For decades, it was socialists that were the enemy of individual rights. Fascists are now much more of a threat. They (try to) make the trains run on time. They focus hatred on some minorities, get some real emotion going. They want a STONG government.
As a Canadian, I have no intention of going into countries where I might disappear and be tortured to see what I might know (or just because they enjoy torture) - you know, countries like Chad, Angola, and the US.
To Chistians who believe in Hell, God has made it clear: if you break the rules you will be tortured for all eternity. Such Christian parents need to ensure their children learn this - obey or suffer horrible pain. Beating their children when they disobey is God's way - God's approach to ethics.
I think this is one of the most evil aspects of Christianity.
As more people and organizations do vast amounts of computing on cheap clouds, eventually clouds are going to stop being almost free. Sure, the servers are being used in a very efficient way, but more and more servers are going to have to be purchased.
If the government ever does hunt for people guilty of something by searching people's searches, they are going to get a lot of false positives. There is always more people interested in, for example, bombs, than there are bombers.
...down the line, hydrogen is the way to go -- maybe fuel cells.
Hydrogen is not a source of energy; it is way of storing energy or moving it around. (We don't have any hydrogen, except what we have made. To get more, you need to make more, which takes at least as much energy as you get from burning it.)
In addition to a lot of oil and gas, Alberta has a lot of clean coal.
I don't see the problem with putting nuclear waste in deep mine shafts in precambrian rock and then topping the shafts off with a few hundred feed of concrete.
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
I read this to mean that any Open Source software can be forked. The MIT license is just as good as the GPL in this regard. All you need is an existing copy of the source.
It would not surprise me if playing video games was a good mental exercise for gamers. But surely there is selection going on as well. Gamers have a talent that makes them good at the "tricky mental tests".
I see this sort of thing all the time. A week or so ago, there was an article in the (Canadian) Globe and Mail about some study that indicated that shorter people live longer than taller people by (as I recall) 1.5 years per inch. I assume that this is at least partly genetic characteristices that, in some people, go together. But some guy was suggesting that you should feed your kids less so they don't grow as tall and therefore will presumable live longer. This idea seems.... potentially slanderous to comment upon.
A large sample of people will have an average of about 1.0 testicles apiece. If you have more than the average, you have a much greater chance of getting prostate cancer and male pattern baldness.
Apparently, people whose middle finger is not longer than their index finger are less likely to die from some cardiovascular disease. Would it help if I cut the ends of my middle fingers off?
Many Americans support the President. Many are afraid. Many afraid people make it possible for the government to greatly increase its power. Many people want this. If the government is breaking laws, it is because there is a war on! Serious new measures must be taken! This is what makes me afraid.
Fraud is a crime, and if you are accused, the prosecution has to "prove beyond a reasonable doubt". This brings it into the domain of civil law, where, to lose, your opposition just needs the "preponderance of the evidence".
So, under the new scheme, you could lose the greater of actual damages (which might be $150) or $500,000 because, you know, it sorta looks like your guilty.
What if it sorta looks like your kid's Windows box was used in a phishing venture?
It is hard (for me) to say whether his approach will provide any unique insights, but it reminds me of something...
I have done programming involving coordinates and trig from time to time - originally, stuff like finding where a line is clipped by a polygon. I can remember and do SohCahToa, but that was close to the limit of my knowledge of trig.
The big problems that I found, while trying to write the code, were positive versus negative angles, infinite-angle of vertical lines, and having to calculate a lot of square-roots.
I found that two principles were a great help...
Like the man says/implies, if distance-squared works as well as distance, use it; you avoid a square-root calculation.
Express angles as a pair of numbers dx/ds and dy/ds (change in x and y as you move along the line).
The second point eliminated a lot of if-statements and similar but not quite identical code (if both angles are positive..., if angle A is positive and angle B is negative..., etc.)
By the way, to those who suggest "active shielding" (creating a magnetic field around the craft to deflect radiation) - studies show that it won't work to stop GCR (only solar).
I imagine that 'metasystem' means 'we will build it into the OS so it is easy and transparent; all you have to do is give us money'. Oh, and 'better stay away from that Open Source stuff, you don't want your identity to be open.
I didn't RTFA and IANAL, but there is one aspect about this that is interesting...
Phone companies, postal servers, delivery companies are common carriers - they provide a service (within their own rules) to anyone who wants it, and they are not liable for what is in the packages - they are providing a service; they are not part of a criminal enterprise even if criminals use the service.
