Even though some sky-is-falling, Pavlov-trained mod labeled this "Troll," I'll sacrifice some karma to say "Yea, amen, praise the lord, and pass the ammunition!"
You probably will scoff when I say I know the difference and realized my error AFTER I hit the submit button, but figured it wasn't worth the trouble to re-post to make the correction. Besides, I knew it would make some Slashdotter's day to pounce on it.;)
Virus software or not, it seems to me that as an institution warranted by the federal government, the bank should have exercised more care. If the guy can prove a case of malfeasance or negligence on the bank's part, I wonder if FDIC will kick in.
...who refurbishes antique radios et al and is always interested in acquirung tubes and such. email me at dzantispam@REMOVE_THISdirecway.com and I'll put you in touch.
A legitimate and valid question--the very asking of which is "Insightful." So, why is the parent modded -1 Flamebait? Seems like a good conversation starter to me.
"...michael didn't have to add his flamebait last line. "
Michael has become increasingly militant and unshy about exposing his bias. I cannot help but wonder why, and whether someone in authority will call him down in the name of presenting at least some semblance of credibility on/.
"Real estate has no law that makes the price only go up, after all."
Actually, it does. It's called "the law of supply and demand." The supply is fixed, the demand is growing, and will continue to grow. Real estate is an essential commodity, not a luxury. Therefore, people will pay whatever they must to own it.
There is no better investment than real estate.
"Do you doubt the extraordinary spike in greenhouse gasses since the beginning of the industrial revolution?"
Please provide a reference that describes the *source(s)* of pre-industrial revolution measurements. Who was measuring greenhouse gasses then and why? What was the nature of the instrumentation used to make the measurements and good/accurate was it?
Without reliable pre-industrial revolution data, the "spike" is meaningless. Ditto for temperature measurements. They call it GLOBAL warming. How good was the instrumentation in undeveloped countries 100 years ago? How dilligent were the measurement takers? If 100-year-old data from technologically backward regions around the world is part of the model, the model is irreparably flawed.
Actually, I wish there was a distro that would support the software associated with my satellite internet uplink. I loathe Windows, but am stuck due to the satellite thing.:-(
And the bias gravy, don't forget the bias gravy. The post says, "Ironsides submitted this BBC link..." So he submiitted the link--who wrote the description?
But, you are obviously not an "average user" on the evidence that you use words like "Fedora," "auto-partition," "server install option," and "Gentoo" and know what they mean. Tell all that to the guy who sells Purple People Widgits via a web-based business, and the glare from the glazed look will probably blind you.
"...a windows supplied for free is much, much harder to break."
And also much, much harder to install and maintain without outside help for the average user.
Linux (or other OSS, to which you seem to be alluding) is great for what it does, but the current reality is that it is a geek toy for the most part. It might eventually evolve into a practical application for the masses, but in the meantime, it is not the cure-all for IT ills as so often espoused.
I am neither anti-Linux/OSS nor a Windows Defender (hey, great game that, maybe?), and this is not intended as flame, just a reality check.
According to http://www.e-paranoids.com/c/cr/crawl.html: "In television, a text crawl is a moving line of text usually put at the bottom of the screen. It is generally set up to convey news and up-to-the-minute information about weather and other critical situations. A text crawl is an application of the computer graphics technique of scrolling. Text crawls became standard on news broadcasts in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks."
Ergo, in this case it is simply a screen-wide vertical text crawl.
Is it just me, or does the whole "back to the future" approach somehow degrade the Star Wars saga? The new stuff has nifty effects and all, but it just doesn't have the "feel" of the originals.
From the grandparent: "We may discover human fetuses (simmering pro-choice, pro-life abortion debate) capable of more cognitive ability...."
From the parent: "Keep the human brain out of the picture, and I don't see a problem with it, as it's not a person."
I see plenty of simmering debate(s) here:
(1) If, as some believe, we (humans) are nothing more than the sum of our atoms, why does any of this matter?
(2) If, as some believe, we (humans) are more than the sum of our atoms, endowed by a creator with qualities that transcend lower life forms then all of this matters very much.
(2a) If (2) is true, do the endowed qualities transfer with our atoms to other species?
" A bigger threat is current animal only viri that may find a new path to evolve into infecting humans."
Give this AC uber INSIGHTFUL mod points. It is amazing that the thread went this deep before anyone pointed out the overlooked-obvious, and even then it came from an AC.
"Also, I read in the article that they're thinking of making a mouse with a human brain? I'm wondering a couple things. A) Is this mouse-person going to have the same experience as a human would, albeit in a mouse's body?"
In a word, no. *Really* RTFA: "Before being born, the mice would be killed and dissected to see if the architecture of a human brain had formed. If it did, he'd look for traces of human cognitive behavior."
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Even though some sky-is-falling, Pavlov-trained mod labeled this "Troll," I'll sacrifice some karma to say "Yea, amen, praise the lord, and pass the ammunition!"
"What's needed is a program that automates that."
It's called http://www.spamcop.net/
You are, of course, quite correct.
;)
You probably will scoff when I say I know the difference and realized my error AFTER I hit the submit button, but figured it wasn't worth the trouble to re-post to make the correction. Besides, I knew it would make some Slashdotter's day to pounce on it.
