Never before thought about it like this but if somebody gets tired of hell.com they can dicker with me for http://hawaii-island.com/ and get a good chunk of online paradise. What am I bid?
Yes, vote early and vote often! Do whatever is necessary to stop the loss of our nation!
Let's start by calling the wiretapping what it is, UNWARRANTED. That i much closer to the truth that the tepid "warrantless." Let it start here, on Slashdot!
"Unwarranted wiretapping." Doesn't that have a nice ring to it?
The notoriously dislexic ScuttleMonkey has it turned around. The clue should have been the Chinese sub-tends of the original note, sub-tends that are always to be taken for their opposite meaning.
In other words, the whole Slashdot gang has been taken for a ride because the story is not that the 'woman' is too old but that she is too young! And the story probably refers to a man, anyway.
The internet is only for mature intellect. To allow unfettered access by callow youth would waste far too much time explaining fact as opposed to supposition -- as I am clearly having to do as this is input.
So please set the original flags to reflect the true meaning of ScuttleMonkey's
efforts to keep us busy. Delete all these notes that fell for the "Big Lie" and let's get on with barring more children. Just how old is ScuttleMonkey?
There is such a thing as "appropriate technology" in web design, too. Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean -- in a predominately rural area -- not everyone has a modern computer. Many of us can only get modem speed with DSL and up simply unavailable.
So I use FrontPage for commercial webs in that situation. Never knew until now that it isn't perfect which surprises me for a MicroSoft product but we get along. I've used every edition since the first. The newest 2003 iteration is harder to use than that first try and I see no real improvements!
What it can do is stay in the client's computer and his staff can -- almost always -- handle simple updates or add data such as the current assets for the credit union client. Staff changes are fairly common this close to the farms.
My point is that we need some simple source of code for this type of use. If every WhiskeyWig program dips into advanced graphics our client's viewers will get knocked off. I've never had a complaint that our sites are "old timey" or boring because they don't spin or flash or seek un-natural attention with pop-ups.
Less is more in simpler areas of our world -- and doesn't crash as much!
It's curious there is so little comment about the ion engine. This project isn't/wasn't a joke and did a lot of good science. Possibly the top achievement was work analyzing the makeup of the 'stuff' in our solar system. Lookee here if you want more. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/index.html
Doesn't SMART-1 get a few rounds of applause for disintegrating itself at the end of it's useful life rather than becoming yet one beer can on the side of the road?
The fear of sensual and sexual literature, pictures, art and web sites is merely an extension of America's fixation with political power. It has nothing to do with religion. The curiosity that most of us should have is why we pick on loving rather than hating and killing as art forms to be discouraged. Fact is, controlling sex touces more of 'us citizens' than ranting against war, an act unpopular in the circles of American leadership.
America is a warrior nation. For those who have read our early history in capturing these lands from the natives you know that atrocity wasn't invented recently in Iraq. We keep making it more efficient, however, and the Friends of Shrub are working hard to make it both legal and 'part of the natural way of war.'
Most scholars on the subject believe sensuality in art is an outlet that provides natural relief for sexual frustration. Most certainly there are some people who are uncontrollable but that would be true in their cases with or without the added incentive of visible sex in any art.
I have never read any serious suggestion that violence in any art form similarly might assuage that urge to kill.
The only way I have seen American religion gaining from strong prohibition of sexual thought is to have yet another guilt trip to lay on their dwindling membership -- just before they pass the offering plate.
Political parties are meant to be fundamentally grassroot organizations. As structured in their still-existing but totally ignored rules, both of our major parties are built from precincts -- neighborhoods -- where the major problems are schools, health care and potholes.
Formerly, citizens met in a sequence, precinct, county, state and national conventions where the needs of the public floated upward into platforms that determined what candidates pledged to do if elected under their party banner.
In 1948 the Southern Democrats stormed out of the national convention because they could not or would not support a tough and effective civil rights plank in the platform.
Many pundits said at the time it was the end of Harry S Truman who surprised them all and won a second term, pro-civil rights and all!