Isn't Slashdot protected in the same way? Anyone can post, Slashdot is a common carrier and is not responsible for the contents of the post.
On the other hand, if this outfit is 'Invite Only', it is more like a club, a group... a (partly) criminal group!
John Dvorak... Isn't this the guy who (used to) write columns in Byte(?) with words in all CAPITALS,
sort of an ALTERNATIVE to poking you in the CHEST.
I believe that I have been annoyed by everything I have ever read by this guy.
You can step back and consider the turbo-charger to be part of the engine.
You can be very clever about using as much of the energy in the gasoline as you can, but in the big
picture, you burn your gas, you get some work done, and at the end of it all, the air gets a bit warmer.
Same for the solar power, but the Sun has a BIG fuel tank.
It is true that energy is neither created nor destroyed. However, gasoline is a highly concentrated, relatively low-entropy source of energy that can be used to do things; after it is used, the energy is still around, but it is in the form of heat - first in the engine and exhaust, then in the air, then just around - a relatively high-entropy form of energy.
In other words, gasoline is non-reusable in the sense that you can get work out of it when you burn it, but once it has been burned, it is burnt.
Let's say we've reached the edge of the universe, what happens when we step beyond that boundary?
I am not an expert, here, but I believe that there
are no directions you can move in space that cross
the boundary.
In the balloon analogy, the 2D space is expanding,
but there is no direction, in that 2D space, that
moves off the balloon.
Interestingly, everywhere on the balloon is
just next to outside the balloon. If
this is true in our 3D space, everywhere is just
as close as everywhere else to the edge of the
universe.
Actually, come to think about it, this makes
sense - if there is no epicenter of expansion,
there is no where that is farthest out.
Guys get More Obsessed with Particular Subjects
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Women Leaving I.T.
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I think the answer is obvious - as a gross
generalization, more guys have a personality
which causes them to get obsessed with some
particular subject, getting deeply into it, wanting
to master it; more woman have a personality that
values being good at everything, being good at
being the kind of person that they want to be.
Lots of guys get obsessed with various technical
subjects. The best people in a subject tend to
be the ones who are obsessed with being good at
it.
By obsessed, I mean they love some subject,
they are good at it, they love being good at it,
they spend an inordinate amount of time working
on it, they become really good at it, they love
being really good at it. And it pays well.
In a nutshell, I think there are more guys than
women who love to code or love to
design systems.
The ratio of men to woman in I.T. is becoming more
extreme becuase, over the last couple of decades,
the perceived value of being very good has kept
rising. When I got into the game about 25 years
ago, corporations were more likly to value
interchangeable "resources"; they didn't want to
be dependent on talent. Now, a lot more
companies want people who are good. It
makes it harder to manage, but a really good
developer can be 5 or 10 or 20 times more
valuable than a mediocre developer, and a very
good developer is generally not paid even twice
what a mediocre developer is paid.
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As a Canadian, I have no intention of going into countries where I might disappear and be tortured to see what I might know (or just because they enjoy torture) - you know, countries like Chad, Angola, and the US.
I think this is one of the most evil aspects of Christianity.
I couldn't find a gui app to see what services were being started. In a forum on fedoraforum.org, it said that one was "in the works".
Right. No problem. I went back to FC 14 the day I started this waste of time.
As more people and organizations do vast amounts of computing on cheap clouds, eventually clouds are going to stop being almost free. Sure, the servers are being used in a very efficient way, but more and more servers are going to have to be purchased.
"The outgassing" isn't smoke.
There is a good reason for the standard:
User: "Well, my computer seems to.."
Support: "Reboot your computer"
Is it just me, or does the Firefox logo look like a fox knowing the Earth. In the Biblical sense, I mean.
If the government ever does hunt for people guilty of something by searching people's searches, they are going to get a lot of false positives. There is always more people interested in, for example, bombs, than there are bombers.
It helps align your interests with those of your government.
Hydrogen is not a source of energy; it is way of storing energy or moving it around. (We don't have any hydrogen, except what we have made. To get more, you need to make more, which takes at least as much energy as you get from burning it.)
In addition to a lot of oil and gas, Alberta has a lot of clean coal.
I don't see the problem with putting nuclear waste in deep mine shafts in precambrian rock and then topping the shafts off with a few hundred feed of concrete.
I read this to mean that any Open Source software can be forked. The MIT license is just as good as the GPL in this regard. All you need is an existing copy of the source.
