Japanese make friendly servant robots (to help old people). Koreans make battle/guard robots. With weapons. So humans don't have to fight. Americans make rescue robots, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Doesn't this seem a bit odd? Why don't US companies try to make a friendly robot like the Japanese? Why are we so big on search and rescue? Why do the Koreans pour their precious money into killer bots?
Why don't the Koreans make agricultural robots, so that humans don't have to toil in the fields? If we had those in the USA, we'd have a totally automated farming workforce. And where do the Europeans fit in here? What sort of robots do they want?
Just look at the article I linked to. Congnitive therapy seems to work.
But remembering the horrific stuff and the bad feelings (ala psychiatry) leads to trouble in the present.
Freud made that stuff up. You can verify his theories. In fact, not believing in them is explained by the theory. There's no proof that doing what Freud would want you to do helps. In this way, Freudianism is a religion.
I've also heard that video games, used in systematic desensitization can work wonders.
Oddly, for some the triggers are different, but the response is the same. E.g. you heara beeper go off, and your pulse quickens and breathing changes. It would be funny to have a game to desensitize people who run critical systems.
Sorry -- I didn't mean "psychotherapy", but rather "psychiatry".
Cognitive-behavioral is present-focused, and seems to get much better results than the Freudian stuff.
I can't comprehend how dwelling on horrific memories (e.g. how you felt when your buddy got burned alive while you watched, pinned down by a sniper) could help at all to get on with one's life. Yet that is the sort of things that psychiatrists encourage.
"The Problem With Slashdot Everyone seems to be bitching about Slashdot these days. Whether it's dupes, digg farming, **Beatles-Beatles spam, or even yours truly, everyone has something to whine about. The problem is that none of these things are really the problem (oops, that's a thinker, don't hurt yourself slashbots)...."
So it seems this guy is working in the spirit of http://anti-slash.org/ -- but even sneakier -- the guy gets a dupe posted, where it links to his "how to fix Slashdot" webpage.
Traditional psychiatry, with its emphasis on remembering every humiliating or traumatizing moment of your life could easily make you miserable.
If you look at treatments for PTSD, you'll see that psychotherapy hasn't been proven to be helpful.
Look at the standard human reaction after a war: don't talk about it. Pretend it didn't happen. Try to get on with life. Otherwise you'll just be a mess, and not get anything done.
OK, now I get you. Well, I guess you would approve of my plan then, right: a worm that moves through the Windows computers, frying their boot flashroms. Any box that can be rooted is a box that could be wasting your (and my) bandwidth. So they have it coming to them.
OK. But are you folks making money off this crap? This just sounds like some highly-skilled griefing.
It doens't sound like you folks get to take the gold off your victims, then turn around and sell it.
If the Chinese were doing that, as opposed to just farming, I think you'd see a lot of outraged users. As it is, it just sounds like they suffocate the folks at the higher levels, who are trying to finish the game.
I think it would be funny as hell to have griefers like yourselves blasting the Chinese -- e.g. the demon summoning or the mind control/fear to make people die. That would really put a monkeywrench in their gold farming.
"I hate to break this to you, but your lack of knowledge of the community is one of the key reasons that all the other "communities" have chosen to attack those in the Mac camp for all this time."
I'm afraid I don't get you -- my personal lack of knowledge about the MAC crowd is why they've been attacked?
I don't think so. I'm an insignifigant Unix user. I have no dog in this fight.
But look at my post (g.p.) that got modded troll -- somehow I've gone and pissed off the MAC/Linux zealots, just by stating the obvious.
You've also gone and referred to the MAC people as being touchy, but I bet you'll get modded "insightful" for being part of the fold.
Personally, I hope that one day a nasty worm goes and slays all the Windows-running motherboards out there. Or just flashes the bios. That would be fitting, given that those users have chosen to hand their security over to a company that has shows a callous disregard for their security.
I don't particuarly wish the Mac people any ill will. But a worm or two might be nice, as then they might take security a bit more seriously.
Are there any organized, professional griefers in these games?
I would figure that if a professional Chinese-mafia would have no problem profiting from the ruination of the barbarians.
Your perception of it would be that Chinese characters were teaming up on you, robbing, you, etc.
You'd expect some typical "social identity" processes to kick in: white people would organize against the Chinese, figure out how to spot them, etc. That seems to be exactly what is happening (e.g. "type two lines in English").
Here http://www.pugscode.org/ is something on the PUGS project, which is making an implementation of Perl 6 in Haskell, conformant to the spec.
Apparently they are having a lot of fun.
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You might know this already, but the lisp family of languages have very, very simple syntax. You'd never have this problem with them. Operators are prefix -- not infix.
Everything is parenthesized fully.
'((1 2) (3 4) 5 (6 7 8)) would be your list of lists.
Also, the US got tighter on technology transfer after the Loral case. Hasn't that made it difficult for them, as now they have to do it without the USA's help?
