Re:Not supposed to be dooms day yet.
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Nobody is in the tunnel while the beam is on, except cockroaches. Since the particles are moving in a circle they are as if accelerating constantly and consequently they as charged particles constantly give off radiation, in the gamma range somewhere. The whole tunnel is constantly bathed in lethal levels of radiation.
When I download the latest X-Files movie, I'm not stealing because I'm not making off with a physical object. However, the memories in my mind are a physical object, and therefore not metaphysical mumbo jumbo....Wait, what? What is this sudden stench of hypocrisy?
Maybe information is not physical, but some sort of abstract collection of relations between bits of data, and more or less separate from the media which contains the data? Maybe something along the lines of Russell's definition of mathematics...
He said a lot of really smart things. Here's a bunch of them:
The dudes and dudettes at CERN simulated the big bang on a cluster back in 2001, and were suspicious about claims of needing supercomputers for nuke sims.
Maybe they're playing Wargames. Trying to find a single scenario that justifies nukes, perhaps?
I'm glad you replied that way. I was expecting trolls...
Often people who have experienced these things have difficulty believing them too. In my case I must occasionally remind myself that no; it was NOT a dream. It did happen, and all I thought I knew about the world is called into question.
Once you start questioning the basics there's no turning back, and things just get stranger and stranger. I find myself forced to maintain a dual understanding of the world in parallel; a scientific explanation, and an occult explanation. On occasion they are mutually exclusive, but still when the time for testing comes, reality just complies with both of them. It is very confusing, but I find comfort in that in spite of how counter-intuitive QED is, it does seem to allow for oddity like this.
Wait, that made it sound as if I think I'm psychic. That wasn't my intention. Rather I meant to say that I am one of those who have experienced things which defies my otherwise absolutely logical understanding of my surroundings.
I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics.
It's OK. You're good, not psychic.
On a side-note, I hold the educated opinion that speaking ill of self-proclaimed 'psychics', 'healers', or tarot card readers is fundamentally not only naive, but also immature and detrimental to your own ability to understand your surroundings. Many of us have experienced things not you nor we can begin to comprehend, and your ridiculous belittling attitude only serves to stop us from sharing our experiences. - Experiences which enrich our lives and makes us kinder, gentler human beings.
I swear, half the people living deep in the Finnish forest are trolls. They're not recognized as such though, and the males are forced into military service. There they are given assault rifles, violate each and every safety rule during target practice.
It's terrifying. I'm staying near the coast these days.
ps. They don't seem to be allied with the gnomes living in in our major cities.
I dunno... Producing a working device seems to be plenty hard. There's vaporware, and then there's university research that doesn't even bother leave the lab. No use if it just remains theory.
Should we double the average human lifespan in the next decade, then long before we 'get old' again we will have doubled it again, and again. Since this sort of progression seems inevitable I fully expect to literally live forever. This is a concept worthy of wrestling with, if any is. But maintaining our bodies, simple machines in the eyes of our future selves, seems trivial to me when compared to maintaining our mental health, and with this as background I ask you: How long do you think the human mind can survive before reaching a terminal existential crisis, and what do you believe will be the most common motivation for suicide amongst the technologically immortal?
If these algorithms actually worked, why would you need to be working for somebody else? Because those people have the Ultracash needed to make the ROI worthwhile. Even if your salary is say $4k a month, it'll still take a decade or so before your investment is big enough for you to live on the ROI.
If you want to 'get rich quick' you need to start your own company. Selling financial algorithms, perhaps?
I run Photoshop and Guild Wars under Wine on UbuntuStudio.
Guild Wars has no anti-alias under Wine, and consequently the performance is better than on Windows. I've seen a few graphical glitches, but they're nowhere near as bad as under Cedega.
No seriously. Not 'Funny', but 'Insightful'. If you care at all about security, you do not send your sensitive data over a hostile network. In fact, the data should never even be accessible from a hostile network.
Minimum security in this case would be to require the receiver of the data to work with the data on a computer which is not connected to a network, because once malware infects their network no amount of encryption will keep the data safe.
Put the data on physical media and have it delivered by a security company that does transport of valuables.
Now if you were SERIOUS about the security, what I've mentioned previously being only minimum security, you would further require physical security at the receiver's location. Not just the security that placates insurance companies, but the kind that aims to actually PREVENT theft.
Shellcode polymorphism has been known for years. Here's a good article from Phrack on it. Any AV vendor who isn't prepared for it by now has grossly failed their customers.
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Nobody is in the tunnel while the beam is on, except cockroaches. Since the particles are moving in a circle they are as if accelerating constantly and consequently they as charged particles constantly give off radiation, in the gamma range somewhere. The whole tunnel is constantly bathed in lethal levels of radiation.