That scared the incumbent politicians who, from that day forward, began disassembling the parties. They introduced "Super Delegates" -- themselves -- to control convention committees. They weakened the requirements to do what platforms said the people needed from precincts up. Or did you think the idea of going to the moon started in Kansas?
As the "big issues of the day" grew away from local needs -- New Orleans and your town, for example -- the public became more gullible to manipulation by weakened media -- press and television -- and outright misrepresention by their leaders.
The parties you see today are totally disfunctional, unable to follow their own rules, typically unable to attract citizens to the old, now tiny, precinct meetings.
What was lost? Easy, the only system this nation ever had to control government!
If you are less than about sixty years old you don't have a chance of remembering that old party purpose, nominations by a true political party instead of a media dominated caucus or primary unattached to party control before platforms are formed.
I know how difficult it is. I'm 70. What is impossible for me is to imagine is what this country can possibly do to corral the wild stampede in Washington and most state capitols.
Don't blame the parties for what you see. The parties are the people, us guys. Blame the politicians who hacked them to death for fear "the people would tell them what to do" as we did from the founding of the country.
Truth be told, most of the IT industry is way too secure to a point that tasks at hand are bungled regularly. I had to change the pointers on a domain registered with Network Solutions yesterday. As the hired technician doing the work, it took two hours to round up the necessary IDs and passwords, etc., plus account numbers and more.
Finally got a human being on the phone to help me and she guided me to the right niche on a totally opaque NS website. With her help the DNS was reset in minutes and I settled back to await propagation.
Alas, in six hours, my client forwarded an e-mail wherein Network Solutions seemed very proud of itself for changing the DNS away from where it had been set and to their own WORLDNIC web hosting! Gross error!
I went to the moved domain which had been available but the Network Solutions "under construction" page popped up. It offered everything from "Cheap Travel" to "Real Estate Loan Rates" to "Personal Ads. My client, a federal credit union, appeared to be hosting sleaze because the organization entrusted with our domain security flipped a wrong switch.
To get it fixed, I had to go through security again before the offensive page could be taken down and DNS fixed.
That proves you CAN have too much security -- and Network Solutions has it.
Xybot is correct. Also interesting is the Air Force Cray in Kihei, Maui, Hawai`i that maintains the 'largest space ephemeris' in the world including all the space junk known. That includes some astronaut's lost glove, lots of nuts and bolts and -- I was told some years ago -- far more than the 9,000 articles in the story above that are known.
If you know where the shuttle -- or any other space toy -- will be at a given moment or its trajectory then you can predict with some accuracy it's chances of hitting known objects. That includes many natural space objects as well as the field of trash left behind by our junkets.
Will someone remind me why we spend the billions and billions of dollars on this exercise when we don't have any good schools for American children? Or am I missing something?
Balderdash! Logic has no gender bias. Hard to guess what arhar calls 'logic' but he is making a large error to read everyday events or conversations in life as logic applicable. The rules of logic, particularly as they apply in computer science, may make no sense in arhar's life if he is trying to apply it to his everyday moral decisions. Chances are very good he is mightily illogical in his justifications for moment to moment decisions in a bar, for example. That is, if he goes in bars.
Standing over here in the corner, just watching as life goes by, it appears to me that women are closer to 'real life' than men. "If I have money I can buy food" is a good example. It's a rare man who would extend that -- as many women do every day -- to "If I have money I can buy food for my children." That's very different but no less true.
At 70 I look back on a lifetime enjoying women of intelligence and creative nature. Many were physically beautiful but that was never a main attraction. The best thing about intelligent women is their sense of humor, the ability to find subtle meaning in curious everyday anomalies.
Reading what Larry Summers said more carefully than most news reporters -- or blog-o-philes! -- it appears he wasn't assigning relative quality, merely speaking of differences which those of us with any maturity salute and champion.
Vive la difference
A colleague and I were named to monitor election procedures in Hawai`i. The bottom line is that state and federal laws were broken constantly and, because of the complex of laws at federal, state and local levels, it is virtually impossible to get enforcement. A new commission is in charge of Hawai`i elections but it hasn't even met!
