I believe that nothing is truely random. That everything is deterministic at it's heart. I also accept that the Uncertainty Principle limits our ability to ever see the clockwork gears. Deterministic stuff can still appear totally random, if we don't have perfect knowledge. Not that it really matters.
I believe that the universe is deterministic, and so are we, our thoughts, our actions. We are entirely the results of our environment and history, deserving of sympathy and mercy. I also believe in free will, or at least the illusion of free will. We are responsible for our actions, and can choose our beliefs, and deserve justice.
Nope, you misunderstand me. I choose to believe that "All lies (especially my own) will be found out". I certainly don't "hope" so. But, I think that I will be a better person for that belief.
Another belief: You can choose and change your beliefs. You are correct that beliefs are a source of many problems; war, stock market crashes, jealous rages, conflict, stupidity, and unhappyness (not exclusively). So I suggest choosing your beliefs with care.
I bet that you believe that serial murderers are bad, that your life on earth matters, and that you are awake right now. Even if you entertain the idea that we live in a Matrix, I bet you don't believe it.
Been there, done that. Seen the great light, got blinded, healed, now I see normally.
There are too many conflicting religions out there. It's obvious to me that if millions of people can be so determined that the pope is divine, Muhammed was a prophet, karma happens, angels appear to us, people speak in tongues, Jesus was born unto a virgin... I have no special chance of telling which is the real religion. If I pick one, and believe it to be the truth, I can't be certain that I'm any better at picking "the truth" than George Bush or Osama bin Laden.
Most Christians believe in a jealous God, a wrathful God, who used to be more involved in day-to-day miracles. And for the last 1970 years, hasn't owned up to any miracles. What happened back then? What's the big deal about creating a son -- who is also yourself -- and killing him off after 34 years. Isn't Jesus eternal, and kickin' it in paradise right now? Where's the sacrifice? Why did God make such a big deal about it, instead of just changing the rules about getting into heaven? What kind of father would condemn his children to eternal damnation unless they worshipped him, and believed in him when he hasn't sent a letter or called in a hundred generations?
My point is this: even for "unprovable things", there are degrees of rationality. Like recognising that Buddists and Wiccans and Muslins can be just as certain of their religious beliefs as you are. So how do you know that your feeling of belief is any more accurate then theirs?
For the record, I'm not interested in worshipping our "creator". Especially not if they've created artificial hoops for us to jump through, and allowed us to fight and kill each other for centuries as we debates whose idea of the creator was better.
All it would take to prevent religious war is a giant booming voice, heard around the world every couple weeks, in the language of every person who heard, letting us know what the score was. I don't think that would be difficult for someone who created the world from scratch. No more blurry photographs, inner voices that can be silenced with the right medication, and only appearing in jars of peanut butter. I'll believe in the present-day existence of an all-powerful diety when he cares enough to show himself.
Since our actions stem from our beliefs, whether proven or not, I think it's silly to think that there is "no point to believing". I believe that it is immoral to kill someone. There is no proof in morality, but as a result of my belief, I am much nicer to be around.:)
If I got anything out of reading books on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), it's that our beliefs have consequences, and sometimes it's better to belief something -- even if it's untrue -- because the results are good.
For example, I believe that a lie will always be found out.
I have a little rule that if God starts talking to me, and tells me to kill someone (my children, the president), I'm going to tell him to shut up and grow up. Then I'm going to see a shrink.
One of my pivotal "belief-moments" came when I realized how unreliable our brains are. Add a chemical, and suddenly you believe you can fly. People witnessing crimes can be Totally Positive about the perpatrator, and yet be Totally Wrong. Put a tumor in a certain spot, and you can hear voices. Some people can't see faces at all. Our memories change over time, and sometimes we can be convinced of things that never happened.
How well do you trust your senses? your memory? your thinking?
Could anything convince you that it would be safe to jump off a house believing you could fly? How about hearing the voice of God? If you grew up in a different country or family, what would you believe today?
Well, I sure wouldn't give a *bleep* about buying a Prius. And I might stop recycling.
OTOH, how many times in the past has anyone been right about predicting the end of the world. My money's on the prediction being wrong, no matter how "scientific", and the world (and humans) surviving.
If I'm wrong, you're welcome to collect your winnings.
