(From the Seattle Times) Environmentalists joined hands with steelworkers, nuns, French cheese-makers, vegans and sea-turtle impersonators. Teenagers in baggy-legged pants and graying hippies walked side-by-side. Social workers and lawyers shared picket lines with body-pierced punks and tattooed grungers. I love America. Sometimes I get disillusioned, but something like this always comes along. If you don't like the state of the country, change it. I'm in Columbus, Ohio, and there are protests/here/ against the WTO. Why do we keep bitching and moaning about the loss of privacy, stupid patent laws, crypto restrictions, all that crap. I'm ready to protest for privacy rights!
Really? I used one a little over a year ago, when I was learning drafting (of course). The class was actually a combined drafting/CAD course, required for all engineering students, but I enjoyed it. Back on topic, if someone calls/me/ a geek, they better have a smile on their face, or they are in _big_ trouble.;)
... the hardware and software are set up for a specific set of tasks, and users fiddling with the software setup would be a bad thing (and a potentially huge source of returns of "faulty" products). So users will not have an account or root password given to them (as it's not required to use the product). Others have pointed out the ways you can distribute the source without using a source cd, so I won't bother that one. One of your other problems seemed to be that you were afraid that easy access to the source would encourage clients to tamper with the setup, and then complain that your product stopped working right. You are apparently shipping to a set of clients who are not overly concerned that they will not have root access. Are these people that will be inclined to muck about with the software on these boxes? Even if they did, couldn't you legalese something to the effect of "screwing with the box voids your warranty"?
I sincerely hope they'll be banned, just as the mafia is banned, the NSDAP is banned, the KKK is banned, and the fundamentalist muslims are banned. There is no room for misuderstanding what the Co$ is doing with religion. It has NOTHING to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with robbery and crime. I presume, given your other comments, that you were speaking of France. I was not, and I thought I made it clear that I was speaking about the US. As a counterexample, none of those groups are banned in the US. Except maybe the NSDAP, that name isn't ringing any bells for me, for all I know it could be banned. Even the mafia is not technically an outlawed organization: any group can call themselves 'mafia', and get away with it (why you might want to do that is another question). What is outlawed is _organized crime_. Use this group to commit crimes, and the law enforcement types slam down hard on you, and for good reason; this no matter what you call your group. So the solution would seem to me to be to stop their harrassment of others, make them abide strictly by the laws of whatever country you happen to be in regarding religions or corps, and ignore them.
What they do is get around the law. After a court kept public documents in place when they were challenged by the scientologists, they now have cult members dedicated to doing nothing but keeping the materials checked out and in circulation all the time so the public can never see it. That'll be a little harder to do if the US court system ever joins the modern era and puts documents online en mass. Maybe the good cultists will just run DoS attacks then;)
Let's hope scientology will be banned here. Let's hope not. No matter how much I disagree with someone (in the case of these crackpots, a whole lot), I would not wish to ban them.
It would make them more popular. Free publicity, they can claim oppression by the man, scream that their freedom of religion is being taken away, the whole nine yards. Anything that is banned gains a certain mystique. Then, they could tie up most any country in court for decades, and would.
I would not want _anyone_ to be banned from expressing their religious views. Just make them declare as either a religion or a business, similar to what was done to the Christian Coalition here in the US (well, that was political, but same idea), and force them to stick to it.
They're both a play on the familiar traffic signal design, which is yellow, with a green circle signifying go. How can goto claim to own a traffic signal design? If someone used a similar label for a site called stop.com, would they sue over that? Craziness.
This is a period of major disinterest in American politics, because the general public feels it cannot affect the system. Links like these scare me, but they are not only online issues. People with no access to the internet feel the same disillusionment slashdot readers do, we are merely seeing a national trend reflected here, in discussions I have seen in the past few days, in fact the whole time I have been reading this site. Slashdot readers have no monopoly on cynicism, look at the voter turnouts in America.
