So if you can die, and wake up after a decent period of "being dead", does that mean that there is no soul? Cause many believe after death, your soul "parts from the body".
So if the body "is dead", and the "soul" does not part in a decent amount of time to sustain the dogma on this experiment. Then.. wouldn't cremation being utterly cruel?
I'll chuckle when the religions fanatics chew on that.
Well, according to the unemployment / jobtraining office in Belgium it is. They give out bonusses for everyone entering the IT-field, as it's considered a "field with too much demand for employers then there is offer".
Youre quite possibly right. Now that the govt can do anything it wants, as long as it can link it to the war on terror
I think we both differ a bit in what we view as "identification" as your conclusion seems to have a bit of a sour aftertaste. I'm very much opposed to how the rights and freedom of American have been violated, and continue to be in name of "terrorism" to get a very dirty agenda across.
Overhere it's more relaxed, you shouldn't be asked to identificate for intimidation or to check wherever you "might fall under the very loose definition of a terrorist" (or other "bad bad bad person").
My point is just that, it will be really easy for fe. identification where passwords are really weak. And (an extra barrier for sexual harresters ) you could built in a system where age is checked before entering a chatroom as example (it would stop those annoying a/s/l as well;); it shouldn't be a "sacrifice your privacy for using this service", neither being scanned and logged every move you make. (and resulting in a database of your psychological profile fe. to filter out "possible future criminal offenses" and monitor, which could be a possible outcome but unacceptable.)
I can understand though, that if you feel your government isn't respecting your rights nor your privacy (the US is really pushing it) that such a thing might sound really intimidating.
I just picked up my eID. which generates both a "signature", and has other unique data.
I started playing with the API's, and the options are endless; even am trying to work out how to replace most login mechanisms and replace them by the eID in conjuction with the PIN-code in the office as it would solve ALOT of password problems. (which actually evolved to "tricks" which void "annoying" security measures)
As far I know Americans do not have an ID, and not every American is required to carry one at all times, which.. well would make it a hard thing to let the government "help" with security in this way. I only see advantages to the obligation to carry an ID overhere, and never knew it different either.
It might pop up in the US as well though, as Bill Gates has showed alot of interest in this kind of technology. But maybe not in the form of a passport-like ID; In the company my brother works at Microsoft actually checked out their simular identificationsystem they had develloped named port-e-key.
I believe these are the future for identification, perhaps with added layers like biometric identification.
Only a select few DePost employees are allowed to open letters which are undeliverable in very rare conditions to find who the letter is adressed to. (0.02% of the mail would be undeliverable)
The Belgian constitution states breaching the right is only allowed for "by law appointed responsable agents" who are entitled to undertake this action. (which would be the "few select DePost employees")
In theory, if your mother opens your mail your rights have been violated and you could undertake action.
Email would fall under the same article as alot of documents suggest cause article 29 doesn't define wherever the mail is electronic or not.
Ofcourse I know, if the system is sortof good inwhat it does, the above wont be too effective. But who wants will bypass such a thing. What about PGP?
I honestly doubt that the system will result in displaying the emails of those who actually are paranoid about their activity and doing things that aren't too legal. It'd be disturbing if they will be successfull with this type of privacy infringement. It's ILLEGAL to read one's snailmail. Why is it then legal to scan every email for keywords and having ultimately someone monitoring my emails cause their scanning-engine might, most plausable, flaw?
I've been seeing more and more people being trained who are taught that OS is a hideous thing to work with. If it breaks there is noone to blame it on [/get support or have someone instantly replace or fix it] and are willing to pay ALOT more and sell their souls to have something they feel they can rely on and have good support on.(it's why DELL seems to be as popular in IT-centres and companies where I've been comfronted with; PC acts funny = next or same day a replacement depending on your contract.)
Just too many see the OS-movement as a freak hobbyist thing to do. Just a handfull are doing effort to bring the message of what it really means across and point out the possible and realistic results of selling your soul to Bill, but it seems like a drop on a hot plate...
I'm confused about how people seem to believe that "the conditions for life have to be equal to the conditions we've had here that might've lead to springing earths' life" as if there is just one magic mix for life which earth coïncidentally had. You just gave a definition of planet earth.
It's a bit of a limited observation in my view; what if life could have another "life form"? We cannot perceive that cause our brains aren't able to visualize that; all we know is our planet and how things work around here. Everything is based on the influence and have evolved to the conditions in our solarsystem/planet.
eg. our eyes pick up light; their use and evolution depends on a sun providing the ability to pick up a certain range of the spectrum of light which we use as orientation. Why would that be equal across the universe -if there would be another lifeform? (even on our puny planet we already have differences in the way creatures 'see'.) Without our type of gravity, why would one evolve into having legs or needing to walk? Earth is made for 75% out of water, no wonder our life has 'sprung from water'. Does that mean that life only can come forth out of water? Noone knows, but I think it's very likely there's life somewhere in our universe in a form we cannot comprehend.
why would one "defeat" his or her own hardware with hacking away (eg. emulating) to make it do what one wants the hardware to do? If I buy hardware I like to feel I own it, and I am in control of it.