Apps put a lot of crap dirs and files in ~/Documents so I made a subdir called ~/Documents/Mine. A lot of apps use the ~/Documents as a start folder, and it's easier to go down than go up.
iTunes Music is outside the user dir in/Music
NC-17 stuff is in a separate account, so all of my caches, recently viewed, and other settings don't ever show up at inopportune moments. I have another account that I can log into for guests for web browsing that doesn't have all of my mouse optimizations, Dvorak layout, or permissions.
I use my desktop for all downloads and temp notes to force me to clean up after myself. iTunes and iPhoto are amazing, and help me keep those files (3k and 8k) pretty well organized. Mirrored backup to an external hard drive every week or so.
My ~/Documents/Mine is broken mostly by roles./Work./School (further by class)./Dev (personal projects)./Games (existing and in development)./Palm./Downloads./Must-sort-yada (stuff I'll never sort)
I'm not very happy with this structure, and have been thinking about sweeping it all into another Must-sort directory.:) My bookmarks, and other settings that I'd like to have on other systems are a disaster. I'm getting a lot of great tips here!
Continuing the sanctions would have been a lot better than going to war under false pretences, bombing the sh** out of Iraq, and then changing our minds about why we went to war.
Also, Iraq did not attack us. They threatened us, but did not attack, and, as it turns out, could not have attacked us. Thank the gods that Bush wasn't in power during the cold war.
The sanctions were working just fine. I'm sure that a better way existed, but Bush's plan was not that better plan.
I see about a dozen replies so far and no one else mentions that the blocks of 8 IDs are SLA IDs. So it looks like you'll get 8 subnets for your personal use, each of which can have 2^(16*8) unique addresses. Which is more than enough for your cell phones, faxes, and god-knows what other devices. But that's assuming I read that part correctly. For a Dummies Introduction to IPv6, I have to say it wasn't very clear.
Initially a pool of IP addresses will be
assigned to an Internet Backbone provider who in turn parts out those IP blocks and
assigns them to individual ISP's and customers giving each their own unique NLA number. At
this point your ISP will then part out your IP address and assign you a unique block of
IP's with your own block of SLA ID's. Most likely they will give you a block of 8 ID's,
each of which can become a subnet if you so choose to use each of these ID's separately on
your network as a unique subnet.
Sender-ID/SPF was never about stopping spam. Repeat this to yourself until you actually hear it. People hear "spam" and "stop" and tend to jump to the wrong conclusion.
This is all about stopping forgery of the From: for domains that have registered their Sender-ID or SPF records. Spammers can still register a domain with authorization for any or all mail servers that they want, and continue sending out spam from zombied systems to their blackened and smoking hearts' content. They can continue to send spam for any other domains that allow forgery, like for alumni accounts or other drop box domains.
Sender-ID is only designed to stop phish-ing emails. So if you get an email from citibank.com, you can be reasonably sure it came from somebody at citibank.com, and not some guy's home pc, as long as citibank.com set up their records appropriately. That's all.
BTW, the reason the IETF is considering Sender-ID over SPF, is because it is highly probable that Microsoft can sue SPF out of existence.
This isn't meant to stop spam. This has nothing to do with stopping spam.
According to Earth Speeds, the Earth goes around the Sun at approximately 18.5 miles/sec, or 30 km/sec. In six hours the Earth will move 400,000 miles or 650,000 km around the sun. The radius of the Earth is roughly 4,000 miles or 6,500 km. So in six hours the Earth moves about 100 times its radius.
Hmmm, I think the commonality is that all of these ****ing dangerous nuts are hyper-religious and think that they are sure they're going to heaven for all of eternity, and screw anyone who thinks otherwise. Oh and the terrorists think that too, not just the folks who think that invading Iraq will make the Arabs love us and future generations of suiciding terrorists give up their beliefs and arms peacefully as they are awed by the righteousness of the one true Christian faith.
Douglas Adams was on to something when he suggested the idea of Atheist Airlines:
"At Atheist Air, prior to boarding, passengers would be required to spout blasphemous remarks at a display of artifacts from all the major religions. This effectively weeds out anyone who has a secret plan to meet the Creator in the next few hours. Blasphemers would be allowed to carry-on pickaxes, blowtorches, chainsaws, nun chucks, whatever, under the theory that atheists generally try to avoid hurting other people in any situation where there isn't a clear escape route."
Ok, so my rant above is a bit harsh, but I've been feeling oppressed by the right lately..:p
Nagware alone isn't why they have a bad reputation. Real Player also used to send your system stats and unique id back to the home base along with every stream you played. After playing the denial game for a while, they finally fixed it by letting you turn it off in the options. This was a few years ago, but I still avoid installing Real software today.
