperfect men try to interpret the law of God, the interpretation is never perfect... until of course, the man himself is perfected (i.e. enlightenned).
For the most part , and under most circumstances, average humans have an inner voice which *if* listened to will always provide a moral resolve. The problem is that we rarely listen and even when we do, we often go against the inner advice. What gets in the way is Ego and confusion. Confusion that seeking after temporary pleasures will yield the happiness we are subconciously looking for.
The law of men too is created & re-invented by such Ego-confused men; as such it will never be perfect and will continue to be challenged.
Lamo sounds to me like a brilliant young man, but he was not listening to his inner voice (moral). A bit of time in isolation has given him the opportunity to listen to is inner voice and realize that he "no longer wants any part in his previous actions".
Here's my 'freenet/Darknet' wishlist for the next release (hopefuly it won't take another 5 years before any major break throughs):
1) Bittorrent/utorrent inside Darknet support. (i.e. encrypted semi-anonymous file transfers) 2) Full IP anonymity 3) Multi-port support (i.e. when firewalls block it, you can change ports). 4) User selected periodic chaotic deep packet protocol emulation. Say what?! Imagine if you could download from a list of popular standard protocols & configure your Darknet client to emulate most of these protocols (one at a time & announcing the new protocol to your group of file-exchange-buddies)- anytime you want. You'd periodically select a new protocol (i.e. FTP, HTTP, OSPF, DNS, etc every time some advanced firewall blocks you) & BAM... you punch through making your traffic seem like standard protocols. An advanced version of this would allow you to load balance your traffic over multiple standard look-alike protocols, thus forcing ISP's to not be able to track (through agregate port router bandwidth stats) which new protocol/port you are using now so they could block it. Also, by allowing multi-protocol chaotic support that means each group of users would be using different protocols & ports... now try to stop that Mr. China firewall! 5) Proxy bounce support 6) Open source API for additional protocol bounce support. (i.e. allows for crackers/hackers of restrictive/oppressive nations to piggy back Darknet inside a legit Server running say FTP or something of the sort) - Once the trusted server is infiltrated, it could allow for proxied clients to connect through it and out to the rest of the world.
I'm sure some of you could come up with more utopian anonymous & liberative strategies.
They'd save themselves a lot of time & money, if they just asked the DND to let them research the makeup of self-healing metal found in Roswell
"I happened to notice when I put that piece of foil in that box, and the damn thing just started unfolding and just flattened out. Then I got to playing with it. I'd fold it, crease it, lay it down and it'd unfold. It's kinda wierd. I couldn't tear it. The color was in between tinfoil and lead foil, about the thickness of lead foil."
Hmmm, maybe if you didn't filter out google groups you could actually find out what other companies are doing. That's like one of the #1 internet tools for troubleshooting everyday issues. Pop in an error message and out comes reems of articles with other users having the same issue and the fix to the problem. it's the best free knowledge base ever! Adeptus
Have you ever wondered what is it that makes you so insecure that you can only raise your sense of self-worth by putting others down? It's worth pondering.
From a "Senior Hardware Engineer" of a National telco, it's fine to say people are wrong, but where's your constructive criticism? Where is your backup technical statements saying "this is wrong because...". Instead, you spend 3 paragraphs putting down others and re-enforcing the French elitist stereotype. Then you wonder why people feel so mistreated & revolted they have to vandalize Paris to wake you up.
I was actually impressed by some of the great comments posted by slashdot readers on this article. If you've got some technical information, let's hear it, Eletrical Engineering is something many slashdot sys admins could learn a lot about from people like you, albeit the tolerance level notch needs to be turned up, before you start writting.
I came in as a contractor, because I had unique skills very hard to find in the mark place. Having worked for over a 1/2 dozen companies in my past (as an employee), I know very well that if you want to get paid well it's all about your initial negotiations. Once you've signed on the dotted line as an employee, that's it amigos: game over - You've got little else to leverage with after that and you have to be treated like the other employees.
So after 6 months they wanted to keep me as I had done a good job and they valued my work, at which point I bypassed my boss all together and negotiated with the VP of IT for 2 days for a total of 5 hours, explaining why I was worth way more than what he was offering and debunking every reason he had to pay me like the other employees. And yes, I did plan a lot before that meeting - many hours! I did get the spcheal about how the company paid fairly and according to market research I was worth X amount of dollars, but I played it cool, mentioned that I had other prospects on the side (which was true) willing to offer me close to 60% more than what he offered me, I mentioned I had worked internationally and one of the jobs even offered me partial company ownership, but most importantly I said, hey, look I don't consider myself an average employee, so if you are interested in hiring average employees I understand that but if you read my resume (which I knew he didn't read it as I had been hired by another manager), you will know very well that I'm hardly an average employee and I take on work that very few people have the skills to take on.
