Considering the tiny percentage of tax money going to NASA, I doubt the average taxpayer would see more than a couple of dollars difference on their bill. Maybe the guy that finds Worldcom's missing 74 billion(!), can donate it to NASA. That should get us to the moon at least.
...but it would seem we as a species very often let our emotions get in the way of rational thought,
It's not emotion(well, maybe a little). It's good old simple instinct. Like all life forms, we try to assure the survival of our own DNA, at the expense of others if need be. All this medical technology, no matter now elaborate, is a manifestation of this instinct. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but I do believe that everything we do is perfectly natural, not particularly human. I could say "It's just your DNA talkin'."
I see zero evidence that it's going to take over the entire universe of software.
It's still a relatively new concept. Give it time. It's like saying solar power could never meet our electrical demands. Well, it can if we actually want it to. (redundant) Some say Kucinich is not electable. His reply, "I am if you vote for me." (/redundant)
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Damn trick questions:-) Working at the TV station made things pretty easy for me, with all the good connections to Sony and JVC, etc. If you know any techs at one, or a lot of the places that sell and rent professional equipment should be able to hook you up. I used to buy some stuff from a really great used electronics store that sold and stills sells parts for everything including 1975 Beta machines. But that doesn't help you any. Try this: ("used electronics" vcr -ebay)or("used electronics" "vcr parts" -ebay) on Google to see if that helps. I didn't check to see if it leads to any "brick and morter" places, but it should be a start.
Hey, it beats the hell out the 40(!) floppies that came with the Video Toaster back in ninteeeee....four? And the install required all of them. I suppose I'll never realize how lucky I was that all those disks survived five installs, when now, I see disks that don't live more than six months(high humidity down here) or five or six read/writes.
Ok, fine. Let's get back to my original point. Racial profiling (and many other types of profiling) will not make the problem easier to solve. Under the present circumstances, it's very easy to understand why the U.S. is such a desirable target. A simple change of their attitude toward the rest of the world will reduce the risk significantly. It's a simple matter to understand that we don't need to kill people or contaminate the planet for money and power. Until we develope a mind reading machine to determine intent, no amount of profiling is going to make us any safer. I'm not saying the problem is solvable, but it is dramatically "reducable". But the Americans are masters at the illusionary arts(make believe), and that is what this is, an illusion of safety and security.
The chicken and the egg don't constitute an intractable problem (hint: the first chicken's grandma came from an egg).
Mine was not an analogy about which came first. Besides, we all know that the first chicken egg came from the "proto" chicken:-). But it was more of a statement that you don't have to be some fancy schmanzy philosopher to see what really can be a simple problem.
Besides, I have a hard time believing someone as obviously smart as he having such a hard time not coming up with something else to talk about besides lesbians.
It's simple. He said it himself, "Lesbians=ratings." I always thought he treated the subject quite tastefully, if you get my drift.
Well, if they use nitrous oxide and run a Marx Bros. movie, they'll all die laughing:-)
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So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies?
So they can sell the "next big thing" during the xmas season. Trash your VCR, your tivo, and buy our lastest contraption.
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Hey, come on... A real geek fixes his own VCR. Replace the brakes and idler, clean the guides(carefully!), grease the gears, and maybe cheange the upper drum(at least, clean it). Good as new (1982 JVC). Fry a cap? Radio Shack can be your friend. You can do it with a computer tied behind your back.
Christ! Here we go again. Let's just lock up everybody and throw away the key? That'll clear it up real fast. Man, the best thing to do is make people aware of it. Build a wall around it. Isolate it. And be done with it, until the next one comes along. This is just another consequence of the desire for money.
What makes you think you can reduce to a/. paragraph a deterministic filter that antiterrorist organizations haven't been able to articulate, given years and $billions?
Because, despite how much the mystics like to complicate things so the the peons could "never understand", things CAN be that simple. It's an old trick that been used since the beginning of "civilization". It's still working quite well, evidently. Throw all the billions you want. There's that old cliche that still applies, "You don't have to be a chicken to recognize an egg."
You're speculating (more like gambling) on the future. I was using events that have already happened. I find find it kind of strange that Americans use their bad bevavior around the world as an excuse to treat their own citezens so poorly. Should we accept this just so they can continue to act this way? The fact is that the American authorities do turn a blind eye towards this kind of thing (the "teerorists") because they're too busy chasing and harrassing small time drug smugglers and the like. While they were harrassing me for traveling without a credit card, or, a week before, performing a full cavity search on a woman coming from Jamaica for the same reason, only two weeks before 9/11, ol' boy was following the profile by the book and got right in. If we can get the authorities minds off of Janet's boob for a second and start looking at the consequences of their actions(that's the kind of crap being laid on us all the time. It goes both ways) you might see a real reduction in terrorism against the Americans.