When I download the latest X-Files movie, I'm not stealing because I'm not making off with a physical object. However, the memories in my mind are a physical object, and therefore not metaphysical mumbo jumbo. ...Wait, what? What is this sudden stench of hypocrisy?
Maybe information is not physical, but some sort of abstract collection of relations between bits of data, and more or less separate from the media which contains the data? Maybe something along the lines of Russell's definition of mathematics...
He said a lot of really smart things. Here's a bunch of them:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bertrand_russell.html
Oddly, that makes perfect sense. XD
The dudes and dudettes at CERN simulated the big bang on a cluster back in 2001, and were suspicious about claims of needing supercomputers for nuke sims.
Maybe they're playing Wargames. Trying to find a single scenario that justifies nukes, perhaps?
Fuuuuck... O_O
You know what you're talking about.
Consider it ignored.
I'm glad you replied that way. I was expecting trolls...
Often people who have experienced these things have difficulty believing them too. In my case I must occasionally remind myself that no; it was NOT a dream. It did happen, and all I thought I knew about the world is called into question.
Once you start questioning the basics there's no turning back, and things just get stranger and stranger. I find myself forced to maintain a dual understanding of the world in parallel; a scientific explanation, and an occult explanation. On occasion they are mutually exclusive, but still when the time for testing comes, reality just complies with both of them.
It is very confusing, but I find comfort in that in spite of how counter-intuitive QED is, it does seem to allow for oddity like this.
Wait, that made it sound as if I think I'm psychic. That wasn't my intention. Rather I meant to say that I am one of those who have experienced things which defies my otherwise absolutely logical understanding of my surroundings.
It's OK. You're good, not psychic.
On a side-note, I hold the educated opinion that speaking ill of self-proclaimed 'psychics', 'healers', or tarot card readers is fundamentally not only naive, but also immature and detrimental to your own ability to understand your surroundings. Many of us have experienced things not you nor we can begin to comprehend, and your ridiculous belittling attitude only serves to stop us from sharing our experiences. - Experiences which enrich our lives and makes us kinder, gentler human beings.
No, it doesn't seem steep. Rather, it seems like a slap on the wrist. Piracy for profit isn't even comparable to what the rest of us do.
Just be glad you're not doing outsourcing. That job is truly shitty.
I work as a guard now. Less stress. Hehe.
The work of this man:
http://oldwebsite.laurentian.ca/neurosci/_people/Persinger.htm
I swear, half the people living deep in the Finnish forest are trolls. They're not recognized as such though, and the males are forced into military service. There they are given assault rifles, violate each and every safety rule during target practice.
It's terrifying. I'm staying near the coast these days.
ps. They don't seem to be allied with the gnomes living in in our major cities.
50 000?
THAT'S OVER NINETHOUSAAAAAND!!
Damned be, lameness filter, for spotting my lameitude.
I dunno... Producing a working device seems to be plenty hard. There's vaporware, and then there's university research that doesn't even bother leave the lab. No use if it just remains theory.
Strikes me as odd that one one has tried to implement a plasma wakefield accelerator in a configuration that would fuse hydrogen.
Should we double the average human lifespan in the next decade, then long before we 'get old' again we will have doubled it again, and again. Since this sort of progression seems inevitable I fully expect to literally live forever. This is a concept worthy of wrestling with, if any is.
But maintaining our bodies, simple machines in the eyes of our future selves, seems trivial to me when compared to maintaining our mental health, and with this as background I ask you: How long do you think the human mind can survive before reaching a terminal existential crisis, and what do you believe will be the most common motivation for suicide amongst the technologically immortal?
Here's a good reason to go back to the moon if there ever was one. Or at the very least a better excuse than we've had so far.
Though the survival of the species is always a good reason...
Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 9:38 am
If you want to 'get rich quick' you need to start your own company. Selling financial algorithms, perhaps?
I run Photoshop and Guild Wars under Wine on UbuntuStudio.
Guild Wars has no anti-alias under Wine, and consequently the performance is better than on Windows. I've seen a few graphical glitches, but they're nowhere near as bad as under Cedega.
No seriously. Not 'Funny', but 'Insightful'. If you care at all about security, you do not send your sensitive data over a hostile network. In fact, the data should never even be accessible from a hostile network.
Minimum security in this case would be to require the receiver of the data to work with the data on a computer which is not connected to a network, because once malware infects their network no amount of encryption will keep the data safe.
Put the data on physical media and have it delivered by a security company that does transport of valuables.
Now if you were SERIOUS about the security, what I've mentioned previously being only minimum security, you would further require physical security at the receiver's location. Not just the security that placates insurance companies, but the kind that aims to actually PREVENT theft.
It's called image stacking, and is used a lot in astronomy. There exists freeware, or open source, which will do it for you.
Shellcode polymorphism has been known for years. Here's a good article from Phrack on it.
Any AV vendor who isn't prepared for it by now has grossly failed their customers.