Sig question, I've used your.sig as my primary porn locating service for several months, but recently the site went down, is it coming back up? I've had to switch to Ultradonkey.com for my nekkid picture needs.
Buddy, if your kid is screaming at the top of his lungs in the grocery store while I'm trying to pick up my groceries I'll call him a lot worse than that, and then I'll denounce you for not raising your kid to be a decent human being. I'm not a troll, I'm just not kidcentric. I realize you weren't endorsing the device. But if you don't trust your kids teachers, etc... that's not something that can be solved by this device, or any other locator system. Knowing your kids location does not stop bad things from happening to your kid. And heck, what are you going to do? Watch the monitor 24/7 to make sure your kid isn't going somewhere he isn't supposed to be? What if some stranger offers the kid 20$ to get in his car, it's not an emergency to the kid. He hops in, is overcome physically, tied up, still no alarm, abused, killed, and burried in a shallow grave. At which point I doubt you are getting any signal from the bracelet since most of this would be done indoors or some similar shielded area, or well out of range of the PCS network this thing relies on. So you've got a totally ineffective device that MIGHT let you locate your kids body. Woohoo.... And a lot of peopls kids ARE little vermin, for sure. If yours aren't great. You're doing your job. Breeding should not be a right! You should have to go through the same process to have a biokid as you do to adopt.
This device is designed to do the following: Sound an alarm when a child is in an emergency. The following situations would in no way be alleviated by this device:
Child is grabbed off of street by random person, random person cuts off bracelet thing with bolt cutters and tosses it out the window. Now, you have the last known position of the kid, which you would have anyways unless the kid is wandering around on deserted streets alone, which he shouldn't be, Stupid Kid.
Child is raped/molested by random stranger. Bracelet sounds alert for the entire 15 minutes it takes for kid to be traumatized for life. Not the kids fault, but the bracelet didn't help.
Kid gets hit by a car, falls out a window, lights himself on fire. Bracelet doesn't help at all.
Sooo... What is this bracelet designed to do exactly? Let paranoid parents track their kid... Umm, apparently they don't trust their kid, because this thing certainly doesn't stop anything from happening TO the kid.
1. Do not send your children places with people you do not trust.
2. When you go places, leave your young children at home with someone you DO trust.
These two simple rules will knock out a lot of this problem, as well as letting me grocery shop or watch a movie without your little vermin screaming and banging into things.
Same here! I wasn't lost, my parents were. They were the ones who didn't know where they were going. I was headed straight for Gi. Joe and the latest Hardy Boys book (circa 8 years old...). And if some guy had grabbed me, I'd have had the common sense to scream my lungs out, bite the guy, etc.. etc... which may not have helped a whole lot to stop him but certainly would have had everyone looking at me. Nowadays of course a child screaming at the top of their lungs in the store is no big deal, everyone just tries to ignore it...
I can garauntee I have a 6 year old cousin who can get this thing off without tripping the alarm UNLESS the alarm goes off whenever it's no longer in skin contact. Heck, I can slip police issue handcuffs without half trying... The alarm going off is a minor issue in the grand scheme of things. Removing the watch means you get the kids last known position, which was probably known by someone anyways... So I really doubt this is going to help anyone that much.
Watching your children 24/7 is not neccessary if you raise the correctly for the first 5-6 years. Make sure they aren't fscking stupid enough to take rides from strangers etc... And not stupid enough to play chicken with trains, or lay in the street and wait for someone to run them over. Make sure your kid isn't stupid and you don't really need one of these.
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Umm, how is it a bad thing to just use the CC list? I still don't see why BCC is necessary.
Is why Poker is better than Blackjack. In a town fille with college students you can stroll into a random frat party, sit in on or start up a poker game, and walk out 2 hours later with 500$. Blackjack is for suckers.
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Is there ANY conceivable legitimate reason for this?! I can't think of any legitimate reason to be doing that... Now I need to see if I can just block all BCC stuff at the mail server...
Speaking of educated Sysadmins, I've run into one problem from spammers that I can't seem to stop, we receive mail that goes to people in our company, but doesn't have their e-mail addie in the headers anywhere, and I'm just not sure how the HECK it's getting to us... Anyone wanna enlighten me?
