If someone were able to prove Einstein wrong in part of his theory there certainly wouldn't be a big defensive uproar as is found any time the theory of evolution is challenged.
No, there wouldn't. There wouldn't be any uproar at all if someone "challenged" Eisntein by saying "THE BIBLE DOESN'T MENTION RELATIVITY!!! IT'S TOO COMPLEX FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND, SO IT MUST BE FALSE!!!"
automatic sequencing has gotten far cheaper in recent years.
I certainly hope so - sequencing a composite human genome took 2 decades. Besides, even if it only costs me 10 bucks on my tax return, I don't want it - it just makes the government a little bigger, a little more bureaucratic, a little more powerful.
It's not only the civil liberties problem - it's too damn expensive. I don't want my tax money going toward that, I'll take the.002% higher risk of getting robbed.
But it's also a liberty problem. When the government has the capability to turn into Big Brother, then as time goes on the probability approaches 1 that they will.
I realize you're trolling and don't actually beleve what you're saying, but I agree with your statement. I have no problem with music piracy - sucks to be taking money from the artists, but I daresay they'll manage to live off money from concerts, promotions, and suchlike things. And I would rather forsake masturbation for a month straight than comtribte to the salary of a worthless, overpaid middle-manager in the RIAA. I cannot fucking STAND managers.
GPL infringement, on the other hand, is making money off the work of others. Different.
Because of the terror it would create. If people refused to be terrified and recognized that in a population of 300 million the bombings were inconsequential, they would be practically nothing.
Having city centers and landmarks get blown up with any regularity is a no-no if you want a working country.
Terrorists haven't blown up city centers and landmarks with any regularity. They haven't, won't, and can't. That's why terrorism is an inconsequential threat.
you'd almost think the original wording was chosen on purpose to confuse...
Remember Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupdity.
I believe they combined 24 different people's genomes to eliminate point mutations and suchlike things. Nobody has the exact sequence of base pairs published.
Hmm, it seems we have different perspectives. In my AP government class, there are only 2 women who know politics well, one vapid slut who doesn't like Hillary because her parents don't, and 20 vapid sluts who will probably register to vote Hillary in. You seem to have had better experiences than I with people; I hope your experiences better reflect the nation than mine.
I think you have a rather overestimated opinion of people's political awareness. You forget that she'll get 75% of females to vote for her just because she's female. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of females voting tripled, just from women registering to vote in the first female president (issues? what?).
Wouldn't it be easier to prominently publish a book or something similar with all those ideas? Then you could point to provable prior art if a company tries to sue based on one of them.
The energy's not "degrading", it's spreading. And I'm so proud of you for being able to *understand* the physics (really, the 7th-grade science) behind the problem. Did it take lots of hard work for you to learn light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of distance?
Seriously. You're not as intelligent as you think you are, and I wouldn't advise you to act it.
That's the funny thing about American schools. You can tell exactly what's going to happen to a particular person there based only on their appearance, because that's all that matters there.
I never said disagreeing with me makes someone stupid. Stupidity makes someone stupid, and it's generally easy to spot if you converse with them for a while. What I said was, iPod users aren't generally independent thinkers. If you think about it, the iPod isn't near good enough to get a 75%ish market share without a little help from our hated enemy groupthink.
That's kind of the problem... most iPod users _can't_ think for themselves. That's why they have iPod Minis, and iPod Videos with only music, instead of Cowon iAudio X5s or IRiver PMC-120s.
How the hell do you remember to breathe? Click the fucking "parent" link a few times. Spudley said the book sucked, you said "why don't you educate me with your knowledge of crypto by putting forth some examples?" I replied, in a series of questions which ended with an implied "are you the dumbest thing that ever fell out of a vagina?" It was a VERY SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD discussion. Now fuck off and die.
Wait... you didn't think it strange that someone could write a program that would destroy a unique computer, with a unique operating system, whose contents are not even acknowledged to exist, much less published? You didn't see a problem with a "virus" that didn't spread and whose sole purpose was to *physically* destroy an NSA computer? You believe "rolling cleartext" is possible, where ciphertext (a static block of bits) corresponds to a different cleartext at different points in time? And finally, did you honestly, truly believe it's possible for the NSA's big block o' chips to brute force an ALGORITHM? Given one ciphertext and no cleartext??
I've always viewed intelligence as being inborn, and knowledge as being gained in life. I may be wrong, but some of the people I know would surprise me greatly if they could understand any remotely complex concept, regardless of how long they were coached.
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If someone were able to prove Einstein wrong in part of his theory there certainly wouldn't be a big defensive uproar as is found any time the theory of evolution is challenged.
No, there wouldn't. There wouldn't be any uproar at all if someone "challenged" Eisntein by saying "THE BIBLE DOESN'T MENTION RELATIVITY!!! IT'S TOO COMPLEX FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND, SO IT MUST BE FALSE!!!"
automatic sequencing has gotten far cheaper in recent years.