Even though I didn't get the huge $ I was asking for (which was a 6 figure close to what he was making), I did get the highest tier of pay he was allowed to give me (he even got out all the pay charts and showed me what all the other employees made). 2 years later, I still make about 5% higher than my boss who has been working there for like 7 years!
So, hey... It was mental stress-hell for a week there getting ready to prepare to negotiate and getting through the negotiation itself, but 2 years later I could care less that I haven't been given even 1% raise as I am very happy with what I am earning and have no intentions of stressing myself over any raises for at least another 2 or 3 years.
Do your research, prepare like hell, know his negotiation abilities, strengthen yours and be VERY creative in your game. During negotiations, as he was saying no to my request, I said stuff like:
1) well fine then how about you re-hire me as a contractor, or
2) let me look at your Hierarchy and pay-scale to find me a job description I am capable of doing that meets my salary expectations (which he did show me),
3) I brought into the negotiations print outs from monster.com and other places that showed that people with my job title made way more than what he was offering (what I showed, was of course the extremes),
4) I suggested that the company was growing in a new direction and fast and that perhaps it was time to create a new job title that did not fit into the existing pay scales & descriptions,
5) I explained that in my last job I made 50% more than what he was paying me as a contractor, and that I took the job because I liked the company and the technology was very leading edge at the time (VoIP) but that now (2003) my skills are high in demand (and he knew that),
6) next I said, ok well what about stock options to make up the difference?
7) Or what about training commitments worth $X per year,
8) or forget the salary and if you are not convinced, let me work for you for free and you pay me 10% of what I save the company money on (I could have trippled my salary easily if he had said yes).
9) I threw the question/problem back into his lap saying... Ok so listen, you know that I am not your average employee and am worth more than your regular pay scales, so how do you sugge
Why do vendors focus on stronger transmitters, when that just results in greater potential for human brain frying. Imagine all your neighbours in a 5 block sky scraper community all sitting at home with 5KM transmitters! YIKES!!
It is just as effective to create better receivers, that could for instance listen to signs from up to 5KM that even in large clusters would not fry your brain.
Having just spent an entire month travelling through India, I am not at all surprised at the low media coverage. The vast majority of the population is extremely poor... the (on average) dozen beggers that approached me daily, don't even ask you for money, they ask you for food my friends! *That's* how you know they are really poor and what's really on their minds.
The vast majority of people don't even know how to turn on a computer, and many haven't even seen one in their lives, so it is not surprising that the media would think their people would not care so much about patents; they have far bigger logistical and core problems than caring about software patents.
This technology could actually revolutionize the mental evolution of mankind. From a mental perspective, there is hardly a greater challenge than to think of absolutely nothing for even just a few minutes at a time. I'm quite serious, have you ever actually tried it? Close your eyes for 30 seconds and try to think of absolutely nothing (no pictures, no sounds, no memories, and btw thinking "empty mind, relax, think nothing..nothing.." is still thinking. So 99.99% of you will fail this miserably- I guarantee it. So what does this prove? It proves that we are actually not in control of our minds as we so erogantly think we are. It proves that our mental abilities are far from fine tuned. But what purpose does it serve to think of nothing? If we were to spend a lifetime trying to think of nothing what would we have achieved? Isn't high intellect the result of thinking a lot? Well sort of, but mostly, no. What makes the genius is the ability to focus, to concentrate on a single subject with abyss like depths, reaching further than most other humans, and from those depths high intellectual realizations are thus attained. The keypoint here being that concentration is the master key. One who has enough mind control to concentrate on absolutely nothing, has just as much mind control to think (or meditate) upon any one particular subject and perceive its truth far beyond the capabilities of others. But meditation is very boring stuff for most people, and our western societies get easily bored with just sitting around trying to empty the mind of all the garbage that floats about. We like fast & visible scientific results... well, Zen Masters, perhaps now science has facilitated your teachings and more importantly, motivated western minds to truly work their minds.
Working as a data provisioner for a large Canadian National telco, I once wanted to optimize the way our core network was configured by changing the spanning tree root bridge priority from one core switch to another. After checking with the senior layer 2 provisioner in the company & getting the OK from Cisco to proceed with the change, I executed a 1 liner command on a core cisco switch which caused every dependant switch in our network (read various cities & about 100,000 + customers, including various ISPs, banks, credit unions, government networks, school boards, you name it, they went down) to get into a spanning tree propogation loop that flooded the entire network and took it offline for 3 hours.
The problem was that my optimization scheme did not take into account spanning tree's inability to incorporate the concept of in-between-cisco-devices to have non-Cisco ATM network devices (marconi).
It took 8 engineers in a conference call from one end of Canada to the next + Cisco in the USA + I forget how many managers & company directors, to after 3 hours of downtime to resolve the problem.
