Excellent, if you live in a coastal city, you'll get to know that you have 20 minutes left to live...
You misspelled the last word. You have 20 minutes left to drive. Inland. As quickly as your car can. You should be okay about 20-30 miles from the coastline.
No, it's like doing a survey of search engines and not including word of mouth. Or DNS. Both of them are unquantifiable and decentralized enough to make inclusion in a list pointless, if it were possible.
Doing a survey of search engines without Google would be like doing a survey of P2P without FastTrack.
None of your money goes to "Jesusism." The Salvation Army doesn't try to "convert you." Do we have to condemn one of the few organizations left that actually listens to Christ ("love your neighbor", "sell what you have and give it to the poor", and all that) instead of using religion as an excuse to gain political power? And when have you actually seen the Salvation Army try to further their religion?
Condemning "the cause of Jesusism" is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I won't deny that nominally Christian organizations have done some very evil (and un-Christian) deeds, but that doesn't condemn all Christians. Would you also refuse to, say, give money to the Red Cross because they might give it to Muslims in the recent Pakistan earthquake, and you don't want to further the cause of Mohammedanism?
You're acting even more short-sighted than Jerry Falwell. You say that the Salvation Army has an ulterior motive, their own greed and personal gain; he says that all manner of "sinners" are only giving in to something else (Satan's tempation).
Just because there is only one abondoned animal left, does it make sense to close a pound? Just because there is only one patient, dows that make it right to close a hospital.
Yes. Just move the last remaining one to another equivalent facility. Of course you don't just drop them on the streets when you close the facility. In fact, the animal may be more likely to be adopted or the patient more likely to be healed if they're at a facility where there's more traffic, professionals, funding, etc.
Nobody's saying the AC2 players can't go play another video game. It's just not in even their own interests to maintain a world that very few people are playing anymore.
When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
Since you've signed over your profits to those industry fat cats. The RIAA's deals with music artists have a clause that prevents Microsoft from doing what it did to Spyglass: promise a percentage of the profit, and then give Internet Explorer away for free. Music artists have to follow their publisher's demands about, uh, publishing.
Not that it's a good thing. It shouldn't be possible to sign away your "moral rights" to the music. But that's the current legal situation in the US.
Oh wait, you must be one of the guys that's trying to sell one of these pieces of crap.
Capitalism will remain corrupt so long as people believe it to be.
That guy made his keyboard layout Free, but if you're going to assume he's going to sell it, why shouldn't other keyboard layout designers sell theirs also?
I still use IE for Mac whenever I reboot into OS 9. It's a browser more designed for OS 9 than, say, Firefox. (Firefox works, I think, but the look and feel conflicts a lot.)
Of course, I really don't care whether they're supporting or upgrading. I'm using the version that came with my original CD in 1999, and that's plenty. (Needless to say, I'm in OS X almomst all of the time.)
I really don't mind if the NSA spies on me. I don't have anything to hide. I'm not quite saying "if you're not a criminal, you don't have anything to hide," but honestly, I've sent enough passwords in cleartext, opened enough VNC ports, run enough unpatched systems, voiced enough subversive opinions in public, logged in on enough computers outside my control (including some that I know are being watched), sent my social security number to enough places, that if someone really wanted to steal my identity or my information there's nothing valuable.
Part of that is because I'm a student, so I don't have a credit account or so forth. But I'll treat my bank account with as much care as I treat a couple of other secure items; I'll maintain my prepaid phone so that I lose at most about $30, not $20000, if my phone gets stolen or "hacked", etc.
If I get a job that requires secrets, I know how to keep those safe. I've written and used a ciphersaber for personal data, I use SSH for shell connections, I've tried my hand at Diffie-Hellman - and I'm smart enough to use professional products for AES and the like if necessary. But as of right now, I really don't care if you stick Carnivore on my router. Half of what you'll see is flash games, Wikipedia, and Xbox Live, and most of the rest I'll tell you if you ask nicely.
