Clifford Stoll is the Berkeley astrophysicist who caught a German hacker breaking into multiple government computer systems; "The Cuckoo's Egg" is his book detailing the fascinating tale of how he caught the hacker. Despite his knowledge and usage of computers on a daily basis, he is a strong advocate of keeping computers out of the classroom. I recommend "High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in Schools" to anyone; it's a thin book and actually won't take more than a couple of hours to breeze through. But, it will make you think.
I'm claiming that non-Western cultures that non-Western cultures that do not value torso-shape and breast-size as greatly as we do would be less likely to add them to their depictions.
I just think it's an interesting social commentary that usually when a Western artist attempts to depict an attractive female of a fictious alien species, they will do so by giving them the body shape of an attractive human female, but then add fins, blue skin, forehead ridges, et cetera.
One more thing came to mind, and that if you're at a state run university, then the network is paid for by public money and this type of censorship *might* be illegal.
Take something big like Fedora Core. It is distributed via Bittorrent and is perfectly legal too. Also suggest to the school that they actively encourage Bittorrent use. As a student researcher, I often transfer HUGE files across the Internet; a p2p system could conceivably reduce the bandwidth costs for the school. Good luck!
I have all of my credit cards signed upside-down. I laugh my ass off everytime some clerk takes the card and the receipt, holds them together, and makes that "yup, they match" look on their face, when I know good and well that my signature rightside-up cannot possibily match my signature upside-down.
I'm going to buy one for my g/f. She wants a laptop to simply type papers on, so this is perfect for her. This isn't a computer for "software license violaters", it's a computer for those who want to do simple tasks on their laptop (web/email/chatting/writing), but don't want to pay the M$ tax.
Anyone have any idea what it would take to make it play back Ogg files? It runs Linux, has plenty of processor power and memory, and surely the rom can be flashed.
I really wish that the poster/editor had made an effort to designate that it was a *music* keyboard. I read it thinking it was for my computer, wondering what you would do with a LCD screen and if Microsoft would allow the "Windows key" to be on a board running Linux. =)
Try idotpc.com or another fanless solution. After getting tired of my parent's computers dying or making screaming noises because of cat hair in the fans, I bought them each one. They're great computers and perfect if you can live with a Via chip.
Everyone seems so set against this. What if Lycos distributed software that monitored your inbox and automatically followed any links (after being sanitized first, of course) in spam? Would you consider that a DDoS?
It is unfortunately a common occurrence here that causality is implied in the stories. This story implies that chronic pain causes the brain to shrink, however the article only links lessor amounts of gray matter with greater amounts of pain.
Possible causes? Perhaps the pain does cause the brain to shrink. Perhaps people who are predisposed to pain are also born with smaller brains. Perhaps their brains shrunk due to another cause and the shrinkage is causing the pain. Or perhaps with such a small study (26 people) they happened to choose people who just happened to have smaller amount of gray matter.
I would also like to note that brain functions that make humans able to reason more effectively are located in the gray matter part of the brain, which is the region that was found to be reduced. However, it is also known that the amount of gray matter is not strongly correlated with intelligence. (Actually, it has been found that the amount of folding, that is the number of creases on the brain, affects intelligence much more.) So, there is no reason yet to think that these people are actually suffering any loss of function.
So while interesting, until more research is done, these results should not be over-interpreted.
Before you blame me for the obvious grammatical mistake in the post, I didn't do it! The/. editors strike again! The original post:
In an update to this earlier Slashdot story, after the defeat of HR3752, California representative Dana Rohrabacher reintroduced the legislation as HR5382. This new bill has just passed the crucial role call vote necessary to maintain it during the "lame-duck" session. More information on this bill that will enable the private spaceflight industry to (both literally and figuratively) takeoff is available from this MSNBC article and from Google News.
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It only supports WiMP. I'll stick to cbsnews.com, since their support of RealPlayer allows for Linux viewers.
"And don't bother trying to look at the installation read-me notes either. They are just advertisements for the idiots who designed the software"
"For a home user this list is crucial, because, as I found out later installing other programs is a complete and utter arse."
His speech is vitriolic and his analysis is shallow. I'd be more than happy to never see another one of his pieces on /. again.
Ah, but Suse releases twice a year, so they cost the same!