I don't see how I can be any more clear, but an airtight container, with an air compresser pump hooked to one end pulling air out, with no way for more air to get in, makes a box, with no air in it. Don't tell me you're stupid enough to argue that?
We could always combine this technology with some POPULATION PLANNING.... Hell, fuck the technology, let's just go for the Population Planning! Stop all these fertility drug freaks from popping out 6 retarded premature children, stop 3rd worlders from having 27 children over a 45 year lifespan, while at the same time trying to improve quality of education and life for the people who are ALIVE already... Then we can achieve a stable population, give us all 350+ year lifespans, and start looking at the long term. Plan for colonization of other worlds, etc...
I definately agree that once you get past the preliminary screenings at a place like Harvard the deciding factor between two candidates with exceptional attributes may very well come down to who they are related to.>:)
I phrased that badly, I meant perfect in the sense of 'A perfect cake', not in the scientific sense. I should have been more clear. But with the aircompressor running and sucking everything out of the tank, you certainly don't have any air in it....
Aquariam + glass cutter + rubber gloves + aircompressor + plumbers goop + a couple of good rubber gaskets = Excellent clean room for small things. You get a perfect vacuum, nice and airtight.The hardest part is making the lid, I recommend getting a glass panel the same size as the aquarium top (of course) and to use the plumbers goop and some rubberized piping to make a nice airtight lid for it. Works really well for a lot of experiments, when my HS chem/physics teacher couldn't get the school to buy him a vacuum chamber for something he wanted to do, he brought all this stuff in and our class for 2 weeks was him teaching us how to build one.
Federally mandated, or community mandated blocking software would be of the form 'Package X must be installed on all machines in place Y.' I don't think anyone ever goes to the admin and says 'We'd like to set up a reasaonble way to filter offensive websites, could you set something up?' It's more like, 'We've been told some kids are seeing porn on the computers and parents are complaining, go install this on all of the computers.' and since that person is the one in charge of whether you keep working or not, you do it.
Uhh no, they weren't good points. Pretentiousness has nothing to do with removing the 'my' from the phrase "Grandfather was a whatever... " it's a regional issue, a colloquilism. About half the people I met in baltimore dropped possessive pronouns in front of parents and grandparents references, ex: "Mom was a florist" instead of "My mom was a florist". Also, your personal connections don't have a whole hell of a lot of weight at HLS, the screening process is such that if you don't have at least exceptional qualifications you won't make it to a point where anyone important even sees your application.
Agreed. But also, routinely challenging every single rule change with no adequate basis (such as in this case) is a good way to stop a nation ever developing...
I disagree, I think EVERY law should be challenged to validate its existance. If a majority of the population can not validate the existence of the law, them remove it. This is one of those cases where it's silly to make a law about it, because stealing the phone is already illegal. If I didn't steal the phone, why can't I modify it? If I DID steal the phone, the legality of altering it isn't going to bother me, I already stole the phone.
www.no-ip.com is a pretty good start for your static ip problem. And slapping a DSL router (Linksys makes a good cheap one with a built in switch) onto your network is a pretty damn simple way to connect multiple machines to your network.
If you load the system with the accepted opens you will be handicapping it against extremely poor and extremely good players. The openings you listed are the ones which are accepted as the most reasonable opening moves because they give the best control of the immediate surrounding territory. But play can change when someone voluntarily opens by sacrificing a corner to build life elsewhere 160 moves into the game. Unless your AI can connect the importance of a move made NOW with that moves importance 150+ moves down dozens of different possible paths then it will be defeated by master level players.
I didn't say GnuGo as the best, only the most popular. I think your analysis of the game is faulty if you don't believe that the complexity of the game increases by several orders of magnitude with the increase to 21x21.
With a 19x19 board you have 361 places you can make your first move, of which approximately 20 are acknowledged as the standard 'best' moves, the second move has 360 possible moves, and depending on your strategy and your strength there are around 100 moves that could be considered good playable moves. The ability to see more than 4 or 5 moves deep becomes pretty difficult for a computer, on my 850 mhz Athlon GnuGo seems to see around 11 moves in, I see around 8 moves in. GnuGo can beat me almost every time. A good friend of mine can trash GnuGo every time, easily, and I can beat my friend about half the time. Professional players see around 200 moves deep into a game, planning on a wide scale.
