Would you expect behavior changes to be dictated by genetics rather then culture on a level that was even noticeable? I'm not sure it would be possible, but it would be interesting to look at different cultural groups and see if you see similar levels of mutation. For example do populations that are still living in stone age cultures (Amazon tribes for example) show a similar increase in mutation. Could one then start to look at the cultural influences on evolution (or mutation depending on your semantics)? I would guess that the trick would be finding groups with different genetic backgrounds who share cultures (or major cultural traits). Different religious groups might be good to look at since it is a major cultural influence that is often spread without heavy genetic mixing (European Christians vs African Christians, Arab Muslims vs Asian Muslims, etc). Since I would guess that most sexual selection is more influenced by cultural then environmental factors it might turn up some very interesting results.
I think their constant use of fear to advance political policy makes the administration terrorist more then hiding information. In fact it is almost the textbook definition.
It comes down to an issue of time versus money and which one you have more of. If someone only has a few hours a week they can spend gaming, but has disposable income they may be more then willing to pay for what it would take them multiple hours to find/make. The issues it how it affects the game, I think most people are against selling/buying game items because it brings an out of game disparity it to what is (in theory) a level playing field. We don't like being reminding of real world issues, like what we can or can't afford and we don't like seeing them intrude on our escape.
Why do you need to match speed and such? You're not trying to dock you just want it to hit your salvage device and not bounce off. I imagine you could even work it out so that the impact alter your course in such a way as to move you to the next intercept. Sounds like a fun program or a horrible mechanics test problem.
I would guess that it comes down to a simple energy issue. It takes significatnly more energy (food, time, etc) to regrow a limb or heal a major injury then to scar over it. Complex animal have higher energy needs, but also more adaptablity, so it might simply be that you would starve to death if you body tried to regrow your missing arm where as if it consevered resources after the injury and quickly got you back to operating with what you had left you would be ok. Simple creatures on the other hand don't have as many nonessential, but useful, parts so they need to keep them all working or their done for.
We have a local "dollar" theater that shows B run movies for a resonable price on a nice screen. I love the irony that we can see a second run movie in a theater for less then it would cost to rent it and that we can buy the DVD for less then it would cost to see a first run film.
My wife and I often find it is cheaper just to wait and buy the DVD then actually go and see the movie. Some things are worth seeing on a big screen, but a lot of the time it doesn't make much difference.
They protect us from hearing the "seven words" over the *public* airwaves.
Is that why the local station beep "down" in the Alanis Morrissette song? The level of "self imposed" censorship in this country has gotten ridicules. Is there honestly anyone left whose mind doesn't automatically fill in the obvious expletive in place of the beep? All it does is call attention to what would often be unnoticed in the random noise that is modern music.
I've always thought that we could use some sort of slashdot effect to curb phishing.
Just fill in bogus info. Given the small rate of return they work with it wouldn't take much before they had more fake replys then real ones. Once the majority of the info they got didn't work the time needed to sort thought it all might put a few out of business.
I actually follow the links and fill in bogus information...
I've always liked that idea as well, because the more time they are spending tring to sort out bad info the less time they have to steal real accounts. It wouldn't take much for the fake info to be more prevealent then the real info, which would probably shut a few of them down.
While I can see your point about server rollbacks I don't think balance adjustment is really that much of an issue. If sony is not selling you the items, but only making it easier for you to buy them from other players they aren't setting a value, the players are. If an item becomes more common so fewer people are willing to pay for it, so the price goes down, it's no different then any number of real world things that people buy only to see the whatever market didn't do as well as they hoped once they got in.
That and the check oil light tells you something definate to do, check your oil. The "may contain viruses" message doesn't tell you how to check or what to do, it just gives you the choice of ignoring the warning or not being able to do what you're trying to do. Kind of like if a light in your car came on that said "you may not have enough gas to reach your destination, do you want to shift out of park?" everytime you started it.
Maybe we would be better off if it said soemthing like "Unknown attachment, do you want to scan for known viruses?" and then ran the attachment though a quick check, that way the user could be safe and still manage to do something.
What compation? Right now my option are give Time Warner a check or use dial up since the phone lines arn't good enough for DSL. Maybe once all the low hanging fruit has been picked the lines will get upgraded, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm all for private enterprise and compations, but if I don't have choices why shouldn't my neighbors and I be able to do something about it? The local public library hasn't put the book stores out of business and they let you have the books for free. I find it hard to imagine something simialar won't be possible with internet.
