I think quantum encryption of this variety could have an incredible practical application: true democracy. The internet has continued to make the world a smaller place, a trend I feel is only going to continue. One of the things relevant to this is that we can cut out the middleman. Geographically scattered groups can get together and form a single lobbying group as it is, for instance the huge Ron Paul fundraiser sites.
We can take this to the next level and actually be able to vote from home, on everything, eliminating the need for a representative democracy by instituting the purest form. Government would need some fundamental changes (namely expressly limiting the powers of each level of government, with the local town or county having the greatest power) but it could function as a real democracy.
Having none of that, Ms. Foster's lawyer has now made a motion to compel their compliance with the Court's March 15th order.
It seems the Ides of March is just a bad day for most tyrants. First Julius Caesar, then the Habsburgs, then Czar Nicholas II. Now they've come for the RIAA. I'm beginning to think that the Ides of March should be an international holiday.
Heh, I posted about this having been on Facebook earlier today in the Slashback article. I'm rather amazed that these things could have been active for days without getting caught and pulled by the websites. I'd ban the advertising company from my site after a stunt like this, no matter how much money they bring in. They just exposed hundreds of thousands of high school and college students to a virus for a quick buck.
Ironically enough, for the last few days Facebook.com would have been a good site to ban. One of their ad banners was loaded with a virus, and it took them quite a while to fix it. It was a trojan with a.wmf extension. Thankfully, my anti-virus caught it as Firefox attempted to auto-download it for some reason (I suspect FlashGot of being that reason).
And you hardly can inoculate all the poultry in a country.
This statement leads me to conclude you do not live in a rural area with lots of farms. The amount of vaccines required by law for cows that are only used for milk is staggering. Livestock and poultry are actually fairly easily to inoculate an entire population of, as they are in confined fields or chicken houses and coops. At least here in the USA, the vaccines aren't that expensive either, thanks to government subsidy and grants, so the inoculation process is widely observed. So yes, vaccination can occur on a country-wide scale with very little difficulty if farming has any regulation at all (and I suspect bird flu to be a real economic regulator).
The Muratorian Fragment would seem to disagree with the idea that the four gospels were passed down verbally for 300 years. Most scholars (Christian and secular) agree the letter was likely from around 170 A.D. or about 70-80 years after the estimated date of the last Disciple's death. Just thought you'd like to know.
A) I agree with you that the majority of "Christians" in America have a problem. Even the great evangelist Billy Graham thinks 75% of people believe in the Bible, not God, and aren't saved by Jesus' simple definition.
B) Unfortunately for most people who use that argument, the New Testament can be verified to be the same as the version around circa A.D. 170, when the Church was still persecuted and no group could be the "They" who burn books they don't like and re-write them for their own good. The Muratorian Fragment is what you'll want to look up for that. It lists the books of the new testament as they were at the time. Note: Four gospels, not five. Silly Gnostics.
To reply to myself, I notice there's not a lot of mention of the iRiver and the Samsung devices. The iRiver PMC was awesome and the Samsung is a flitop style device that fits in the palm of your hand and still makes video look good.
The battery life is supposedly pretty good, but I didn't get to spend hours with it.
I was in Silicon Valley last month when Microsoft debuted these at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology. Honestly, I loved the things.
There are three models and all of them are excellent. All of them feature TV-out as well which was truly awesome.
The software was excellent, the GUI was pretty intuitive, and the formats it supports are entirely up to the manufacturer outside of WMV and WMA. They can support whatever they want, be it OGG, AAC, whatever.
TuxCards
TuxCards is a program that will store your notes in RTF format and organize them in a tree. Very handy, also sorts by category I believe. Try it.
Amazing how quickly the WMD are pulled into these kind of conversations. I know my karma will tank for this but I have to say it.
"There were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq."
They even launched more than a few at our troops. The man who led the US Special Forces into Iraq and who took 1000 prisoners two days before the war started, rescued the female prisoner, and cut down the first Saddam banner came out to my school because the local troops were moved out to Iraq.
That man spent two weeks in the back of an Army truck outside of Iraq sealed up in a chemical suit because a huge amount of chemical warheads were fired at him and his troops. The reason even the anti-Bush people shut up about the WMD is no one is supposed to freaking know that their children are having WMD launched at them.
This man also stated that his troops seized a huge amount of WMDs upon entering Iraq. The point of all this ranting was that there were WMD found. So please don't bring up that bull argument again. (And yes, we were shown proof that these WMD did exist.)
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When I was running Linux on my 350 mHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can dang well bet I wouldn't have made it without a swap partition. I probably would have gone back to Windows if swap hadn't existed.
If you want to use the KDE icons in gtk+ applications, you should check out this page which builds upon the GTK-QT theme engine. It works well, I'm using it right now to chat on Gaim.
SO what if they find it? The Christians, the Jews, the Muslims will all go "I told you so." Then the Chinese will point out that they have an old legend about a man named Noah. Then smaller cultures will come out with similar stories. In folklore, most cultures have a story of a giant flood.
So why should it be a big deal if they find one? The small percentage of the world that are atheist or agnostic (it is small, don't think otherwise) will be told off. I can say that this will be a big deal even being a Christian because it won't change anything.
I have read the Book of Mormon and their doctrine and all I have to say is they are smoking even more crack than the Jehovah's witnesses. Brigham Young was just a megolamaniac sexual addict and Joseph Smith was a greedy crackpot who claimed people lived on the moon. They also believe we are "spirit children" who will be gods on day. For those that haven't read the doctrine books outside the Book of Mormon and believe it you need to read the others. They contain some very interesting information.