Increasing the board to 21x21 gives us 441 moves for the first one, and increases the number of accepted Good opening moves to approximately 60, abd with 440 possible moves on the second move, around 200 of them are considered good playable moves. AS the game develops, you'll see that the addition of those 2 rows to the game will lead to an incredibly complex new set of possible board positions. I don't doubt that a 1st or 2nd dan Go Program will come about in our lifetime, but I doubt we'll see one in the reasonable future that can beat a 9dan player. And I don't think conventional computers will ever be able to effectively play on a 21x21 board against a 9dan player.
WOohoo! This is the reason I started playing Go as well. A friend of mine from Korea showed it to me and I got addicted. I now eagerly await each new fansub. The latest Manga is absolutely suspensful though, driving me crazy waiting for 109!! >:) The HNG fans from Toriyama's world also have a weekly Go night on Yahoo, but I can't remember which room or what the times are.
The most powerful computer in the world won't be able to run a system like this in a reasonable time frame. And if at some point a computer DOES become as good/better than the masters at 19x19 go, we'll just switch to 21x21 and then you'll need another few orders of magnitude more powerful computers to win. Seriously though, there are already Go AIs that can beat mediocre amatuer players with no handicap, the most popular one is probably GnuGo which I would rate around 4 or 5 kyu. But the processing power required to beat a pro player is massive enough that it will still be several years before it is available. Then, someone with an understanding of the game that rivals a pro will have to program it, because the 'Best' move isn't always the same in the short run and the long run, and when Pro players are reading 200+ moves ahead into the game, you REALLY have to be able to analyze well to stand a chance. I don't think it's impossible for a computer to beat pro players, but I think it will take 5-10 more years before any computer is powerful enough to do it, and probably 5-10 more years after that before anyone develops an AI that has a complete enough grasp of the game to do so.
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Sig question, .sig as my primary porn locating service for several months, but recently the site went down, is it coming back up? I've had to switch to Ultradonkey.com for my nekkid picture needs.
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Buddy, if your kid is screaming at the top of his lungs in the grocery store while I'm trying to pick up my groceries I'll call him a lot worse than that, and then I'll denounce you for not raising your kid to be a decent human being.
I'm not a troll, I'm just not kidcentric. I realize you weren't endorsing the device. But if you don't trust your kids teachers, etc... that's not something that can be solved by this device, or any other locator system. Knowing your kids location does not stop bad things from happening to your kid. And heck, what are you going to do? Watch the monitor 24/7 to make sure your kid isn't going somewhere he isn't supposed to be? What if some stranger offers the kid 20$ to get in his car, it's not an emergency to the kid. He hops in, is overcome physically, tied up, still no alarm, abused, killed, and burried in a shallow grave. At which point I doubt you are getting any signal from the bracelet since most of this would be done indoors or some similar shielded area, or well out of range of the PCS network this thing relies on. So you've got a totally ineffective device that MIGHT let you locate your kids body. Woohoo....
And a lot of peopls kids ARE little vermin, for sure. If yours aren't great. You're doing your job.
Breeding should not be a right! You should have to go through the same process to have a biokid as you do to adopt.
Kintanon
This device is designed to do the following: Sound an alarm when a child is in an emergency.
The following situations would in no way be alleviated by this device:
Child is grabbed off of street by random person, random person cuts off bracelet thing with bolt cutters and tosses it out the window. Now, you have the last known position of the kid, which you would have anyways unless the kid is wandering around on deserted streets alone, which he shouldn't be, Stupid Kid.
Child is raped/molested by random stranger. Bracelet sounds alert for the entire 15 minutes it takes for kid to be traumatized for life. Not the kids fault, but the bracelet didn't help.
Kid gets hit by a car, falls out a window, lights himself on fire. Bracelet doesn't help at all.
Sooo... What is this bracelet designed to do exactly? Let paranoid parents track their kid... Umm, apparently they don't trust their kid, because this thing certainly doesn't stop anything from happening TO the kid.
Kintanon
1. Do not send your children places with people you do not trust.
2. When you go places, leave your young children at home with someone you DO trust.
These two simple rules will knock out a lot of this problem, as well as letting me grocery shop or watch a movie without your little vermin screaming and banging into things.