People who should know better are thinking that can be changed with the 'magic bullet' of federalizing the election standards or responsibilities. For those of you who love the Patriot Act, that might be exactly what you want for, for the rest of us, let's think again. If there were problems with the election we just had it is mainly because of federal intervention with the Help Americans Vote Act that flooded states with money to buy computer voting systems, most of which have no paper trail for post election audits.
What we discovered in five months of research is that the purchasing system -- at leas in Hawai`i -- seems to have been rigged, posted on April 30 and a $3.8 million dollar contract signed, sealed and delivered on June 7. Seem strange to you? And there is no paper trail even nearly adequate to the task.
This takes much caution and the technical community could be of great value to the nation by looking closely at it, refusing to be knee-jerk federalists and getting local press interested. For some reason, they aren't. Maybe it's those million dollar political ad budgets!
kurtkilgor's logic is impeccable but he is addressing a world where logic doesn't count for much. In another post it was noted that the "Guantanamo group" set us on this existing space program. True. Well, now we have a different use for Guantanamo, as a burial ground for American honor. And those guys are the ones calling for a new space mission and killing Hubble in the same week.
We can be pretty sure they didn't check with the Air Force to see if NASA's services are needed for war. They doubtless knew that the federal budget is the newest "Black Hole" so they had to stop staring at stars and using whatever resources were available to kill, kill, kill.
And your point is . . .
If "a couple" were wrong then 17 were right.
These days, in 2004, we identify suspect passengers on a British Airways flight 100 percent wrong for three or four straight days. We name a baby, a grandmother, etc., that ring our 'killer' bells and have what should be the supreme embarassment of days of flights called back, denied, and not one suspect arrested in Mexico, France or England.
I hope they fingerprinted them as they finally deplaned.
The television appearance last night of the superb head of Israeli airline's security detailed how every step of Homeland Security's fiasco over the holidays was wrong and severely counterproductive, exactly what the terrorists want, for us to appear weak, scared and incompetent. Not to mention, willing to wreck airline economics without compensation.
Think back to the 9/11 attack. Can you recall how fast the names and photographs of the hijackers were on the front page of every newspaper? That tells you they had the names -- yes, the names on the flight manifests! -- photographs and doubtless much more but these guys got on the planes!
Having that assemblage of data, can anyone explain to me why every airline's reservation service didn't have lookup tables for known terrorists? Okay, the Administration claims, "Who coulda' known?" But lookups are so simple, fast, non-intrusive and operate before the flights take off(!) it seems they should have been and still be in place. Anybody know if they are in use?
. . . but my problem today is the Spybot definition updates seems to be out of order. Two machines had the freeze-ups when trying to download the update. Haven't seen that before. Maybe they were bitten by a virus.
/. is being injured seriously by the growing number of absurd entries such as this. Why are they allowed to continue online? Moderators should have the power to delete this harmful material and they should exercise it.
Certainly it is true that each writer must find his or her own best way to get those words to paper. The search for simplicity should include -- for those of us stuck in the Microosoft swamp -- WordPad. It's Spartan enough for any simplistic needs I can imagine and thoroughly transportable to any other word processor or page layout software.
Re:the science of blogs... or how trendy the masse
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It will be valuable and remembered for particularly relevant points. Such won't be rare or, at least, no more rare than the sum of all other forms of communication...and that what your "blog stuff" is.
It's been my thought for some time that 'theory' may be the wrong word here. "String postulations" seems more accurate. Those working the field seem ready to admit that it is beyond proof. Postulations, however, don't attract as much funding as a good robust theory so we'll stay with that. It's at least as much fun as the traditional astronomer game, "MY telescope is bigger than yours!"
"...deep mystery, and likely to always remain so."
My hope is to be spared the doom that would be ours if we don't appreciate how many "deep mysteries once seen as unsolvable" are floating about as common knowledge.
The questions involved in Big Bang are dealt with in other context in many active projects. So, in that and other senses, some science is in the trenches on Big Bang.
One use where science is most proficient, getting and keeping grants. Most of us need to come up with recommendations or ideas that work. It appears many scientists today seek theories that are unprovable as the quoted story hints:
"In principle, strings can unite all the forces of nature, including gravity, in a single mathematical framework. But the "stringiness" of nature manifests itself only at energies and temperatures that can be generated in a particle accelerator the size of a small galaxy.
