Honestly, I'm not able to answer your questions - but it's worth noting that many, many cultures have "myths" about the world being flooded. These stories seemed to exist before cultures made contact or intersected, etc....
But we do find sea fossils in the most unusual places. And perhaps the water was uhm, diluted enough for freshwater fish to hold out?;) Just a guess.
<sarcasm!> Because, clearly, the illegal act of cracking and distrubting software is equal to murder/rape/child abuse, and deserving of being sent to federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison. </sarcasm!>
I'm not saying that warez is a good thing, but it certainly seems like a skewed priority for the DOJ to crack down on, when really, it's not going to be a very effective crack down at all.
As I understood it, the process of creating the mice was not practical for cloning - it took close to 500 attempts, and only 2 mouse pups survived. (In Vitro fertilization has better chances of working, I think). The purpose of this experiment was "nobody ever thought of doing this before, I wonder if we can do it?" and more practical applications are yet to come out of it.
As a biologist then, consider the research on depression and physical illness: As depression increases, white blood cell counts go down. People with "mild" depression don't have the decrease in white blood cells, but people with "moderate" to "severe" depression do.
Now in this case it's useful to measure how depressed a person is, because a doctor has to treat the whole person. And because emotions are subjective, if I can use a pencil/paper form to get at that information instead of an MRI (especially when the MRI and paper have been compared and are shown to have similar properties), then that's the best way to go.
Now expand that out to other topics - it is useful for psychologists to attempt to develop measures to predict other things.
Hi, I'm Hao Wu and I'm gonna kick your ass because I spend 10 hour a day doing real science
Wow, it looks like someone could benefit from some anger management - of course, research on anger is done by psychologists...;)
Now I could moderate your post into some sort of flamebait oblivion at the moment, but thought it might be more useful to point out that most people seem to disagree with you. I think your major argument that "psychology isn't a real science" is because it uses "artificial scoring schemes and contrive arbitrary tests and scales to fit with measurement they desire most." I think you're right, in that many psychologists do what other scientists do - they look at a theory, and then they try and validate that theory. The problem is that emotions and thoughts are abstract things to measure, constantly changing, and unless you get people who are willing to submit to some invasive and expensive procedures (MRI's, EEG's, etc.), other measures are going to be used. Hopefully, those measures will have some real-world correlations where some useful predictions could be made.
Now I'm curious - do you know of a better way to try and measure emotions, or are you saying that people would be better off not attempting to measure emotions at all?
The only thing you can't do is be a system administrator. And that is a good thing. These connections need to be administered - improperly administrated computers are what make virus and spam possible. 99% of people on broadband are not qualified to administer network security, and it is absolutely rediculus for slashdotters to get angry at them for failing to live up to that expectation.
First, I agree with you, that the majority of people should not be admins, but I guess my question is where/how do you draw the line between someone who is and isn't qualified? Who enforces the standards? Who makes those decisions?
I'm thinking that as more people get involved in making those decisions, the more the previous poster is right, and that we'd move away from being able to contribute in a variety of ways...
Reminds me of the advice of one of my professors - "Live on the East Coast for a while, but be prepared to leave, because for every year you live out there, you get more cynical. Live on the West Coast for a while, but be prepared to leave, because for every year you live out there, you lose an IQ point."
There appear to be 3 different versions of box art - you think that might be for different versions of the DVD? One 4:3, one widescreen, and one unedited version? Or am I still asleep and dreaming?;)
More cynically, it's Lucas trying to make more money off the people. Wow, that first cup of coffee makes all the difference in levels of cyncism.
While I want to make cynical remarks about the Air Force getting funding for space-based weapons and NASA's research stuff (particularly the Hubble and the Space Shuttle) getting the shaft, I also hope that any advances that one makes gets spread around to the other...
"Keith Kupferschmid, VP of the anti-piracy division of the SIIA, said piracy also remains rampant in the software industry, costing U.S. companies about $12 billion a year in lost licensing revenue....."While the seal will not solve the problem, we feel it will aid the software industry in its war against piracy.""
So let me get that last part straight - "We're trying this anyway, and it's not going to work."
I had a similar experience happen to me in Oklahoma in 1998 (so we can't blame the Patriot Act for that), where I was driving with a Maryland driver's liscense, and got pulled over after leaving a party. I was sober, my passenger was not. They were about to let me go, but because my liscense didn't show up in their computer, I was arrested for driving with a false ID. Fortunately, my friends came to bail me out after about an hour.
