Well, perhaps we're looking in the right place, but we just don't know what we've found. Take the sugar that was found in a cloud of gas near the center of our Milky Way. If that isn't a calling card for carbon-based life, I don't know what is. Since we search for electro-magnetic signals we make assumptions that other life will be of a similar tech than us. We are really a fledgling race in our capacity to study the heavens constantly being startled by the phenomena we find in space. It is still too early for us to identify when something is not standard out there. That supernova might just be a distress beacon.
An excellent novel (if a wee bit cycical) dealing with some of the problems of our search for sentient life is His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem. He proposes the problem of how to interpret a purposeful signal once we find it. The scientists in the book are attempting to decipher a neutrino stream that they accidently detect coming to us in a repeating pattern for a fixed amount of time. The answers are not entirely satisfying. Do we really have the capacity to think outside our little box?
I tend to agree with Chomsky who said that the speech which offends us the most is that which we must protect the most vigilantly. For, if we allow censorship of those opinions with which we don't agree, we are opening our opinion up to the same attack from our opponents. What you have left is speech which lacks so much in content from the culling of the controversial that it says absolutely nothing at all. In addition, how are we to strengthen our arguments without knowledge of the spectrum of human discussion, even the kookiest nether-regions? If a well-organized attack on your values from a crank brings them down around you, then you have been building your house from straw.
Wow, we only have to prepare for these two eventualities? Holy sheepshit Kreskin, good thing you've warned us with your powers of clairvoyance. Genocide so that the "better portion can survive"? Betraying your politcal stripe on that one. Clone war? The human genome hardly provided us with enough information to create people, much less create a race of creatures for us to fight against. Geneticists are even wondering if the genome contains all the instructions to create a human form. They expected to find over 100,000 genes in the genome. Instead they found some 30,000 genes. Other forces must be at work. The beginning constituency of the egg is one area they're looking at. Before you go into the business of predicting the future, do yourself a favor and read up on some of this stuff. I'm no expert, but I can sniff out Chicken Little from a mile.
Post after post of "finally..." makes me believe that some of the posters here already have monkey head transplants. It's obvious that the transplant was rejected. They were just using the host body as a blood pump until the brain went into shock. Big deal. You all probably think Dolly was a true clone, too. Chances are the technology will not be there to make you immortal, geekboy. Make friends with death. It is always just over your left shoulder.
This thread has had it. I mean, it's like a bunch of old guys comparing willies to see whose has the most wrinkles in it. Then, after the fun is done, nobody can even remember what got them started...
Re:Open Source will change our civilisation.
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Rebel Code
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From perusal and installation of wares from freshmeat, it seems that it is the most 'together' code that survives-- the most complete, feature-filled, and relatively bug-free. All that free code is not the fittest. However, much of it inter-operates with other code with pipes and such. This seems more like cooperation than survival of the fittest. Think of the systems in place at the bottom of the ocean. There is predation, sure, but just as much cooperation, and it's all interdependant.
I need information. Often, Lynx is all I need for that. If you want me to view your page, you'd better make it comply with the standards of my software. So screw your pop-up panels, I'm already riding out on the next link.
You're shooting yourself in the foot there. Time and again, it has been shown that opportunity is not equal. Theoretically, there are laws that prohibit discrimination. Effectively, there are societal barriers to every kind of opportunity. Look at CEOs of corporations, politcal representation, and follow on down. There are stratifications in place that are very difficult to surmount. Look at the dunderhead we have for president and you'll see that the game is clearly rigged. Do you think there's someone out there more qualified? Did they have the same opportunity?
How is this flamebait? Is it a little too extreme? Have some problem with the facts in the second paragraph? Put down those moderation tools before you hurt somebody, sonny.
The first invention is a method of compressing text stored in binary form, which expresses information as a series of noughts and ones, by comparing each word with its predecessor and recording only the differences between words. This compresses the data to an eighth of its normal size.
