People need something to fight over, it's one of the things that makes us human.
One day (probably in the far distant future) the science-types will work out how to assemble (from scratch, no less) one (1) Hew-Man Being(patent-pending, tm, etc most likely) without the mess involved with "an embryo".
What you gonna do now?
You think this is insanely unlikely? (remember folks, people once thought it insanely unlikely the earth was NOT the center of the universe)
Until it's born, it's "an embryo". Of course essentially the same thing occurring as "just a bunch of separate organs" is (by definition) not "an embryo" although (in theory, so far) you could piece the jigsaw-puzzle together in "an assembl-O-mat" and produce a walking-talking fully-functional human.
And maybe we won't do it that way - maybe we'll just use full nano-assembley and build him (or her) one atom at a time.
At what point do you differentiate between "a human" (or "a person") and something that was literally designed and manufactured by "those geeks in Building C" you see in the cafeteria some days?
Do they deserve any rights? Rights the same as "the rest of us" or not? (anyone seen Blade Runner lately?)
Should "they" be any less worthy simply because we fully understand how they came to be, and can control that process?
Does anyone else in this room find it odd and unsettling that the very same people who are so against killing people before they're born are constantly requisitioning more funds from congress in order to kill people after they've been born? (well, very long after. And "those people" aren't "my people" so that makes it fair and just, doesn't it?)
I have no idea why people put up with low bit rate MP3's, ear buds, lousy DACs and amps when it is so easy to do far better. Hey man, quit knockin' my buds - they sound mighty-fine. At least they sound "very nice considering they're headphones, not a large pair of full-range speakers". Oh yeah and those in the know swear that ALL HEADPHONES SUCK unless you have headroom.
Firstly...
libFLAC version 1.2.1 was released in September, 2007, fixing these vulnerabilities for most vulnerable applications. Secondly...
this isn't supposed to happen with FOSS Actually exactly this IS supposed to happen with FOSS.
Where this is.... someone other than the original developer(s) read through the original source code in order to identify vulnerabilities, and then provided information about said vulnerabilities back to the original developer(s) who promptly resolved the aforementioned vulnerabilities, with many thanks"
(sigh) WHY do I need to explain EVERYTHING?..... an "audio wave" is the same moronically stupid term as "radio wave", and I was using the term in an example - if we (collectively, the human race) are capable of understanding that "sound waves" at 1kHz are not fundamentally different to "sound waves" at 5kHz then FOR $RANDOM_DEITYs SAKE WHY do we mystically believe that two waves in the electromagnetic spectrum are *fundamentally* different purely because one is higher frequency than the other.
They're been doing way more than QAM in the last decade, they're doing 64-way amplitude modulation, with frequency spectrums (cable) for ages How the fuck are they using multi-frequency modulation techniques on light rays (fibre) ? Are you aware that "radio waves" and "light rays" are fundamentally the same thing?
<Massive generalization> anything we have worked out how to do "with radio" is something that there is no fundamentally intrinsic reason why we should not (one day) be able to work out how to do "with light"</Massive Generalization> (and don't bother saying things like passing 'radio" through a sheet of cardboard which obviously blocks "light" - I'm talking about *uses* ie modulation/signalling techniques, not "modifying the laws of physics" issues)
Or do you think that a 1kHz audio wave is in some *magic* way fundamentally and intrinsically different from a 5kHz audio wave? or a 25kHz wave?
There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan - one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. In America the RIAA/MPAA/??AA want to sue you for umpteen bazillion dollars because you were HUMMING A TUNE in your mind without a license.
In Japan the roads themselves play music for you.
I know where I'd much rather live.... Even without the 100Mbps ethernet-over-fiber Internet services to your home (for less than I normally spend on coffee each week), "japanese schoolgirls" (ahem), tentacle-porn, etc - the list goes on and on. The Land of Sushi/Sake and Asahi truly is DisneyLand for Geeks.
The existence of an Online Stupid Filter (as opposed to a stupid online filter, which would be an entirely different thing, perhaps) bears an amazingly (coincidence, I think NOT) strong resemblance to the "Proof That God Doesn't Exist" from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. (Oh dear, I wonder if any proponents of Intelligent Design have ever read Hitchhikers?)
If there were such a thing as an Online Stupid Filter, it would have filtered itself out of existence.
Due to many/most of its pages being references to suchlike aforementioned stupidity. A blue-light filter works by absorbing blue-light, a coffee-filter works by absorbing coffee (well, the grounds, at least) - any guess what a Stupid Filter absorbs?