Look at the comments on the Gore/Microsoft story. As long as politicians need money for campaigns, they will be, or be perceived to be, in the pockets of corporations whose pockets I can't match. They want to be reelected: they/can't/ change the laws because then they risk losing that source of money to get reelected. Each professional politician, in his hubris, believes that if only he can stay in office long enough, he can accomplish his idealistic goals. But he gets so caught up in staying in office that he never gets around to those goals.
This recursion can only be broken by term limits, finance reform, and getting the corporations out of politics. But these three things are necessary to produce these three things, and I personally have no idea where to start. I write my congressman: I get a form letter back, my letter gets listed on a statistical analysis of letters that came in that day, the man never sees it. I vote: I get caught in a twisty maze of politicians who all sound alike. I'm 20 and in college, I really can't afford the time or money to run for office myself, if there are even any open to 20-year-olds. Even if I won, I would need to stay in office long enough to cause change; spot that damn recursion? What else can I do?
Sometimes I wish taxpayers had the right to tell the government to stop wasting their money. The irony of this statement floored me, and I hope you were being sarcastic. Ideally, the government _is_ the taxpayers, and we have every right to do so. The problem is that most people in the US see the political continuum as running between Republican and Democrat. Well, there is only a difference of degrees between the two. Both have their pet projects. Since voters think they have to decide between the two, the only option is which buzzword-project-of-the-month your money will be wasted on next. _Not_ wasting the money is simply out of the question, to the politicians. It's too ludicrous for words.
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I remember a time when it was common to use real names in Usenet. Funny how no one mentioned this so far. To the extent of my memory, I have never posted anonymously to anything. Usenet, mailing lists, webboards, slashdot, whatever. I see other people doing so, and on a certain level it amuses me. I have never been burned for doing so, which may just mean I am lucky. Or maybe I have a higher built-in tolerance for hitting the delete key, and just ignore some stuff that might set other people off. Brief aside: The only guy that has ever really bothered me was some joker that kept spamming everyone @osu.edu. Every last time I asked him to stop, following carefully the instructions in his mail, his account autoreplies another spam to me. I have had 4 of his isp accounts cancelled, he never learns. heh Anyway, I do not intend to ever post anonymously, my opinions are mine and everyone should know they are mine. Everyone should be able to reply to me, personally or publically, the same as if I were standing face to face with that person. The fact that some others have a problem with that, or are scared of it for some reason, is amusing, and kind of sad.
Of course, I'm not sure what being on the lookout for it would accompish if you're running Outlook Express, since there's really no way to delete it from your inbox without first selecting it...which is enough to run the virus. Actually, you can delete it without selecting it. Outlook Express stores all mail in plaintext format. If you have to run this program under Win98/2000 like I do at work, you might have to deal with it, though the article says this worm is not known to be out in the wild right now. If you see a message entitled "Bubbleboy is Back!" appear in your mailbox, and you are running a vulnerable client, do the following:
Immediately close OE
Search your harddrive for 'inbox.mbx'. Mine was in C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail, but this might vary somewhat.
Open the file with notepad or some other plaintext editor. The message will be down towards the bottom, it stores them in order of arrival, so search for all instances of the subject. Delete the entire message text and header, including the unprintable characters that get rendered as boxes. These should be immedediately before the header. Save the file.
Your inbox is now clean. Now open and repeat, because if you got it once, you'll get it a lot more.
Or, you can do like the article suggests, and get the patch, or just set your security to high. I still wouldn't trust it though.
The article says the codebreakers reversed the XingDVD player. It was easy because someone didn't encrypt their CSS code. I thought the article was unclear on who exactly it was, but on a second reading it appears that Xing themselves were the culprits. If so, this probably opens them up for a slew of lawsuits from the people who claimed this format was secure. Anybody else think it's possible they did it on purpose? I mean, you don't screw up an industry standard that bad on _accident_. Could have been a disgruntled employee, maybe, I dunno.
I'd say this site looks to be _less_ useful than deja, or even Usenet/mailing lists in general. One of the biggest advantages those techniques have is the ability to have conversations. This site looks more like ask-a-single-question, get-an-answer. Fine, if that's what you need. I don't always know what _question_ to ask, and those other forums give me the opportunity to find out. They also do it for free (generally), and by people who are there for love of the topic, rather than a board of self-registered experts. I don't think this is a service I would want to use.