Kintanon
Same here! I wasn't lost, my parents were. They were the ones who didn't know where they were going. I was headed straight for Gi. Joe and the latest Hardy Boys book (circa 8 years old...).
And if some guy had grabbed me, I'd have had the common sense to scream my lungs out, bite the guy, etc.. etc... which may not have helped a whole lot to stop him but certainly would have had everyone looking at me.
Nowadays of course a child screaming at the top of their lungs in the store is no big deal, everyone just tries to ignore it...
Kintanon
I can garauntee I have a 6 year old cousin who can get this thing off without tripping the alarm UNLESS the alarm goes off whenever it's no longer in skin contact. Heck, I can slip police issue handcuffs without half trying...
The alarm going off is a minor issue in the grand scheme of things. Removing the watch means you get the kids last known position, which was probably known by someone anyways... So I really doubt this is going to help anyone that much.
Kintanon
Watching your children 24/7 is not neccessary if you raise the correctly for the first 5-6 years. Make sure they aren't fscking stupid enough to take rides from strangers etc... And not stupid enough to play chicken with trains, or lay in the street and wait for someone to run them over. Make sure your kid isn't stupid and you don't really need one of these.
Kintanon
Umm, how is it a bad thing to just use the CC list? I still don't see why BCC is necessary.
Kintanon
Is why Poker is better than Blackjack.
In a town fille with college students you can stroll into a random frat party, sit in on or start up a poker game, and walk out 2 hours later with 500$. Blackjack is for suckers.
Kintanon
Is there ANY conceivable legitimate reason for this?!
I can't think of any legitimate reason to be doing that... Now I need to see if I can just block all BCC stuff at the mail server...
Kintanon
Speaking of educated Sysadmins, I've run into one problem from spammers that I can't seem to stop, we receive mail that goes to people in our company, but doesn't have their e-mail addie in the headers anywhere, and I'm just not sure how the HECK it's getting to us... Anyone wanna enlighten me?
Kintanon
I don't see how I can be any more clear, but an airtight container, with an air compresser pump hooked to one end pulling air out, with no way for more air to get in, makes a box, with no air in it. Don't tell me you're stupid enough to argue that?
Kintanon
We could always combine this technology with some POPULATION PLANNING.... Hell, fuck the technology, let's just go for the Population Planning! Stop all these fertility drug freaks from popping out 6 retarded premature children, stop 3rd worlders from having 27 children over a 45 year lifespan, while at the same time trying to improve quality of education and life for the people who are ALIVE already... Then we can achieve a stable population, give us all 350+ year lifespans, and start looking at the long term. Plan for colonization of other worlds, etc...
Kintanon
I definately agree that once you get past the preliminary screenings at a place like Harvard the deciding factor between two candidates with exceptional attributes may very well come down to who they are related to.>:)
Kintanon
I phrased that badly, I meant perfect in the sense of 'A perfect cake', not in the scientific sense. I should have been more clear. But with the aircompressor running and sucking everything out of the tank, you certainly don't have any air in it....
Kintanon
Aquariam + glass cutter + rubber gloves + aircompressor + plumbers goop + a couple of good rubber gaskets = Excellent clean room for small things. You get a perfect vacuum, nice and airtight.The hardest part is making the lid, I recommend getting a glass panel the same size as the aquarium top (of course) and to use the plumbers goop and some rubberized piping to make a nice airtight lid for it. Works really well for a lot of experiments, when my HS chem/physics teacher couldn't get the school to buy him a vacuum chamber for something he wanted to do, he brought all this stuff in and our class for 2 weeks was him teaching us how to build one.
Kintanon
Federally mandated, or community mandated blocking software would be of the form 'Package X must be installed on all machines in place Y.' I don't think anyone ever goes to the admin and says 'We'd like to set up a reasaonble way to filter offensive websites, could you set something up?' It's more like, 'We've been told some kids are seeing porn on the computers and parents are complaining, go install this on all of the computers.' and since that person is the one in charge of whether you keep working or not, you do it.
Sucks, but it happens.