I would think a forum like this would be a good one to discuss ideas and possiblities. (And some people have mentioned some good ones.) But it seems that its easier to get mod points for saying the sky is falling or in gerneral being negative. Pointing out downsides and issues is one thing, but do it in a way that can be debate and discussed in a useful fashion instead of just assuming the worst and trying to be the fist to post it.
At the local target they have something similar where you stick your card in a little box and then it spits it out after the transaction. Execpt that they alway then ask to see the card, good from a security stand point, by way have all the extra equioment to save the cashier the 2 seconds it takes to swipe the card while looking at the sig?
I've always kind of thought the digital signatures really kind of defeated the purpose. Once they have a digital copy of my signature what's to keep them from reproducing it at infinitum? What happens if I don't want to give a vendor a reproducable copy of my signature? I thought the how point was that only I couold produce it.
I had a scientist the other day at work ask me how well I remembered DOS because they needed to get some data transfered (and this was new data). Turns out the ap was written in house to run one piece of equipment way back when ago and no one has ever had the time/inclination to redo a rather lengthy project just to move to new OS.
This is a scaled-back version of the approach taken by the best pure R&D labs: Hire very smart people and then don't give them any specific assignments beyond "Do something new and interesting."
Given the large number of major thing discovered by pure accident . Maybe you would be better off hiring a bunch of incompetent idiots and carefully watching what happens when you tell them do something difficult.
The problem with targeting the users is a issue of scaling. If you need to get 1,000,000 people to patch a computer its going to take a lot more effort then attacking the "head" of the network.
As long as the botnet controllers are using automated tools which can scan thousands of computers an hour and we are tring to go after users one at a time we are never going to catch up. What we need is automated tools that attack the problem, similar to the automated tools that cause the problem. Maybe a distributed computing ap that activly hunts and attemps to disrupt botnets or something. I'd donate cycle time.
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Would you expect behavior changes to be dictated by genetics rather then culture on a level that was even noticeable? I'm not sure it would be possible, but it would be interesting to look at different cultural groups and see if you see similar levels of mutation. For example do populations that are still living in stone age cultures (Amazon tribes for example) show a similar increase in mutation. Could one then start to look at the cultural influences on evolution (or mutation depending on your semantics)? I would guess that the trick would be finding groups with different genetic backgrounds who share cultures (or major cultural traits). Different religious groups might be good to look at since it is a major cultural influence that is often spread without heavy genetic mixing (European Christians vs African Christians, Arab Muslims vs Asian Muslims, etc). Since I would guess that most sexual selection is more influenced by cultural then environmental factors it might turn up some very interesting results.
I think their constant use of fear to advance political policy makes the administration terrorist more then hiding information. In fact it is almost the textbook definition.
It comes down to an issue of time versus money and which one you have more of. If someone only has a few hours a week they can spend gaming, but has disposable income they may be more then willing to pay for what it would take them multiple hours to find/make. The issues it how it affects the game, I think most people are against selling/buying game items because it brings an out of game disparity it to what is (in theory) a level playing field. We don't like being reminding of real world issues, like what we can or can't afford and we don't like seeing them intrude on our escape.
Why do you need to match speed and such? You're not trying to dock you just want it to hit your salvage device and not bounce off. I imagine you could even work it out so that the impact alter your course in such a way as to move you to the next intercept. Sounds like a fun program or a horrible mechanics test problem.
I would guess that it comes down to a simple energy issue. It takes significatnly more energy (food, time, etc) to regrow a limb or heal a major injury then to scar over it. Complex animal have higher energy needs, but also more adaptablity, so it might simply be that you would starve to death if you body tried to regrow your missing arm where as if it consevered resources after the injury and quickly got you back to operating with what you had left you would be ok. Simple creatures on the other hand don't have as many nonessential, but useful, parts so they need to keep them all working or their done for.
We have a local "dollar" theater that shows B run movies for a resonable price on a nice screen. I love the irony that we can see a second run movie in a theater for less then it would cost to rent it and that we can buy the DVD for less then it would cost to see a first run film.
My wife and I often find it is cheaper just to wait and buy the DVD then actually go and see the movie. Some things are worth seeing on a big screen, but a lot of the time it doesn't make much difference.
They protect us from hearing the "seven words" over the *public* airwaves.
