> In most cases a hacker is nothing more than a thief and criminal, the article is correct, they should not be glorified.
Originally, grasshopper, hacker meant someone who was curious about a system and/or learning -- non-destructive probing, or one produces elegant code.
1. A person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically, or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value (q.v.). 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. Not everything a hacker produces is a hack. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; example: "A SAIL hacker". (Definitions 1 to 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover information by poking around. Hence "password hacker", "network hacker".
Ok, you love your wife, now how much? A lot? A little? Prove it.
The first point is -- it doesn't matter to anyone else, you already _know_ it.
The second point is there are at least 3 different types of knowledge:
* intellectual -- e.g. math, science * experiential -- as a man you will *never* know what it is like to give birth * intuitive or subconsciousness (which is mislabeled super-consciousness)
Dismissing intuitive knowledge simply because ones are to fail to understand the concept of a Higher Mind is one of the fallacy of Science & Scientists.
Knowledge is Infinite, therefore Science will NEVER be "settled."
Science is a process (journey) to reach a goal (destination).
Science is about removingFalsehood. Gnosis is about addingTruth.
Same goal, different paths. The best way to is to combine complementary paths but the Western world is too stuck on an incomplete Materialistic perspective to understand the Strengths and Weaknesses of BOTH systems.
There are many questions outside the domain of Science. But just because Science and Scientists will NEVER be able to answer them doesn't mean that we don't have other ways to find out the answer.
Everything we know about Gravitation, Evolution, the Big Bang will be turned upside down in ~ 10 years.
Sorry to disappoint, but no. He used to post on/. but I haven't seen him in years. Why, do you miss him?;-)
The point though is that never hurts to keep an open mind. At one time you would be thought crazy if:
* one suggested light is solely matter (shown incomplete with Double Slit Experiment) * one suggested the universe is non-deterministic (shown incomplete with Quantum Mechanics) * one thought they could infinitely divide space or time (shown incomplete with Planck Length and Planck Time proving the universe is digital as far as we can measure) * one suggested that there is intelligent life outside earth (will be shown true in ~10 years)
There are only around a few absolutes in the universe, everything else is open to interpretation / perception.
Think of the changes in your own life -- what did you used to believe that is no longer true? What changed? Your perception?
Thanks for the catch. Freudian slip, dyslexia, etc.. Meant 1948.
Lots of good quotes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M... i.e. Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache. Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, as translated in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp. 33â"34 (as cited in T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).
The classic fallacy of Scientists is duality. Matter behaving as _both_ a wave AND particle is the best proof that:
One truth does not negate another truth
But to answer your question, Time is multi-dimensional. It depends on which level you are talking about...
From our human, biological perspective / perception time is linear (male) (to prevent insanity.) The higher reality is that time flows in all directions (female) (non-linear) BUT one hasn't _experienced_ it all yet.
The Buddhists would say "There is only Now; the past, present and future are all Allusions" and they would partially be correct.
> "MAYBE THERE'S JUST ONE ELECTRON!" Feynman once shouted.
Indeed that is one possibility. That would explain the "Spooky Action From a Distance". It is the _same_ photon, just appearing in different phases at a different time/space.
That's the greatest thing about Feynman. He always kept an open mind. He was never a pseudo-skeptic. If he didn't know, he was motivated to suspend judgement until he knew more.
Modern science has become "Cargo Cult" thinking.
> because if there were significant amounts of antimatter in the Universe, we would expect there to be lots of 0.511 MeV gamma rays in the cosmic radiation but there is not.
First, the problem is we don't _know_ how much antimatter there is. We are making assumptions about 99.99999% of the universe based on less then %0.0000001 of what we can directly measure.
Second, how do you reckon that?
-- The question is not "Does extraterrestrial life exist?" but "Why the hell do we look so similar??" News in 2024.
Max Plank back in 1984 noticed how Science had become Dogmatic / Religious when he said:
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Which can be paraphrased as:
"Science advances one funeral at a time."
Science was never about the pursuit of Truth, but about the Removal of Falsehood. Unfortunately far too many scientists have their sacred cows that they are unwilling to give up: Standard Model, Big Bang, etc.
> Stephen Hawking is a main offender
Don't worry about him. He will be made a fool of in 10 years with his xenophobia.
-- Dark Matter / Dark Energy is the Ether of the new millennium.
I agree with your analysis, however to completely understand something you need to be aware of both the Strengths AND Weaknesses. Listing 1-sided weaknesses is a great start, but is imbalanced.