You might think from the daemon logo that it is a FreeBSD-based thing.
It isn't -- it is OpenBSD-based. So you'd figure the encryption would be top-notch. Also the OS is already very secure. That's what they focus on, to the exclusion of other things.
OpenBSD is quite reliable. If it includes drivers for hardware, they work.
Also, they only use code that they can look at. No blogs of code (like Linux or FreeBSD) are allowed. That's because if you can't inspect them, the NSA or an attacker might have put some bad code in there. It is because of things like this that Theo De Raadt won a prize from Stallman for his contributions to free software.
Indians will use this to make money, right? This isn't some ego-building thing like the Chinese space program, right?
I think that's really neat. I can imagine the Chinese govt. has something to prove. I can also imagine the Indians are too poor (and not despotic enough) to irresponsibly waste the money. In China, even if it is a waste, if the big men say do it, you do it.
My only thought is that the inherent dishonesty of Indian organizations will lead to the rockets not working and lots of fingerpointing and ass-covering. And no real accountability.
They've got a recognized brand name. They could probably tweak it, and not have to spend a billion dollars to make everyone know the new name. Instead the marketers win the day and get to make a new name and spend big money.
This is the sort of expense that Google won't make.
When I look at how they spend the money, I wish my fellow shareholders would ask that Intel act more like Google, and not blow our money.
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I'm not jealous of the Koreans and their robotics.
Neither am I Japanese.
I'm amazed at how ambitious the Koreans are!
Even the Israelis are not pursuing this, and they have -- as Korea does -- real reasons to pursue this sort of thing.
It would be a bit like finding out the Czechs were going to start making solar energy powered flying robots.
It seems there are a few patterns here:
Japanese make friendly servant robots (to help old people).
Koreans make battle/guard robots. With weapons. So humans don't have to fight.
Americans make rescue robots, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Doesn't this seem a bit odd? Why don't US companies try to make a friendly robot like the Japanese? Why are we so big on search and rescue? Why do the Koreans pour their precious money into killer bots?
Why don't the Koreans make agricultural robots, so that humans don't have to toil in the fields? If we had those in the USA, we'd have a totally automated farming workforce. And where do the Europeans fit in here? What sort of robots do they want?
Just look at the article I linked to. Congnitive therapy seems to work.
But remembering the horrific stuff and the bad feelings (ala psychiatry) leads to trouble in the present.
Freud made that stuff up. You can verify his theories. In fact, not believing in them is explained by the theory. There's no proof that doing what Freud would want you to do helps. In this way, Freudianism is a religion.
Yes -- I've read about that.
I've also heard that video games, used in systematic desensitization can work wonders.
Oddly, for some the triggers are different, but the response is the same. E.g. you heara beeper go off, and your pulse quickens and breathing changes. It would be funny to have a game to desensitize people who run critical systems.
Sorry -- I didn't mean "psychotherapy", but rather "psychiatry".
Cognitive-behavioral is present-focused, and seems to get much better results than the Freudian stuff.
I can't comprehend how dwelling on horrific memories (e.g. how you felt when your buddy got burned alive while you watched, pinned down by a sniper) could help at all to get on with one's life. Yet that is the sort of things that psychiatrists encourage.
Since when do Japanese care so much about anti-semites?
Based on what Jews have written, I figured Japan has many "anti-semites": http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewas6.htm
Look at the link on the submitter:
http://www.playfullyclever.com/
And then you'll see articles like this one:
"The Problem With Slashdot
Everyone seems to be bitching about Slashdot these days. Whether it's dupes, digg farming, **Beatles-Beatles spam, or even yours truly, everyone has something to whine about. The problem is that none of these things are really the problem (oops, that's a thinker, don't hurt yourself slashbots)...."
So it seems this guy is working in the spirit of http://anti-slash.org/ -- but even sneakier -- the guy gets a dupe posted, where it links to his "how to fix Slashdot" webpage.
What a PLAYFULLY CLEVER bastard!
Blu-Ray.
They are part of the Blu-ray coalition.
I don't know what that means though -- is Blu-Ray somehow better than the other format?
I ignore this stuff.
This is the sort of thing that suggetss forgetting is good:
r auma_Pluses_and_minuses.htm
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Reliving_t
Traditional psychiatry, with its emphasis on remembering every humiliating or traumatizing moment of your life could easily make you miserable.
If you look at treatments for PTSD, you'll see that psychotherapy hasn't been proven to be helpful.
Look at the standard human reaction after a war: don't talk about it. Pretend it didn't happen. Try to get on with life. Otherwise you'll just be a mess, and not get anything done.
Sorry, you're just paranoid. I don't do the AC thing, or the sockpuppet thing.
OK, now I get you. Well, I guess you would approve of my plan then, right: a worm that moves through the Windows computers, frying their boot flashroms. Any box that can be rooted is a box that could be wasting your (and my) bandwidth. So they have it coming to them.