At least be honest about it and say they're helping you capture and control key resources or keep others from challenging your dominance or something, that sounds a bit more plausible.
America's freedom is its hegemony. As soon as we start losing battles, people will challenge our status as the sole superpower. Then the UN will make us actually pay for membership (if it doesn't eject us first), a couple of countries will simultaneously extradite Henry Kissinger for war crimes, everyone from honest terrorists to bored schizophrenics will start attacking left and right once they realize another 9/11 is trivially easy, currencies will be unpegged from the dollar and we'll actually have to pay our national debts, someone will declare formal war on the US....
Not that that's a bad thing. I'm sure that by then we'll have citizens' protests and revolts and a more democratic government installed. But at the moment, the only reason we're safe although everyone hates us is that everyone fears us too.
America grew up drinking Manifest Destiny, and it hasn't been weaned yet.
Everyone seems to be going to the absurd extreme of thinking "And next they'll want to make Physics PhD programs open to people in persistent vegatative states! And the NFL open to people with no arms or legs!" That is not what is being talked about, and going to such an absurd argument isn't insightful - it's the exact opposite, and it avoids speaking about the very real merits of the issue.
I recently went caroling for a few shut-ins, people who haven't left their houses for years. One of them was paralyzed since he was 17 (he's almost 50 now, I think), and has been in bed since then. While his parents were alive, he wasn't even allowed outside contact. He probably hadn't heard Christmas carols in person for several years. What should he do with his life? He was going to go to college before that car accident. What can ambulatory college students do, that furthers their education, that this guy can't? Why shouldn't he be able to get a physics Ph.D. if he wants?
(Yes, I know you said persistent vegetative state, and I'm referring to people who have their wits about them. But then I'm not so much replying to you as to the society that condemns such people to their deathbed for decades.)
Not all charity has to go to people close to death halfway across the world. Everyone has needs. Everyone can use donations to make their life easier. If you saw a dollar bill on the ground, would you pick it up and put it in your wallet, or pick it up and mail it to the Red Cross?
Didn't Lex Luthor get all sorts of humanitarian awards too?
Let's see... rich guy, gives money to charities, does humanitarian things, does some evil on the side...
Even the Roman Catholic Church understands this better than you do..."Love the sinner, hate the sin." We can say," Bill Gates, you're a human and so are we so we have to respect you, and good job on giving so much of your fortune to charity, but the IP laws you support are immoral, and you shouldn't be slandering Linux." And that's not a contradiction. No person is completely good or completely evil.
Yeah, well Time's person of the year is the person who's had the most impact on society at large, not the best person, the most heroic, or anything like that. Otherwise they'd've honored all the soldiers who sacrificed themselves to save their friends in World War II, not Hitler, who was only noteworthy because he was a genius at public speaking.
Why don't we, as voters, elect smart people to represent us in our government? It's inconceiveable that we'd demand anything less...
Because we have a democratically elected government, which means we pick a representative of the people. Statistically, he'll be around the 50th percentile in intelligence....
never refused to sign off on a single warrant in its history. Read the article
Er, it only says that in 2002 there was an appeal of its decision. This means that it did refuse to sign off on that warrant, and says nothing about other warrants that were refused and not appealed. Since it's a Star Chamber, we don't know how many were silently approved and how many were silently rejected.
What's wrong with parenthesis-optional RPN? Every time you hit a left parentheses, you spawn a new subinterpreter. Every time you hit a right parentheses, you close the current subinterpreter and store the stack as a list object taking up one space on the stack.
( 1 2 1 2 + ) ( 3 4 2 / 1 ) * ( 0 1 1 ) dot would be treated as {1,2,3} {3,2,1} * {0,1,1} dot, which would become {3,4,3} {0,1,1} dot; then the dot product is 7.