Namely, you are forgetting about the convenience factor of smart phones. i.e. I no longer have to carry over-sized out-of-date maps when I travel. I can take "good enough" pictures instead of lugging around a heavy camera I no longer have to waste money on out-dated and slow-as-shit GPS devices. I can the nearest restaurant, gas station, hotel, mall around me. I can pay bills or my CC whenever. I have a handy flashlight using the built-in-flash
Second, the person who added "physics" to UI is fucking brilliant! "Flicking" a long list to scroll and the UI objects have momentum. makes the UI "fun" and removes some of the tedious of scrolling on a tiny screen. Other touch gestures such as pinch to zoom have all helped progress the state of UI. Let's face it -- WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) was getting quite stagnant.
Your point about "race to the bottom" software is noted. "Shovelware" has already existed -- if you thought iOS was bad, check out some of the Nintendo DS games -- although the PC market had that "beat" by years earlier! Sure the market is "over-saturated". It just makes me appreciate GOOD games even better. For example, these 2 games are absolutely gorgeous and fun as heck to play! (They make some of the best use of OpenGL ES shaders)
Lastly, your forgetting about abstraction. How many hours do we need to spend re-writing the same functionality?? I'm an "old-school" C/C++ programmer who understand TINSTAAFL -- people who program in Java (or other high level hipster langauges) tend to not have a clue how the hardware works, don't understand the CPU cost of abstraction, etc. but I have always found Apple's API to be mostly well designed -- Objective C is actually a brief of fresh air compared to the modern C++ clusterfuck.
iOS programming is actually _fun_ -- something that hasn't happened in years when you can pick up almost any programming language in hours/days.
So yeah, tablets, and smartphones, have "perverted" good software -- developers and apps have (almost) zero respect for users by wanting to use your location for every freaking little little thing. (Why?? I'm just browsing your store app)
But I'll keep my smartphone and its convenience. And by the growing sales of Android and iOS other people it looks like other people agree. The difference is, us geeks are perfectly well aware of what we are giving up along the way. The ability to hack _our_ phones.
People with power always want to stop other people from gaining their own power. History is choke full of examples, so no I'm not the least bit surprised.
A good ruler / government empowers people, not treats them as slaves, or worse, a source of income that the modern world has degenerated into.
Uh, you DO realize that the medium is irrelevant, right?
It doesn't matter what token you use: coins, paper, or bits.
Money, at its highest level, is nothing more then an exchange of energy. (The second level is a compact way to conveniently exchange time, skill, and/or labor.)
Otherwise, good post!
-- The best thing about America?: Capitalism The worst thing about America? Capitalism"
> A piece of hemp paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.
FTFY.
It is a Token or symbol that the power to govern was given by the will of the people.
People create Governments, not the other way around.
The Bill of Rights shouldn't even be needed in the first place, witness the Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Governments exist solely to serve the people but almost every one has been brainwashed into thinking that they need a license (permissions) instead of claiming their natural rights. That document spelled out certain un-a-lienable rights; rights that could not have a lien placed on them; Ergo, licenses are a constitutional perversion, as are many other abuses of power. The general problem with America is apathy, that is, not enough people give a fuck -- they would rather watch their (un)reality shows, their sports, their faux news, etc., then fix a broken First-Past-The-Goal-Post political system treat one of the fundamental problems:
Greed corrupts everything it comes in contact with.
Politics, Health, Agriculture, Science, Religion, etc. have all placed profits before people.
-- The greatest thing with America: Capitalism The worst thing with America: Capitalism
> And you can't have the possibility of sending messages back in time without breaking causality.
Incorrect assumption.
Your fallacy is assuming time is one-dimensional. There are two levels to time: Linear and Non-Linear. Or to put it a different but related way, you can know the past, present, and future, but not yet experienced it.
> you have assumption the assumption that causality doesn't exist and faster than light communication light communication is possible (both of which are contradicted on scales from pico-meters to billions of lightyears)
Contradicted by what exactly??
-- First (public) Contact is coming 2024 Are you ready for one answer that will spawn infinite questions?
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Gee, considering the tax only applies on death then maybe you are the crazy radical of government propaganda.
Riiiight, because your faith is magically better then his faith ???
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
The difference, dumbass, is that he was already given a name by his parents.
These craters don't have a name, yet.
Wait, were you talking about the American government again?
> (can't speak for OSX from experience, but I'll call it an educated guess)
Yes, you can set the DNS entries in OSX ..., DNS, '+' in DNS Servers
* Apple Menu, System Preferences, Network, Advanced
Open DNS
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
DynDNS
216.146.35.35
216.146.36.36
Google
8.8.8.8
Comcast
75.75.75.75
Please mod parent up! Network (1976) is a great commentary on Capitalism
Two other great clips:
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Network (1976) "Mind Control Speech"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why the fuck aren't you using a password manager like KeePass / KeePassX ???
Memorize one long master passphrase, copy/paste every other password.