I certainly hope so - sequencing a composite human genome took 2 decades. Besides, even if it only costs me 10 bucks on my tax return, I don't want it - it just makes the government a little bigger, a little more bureaucratic, a little more powerful.
It's not only the civil liberties problem - it's too damn expensive. I don't want my tax money going toward that, I'll take the .002% higher risk of getting robbed.
But it's also a liberty problem. When the government has the capability to turn into Big Brother, then as time goes on the probability approaches 1 that they will.
Two ways:
1. Hack a server or two and have a poke around the network yourself to see what they have.
2. Assume the worst when talking to them. If you say with full and complete confidence that you know they're lying, they'll admit it (if they are).
I realize you're trolling and don't actually beleve what you're saying, but I agree with your statement. I have no problem with music piracy - sucks to be taking money from the artists, but I daresay they'll manage to live off money from concerts, promotions, and suchlike things. And I would rather forsake masturbation for a month straight than comtribte to the salary of a worthless, overpaid middle-manager in the RIAA. I cannot fucking STAND managers.
GPL infringement, on the other hand, is making money off the work of others. Different.
Because of the terror it would create. If people refused to be terrified and recognized that in a population of 300 million the bombings were inconsequential, they would be practically nothing.
Having city centers and landmarks get blown up with any regularity is a no-no if you want a working country.
Terrorists haven't blown up city centers and landmarks with any regularity. They haven't, won't, and can't. That's why terrorism is an inconsequential threat.
you'd almost think the original wording was chosen on purpose to confuse... Remember Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupdity.
I believe they combined 24 different people's genomes to eliminate point mutations and suchlike things. Nobody has the exact sequence of base pairs published.
1/0 paragraphs is infinity percent, or undefined percent.
Hmm, it seems we have different perspectives. In my AP government class, there are only 2 women who know politics well, one vapid slut who doesn't like Hillary because her parents don't, and 20 vapid sluts who will probably register to vote Hillary in. You seem to have had better experiences than I with people; I hope your experiences better reflect the nation than mine.
I think you have a rather overestimated opinion of people's political awareness. You forget that she'll get 75% of females to vote for her just because she's female. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of females voting tripled, just from women registering to vote in the first female president (issues? what?).
Wouldn't it be easier to prominently publish a book or something similar with all those ideas? Then you could point to provable prior art if a company tries to sue based on one of them.
The energy's not "degrading", it's spreading. And I'm so proud of you for being able to *understand* the physics (really, the 7th-grade science) behind the problem. Did it take lots of hard work for you to learn light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of distance?
Seriously. You're not as intelligent as you think you are, and I wouldn't advise you to act it.
That's the funny thing about American schools. You can tell exactly what's going to happen to a particular person there based only on their appearance, because that's all that matters there.
Bad news folks... natural selection seems to have stopped working. We're in for a bad few millenia.
He was mocking a typo. He bolded it for emphasis. How did you miss that?
"our hated enemy groupthink"
I want you to read this phrase over and over until you get the irony.
Shit. You win this one.
I never said disagreeing with me makes someone stupid. Stupidity makes someone stupid, and it's generally easy to spot if you converse with them for a while. What I said was, iPod users aren't generally independent thinkers. If you think about it, the iPod isn't near good enough to get a 75%ish market share without a little help from our hated enemy groupthink.
That's kind of the problem... most iPod users _can't_ think for themselves. That's why they have iPod Minis, and iPod Videos with only music, instead of Cowon iAudio X5s or IRiver PMC-120s.
How the hell do you remember to breathe? Click the fucking "parent" link a few times. Spudley said the book sucked, you said "why don't you educate me with your knowledge of crypto by putting forth some examples?" I replied, in a series of questions which ended with an implied "are you the dumbest thing that ever fell out of a vagina?" It was a VERY SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD discussion. Now fuck off and die.
You asked for examples of why the book sucked, fuckwit. I just gave them. Go eat a dick.
Wait... you didn't think it strange that someone could write a program that would destroy a unique computer, with a unique operating system, whose contents are not even acknowledged to exist, much less published? You didn't see a problem with a "virus" that didn't spread and whose sole purpose was to *physically* destroy an NSA computer? You believe "rolling cleartext" is possible, where ciphertext (a static block of bits) corresponds to a different cleartext at different points in time? And finally, did you honestly, truly believe it's possible for the NSA's big block o' chips to brute force an ALGORITHM? Given one ciphertext and no cleartext??
It's not YOUR music, it's the RIAA's music! You're DAMN lucky they allow you to listen, even if you paid for it! Count your blessings!
I've always viewed intelligence as being inborn, and knowledge as being gained in life. I may be wrong, but some of the people I know would surprise me greatly if they could understand any remotely complex concept, regardless of how long they were coached.