With America on its present course, your numbers could be correct. But instead of locking down the citezenry, should they at least think about changing course?
Even steganography has its weaknesses. The good thing though, is that you have to be looking for it. However, if you've been "tagged" they're going to check everything coming out of your machine, and where it's going. If we can remove the ISP, it can bring us one step closer to absolute privacy. Until ALL communication is open, I'm going to close mine as tight as I can when I need to.
Most of the groups responsible for attacking the airlines have lots of money. In other words, they're rich. Using this line of reasoning we should be investigating rich people. If you want make air travel safe from terrorists, fill the plane with sleeping gas.(stole that idea from Donald Trump)
...it is complete foolishness to even consider this massive invasion of citizen privacy, not to mention waste so much money!
Not if your company gets the contract for this. Although there may be some politics involved, this is more about throwing Bush's buddies a bone than anything else.
In all the terrorist acts that happened in the U.S.(I include them ALL...church, abortion clinic, OKC bombings, political assasinations, etc., etc., etc.) only two(both against WTC) haven't been proven to be domestic in origen. If the truth ever comes out about WTC, we just may find that it too was domestically orginized and financed. So yes, I would suspect a 60 year old white female that could be and is worth checking to make sure she's not KKK or similar. The wackos in America are every bit as dangerous(to Americans) as El Queso (Al Quaeda). So, I feel confortable saying that race has no place here or in any other investigation of this type.
I pity the ISP that starts blocking messages because they are encrypted.
If they do it on their own, don't. I would hope that they're not that dumb. However, this is something the gov't could demand (gotta stop those waskiwy tewowists).
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Specifically this(from the page):DVD-18 (DS/DL): 15.90 gig (17G), over 8 hours of video
Considering the tiny percentage of tax money going to NASA, I doubt the average taxpayer would see more than a couple of dollars difference on their bill. Maybe the guy that finds Worldcom's missing 74 billion(!), can donate it to NASA. That should get us to the moon at least.
Who cares what it caosts? Just do it, dammit! Everybody is going to get paid.
Send it back. The "u" key is intermittent :-)
...infinity and beyond.
:-)
Heh, that's a good one
...did everything but get your beer for you.
:-)
Now, see? That was the problem. It didn't get your beer and open it for you.
...but it would seem we as a species very often let our emotions get in the way of rational thought,
It's not emotion(well, maybe a little). It's good old simple instinct. Like all life forms, we try to assure the survival of our own DNA, at the expense of others if need be. All this medical technology, no matter now elaborate, is a manifestation of this instinct. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but I do believe that everything we do is perfectly natural, not particularly human. I could say "It's just your DNA talkin'."
I see zero evidence that it's going to take over the entire universe of software.
It's still a relatively new concept. Give it time. It's like saying solar power could never meet our electrical demands. Well, it can if we actually want it to.
(redundant)
Some say Kucinich is not electable.
His reply, "I am if you vote for me."
(/redundant)
Damn trick questions :-) Working at the TV station made things pretty easy for me, with all the good connections to Sony and JVC, etc. If you know any techs at one, or a lot of the places that sell and rent professional equipment should be able to hook you up. I used to buy some stuff from a really great used electronics store that sold and stills sells parts for everything including 1975 Beta machines. But that doesn't help you any. Try this: ("used electronics" vcr -ebay)or("used electronics" "vcr parts" -ebay) on Google to see if that helps. I didn't check to see if it leads to any "brick and morter" places, but it should be a start.
Hey, it beats the hell out the 40(!) floppies that came with the Video Toaster back in ninteeeee....four? And the install required all of them. I suppose I'll never realize how lucky I was that all those disks survived five installs, when now, I see disks that don't live more than six months(high humidity down here) or five or six read/writes.
Ok, fine. Let's get back to my original point. Racial profiling (and many other types of profiling) will not make the problem easier to solve. Under the present circumstances, it's very easy to understand why the U.S. is such a desirable target. A simple change of their attitude toward the rest of the world will reduce the risk significantly. It's a simple matter to understand that we don't need to kill people or contaminate the planet for money and power. Until we develope a mind reading machine to determine intent, no amount of profiling is going to make us any safer. I'm not saying the problem is solvable, but it is dramatically "reducable". But the Americans are masters at the illusionary arts(make believe), and that is what this is, an illusion of safety and security.