Oh did I mention the Telco lost a lot of credibility and had to issue over $20,000 worth of credits to various customers due to the massive downtime? So much for 5x9's reliability (99.999% uptime = 5 minutes per year)... I think I scored enough dowtime for about a century or so! hahaha
In my defence, let me just say that I witnessed fellow co-workers make even larger mistakes, like crashing a series of 5ESS switches & OC192 sonet boxes... Oh the joys & power of working for a telco! hehe.
One of the reasons that Einstein failed to after 30 years come up with a Theory of Everything, wasn't because he did not have sufficient intellect, but rather that he didn't have sufficient wisdom and the right life experience.
Man is not the culmination of the physical alone (as science would like to think), and thus no single intellectual conclusion may sum up the entirity of existence - EVER! To think otherwise is not to have thought much at all.
To believe we can understand the ALL intellectually is to show our immense ignorance, and more so, our limited evolvement as beings of this multi-planed universe.
If you are so keen on looking up to science for your answers, then at the very least recognize and admit that they themselves are only discovers of what has existed since the beginning of time. They do not know everything, nor shall they ever.
In vain is to seek after limited knowledge in order to reach the infinite!
The wise my friend, ever seeketh that which once known, ALL is known! But I assure you that this master key which is to be known isn't some mathematical formula which explains all others or creation itself.
If you wish to know the ALL, then you must start at the beginning by gaining control and knowing your own mind. For how else can you possibly gain understanding of the beyond if your inner self is still unknown and undominated by you? Do you truly control your own mind and thoughts? I doubt it! Such is the foolish assumption of most humans. If you think you can, then think for the next 3 minutes of nothing other than the number "1". The second your mind wanders away from this thought, is the second you realize you do not yet control your mind... and with uncontrolled minds, no human scientist or otherwise shall understand ALL there is.
Since we have spent so much time arguing the definitions of "hacker" and "cracker", with the same enthusiasm I wish to enlighten you to the better understanding of the words "magic" and "alchemy".
Magic and Alchemy continue to be greatly misunderstood by the masses.
From the layman's perspective, magic may be defined as:
Magic - That which has no logical explanation, but yet was manifested. Beyond reality and defying all explanation - An illusion. A miraculous act. Trickery!
Such meanings are complete and utter nonsense. There is nothing that is, was or will be that has no explanation. Rather, it is humans who do not (yet) understand the underlying workings of seemingly magical acts that define magic the unknown manifested.
The truth my friends is that there is no magic in magic, every miracle is a natural act and can be repeated over and over again given the same tools, power and overall circumstances (just as any scientific experiment). To state something can be created out of nothing is ludicrous! Our dear "Magi" knew this millenea before our modern scientists. It is only in our ignorance of reality that we consider the manifestation of the unknown to be a work of magic. Do not look up to scientists to provide you with an explanation of magical acts, for they are admittedly discoverers & explorers of reality and do not yet understand it completely - nor shall they ever with mere logic and knowledge alone. They are as children in an endless Universe, observing the physical but neglecting the 2 other major planes of existence.
Back in the 1500's the base alchemical process of adding the type of coloring to a vase as was described in the article might have been looked upon as a magical act because the vast majority of people did not understand how such feat might be possible. Today it is easily understood and we know the process is completely natural and not some "magical" act. The same can be said today for what some of us perceive magical/(misunderstood) acts, such as levitation, energy healing, teleportation, clairvoyance (although some shows on TV are making this seem more natural), etc.
Magic, in its true sense, has nothing to do with stage magic, or illusions, or even the manifestation of seemingly amazing powers (which once again are actually completely natural). Magic is an art reserved for the initiated in the holy mysteries, for those who's true goal is the transmutation of the operator (oneself), to find his/her divine essence, and eventually merge with the ALL and thus become omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent and exiting the cycle of Maya (re-incarnation). The highest of magicians strive to learn and adhere to the Universal Laws. Those that have always been, are and shall always be. For they know nothing can exist that is outside these Universal Laws... laws which even the most brilliant of scientists are still struggling to learn.. as children learn to speak and walk.
Alchemy is the tool of such magicians in which they may transmute the base metals (or their basic gross/low vibrational selves of little spiritual worth) into gold (spiritual gold - the purest of forms, as bright as the brightest sun and of a vibrational level worthy of merging with the ALL/God,etc!). But yes, it is true many a self-proclaimed alchemists, also occupied themselves with converting actual physical metals into physical gold, though that really was never the main point at all of the serious magicians, but that has remained the layman's definition ever since. The alchemist who strives for physical gold, misses that which is of highest value of all... the conversion of himself into spiritual gold.
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Hey, don't underestimate Paris Hilton... according to www.routergod.com she's a full CCIE! Personly, I also think Jesica Simpson should have made the list... check out her comments on open source routers:
http://www.routergod.com/
"Next time at the super, buy farm raised fish. Every little bit helps..."
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Umm that actually hurts far more than it helps. It hurts both the person who eats the farm raised fish as well as non-farm raised fish. You can educate yourself on the process of fish farming on the web. Below are a couple of very relevant websites:
WILD VS FARM RAISED FISH, WHICH IS SAFER?
