It would turn powerlines into a huge radio antenna.
They already are. It's just a matter of modulation. Makes me wonder why they don't do just that, and put a "wireless" signal over the wire. That nice smooth sine wave is just sitting there, waiting to be "distorted" in the right fashion. How ironic could that be?
they would let the passengers operate any electronic device on an airliner. In fact I would discourage them from even concentrating their thoughts on the same object at the same time. Brains generate RF, too, you know. And having 400-600 of them in sync could wreak havoc on these new "fly by wire" planes.
Yeah, I was having a bit of fun... Anyway, theory or no theory, the only correct answer about our origins as a species distinct from all others is "Nobody knows." We can be pretty sure that we evolved exactly the same way as all the others have. Yes, you are right. All the flamebaiting and trolling is very sad. It also shows that we haven't evolved that much at all. The only indication I see is our self awareness. We know who we see in the mirror. Everything else we do is explained quite adequately on Nat Geo or Animal Planet.
I thought I spelled it out. You just set up a junk email address when you sign up with Slashdot, NYT, etc. A working address, but not your primary one.
So, what interesting things do you do then?
Simple doesn't mean uninteresting.
What are you contributing to the world?
My ideas. Many people like them and use them. And when I ask, they even pay me for them. Sometimes I don't even have to ask. Which is nice, because I hate asking for money.
What will be left after you're gone?
Hopefully a world at least as good as the one I came to. I have no vision of grandiose. I'm taking care of my part of the world without harming others, and that's good enough for me. I also believe in the camper's creed, "Leave no trace." In other words, I should leave it as I found it.
In that case, I think it will be cool if they can make their system use Chinese characters. For one thing they can use all the.com.edu.org etc.without confusing the systems already online. From one of the articles, While the two could theoretically co-exist by having ISPs simply recognize both roots, the system could "break" if both roots contained identical extensions. The extensions really won't be identical if the characters are different, right? If the Chinese want to access the "outside", they just use the English ones. If they do use english characters on their own root servers, well, all I can say is that it might be very entertaining. But I believe they wish to join the WTO, and they(WTO) could just tell them that they just have to abide by WTO rules, which could concievably state "no conflicts with American root servers" for example, as that could be considered interfering with international trade. The EU is using this kind of pressure on Turkey(over journalistic freedoms) and Serbia(war criminals). I don't know. I'm just making this stuff up. FTAA: English domain names should be connected with a dot while the Chinese domain names should be connected using a full stop in Chinese language character sets. So far, I don't see the problem. Time for me to learn some Chinese, I suppose.
I didn't say it wasn't rude. However, it is something you should prepare for. As far as the white list, I don't use it for all accounts. It is however a very convenient way of seperating the wheat from the chaff. New clients start off in my junk mail account, and then get moved into the list on my real account. Besides, with phone calls getting cheaper by the minute, I can always get an address to put into the white list. And yes a simple life with modest needs is a big plus. It's simple because I keep it that way out of choice. I don't feel poor because of it. Life is good. The weather is great. I'm not driving 50 miles each way every day in winter waste land. If you wish to live a stressful life and complain about every little thing that goes wrong, have at it.
That's fine as long as they don't question Evolution.
Why would you want to question "development", "progression", "progress", "advancement"? Maybe you would prefer the word "mutation"? How about "transformation"..."alteration"? "Metamorphosis" sounds cool. Then of course, there's good ol' "change". You are not denying that these things happen, are you?
Still, it was pretty irritating to see an address I had been quite careful with destroyed because the Slashdot editors didn't consider carefully what they were doing.
Oh, come on! Evidently you weren't careful enough. Why didn't you use a throw away address just for that purpose? I never put my personal/business address on a commercial site, unless it's a site I use for my business. Furthermore, I use a white list. Works like a champ. Remember, a "privacy policy" is about as effective as an EULA and is subject to change on the slightest whim.
Seems to me anybody can use any language they like. I was thinking more about their "great firewall". We nailed Europe over GM foods, and that just over labeling. The Americans claim to be against censorship, but their insane IP laws belie that premise. Information is just like any other product. If they won't let me sell it, I want to call them on it. If we can force the EU to buy GM foods, then we should be able to force China to buy our "info".
Heh, You got THAT right! How can they possibly try the man(Saddam) without calling on the entire Reagan cabinet? Same goes for Pinoche while he was being held. He was a nobody until the Americans put him in power. Neither of these guys would have gotten anywhere on their own. Saddam's trial is indeed a farce. In fact this whole "terrorism" excuse is a farce. However, the election of 2004 proved that 99% doesn't give a damn. It's pretty obvious that the name of game is delay, delay, delay in order to give the DoD time to doctor..er...I mean "process" the papers.
allowing contraband to hit the streets as "part of an investigation"? Yeah, they nail one guy(surely politically unconnected) while ten more slide on by. Like with most illegal activities, I believe they know who's doing what for the most part, but so much money is changing hands, the temptation to let it go and just take a cut is pretty strong. I'm not sure that encouraging illegal behavior is a good way to catch a crook. The article didn't say who solicitated whom. This guy was hired by the gov't. If these 50,000 e-mails are a result of this contract, it looks like entrapment to me.