My opinion? It seems like iTunes is more important to Apple than they're letting on. And Real would have a fit if someone turned the tables on them. Legalities aside, the consumer will probably benefit.
I heard this on TV a while back, but moviepoopchute.com has more details on the history of the script for I, Robot. The short answer, Asimov-isms were only sprinkled in after the script was written, so if you watch this expecting Asimov, you'll be sorely disappointed.
Non-spoiler excerpts:
"I, ROBOT started out as a spec script from then-unknown writer Jeff Vintar titled HARDWIRED.... Proyas was signed and the project began to get a head of steam.
"Shortly thereafter, Fox acquired the rights to the I, ROBOT series (and eventually also Asimov's other classic, "The Foundation") and decided to take Vintar's script and incorporate many of the ideas from Asimov's book..."
"...Around late 2002/early 2003, Academy Award-winner Akiva Goldsman was brought in, along with INSOMNIA writer Hilary Seitz, for a polish, making the transition from HARDWIRED to I, ROBOT complete."
We made getting the negatives a condition for our photographer; he was very surprised, but accepted our reasons of wanting to make a website, and our worries about getting prints (hunting him down) years down the road. He charged us $500 and wanted to keep them for the first year. He also agreed to give us copies of any digitized scans he made as part of that $500.
Although that was important to us, it was much more important that he could straddle the line between artsy and archival. He took b&w as well as color photos and -- this was so cool -- he took some 3D photos that turned out to be the best shots of the church's grandeur. (Stanford Memorial Church)
I say, demand the negatives, but expect to make a reasonable concession. Make sure you get someone experienced with weddings since they are going to help you wrangle your family for the group shots, and that's hard. And hey! you only get one wedding. An idea-- ask someone from each side of the family beforehand to be designated wranglers. You'll probably need the extra help.
We had an unexpected use of our wedding photos: we gave a beautiful picture of my little sister to the surgeon to reference during her reconstructive surgery following an accident. (She's recovered- thanks.) We were really grateful to have the photo already digitized.
Like many others avidly waiting for the final blow, I was watching the ebb and flow on several graphing web sites setup to predict the endtime. On this one you can see the spikes and lulls very closely match day/night/weekend/blow-out patterns. (The spikes were much more dramatic before the contest-ending flattened the rest by comparison.)
Yes, I had fun waiting til it ended last night -- spent a few bucks on one-hit-wonders.
iTunes carries independant artists like Portal, Scarlet Life, and Moon Theory as I was surprised to find this last week. They don't carry all of CDBaby's artists, but it looks like they carry most. (at least of the good ones)
If you go directly to CDBaby, you can hear about a minute of each song instead of 30 seconds. Also, independant artists get a larger cut than those who signed up with the Big Labels, so you don't need to feel guilty about handing money over to the Evil Empire.
Upon some research, it looks like CDbaby inked the deal last year. Wish I'd known!
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Woah. Me too. :) Read Wolfram?
I believe that nothing is truely random. That everything is deterministic at it's heart. I also accept that the Uncertainty Principle limits our ability to ever see the clockwork gears. Deterministic stuff can still appear totally random, if we don't have perfect knowledge. Not that it really matters.
I believe that the universe is deterministic, and so are we, our thoughts, our actions. We are entirely the results of our environment and history, deserving of sympathy and mercy. I also believe in free will, or at least the illusion of free will. We are responsible for our actions, and can choose our beliefs, and deserve justice.
Nope, you misunderstand me. I choose to believe that "All lies (especially my own) will be found out". I certainly don't "hope" so. But, I think that I will be a better person for that belief.
Another belief: You can choose and change your beliefs. You are correct that beliefs are a source of many problems; war, stock market crashes, jealous rages, conflict, stupidity, and unhappyness (not exclusively). So I suggest choosing your beliefs with care.
I bet that you believe that serial murderers are bad, that your life on earth matters, and that you are awake right now. Even if you entertain the idea that we live in a Matrix, I bet you don't believe it.
Been there, done that. Seen the great light, got blinded, healed, now I see normally.
There are too many conflicting religions out there. It's obvious to me that if millions of people can be so determined that the pope is divine, Muhammed was a prophet, karma happens, angels appear to us, people speak in tongues, Jesus was born unto a virgin... I have no special chance of telling which is the real religion. If I pick one, and believe it to be the truth, I can't be certain that I'm any better at picking "the truth" than George Bush or Osama bin Laden.