They must be photovoltaic cells, which convert light into electricity, and thus need no power supply. Imagine an inter-retinal power supply meltdown!
Stuff like that used to bother me, too, then I came to terms with the fact that this is /. and nothing makes sense...maybe it is not supposed to.
Virus software or not, it seems to me that as an institution warranted by the federal government, the bank should have exercised more care. If the guy can prove a case of malfeasance or negligence on the bank's part, I wonder if FDIC will kick in.
The first poster who "gets it" and its an AC to boot.
...who refurbishes antique radios et al and is always interested in acquirung tubes and such. email me at dzantispam@REMOVE_THISdirecway.com and I'll put you in touch.
Are you drunk?
A legitimate and valid question--the very asking of which is "Insightful." So, why is the parent modded -1 Flamebait? Seems like a good conversation starter to me.
" IBM Invented the trackpoint or whatever they call it."
Not that it matters, but my son-in-law is the engineer who designed it. He's a PhD, physicist, and came up with "negative inertia" to make it work.
Who moderated the parent OFFTOPIC? Since the article is a dupe, it eems to me a comment about it being a dupe is about as on-topic as you can get.
"...michael didn't have to add his flamebait last line. "
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Michael has become increasingly militant and unshy about exposing his bias. I cannot help but wonder why, and whether someone in authority will call him down in the name of presenting at least some semblance of credibility on
"Real estate has no law that makes the price only go up, after all." Actually, it does. It's called "the law of supply and demand." The supply is fixed, the demand is growing, and will continue to grow. Real estate is an essential commodity, not a luxury. Therefore, people will pay whatever they must to own it. There is no better investment than real estate.
"Do you doubt the extraordinary spike in greenhouse gasses since the beginning of the industrial revolution?"
Please provide a reference that describes the *source(s)* of pre-industrial revolution measurements. Who was measuring greenhouse gasses then and why? What was the nature of the instrumentation used to make the measurements and good/accurate was it?
Without reliable pre-industrial revolution data, the "spike" is meaningless. Ditto for temperature measurements. They call it GLOBAL warming. How good was the instrumentation in undeveloped countries 100 years ago? How dilligent were the measurement takers? If 100-year-old data from technologically backward regions around the world is part of the model, the model is irreparably flawed.
Actually, I wish there was a distro that would support the software associated with my satellite internet uplink. I loathe Windows, but am stuck due to the satellite thing. :-(
And the bias gravy, don't forget the bias gravy. The post says, "Ironsides submitted this BBC link..." So he submiitted the link--who wrote the description?
But, you are obviously not an "average user" on the evidence that you use words like "Fedora," "auto-partition," "server install option," and "Gentoo" and know what they mean. Tell all that to the guy who sells Purple People Widgits via a web-based business, and the glare from the glazed look will probably blind you.
"...a windows supplied for free is much, much harder to break."
And also much, much harder to install and maintain without outside help for the average user.
Linux (or other OSS, to which you seem to be alluding) is great for what it does, but the current reality is that it is a geek toy for the most part. It might eventually evolve into a practical application for the masses, but in the meantime, it is not the cure-all for IT ills as so often espoused.
I am neither anti-Linux/OSS nor a Windows Defender (hey, great game that, maybe?), and this is not intended as flame, just a reality check.
According to http://www.e-paranoids.com/c/cr/crawl.html: "In television, a text crawl is a moving line of text usually put at the bottom of the screen. It is generally set up to convey news and up-to-the-minute information about weather and other critical situations. A text crawl is an application of the computer graphics technique of scrolling. Text crawls became standard on news broadcasts in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks."
Ergo, in this case it is simply a screen-wide vertical text crawl.
Classic "so corny it's classic." Mod parent +5 funny.
Is it just me, or does the whole "back to the future" approach somehow degrade the Star Wars saga? The new stuff has nifty effects and all, but it just doesn't have the "feel" of the originals.
From the grandparent: "We may discover human fetuses (simmering pro-choice, pro-life abortion debate) capable of more cognitive ability...."
From the parent: "Keep the human brain out of the picture, and I don't see a problem with it, as it's not a person."
I see plenty of simmering debate(s) here:
(1) If, as some believe, we (humans) are nothing more than the sum of our atoms, why does any of this matter?
(2) If, as some believe, we (humans) are more than the sum of our atoms, endowed by a creator with qualities that transcend lower life forms then all of this matters very much.
(2a) If (2) is true, do the endowed qualities transfer with our atoms to other species?
And so on.
" A bigger threat is current animal only viri that may find a new path to evolve into infecting humans."
Give this AC uber INSIGHTFUL mod points. It is amazing that the thread went this deep before anyone pointed out the overlooked-obvious, and even then it came from an AC.
Truly amazing.
"Also, I read in the article that they're thinking of making a mouse with a human brain? I'm wondering a couple things. A) Is this mouse-person going to have the same experience as a human would, albeit in a mouse's body?"
In a word, no. *Really* RTFA: "Before being born, the mice would be killed and dissected to see if the architecture of a human brain had formed. If it did, he'd look for traces of human cognitive behavior."