FROM: http://www.deliciousorganics.com/Controversies/wi
"Farmed salmon have more antibiotics administered by weight than any other form of livestock. Farmed salmon have significantly higher levels of PCBs, dioxin, and other cancer causing agents over wild salmon."
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T EAT FARM RAISED FISH: (PDF)
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/files/PSF_Salmon_Broch
FROM: "Farmed salmon are grown in floating netcages and impact wild salmon and other marine species by spreading diseases and parasites. Farmed salmon are given antibiotics and pesticides and other drugs. Drug laden waste from surplus food and feces of these fish pollute the marine environment (ever looked at the surrounding sea floor under a netcage used for farming fish? All the plant sea-life is dead). Most farm raised fish are not the natural species to where they are being farmed, and escaped fish (often by the thousands) can become new predetors to other rare forms of fish and marine life."
Adeptus
Top 7 FUD reasons to migrate to IPV6:
1) "We're running out of IPv4 address space!"
- People, even if every possible human house hold item requires an IP in the next 5 years, NAT in IPv4 will handle this just fine. Same goes for corporations. We've been running out of IP space for 10+ years now... but have we ran out? Nope, tonnes & tonnes left!
2) "IPV6 supports IPSEC natively"
- Yeah, so what? We've had IPSEC VPNs on IPv4 for like a decade now.
3) "IPV6 supports QoS!'
- Ummm... VoIP & video w/QoS has been working just fine since at least 2002 with IPv4. TOS & DSCP Ethernet header options have been around for ages before then.
4) "But IPV6 supports GPRS for modern mobile networks"
- Newsflash: Most mobile networks are still running IPv4 just fine and will continue to do so.
5) "But the US DOD is migrating to IPv6 now!"
- Yeah, maybe it's because they need to implement security through obscurity... seeing as barely anyone understands IPv6"
6) "What about most of Korea being on IPv6?"
- What about it? North America 'started' the Internet, so we have more IPv4 public address space than late adopters like South Korea.
7) "IPv6 does Multicasting natively"
- Er... Have you actually looked at how complex Multicasting is in a private network? Now imagine trying to implement that on the Internet with 128 bit HEX addresses that come with our lovely IPv6. Plus like everything else, Multicasting is working just fine with IPv4.
People, a migration to IPv6 for most Enterprises is a hella complex & expensive nightmare. Until there's actual BUSINESS needs to do so, it's really just make(alot_of)-work projects. So far every conceivable advatange of IPv6 has been resolved by 3rd party IPv4 protocols (i.e. DHCP, IPSEC, QoS, etc); plus there's analytical studies out there that claim migration to IPv6 may have a significance performance impact on your expensive WAN links due to packet header sizes being dramatically bigger. Some estimate as much as 50% WAN link speed increase requirements for the same amount of payload (considering 64 byte average payload per packet).
Wake me up when we ACTUALLY run out of IPv4 address space...
Adeptus
Now I can cheat on my math exam, by uploading OCR'ed versions of my math text book into my calculator's flash drive. Geez, some people have no imagination. :P
There was a brilliant foxtrot cartoon about a year or so back that went something like this:
(picture Jason sitting in his room, in front of his computer and with an evil twinkle in his eye...)
Andy: "What are you doing?"
Jason: "Composing digital music."
Jason: "This first song I call "Zero." This second one I call "One." Naturally, I'll hold the copyrights to both."
Jason: "Now anytime the record industry releases a CD, It'll constitute several billion instances of music piracy and I can sue them for trillions!"
Andy: "Remind me to keep you out of law school."
Jason: "Ah, to live in America." (rubbing hands, evil grin even bigger)
Not only are the pics too small... (come on Google, with all those PHD's this should be a quick fix), ... but also the game needs some additional serious improvements such as:
1) There needs to be a "NEXT" button. For some images 1 minute and 30 seconds is too much time. I get the feeling a lot of people confuse "pass" with 'moving on to the next picture', so I think a lot of effort is wasted here as I imagine that "pass" means discard the data from both users and move on to next pic.
2) There should be a real time score matching as each person enters labels, this would really motivate players
3) Matching with random players doesn't work in most games because people want to play with others who are either at the same level of skill (in this case also speed - its boring as hell waiting 1 minute for your 8 year old (or 80 year old) partner to type in 1 label). Or allow people to do international competitions. I.E. Canada vs. USA or whatever.
4) I hope labels get spell checked before they are compared, otherwise there's a lot of misses
5) The label typing box should be smaller. For the first 3 or 4 times I tried it, I intuitively typed many labels separated by commas, only later to realize that all those sequencial words only counted as 1 label.
6) I have two internet connections with two different providers, on both PCs, the next image to come up took several seconds to show up... what's up with that Oh Google of infinite bandwidth?