Most Christians believe in a jealous God, a wrathful God, who used to be more involved in day-to-day miracles. And for the last 1970 years, hasn't owned up to any miracles. What happened back then? What's the big deal about creating a son -- who is also yourself -- and killing him off after 34 years. Isn't Jesus eternal, and kickin' it in paradise right now? Where's the sacrifice? Why did God make such a big deal about it, instead of just changing the rules about getting into heaven? What kind of father would condemn his children to eternal damnation unless they worshipped him, and believed in him when he hasn't sent a letter or called in a hundred generations?
My point is this: even for "unprovable things", there are degrees of rationality. Like recognising that Buddists and Wiccans and Muslins can be just as certain of their religious beliefs as you are. So how do you know that your feeling of belief is any more accurate then theirs?
For the record, I'm not interested in worshipping our "creator". Especially not if they've created artificial hoops for us to jump through, and allowed us to fight and kill each other for centuries as we debates whose idea of the creator was better.
All it would take to prevent religious war is a giant booming voice, heard around the world every couple weeks, in the language of every person who heard, letting us know what the score was. I don't think that would be difficult for someone who created the world from scratch. No more blurry photographs, inner voices that can be silenced with the right medication, and only appearing in jars of peanut butter. I'll believe in the present-day existence of an all-powerful diety when he cares enough to show himself.
Since our actions stem from our beliefs, whether proven or not, I think it's silly to think that there is "no point to believing". I believe that it is immoral to kill someone. There is no proof in morality, but as a result of my belief, I am much nicer to be around. :)
If I got anything out of reading books on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), it's that our beliefs have consequences, and sometimes it's better to belief something -- even if it's untrue -- because the results are good.
For example, I believe that a lie will always be found out.
I agree that would be an interesting question.
I have a little rule that if God starts talking to me, and tells me to kill someone (my children, the president), I'm going to tell him to shut up and grow up. Then I'm going to see a shrink.
One of my pivotal "belief-moments" came when I realized how unreliable our brains are. Add a chemical, and suddenly you believe you can fly. People witnessing crimes can be Totally Positive about the perpatrator, and yet be Totally Wrong. Put a tumor in a certain spot, and you can hear voices. Some people can't see faces at all. Our memories change over time, and sometimes we can be convinced of things that never happened.
How well do you trust your senses? your memory? your thinking?
Could anything convince you that it would be safe to jump off a house believing you could fly? How about hearing the voice of God? If you grew up in a different country or family, what would you believe today?
OTOH, how many times in the past has anyone been right about predicting the end of the world. My money's on the prediction being wrong, no matter how "scientific", and the world (and humans) surviving.
If I'm wrong, you're welcome to collect your winnings.
That should really read "210 km/h" since you used 1.6 for your conversion rate.
But if you use a more accurate conversion rate, you'd get 210.493 km/h.
I got into a lot of arguments in high school because my physics teacher didn't get this...
...except that when you take out that piece of pie that your spouse was saving, there's still as much pie left in the fridge.
In a code split, stuff gets split 100-100.
Mac user here..
/Music
./Work ./School (further by class) ./Dev (personal projects) ./Games (existing and in development) ./Palm ./Downloads ./Must-sort-yada (stuff I'll never sort)
:) My bookmarks, and other settings that I'd like to have on other systems are a disaster. I'm getting a lot of great tips here!
Apps put a lot of crap dirs and files in ~/Documents so I made a subdir called ~/Documents/Mine. A lot of apps use the ~/Documents as a start folder, and it's easier to go down than go up.
iTunes Music is outside the user dir in
NC-17 stuff is in a separate account, so all of my caches, recently viewed, and other settings don't ever show up at inopportune moments. I have another account that I can log into for guests for web browsing that doesn't have all of my mouse optimizations, Dvorak layout, or permissions.
I use my desktop for all downloads and temp notes to force me to clean up after myself. iTunes and iPhoto are amazing, and help me keep those files (3k and 8k) pretty well organized. Mirrored backup to an external hard drive every week or so.
My ~/Documents/Mine is broken mostly by roles
I'm not very happy with this structure, and have been thinking about sweeping it all into another Must-sort directory.
Continuing the sanctions would have been a lot better than going to war under false pretences, bombing the sh** out of Iraq, and then changing our minds about why we went to war.