If you don't like that, just let the top of the stack be the arity. 1 2 3 4 3 multiplus would give {1, 2+3+4} = 1 9; 1 2 3 4 4 multiplus would give {1+2+3+4} = 10.
i've timed games to compare time spent doing something vs. time spent doing nothing; the ratio in the last two superbowls, supposedly the hight of the season, was about 1:7.5. that's just lame.
OK, you parenthesis-phobes, tell me what's so much better about:
f(g(x->y));
as opposed to
(f (g (get 'y x)))
?
f(g(foo)) is notation that people are used to from mathematics. (f (g foo)) is equivalent, yes, but it's not intuitive for many people. And x->y is in the order that people are used to from many other fields: A:setup is setup from A:. slashdot.org/~geoffreyerffoeg/journal is journal from geoffreyerffoeg from slashdot.org. The latter would be (get journal (get geoffreyerffoeg slashdot)) in LISP-like syntax, which looks less intuitive.
Of course there's no difference in the code. Same tokens, slightly more explicit association. But if you're going to deviate from what people know already, use RPN: x y get g f. Two advantages: first, it almost never requires parentheses needed (fine, if you want an arbitrary-length list, that's not true), and second, it's in order. The computer first gets x, then finds the offset of y from it, then retrieves the value of y, then evaluates g, then evaluates f. The latter two are important: f(g(x)) means g then f, which could throw you off if you're going quickly. If I said f(x)=print 2, return x^2 and g(x)=print 3, return x^2, then what would you instinctively say that print f(g(5)) gave? It's easier to see that 5 g f print gives 3, then 2, then 625.
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Our own military, partially foiled by technology they themselves helped to create! Would that qualify as 'ironic'?
Only if invading a country to remove a dictator we installed also did.
Only if invading a country to keep a dictator out of it, but not removing that dictator, also did.
The story about the Iraqi routers is over a decade old.
Excellent, if you live in a coastal city, you'll get to know that you have 20 minutes left to live...
You misspelled the last word. You have 20 minutes left to drive. Inland. As quickly as your car can. You should be okay about 20-30 miles from the coastline.
Do they also lose Common Carrier status when they block inbound Windows RPC/filesharing?
No, it's like doing a survey of search engines and not including word of mouth. Or DNS. Both of them are unquantifiable and decentralized enough to make inclusion in a list pointless, if it were possible.
Doing a survey of search engines without Google would be like doing a survey of P2P without FastTrack.
None of your money goes to "Jesusism." The Salvation Army doesn't try to "convert you." Do we have to condemn one of the few organizations left that actually listens to Christ ("love your neighbor", "sell what you have and give it to the poor", and all that) instead of using religion as an excuse to gain political power? And when have you actually seen the Salvation Army try to further their religion?
Condemning "the cause of Jesusism" is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I won't deny that nominally Christian organizations have done some very evil (and un-Christian) deeds, but that doesn't condemn all Christians. Would you also refuse to, say, give money to the Red Cross because they might give it to Muslims in the recent Pakistan earthquake, and you don't want to further the cause of Mohammedanism?
You're acting even more short-sighted than Jerry Falwell. You say that the Salvation Army has an ulterior motive, their own greed and personal gain; he says that all manner of "sinners" are only giving in to something else (Satan's tempation).
Just because there is only one abondoned animal left, does it make sense to close a pound? Just because there is only one patient, dows that make it right to close a hospital.
Yes. Just move the last remaining one to another equivalent facility. Of course you don't just drop them on the streets when you close the facility. In fact, the animal may be more likely to be adopted or the patient more likely to be healed if they're at a facility where there's more traffic, professionals, funding, etc.
Nobody's saying the AC2 players can't go play another video game. It's just not in even their own interests to maintain a world that very few people are playing anymore.
When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
Since you've signed over your profits to those industry fat cats. The RIAA's deals with music artists have a clause that prevents Microsoft from doing what it did to Spyglass: promise a percentage of the profit, and then give Internet Explorer away for free. Music artists have to follow their publisher's demands about, uh, publishing.