Of course, the first thing they did was take me to a different party so I could have a few beers, but that's another story.;)
He also did a movie called "No Maps For These Territories" that lends a good deal of insight into his personality. I just watched it, and thought it was pretty cool.
I think a better solution might be to go and purchase a car in Arizona or another state that borders New Mexico. Pull a massive boycott of the automobiles sold in New Mexico, watch the car dealerships' profits plummet, and then the automobile industry (which I imagine has a serious pull with the legislature) will get the law changed.
I'm not sure if others in this portion of the thread have mentioned it, so I'll chime in with my $0.02. I think that the $892 per system cost will easily be offset in the long term, just because the agency's infrastructure will be a little more secure (particularly virus resistant, I'd imagine) , and will be able to go through the upgrade cycle as they feel necessary, not as Microsoft feels is necessary.
You can probably mod this "redundant" as other people have said similar things, but I think (err, I hope;) ) that the council took those thoughts into consideration...
OTOH, there are the cases that many people are sick to death of seeing - Kobe Bryant's case, Scott and Laci Peterson, O.J. Simpson, etc... where they obsess over the details of every pre-trial motion. I would assert that these cases just absorb the time that would be better served with a follow-up on the computer crime cases.
That's mass media for you though - got to focus on what "sells" over what might be more substantive to a smaller demographic.
"Unless you're a close follower of Shuttle press releases, you may wonder what defines a Network Appliance XPC - and indeed the definition does seem somewhat fuzzy. The common feature tends to be the inclusion of one or more "server" features - such as Gigabit LAN, or dual PCI, or dual LAN or RAID support. The current range of Network Appliance XPCs includes the SB52G2 (featuring the Intel 845GV chipset, Gigabit LAN and two PCI slots), the SB62G2 (featuring the Intel 865G chipset, SATA RAID, dual LAN adapters and the subject of today's review) and the SB75G2 (featuring the Intel 875P chipset, SATA RAID and a single Gigabit LAN adapter)."
My best guess is that it has some hardware abilities more in-line with a server than a standard desktop.
So how come the Food and Drug Administration is the organization approving the sale of transgenic fish?
Isn't there a more appropriate group to be handling this? Sure, let the FDA approve them if you plan on eating the fish, but I figured they were for display only.;)
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Honestly, I'm not able to answer your questions - but it's worth noting that many, many cultures have "myths" about the world being flooded. These stories seemed to exist before cultures made contact or intersected, etc....
;) Just a guess.
But we do find sea fossils in the most unusual places. And perhaps the water was uhm, diluted enough for freshwater fish to hold out?
... bekause, klearly Koolio must be running KDE.
/me ducks and runs for cover
I'm not saying that warez is a good thing, but it certainly seems like a skewed priority for the DOJ to crack down on, when really, it's not going to be a very effective crack down at all.
As I understood it, the process of creating the mice was not practical for cloning - it took close to 500 attempts, and only 2 mouse pups survived. (In Vitro fertilization has better chances of working, I think). The purpose of this experiment was "nobody ever thought of doing this before, I wonder if we can do it?" and more practical applications are yet to come out of it.
I guess we need to make the words "Ad-Aware" as ubiquitous as Google.
Hhmmmm... I wonder when something like nmap will start attempting to do port-knocking to scan for open ports?
As a biologist then, consider the research on depression and physical illness: As depression increases, white blood cell counts go down. People with "mild" depression don't have the decrease in white blood cells, but people with "moderate" to "severe" depression do.
Now in this case it's useful to measure how depressed a person is, because a doctor has to treat the whole person. And because emotions are subjective, if I can use a pencil/paper form to get at that information instead of an MRI (especially when the MRI and paper have been compared and are shown to have similar properties), then that's the best way to go.
Now expand that out to other topics - it is useful for psychologists to attempt to develop measures to predict other things.
Wow, it looks like someone could benefit from some anger management - of course, research on anger is done by psychologists...;)
Now I could moderate your post into some sort of flamebait oblivion at the moment, but thought it might be more useful to point out that most people seem to disagree with you. I think your major argument that "psychology isn't a real science" is because it uses "artificial scoring schemes and contrive arbitrary tests and scales to fit with measurement they desire most." I think you're right, in that many psychologists do what other scientists do - they look at a theory, and then they try and validate that theory. The problem is that emotions and thoughts are abstract things to measure, constantly changing, and unless you get people who are willing to submit to some invasive and expensive procedures (MRI's, EEG's, etc.), other measures are going to be used. Hopefully, those measures will have some real-world correlations where some useful predictions could be made.
