I still think that Craig Kilborn was by far funnier than Jon Stewart. Then he moved to CBS for a late night show that totally sucked... And Jon Stewart was terrible the first couple years, though these days I do tend to flip to it every so often.
The probability cited in the article states that there is less than a 1 in 1000 chance of dying within the year if you live in a good neighborhood and aren't stupid. The author concludes from this that within 1000 years it'll be a 50/50 chance, which is complete bullshit.
Anybody who knows a thing or two about probability knows that probability knows no time. The probability 1000 years from now, assuming that culture stays the same, would still be, if his figure it correct, "well under 1 in 1000." I stopped reading the article at this point, because when people can't correctly get something as simple as statistics correct it takes the fun out of their ridiculous claims. I was hoping it would be someone with half a brain who had gone looney, but he never had one to begin with.
This is a scam. I saw it online before. How the crap did this make it to Slashdot. I swear dumber and dumber articles get through each day. Nothing to see here, move along.
Just because it exists doesn't mean it isn't a joke still. I coded a library for inflating file sizes as a joke. (Too many people these days focus on compression, and long disappeared is the art of file inflation...) It really exists, doesn't make it any less of a joke though.
I bought one cause it was cheap, just like me... don't expect anything too excellent with it or anything. I've had trouble receiving a signal from it being maybe 50 feet away (through the floor and across the other side of the house,) which to me is poor quality, but I like to move around a lot, I don't know what distances "good" range is with a WiFi router.
Updating the firmware was a no-brainer. Took less than a minute to do. I did actually have problems with it when I changed the admin username, which rendered it unusable. I had to reset the memory on it and start over configuring
everthing, which was pretty frustrating. But I was able to change the password okay after learning of this horrible bug in it. (Almost returned it after that happened, though, sheesh!)
Aye, I was excited as I read the description of the article, but when I went to read the article it was something I recognized instantly. It's complete hogwash. I've seen this before, the dude is just trying to make waves and generate hype, probably for funding. If you know what he's talking about you'll quickly realise how full of crap it is. You'd think the editors would have weeded this garbage out already...
I'm sure he's spent more time on all his pretty graphics than on any scientific work.
I'm guilty of being one of those slow paced open-source developers. My main reason for lack of motivation is cash. Money is my drive to program. I don't care what I'm programming, if there's money coming my way for it I'll code it. Other than that, I work solely on whatever interests me at the moment. And my interests change like [insert something that changes rapidly here.]
Games are mainly what I like to program. So playing my creation takes up a good portion of time as well. It's usually more fun to look at my beautiful creation which isn't nearly completed than it would be to finish it off and make it interesting to other people....so there's my answer in praise of the almighty dollar:-p.
"The things you own end up owning you."
In a word, no. That way you can get on to more important things, like observing the smell of your body odor. We are slowly realising that we can have machines do all our work for us. Even our possessions can take care of themselves without our interaction. We freaking have electric animals now! It's time we learn to sit back and relax and enjoy the new automated world. (And to be "paranoid" about it, you know someone will abuse the power they could easily amass while everyone else is staring at the sky picturing unicorns and alligators in the clouds.)
What does a pHD actually mean?
A PhD is a Philosophical Doctorate. It says that you can think intelligently and help progress the knowledge of mankind.
Is it right for a discredited man to have his pHD removed?
It most certainly is. If it has been proven that he's fudging scientific data, then he's clearly not helping to progress the knowledge of mankind, and is indeed hindering progress. False answers to justify hypothesis is never right. Anyone who plagerizes material or makes up their own science has no right to be called a doctor of philosophy. It's about using your knowledge, not about bragging rights for having been in school for n years.
Is it right that popular opinion can determine how qualified someone is to make a statement in their field?
Popular opinion? You mean a review board at the institution which granted him the degree? Did you even read the article? It wasn't about public outcry or bad publicity. "A committee of 12 professors at his alma mater in southern Germany decided after its own review to strip Schoen of the doctorate in physics he earned in 1998." It was his peers who revoked his degree, not the public.
I had a problem with my digital cable service just yesterday. Called tech support and the guy walked me through a completely incorect method of hooking up the cable box to the TV, but at least he was kind about it -- even put in a service ticket for me so that someone more competent than he could come and look at it because his method involved a cord that was only connected on one end.
Turns out unplugging it and plugging it back in (then fixing his wiring scheme) fixed everything, doggone digital crap. But hey, he didn't try to sodomize me or anything. I give their tech support an A+.
