They're not hostile to science. It's Slashdot, it's all about teh Science. What the posts are hostile towards is *religion*, which is what the Global Warming Cult has become.
No, what they are hostile to is what they perceive as a threat to their lifestyle: the idea that burning fossil fuels might have a hidden cost. After all, computing uses a lot of energy, as does the modern lifestyle in general, so anything against that consumption is seen as a threat and ignored or outright attacked, even if doing so requires taking a downright absurd position: claiming that changing the composition of a mixture of gasses to have more heat-absorbing ones doesn't heat it up.
This is really not all that different from creationists: they too perceive a fact to be a threat, so they engage in amazing mental contortions to explain it away.
The ironic thing is that switching into renewable energy sources - solar, wind, tidal, waves - would propably decrease the cost of energy after the initial infrastructure investment; after all, oil is getting more and more expensive all the time, and the supply is untrustworthy on top of that, due to the instability of Middle-East.
Besides, if the "Global Warming Cult" is a religion, their god (or should that be devil ?) is proving itself by melting the North and South Pole as we speak; so kneel, heathen;).
They could always just limit the maximum connections of a particular client to, say, 100. "100 simultaneous connections are reasonable for all legal uses of the Interweb."
Then all p2p would be fucked, not just BT.
So use UDP instead of TCP. That way there are no connections.
Now, I suppose they could track the number of separate addressess the customer has sent/received packets to/from in a given timeframe, but frankly, that is starting to border on idiotic; it would be cheaper to just upgrade the line. Every time they filter something, more and more people will get pissed at them; and while Joe Average doesn't know what's this all about, he can't help but notice that everyone seems to think that Comcast is shit.
Anyway, this mess underlines why we need net neutrality / anti-filtering laws.
I'm Canadian and I'm used to people from different geographic regions confusing me for being an American.
Seeing how Canada is located in America, this is an easy mistake to make:).
But seriously, it is interesting to see how different America (the continent) and Europe are in this regard: no single country dominates Europe to the point where being called European would mean you're a resident of that country, rather than a resident of some unspecified country in the continent.
Or perhaps you could simply use colored paper ? You could also print a dither pattern of some kind.
Or simply print a document which otherwise doesn't use any yellow, scan it, and use the coloring tools of a photo editor to pick yellow pixels. Gimp, for example, can turn the desired color to transparency.
Basically, the only way for the occupying invader to win a guerilla war is to completely decimate the civilian population. In the United States, killing the people that you're trying to subjugate would be absolutely pointless (you actually think the U.S. government would use a nuclear weapon on its own populace?), and would be like dumping gasoline on the fire of rebellion.
If the US Government - or any government or politician, for that matter - faced the options of either losing the war and their power, or nuking their own population, then yes, I think they'd nuke 'em. Why wouldn't they ? They'd have nothing to lose, since they were already facing defeat.
Never underestimate a determined combatant fighting on his home soil.
Never underestimate the depths of evil a human being fighting for power is willing to descend to.
We will never travel faster than the speed of light.
Not locally, perhaps. However, there are numerous suggested ways of getting from point A to point B in less time than a photon would, the two most well known propably being wormholes and Alcubierre metric.
We will never invent a perpetual motion/energy device.
Maybe. However, as I've understood it, it is (theoritically) possible to create a new universe in a laboratory by creating a buble of high-energy vacuum. Such a bubble would seem like a black hole from outside, vaporazing and collapsing almost immediately; but from the inside, it would undergo inflation, ultimately becoming a new universe.
If this is true, and it would be possible to survive the trip through the black hole, then it should be possible to build a device which uses whatever energy sources are available in this universe, and when they start running out, creates a new one, enters it and continues the process, allowing it to do work forever.
We will never terraform Mars, because if we ever DID have the technology to overcome the myriad of obstacles between us and that goal, why would we need to terraform Mars? Under what circumstances would we have the technology of the gods, and yet need another planet? Giant arcologies in space seem more reasonable.
Why would we need to build a theme park centered on talking mouse ? Of course we don't, and yet Disneyland exists.
Look, having "technology of the gods" means that you have the power of a god, which in turn means that you don't need to do anything. Given that, why wouldn't you terraform Mars, just for fun ?
Send 12-25 people, aged 65+, with enough supplies to spend the rest of their lives on Mars. (Not having to return will drasticly reduce the mission cost.)
Unfortunately, the requirement list includes "nurses", that is, young people who can take care of the elders in their final years. Then there's the little matter of whoever is last having to spend who knows how long alone. In short, it might be a tad difficult to get anyone to agree to go.
For a start: my laptop has a 10Mbit Ethernet port. Now 100 Mb is standard, and 1 Gb available. Is there any reason why I should expect my laptop to get a free upgrade? I don't think so.