Not that it's a good thing. It shouldn't be possible to sign away your "moral rights" to the music. But that's the current legal situation in the US.
Don't you mean the Marauder's Map?
Oh wait, you must be one of the guys that's trying to sell one of these pieces of crap.
Capitalism will remain corrupt so long as people believe it to be.
That guy made his keyboard layout Free, but if you're going to assume he's going to sell it, why shouldn't other keyboard layout designers sell theirs also?
...light enough to carry around???? I even have problems carrying around my calculator's keyboard, and that's designed to be portable.
Mod grandparent funny. Or troll. 'Cause it's definitely not insightful.
I still use IE for Mac whenever I reboot into OS 9. It's a browser more designed for OS 9 than, say, Firefox. (Firefox works, I think, but the look and feel conflicts a lot.)
Of course, I really don't care whether they're supporting or upgrading. I'm using the version that came with my original CD in 1999, and that's plenty. (Needless to say, I'm in OS X almomst all of the time.)
I really don't mind if the NSA spies on me. I don't have anything to hide. I'm not quite saying "if you're not a criminal, you don't have anything to hide," but honestly, I've sent enough passwords in cleartext, opened enough VNC ports, run enough unpatched systems, voiced enough subversive opinions in public, logged in on enough computers outside my control (including some that I know are being watched), sent my social security number to enough places, that if someone really wanted to steal my identity or my information there's nothing valuable.
Part of that is because I'm a student, so I don't have a credit account or so forth. But I'll treat my bank account with as much care as I treat a couple of other secure items; I'll maintain my prepaid phone so that I lose at most about $30, not $20000, if my phone gets stolen or "hacked", etc.
If I get a job that requires secrets, I know how to keep those safe. I've written and used a ciphersaber for personal data, I use SSH for shell connections, I've tried my hand at Diffie-Hellman - and I'm smart enough to use professional products for AES and the like if necessary. But as of right now, I really don't care if you stick Carnivore on my router. Half of what you'll see is flash games, Wikipedia, and Xbox Live, and most of the rest I'll tell you if you ask nicely.
account 1241234234
That's the kind of combination an idiot has on his bank account!
At least be honest about it and say they're helping you capture and control key resources or keep others from challenging your dominance or something, that sounds a bit more plausible.
America's freedom is its hegemony. As soon as we start losing battles, people will challenge our status as the sole superpower. Then the UN will make us actually pay for membership (if it doesn't eject us first), a couple of countries will simultaneously extradite Henry Kissinger for war crimes, everyone from honest terrorists to bored schizophrenics will start attacking left and right once they realize another 9/11 is trivially easy, currencies will be unpegged from the dollar and we'll actually have to pay our national debts, someone will declare formal war on the US....
Not that that's a bad thing. I'm sure that by then we'll have citizens' protests and revolts and a more democratic government installed. But at the moment, the only reason we're safe although everyone hates us is that everyone fears us too.
America grew up drinking Manifest Destiny, and it hasn't been weaned yet.
Everyone seems to be going to the absurd extreme of thinking "And next they'll want to make Physics PhD programs open to people in persistent vegatative states! And the NFL open to people with no arms or legs!" That is not what is being talked about, and going to such an absurd argument isn't insightful - it's the exact opposite, and it avoids speaking about the very real merits of the issue.
I recently went caroling for a few shut-ins, people who haven't left their houses for years. One of them was paralyzed since he was 17 (he's almost 50 now, I think), and has been in bed since then. While his parents were alive, he wasn't even allowed outside contact. He probably hadn't heard Christmas carols in person for several years. What should he do with his life? He was going to go to college before that car accident. What can ambulatory college students do, that furthers their education, that this guy can't? Why shouldn't he be able to get a physics Ph.D. if he wants?
(Yes, I know you said persistent vegetative state, and I'm referring to people who have their wits about them. But then I'm not so much replying to you as to the society that condemns such people to their deathbed for decades.)
How many starving Africans have you fed?