This thing needs some serious improvements before it becomes addicting... right now its closer to 'lame' & if your partner is too slow... 'annoying'.
In other news... scientists are baffled why our cancer rates just keep going up and up?!
;-) Hot cancerless chicks, will be the IN thing for sure!
If only they would train doctors in med school to use wireless protocol analyzers to measure activity around a patient's environment, then quickly prescribe a healthy dosage of tinfoil hats & tinfoil body suits.
Hey I bet 7 of 9's tight Star Trek clothing already has a thin layer of tin foil in there... So just be sure to prescribe those to all the nice ladies
Adeptus
Rational & logical scientists have little chance of understanding things like telepathy, because they limit themselves to studying physical aspects of the Universe with physical tools. In doing this, they ignore 2/3rds of reality, where things like Telepathy operate. You can not understand things that occur in another "dimension", when the tools & 'eyes' being used are in this dimension.
One might argue that telepathy could be verified in relatively simple experiments of a subject with telepathic powers consistently reading another person's mind, and might I add, that this has been done many times, yet the results of such successful experiments (and yes there have been many unsuccessful as well) rarely fall into public domain because:
a) While it can be verified, it can not be understood, as there are no scientifc theories confirmed or otherwise that can explain the phenomenon.
b) It is still considered a taboo subject for Scientific study, and the scientist would likely lose credibility amongst his peers, so many stay away from it.
c) The possibility of such a faculty may be far too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands, and so it is best for large governments to deny its existance and to debunk scientists who strive to understand it. The reality is that mysteries such as Telepathy are self-veiling, and can only be abused by those whom already have the capability. The real evil one's lack the basic requirements to ever develop such capabilities on their own had they had the knowledge. So the fear here is mostly misplaced.
d) The vast majority of humanity is not ready to accept such concepts as reality, and it may be too shocking for too many people, and fear may be widespread as to the rumoured but ignorant possibilities.
Yet despite all this, there have been many numerous books written on the subject (likely in the hundreds) which actually explain how one might attain such a faculty (no, it is not genetic, although it is common place that if parents have such abilities, a child may be born with strong tendencies to develop this faculty without much effort - but still this has nothing to do with genetics and it may be developed by a person from non-telepathic parents).
Anybody who is seriously interested in the subject, could within a few months or at most, within a couple of years have a strong understanding of how telepathy works simply by reading the numerous books written about it. Unfortunately, there are many crappy books as well, and the challenge is actually finding and knowing when one is in possessin of the right material. But only one or two good ones are necessary.
Concepts such as telepathy have actually been understood & practiced for milenia, and evidence of this is written in many a scripture of many different religions. Today, of the surviving texts, the study of Yoga offers the best & clearest instruction on attaining such faculties, and any good contemporary books on the subject have their roots in Yogic instruction. But most skeptical western intelectual men have egos far too big & have been too conditioned by their social & cultural surroundings to realize that such possibilities in fact exist, so they rarely venture into this area.
An open minded scientist lucky enough to find a person with such capability (which by the way can vary hugely in degree of accuracy & frequency of being able to engage the faculty), could at best, perform tests that verify some unknown law is at play with enough frequency of occurance that can not be ignored, dismissed or be explained by some other already known factor/phenomenon.
That said, the scientist, by means of his physical tools, will be at a loss to explain HOW this concept works; "How" being the traditional job of a scientist, let alone even having a chance to answer the "WHY" of the philosophers.
Often, the persons exhibiting this faculty, much like some well known public paranormal he
I can't see this working for long...
Eventually when memory (RAM & HD) are nearly free and nearly infinite, visuals in games may come close to paralelling reality (i.e. a tree in a game may look more like a real tree than it does today). A game that is developed today even with the most advanced mathematical algorythms applied in a graphics platform to be expandable to future, will not be imediately upgradable (from an end-users's perspective) to benefit from an instant graphics upgrade. I.e. you can't just shove the game in the latest new console and expect it to have graphics magically upgraded to the latest high standards. Somebody will still have to go through the entire game and add granularity to each wall, floor, and animated characters in the game which mathematics can not auto-magically generate with accuracy enough to come close to paralleling the randomness & beautify of reality. So the only alternative, I can see is to have the games of today allow future artists to ADD new graphic content into the old game with some newer gaming technology... but somebody still has to put in the effort to create & import all the new graphics.
So I think perhaps the article is misleading. Again, from an end-users's perspective, the game can't just magically upgrade all its graphics and have it equal in looks to whatever the latest high benchmark of impressiveness might be. At best, the end-user plugs in the CD/DVD into the new console (assuming it even accepts older formats) and over the internet, for a fee, newer graphics are downloadable... will users pay a small fee for this service? And more importantly, will gaming companies bother to re-create nicer graphics for old games? Is this a sustainable business model? I would venture to guess that only the most popular addictive games of all times might justify this kind of effort in a gaming company's project list.