No matter what the treaties say, if someone discovers some really valuable resource on the moon, like a big ice field, and the technology exists to exploit it, then it will be owned by whoever gets there first with the most marines. That's the same way it happened in the colonization of the Americas, and I see no reason to think the behavior of governments has changed in the past few hundred years. Regardless, I think I'll invest in some real estate on the scenic slopes of Olympus Mons, and bequeath it to my great grandchildren. In about 100 years that's going to be prime tourism ground;)
My PC was, um, pushing $1500 when I bought it a couple of years ago. I have recently seen better systems for sale at roughly $2-300. The hardware is probably worth (WAG) 150-200 now, less if I disconnect the monitor and the extra hardrive, both of which would be unnecessary on a web server. Running linux, the software would be free if I got it from an FTP server. So, assuming I wanted to support some cantidate exclusively with this machine, would I register as a $1500 contributing PAC, or Just Plain Dan w/ a POS old computer running free software?
Anyone else see some corrolaries between RAM prices and gas prices? I just saw gas below 60 cents/litre today for the first time in months. I think both are ripping the consumer off because we've no choice. Wow... 60 cents? Those metrical-speaking countries must have a real good deal with OPEC. I usually pay closer to $1.30 for mine lately. Maybe the US really should switch over to that there funny-system...
The application alone seems designed to ensure that they all starve to death:
Applications MUST be written clearly or typed and must be accompanied by a videotape which meets the following restrictions: CONTENT: Who you are and why you would make the ultimate Survivor! Be creative! So, to be on the show, you must be able to survive a screen test. Something tells me this one will be the most important test of a cantidate, but really, even if they look good on camera, how are they going to look after 5 1/2 weeks on a deserted island with no plumbing?
Some of the other questions are amusing too. The answers most likely to ensure survival in a real marooning situation, are likewise those most likely to scare the producers and cause you not to be hired. Compare them with the typical angst-ridden teen applicant.
In which other occupations, if any, have you been employed (please list your last three (3))? Tribesman Hunter, Gatherer, Flint knapper Teen McDonalds, lifeguard, Walmart
What is your level of education and what school(s) did you attend? Tribesman None Teen I just graduated from SuperDuper High School in Podunk, Ohio (go Porcupines!)
Name three of your favorite hobbies. Tribesman Making spears, burning out canoes, skinning game animals. Teen Going to movies, shopping, talking on the phone
Not including your current place of residence, in which other cities and/or countries have you lived and for what period of time? Tribesman I have lived in Brazil, Australia, and the Congo at various times. Of course, the tribes didn't call them that... Teen I've never been outside of the three-state area.
List three adjectives that best describe yourself: Tribesman Large, brutish, accurate (with projectiles) Teen Smart, sensitive, ambitious
If you could hold any political office, what would it be and why?: Tribesman Someday, I would like to lead my own clan into the rainforest and never return. Teen I would be mayor, so I could beautify our city's streets and parks.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?: Tribesman I killed my first wild boar when I was 10. Teen I won the spelling bee my senior year!
Do you have any pets? If so, please list their name and type.: Tribesman Animals are for eating. Teen Poofy, my iguana.
Are you a vegetarian or do you eat meat?: Tribesman See above. Teen It isn't right to eat animals, they are people too.
What's your favorite movie?: Tribesman Alive. Teen Clueless
What's your favorite music to listen to?: Tribesman The rythmic pounding of drums. Teen Ska
Describe your perfect day.: Tribesman Waking at dawn, I rise and gather my hunting equipment. But I find that a deer has fallen into the pit I dug last week, so I bludgeon it and dress it to take back to camp, where I roast a haunch and smoke the rest to preserve it. No tigers attack me. Teen I get to sleep in till noon, then go and help my grandmother with her garden.