Due to the vast majority of The Internet being not much more than stupidity, and in much the same way as a Black Hole will absorb all light and therefore be essentially invisible (we have never *found* a black hole, just a whole bunch of conditions which theory predicts would be "caused by black holes").
Seriously folks, The Stupidity Filter obviously doesn't work - the proof is in most comments on this page (present company excepted, naturally).
Seriously people, isn't this kind of attitude in the government exactly why the constitution insisted on the Right to Bear Arms?
So when some ass-hat in Dub GubMint makes wisecracks like this which no reasonable person of sound mind and healthy body would just blindly accept, there's scope for the citizens to rise up in defence of their inalienable rights.
Really, what on earth is holding you all back? I mean it, what exactly, specifically, is stopping you?
303Million Concerned Citizens cannot possibly be wrong.
that the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, of the Bill of Rights---indeed, the spirit of America--- Sadly sir, you are mistaken. For many many many years now, it has not even slightly been about "the spirit of <something which we all care passionately about>" (not even when the intention of a written document is so painfully obvious that even a 5 year old can explain what is being said) but rather "exactly specifically which words were used in what order and how can I possibly reinterpret them to mean exactly what I want to say?".
Issues like this go to court, courts are driven by lawyers, lawyers are not ever not even slightly interested in the truth, or what is right (morally/ethically or otherwise). They are only interested in proving whatever their client is paying them to prove.
Having the ability to store basically everything in an easily transportable format is great and all, but it only opens up two other major problems.
how to back it all up
how to secure it
Most people (end-users) wouldn't recognize a good backup if it jumped up and bit them on the proverbial, and even less would have "good security" (hard encryption, long password that change frequently, etc).
Remember that there's recently been *much* talk about actual landings on planetary bodies other than the moon (mars, anyone) where variable factors mentioned above will still be a consideration, but "simply" (for want of a better term) different values for the same problem.
For those who're reading slashdot while still mostly asleep/inebriated/high.... If you can do this on earth (and accomodate the inherently *non-trivial* issues from relatively large gravity and atmosphere) then tweaking the solution to work for select random() from "moon,mars,??" is a significantly less complex problem.
If you don't know how to build a car, building a world-land-speed-record-breaking car is *very difficult*, if you regularly design and build performance cars for a living, it is a significantly less complex problem.
How many years did it take men to build a working powered flying machine? How many years *after* that before they tweaked the design for
Passenger flights
supersonic flights
heavy lifting caro capacity
remote-controlled flight
etc
Seems Nasa has realized that being an overbloated government controlled bureaucracy is not necessarily conducive to rocket-science/heavy-engineering/economically-optimal-solutions (ie stuff they are supposed to be achieving).
Perhaps now NASA will focus more on hard-science and rely on commercial enterprise to handle issues like basic-engineering and economical solutions.
Government science projects should not be expected/required to be economically viable/turn a profit - their research is for the generic betterment of mankind and should be available to all. Commercial interests should not be relied upon (certainly not exclusively) to carry out the brunt of core scientific research - much scientific research is *exceedingly* expensive with no obvious expectation of Return On Investment (the space program has "struck it lucky" with many useful and commercial inventions as a result, but nobody said "lets put a man on the moon because we need to invent microwave ovens").
If only we could convince *all* world governments to use 90% of their military budget for scientific research. Wars could be prosecuted with personal combat (trial by arms) and we'd have cured cancer/aids/parkinsons/the-common-cold years ago.
"Nuclear Free Zone" Luckily for us all they are not capable of enforcing such a ridiculous declaration.
If they ever were able to do so, their first act would be to abolish the Nuclear Force which , ironically, would result in the most spectacular explosion this world has ever seen (and apparently that was specifically what they were trying to discourage).
General scientific consensus is that viruses (virii) are not, technically speaking, alive.
Hence why anti-biotics (which are literally anti-life) do pretty much ZERO for that nasty sexually transmitted virus you are still carrying around with you.
From the perspective of "searching" we're pretty darn close to "Google is The Internet".
Now that Telecommunications Carriers no longer have to allow anyone else (ie competitors) access to Telco Owned infrastructure.....
Perhaps all those billions and billions of miles of dark fibre infrastructure that Google has been buying for the past several years will be Put To Good Use.
But what will they call it?
gNet?
gWeb?
gTubes?
gSpace?
gWorld?