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I think quantum encryption of this variety could have an incredible practical application: true democracy. The internet has continued to make the world a smaller place, a trend I feel is only going to continue. One of the things relevant to this is that we can cut out the middleman. Geographically scattered groups can get together and form a single lobbying group as it is, for instance the huge Ron Paul fundraiser sites.
We can take this to the next level and actually be able to vote from home, on everything, eliminating the need for a representative democracy by instituting the purest form. Government would need some fundamental changes (namely expressly limiting the powers of each level of government, with the local town or county having the greatest power) but it could function as a real democracy.
Heh, I posted about this having been on Facebook earlier today in the Slashback article. I'm rather amazed that these things could have been active for days without getting caught and pulled by the websites. I'd ban the advertising company from my site after a stunt like this, no matter how much money they bring in. They just exposed hundreds of thousands of high school and college students to a virus for a quick buck.
Ironically enough, for the last few days Facebook.com would have been a good site to ban. One of their ad banners was loaded with a virus, and it took them quite a while to fix it. It was a trojan with a .wmf extension. Thankfully, my anti-virus caught it as Firefox attempted to auto-download it for some reason (I suspect FlashGot of being that reason).
This statement leads me to conclude you do not live in a rural area with lots of farms. The amount of vaccines required by law for cows that are only used for milk is staggering. Livestock and poultry are actually fairly easily to inoculate an entire population of, as they are in confined fields or chicken houses and coops. At least here in the USA, the vaccines aren't that expensive either, thanks to government subsidy and grants, so the inoculation process is widely observed. So yes, vaccination can occur on a country-wide scale with very little difficulty if farming has any regulation at all (and I suspect bird flu to be a real economic regulator).
The Muratorian Fragment would seem to disagree with the idea that the four gospels were passed down verbally for 300 years. Most scholars (Christian and secular) agree the letter was likely from around 170 A.D. or about 70-80 years after the estimated date of the last Disciple's death. Just thought you'd like to know.
A) I agree with you that the majority of "Christians" in America have a problem. Even the great evangelist Billy Graham thinks 75% of people believe in the Bible, not God, and aren't saved by Jesus' simple definition.
B) Unfortunately for most people who use that argument, the New Testament can be verified to be the same as the version around circa A.D. 170, when the Church was still persecuted and no group could be the "They" who burn books they don't like and re-write them for their own good. The Muratorian Fragment is what you'll want to look up for that. It lists the books of the new testament as they were at the time. Note: Four gospels, not five. Silly Gnostics.
The Cardboard Tube Samurai was mentioned in a Soul Reaver game too.
See here (I can't find the original reference).
To reply to myself, I notice there's not a lot of mention of the iRiver and the Samsung devices.
The iRiver PMC was awesome and the Samsung is a flitop style device that fits in the palm of your hand and still makes video look good.
The battery life is supposedly pretty good, but I didn't get to spend hours with it.
I was in Silicon Valley last month when Microsoft debuted these at the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology. Honestly, I loved the things.
There are three models and all of them are excellent. All of them feature TV-out as well which was truly awesome.
The software was excellent, the GUI was pretty intuitive, and the formats it supports are entirely up to the manufacturer outside of WMV and WMA. They can support whatever they want, be it OGG, AAC, whatever.
TuxCards
TuxCards is a program that will store your notes in RTF format and organize them in a tree. Very handy, also sorts by category I believe. Try it.
Amazing how quickly the WMD are pulled into these kind of conversations. I know my karma will tank for this but I have to say it.
"There were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq."
They even launched more than a few at our troops. The man who led the US Special Forces into Iraq and who took 1000 prisoners two days before the war started, rescued the female prisoner, and cut down the first Saddam banner came out to my school because the local troops were moved out to Iraq.
That man spent two weeks in the back of an Army truck outside of Iraq sealed up in a chemical suit because a huge amount of chemical warheads were fired at him and his troops. The reason even the anti-Bush people shut up about the WMD is no one is supposed to freaking know that their children are having WMD launched at them.
This man also stated that his troops seized a huge amount of WMDs upon entering Iraq. The point of all this ranting was that there were WMD found. So please don't bring up that bull argument again. (And yes, we were shown proof that these WMD did exist.)
When I was running Linux on my 350 mHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can dang well bet I wouldn't have made it without a swap partition. I probably would have gone back to Windows if swap hadn't existed.
If you want to use the KDE icons in gtk+ applications, you should check out this page which builds upon the GTK-QT theme engine. It works well, I'm using it right now to chat on Gaim.
SO what if they find it? The Christians, the Jews, the Muslims will all go "I told you so." Then the Chinese will point out that they have an old legend about a man named Noah. Then smaller cultures will come out with similar stories. In folklore, most cultures have a story of a giant flood.
So why should it be a big deal if they find one? The small percentage of the world that are atheist or agnostic (it is small, don't think otherwise) will be told off. I can say that this will be a big deal even being a Christian because it won't change anything.
This isn't the first Mac OS X virus in the wild. We caught one last year on an iMac. It actually erased everything on the entire drive.
We caught a malicious virus that wiped the hard drive on our iMac last year. Just so you know viruses for OS X have been in the wild for a while now.
I have read the Book of Mormon and their doctrine and all I have to say is they are smoking even more crack than the Jehovah's witnesses. Brigham Young was just a megolamaniac sexual addict and Joseph Smith was a greedy crackpot who claimed people lived on the moon. They also believe we are "spirit children" who will be gods on day. For those that haven't read the doctrine books outside the Book of Mormon and believe it you need to read the others. They contain some very interesting information.