If it is right to punish someone strong-willed who chose to act in violation of the law but not to punish someone who could not possibly resist, one needs to determine if the person _did_ have the choice to refrain from the action.
But how do you determine strength of character? Force of will is a lot more a qualitative property than a quantitative one, and law aims to regulate the quantitative ones while keeping the qualitative one's free. Either way, the qualitative can not be measured and will always remain subjective. How can one maintain a legal system in this situation?
>...it's pretty sad that the obvious gets passed as new, novel research.
So, gravity. Pretty obvious, yes? I won't beat around the bush; Seeing the obvious as something special is an invaluable ability for a researcher. But still studying this "obvious" discovery requires a lot more...
Not to mention the importance of getting one's research published. If one doesn't do that one gets omitted from Wikipedia due to Original Research, to exemplify.
The cheapest way to make hydrogen would be to develop a bacteria which lives in water and converts water into hydrogen and oxygen. IIRC someone developed a bacteria just like this that needed just a small bit of electricity to do its thing. (Which is a good thing, since it allows us to control the process.)
Pour some of these into the sea in some sort of screened-off area and the only technical issue is to separate the hydrogen gas from the oxygen and transport them. A plant like this would require next to no maintenace, and costs otherwise endured would be minimal. If hydrogen efficiency is only 25% you just increase volume by 400%, since it's dirt-cheap!
> The text itself almost certainly is of no scientific worth.
Don't you find it curious at all that a man who evidently was more intelligent than any of us here found it worthy of his time to dabble with alchemy?
We are mere philistines and fools in comparison to great minds such as Newton, barbaric and uncivilized. All we have in form of a candle to hold to them is some accumulated quantitive fact, which approaches zero when compared to how much we still have to learn.
What if the formulas of alchemy are no more intelligible to us than those of the mathematical field of topology is to a child? Would it then not be permissable to wonder and amaze what Newton really did see in his studies of alchemy?
They should just call it OogleTube or somesuch instead...
And on another note, why does it matter how rich these people are? Yeah, I know. It was a rethoric question. The real quiestion is; why the hell do we take this situation without the least bit of critiquie?
That would be Tetrachromat, and according to the article it has merely been 'suggested'. Do however follow some of the links to the sources. Interesting reading.
I've been thinking about implementing Time Difference of Arrival plus echo-locationing to do a very similar thing. Plus, this method could be used to scan in 3D with ease. Not to mention a number of other interesting applications, such as beamforming plus distance awareness.
The very same code could be used for EM for a sort of total situation awareness radar, passive and active.
2272 tracks in playlist, average track length: 9:01 Estimated playlist length: 342 hours 3 minutes 35 seconds
Usually I just have Winamp playing while I surf the net. I don't actually listen to my music; I just hear it. At the times I take the effort to hook up a LP player, I often find myself sitting on the floor doing nothing but listening. Ease of use has it place, but art and enjoyment of art isn't it.
Well, my idea was simply that instead of having Teddy drawing with rasters, you have it draw with vectors. Do that and you can easily edit the shapes until you think they are just right. Add some ability to 'cut off' pieces of your sculpure according to the same vectorish principles and you have a very advanced, yet simple tool at your disposal. And yes, Inkscapes vectorizer rocks. I've in the past used it to sketch crudely by hand and thus get a head-start in the creation process.
Ink9000 seems to do a good job of rendering inorganic shapes in an inked style, but from what I've seen it's not very good at organic shapes. Maybe it really could benefit from a merger? Thanks for the link, either way. =)
Sorry about the off-topicness, but what about people with better than 20/20 vision? There was a/. story some time ago about baseball players having operations to even get 10/20 vision. I surmise they only mucked with the optics, so does that mean the retina is capable of more than most people can use?
Looks like you got a new task in life. Bookmark this this article, and in 20 years when someone posts a dupe, you can go "Hah, it's a dupe! This was posted 20 years ago, you silly, silly Slashdot editor!"
"...and a list of directories on his computer's hard drive where sexually explicit photographs were stored."
Caveat lector. There is something wrong here. There is nothing here which says these photographs featured people not yet of age. Though this information was probably just neglected by the author, it's rather damn imortant information to include. Regular porn has been legal for quite some time now in most civilized countries, and the USA.
(Oh, that last part was a joke. Laugh. It's supposedly funny. =p )
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I wish I had mod points again. :D
If it is right to punish someone strong-willed who chose to act in violation of the law but not to punish someone who could not possibly resist, one needs to determine if the person _did_ have the choice to refrain from the action.
But how do you determine strength of character? Force of will is a lot more a qualitative property than a quantitative one, and law aims to regulate the quantitative ones while keeping the qualitative one's free. Either way, the qualitative can not be measured and will always remain subjective. How can one maintain a legal system in this situation?