That depends, actually. Did the laptop's specification state it has an "Ethernet port" or a "10MBit Ethernet port" ? Because if it is the former, it seems like willfull lie by omission to me.
That's what this lawsuit also comes down to: did the advertizement state that this is a "Blu-Ray 1.0" player, or did it simply call it a "Blu-Ray" player ? Joe Average can't be reasonably expected to know that there are more than one version of Blu-Ray - after all, neither VHS nor DVD have those.
You buy a VHS player and it plays all VHS tapes. You buy a DVD player and it plays all DVD's, with all extra features. If this isn't true for Blu-Ray players, and you omit this little fact when making the sale, you're a fraudster and deserve to be bitchslapped hard for it.
"Buyer beware" belongs in the garbage bin of history with the rest of the disgusting customs of the Roman Empire.
Second point, when you're carefull (as everybody should be, caveat empteor) to pick only linux supported hardware, you've no need to reboot into windows for a hardware issue ; from scanners to dvb-t usb 'sticks', I've never run into an area of comptuer expansion totaly forgotten by linux.
Can you recommend a Linux-supported 3D card - and by that I mean one with in-kernel OSS drivers ? I'm really starting to get tired trying to patch NVIDIA's wrapper for the last driver version to support my GeForce 2 MX to work with new kernels.
That is the real reason keeping Linux from desktop: the graphic subsystem is a horrible kludge. Not only does it need a binary driver, but the driver also runs partially in userspace, causing X to need root privileges. What a mess.
Or worse. Your camera gets stolen and is used to photograph illegal activities. The images are then posted on the net with your watermark on them. Cops arrive at your door and your life is history.
Is there some massive and unlikely database of people's irises that I'm not aware of?
I steal your camera, which has your iris data within.
I photograph illegal activity - or simply take a photo of an existing photo of child porn. The photo gets watermarked with your saved iris data.
I send the photo and your home address to the police or a district prosecutor trying to make a name for himself as an anonymous tip.
The police check it out. Turns out your iris matches the photograph watermark. You'll get convicted and everyone laughs at what a stupid criminal you are, except the tough guys who post on Slashdot and explain how you should be killed like the rabid dog you are.
Of course, this isn't any different from getting your fingerprints from anything you've touched and planting them to a scene of a crime to frame you. Makes one wonder just what should count as actual evidence...
You could get a quad core 2.4ghz machine for less than the money bush is giving to stimulate the economy. Just saying.
And three of those four cores would sit idle due to Firefox being single-threaded (who is the lazerbrain who came up with that ?), so being quad-core wouldn't help performance at all. Just saying.
If anything, it probably produces false positives that single out minorities: "Have you ever done anything that might be considered amoral?" Right after sex practice questions.
Well, since absolutely everything might be considered immoral by someone, the answer is obviously "yes".
People change. Feelings change. Circumstances change. To promise to love someone forever is not a realistic promise. You can promise to *try*. But you can't promise you *will.* At least, not with any real certainty.
In business (and in promises to kids or spouses about realistic promises), you are promising to deliver something that is within your ability. If you promised something you *can't* deliver, you are a liar. If you renege, you are a cheat (in the case of business).
If you promise to deliver ten thousand units of your new cutting-edge CPU, and an earthquake destroys the facility producing the chips before that many are produced, you can't deliver what you promised yet are not a liar.
No human being - indeed, no being of limited ability - can possibly be certain that they can deliver what they promise. A business deal is no different than marriage wov in this regard. Certainty is not the province of mere mortals.
And please, any guy will tell you that it's not "comfort" they're thinking about when they see a woman bend over and that thong comes creeping up over their hip huggers. It may not be right, but it's what happens. Putting all that on your kid should be tantamount to child abuse.
Yeah, the poor pedophiles who are attracted to children might get excited if they see one in thongs ! Won't someone please think of the pedophiles !
But tell me: should children be banned from public swimming pools ? After all, swimwear often leaves a lot of the body uncovered, and is skintight over what is covered.
Seriously thought, your comment has the same kind of fucked up mentality as those who claim that women not wearing burkas are asking to be raped.
Encrypt your file sharing. Does anything else really need to be said?
Emigration is a better solution, or would be if there were anywhere to emigrate to. The problem is that this shit keeps on going down everywhere. Perhaps us geeks could pool our resources to hasten the development of personal spaceflight and -habitats, to escape the apparently inevitable fall to tyranny, madness and a new Dark Age the world is on the brink of ?
No, your response here is proof that you've accepted his existence, at last as well as you're capable of accepting it.
Not neccessarily. I often hold conversations with figments of my imagination. It is entertaining, and if I get good enough at that, I could write them down and become a bestseller;).
