You're probably right that as social commentary and topical political satire, Monty Python is pretty generic and disposable, outdated and long since superceded by more relevant acts. But their unique genius in juxtaposing the silly and ridiculous with the serious, dignified and refined is ageless and universal. I re-watch the Flying Circus episodes every five years or so and they continue to be hilarious. Perhaps foreign stereotypes of English personalities help to accentuate the absurdity.
As in all comedy performance, it's not what they do but how they do it that is so special. In the late 1960s Cleese, Idle, and Chapman were at the peak of their ability and worked brilliantly together, creating art that (IMHO) will last forever.
How does DNSSEC protect against SSL MitM attacks? Would there be secure DNS records for SSL keys/signatures? Doesn't DNSSEC itself need a CA? Anyway, there will be plenty of SSL CA business for many years during the gradual transition to DNSSEC.
42 days is just the next click up on the ratchet from 28. After that will be 90 days, then 180, then they'll probably shoot the moon and go for "indefinitely". Then they'll broaden the definition of "terrorism" to include pedophilia, tax evasion, speeding, littering, etc.
Bill Joy doesn't sound that out of line. If you're going to confront terrorists, you need to understand their doctrine and motivation so that you can discredit the entire philosophy, rather than just turn them into martyrs.
I disagree. I think we need to throw out Kaczynski's message unread, otherwise we reward anybody who is willing to kill and die to get attention. We're effectively saying, "We won't listen to your message unless you kill a few people first." We should instead be listening to people who seek to get their message out without killing anybody.
In comparison, a typical 100 horsepower car is using around 75KW. (1HP=750W), so the power savings possible by simply traveling less dwarf anything possible via solar.
A 100 horsepower car is like a 500 watt power supply -- the vast majority of the time it's using a small fraction of that peak rating. Cruising on the highway only takes about 5 hp, and even accelerating up to city traffic speed from a stop only takes about 30 hp. Unless you're driving all-out on a racetrack you'll only hit that peak power for a few minutes in the entire lifetime of the car. But of course the point stands... a few hp is a lot of W.
Ill say this: only a moron puts a boiling cup of X liquid between their legs. Everybody knows coffee is SUPPOSED to be hot.
This is a dangerous attitude that we must all try to avoid. "I work with this stuff for a living, 8 hours a day, day in day out, and everybody who isn't as familiar with it as I am is a MORON." Guess what, laymen are by definition less familiar with the subject than professionals. Maybe the old lady wasn't a regular coffee drinker, and had only had lukewarm coffee before. I sure wouldn't expect some random food item from a drive-through to be lethal (McDonalds food quality jokes aside).
I can understand where the attitude comes from, I mean it's frustrating having to explain the same obvious goddamn thing to an endless stream of ignorant people who just never seem to get a clue, but you have to realize that it's not the same clue-resistant person over and over again. What's old to you may be new to me. (And vice-versa; I'll try to take it easy on you when you wander into my field of expertise.)
I've never even seen 100BaseT hubs, do they even exist?
I have a couple, one unbranded "GDH5005" 10/100 hub and one Linksys EZHUB04S 100-only. I got them back when fast-ethernet was pretty new and switches were prohibitively expensive.
Both my copies (LP and CD) of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" by Brian Eno and David Byrne have a track called "Qu'ran" which includes vocals that very well could be recitations from the Qur'an, for all the Arabic I know.
I heard long ago that the "correct" value of a share is the present value of all its future dividends. Ignore the stock market completely, predict future profitability of the company itself, figure out what dividends it will pay, run them through your financial calculator's "present value" function, and voila! that's the proper value of all the company's stock. Or something like that. Yeah, it all breaks down when theory runs into reality and a stock crash ruins the company's ability to raise operating capital, but I'm guessing that's what the earlier commenter meant by "fair price".
Anything under fifty years is short term; anything under a million years is medium term. In the long term only solar energy is sustainable. Of course in the very long term all the stars will be gone and we'll need an alternative. We have about a trillion years to work on that problem.
There are several reasons why someone might write C02 instead of CO2, and why an "editor" might approve such text verbatim for publication, but they're all dumb.
(Now I bet some dweeb flames me for not subscripting the "2".)
Attributing emotions to "the market" is irrational anthropomorphism. Only individuals can have emotions. Usually what looks like emotion (e.g. panic) in the market is an epiphenomenon of many individuals each acting rationally but not in concert.
In other words, the automated systems should NOT be automatically scanning news items and acting on them without human verification.
And they don't, because that's not even possible. Many humans read the story, each thought, "Hmm, bad news for UAL, good time to sell," and the wide selloff caused a quick drop in stock price. That quick drop is what set off the automated systems, some of which aren't discretionary -- i.e. even if a human had been in the loop they would have been required to take the same actions. Think margin calls, for example. The automated (or mandatory) reactions to the quick drop caused a further drop, until the sell pressure was balanced by buy pressure from bargain hunters.
What happens if someone gains control of such a website? They could post fake stories to crash target companies, meanwhile someone is waiting to buy stock at ridiculously low prices.
Sleazy market manipulation like that happens all the time. Usually most of the money sees right through the scam and it doesn't have much effect.
I can't work out what happened to one of my socks. Until I can work out where it went, am I to posit the existence of a sock-stealing gnome?
I do occasionally posit the existence of a meaningless, irrelevant God because it amuses me, just like the idea of an undetectable sock gnome.
Asking what caused the centre of a sphere, or what was before the centre, is plainly nonsensical.
Subsequent instants are immediately adjacent, and seem to bear consistent structural relationships to each other. That is the nature of cause and effect, a concept we use to help make sense of time. Redefining time in terms of cause and effect leads to absurdities like the First Cause God.