Do you have any body art (piercing, tattoos, etc.)? If so, please describe.: Tribesman All men in my society have a 3 inch prong stuck through their lip after they make their first kill. Teen I have 8 ear piercings, a nosering, two eyebrow rings, and one other one, you don't want to see it.
List three (3) items you would take with you to the Survivor! desert island, if allowed, and why?: Tribesman A knife, a lighter, and a tarp. That's all I own anyway. Teen A TV, stereo, and VCR so I wouldn't feel so far from home.
What is your favorite topic of conversation at a dinner party?: Tribesman The upcoming rainy season, or the next expedition into town. Teen The terrible plight of the suburbs in this country, as they are doomed to fall behind when even more sprawl moves people out from the cities.
What skills do you bring to the island that would make you a useful member of the group? Tribesman Given a rock, I can provide food for the entire group. Teen I am a good listener, a caring friend, and a swim instructor at my local pool.
Why do you believe you could be the final Survivor? (please limit your answer to 3 or 4 sentences): Teen Because I believe in myself! Tribesman If I am not, I will call down my tribe's medicine man and your corporate headquarters will be left a smoldering ruin in our wake.
A solar sail, probably laser boosted, could provide constant acceleration with no reaction mass. These have been feasible for a while, but NASA has no money to experiment with them, and there's no profitable reason for others to do it. Constant acceleration would let the trip take a short enough period to retain public interest.
I do not recommend making it this easy to switch back and forth. Go cold turkey, especially if you touch-type qwerty. I got curious about dvorak after I heard from the last story here that it was easier on your wrists. Today I saw some links here, and decided to try dvorak. I set my keymap up to change easily. Typed on various things for an hour or two, and I was coming up to speed. Then, I needed to snap off a quick email, so I went back to qwerty. When I went _back_ to dvorak, I became totally confused, and have been playing catch-up ever since. Don't do it! Cold turkey has got to be the only way to succeed at this.
Now, I don't think they would publish their email addresses if they didn't expect feedback, and I'm sure they've gotten some on this, but they probably aren't expecting a slashdot. Be polite, no matter your views. These people are academics, professors and administrators by training, they will simply ignore you if you are rude.
Up until not too long ago, people _could_ "euthanize" babies right after they were born (or during birth). Even healthy ones. It was called partial birth abortion. I know some places have banned this, but I'm not even sure that all states in the US have done so, much less the state of the world. Some (but not all) abortion-rights people supported the mother's right to do this. I think it would be interesting to see where they come down on this issue, too.
Would he be received differently, if he advocated early amniocentisis and other tests to determine disability, and then abortion of those babies?
Please note, I have tried to leave my views on abortion out of the above paragraph, they are not relevant to my point here.
My point is that the man's job is to incite debate on bioethical issues, at least in the class he teaches. This is the most important duty of academics, and universities in general. We go to school to expand our horizons, to learn things that might never be useful in a specific sense, except that they teach us to think critically. If I was just going to school to learn programming and networking, I would be done now, but I have 2 more good years of it, and I look forward to having a teacher as colorful as this gentleman. I doubt I will, because OSU is a public school, and more subject to the whims of popular opinion, and that is a shame. Disagree with the man if you wish (I do), but he would be lax in his job if he did not say what he believed. I will be severely disappointed if Princeton bows to public pressure and censures or fires the man.
It has to be writeable somehow, or it won't ever have data on it. It took a few years for cd writers to come out, but if this thing materializes, I would expect it to follow the same path. Faster, even, since we are now used to being able to burn CDs, and anything that came later would have to boast that ability real quick, or we'd stick with CDs.
Fact is, if I want to show something to a coworker, it's easier to print it out (assuming it is small), walk down there, and discuss it, than to forward them the file, open ICQ, discuss a paragraph that they may or may not be looking at, and hope they understand. The physical-ness of the paper makes it easier to get my point across. Paper is just way more useful. If I want to jot down a phone number, all I need is a pen and a second. But to do the same thing on my computer, I have to get a text editor running to open the proper file, type it in, and save, then find it again later when I need it, whereas that post-it is still stuck to my monitor staring me in the face. I think anyone that prints out email or webpages needs to be punished, though. It reminds me of an old Dilbert: Boss: "Send me two copies so I can print them out." Dilbert: "But it's an email... never mind, I'll do it."