"Thousands of people are constantly looking for pornography on the web," Canovas says. "As their stimulation threshold rises, they feel the need for stronger and stronger material until their search leads them to child pornography." I intuitively feel that the author is stretching the logic a little to thin there.
More importantly, doesn't "stronger" in this case mean "more stimulating" ? So Canovas seems to be of the opinion that child porn is more stimulating than adult porn; and if so, wouldn't that make Canovas a pedohile ?
Of course, if I ever caught you having sex with MY child, I'd execute you like a dog.
And then you'd go to prison, and your child would still be every bit as abused, but now also lost a parent. You'd get satisfaction, she (?) would get screwed - again. The true irony is that this is exactly the same choice the abuser himself (?) also faced and made - to satisfy his own desires and ignore the consequences.
Why is it that pedophilia seems to draw out even more chest-beating than the religion/atheism flamefests ?
The summary has a definite pro-pedophilia slant. I'm not entirely sure I like that.
I fail to see any slant, unless you meant the implication that pedophilia (wanting to fuck little kids) and child sexual abuse (fucking little kids) are not the same thing, which is of course correct, as one means desire and the other action.
Because if they don't, your kid can starve or freeze to death or get cooked in the summer.
See rock meet glass. See glass break. Break glass break !
I guess some people just find it hard to put a price on someone's life, at least a price on a few dollars of gas and 20 minutes of work time against someone's life.
Maybe they could ask the person who refused to break his car window to save his kid for an upper bound ?
I am unclear if that is being offered as an option. If I cannot take my laptop with me on a business trip, there is no point in doing the trip. I am a Software Engineer and my laptop is the primary tool with which I do my job. If I do not have it, I cannot work.
Send the data on an encrypted bootable DVD beforehand, and then just buy a laptop when you arrive (or send it by mail too, if you're feeling lucky).
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No, what they are hostile to is what they perceive as a threat to their lifestyle: the idea that burning fossil fuels might have a hidden cost. After all, computing uses a lot of energy, as does the modern lifestyle in general, so anything against that consumption is seen as a threat and ignored or outright attacked, even if doing so requires taking a downright absurd position: claiming that changing the composition of a mixture of gasses to have more heat-absorbing ones doesn't heat it up.
This is really not all that different from creationists: they too perceive a fact to be a threat, so they engage in amazing mental contortions to explain it away.
The ironic thing is that switching into renewable energy sources - solar, wind, tidal, waves - would propably decrease the cost of energy after the initial infrastructure investment; after all, oil is getting more and more expensive all the time, and the supply is untrustworthy on top of that, due to the instability of Middle-East.
Besides, if the "Global Warming Cult" is a religion, their god (or should that be devil ?) is proving itself by melting the North and South Pole as we speak; so kneel, heathen ;).
Are you referring to chinese dragons or chinese leaders ?
So use UDP instead of TCP. That way there are no connections.
Now, I suppose they could track the number of separate addressess the customer has sent/received packets to/from in a given timeframe, but frankly, that is starting to border on idiotic; it would be cheaper to just upgrade the line. Every time they filter something, more and more people will get pissed at them; and while Joe Average doesn't know what's this all about, he can't help but notice that everyone seems to think that Comcast is shit.
Anyway, this mess underlines why we need net neutrality / anti-filtering laws.
Seeing how Canada is located in America, this is an easy mistake to make :).
But seriously, it is interesting to see how different America (the continent) and Europe are in this regard: no single country dominates Europe to the point where being called European would mean you're a resident of that country, rather than a resident of some unspecified country in the continent.
Or perhaps you could simply use colored paper ? You could also print a dither pattern of some kind.
Or simply print a document which otherwise doesn't use any yellow, scan it, and use the coloring tools of a photo editor to pick yellow pixels. Gimp, for example, can turn the desired color to transparency.
If the US Government - or any government or politician, for that matter - faced the options of either losing the war and their power, or nuking their own population, then yes, I think they'd nuke 'em. Why wouldn't they ? They'd have nothing to lose, since they were already facing defeat.
Never underestimate the depths of evil a human being fighting for power is willing to descend to.
Not locally, perhaps. However, there are numerous suggested ways of getting from point A to point B in less time than a photon would, the two most well known propably being wormholes and Alcubierre metric.
Maybe. However, as I've understood it, it is (theoritically) possible to create a new universe in a laboratory by creating a buble of high-energy vacuum. Such a bubble would seem like a black hole from outside, vaporazing and collapsing almost immediately; but from the inside, it would undergo inflation, ultimately becoming a new universe.
If this is true, and it would be possible to survive the trip through the black hole, then it should be possible to build a device which uses whatever energy sources are available in this universe, and when they start running out, creates a new one, enters it and continues the process, allowing it to do work forever.