DataSphere?
gSingularity?
Personally my vote is for calling it the Google Omniprescent Datasphere, which would only be all-too-appropriate. Because to us/.ers it would be GOD.
All I want to say is hopefully their science is better than their english and/or translators.
At the CCD device, pixel defects (white blemishes) generate by space lay, so, it is expected the cyclic observation makes clear the effect of the space lay around the moon orbit.
It is difficult to protect the CCD from the space lay. So we have been developed the grand system be able to compensate the white blemishes of max 20 thousands from the pick-up image.
Seriously folks, now all they need is a study to predict which comes first - the "regularization" of irregular verbs (you'd think they'd just eat-all bran) versus their seriously overdue death.
smite
shrive
Aside from their archive of "least used verbs throughout history" where else do you find these words?
Slashdot Mirror
People need something to fight over, it's one of the things that makes us human.
One day (probably in the far distant future) the science-types will work out how to assemble (from scratch, no less) one (1) Hew-Man Being(patent-pending, tm, etc most likely) without the mess involved with "an embryo".
What you gonna do now?
You think this is insanely unlikely? (remember folks, people once thought it insanely unlikely the earth was NOT the center of the universe)
Until it's born, it's "an embryo". Of course essentially the same thing occurring as "just a bunch of separate organs" is (by definition) not "an embryo" although (in theory, so far) you could piece the jigsaw-puzzle together in "an assembl-O-mat" and produce a walking-talking fully-functional human.
And maybe we won't do it that way - maybe we'll just use full nano-assembley and build him (or her) one atom at a time.
At what point do you differentiate between "a human" (or "a person") and something that was literally designed and manufactured by "those geeks in Building C" you see in the cafeteria some days?
Do they deserve any rights? Rights the same as "the rest of us" or not? (anyone seen Blade Runner lately?)
Should "they" be any less worthy simply because we fully understand how they came to be, and can control that process?
Does anyone else in this room find it odd and unsettling that the very same people who are so against killing people before they're born are constantly requisitioning more funds from congress in order to kill people after they've been born? (well, very long after. And "those people" aren't "my people" so that makes it fair and just, doesn't it?)
Someone please MOD this comment -1 redundant
Secondly... this isn't supposed to happen with FOSS Actually exactly this IS supposed to happen with FOSS.
Where this is
(sigh) WHY do I need to explain EVERYTHING? ..... an "audio wave" is the same moronically stupid term as "radio wave", and I was using the term in an example - if we (collectively, the human race) are capable of understanding that "sound waves" at 1kHz are not fundamentally different to "sound waves" at 5kHz then FOR $RANDOM_DEITYs SAKE WHY do we mystically believe that two waves in the electromagnetic spectrum are *fundamentally* different purely because one is higher frequency than the other.
Are you aware that "radio waves" and "light rays" are fundamentally the same thing?
<Massive generalization> anything we have worked out how to do "with radio" is something that there is no fundamentally intrinsic reason why we should not (one day) be able to work out how to do "with light"</Massive Generalization> (and don't bother saying things like passing 'radio" through a sheet of cardboard which obviously blocks "light" - I'm talking about *uses* ie modulation/signalling techniques, not "modifying the laws of physics" issues)
Or do you think that a 1kHz audio wave is in some *magic* way fundamentally and intrinsically different from a 5kHz audio wave? or a 25kHz wave?
In America the RIAA/MPAA/??AA want to sue you for umpteen bazillion dollars because you were HUMMING A TUNE in your mind without a license.
In Japan the roads themselves play music for you.
I know where I'd much rather live.... Even without the 100Mbps ethernet-over-fiber Internet services to your home (for less than I normally spend on coffee each week), "japanese schoolgirls" (ahem), tentacle-porn, etc - the list goes on and on. The Land of Sushi/Sake and Asahi truly is DisneyLand for Geeks.
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. (Oh dear, I wonder if any proponents of Intelligent Design have ever read Hitchhikers?)
If there were such a thing as an Online Stupid Filter, it would have filtered itself out of existence.
Due to many/most of its pages being references to suchlike aforementioned stupidity. A blue-light filter works by absorbing blue-light, a coffee-filter works by absorbing coffee (well, the grounds, at least) - any guess what a Stupid Filter absorbs?
Due to the vast majority of The Internet being not much more than stupidity, and in much the same way as a Black Hole will absorb all light and therefore be essentially invisible (we have never *found* a black hole, just a whole bunch of conditions which theory predicts would be "caused by black holes").