Having said all that, I'm all for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reality
Adeptus
... So considering in Canada $8/hr ($1280/mo)is the highest minimum wage, your $732/week is about 2x more than minimum wage.
;-)
So in short I'd say he has you beat by a factor of 4.
Let us know when you start making $2928/week, and then maybe the joke won't be on you.
The law of man from time immemorial is ever changing which suggests it was, is and shall continue to be imperfect. This is why the law of God is above the law of man. That said, when imperfect men try to interpret the law of God, the interpretation is never perfect ... until of course, the man himself is perfected (i.e. enlightenned).
For the most part , and under most circumstances, average humans have an inner voice which *if* listened to will always provide a moral resolve. The problem is that we rarely listen and even when we do, we often go against the inner advice. What gets in the way is Ego and confusion. Confusion that seeking after temporary pleasures will yield the happiness we are subconciously looking for.
The law of men too is created & re-invented by such Ego-confused men; as such it will never be perfect and will continue to be challenged.
Lamo sounds to me like a brilliant young man, but he was not listening to his inner voice (moral). A bit of time in isolation has given him the opportunity to listen to is inner voice and realize that he "no longer wants any part in his previous actions".
Adeptus
Here's my 'freenet/Darknet' wishlist for the next release (hopefuly it won't take another 5 years before any major break throughs):
... you punch through making your traffic seem like standard protocols. An advanced version of this would allow you to load balance your traffic over multiple standard look-alike protocols, thus forcing ISP's to not be able to track (through agregate port router bandwidth stats) which new protocol/port you are using now so they could block it. Also, by allowing multi-protocol chaotic support that means each group of users would be using different protocols & ports... now try to stop that Mr. China firewall!
1) Bittorrent/utorrent inside Darknet support. (i.e. encrypted semi-anonymous file transfers)
2) Full IP anonymity
3) Multi-port support (i.e. when firewalls block it, you can change ports).
4) User selected periodic chaotic deep packet protocol emulation. Say what?! Imagine if you could download from a list of popular standard protocols & configure your Darknet client to emulate most of these protocols (one at a time & announcing the new protocol to your group of file-exchange-buddies)- anytime you want. You'd periodically select a new protocol (i.e. FTP, HTTP, OSPF, DNS, etc every time some advanced firewall blocks you) & BAM
5) Proxy bounce support
6) Open source API for additional protocol bounce support. (i.e. allows for crackers/hackers of restrictive/oppressive nations to piggy back Darknet inside a legit Server running say FTP or something of the sort) - Once the trusted server is infiltrated, it could allow for proxied clients to connect through it and out to the rest of the world.
I'm sure some of you could come up with more utopian anonymous & liberative strategies.
Cheers
adeptus_luminati
They'd save themselves a lot of time & money, if they just asked the DND to let them research the makeup of self-healing metal found in Roswell
"I happened to notice when I put that piece of foil in that box, and the damn thing just started unfolding and just flattened out. Then I got to playing with it. I'd fold it, crease it, lay it down and it'd unfold. It's kinda wierd. I couldn't tear it. The color was in between tinfoil and lead foil, about the thickness of lead foil."
From: http://www.qsl.net/w5www/roswell.html
(about 1/2 way down - use CTRL+F)
Adeptus
Hmmm, maybe if you didn't filter out google groups you could actually find out what other companies are doing. That's like one of the #1 internet tools for troubleshooting everyday issues. Pop in an error message and out comes reems of articles with other users having the same issue and the fix to the problem. it's the best free knowledge base ever!
Adeptus
If I had mod points I'd give you some!!
Have you ever wondered what is it that makes you so insecure that you can only raise your sense of self-worth by putting others down? It's worth pondering.
From a "Senior Hardware Engineer" of a National telco, it's fine to say people are wrong, but where's your constructive criticism? Where is your backup technical statements saying "this is wrong because...". Instead, you spend 3 paragraphs putting down others and re-enforcing the French elitist stereotype. Then you wonder why people feel so mistreated & revolted they have to vandalize Paris to wake you up.
I was actually impressed by some of the great comments posted by slashdot readers on this article. If you've got some technical information, let's hear it, Eletrical Engineering is something many slashdot sys admins could learn a lot about from people like you, albeit the tolerance level notch needs to be turned up, before you start writting.
adeptus
So after 6 months they wanted to keep me as I had done a good job and they valued my work, at which point I bypassed my boss all together and negotiated with the VP of IT for 2 days for a total of 5 hours, explaining why I was worth way more than what he was offering and debunking every reason he had to pay me like the other employees. And yes, I did plan a lot before that meeting - many hours! I did get the spcheal about how the company paid fairly and according to market research I was worth X amount of dollars, but I played it cool, mentioned that I had other prospects on the side (which was true) willing to offer me close to 60% more than what he offered me, I mentioned I had worked internationally and one of the jobs even offered me partial company ownership, but most importantly I said, hey, look I don't consider myself an average employee, so if you are interested in hiring average employees I understand that but if you read my resume (which I knew he didn't read it as I had been hired by another manager), you will know very well that I'm hardly an average employee and I take on work that very few people have the skills to take on.