Is that why the local station beep "down" in the Alanis Morrissette song? The level of "self imposed" censorship in this country has gotten ridicules. Is there honestly anyone left whose mind doesn't automatically fill in the obvious expletive in place of the beep? All it does is call attention to what would often be unnoticed in the random noise that is modern music.
I've always thought that we could use some sort of slashdot effect to curb phishing.
Just fill in bogus info. Given the small rate of return they work with it wouldn't take much before they had more fake replys then real ones. Once the majority of the info they got didn't work the time needed to sort thought it all might put a few out of business.
I actually follow the links and fill in bogus information...
I've always liked that idea as well, because the more time they are spending tring to sort out bad info the less time they have to steal real accounts. It wouldn't take much for the fake info to be more prevealent then the real info, which would probably shut a few of them down.
TV is the new opiate of the masses.
I think its safer to say it's the crack cocaine...
While I can see your point about server rollbacks I don't think balance adjustment is really that much of an issue. If sony is not selling you the items, but only making it easier for you to buy them from other players they aren't setting a value, the players are. If an item becomes more common so fewer people are willing to pay for it, so the price goes down, it's no different then any number of real world things that people buy only to see the whatever market didn't do as well as they hoped once they got in.
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That and the check oil light tells you something definate to do, check your oil. The "may contain viruses" message doesn't tell you how to check or what to do, it just gives you the choice of ignoring the warning or not being able to do what you're trying to do. Kind of like if a light in your car came on that said "you may not have enough gas to reach your destination, do you want to shift out of park?" everytime you started it.
Maybe we would be better off if it said soemthing like "Unknown attachment, do you want to scan for known viruses?" and then ran the attachment though a quick check, that way the user could be safe and still manage to do something.
What was that? Sorry I got distracted...
let's let private enterprise compete it out.
What compation? Right now my option are give Time Warner a check or use dial up since the phone lines arn't good enough for DSL. Maybe once all the low hanging fruit has been picked the lines will get upgraded, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm all for private enterprise and compations, but if I don't have choices why shouldn't my neighbors and I be able to do something about it? The local public library hasn't put the book stores out of business and they let you have the books for free. I find it hard to imagine something simialar won't be possible with internet.
I would think a forum like this would be a good one to discuss ideas and possiblities. (And some people have mentioned some good ones.) But it seems that its easier to get mod points for saying the sky is falling or in gerneral being negative. Pointing out downsides and issues is one thing, but do it in a way that can be debate and discussed in a useful fashion instead of just assuming the worst and trying to be the fist to post it.
Are we entitled to waive our own right to life under certain circumstances?
If we are not entitled to waive it that would make it an obligation not a right.
At the local target they have something similar where you stick your card in a little box and then it spits it out after the transaction. Execpt that they alway then ask to see the card, good from a security stand point, by way have all the extra equioment to save the cashier the 2 seconds it takes to swipe the card while looking at the sig?
No. He read 0day warez as "Oday Juarez."
If I ever sign up for a Slashdot account, Oday Juarez is going to be my nick.
I have a feeling the New York times may find it a common name in the near furture as well...
There's no reason to think that aliens wouldn't find us cute.
As long as they don't find us tasty.
I've always kind of thought the digital signatures really kind of defeated the purpose. Once they have a digital copy of my signature what's to keep them from reproducing it at infinitum? What happens if I don't want to give a vendor a reproducable copy of my signature? I thought the how point was that only I couold produce it.
I had a scientist the other day at work ask me how well I remembered DOS because they needed to get some data transfered (and this was new data). Turns out the ap was written in house to run one piece of equipment way back when ago and no one has ever had the time/inclination to redo a rather lengthy project just to move to new OS.
This is a scaled-back version of the approach taken by the best pure R&D labs: Hire very smart people and then don't give them any specific assignments beyond "Do something new and interesting."
Given the large number of major thing discovered by pure accident . Maybe you would be better off hiring a bunch of incompetent idiots and carefully watching what happens when you tell them do something difficult.
The problem with targeting the users is a issue of scaling. If you need to get 1,000,000 people to patch a computer its going to take a lot more effort then attacking the "head" of the network.
As long as the botnet controllers are using automated tools which can scan thousands of computers an hour and we are tring to go after users one at a time we are never going to catch up. What we need is automated tools that attack the problem, similar to the automated tools that cause the problem. Maybe a distributed computing ap that activly hunts and attemps to disrupt botnets or something. I'd donate cycle time.
That's the advantage of hardcopy papers. The readers may not be looking at your adds, but I don't think anyone has come up with a way to block them.