Seriously folks, The Stupidity Filter obviously doesn't work - the proof is in most comments on this page (present company excepted, naturally).
Seriously people, isn't this kind of attitude in the government exactly why the constitution insisted on the Right to Bear Arms?
So when some ass-hat in Dub GubMint makes wisecracks like this which no reasonable person of sound mind and healthy body would just blindly accept, there's scope for the citizens to rise up in defence of their inalienable rights.
Really, what on earth is holding you all back?
I mean it, what exactly, specifically, is stopping you?
303Million Concerned Citizens cannot possibly be wrong.
Issues like this go to court, courts are driven by lawyers, lawyers are not ever not even slightly interested in the truth, or what is right (morally/ethically or otherwise). They are only interested in proving whatever their client is paying them to prove.
Wash your mouth out!
Since when is slashdot not porn (for geeks)?
And with one single (thoughtless) comment you fail the test.
I hereby formally revoke your Geek Membership Card.
And to answer your question: Neal Stephenson -> Snowcrash -> Gargoyles
- how to back it all up
- how to secure it
Most people (end-users) wouldn't recognize a good backup if it jumped up and bit them on the proverbial, and even less would have "good security" (hard encryption, long password that change frequently, etc).- difference in gravity between moon and earth
- atmosphere here, none there
- etc
Remember that there's recently been *much* talk about actual landings on planetary bodies other than the moon (mars, anyone) where variable factors mentioned above will still be a consideration, but "simply" (for want of a better term) different values for the same problem.For those who're reading slashdot while still mostly asleep/inebriated/high
If you don't know how to build a car, building a world-land-speed-record-breaking car is *very difficult*, if you regularly design and build performance cars for a living, it is a significantly less complex problem.
How many years did it take men to build a working powered flying machine? How many years *after* that before they tweaked the design for
- Passenger flights
- supersonic flights
- heavy lifting caro capacity
- remote-controlled flight
- etc
Seems Nasa has realized that being an overbloated government controlled bureaucracy is not necessarily conducive to rocket-science/heavy-engineering/economically-optimal-solutions (ie stuff they are supposed to be achieving).Perhaps now NASA will focus more on hard-science and rely on commercial enterprise to handle issues like basic-engineering and economical solutions.
Government science projects should not be expected/required to be economically viable/turn a profit - their research is for the generic betterment of mankind and should be available to all. Commercial interests should not be relied upon (certainly not exclusively) to carry out the brunt of core scientific research - much scientific research is *exceedingly* expensive with no obvious expectation of Return On Investment (the space program has "struck it lucky" with many useful and commercial inventions as a result, but nobody said "lets put a man on the moon because we need to invent microwave ovens").
If only we could convince *all* world governments to use 90% of their military budget for scientific research. Wars could be prosecuted with personal combat (trial by arms) and we'd have cured cancer/aids/parkinsons/the-common-cold years ago.
Luckily for us all they are not capable of enforcing such a ridiculous declaration.
If they ever were able to do so, their first act would be to abolish the Nuclear Force which , ironically, would result in the most spectacular explosion this world has ever seen (and apparently that was specifically what they were trying to discourage).
I'm afraid you are misinformed.
General scientific consensus is that viruses (virii) are not, technically speaking, alive.
Hence why anti-biotics (which are literally anti-life) do pretty much ZERO for that nasty sexually transmitted virus you are still carrying around with you.
Now that Telecommunications Carriers no longer have to allow anyone else (ie competitors) access to Telco Owned infrastructure.....
Perhaps all those billions and billions of miles of dark fibre infrastructure that Google has been buying for the past several years will be Put To Good Use.
But what will they call it?
- gNet?
- gWeb?
- gTubes?
- gSpace?
- gWorld?
- DataSphere?
- gSingularity?
Personally my vote is for calling it the Google Omniprescent Datasphere, which would only be all-too-appropriate.Because to us
er, statistically speaking, of course.
Grocken Zie Greek?
Seriously folks, now all they need is a study to predict which comes first - the "regularization" of irregular verbs (you'd think they'd just eat-all bran) versus their seriously overdue death.
- smite
- shrive
Aside from their archive of "least used verbs throughout history" where else do you find these words?So you're saying that Stanislaw Lem "invented" internet domain squatting?
CH3@P R3F!LLS for your TR@NSD3RM@L P@TCH3S
Yet when you buy the product