Also, Iraq did not attack us. They threatened us, but did not attack, and, as it turns out, could not have attacked us. Thank the gods that Bush wasn't in power during the cold war.
The sanctions were working just fine. I'm sure that a better way existed, but Bush's plan was not that better plan.
Initially a pool of IP addresses will be assigned to an Internet Backbone provider who in turn parts out those IP blocks and assigns them to individual ISP's and customers giving each their own unique NLA number. At this point your ISP will then part out your IP address and assign you a unique block of IP's with your own block of SLA ID's. Most likely they will give you a block of 8 ID's, each of which can become a subnet if you so choose to use each of these ID's separately on your network as a unique subnet.
This is all about stopping forgery of the From: for domains that have registered their Sender-ID or SPF records. Spammers can still register a domain with authorization for any or all mail servers that they want, and continue sending out spam from zombied systems to their blackened and smoking hearts' content. They can continue to send spam for any other domains that allow forgery, like for alumni accounts or other drop box domains.
Sender-ID is only designed to stop phish-ing emails. So if you get an email from citibank.com, you can be reasonably sure it came from somebody at citibank.com, and not some guy's home pc, as long as citibank.com set up their records appropriately. That's all.
BTW, the reason the IETF is considering Sender-ID over SPF, is because it is highly probable that Microsoft can sue SPF out of existence.
This isn't meant to stop spam. This has nothing to do with stopping spam.
Basically, this latest asteroid is a lot closer.
You can not have perfect security.
You can not have perfect security.
You can not have perfect security.
Period.
Security measures are designed to either:
Where do you think the current airline security measures fit?
Douglas Adams was on to something when he suggested the idea of Atheist Airlines:
"At Atheist Air, prior to boarding, passengers would be required to spout blasphemous remarks at a display of artifacts from all the major religions. This effectively weeds out anyone who has a secret plan to meet the Creator in the next few hours. Blasphemers would be allowed to carry-on pickaxes, blowtorches, chainsaws, nun chucks, whatever, under the theory that atheists generally try to avoid hurting other people in any situation where there isn't a clear escape route."
Ok, so my rant above is a bit harsh, but I've been feeling oppressed by the right lately.. :p
My opinion? It seems like iTunes is more important to Apple than they're letting on. And Real would have a fit if someone turned the tables on them. Legalities aside, the consumer will probably benefit.
Non-spoiler excerpts:
"I, ROBOT started out as a spec script from then-unknown writer Jeff Vintar titled HARDWIRED. ... Proyas was signed and the project began to get a head of steam.
"Shortly thereafter, Fox acquired the rights to the I, ROBOT series (and eventually also Asimov's other classic, "The Foundation") and decided to take Vintar's script and incorporate many of the ideas from Asimov's book..."
"...Around late 2002/early 2003, Academy Award-winner Akiva Goldsman was brought in, along with INSOMNIA writer Hilary Seitz, for a polish, making the transition from HARDWIRED to I, ROBOT complete."
SPOILERS in the article!
The Bottom of Things by Michael Sampson
Although that was important to us, it was much more important that he could straddle the line between artsy and archival. He took b&w as well as color photos and -- this was so cool -- he took some 3D photos that turned out to be the best shots of the church's grandeur. (Stanford Memorial Church)
I say, demand the negatives, but expect to make a reasonable concession. Make sure you get someone experienced with weddings since they are going to help you wrangle your family for the group shots, and that's hard. And hey! you only get one wedding. An idea-- ask someone from each side of the family beforehand to be designated wranglers. You'll probably need the extra help.
We had an unexpected use of our wedding photos: we gave a beautiful picture of my little sister to the surgeon to reference during her reconstructive surgery following an accident. (She's recovered- thanks.) We were really grateful to have the photo already digitized.
Like many others avidly waiting for the final blow, I was watching the ebb and flow on several graphing web sites setup to predict the endtime. On this one you can see the spikes and lulls very closely match day/night/weekend/blow-out patterns. (The spikes were much more dramatic before the contest-ending flattened the rest by comparison.)
Yes, I had fun waiting til it ended last night -- spent a few bucks on one-hit-wonders.
If you go directly to CDBaby, you can hear about a minute of each song instead of 30 seconds. Also, independant artists get a larger cut than those who signed up with the Big Labels, so you don't need to feel guilty about handing money over to the Evil Empire.
Upon some research, it looks like CDbaby inked the deal last year. Wish I'd known!