:-). But it was more of a statement that you don't have to be some fancy schmanzy philosopher to see what really can be a simple problem.
The chicken and the egg don't constitute an intractable problem (hint: the first chicken's grandma came from an egg).
Mine was not an analogy about which came first. Besides, we all know that the first chicken egg came from the "proto" chicken
Besides, I have a hard time believing someone as obviously smart as he having such a hard time not coming up with something else to talk about besides lesbians.
It's simple. He said it himself, "Lesbians=ratings." I always thought he treated the subject quite tastefully, if you get my drift.
I don't understand how Republicans get away with this level of hypocrisy.
They're obstructing our optical input devices with some kund of material derived from sheep fur.
Well, if they use nitrous oxide and run a Marx Bros. movie, they'll all die laughing :-)
So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies?
So they can sell the "next big thing" during the xmas season. Trash your VCR, your tivo, and buy our lastest contraption.
Hey, come on... A real geek fixes his own VCR. Replace the brakes and idler, clean the guides(carefully!), grease the gears, and maybe cheange the upper drum(at least, clean it). Good as new (1982 JVC). Fry a cap? Radio Shack can be your friend. You can do it with a computer tied behind your back.
Christ! Here we go again. Let's just lock up everybody and throw away the key? That'll clear it up real fast. Man, the best thing to do is make people aware of it. Build a wall around it. Isolate it. And be done with it, until the next one comes along. This is just another consequence of the desire for money.
What makes you think you can reduce to a /. paragraph a deterministic filter that antiterrorist organizations haven't been able to articulate, given years and $billions?
Because, despite how much the mystics like to complicate things so the the peons could "never understand", things CAN be that simple. It's an old trick that been used since the beginning of "civilization". It's still working quite well, evidently. Throw all the billions you want. There's that old cliche that still applies, "You don't have to be a chicken to recognize an egg."
You're speculating (more like gambling) on the future. I was using events that have already happened. I find find it kind of strange that Americans use their bad bevavior around the world as an excuse to treat their own citezens so poorly. Should we accept this just so they can continue to act this way? The fact is that the American authorities do turn a blind eye towards this kind of thing (the "teerorists") because they're too busy chasing and harrassing small time drug smugglers and the like. While they were harrassing me for traveling without a credit card, or, a week before, performing a full cavity search on a woman coming from Jamaica for the same reason, only two weeks before 9/11, ol' boy was following the profile by the book and got right in. If we can get the authorities minds off of Janet's boob for a second and start looking at the consequences of their actions(that's the kind of crap being laid on us all the time. It goes both ways) you might see a real reduction in terrorism against the Americans.
With America on its present course, your numbers could be correct. But instead of locking down the citezenry, should they at least think about changing course?
Even steganography has its weaknesses. The good thing though, is that you have to be looking for it. However, if you've been "tagged" they're going to check everything coming out of your machine, and where it's going. If we can remove the ISP, it can bring us one step closer to absolute privacy. Until ALL communication is open, I'm going to close mine as tight as I can when I need to.
Most of the groups responsible for attacking the airlines have lots of money. In other words, they're rich. Using this line of reasoning we should be investigating rich people. If you want make air travel safe from terrorists, fill the plane with sleeping gas.(stole that idea from Donald Trump)
...it is complete foolishness to even consider this massive invasion of citizen privacy, not to mention waste so much money!
Not if your company gets the contract for this. Although there may be some politics involved, this is more about throwing Bush's buddies a bone than anything else.
In all the terrorist acts that happened in the U.S.(I include them ALL...church, abortion clinic, OKC bombings, political assasinations, etc., etc., etc.) only two(both against WTC) haven't been proven to be domestic in origen. If the truth ever comes out about WTC, we just may find that it too was domestically orginized and financed. So yes, I would suspect a 60 year old white female that could be and is worth checking to make sure she's not KKK or similar. The wackos in America are every bit as dangerous(to Americans) as El Queso (Al Quaeda). So, I feel confortable saying that race has no place here or in any other investigation of this type.
I believe it's already been proven that it doesn't work.
...will we simply see a massive improvement in coding practices and more secure software?
This seems to be the only real workable and fair solution.
I pity the ISP that starts blocking messages because they are encrypted.
If they do it on their own, don't. I would hope that they're not that dumb. However, this is something the gov't could demand (gotta stop those waskiwy tewowists).