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(From the Seattle Times) Environmentalists joined hands with steelworkers, nuns, French cheese-makers, vegans and sea-turtle impersonators. Teenagers in baggy-legged pants and graying hippies walked side-by-side. Social workers and lawyers shared picket lines with body-pierced punks and tattooed grungers. /here/ against the WTO. Why do we keep bitching and moaning about the loss of privacy, stupid patent laws, crypto restrictions, all that crap. I'm ready to protest for privacy rights!
I love America. Sometimes I get disillusioned, but something like this always comes along. If you don't like the state of the country, change it. I'm in Columbus, Ohio, and there are protests
Really? I used one a little over a year ago, when I was learning drafting (of course). The class was actually a combined drafting/CAD course, required for all engineering students, but I enjoyed it. /me/ a geek, they better have a smile on their face, or they are in _big_ trouble. ;)
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... the hardware and software are set up for a specific set of tasks, and users fiddling with the software setup would be a bad thing (and a potentially huge source of returns of "faulty" products). So users will not have an account or root password given to them (as it's not required to use the product).
Others have pointed out the ways you can distribute the source without using a source cd, so I won't bother that one. One of your other problems seemed to be that you were afraid that easy access to the source would encourage clients to tamper with the setup, and then complain that your product stopped working right. You are apparently shipping to a set of clients who are not overly concerned that they will not have root access. Are these people that will be inclined to muck about with the software on these boxes? Even if they did, couldn't you legalese something to the effect of "screwing with the box voids your warranty"?
I sincerely hope they'll be banned, just as the mafia is banned, the NSDAP is banned, the KKK is banned, and the fundamentalist muslims are banned. There is no room for misuderstanding what the Co$ is doing with religion. It has NOTHING to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with robbery and crime.
I presume, given your other comments, that you were speaking of France. I was not, and I thought I made it clear that I was speaking about the US.
As a counterexample, none of those groups are banned in the US. Except maybe the NSDAP, that name isn't ringing any bells for me, for all I know it could be banned. Even the mafia is not technically an outlawed organization: any group can call themselves 'mafia', and get away with it (why you might want to do that is another question). What is outlawed is _organized crime_. Use this group to commit crimes, and the law enforcement types slam down hard on you, and for good reason; this no matter what you call your group. So the solution would seem to me to be to stop their harrassment of others, make them abide strictly by the laws of whatever country you happen to be in regarding religions or corps, and ignore them.
What they do is get around the law. After a court kept public documents in place when they were challenged by the scientologists, they now have cult members dedicated to doing nothing but keeping the materials checked out and in circulation all the time so the public can never see it. ;)
That'll be a little harder to do if the US court system ever joins the modern era and puts documents online en mass. Maybe the good cultists will just run DoS attacks then
Let's hope not. No matter how much I disagree with someone (in the case of these crackpots, a whole lot), I would not wish to ban them.
Banning is not the solution.
They're both a play on the familiar traffic signal design, which is yellow, with a green circle signifying go. How can goto claim to own a traffic signal design? If someone used a similar label for a site called stop.com, would they sue over that? Craziness.
This is a period of major disinterest in American politics, because the general public feels it cannot affect the system. Links like these scare me, but they are not only online issues. People with no access to the internet feel the same disillusionment slashdot readers do, we are merely seeing a national trend reflected here, in discussions I have seen in the past few days, in fact the whole time I have been reading this site. Slashdot readers have no monopoly on cynicism, look at the voter turnouts in America.
Look at the comments on the Gore/Microsoft story. As long as politicians need money for campaigns, they will be, or be perceived to be, in the pockets of corporations whose pockets I can't match. They want to be reelected: they /can't/ change the laws because then they risk losing that source of money to get reelected. Each professional politician, in his hubris, believes that if only he can stay in office long enough, he can accomplish his idealistic goals. But he gets so caught up in staying in office that he never gets around to those goals.