Not all charity has to go to people close to death halfway across the world. Everyone has needs. Everyone can use donations to make their life easier. If you saw a dollar bill on the ground, would you pick it up and put it in your wallet, or pick it up and mail it to the Red Cross?
Didn't Lex Luthor get all sorts of humanitarian awards too?
Let's see... rich guy, gives money to charities, does humanitarian things, does some evil on the side...
Even the Roman Catholic Church understands this better than you do..."Love the sinner, hate the sin." We can say," Bill Gates, you're a human and so are we so we have to respect you, and good job on giving so much of your fortune to charity, but the IP laws you support are immoral, and you shouldn't be slandering Linux." And that's not a contradiction. No person is completely good or completely evil.
Yeah, well Time's person of the year is the person who's had the most impact on society at large, not the best person, the most heroic, or anything like that. Otherwise they'd've honored all the soldiers who sacrificed themselves to save their friends in World War II, not Hitler, who was only noteworthy because he was a genius at public speaking.
Why don't we, as voters, elect smart people to represent us in our government? It's inconceiveable that we'd demand anything less...
Because we have a democratically elected government, which means we pick a representative of the people. Statistically, he'll be around the 50th percentile in intelligence....
never refused to sign off on a single warrant in its history. Read the article
Er, it only says that in 2002 there was an appeal of its decision. This means that it did refuse to sign off on that warrant, and says nothing about other warrants that were refused and not appealed. Since it's a Star Chamber, we don't know how many were silently approved and how many were silently rejected.
Nerd, jock, deva, pervert, drama queen... call yourself whatever you want. Your freedoms are never trash.
Could you possibly have meant "diva", not "deva"? I'm pretty sure that the Patriot Act doesn't have jurisdiction over Hindu gods.
Heretic! How dare you believe the humans' religion? You defame the Prophets and the Forerunners. The Great Journey will be achieved!
What's wrong with parenthesis-optional RPN? Every time you hit a left parentheses, you spawn a new subinterpreter. Every time you hit a right parentheses, you close the current subinterpreter and store the stack as a list object taking up one space on the stack.
( 1 2 1 2 + ) ( 3 4 2 / 1 ) * ( 0 1 1 ) dot would be treated as {1,2,3} {3,2,1} * {0,1,1} dot, which would become {3,4,3} {0,1,1} dot; then the dot product is 7.
If you don't like that, just let the top of the stack be the arity. 1 2 3 4 3 multiplus would give {1, 2+3+4} = 1 9; 1 2 3 4 4 multiplus would give {1+2+3+4} = 10.
i've timed games to compare time spent doing something vs. time spent doing nothing; the ratio in the last two superbowls, supposedly the hight of the season, was about 1:7.5. that's just lame.
*cough baseball cough*
OK, you parenthesis-phobes, tell me what's so much better about:
f(g(x->y));
as opposed to
(f (g (get 'y x)))
?
f(g(foo)) is notation that people are used to from mathematics. (f (g foo)) is equivalent, yes, but it's not intuitive for many people. And x->y is in the order that people are used to from many other fields: A:setup is setup from A:. slashdot.org/~geoffreyerffoeg/journal is journal from geoffreyerffoeg from slashdot.org. The latter would be (get journal (get geoffreyerffoeg slashdot)) in LISP-like syntax, which looks less intuitive.
Of course there's no difference in the code. Same tokens, slightly more explicit association. But if you're going to deviate from what people know already, use RPN: x y get g f. Two advantages: first, it almost never requires parentheses needed (fine, if you want an arbitrary-length list, that's not true), and second, it's in order. The computer first gets x, then finds the offset of y from it, then retrieves the value of y, then evaluates g, then evaluates f. The latter two are important: f(g(x)) means g then f, which could throw you off if you're going quickly. If I said f(x)=print 2, return x^2 and g(x)=print 3, return x^2, then what would you instinctively say that print f(g(5)) gave? It's easier to see that 5 g f print gives 3, then 2, then 625.