> In most cases a hacker is nothing more than a thief and criminal, the article is correct, they should not be glorified.
Originally, grasshopper, hacker meant someone who was curious about a system and/or learning -- non-destructive probing, or one produces elegant code.
* The Original Hacker's Dictionary, http://www.hackersdictionary.c...
Then the media hijacked the term and labeled all the white hats with the black hats.
> Canadians
Take off hoser, eh? ;-)
To drive the point home:
Ok, you love your wife, now how much? A lot? A little? Prove it.
The first point is -- it doesn't matter to anyone else, you already _know_ it.
The second point is there are at least 3 different types of knowledge:
* intellectual -- e.g. math, science
* experiential -- as a man you will *never* know what it is like to give birth
* intuitive or subconsciousness (which is mislabeled super-consciousness)
Dismissing intuitive knowledge simply because ones are to fail to understand the concept of a Higher Mind is one of the fallacy of Science & Scientists.
Lastly, ALL Objective truth IS FIRST SUBJECTIVE.
Prove that you love your children or your wife?
The shortcoming or fallacy of logic is that there needs to be a proof for everything.
Knowledge is Infinite, therefore Science will NEVER be "settled."
Science is a process (journey) to reach a goal (destination).
Science is about removing Falsehood.
Gnosis is about adding Truth.
Same goal, different paths. The best way to is to combine complementary paths but the Western world is too stuck on an incomplete Materialistic perspective to understand the Strengths and Weaknesses of BOTH systems.
There are many questions outside the domain of Science. But just because Science and Scientists will NEVER be able to answer them doesn't mean that we don't have other ways to find out the answer.
Everything we know about Gravitation, Evolution, the Big Bang will be turned upside down in ~ 10 years.
Honest Q. Where do you get that conclusion from?
> Why would he have to move/hire protection?
Blackmail and/or Gunpoint.
Your or your children/wife can't be used for blackmail, held at gunpoint, etc. if they don't know who you are.
Sorry to disappoint, but no. He used to post on /. but I haven't seen him in years. Why, do you miss him? ;-)
The point though is that never hurts to keep an open mind. At one time you would be thought crazy if:
* one suggested light is solely matter (shown incomplete with Double Slit Experiment)
* one suggested the universe is non-deterministic (shown incomplete with Quantum Mechanics)
* one thought they could infinitely divide space or time (shown incomplete with Planck Length and Planck Time proving the universe is digital as far as we can measure)
* one suggested that there is intelligent life outside earth (will be shown true in ~10 years)
There are only around a few absolutes in the universe, everything else is open to interpretation / perception.
Think of the changes in your own life -- what did you used to believe that is no longer true? What changed? Your perception?
Thanks for the catch. Freudian slip, dyslexia, etc.. Meant 1948.
Lots of good quotes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M...
i.e.
Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache. Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, as translated in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp. 33â"34 (as cited in T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).
> Does time go back and forth? I don't know.
Or it could be both :-)
The classic fallacy of Scientists is duality. Matter behaving as _both_ a wave AND particle is the best proof that:
One truth does not negate another truth
But to answer your question, Time is multi-dimensional. It depends on which level you are talking about ...
From our human, biological perspective / perception time is linear (male) (to prevent insanity.)
The higher reality is that time flows in all directions (female) (non-linear) BUT one hasn't _experienced_ it all yet.
The Buddhists would say "There is only Now; the past, present and future are all Allusions" and they would partially be correct.
> "MAYBE THERE'S JUST ONE ELECTRON!" Feynman once shouted.
Indeed that is one possibility. That would explain the "Spooky Action From a Distance". It is the _same_ photon, just appearing in different phases at a different time/space.
That's the greatest thing about Feynman. He always kept an open mind. He was never a pseudo-skeptic. If he didn't know, he was motivated to suspend judgement until he knew more.
Modern science has become "Cargo Cult" thinking.
> because if there were significant amounts of antimatter in the Universe, we would expect there to be lots of 0.511 MeV gamma rays in the cosmic radiation but there is not.
First, the problem is we don't _know_ how much antimatter there is. We are making assumptions about 99.99999% of the universe based on less then %0.0000001 of what we can directly measure.
Second, how do you reckon that?
--
The question is not "Does extraterrestrial life exist?" but
"Why the hell do we look so similar??"
News in 2024.
Max Plank back in 1984 noticed how Science had become Dogmatic / Religious when he said:
Which can be paraphrased as:
"Science advances one funeral at a time."
Science was never about the pursuit of Truth, but about the Removal of Falsehood. Unfortunately far too many scientists have their sacred cows that they are unwilling to give up: Standard Model, Big Bang, etc.
> Stephen Hawking is a main offender
Don't worry about him. He will be made a fool of in 10 years with his xenophobia.