Even though I didn't get the huge $ I was asking for (which was a 6 figure close to what he was making), I did get the highest tier of pay he was allowed to give me (he even got out all the pay charts and showed me what all the other employees made). 2 years later, I still make about 5% higher than my boss who has been working there for like 7 years!
So, hey... It was mental stress-hell for a week there getting ready to prepare to negotiate and getting through the negotiation itself, but 2 years later I could care less that I haven't been given even 1% raise as I am very happy with what I am earning and have no intentions of stressing myself over any raises for at least another 2 or 3 years.
Do your research, prepare like hell, know his negotiation abilities, strengthen yours and be VERY creative in your game. During negotiations, as he was saying no to my request, I said stuff like:
1)
well fine then how about you re-hire me as a contractor, or
2)
let me look at your Hierarchy and pay-scale to find me a job description I am capable of doing that meets my salary expectations (which he did show me),
3)
I brought into the negotiations print outs from monster.com and other places that showed that people with my job title made way more than what he was offering (what I showed, was of course the extremes),
4)
I suggested that the company was growing in a new direction and fast and that perhaps it was time to create a new job title that did not fit into the existing pay scales & descriptions,
5)
I explained that in my last job I made 50% more than what he was paying me as a contractor, and that I took the job because I liked the company and the technology was very leading edge at the time (VoIP) but that now (2003) my skills are high in demand (and he knew that),
6)
next I said, ok well what about stock options to make up the difference?
7)
Or what about training commitments worth $X per year,
8)
or forget the salary and if you are not convinced, let me work for you for free and you pay me 10% of what I save the company money on (I could have trippled my salary easily if he had said yes).
9)
I threw the question/problem back into his lap saying... Ok so listen, you know that I am not your average employee and am worth more than your regular pay scales, so how do you sugge
Why do vendors focus on stronger transmitters, when that just results in greater potential for human brain frying. Imagine all your neighbours in a 5 block sky scraper community all sitting at home with 5KM transmitters! YIKES!!
It is just as effective to create better receivers, that could for instance listen to signs from up to 5KM that even in large clusters would not fry your brain.
Just a thought.
Having just spent an entire month travelling through India, I am not at all surprised at the low media coverage. The vast majority of the population is extremely poor... the (on average) dozen beggers that approached me daily, don't even ask you for money, they ask you for food my friends! *That's* how you know they are really poor and what's really on their minds.
The vast majority of people don't even know how to turn on a computer, and many haven't even seen one in their lives, so it is not surprising that the media would think their people would not care so much about patents; they have far bigger logistical and core problems than caring about software patents.
This technology could actually revolutionize the mental evolution of mankind. From a mental perspective, there is hardly a greater challenge than to think of absolutely nothing for even just a few minutes at a time. I'm quite serious, have you ever actually tried it? Close your eyes for 30 seconds and try to think of absolutely nothing (no pictures, no sounds, no memories, and btw thinking "empty mind, relax, think nothing..nothing.." is still thinking. So 99.99% of you will fail this miserably- I guarantee it. So what does this prove? It proves that we are actually not in control of our minds as we so erogantly think we are. It proves that our mental abilities are far from fine tuned. But what purpose does it serve to think of nothing? If we were to spend a lifetime trying to think of nothing what would we have achieved? Isn't high intellect the result of thinking a lot? Well sort of, but mostly, no. What makes the genius is the ability to focus, to concentrate on a single subject with abyss like depths, reaching further than most other humans, and from those depths high intellectual realizations are thus attained. The keypoint here being that concentration is the master key. One who has enough mind control to concentrate on absolutely nothing, has just as much mind control to think (or meditate) upon any one particular subject and perceive its truth far beyond the capabilities of others. But meditation is very boring stuff for most people, and our western societies get easily bored with just sitting around trying to empty the mind of all the garbage that floats about. We like fast & visible scientific results... well, Zen Masters, perhaps now science has facilitated your teachings and more importantly, motivated western minds to truly work their minds.
Working as a data provisioner for a large Canadian National telco, I once wanted to optimize the way our core network was configured by changing the spanning tree root bridge priority from one core switch to another. After checking with the senior layer 2 provisioner in the company & getting the OK from Cisco to proceed with the change, I executed a 1 liner command on a core cisco switch which caused every dependant switch in our network (read various cities & about 100,000 + customers, including various ISPs, banks, credit unions, government networks, school boards, you name it, they went down) to get into a spanning tree propogation loop that flooded the entire network and took it offline for 3 hours.
The problem was that my optimization scheme did not take into account spanning tree's inability to incorporate the concept of in-between-cisco-devices to have non-Cisco ATM network devices (marconi).