I see this sort of thing all the time. A week or so ago, there was an article in the (Canadian) Globe and Mail about some study that indicated that shorter people live longer than taller people by (as I recall) 1.5 years per inch. I assume that this is at least partly genetic characteristices that, in some people, go together. But some guy was suggesting that you should feed your kids less so they don't grow as tall and therefore will presumable live longer. This idea seems.... potentially slanderous to comment upon.
A large sample of people will have an average of about 1.0 testicles apiece. If you have more than the average, you have a much greater chance of getting prostate cancer and male pattern baldness.
Apparently, people whose middle finger is not longer than their index finger are less likely to die from some cardiovascular disease. Would it help if I cut the ends of my middle fingers off?
Many Americans support the President. Many are afraid. Many afraid people make it possible for the government to greatly increase its power. Many people want this. If the government is breaking laws, it is because there is a war on! Serious new measures must be taken! This is what makes me afraid.
Now, ozone... that would be a marker for, what... grow-ops?
So, under the new scheme, you could lose the greater of actual damages (which might be $150) or $500,000 because, you know, it sorta looks like your guilty.
What if it sorta looks like your kid's Windows box was used in a phishing venture?
Civil law can be scary.
I have done programming involving coordinates and trig from time to time - originally, stuff like finding where a line is clipped by a polygon. I can remember and do SohCahToa, but that was close to the limit of my knowledge of trig.
The big problems that I found, while trying to write the code, were positive versus negative angles, infinite-angle of vertical lines, and having to calculate a lot of square-roots.
I found that two principles were a great help...
- Like the man says/implies, if distance-squared works as well as distance, use it; you avoid a square-root calculation.
- Express angles as a pair of numbers dx/ds and dy/ds (change in x and y as you move along the line).
The second point eliminated a lot of if-statements and similar but not quite identical code (if both angles are positive..., if angle A is positive and angle B is negative..., etc.)It seems that the majority of people in the US and Canada believe that people who advocate terrorism should be jailed.
If they wanted to, that law and your post would be all that it would take.
It's getting scary out there.
What stops GCR on Earth? The atomosphere?
I imagine that 'metasystem' means 'we will build it into the OS so it is easy and transparent; all you have to do is give us money'. Oh, and 'better stay away from that Open Source stuff, you don't want your identity to be open.
Phone companies, postal servers, delivery companies are common carriers - they provide a service (within their own rules) to anyone who wants it, and they are not liable for what is in the packages - they are providing a service; they are not part of a criminal enterprise even if criminals use the service.
Isn't Slashdot protected in the same way? Anyone can post, Slashdot is a common carrier and is not responsible for the contents of the post.
On the other hand, if this outfit is 'Invite Only', it is more like a club, a group... a (partly) criminal group!
I believe that I have been annoyed by everything I have ever read by this guy.
You can be very clever about using as much of the energy in the gasoline as you can, but in the big picture, you burn your gas, you get some work done, and at the end of it all, the air gets a bit warmer.
Same for the solar power, but the Sun has a BIG fuel tank.
In other words, gasoline is non-reusable in the sense that you can get work out of it when you burn it, but once it has been burned, it is burnt.
I am not an expert, here, but I believe that there are no directions you can move in space that cross the boundary.
In the balloon analogy, the 2D space is expanding, but there is no direction, in that 2D space, that moves off the balloon.
Interestingly, everywhere on the balloon is just next to outside the balloon. If this is true in our 3D space, everywhere is just as close as everywhere else to the edge of the universe.
Actually, come to think about it, this makes sense - if there is no epicenter of expansion, there is no where that is farthest out.
Lots of guys get obsessed with various technical subjects. The best people in a subject tend to be the ones who are obsessed with being good at it.
By obsessed, I mean they love some subject, they are good at it, they love being good at it, they spend an inordinate amount of time working on it, they become really good at it, they love being really good at it. And it pays well.
In a nutshell, I think there are more guys than women who love to code or love to design systems.
The ratio of men to woman in I.T. is becoming more extreme becuase, over the last couple of decades, the perceived value of being very good has kept rising. When I got into the game about 25 years ago, corporations were more likly to value interchangeable "resources"; they didn't want to be dependent on talent. Now, a lot more companies want people who are good. It makes it harder to manage, but a really good developer can be 5 or 10 or 20 times more valuable than a mediocre developer, and a very good developer is generally not paid even twice what a mediocre developer is paid.