And since we're reading /. from work (I, for one, am.), we sue our employer too. Always add insult to damage!
> ...it's pretty sad that the obvious gets passed as new, novel research.
So, gravity. Pretty obvious, yes?
I won't beat around the bush; Seeing the obvious as something special is an invaluable ability for a researcher. But still studying this "obvious" discovery requires a lot more...
Not to mention the importance of getting one's research published. If one doesn't do that one gets omitted from Wikipedia due to Original Research, to exemplify.
The cheapest way to make hydrogen would be to develop a bacteria which lives in water and converts water into hydrogen and oxygen. IIRC someone developed a bacteria just like this that needed just a small bit of electricity to do its thing. (Which is a good thing, since it allows us to control the process.)
Pour some of these into the sea in some sort of screened-off area and the only technical issue is to separate the hydrogen gas from the oxygen and transport them. A plant like this would require next to no maintenace, and costs otherwise endured would be minimal. If hydrogen efficiency is only 25% you just increase volume by 400%, since it's dirt-cheap!
> The text itself almost certainly is of no scientific worth.
Don't you find it curious at all that a man who evidently was more intelligent than any of us here found it worthy of his time to dabble with alchemy?
We are mere philistines and fools in comparison to great minds such as Newton, barbaric and uncivilized. All we have in form of a candle to hold to them is some accumulated quantitive fact, which approaches zero when compared to how much we still have to learn.
What if the formulas of alchemy are no more intelligible to us than those of the mathematical field of topology is to a child? Would it then not be permissable to wonder and amaze what Newton really did see in his studies of alchemy?
Science is not to be "dominated" or "forced". Prominence and excellence; use these words.
They should just call it OogleTube or somesuch instead...
And on another note, why does it matter how rich these people are? Yeah, I know. It was a rethoric question. The real quiestion is; why the hell do we take this situation without the least bit of critiquie?
Reading that, I realize we're all insane. Quite insane.
http://openmoko.com/
Who would of thunk it??
And, http://openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf for the initial presentation of this device.
Escort you from the premises.
From now on, I'm no longer flying.
That would be Tetrachromat, and according to the article it has merely been 'suggested'. Do however follow some of the links to the sources. Interesting reading.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+%22hail+eris%2 2&start=10&sa=N>Hail Eris!
I've been thinking about implementing Time Difference of Arrival plus echo-locationing to do a very similar thing. Plus, this method could be used to scan in 3D with ease. Not to mention a number of other interesting applications, such as beamforming plus distance awareness.
The very same code could be used for EM for a sort of total situation awareness radar, passive and active.
Next up: death ray! Mwahahahaah!
No.
You must be new here.
2272 tracks in playlist, average track length: 9:01
Estimated playlist length: 342 hours 3 minutes 35 seconds
Usually I just have Winamp playing while I surf the net. I don't actually listen to my music; I just hear it. At the times I take the effort to hook up a LP player, I often find myself sitting on the floor doing nothing but listening.
Ease of use has it place, but art and enjoyment of art isn't it.
You're no ninja! Ninja talk like this:
[Insert long silence here.]
Well, my idea was simply that instead of having Teddy drawing with rasters, you have it draw with vectors. Do that and you can easily edit the shapes until you think they are just right. Add some ability to 'cut off' pieces of your sculpure according to the same vectorish principles and you have a very advanced, yet simple tool at your disposal.
And yes, Inkscapes vectorizer rocks. I've in the past used it to sketch crudely by hand and thus get a head-start in the creation process.
Ink9000 seems to do a good job of rendering inorganic shapes in an inked style, but from what I've seen it's not very good at organic shapes. Maybe it really could benefit from a merger? Thanks for the link, either way. =)
Make this vector based and we might have a winner! Imagine editing these shapes with vectors, and we're getting close to sculpting. =)
Sorry about the off-topicness, but what about people with better than 20/20 vision? There was a /. story some time ago about baseball players having operations to even get 10/20 vision. I surmise they only mucked with the optics, so does that mean the retina is capable of more than most people can use?
Looks like you got a new task in life. Bookmark this this article, and in 20 years when someone posts a dupe, you can go "Hah, it's a dupe! This was posted 20 years ago, you silly, silly Slashdot editor!"
QUESTIONING OF PARENT'S INTELLIGENCE. SUGGESTION OF PARENT BEING HOMOSEXUAL.
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Apparently I have included too many caps. Slashcode whines. My karma laments its passed days of glory.
Caveat lector. There is something wrong here. There is nothing here which says these photographs featured people not yet of age. Though this information was probably just neglected by the author, it's rather damn imortant information to include. Regular porn has been legal for quite some time now in most civilized countries, and the USA.
(Oh, that last part was a joke. Laugh. It's supposedly funny. =p )
According to the article Perelman made enough money (apparently in his own opinion) while in the States to last him the rest of his life.