It's like seeing a picture of a sphere, and claiming that there must be a connecting cone hidden behind it, because one simply can't imagine a sphere without a cone attacted to it.
I prefer my perfectly spherical scoop of ice cream resting in a perfectly parabolic bowl.
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Blocking what URL, "http://www.citibank.com/"? DNS cache poisoning attacks valid domains.
You're probably right that as social commentary and topical political satire, Monty Python is pretty generic and disposable, outdated and long since superceded by more relevant acts. But their unique genius in juxtaposing the silly and ridiculous with the serious, dignified and refined is ageless and universal. I re-watch the Flying Circus episodes every five years or so and they continue to be hilarious. Perhaps foreign stereotypes of English personalities help to accentuate the absurdity.
As in all comedy performance, it's not what they do but how they do it that is so special. In the late 1960s Cleese, Idle, and Chapman were at the peak of their ability and worked brilliantly together, creating art that (IMHO) will last forever.
Ockham's Razor.
The Japanese love Americana.
How does DNSSEC protect against SSL MitM attacks? Would there be secure DNS records for SSL keys/signatures? Doesn't DNSSEC itself need a CA? Anyway, there will be plenty of SSL CA business for many years during the gradual transition to DNSSEC.
It already fails on .museum and .travel domains.
42 days is just the next click up on the ratchet from 28. After that will be 90 days, then 180, then they'll probably shoot the moon and go for "indefinitely". Then they'll broaden the definition of "terrorism" to include pedophilia, tax evasion, speeding, littering, etc.
Christians somehow managed to learn a little tolerance. Let's hope Muslims can step up soon and do the same.
I disagree. I think we need to throw out Kaczynski's message unread, otherwise we reward anybody who is willing to kill and die to get attention. We're effectively saying, "We won't listen to your message unless you kill a few people first." We should instead be listening to people who seek to get their message out without killing anybody.
A 100 horsepower car is like a 500 watt power supply -- the vast majority of the time it's using a small fraction of that peak rating. Cruising on the highway only takes about 5 hp, and even accelerating up to city traffic speed from a stop only takes about 30 hp. Unless you're driving all-out on a racetrack you'll only hit that peak power for a few minutes in the entire lifetime of the car. But of course the point stands... a few hp is a lot of W.
Is it really possible to get customers to pay $20,000 a year for web hosting?
This is a dangerous attitude that we must all try to avoid. "I work with this stuff for a living, 8 hours a day, day in day out, and everybody who isn't as familiar with it as I am is a MORON." Guess what, laymen are by definition less familiar with the subject than professionals. Maybe the old lady wasn't a regular coffee drinker, and had only had lukewarm coffee before. I sure wouldn't expect some random food item from a drive-through to be lethal (McDonalds food quality jokes aside).
I can understand where the attitude comes from, I mean it's frustrating having to explain the same obvious goddamn thing to an endless stream of ignorant people who just never seem to get a clue, but you have to realize that it's not the same clue-resistant person over and over again. What's old to you may be new to me. (And vice-versa; I'll try to take it easy on you when you wander into my field of expertise.)
Assumptions that seem to contradict each other might well be called dubious until proven otherwise.
I have a couple, one unbranded "GDH5005" 10/100 hub and one Linksys EZHUB04S 100-only. I got them back when fast-ethernet was pretty new and switches were prohibitively expensive.
Both my copies (LP and CD) of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" by Brian Eno and David Byrne have a track called "Qu'ran" which includes vocals that very well could be recitations from the Qur'an, for all the Arabic I know.
Youtube is not a search engine. It is a video hosting site.
See Rule #3.
I heard long ago that the "correct" value of a share is the present value of all its future dividends. Ignore the stock market completely, predict future profitability of the company itself, figure out what dividends it will pay, run them through your financial calculator's "present value" function, and voila! that's the proper value of all the company's stock. Or something like that. Yeah, it all breaks down when theory runs into reality and a stock crash ruins the company's ability to raise operating capital, but I'm guessing that's what the earlier commenter meant by "fair price".
Also, you can NEVER, EVER put too much water in a nuclear reactor.
What if it's a really hot vacuum?
Anything under fifty years is short term; anything under a million years is medium term. In the long term only solar energy is sustainable. Of course in the very long term all the stars will be gone and we'll need an alternative. We have about a trillion years to work on that problem.
There are several reasons why someone might write C02 instead of CO2, and why an "editor" might approve such text verbatim for publication, but they're all dumb.
(Now I bet some dweeb flames me for not subscripting the "2".)
Attributing emotions to "the market" is irrational anthropomorphism. Only individuals can have emotions. Usually what looks like emotion (e.g. panic) in the market is an epiphenomenon of many individuals each acting rationally but not in concert.
And they don't, because that's not even possible. Many humans read the story, each thought, "Hmm, bad news for UAL, good time to sell," and the wide selloff caused a quick drop in stock price. That quick drop is what set off the automated systems, some of which aren't discretionary -- i.e. even if a human had been in the loop they would have been required to take the same actions. Think margin calls, for example. The automated (or mandatory) reactions to the quick drop caused a further drop, until the sell pressure was balanced by buy pressure from bargain hunters.
Sleazy market manipulation like that happens all the time. Usually most of the money sees right through the scam and it doesn't have much effect.
I do occasionally posit the existence of a meaningless, irrelevant God because it amuses me, just like the idea of an undetectable sock gnome.
Subsequent instants are immediately adjacent, and seem to bear consistent structural relationships to each other. That is the nature of cause and effect, a concept we use to help make sense of time. Redefining time in terms of cause and effect leads to absurdities like the First Cause God.
I prefer my perfectly spherical scoop of ice cream resting in a perfectly parabolic bowl.