My initial reaction on the subject is "what? The state again has to protect people against themselves and need bribes to actually get rid of terrible (eating-)patterns? (wherever or not lured and seduced by marketting or not)". But if this helps I only can applaud it, lets hope there could be a simular effect (with this 'bribe' or another campaign) as the Fins experienced.
So these days one has to bribe or buy someone's good behaviour / habits that benefit the *self*? They just will, if they actually have some selfcontrol, put out to get their Xbox or Ipod or whatever they're offering to forget about it all together afterwards.
Hate to point to the guardians again, but kids / teens get their habits from somewhere. If your guardians haven't got the selfcontrol to leave that other twinky or don't take proper time for preparing proper food, how could you expect a teen to fight that and know better?
That's the rest of the world to you? It's disturbing how egocentric and blindly Americans believe in their superiourity. There's a whole other world besides that island, noone is more or less then someone else.
I thought entry models always underperform a bit, until they tweak it up with drivers and balance things out, and improve the logics. To eventually end up with the "better and newer" version.
When the first DirectX 9.0 Graca's came out they underperformed and were still 'evolving' (=buggy) compared to their matured DirectX 8.1 end-models. It's the way it goes.
"Microsoft has been charged for uninformed installation of software by numerous individuals in Australia." "I saw this icon in my taskbar, but didn't know what it was, before I could take a decent look at it this was gone! I called my more technical savvy friend in fear for a virus, so he explained me it was Microsoft installing software onto my computer." a victim said. Microsoft claimed it to be a "feature" and declined any further comment.
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So if you can die, and wake up after a decent period of "being dead", does that mean that there is no soul? Cause many believe after death, your soul "parts from the body".
So if the body "is dead", and the "soul" does not part in a decent amount of time to sustain the dogma on this experiment. Then.. wouldn't cremation being utterly cruel?
I'll chuckle when the religions fanatics chew on that.
Well, according to the unemployment / jobtraining office in Belgium it is.
They give out bonusses for everyone entering the IT-field, as it's considered a "field with too much demand for employers then there is offer".
Youre quite possibly right. Now that the govt can do anything it wants, as long as it can link it to the war on terror
I think we both differ a bit in what we view as "identification" as your conclusion seems to have a bit of a sour aftertaste. I'm very much opposed to how the rights and freedom of American have been violated, and continue to be in name of "terrorism" to get a very dirty agenda across.
Overhere it's more relaxed, you shouldn't be asked to identificate for intimidation or to check wherever you "might fall under the very loose definition of a terrorist" (or other "bad bad bad person").
My point is just that, it will be really easy for fe. identification where passwords are really weak. And (an extra barrier for sexual harresters ) you could built in a system where age is checked before entering a chatroom as example (it would stop those annoying a/s/l as well ;); it shouldn't be a "sacrifice your privacy for using this service", neither being scanned and logged every move you make. (and resulting in a database of your psychological profile fe. to filter out "possible future criminal offenses" and monitor, which could be a possible outcome but unacceptable.)
I can understand though, that if you feel your government isn't respecting your rights nor your privacy (the US is really pushing it) that such a thing might sound really intimidating.
I wonder if the Queen listens to Queen on her iPod?
I doubt she'll like to have Queen standing on her ipod while listening to the bandmembers talk.
For more information on eID@MS
I just picked up my eID. which generates both a "signature", and has other unique data.
I started playing with the API's, and the options are endless; even am trying to work out how to replace most login mechanisms and replace them by the eID in conjuction with the PIN-code in the office as it would solve ALOT of password problems. (which actually evolved to "tricks" which void "annoying" security measures)
As far I know Americans do not have an ID, and not every American is required to carry one at all times, which.. well would make it a hard thing to let the government "help" with security in this way. I only see advantages to the obligation to carry an ID overhere, and never knew it different either.
It might pop up in the US as well though, as Bill Gates has showed alot of interest in this kind of technology. But maybe not in the form of a passport-like ID; In the company my brother works at Microsoft actually checked out their simular identificationsystem they had develloped named port-e-key.
I believe these are the future for identification, perhaps with added layers like biometric identification.
Now that's insightful.
The Belgian constitution, article 29 states that the "Letter secrecy" CANNOT be violated. (this means, noone can open the letter other then the adressed.)