Clifford Stoll is the Berkeley astrophysicist who caught a German hacker breaking into multiple government computer systems; "The Cuckoo's Egg" is his book detailing the fascinating tale of how he caught the hacker. Despite his knowledge and usage of computers on a daily basis, he is a strong advocate of keeping computers out of the classroom. I recommend "High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in Schools" to anyone; it's a thin book and actually won't take more than a couple of hours to breeze through. But, it will make you think.
I'm claiming that non-Western cultures that non-Western cultures that do not value torso-shape and breast-size as greatly as we do would be less likely to add them to their depictions.
I just think it's an interesting social commentary that usually when a Western artist attempts to depict an attractive female of a fictious alien species, they will do so by giving them the body shape of an attractive human female, but then add fins, blue skin, forehead ridges, et cetera.
Umm... breasts are mammary glands... I.E., belonging to mammals. What are they doing on a fish? Does some Star Wars Whiz care to elaborate?
http://www.luxpro-corp.com/e_sc01.htm
Photons are massless and last I checked 0 (non-zero mass).
One more thing came to mind, and that if you're at a state run university, then the network is paid for by public money and this type of censorship *might* be illegal.
Take something big like Fedora Core. It is distributed via Bittorrent and is perfectly legal too. Also suggest to the school that they actively encourage Bittorrent use. As a student researcher, I often transfer HUGE files across the Internet; a p2p system could conceivably reduce the bandwidth costs for the school. Good luck!
What is a signature? Is it not just a unique, identifying mark? Could not "Please See ID" be just as good of a signature as "John Doe"?
I have all of my credit cards signed upside-down. I laugh my ass off everytime some clerk takes the card and the receipt, holds them together, and makes that "yup, they match" look on their face, when I know good and well that my signature rightside-up cannot possibily match my signature upside-down.
That's Timothy for you. What did you expect? At least it isn't a dupe.
I'm going to buy one for my g/f. She wants a laptop to simply type papers on, so this is perfect for her. This isn't a computer for "software license violaters", it's a computer for those who want to do simple tasks on their laptop (web/email/chatting/writing), but don't want to pay the M$ tax.
Anyone have any idea what it would take to make it play back Ogg files? It runs Linux, has plenty of processor power and memory, and surely the rom can be flashed.
lol... sorry... I saw the 'K' and assumed it had something to do with KDE.
I really wish that the poster/editor had made an effort to designate that it was a *music* keyboard. I read it thinking it was for my computer, wondering what you would do with a LCD screen and if Microsoft would allow the "Windows key" to be on a board running Linux. =)
Try idotpc.com or another fanless solution. After getting tired of my parent's computers dying or making screaming noises because of cat hair in the fans, I bought them each one. They're great computers and perfect if you can live with a Via chip.
Try doing a search for "Search Engine" =)
Everyone seems so set against this. What if Lycos distributed software that monitored your inbox and automatically followed any links (after being sanitized first, of course) in spam? Would you consider that a DDoS?
When I was around 10, my parents got me a copy of "RC Pro-Am" for the NES. Great game, but never knew what the name meant. Interesting..
The Sony agreement also requires the use of an "industry-standard browser". Sorry, IE users, you'll need Firefox to use their service.
Possible causes? Perhaps the pain does cause the brain to shrink. Perhaps people who are predisposed to pain are also born with smaller brains. Perhaps their brains shrunk due to another cause and the shrinkage is causing the pain. Or perhaps with such a small study (26 people) they happened to choose people who just happened to have smaller amount of gray matter.
I would also like to note that brain functions that make humans able to reason more effectively are located in the gray matter part of the brain, which is the region that was found to be reduced. However, it is also known that the amount of gray matter is not strongly correlated with intelligence. (Actually, it has been found that the amount of folding, that is the number of creases on the brain, affects intelligence much more.) So, there is no reason yet to think that these people are actually suffering any loss of function.
So while interesting, until more research is done, these results should not be over-interpreted.
In an update to this earlier Slashdot story, after the defeat of HR3752, California representative Dana Rohrabacher reintroduced the legislation as HR5382. This new bill has just passed the crucial role call vote necessary to maintain it during the "lame-duck" session. More information on this bill that will enable the private spaceflight industry to (both literally and figuratively) takeoff is available from this MSNBC article and from Google News.