I remember that. "Watchdog news media"!? More like lapdog news media. And this is why it's so important to go beyond the mass media. They're simply not doing their job. The worse part is that nobody is demanding that they do their job. Nobody has the guts to tell them that if they don't answer our questions, they simply will not get the vote. We hammer one guy for alleged drug use and let the other guy off scot free. This brings up something you said in a previous post, To the extent that democracy is truly "government by the people", that power has been placed in incredibly incompetent hands., put's it in perspective. Many people associate intelligence with arrogance(sometimes with good reason), so to paraphrase Mark Twain, they won't be happy until they put a total moron in the white house. This is why(amongst other things like dictatorship by 51%), in reality, I don't believe in majority rule. It's the same as a dictatorship, only less efficient. Maybe we shouldn't allow anyone with less than 85-90% of the vote acquire any power. When the first guy gets in with that kind of mandate, he stays in until somebody else can beat him with the same percentages. Could it work? Only if people can stay focused.
IP law matters very much(unfortunately). Tomorrow's(even today's) programmers are already wasting too much time on licensing instead of programming. A 12 line P2P program is saddled with a several hundred line IP license.
Heh Why not? It's right up there with software patents. I mean, let's go all the way with this crap and place all human activity under some IP law. Then we won't have to deal with such silly nonsense as "freedom of speech". A lot of Americans already think their first amendment goes too far. So, let's finish it off, once and for all. IP law is the perfect way to do it.
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It would turn powerlines into a huge radio antenna.
They already are. It's just a matter of modulation. Makes me wonder why they don't do just that, and put a "wireless" signal over the wire. That nice smooth sine wave is just sitting there, waiting to be "distorted" in the right fashion. How ironic could that be?
I think it's time to apply this to our friendly ISPs. My how history repeats itself.
I mean if it wasn't for their invention, none of us would be here.
Odd, I always thought that if it wasn't for our parents, we wouldn't be here.
they would let the passengers operate any electronic device on an airliner. In fact I would discourage them from even concentrating their thoughts on the same object at the same time. Brains generate RF, too, you know. And having 400-600 of them in sync could wreak havoc on these new "fly by wire" planes.
They own some stock?
It did make use of a C:\Users\ folder, however, which was rather nice.
Finally. No more C:\docume~1\.
it was the "karma sutra" virus.
What did they do? Merge with the law firm of Dewey, Cheatum, And Howe? I suppose the plan is more lawsuits.
Yeah, I was having a bit of fun... Anyway, theory or no theory, the only correct answer about our origins as a species distinct from all others is "Nobody knows." We can be pretty sure that we evolved exactly the same way as all the others have. Yes, you are right. All the flamebaiting and trolling is very sad. It also shows that we haven't evolved that much at all. The only indication I see is our self awareness. We know who we see in the mirror. Everything else we do is explained quite adequately on Nat Geo or Animal Planet.
Like how?
I thought I spelled it out. You just set up a junk email address when you sign up with Slashdot, NYT, etc. A working address, but not your primary one.
So, what interesting things do you do then?
Simple doesn't mean uninteresting.
What are you contributing to the world?
My ideas. Many people like them and use them. And when I ask, they even pay me for them. Sometimes I don't even have to ask. Which is nice, because I hate asking for money.
What will be left after you're gone?
Hopefully a world at least as good as the one I came to. I have no vision of grandiose. I'm taking care of my part of the world without harming others, and that's good enough for me. I also believe in the camper's creed, "Leave no trace." In other words, I should leave it as I found it.
In that case, I think it will be cool if they can make their system use Chinese characters. For one thing they can use all the .com .edu .org etc.without confusing the systems already online. From one of the articles, While the two could theoretically co-exist by having ISPs simply recognize both roots, the system could "break" if both roots contained identical extensions. The extensions really won't be identical if the characters are different, right? If the Chinese want to access the "outside", they just use the English ones. If they do use english characters on their own root servers, well, all I can say is that it might be very entertaining. But I believe they wish to join the WTO, and they(WTO) could just tell them that they just have to abide by WTO rules, which could concievably state "no conflicts with American root servers" for example, as that could be considered interfering with international trade. The EU is using this kind of pressure on Turkey(over journalistic freedoms) and Serbia(war criminals). I don't know. I'm just making this stuff up. FTAA: English domain names should be connected with a dot while the Chinese domain names should be connected using a full stop in Chinese language character sets. So far, I don't see the problem.