This recursion can only be broken by term limits, finance reform, and getting the corporations out of politics. But these three things are necessary to produce these three things, and I personally have no idea where to start. I write my congressman: I get a form letter back, my letter gets listed on a statistical analysis of letters that came in that day, the man never sees it. I vote: I get caught in a twisty maze of politicians who all sound alike. I'm 20 and in college, I really can't afford the time or money to run for office myself, if there are even any open to 20-year-olds. Even if I won, I would need to stay in office long enough to cause change; spot that damn recursion? What else can I do?
Sometimes I wish taxpayers had the right to tell the government to stop wasting their money.
The irony of this statement floored me, and I hope you were being sarcastic. Ideally, the government _is_ the taxpayers, and we have every right to do so. The problem is that most people in the US see the political continuum as running between Republican and Democrat. Well, there is only a difference of degrees between the two. Both have their pet projects. Since voters think they have to decide between the two, the only option is which buzzword-project-of-the-month your money will be wasted on next. _Not_ wasting the money is simply out of the question, to the politicians. It's too ludicrous for words.
I remember a time when it was common to use real names in Usenet. Funny how no one mentioned this so far.
To the extent of my memory, I have never posted anonymously to anything. Usenet, mailing lists, webboards, slashdot, whatever. I see other people doing so, and on a certain level it amuses me. I have never been burned for doing so, which may just mean I am lucky. Or maybe I have a higher built-in tolerance for hitting the delete key, and just ignore some stuff that might set other people off.
Brief aside: The only guy that has ever really bothered me was some joker that kept spamming everyone @osu.edu. Every last time I asked him to stop, following carefully the instructions in his mail, his account autoreplies another spam to me. I have had 4 of his isp accounts cancelled, he never learns. heh
Anyway, I do not intend to ever post anonymously, my opinions are mine and everyone should know they are mine. Everyone should be able to reply to me, personally or publically, the same as if I were standing face to face with that person. The fact that some others have a problem with that, or are scared of it for some reason, is amusing, and kind of sad.
Actually, you can delete it without selecting it. Outlook Express stores all mail in plaintext format. If you have to run this program under Win98/2000 like I do at work, you might have to deal with it, though the article says this worm is not known to be out in the wild right now. If you see a message entitled "Bubbleboy is Back!" appear in your mailbox, and you are running a vulnerable client, do the following:
Or, you can do like the article suggests, and get the patch, or just set your security to high. I still wouldn't trust it though.
The article says the codebreakers reversed the XingDVD player. It was easy because someone didn't encrypt their CSS code. I thought the article was unclear on who exactly it was, but on a second reading it appears that Xing themselves were the culprits. If so, this probably opens them up for a slew of lawsuits from the people who claimed this format was secure.
Anybody else think it's possible they did it on purpose? I mean, you don't screw up an industry standard that bad on _accident_. Could have been a disgruntled employee, maybe, I dunno.
I'd say this site looks to be _less_ useful than deja, or even Usenet/mailing lists in general. One of the biggest advantages those techniques have is the ability to have conversations. This site looks more like ask-a-single-question, get-an-answer. Fine, if that's what you need. I don't always know what _question_ to ask, and those other forums give me the opportunity to find out. They also do it for free (generally), and by people who are there for love of the topic, rather than a board of self-registered experts. I don't think this is a service I would want to use.
Aw, I hope they don't do that, I was thinking it would be neat to get a .nr and run my webpages from there ;)
No matter what the treaties say, if someone discovers some really valuable resource on the moon, like a big ice field, and the technology exists to exploit it, then it will be owned by whoever gets there first with the most marines. That's the same way it happened in the colonization of the Americas, and I see no reason to think the behavior of governments has changed in the past few hundred years. ;)
Regardless, I think I'll invest in some real estate on the scenic slopes of Olympus Mons, and bequeath it to my great grandchildren. In about 100 years that's going to be prime tourism ground
My PC was, um, pushing $1500 when I bought it a couple of years ago. I have recently seen better systems for sale at roughly $2-300. The hardware is probably worth (WAG) 150-200 now, less if I disconnect the monitor and the extra hardrive, both of which would be unnecessary on a web server. Running linux, the software would be free if I got it from an FTP server. So, assuming I wanted to support some cantidate exclusively with this machine, would I register as a $1500 contributing PAC, or Just Plain Dan w/ a POS old computer running free software?