The reason that I use Linux instead of Windows as my primary operating system is that Linux just works better than Windows at the tasks I do. I think the deciding factor in it all though is the fact that no matter how hard I try, Windows just can't in a million years handle my cheap built-in sound card. When I run any program that plays sound it will always give cruddy playback (including going out "randomly" for no apparent reason at all.) Running other programs while using sound is a definite recipie for problems with sound playback. In Linux both OSS and ALSA have worked beautifully for me and never given me a problem (other than a bit of initial trouble setting up ALSA.)
Then there's the fact that I run many servers on my desktop computer and don't quite do "desktop computing" with it. Word processing? I certainly don't need that, just need Vim. Anyone with a good distro gets automatic updates of their software, or at least automatic notification. That way I can get security updates the day they're released instead of having to visit each server's page daily to check for updates, were I to try to use the programs in Windows. Besides, I'm sure there's something that I use regularly which lacks a Windows port (I know my webcam software which I wrote myself wouldn't work under Windows.)
I like to see my computer as the "ultimate setup" where everything I can do it so easily accessible. One of the few reasons I used to boot into Windows was to burn CDs and use Paint Shop Pro, but I've since learned that PSP runs fine with Wine and once I get off my lazy butt I'm gonna figure out how to configure this system to burn CDs:-P.
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Actually, linking to a 12-day old page wouldn't work, as the Wayback Machine doesn't have archives available of a crawled site until its at least 6 months old, so says their FAQ.
"Go look at the astronaut biographies [nasa.gov] and tell us the names of those you are willing to have die to service Hubble."
Compared to this most recent war in Iraq (admittadly I have no statistics to back up my claim,) I'm sure that more American lives have been lost there than in the entire history of NASA. And Bush wants to spend loads of money on that war which, let's face it, is going nowhere and has recently turned into an even bigger embarassment.
I think that losing human life for greater scientific advancement is a far more glorious way to go than to die serving a political agenda which few even agree with anymore. Instead of pouring billions upon billions in trying to force democracy on people who don't want it, we should pour our money into more important scientific fields.
Not that I think that sacrificing human life is a "good" thing, but comparing it to the behemoth our country is currently facing, it certainly is the lesser of two evils.
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I still think that Craig Kilborn was by far funnier than Jon Stewart. Then he moved to CBS for a late night show that totally sucked... And Jon Stewart was terrible the first couple years, though these days I do tend to flip to it every so often.
Guess what bitches?
What? I'm clearly missing your point...
The probability cited in the article states that there is less than a 1 in 1000 chance of dying within the year if you live in a good neighborhood and aren't stupid. The author concludes from this that within 1000 years it'll be a 50/50 chance, which is complete bullshit.
Anybody who knows a thing or two about probability knows that probability knows no time. The probability 1000 years from now, assuming that culture stays the same, would still be, if his figure it correct, "well under 1 in 1000." I stopped reading the article at this point, because when people can't correctly get something as simple as statistics correct it takes the fun out of their ridiculous claims. I was hoping it would be someone with half a brain who had gone looney, but he never had one to begin with.
Wouldn't it have been funnier as "In Soviet Russia, WIFI finds YOU!"?
This actually exists in Gaim with the system log. And I use it just for this purpose. :-P
This is a scam. I saw it online before. How the crap did this make it to Slashdot. I swear dumber and dumber articles get through each day. Nothing to see here, move along.
Considering that it's coming through at 0.6KB/sec, I doubt anyone will get the full thing before the server dies...
Just because it exists doesn't mean it isn't a joke still. I coded a library for inflating file sizes as a joke. (Too many people these days focus on compression, and long disappeared is the art of file inflation...) It really exists, doesn't make it any less of a joke though.
I find it rather funny that just about NOBODY even read the article to realise that the program is a JOKE.
:-P
Sheesh!
I bought one cause it was cheap, just like me... don't expect anything too excellent with it or anything. I've had trouble receiving a signal from it being maybe 50 feet away (through the floor and across the other side of the house,) which to me is poor quality, but I like to move around a lot, I don't know what distances "good" range is with a WiFi router.
Updating the firmware was a no-brainer. Took less than a minute to do. I did actually have problems with it when I changed the admin username, which rendered it unusable. I had to reset the memory on it and start over configuring everthing, which was pretty frustrating. But I was able to change the password okay after learning of this horrible bug in it. (Almost returned it after that happened, though, sheesh!)