It took 8 engineers in a conference call from one end of Canada to the next + Cisco in the USA + I forget how many managers & company directors, to after 3 hours of downtime to resolve the problem.
Oh did I mention the Telco lost a lot of credibility and had to issue over $20,000 worth of credits to various customers due to the massive downtime? So much for 5x9's reliability (99.999% uptime = 5 minutes per year)... I think I scored enough dowtime for about a century or so! hahaha
In my defence, let me just say that I witnessed fellow co-workers make even larger mistakes, like crashing a series of 5ESS switches & OC192 sonet boxes... Oh the joys & power of working for a telco! hehe.
Adeptus
One of the reasons that Einstein failed to after 30 years come up with a Theory of Everything, wasn't because he did not have sufficient intellect, but rather that he didn't have sufficient wisdom and the right life experience.
Man is not the culmination of the physical alone (as science would like to think), and thus no single intellectual conclusion may sum up the entirity of existence - EVER! To think otherwise is not to have thought much at all.
To believe we can understand the ALL intellectually is to show our immense ignorance, and more so, our limited evolvement as beings of this multi-planed universe.
If you are so keen on looking up to science for your answers, then at the very least recognize and admit that they themselves are only discovers of what has existed since the beginning of time. They do not know everything, nor shall they ever.
In vain is to seek after limited knowledge in order to reach the infinite!
The wise my friend, ever seeketh that which once known, ALL is known! But I assure you that this master key which is to be known isn't some mathematical formula which explains all others or creation itself.
If you wish to know the ALL, then you must start at the beginning by gaining control and knowing your own mind. For how else can you possibly gain understanding of the beyond if your inner self is still unknown and undominated by you? Do you truly control your own mind and thoughts? I doubt it! Such is the foolish assumption of most humans. If you think you can, then think for the next 3 minutes of nothing other than the number "1". The second your mind wanders away from this thought, is the second you realize you do not yet control your mind... and with uncontrolled minds, no human scientist or otherwise shall understand ALL there is.
Magic and Alchemy continue to be greatly misunderstood by the masses.
From the layman's perspective, magic may be defined as:
Magic - That which has no logical explanation, but yet was manifested. Beyond reality and defying all explanation - An illusion. A miraculous act. Trickery!
Such meanings are complete and utter nonsense. There is nothing that is, was or will be that has no explanation. Rather, it is humans who do not (yet) understand the underlying workings of seemingly magical acts that define magic the unknown manifested.
The truth my friends is that there is no magic in magic, every miracle is a natural act and can be repeated over and over again given the same tools, power and overall circumstances (just as any scientific experiment). To state something can be created out of nothing is ludicrous! Our dear "Magi" knew this millenea before our modern scientists. It is only in our ignorance of reality that we consider the manifestation of the unknown to be a work of magic. Do not look up to scientists to provide you with an explanation of magical acts, for they are admittedly discoverers & explorers of reality and do not yet understand it completely - nor shall they ever with mere logic and knowledge alone. They are as children in an endless Universe, observing the physical but neglecting the 2 other major planes of existence.
Back in the 1500's the base alchemical process of adding the type of coloring to a vase as was described in the article might have been looked upon as a magical act because the vast majority of people did not understand how such feat might be possible. Today it is easily understood and we know the process is completely natural and not some "magical" act. The same can be said today for what some of us perceive magical/(misunderstood) acts, such as levitation, energy healing, teleportation, clairvoyance (although some shows on TV are making this seem more natural), etc.
Magic, in its true sense, has nothing to do with stage magic, or illusions, or even the manifestation of seemingly amazing powers (which once again are actually completely natural). Magic is an art reserved for the initiated in the holy mysteries, for those who's true goal is the transmutation of the operator (oneself), to find his/her divine essence, and eventually merge with the ALL and thus become omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent and exiting the cycle of Maya (re-incarnation). The highest of magicians strive to learn and adhere to the Universal Laws. Those that have always been, are and shall always be. For they know nothing can exist that is outside these Universal Laws... laws which even the most brilliant of scientists are still struggling to learn.. as children learn to speak and walk.
Alchemy is the tool of such magicians in which they may transmute the base metals (or their basic gross/low vibrational selves of little spiritual worth) into gold (spiritual gold - the purest of forms, as bright as the brightest sun and of a vibrational level worthy of merging with the ALL/God,etc!). But yes, it is true many a self-proclaimed alchemists, also occupied themselves with converting actual physical metals into physical gold, though that really was never the main point at all of the serious magicians, but that has remained the layman's definition ever since. The alchemist who strives for physical gold, misses that which is of highest value of all... the conversion of himself into spiritual gold.
Just my $2.99 cents worth,
... I still wouldn't go near this thing, I mean, come on, it doesn't even come with a Webcam! ;-)
640..er I mean 64 characters ought to be enough for everyone!