Anyone else see some corrolaries between RAM prices and gas prices? I just saw gas below 60 cents/litre today for the first time in months. I think both are ripping the consumer off because we've no choice.
Wow... 60 cents? Those metrical-speaking countries must have a real good deal with OPEC. I usually pay closer to $1.30 for mine lately. Maybe the US really should switch over to that there funny-system...
For the humor-impaired: thpbpbpbpbpbt!
The application alone seems designed to ensure that they all starve to death:
Applications MUST be written clearly or typed and must be accompanied by a videotape which meets the following restrictions:
CONTENT: Who you are and why you would make the ultimate Survivor! Be creative!
So, to be on the show, you must be able to survive a screen test. Something tells me this one will be the most important test of a cantidate, but really, even if they look good on camera, how are they going to look after 5 1/2 weeks on a deserted island with no plumbing?
Some of the other questions are amusing too. The answers most likely to ensure survival in a real marooning situation, are likewise those most likely to scare the producers and cause you not to be hired. Compare them with the typical angst-ridden teen applicant.
In which other occupations, if any, have you been employed (please list your last three (3))?
Tribesman Hunter, Gatherer, Flint knapper
Teen McDonalds, lifeguard, Walmart
What is your level of education and what school(s) did you attend?
Tribesman None
Teen I just graduated from SuperDuper High School in Podunk, Ohio (go Porcupines!)
Name three of your favorite hobbies.
Tribesman Making spears, burning out canoes, skinning game animals.
Teen Going to movies, shopping, talking on the phone
Not including your current place of residence, in which other cities and/or countries have you lived and for what period of time?
Tribesman I have lived in Brazil, Australia, and the Congo at various times. Of course, the tribes didn't call them that...
Teen I've never been outside of the three-state area.
List three adjectives that best describe yourself:
Tribesman Large, brutish, accurate (with projectiles)
Teen Smart, sensitive, ambitious
If you could hold any political office, what would it be and why?:
Tribesman Someday, I would like to lead my own clan into the rainforest and never return.
Teen I would be mayor, so I could beautify our city's streets and parks.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?:
Tribesman I killed my first wild boar when I was 10.
Teen I won the spelling bee my senior year!
Do you have any pets? If so, please list their name and type.:
Tribesman Animals are for eating.
Teen Poofy, my iguana.
Are you a vegetarian or do you eat meat?:
Tribesman See above.
Teen It isn't right to eat animals, they are people too.
What's your favorite movie?:
Tribesman Alive.
Teen Clueless
What's your favorite music to listen to?:
Tribesman The rythmic pounding of drums.
Teen Ska
Describe your perfect day.:
Tribesman Waking at dawn, I rise and gather my hunting equipment. But I find that a deer has fallen into the pit I dug last week, so I bludgeon it and dress it to take back to camp, where I roast a haunch and smoke the rest to preserve it. No tigers attack me.
Teen I get to sleep in till noon, then go and help my grandmother with her garden.
Do you have any body art (piercing, tattoos, etc.)? If so, please describe.:
Tribesman All men in my society have a 3 inch prong stuck through their lip after they make their first kill.
Teen I have 8 ear piercings, a nosering, two eyebrow rings, and one other one, you don't want to see it.
List three (3) items you would take with you to the Survivor! desert island, if allowed, and why?:
Tribesman A knife, a lighter, and a tarp. That's all I own anyway.
Teen A TV, stereo, and VCR so I wouldn't feel so far from home.
What is your favorite topic of conversation at a dinner party?:
Tribesman The upcoming rainy season, or the next expedition into town.