Keele High Density plans to float to commercialise the technology further.
I hate it when they start writing in ivronics. I think I can guess what float means in this context, but who knows with this sexy biz language. (For those who are wondering: ivronics is a specialized dialect of English spoken by primarily white, upwardly mobile business types.)
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I think you should check yourself before jumping this poster. I've been following reaction to this poster and time and again the T word is trotted out. Now, I don't see how your comment really has any thing to say, much less a substantive response to the comment. So who is the troll?
i don't see where left-wingers are any more envious than right-wingers. you could have easily said:
What depresses me is when adults, usually right-wingers, insist on looking at life this way. They don't care that they have riches beyond the dreams of your average third-worlder or caveman, they only want more and more and feel disadvantaged if anyone tries to check that.
But then both statements are generalized crap. You seem stuck between empathy for those that "have-not" and defensiveness over those that want a part of your piece. That probably doesn't fit in the right and left wing model that forms the public debate. You may find that you do not adhere solely to either.
Haha. Those graphs made me laugh very hard. I think they were lifted out of time magazine. Well, at least Time's studies involve at least 50 people... Better learn Object COBOL.
Dood, didn't you read Atlas Shrunk by Ein Bland? You really should so you can realize that it's noble to give our selves over to greed and selfishnest. I mean, look at all the animals out there that don't give to charity. It's only natural to want magic fingers underwear and giant tvs. If animals could make money, they would shirely be doing the same. They must be doing something write if they got all that money!
The idea behind conservation is not to impede technological progress but to eliminate waste. I don't see how curbing unnecessary electricty usage is the path back to the stone age. What's the advantage to leaving all the lights on in your house? If we can't see that, then we are following losing strategy and we deserve to lose.
Ok, genius, we put you in charge of who gets to starve. From your comments, I gather it will be people who are unable to make money through some handicap or disability. Of course, given the power, I would pick you first.
If my thoughts could be seen, they'd put my head in a guillotine... -Bobby Zimmerman
"We are designing a business-to-business application with shoppingcarts, orders, ordelines and other stuff with servlets and JSP.
The java part is clear. But the database... Pff, we are programmers not databasedesigners [sic]. Can anybody give us some help?" --from the Database Debunking site
Hackers and db admins seem to have different ways of thinking. The db admin may make a query where the coder would write a script to scan variables. 2 different ways of thinking that should be mastered, yet they are not always in the same head. Seems like a good team would have both heads in on the application design process. Sheesh. Don't write any code till you have those field names!
Angel 31337: I just uploaded the Microsoft source. It took long enough, but I think we got it all. Just looking at it briefly, Gabriel and I had a pretty good laugh. The comments, where present, are usually jokes about Bill. The one about the sock down the pants...
God: Good, now what were we going to do with it, install it on all the boxes around here? You guys never tell me anything...
31337: God, no, we're using it in our suit against Satan. We just found the registry keys to prove that he has a secret backdoor. He wants to use it to immanetize the eschaton.
God: ImmaWhat?
31337: End the world. He thinks everyone will run BSD after that.
God: Hmm. Well, I there's this's guy petitioning me now on Slashdot to release the code. Do you think that will help?
31337: Why would they want that? They all think it's garbage anyways.
God: Hmm. Good point, well, gotta run, got a date with one of those BSD girls. Call it industrial espionage...
Some muppet ran an executable program that was sent to him/her and the program emailed some user-priviledge data _legally_ available to any program running in that user's context.
Well, let's see, ever heard of scanning attachments for viruses and other security-compromising code? Even if the attachment is clever enough to bypass that scan, shouldn't they run a virus-check on any software that's installed? Heck, even my pointy-nosed boss running Norton can do that. If Outlook didn't have an open arms policy to attachments you wouldn't even need that. The excuse that training alone is the issue is pretty thin.
Otherwise, try this solution: save all files to server-- instead of backing up workstations at night, reinstall Win2000 and Office daily. No more trojan!