OK. But are you folks making money off this crap? This just sounds like some highly-skilled griefing.
It doens't sound like you folks get to take the gold off your victims, then turn around and sell it.
If the Chinese were doing that, as opposed to just farming, I think you'd see a lot of outraged users. As it is, it just sounds like they suffocate the folks at the higher levels, who are trying to finish the game.
I think it would be funny as hell to have griefers like yourselves blasting the Chinese -- e.g. the demon summoning or the mind control/fear to make people die. That would really put a monkeywrench in their gold farming.
I agree with you -- this guy isn't speaking English. It must be some sort of Mac-talk or something.
Maybe they have secret jargon to send coded signals to other Mac fans.
I genuinely had no idea that Mac fans are so "fanatical" until recently.
"I hate to break this to you, but your lack of knowledge of the community is one of the key reasons that all the other "communities" have chosen to attack those in the Mac camp for all this time."
I'm afraid I don't get you -- my personal lack of knowledge about the MAC crowd is why they've been attacked?
I don't think so. I'm an insignifigant Unix user. I have no dog in this fight.
But look at my post (g.p.) that got modded troll -- somehow I've gone and pissed off the MAC/Linux zealots, just by stating the obvious.
You've also gone and referred to the MAC people as being touchy, but I bet you'll get modded "insightful" for being part of the fold.
Personally, I hope that one day a nasty worm goes and slays all the Windows-running motherboards out there. Or just flashes the bios. That would be fitting, given that those users have chosen to hand their security over to a company that has shows a callous disregard for their security.
I don't particuarly wish the Mac people any ill will. But a worm or two might be nice, as then they might take security a bit more seriously.
It seems easy enough to piss of Apple/MAC fans: just say something slightly negative, no matter how grounded in fact, about Apple or Mac.
This guy did that, so he got flamed.
It reminds me a bit of the Linux zealots.
I personally didn't know much about the Mac crowd until recently -- but they are very touchy. Perhaps that is why the GNAA makes so much fun of them.
Are there any organized, professional griefers in these games?
I would figure that if a professional Chinese-mafia would have no problem profiting from the ruination of the barbarians.
Your perception of it would be that Chinese characters were teaming up on you, robbing, you, etc.
You'd expect some typical "social identity" processes to kick in: white people would organize against the Chinese, figure out how to spot them, etc. That seems to be exactly what is happening (e.g. "type two lines in English").
Here http://www.pugscode.org/ is something on the PUGS project, which is making an implementation of Perl 6 in Haskell, conformant to the spec.
Apparently they are having a lot of fun.
You might know this already, but the lisp family of languages have very, very simple syntax. You'd never have this problem with them. Operators are prefix -- not infix.
Everything is parenthesized fully.
'((1 2) (3 4) 5 (6 7 8)) would be your list of lists.
I thought the interest in Chinese launches ended after they had a few costly explosions:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=643
Also, the US got tighter on technology transfer after the Loral case. Hasn't that made it difficult for them, as now they have to do it without the USA's help?
Is this good enough? http://kerneltrap.org/node/4965
I'm not a Linux expert. I can't point to the stuff.
All I know is that OpenBSD absolutely doesn't allow that stuff.
You might think from the daemon logo that it is a FreeBSD-based thing.
It isn't -- it is OpenBSD-based. So you'd figure the encryption would be top-notch. Also the OS is already very secure. That's what they focus on, to the exclusion of other things.
OpenBSD is quite reliable. If it includes drivers for hardware, they work.
Also, they only use code that they can look at. No blogs of code (like Linux or FreeBSD) are allowed. That's because if you can't inspect them, the NSA or an attacker might have put some bad code in there. It is because of things like this that Theo De Raadt won a prize from Stallman for his contributions to free software.
Indians will use this to make money, right? This isn't some ego-building thing like the Chinese space program, right?
I think that's really neat. I can imagine the Chinese govt. has something to prove. I can also imagine the Indians are too poor (and not despotic enough) to irresponsibly waste the money. In China, even if it is a waste, if the big men say do it, you do it.
My only thought is that the inherent dishonesty of Indian organizations will lead to the rockets not working and lots of fingerpointing and ass-covering. And no real accountability.
They've got a recognized brand name. They could probably tweak it, and not have to spend a billion dollars to make everyone know the new name. Instead the marketers win the day and get to make a new name and spend big money.
This is the sort of expense that Google won't make.
When I look at how they spend the money, I wish my fellow shareholders would ask that Intel act more like Google, and not blow our money.
Why do you hope that?
Your response seems illogical.
Do you mean to say that you are happy it will be running on RiscOS tooFirefox going Beta for RiscOS?
Somehow I'm skeptical.
Almost nobody cares that at some point in the future, firefox will run on an OS that few use. Whether it be OSX or RiscOS.