Why would we need to build a theme park centered on talking mouse ? Of course we don't, and yet Disneyland exists.
Look, having "technology of the gods" means that you have the power of a god, which in turn means that you don't need to do anything. Given that, why wouldn't you terraform Mars, just for fun ?
Unfortunately, the requirement list includes "nurses", that is, young people who can take care of the elders in their final years. Then there's the little matter of whoever is last having to spend who knows how long alone. In short, it might be a tad difficult to get anyone to agree to go.
That depends, actually. Did the laptop's specification state it has an "Ethernet port" or a "10MBit Ethernet port" ? Because if it is the former, it seems like willfull lie by omission to me.
That's what this lawsuit also comes down to: did the advertizement state that this is a "Blu-Ray 1.0" player, or did it simply call it a "Blu-Ray" player ? Joe Average can't be reasonably expected to know that there are more than one version of Blu-Ray - after all, neither VHS nor DVD have those.
You buy a VHS player and it plays all VHS tapes. You buy a DVD player and it plays all DVD's, with all extra features. If this isn't true for Blu-Ray players, and you omit this little fact when making the sale, you're a fraudster and deserve to be bitchslapped hard for it.
"Buyer beware" belongs in the garbage bin of history with the rest of the disgusting customs of the Roman Empire.
Can you recommend a Linux-supported 3D card - and by that I mean one with in-kernel OSS drivers ? I'm really starting to get tired trying to patch NVIDIA's wrapper for the last driver version to support my GeForce 2 MX to work with new kernels.
That is the real reason keeping Linux from desktop: the graphic subsystem is a horrible kludge. Not only does it need a binary driver, but the driver also runs partially in userspace, causing X to need root privileges. What a mess.
Of course, this isn't any different from getting your fingerprints from anything you've touched and planting them to a scene of a crime to frame you. Makes one wonder just what should count as actual evidence...
And three of those four cores would sit idle due to Firefox being single-threaded (who is the lazerbrain who came up with that ?), so being quad-core wouldn't help performance at all. Just saying.
Well, since absolutely everything might be considered immoral by someone, the answer is obviously "yes".
Stupid question...
If you promise to deliver ten thousand units of your new cutting-edge CPU, and an earthquake destroys the facility producing the chips before that many are produced, you can't deliver what you promised yet are not a liar.
No human being - indeed, no being of limited ability - can possibly be certain that they can deliver what they promise. A business deal is no different than marriage wov in this regard. Certainty is not the province of mere mortals.
Yeah, the poor pedophiles who are attracted to children might get excited if they see one in thongs ! Won't someone please think of the pedophiles !
But tell me: should children be banned from public swimming pools ? After all, swimwear often leaves a lot of the body uncovered, and is skintight over what is covered.
Seriously thought, your comment has the same kind of fucked up mentality as those who claim that women not wearing burkas are asking to be raped.
Emigration is a better solution, or would be if there were anywhere to emigrate to. The problem is that this shit keeps on going down everywhere. Perhaps us geeks could pool our resources to hasten the development of personal spaceflight and -habitats, to escape the apparently inevitable fall to tyranny, madness and a new Dark Age the world is on the brink of ?
Not neccessarily. I often hold conversations with figments of my imagination. It is entertaining, and if I get good enough at that, I could write them down and become a bestseller ;).
More importantly, doesn't "stronger" in this case mean "more stimulating" ? So Canovas seems to be of the opinion that child porn is more stimulating than adult porn; and if so, wouldn't that make Canovas a pedohile ?
And then you'd go to prison, and your child would still be every bit as abused, but now also lost a parent. You'd get satisfaction, she (?) would get screwed - again. The true irony is that this is exactly the same choice the abuser himself (?) also faced and made - to satisfy his own desires and ignore the consequences.
Why is it that pedophilia seems to draw out even more chest-beating than the religion/atheism flamefests ?
I fail to see any slant, unless you meant the implication that pedophilia (wanting to fuck little kids) and child sexual abuse (fucking little kids) are not the same thing, which is of course correct, as one means desire and the other action.
My tears fall now
from using Vistalike waterfalls of salt
Split my belly now
I just can not live with
shame of Vista
Balmer you jackass
what is that coming this way
a flying chair
Look what you caused such horrible poetry
was thus inspired
See rock meet glass. See glass break. Break glass break !
Maybe they could ask the person who refused to break his car window to save his kid for an upper bound ?
In Soviet Russia, security bonds you !
In Soviet Russia, the system abuses you !
Send the data on an encrypted bootable DVD beforehand, and then just buy a laptop when you arrive (or send it by mail too, if you're feeling lucky).