According to the Belgian MailOffice they obey this law stating:
Only a select few DePost employees are allowed to open letters which are undeliverable in very rare conditions to find who the letter is adressed to. (0.02% of the mail would be undeliverable)
The Belgian constitution states breaching the right is only allowed for "by law appointed responsable agents" who are entitled to undertake this action. (which would be the "few select DePost employees")
In theory, if your mother opens your mail your rights have been violated and you could undertake action.
Email would fall under the same article as alot of documents suggest cause article 29 doesn't define wherever the mail is electronic or not.
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Ofcourse I know, if the system is sortof good inwhat it does, the above wont be too effective. But who wants will bypass such a thing. What about PGP?
I honestly doubt that the system will result in displaying the emails of those who actually are paranoid about their activity and doing things that aren't too legal. It'd be disturbing if they will be successfull with this type of privacy infringement. It's ILLEGAL to read one's snailmail. Why is it then legal to scan every email for keywords and having ultimately someone monitoring my emails cause their scanning-engine might, most plausable, flaw?
Ok that's it. I'm buying myself an aircar
I've been seeing more and more people being trained who are taught that OS is a hideous thing to work with. If it breaks there is noone to blame it on [/get support or have someone instantly replace or fix it] and are willing to pay ALOT more and sell their souls to have something they feel they can rely on and have good support on.(it's why DELL seems to be as popular in IT-centres and companies where I've been comfronted with; PC acts funny = next or same day a replacement depending on your contract.)
Just too many see the OS-movement as a freak hobbyist thing to do. Just a handfull are doing effort to bring the message of what it really means across and point out the possible and realistic results of selling your soul to Bill, but it seems like a drop on a hot plate...
Now I can photoshop my dreamgirl *for real*
I'm confused about how people seem to believe that "the conditions for life have to be equal to the conditions we've had here that might've lead to springing earths' life" as if there is just one magic mix for life which earth coïncidentally had. You just gave a definition of planet earth.
It's a bit of a limited observation in my view; what if life could have another "life form"? We cannot perceive that cause our brains aren't able to visualize that; all we know is our planet and how things work around here. Everything is based on the influence and have evolved to the conditions in our solarsystem/planet.
eg. our eyes pick up light; their use and evolution depends on a sun providing the ability to pick up a certain range of the spectrum of light which we use as orientation. Why would that be equal across the universe -if there would be another lifeform? (even on our puny planet we already have differences in the way creatures 'see'.) Without our type of gravity, why would one evolve into having legs or needing to walk? Earth is made for 75% out of water, no wonder our life has 'sprung from water'. Does that mean that life only can come forth out of water? Noone knows, but I think it's very likely there's life somewhere in our universe in a form we cannot comprehend.
You're French?
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
If I'm not mistaken woot is the abbrivation for We Own the Other Team, and was introduced with multiplayer games.
why would one "defeat" his or her own hardware with hacking away (eg. emulating) to make it do what one wants the hardware to do? If I buy hardware I like to feel I own it, and I am in control of it.
If they patent the "middle click to open a tab" and the "control click to open a tab" the OpenSource community can so own M$
Where are you when we need you?
"That's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid and unexpected things make them feel scared."
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but if you read slashdot's headers there'll be random futurama quotes on each server reply. eg:
X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!
Wow, that's really fascinating!
My initial reaction on the subject is "what? The state again has to protect people against themselves and need bribes to actually get rid of terrible (eating-)patterns? (wherever or not lured and seduced by marketting or not)".
But if this helps I only can applaud it, lets hope there could be a simular effect (with this 'bribe' or another campaign) as the Fins experienced.
So these days one has to bribe or buy someone's good behaviour / habits that benefit the *self*? They just will, if they actually have some selfcontrol, put out to get their Xbox or Ipod or whatever they're offering to forget about it all together afterwards.
Hate to point to the guardians again, but kids / teens get their habits from somewhere. If your guardians haven't got the selfcontrol to leave that other twinky or don't take proper time for preparing proper food, how could you expect a teen to fight that and know better?
That's the rest of the world to you? It's disturbing how egocentric and blindly Americans believe in their superiourity.
There's a whole other world besides that island, noone is more or less then someone else.
I thought entry models always underperform a bit, until they tweak it up with drivers and balance things out, and improve the logics. To eventually end up with the "better and newer" version.
When the first DirectX 9.0 Graca's came out they underperformed and were still 'evolving' (=buggy) compared to their matured DirectX 8.1 end-models. It's the way it goes.
I can see it now..
"Microsoft has been charged for uninformed installation of software by numerous individuals in Australia."
"I saw this icon in my taskbar, but didn't know what it was, before I could take a decent look at it this was gone! I called my more technical savvy friend in fear for a virus, so he explained me it was Microsoft installing software onto my computer." a victim said. Microsoft claimed it to be a "feature" and declined any further comment.
+1, disturbing