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Well, perhaps we're looking in the right place, but we just don't know what we've found. Take the sugar that was found in a cloud of gas near the center of our Milky Way. If that isn't a calling card for carbon-based life, I don't know what is. Since we search for electro-magnetic signals we make assumptions that other life will be of a similar tech than us. We are really a fledgling race in our capacity to study the heavens constantly being startled by the phenomena we find in space. It is still too early for us to identify when something is not standard out there. That supernova might just be a distress beacon.
An excellent novel (if a wee bit cycical) dealing with some of the problems of our search for sentient life is His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem. He proposes the problem of how to interpret a purposeful signal once we find it. The scientists in the book are attempting to decipher a neutrino stream that they accidently detect coming to us in a repeating pattern for a fixed amount of time. The answers are not entirely satisfying. Do we really have the capacity to think outside our little box?
I'll have my battleclone personally deliver the apology.
I tend to agree with Chomsky who said that the speech which offends us the most is that which we must protect the most vigilantly. For, if we allow censorship of those opinions with which we don't agree, we are opening our opinion up to the same attack from our opponents. What you have left is speech which lacks so much in content from the culling of the controversial that it says absolutely nothing at all. In addition, how are we to strengthen our arguments without knowledge of the spectrum of human discussion, even the kookiest nether-regions? If a well-organized attack on your values from a crank brings them down around you, then you have been building your house from straw.
Wow, we only have to prepare for these two eventualities? Holy sheepshit Kreskin, good thing you've warned us with your powers of clairvoyance. Genocide so that the "better portion can survive"? Betraying your politcal stripe on that one. Clone war? The human genome hardly provided us with enough information to create people, much less create a race of creatures for us to fight against. Geneticists are even wondering if the genome contains all the instructions to create a human form. They expected to find over 100,000 genes in the genome. Instead they found some 30,000 genes. Other forces must be at work. The beginning constituency of the egg is one area they're looking at. Before you go into the business of predicting the future, do yourself a favor and read up on some of this stuff. I'm no expert, but I can sniff out Chicken Little from a mile.
Goodness gracious, you are a dumbass.
Post after post of "finally..." makes me believe that some of the posters here already have monkey head transplants. It's obvious that the transplant was rejected. They were just using the host body as a blood pump until the brain went into shock. Big deal. You all probably think Dolly was a true clone, too. Chances are the technology will not be there to make you immortal, geekboy. Make friends with death. It is always just over your left shoulder.
This thread has had it. I mean, it's like a bunch of old guys comparing willies to see whose has the most wrinkles in it. Then, after the fun is done, nobody can even remember what got them started...
From perusal and installation of wares from freshmeat, it seems that it is the most 'together' code that survives-- the most complete, feature-filled, and relatively bug-free. All that free code is not the fittest. However, much of it inter-operates with other code with pipes and such. This seems more like cooperation than survival of the fittest. Think of the systems in place at the bottom of the ocean. There is predation, sure, but just as much cooperation, and it's all interdependant.
I need information. Often, Lynx is all I need for that. If you want me to view your page, you'd better make it comply with the standards of my software. So screw your pop-up panels, I'm already riding out on the next link.
You're shooting yourself in the foot there. Time and again, it has been shown that opportunity is not equal. Theoretically, there are laws that prohibit discrimination. Effectively, there are societal barriers to every kind of opportunity. Look at CEOs of corporations, politcal representation, and follow on down. There are stratifications in place that are very difficult to surmount. Look at the dunderhead we have for president and you'll see that the game is clearly rigged. Do you think there's someone out there more qualified? Did they have the same opportunity?
How is this flamebait? Is it a little too extreme? Have some problem with the facts in the second paragraph? Put down those moderation tools before you hurt somebody, sonny.
The first invention is a method of compressing text stored in binary form, which expresses information as a series of noughts and ones, by comparing each word with its predecessor and recording only the differences between words. This compresses the data to an eighth of its normal size.