"As a result, physicists have been left at the mercy of their mathematical imaginations or sifting cosmological data for hints of a clue from God's own particle accelerator, the Big Bang."
You can find the word "unanalyzable" in some writing as a proven quality in material they simply don't grok YET.
Slashdot Mirror
Never before thought about it like this but if somebody gets tired of hell.com they can dicker with me for http://hawaii-island.com/ and get a good chunk of online paradise. What am I bid?
Let's start by calling the wiretapping what it is, UNWARRANTED. That i much closer to the truth that the tepid "warrantless." Let it start here, on Slashdot!
"Unwarranted wiretapping." Doesn't that have a nice ring to it?
...and welcome! As a FireFox user it is great to see the effort to to find problems and see them given to the group that can fix them!
The notoriously dislexic ScuttleMonkey has it turned around. The clue should have been the Chinese sub-tends of the original note, sub-tends that are always to be taken for their opposite meaning.
In other words, the whole Slashdot gang has been taken for a ride because the story is not that the 'woman' is too old but that she is too young! And the story probably refers to a man, anyway.
The internet is only for mature intellect. To allow unfettered access by callow youth would waste far too much time explaining fact as opposed to supposition -- as I am clearly having to do as this is input.
So please set the original flags to reflect the true meaning of ScuttleMonkey's efforts to keep us busy. Delete all these notes that fell for the "Big Lie" and let's get on with barring more children. Just how old is ScuttleMonkey?
There is such a thing as "appropriate technology" in web design, too. Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean -- in a predominately rural area -- not everyone has a modern computer. Many of us can only get modem speed with DSL and up simply unavailable.
So I use FrontPage for commercial webs in that situation. Never knew until now that it isn't perfect which surprises me for a MicroSoft product but we get along. I've used every edition since the first. The newest 2003 iteration is harder to use than that first try and I see no real improvements!
What it can do is stay in the client's computer and his staff can -- almost always -- handle simple updates or add data such as the current assets for the credit union client. Staff changes are fairly common this close to the farms.
My point is that we need some simple source of code for this type of use. If every WhiskeyWig program dips into advanced graphics our client's viewers will get knocked off. I've never had a complaint that our sites are "old timey" or boring because they don't spin or flash or seek un-natural attention with pop-ups.
Less is more in simpler areas of our world -- and doesn't crash as much!
It's curious there is so little comment about the ion engine. This project isn't/wasn't a joke and did a lot of good science. Possibly the top achievement was work analyzing the makeup of the 'stuff' in our solar system. Lookee here if you want more. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/index.html Doesn't SMART-1 get a few rounds of applause for disintegrating itself at the end of it's useful life rather than becoming yet one beer can on the side of the road?
America is a warrior nation. For those who have read our early history in capturing these lands from the natives you know that atrocity wasn't invented recently in Iraq. We keep making it more efficient, however, and the Friends of Shrub are working hard to make it both legal and 'part of the natural way of war.'
Most scholars on the subject believe sensuality in art is an outlet that provides natural relief for sexual frustration. Most certainly there are some people who are uncontrollable but that would be true in their cases with or without the added incentive of visible sex in any art. I have never read any serious suggestion that violence in any art form similarly might assuage that urge to kill.
The only way I have seen American religion gaining from strong prohibition of sexual thought is to have yet another guilt trip to lay on their dwindling membership -- just before they pass the offering plate.
Show me where it says they have to be fair!
Formerly, citizens met in a sequence, precinct, county, state and national conventions where the needs of the public floated upward into platforms that determined what candidates pledged to do if elected under their party banner.
In 1948 the Southern Democrats stormed out of the national convention because they could not or would not support a tough and effective civil rights plank in the platform.
Many pundits said at the time it was the end of Harry S Truman who surprised them all and won a second term, pro-civil rights and all!
That scared the incumbent politicians who, from that day forward, began disassembling the parties. They introduced "Super Delegates" -- themselves -- to control convention committees. They weakened the requirements to do what platforms said the people needed from precincts up. Or did you think the idea of going to the moon started in Kansas?