Teen The terrible plight of the suburbs in this country, as they are doomed to fall behind when even more sprawl moves people out from the cities.
What skills do you bring to the island that would make you a useful member of the group?
Tribesman Given a rock, I can provide food for the entire group.
Teen I am a good listener, a caring friend, and a swim instructor at my local pool.
Why do you believe you could be the final Survivor? (please limit your answer to 3 or 4 sentences):
Teen Because I believe in myself!
Tribesman If I am not, I will call down my tribe's medicine man and your corporate headquarters will be left a smoldering ruin in our wake.
Who do you think CBS will pick?
A solar sail, probably laser boosted, could provide constant acceleration with no reaction mass. These have been feasible for a while, but NASA has no money to experiment with them, and there's no profitable reason for others to do it. Constant acceleration would let the trip take a short enough period to retain public interest.
I do not recommend making it this easy to switch back and forth. Go cold turkey, especially if you touch-type qwerty. I got curious about dvorak after I heard from the last story here that it was easier on your wrists. Today I saw some links here, and decided to try dvorak. I set my keymap up to change easily. Typed on various things for an hour or two, and I was coming up to speed.
Then, I needed to snap off a quick email, so I went back to qwerty. When I went _back_ to dvorak, I became totally confused, and have been playing catch-up ever since. Don't do it! Cold turkey has got to be the only way to succeed at this.
Singer is a professor in the Center for Human Values. Here is some contact info.
These gleaned from http://webware.princeton.edu/DOF/dofs taff.htm
and http://webware.princeton.edu/DOF/chrl st00.pdf
Now, I don't think they would publish their email addresses if they didn't expect feedback, and I'm sure they've gotten some on this, but they probably aren't expecting a slashdot. Be polite, no matter your views. These people are academics, professors and administrators by training, they will simply ignore you if you are rude.
Up until not too long ago, people _could_ "euthanize" babies right after they were born (or during birth). Even healthy ones. It was called partial birth abortion. I know some places have banned this, but I'm not even sure that all states in the US have done so, much less the state of the world. Some (but not all) abortion-rights people supported the mother's right to do this. I think it would be interesting to see where they come down on this issue, too.
Would he be received differently, if he advocated early amniocentisis and other tests to determine disability, and then abortion of those babies?
Please note, I have tried to leave my views on abortion out of the above paragraph, they are not relevant to my point here.
My point is that the man's job is to incite debate on bioethical issues, at least in the class he teaches. This is the most important duty of academics, and universities in general. We go to school to expand our horizons, to learn things that might never be useful in a specific sense, except that they teach us to think critically. If I was just going to school to learn programming and networking, I would be done now, but I have 2 more good years of it, and I look forward to having a teacher as colorful as this gentleman. I doubt I will, because OSU is a public school, and more subject to the whims of popular opinion, and that is a shame. Disagree with the man if you wish (I do), but he would be lax in his job if he did not say what he believed. I will be severely disappointed if Princeton bows to public pressure and censures or fires the man.
It has to be writeable somehow, or it won't ever have data on it. It took a few years for cd writers to come out, but if this thing materializes, I would expect it to follow the same path. Faster, even, since we are now used to being able to burn CDs, and anything that came later would have to boast that ability real quick, or we'd stick with CDs.
There is a link to the Source Ports page from the page the story links to
http://www.doomworld.com/ports/index.sht ml
Fact is, if I want to show something to a coworker, it's easier to print it out (assuming it is small), walk down there, and discuss it, than to forward them the file, open ICQ, discuss a paragraph that they may or may not be looking at, and hope they understand. The physical-ness of the paper makes it easier to get my point across.
Paper is just way more useful. If I want to jot down a phone number, all I need is a pen and a second. But to do the same thing on my computer, I have to get a text editor running to open the proper file, type it in, and save, then find it again later when I need it, whereas that post-it is still stuck to my monitor staring me in the face.
I think anyone that prints out email or webpages needs to be punished, though. It reminds me of an old Dilbert:
Boss: "Send me two copies so I can print them out."
Dilbert: "But it's an email... never mind, I'll do it."