Kintanon
Uhh no, they weren't good points. Pretentiousness has nothing to do with removing the 'my' from the phrase "Grandfather was a whatever... " it's a regional issue, a colloquilism. About half the people I met in baltimore dropped possessive pronouns in front of parents and grandparents references, ex: "Mom was a florist" instead of "My mom was a florist". Also, your personal connections don't have a whole hell of a lot of weight at HLS, the screening process is such that if you don't have at least exceptional qualifications you won't make it to a point where anyone important even sees your application.
Kintanon
Agreed. But also, routinely challenging every single rule change with no adequate basis (such as in this case) is a good way to stop a nation ever developing...
I disagree, I think EVERY law should be challenged to validate its existance. If a majority of the population can not validate the existence of the law, them remove it.
This is one of those cases where it's silly to make a law about it, because stealing the phone is already illegal. If I didn't steal the phone, why can't I modify it? If I DID steal the phone, the legality of altering it isn't going to bother me, I already stole the phone.
Kintanon
www.no-ip.com is a pretty good start for your static ip problem. And slapping a DSL router (Linksys makes a good cheap one with a built in switch) onto your network is a pretty damn simple way to connect multiple machines to your network.
Kintanon
If you load the system with the accepted opens you will be handicapping it against extremely poor and extremely good players. The openings you listed are the ones which are accepted as the most reasonable opening moves because they give the best control of the immediate surrounding territory. But play can change when someone voluntarily opens by sacrificing a corner to build life elsewhere 160 moves into the game. Unless your AI can connect the importance of a move made NOW with that moves importance 150+ moves down dozens of different possible paths then it will be defeated by master level players.
Kintanon
It might have been intentional, I started referring to Canada as Canadia just to mess with some of my Canadian friends...
Kintanon
I didn't say GnuGo as the best, only the most popular. I think your analysis of the game is faulty if you don't believe that the complexity of the game increases by several orders of magnitude with the increase to 21x21.
With a 19x19 board you have 361 places you can make your first move, of which approximately 20 are acknowledged as the standard 'best' moves, the second move has 360 possible moves, and depending on your strategy and your strength there are around 100 moves that could be considered good playable moves. The ability to see more than 4 or 5 moves deep becomes pretty difficult for a computer, on my 850 mhz Athlon GnuGo seems to see around 11 moves in, I see around 8 moves in. GnuGo can beat me almost every time. A good friend of mine can trash GnuGo every time, easily, and I can beat my friend about half the time. Professional players see around 200 moves deep into a game, planning on a wide scale.
Increasing the board to 21x21 gives us 441 moves for the first one, and increases the number of accepted Good opening moves to approximately 60, abd with 440 possible moves on the second move, around 200 of them are considered good playable moves. AS the game develops, you'll see that the addition of those 2 rows to the game will lead to an incredibly complex new set of possible board positions. I don't doubt that a 1st or 2nd dan Go Program will come about in our lifetime, but I doubt we'll see one in the reasonable future that can beat a 9dan player. And I don't think conventional computers will ever be able to effectively play on a 21x21 board against a 9dan player.
Kintanon
WOohoo! This is the reason I started playing Go as well. A friend of mine from Korea showed it to me and I got addicted. I now eagerly await each new fansub. The latest Manga is absolutely suspensful though, driving me crazy waiting for 109!! >:)
The HNG fans from Toriyama's world also have a weekly Go night on Yahoo, but I can't remember which room or what the times are.
Kintanon
The most powerful computer in the world won't be able to run a system like this in a reasonable time frame. And if at some point a computer DOES become as good/better than the masters at 19x19 go, we'll just switch to 21x21 and then you'll need another few orders of magnitude more powerful computers to win. Seriously though, there are already Go AIs that can beat mediocre amatuer players with no handicap, the most popular one is probably GnuGo which I would rate around 4 or 5 kyu. But the processing power required to beat a pro player is massive enough that it will still be several years before it is available. Then, someone with an understanding of the game that rivals a pro will have to program it, because the 'Best' move isn't always the same in the short run and the long run, and when Pro players are reading 200+ moves ahead into the game, you REALLY have to be able to analyze well to stand a chance.
I don't think it's impossible for a computer to beat pro players, but I think it will take 5-10 more years before any computer is powerful enough to do it, and probably 5-10 more years after that before anyone develops an AI that has a complete enough grasp of the game to do so.
Kintanon