Time for me to learn some Chinese, I suppose.
I didn't say it wasn't rude. However, it is something you should prepare for. As far as the white list, I don't use it for all accounts. It is however a very convenient way of seperating the wheat from the chaff. New clients start off in my junk mail account, and then get moved into the list on my real account. Besides, with phone calls getting cheaper by the minute, I can always get an address to put into the white list. And yes a simple life with modest needs is a big plus. It's simple because I keep it that way out of choice. I don't feel poor because of it. Life is good. The weather is great. I'm not driving 50 miles each way every day in winter waste land. If you wish to live a stressful life and complain about every little thing that goes wrong, have at it.
That's fine as long as they don't question Evolution.
Why would you want to question "development", "progression", "progress", "advancement"?
Maybe you would prefer the word "mutation"? How about "transformation"..."alteration"? "Metamorphosis" sounds cool. Then of course, there's good ol' "change". You are not denying that these things happen, are you?
Maybe they're just saying no to "clogging the courts with pending lawsuits".
Still, it was pretty irritating to see an address I had been quite careful with destroyed because the Slashdot editors didn't consider carefully what they were doing.
Oh, come on! Evidently you weren't careful enough. Why didn't you use a throw away address just for that purpose? I never put my personal/business address on a commercial site, unless it's a site I use for my business. Furthermore, I use a white list. Works like a champ. Remember, a "privacy policy" is about as effective as an EULA and is subject to change on the slightest whim.
It would be so dumb like charging for incoming *phone calls*...
Just part of the insanity of American cel phone service. I still can't figure out how they let this come to pass. I guess they'll buy anything.
going to destroy the planet if it doesn't recieve a response?
Seems to me anybody can use any language they like. I was thinking more about their "great firewall". We nailed Europe over GM foods, and that just over labeling. The Americans claim to be against censorship, but their insane IP laws belie that premise. Information is just like any other product. If they won't let me sell it, I want to call them on it. If we can force the EU to buy GM foods, then we should be able to force China to buy our "info".
Heh, You got THAT right! How can they possibly try the man(Saddam) without calling on the entire Reagan cabinet? Same goes for Pinoche while he was being held. He was a nobody until the Americans put him in power. Neither of these guys would have gotten anywhere on their own. Saddam's trial is indeed a farce. In fact this whole "terrorism" excuse is a farce. However, the election of 2004 proved that 99% doesn't give a damn. It's pretty obvious that the name of game is delay, delay, delay in order to give the DoD time to doctor..er...I mean "process" the papers.
Somewhere out there...
Yeah but, we need "somewhere right here"...Oh well. Let's hope nobody finds any testicles while looking up a journalist's dress.
to hammer 'em for "unfair" trade restraints.
allowing contraband to hit the streets as "part of an investigation"? Yeah, they nail one guy(surely politically unconnected) while ten more slide on by. Like with most illegal activities, I believe they know who's doing what for the most part, but so much money is changing hands, the temptation to let it go and just take a cut is pretty strong. I'm not sure that encouraging illegal behavior is a good way to catch a crook. The article didn't say who solicitated whom. This guy was hired by the gov't. If these 50,000 e-mails are a result of this contract, it looks like entrapment to me.
I remember that. "Watchdog news media"!? More like lapdog news media. And this is why it's so important to go beyond the mass media. They're simply not doing their job. The worse part is that nobody is demanding that they do their job. Nobody has the guts to tell them that if they don't answer our questions, they simply will not get the vote. We hammer one guy for alleged drug use and let the other guy off scot free. This brings up something you said in a previous post, To the extent that democracy is truly "government by the people", that power has been placed in incredibly incompetent hands., put's it in perspective. Many people associate intelligence with arrogance(sometimes with good reason), so to paraphrase Mark Twain, they won't be happy until they put a total moron in the white house. This is why(amongst other things like dictatorship by 51%), in reality, I don't believe in majority rule. It's the same as a dictatorship, only less efficient. Maybe we shouldn't allow anyone with less than 85-90% of the vote acquire any power. When the first guy gets in with that kind of mandate, he stays in until somebody else can beat him with the same percentages. Could it work? Only if people can stay focused.
IP law matters very much(unfortunately). Tomorrow's(even today's) programmers are already wasting too much time on licensing instead of programming. A 12 line P2P program is saddled with a several hundred line IP license.
Heh Why not? It's right up there with software patents. I mean, let's go all the way with this crap and place all human activity under some IP law. Then we won't have to deal with such silly nonsense as "freedom of speech". A lot of Americans already think their first amendment goes too far. So, let's finish it off, once and for all. IP law is the perfect way to do it.