Now I'm curious - do you know of a better way to try and measure emotions, or are you saying that people would be better off not attempting to measure emotions at all?
Or you could go a slightly different route - use a kite
;)
The pictures on the website are pretty cool.
First, I agree with you, that the majority of people should not be admins, but I guess my question is where/how do you draw the line between someone who is and isn't qualified? Who enforces the standards? Who makes those decisions?
I'm thinking that as more people get involved in making those decisions, the more the previous poster is right, and that we'd move away from being able to contribute in a variety of ways...
Reminds me of the advice of one of my professors - "Live on the East Coast for a while, but be prepared to leave, because for every year you live out there, you get more cynical. Live on the West Coast for a while, but be prepared to leave, because for every year you live out there, you lose an IQ point."
There appear to be 3 different versions of box art - you think that might be for different versions of the DVD? One 4:3, one widescreen, and one unedited version? Or am I still asleep and dreaming? ;)
More cynically, it's Lucas trying to make more money off the people. Wow, that first cup of coffee makes all the difference in levels of cyncism.
That's strange, my GeForce doesn't have any buttons on it...
While I want to make cynical remarks about the Air Force getting funding for space-based weapons and NASA's research stuff (particularly the Hubble and the Space Shuttle) getting the shaft, I also hope that any advances that one makes gets spread around to the other...
"Keith Kupferschmid, VP of the anti-piracy division of the SIIA, said piracy also remains rampant in the software industry, costing U.S. companies about $12 billion a year in lost licensing revenue....."While the seal will not solve the problem, we feel it will aid the software industry in its war against piracy.""
So let me get that last part straight - "We're trying this anyway, and it's not going to work."
So why bother, and/or what strategy might work?
I had a similar experience happen to me in Oklahoma in 1998 (so we can't blame the Patriot Act for that), where I was driving with a Maryland driver's liscense, and got pulled over after leaving a party. I was sober, my passenger was not. They were about to let me go, but because my liscense didn't show up in their computer, I was arrested for driving with a false ID. Fortunately, my friends came to bail me out after about an hour.
;)
Of course, the first thing they did was take me to a different party so I could have a few beers, but that's another story.
He also did a movie called "No Maps For These Territories" that lends a good deal of insight into his personality. I just watched it, and thought it was pretty cool.
I think a better solution might be to go and purchase a car in Arizona or another state that borders New Mexico. Pull a massive boycott of the automobiles sold in New Mexico, watch the car dealerships' profits plummet, and then the automobile industry (which I imagine has a serious pull with the legislature) will get the law changed.
I'm not sure if others in this portion of the thread have mentioned it, so I'll chime in with my $0.02. I think that the $892 per system cost will easily be offset in the long term, just because the agency's infrastructure will be a little more secure (particularly virus resistant, I'd imagine) , and will be able to go through the upgrade cycle as they feel necessary, not as Microsoft feels is necessary.
;) ) that the council took those thoughts into consideration...
You can probably mod this "redundant" as other people have said similar things, but I think (err, I hope
OTOH, there are the cases that many people are sick to death of seeing - Kobe Bryant's case, Scott and Laci Peterson, O.J. Simpson, etc... where they obsess over the details of every pre-trial motion. I would assert that these cases just absorb the time that would be better served with a follow-up on the computer crime cases.
That's mass media for you though - got to focus on what "sells" over what might be more substantive to a smaller demographic.
From the article:
"Unless you're a close follower of Shuttle press releases, you may wonder what defines a Network Appliance XPC - and indeed the definition does seem somewhat fuzzy. The common feature tends to be the inclusion of one or more "server" features - such as Gigabit LAN, or dual PCI, or dual LAN or RAID support. The current range of Network Appliance XPCs includes the SB52G2 (featuring the Intel 845GV chipset, Gigabit LAN and two PCI slots), the SB62G2 (featuring the Intel 865G chipset, SATA RAID, dual LAN adapters and the subject of today's review) and the SB75G2 (featuring the Intel 875P chipset, SATA RAID and a single Gigabit LAN adapter)."
My best guess is that it has some hardware abilities more in-line with a server than a standard desktop.
I think the real lesson that the MPAA and RIAA should take from the Porn Industry is to replicate their highly marketable content...
;)
Oh, yeah. Too late.
Dude. Why don't you just scream out "Sum1 plz h4x0r m3!!!1!" if you want that kind of attention? ;)
Have you tried the Google competition: Booble.com ?
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Isn't there a more appropriate group to be handling this? Sure, let the FDA approve them if you plan on eating the fish, but I figured they were for display only. ;)