There is nothing in this that says ASCII to me.
Keele High Density plans to float to commercialise the technology further.
I hate it when they start writing in ivronics. I think I can guess what float means in this context, but who knows with this sexy biz language. (For those who are wondering: ivronics is a specialized dialect of English spoken by primarily white, upwardly mobile business types.)
I think you should check yourself before jumping this poster. I've been following reaction to this poster and time and again the T word is trotted out. Now, I don't see how your comment really has any thing to say, much less a substantive response to the comment. So who is the troll?
But then both statements are generalized crap. You seem stuck between empathy for those that "have-not" and defensiveness over those that want a part of your piece. That probably doesn't fit in the right and left wing model that forms the public debate. You may find that you do not adhere solely to either.
Haha. Those graphs made me laugh very hard. I think they were lifted out of time magazine. Well, at least Time's studies involve at least 50 people... Better learn Object COBOL.
Dood, didn't you read Atlas Shrunk by Ein Bland? You really should so you can realize that it's noble to give our selves over to greed and selfishnest. I mean, look at all the animals out there that don't give to charity. It's only natural to want magic fingers underwear and giant tvs. If animals could make money, they would shirely be doing the same. They must be doing something write if they got all that money!
The idea behind conservation is not to impede technological progress but to eliminate waste. I don't see how curbing unnecessary electricty usage is the path back to the stone age. What's the advantage to leaving all the lights on in your house? If we can't see that, then we are following losing strategy and we deserve to lose.
Ok, genius, we put you in charge of who gets to starve. From your comments, I gather it will be people who are unable to make money through some handicap or disability. Of course, given the power, I would pick you first.
If my thoughts could be seen, they'd put my head in a guillotine... -Bobby Zimmerman
"We are designing a business-to-business application with shoppingcarts, orders, ordelines and other stuff with servlets and JSP.
The java part is clear. But the database... Pff, we are programmers not databasedesigners [sic]. Can anybody give us some help?" --from the Database Debunking site
Hackers and db admins seem to have different ways of thinking. The db admin may make a query where the coder would write a script to scan variables. 2 different ways of thinking that should be mastered, yet they are not always in the same head. Seems like a good team would have both heads in on the application design process. Sheesh. Don't write any code till you have those field names!
Angel 31337: I just uploaded the Microsoft source. It took long enough, but I think we got it all. Just looking at it briefly, Gabriel and I had a pretty good laugh. The comments, where present, are usually jokes about Bill. The one about the sock down the pants...
God: Good, now what were we going to do with it, install it on all the boxes around here? You guys never tell me anything...
31337: God, no, we're using it in our suit against Satan. We just found the registry keys to prove that he has a secret backdoor. He wants to use it to immanetize the eschaton.
God: ImmaWhat?
31337: End the world. He thinks everyone will run BSD after that.
God: Hmm. Well, I there's this's guy petitioning me now on Slashdot to release the code. Do you think that will help?
31337: Why would they want that? They all think it's garbage anyways.
God: Hmm. Good point, well, gotta run, got a date with one of those BSD girls. Call it industrial espionage...
Knock, knock
Who's there?
Richard Stallman.
Richard Stallman who?
Don't tell me you've already forgotten me!
It's may not be funny, but it's still a joke.
Then he'll discover that his mouse lacks the button to use them :(
Well, let's see, ever heard of scanning attachments for viruses and other security-compromising code? Even if the attachment is clever enough to bypass that scan, shouldn't they run a virus-check on any software that's installed? Heck, even my pointy-nosed boss running Norton can do that. If Outlook didn't have an open arms policy to attachments you wouldn't even need that. The excuse that training alone is the issue is pretty thin.
Otherwise, try this solution: save all files to server-- instead of backing up workstations at night, reinstall Win2000 and Office daily. No more trojan!
Stop this thread, I wanna get off.