Aye, I was excited as I read the description of the article, but when I went to read the article it was something I recognized instantly. It's complete hogwash. I've seen this before, the dude is just trying to make waves and generate hype, probably for funding. If you know what he's talking about you'll quickly realise how full of crap it is. You'd think the editors would have weeded this garbage out already...
I'm sure he's spent more time on all his pretty graphics than on any scientific work.
How is this much different from this article posted just four days ago?
I'm guilty of being one of those slow paced open-source developers. My main reason for lack of motivation is cash. Money is my drive to program. I don't care what I'm programming, if there's money coming my way for it I'll code it. Other than that, I work solely on whatever interests me at the moment. And my interests change like [insert something that changes rapidly here.]
...so there's my answer in praise of the almighty dollar :-p.
Games are mainly what I like to program. So playing my creation takes up a good portion of time as well. It's usually more fun to look at my beautiful creation which isn't nearly completed than it would be to finish it off and make it interesting to other people.
"will my possessions need me anymore?"
"The things you own end up owning you."
In a word, no. That way you can get on to more important things, like observing the smell of your body odor. We are slowly realising that we can have machines do all our work for us. Even our possessions can take care of themselves without our interaction. We freaking have electric animals now! It's time we learn to sit back and relax and enjoy the new automated world. (And to be "paranoid" about it, you know someone will abuse the power they could easily amass while everyone else is staring at the sky picturing unicorns and alligators in the clouds.)
What does a pHD actually mean?
A PhD is a Philosophical Doctorate. It says that you can think intelligently and help progress the knowledge of mankind.
Is it right for a discredited man to have his pHD removed?
It most certainly is. If it has been proven that he's fudging scientific data, then he's clearly not helping to progress the knowledge of mankind, and is indeed hindering progress. False answers to justify hypothesis is never right. Anyone who plagerizes material or makes up their own science has no right to be called a doctor of philosophy. It's about using your knowledge, not about bragging rights for having been in school for n years.
Is it right that popular opinion can determine how qualified someone is to make a statement in their field?
Popular opinion? You mean a review board at the institution which granted him the degree? Did you even read the article? It wasn't about public outcry or bad publicity. "A committee of 12 professors at his alma mater in southern Germany decided after its own review to strip Schoen of the doctorate in physics he earned in 1998." It was his peers who revoked his degree, not the public.
Turns out unplugging it and plugging it back in (then fixing his wiring scheme) fixed everything, doggone digital crap. But hey, he didn't try to sodomize me or anything. I give their tech support an A+.
The reason that I use Linux instead of Windows as my primary operating system is that Linux just works better than Windows at the tasks I do. I think the deciding factor in it all though is the fact that no matter how hard I try, Windows just can't in a million years handle my cheap built-in sound card. When I run any program that plays sound it will always give cruddy playback (including going out "randomly" for no apparent reason at all.) Running other programs while using sound is a definite recipie for problems with sound playback. In Linux both OSS and ALSA have worked beautifully for me and never given me a problem (other than a bit of initial trouble setting up ALSA.)
:-P.
Then there's the fact that I run many servers on my desktop computer and don't quite do "desktop computing" with it. Word processing? I certainly don't need that, just need Vim. Anyone with a good distro gets automatic updates of their software, or at least automatic notification. That way I can get security updates the day they're released instead of having to visit each server's page daily to check for updates, were I to try to use the programs in Windows. Besides, I'm sure there's something that I use regularly which lacks a Windows port (I know my webcam software which I wrote myself wouldn't work under Windows.)
I like to see my computer as the "ultimate setup" where everything I can do it so easily accessible. One of the few reasons I used to boot into Windows was to burn CDs and use Paint Shop Pro, but I've since learned that PSP runs fine with Wine and once I get off my lazy butt I'm gonna figure out how to configure this system to burn CDs
Actually, linking to a 12-day old page wouldn't work, as the Wayback Machine doesn't have archives available of a crawled site until its at least 6 months old, so says their FAQ.
Compared to this most recent war in Iraq (admittadly I have no statistics to back up my claim,) I'm sure that more American lives have been lost there than in the entire history of NASA. And Bush wants to spend loads of money on that war which, let's face it, is going nowhere and has recently turned into an even bigger embarassment.
I think that losing human life for greater scientific advancement is a far more glorious way to go than to die serving a political agenda which few even agree with anymore. Instead of pouring billions upon billions in trying to force democracy on people who don't want it, we should pour our money into more important scientific fields.
Not that I think that sacrificing human life is a "good" thing, but comparing it to the behemoth our country is currently facing, it certainly is the lesser of two evils.