As the "big issues of the day" grew away from local needs -- New Orleans and your town, for example -- the public became more gullible to manipulation by weakened media -- press and television -- and outright misrepresention by their leaders.
The parties you see today are totally disfunctional, unable to follow their own rules, typically unable to attract citizens to the old, now tiny, precinct meetings.
What was lost? Easy, the only system this nation ever had to control government!
If you are less than about sixty years old you don't have a chance of remembering that old party purpose, nominations by a true political party instead of a media dominated caucus or primary unattached to party control before platforms are formed.
I know how difficult it is. I'm 70. What is impossible for me is to imagine is what this country can possibly do to corral the wild stampede in Washington and most state capitols.
Don't blame the parties for what you see. The parties are the people, us guys. Blame the politicians who hacked them to death for fear "the people would tell them what to do" as we did from the founding of the country.
Truth be told, most of the IT industry is way too secure to a point that tasks at hand are bungled regularly. I had to change the pointers on a domain registered with Network Solutions yesterday. As the hired technician doing the work, it took two hours to round up the necessary IDs and passwords, etc., plus account numbers and more. Finally got a human being on the phone to help me and she guided me to the right niche on a totally opaque NS website. With her help the DNS was reset in minutes and I settled back to await propagation. Alas, in six hours, my client forwarded an e-mail wherein Network Solutions seemed very proud of itself for changing the DNS away from where it had been set and to their own WORLDNIC web hosting! Gross error! I went to the moved domain which had been available but the Network Solutions "under construction" page popped up. It offered everything from "Cheap Travel" to "Real Estate Loan Rates" to "Personal Ads. My client, a federal credit union, appeared to be hosting sleaze because the organization entrusted with our domain security flipped a wrong switch. To get it fixed, I had to go through security again before the offensive page could be taken down and DNS fixed. That proves you CAN have too much security -- and Network Solutions has it.
Xybot is correct. Also interesting is the Air Force Cray in Kihei, Maui, Hawai`i that maintains the 'largest space ephemeris' in the world including all the space junk known. That includes some astronaut's lost glove, lots of nuts and bolts and -- I was told some years ago -- far more than the 9,000 articles in the story above that are known. If you know where the shuttle -- or any other space toy -- will be at a given moment or its trajectory then you can predict with some accuracy it's chances of hitting known objects. That includes many natural space objects as well as the field of trash left behind by our junkets. Will someone remind me why we spend the billions and billions of dollars on this exercise when we don't have any good schools for American children? Or am I missing something?
Well said, grasshopper. I'm a seventy-year-old Texan living in Hawai`i and my experience in that regard is sufficient. One day you will understand.
Balderdash! Logic has no gender bias. Hard to guess what arhar calls 'logic' but he is making a large error to read everyday events or conversations in life as logic applicable. The rules of logic, particularly as they apply in computer science, may make no sense in arhar's life if he is trying to apply it to his everyday moral decisions. Chances are very good he is mightily illogical in his justifications for moment to moment decisions in a bar, for example. That is, if he goes in bars. Standing over here in the corner, just watching as life goes by, it appears to me that women are closer to 'real life' than men. "If I have money I can buy food" is a good example. It's a rare man who would extend that -- as many women do every day -- to "If I have money I can buy food for my children." That's very different but no less true.
At 70 I look back on a lifetime enjoying women of intelligence and creative nature. Many were physically beautiful but that was never a main attraction. The best thing about intelligent women is their sense of humor, the ability to find subtle meaning in curious everyday anomalies. Reading what Larry Summers said more carefully than most news reporters -- or blog-o-philes! -- it appears he wasn't assigning relative quality, merely speaking of differences which those of us with any maturity salute and champion. Vive la difference
A colleague and I were named to monitor election procedures in Hawai`i. The bottom line is that state and federal laws were broken constantly and, because of the complex of laws at federal, state and local levels, it is virtually impossible to get enforcement. A new commission is in charge of Hawai`i elections but it hasn't even met! People who should know better are thinking that can be changed with the 'magic bullet' of federalizing the election standards or responsibilities. For those of you who love the Patriot Act, that might be exactly what you want for, for the rest of us, let's think again. If there were problems with the election we just had it is mainly because of federal intervention with the Help Americans Vote Act that flooded states with money to buy computer voting systems, most of which have no paper trail for post election audits. What we discovered in five months of research is that the purchasing system -- at leas in Hawai`i -- seems to have been rigged, posted on April 30 and a $3.8 million dollar contract signed, sealed and delivered on June 7. Seem strange to you? And there is no paper trail even nearly adequate to the task. This takes much caution and the technical community could be of great value to the nation by looking closely at it, refusing to be knee-jerk federalists and getting local press interested. For some reason, they aren't. Maybe it's those million dollar political ad budgets!