--
Dark Matter / Dark Energy is the Ether of the new millennium.
I agree with your analysis, however to completely understand something you need to be aware of both the Strengths AND Weaknesses. Listing 1-sided weaknesses is a great start, but is imbalanced.
Namely, you are forgetting about the convenience factor of smart phones.
i.e.
I no longer have to carry over-sized out-of-date maps when I travel.
I can take "good enough" pictures instead of lugging around a heavy camera
I no longer have to waste money on out-dated and slow-as-shit GPS devices.
I can the nearest restaurant, gas station, hotel, mall around me.
I can pay bills or my CC whenever.
I have a handy flashlight using the built-in-flash
Second, the person who added "physics" to UI is fucking brilliant! "Flicking" a long list to scroll and the UI objects have momentum. makes the UI "fun" and removes some of the tedious of scrolling on a tiny screen. Other touch gestures such as pinch to zoom have all helped progress the state of UI. Let's face it -- WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) was getting quite stagnant.
Your point about "race to the bottom" software is noted. "Shovelware" has already existed -- if you thought iOS was bad, check out some of the Nintendo DS games -- although the PC market had that "beat" by years earlier! Sure the market is "over-saturated". It just makes me appreciate GOOD games even better. For example, these 2 games are absolutely gorgeous and fun as heck to play! (They make some of the best use of OpenGL ES shaders)
* The Room -- http://www.fireproofgames.com/...
* The Room 2 -- http://www.fireproofgames.com/...
Another beautiful game is
* Infinity Blade -- http://www.infinityblade.com/
Lastly, your forgetting about abstraction. How many hours do we need to spend re-writing the same functionality?? I'm an "old-school" C/C++ programmer who understand TINSTAAFL -- people who program in Java (or other high level hipster langauges) tend to not have a clue how the hardware works, don't understand the CPU cost of abstraction, etc. but I have always found Apple's API to be mostly well designed -- Objective C is actually a brief of fresh air compared to the modern C++ clusterfuck.
iOS programming is actually _fun_ -- something that hasn't happened in years when you can pick up almost any programming language in hours/days.
So yeah, tablets, and smartphones, have "perverted" good software -- developers and apps have (almost) zero respect for users by wanting to use your location for every freaking little little thing. (Why?? I'm just browsing your store app)
But I'll keep my smartphone and its convenience. And by the growing sales of Android and iOS other people it looks like other people agree. The difference is, us geeks are perfectly well aware of what we are giving up along the way. The ability to hack _our_ phones.
Could you list your reasons for why GW2 didn't last please? As a game developer & designer I would be most interested in your perspective! TIA.
People with power always want to stop other people from gaining their own power. History is choke full of examples, so no I'm not the least bit surprised.
A good ruler / government empowers people, not treats them as slaves, or worse, a source of income that the modern world has degenerated into.
> With no government, paper money has no value,
Uh, you DO realize that the medium is irrelevant, right?
It doesn't matter what token you use: coins, paper, or bits.
Money, at its highest level, is nothing more then an exchange of energy. (The second level is a compact way to conveniently exchange time, skill, and/or labor.)
Otherwise, good post!
--
The best thing about America?: Capitalism
The worst thing about America? Capitalism"
> A piece of hemp paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.
FTFY.
It is a Token or symbol that the power to govern was given by the will of the people.
People create Governments, not the other way around.
The Bill of Rights shouldn't even be needed in the first place, witness the Tenth Amendment
Governments exist solely to serve the people but almost every one has been brainwashed into thinking that they need a license (permissions) instead of claiming their natural rights. That document spelled out certain un-a-lienable rights; rights that could not have a lien placed on them; Ergo, licenses are a constitutional perversion, as are many other abuses of power. The general problem with America is apathy, that is, not enough people give a fuck -- they would rather watch their (un)reality shows, their sports, their faux news, etc., then fix a broken First-Past-The-Goal-Post political system treat one of the fundamental problems:
Greed corrupts everything it comes in contact with.
Politics, Health, Agriculture, Science, Religion, etc. have all placed profits before people.
--
The greatest thing with America: Capitalism
The worst thing with America: Capitalism
> And you can't have the possibility of sending messages back in time without breaking causality.
Incorrect assumption.
Your fallacy is assuming time is one-dimensional. There are two levels to time: Linear and Non-Linear. Or to put it a different but related way, you can know the past, present, and future, but not yet experienced it.
> you have assumption the assumption that causality doesn't exist and faster than light communication light communication is possible (both of which are contradicted on scales from pico-meters to billions of lightyears)
Contradicted by what exactly??
--
First (public) Contact is coming 2024
Are you ready for one answer that will spawn infinite questions?