kurtkilgor's logic is impeccable but he is addressing a world where logic doesn't count for much. In another post it was noted that the "Guantanamo group" set us on this existing space program. True. Well, now we have a different use for Guantanamo, as a burial ground for American honor. And those guys are the ones calling for a new space mission and killing Hubble in the same week. We can be pretty sure they didn't check with the Air Force to see if NASA's services are needed for war. They doubtless knew that the federal budget is the newest "Black Hole" so they had to stop staring at stars and using whatever resources were available to kill, kill, kill.
And your point is . . . If "a couple" were wrong then 17 were right. These days, in 2004, we identify suspect passengers on a British Airways flight 100 percent wrong for three or four straight days. We name a baby, a grandmother, etc., that ring our 'killer' bells and have what should be the supreme embarassment of days of flights called back, denied, and not one suspect arrested in Mexico, France or England. I hope they fingerprinted them as they finally deplaned. The television appearance last night of the superb head of Israeli airline's security detailed how every step of Homeland Security's fiasco over the holidays was wrong and severely counterproductive, exactly what the terrorists want, for us to appear weak, scared and incompetent. Not to mention, willing to wreck airline economics without compensation.
Think back to the 9/11 attack. Can you recall how fast the names and photographs of the hijackers were on the front page of every newspaper? That tells you they had the names -- yes, the names on the flight manifests! -- photographs and doubtless much more but these guys got on the planes! Having that assemblage of data, can anyone explain to me why every airline's reservation service didn't have lookup tables for known terrorists? Okay, the Administration claims, "Who coulda' known?" But lookups are so simple, fast, non-intrusive and operate before the flights take off(!) it seems they should have been and still be in place. Anybody know if they are in use?
. . . but my problem today is the Spybot definition updates seems to be out of order. Two machines had the freeze-ups when trying to download the update. Haven't seen that before. Maybe they were bitten by a virus.
/. is being injured seriously by the growing number of absurd entries such as this. Why are they allowed to continue online? Moderators should have the power to delete this harmful material and they should exercise it.
Certainly it is true that each writer must find his or her own best way to get those words to paper. The search for simplicity should include -- for those of us stuck in the Microosoft swamp -- WordPad. It's Spartan enough for any simplistic needs I can imagine and thoroughly transportable to any other word processor or page layout software.
Communication!
Nothing more.
But, and more significant, nothing less.
It's been my thought for some time that 'theory' may be the wrong word here. "String postulations" seems more accurate. Those working the field seem ready to admit that it is beyond proof. Postulations, however, don't attract as much funding as a good robust theory so we'll stay with that. It's at least as much fun as the traditional astronomer game, "MY telescope is bigger than yours!"
My hope is to be spared the doom that would be ours if we don't appreciate how many "deep mysteries once seen as unsolvable" are floating about as common knowledge.
The questions involved in Big Bang are dealt with in other context in many active projects. So, in that and other senses, some science is in the trenches on Big Bang.
One use where science is most proficient, getting and keeping grants. Most of us need to come up with recommendations or ideas that work. It appears many scientists today seek theories that are unprovable as the quoted story hints: "In principle, strings can unite all the forces of nature, including gravity, in a single mathematical framework. But the "stringiness" of nature manifests itself only at energies and temperatures that can be generated in a particle accelerator the size of a small galaxy. "As a result, physicists have been left at the mercy of their mathematical imaginations or sifting cosmological data for hints of a clue from God's own particle accelerator, the Big Bang." You can find the word "unanalyzable" in some writing as a proven quality in material they simply don't grok YET.