The real problem is that huge american companies are NOT willing to find out the truth, whatever it is. Why? Because if it turns out that global warming COULD be caused by them, and that it COULD have negative consequences for the rest of the world, they COULD lose their big buckets o' money.
Remember the case of the girl that wasn't given an MRI scan to see if she *COULD* have cancer, even when she was bleeding and had awful headaches? One month later she was dead. Why? Negligence. The same is happening to the planet. Floods here, floods there, and the people who can make a difference, don't give a damn.
It's completely fine to try out heresies in science. Say there wasn't a big bang. Say black holes don't exist. Say the Earth is flat. Say we have two moons, I couldn't care less! But right now, and specifically with global warming, we're talking about the destiny of the whole planet. The planet needs to be diagnosed, and fast. Is it ok to be an alarmist? To announce doomsday news? To scare everyone?
If it turns out that Global Warming isn't true, that we can pollute the air as much as we want without consequences, I'd be REALLY glad to be wrong! I'd celebrate! You can kill all the global warming theory supporters, including me. Fine by me. But if we're right... what will happen if the US doesn't listen? And we're running out of time. Is the corporations' money worth destroying the Earth? Is it?
In the end, it's all about money. Science isn't relevant, unfortunately.
I only knew about the red pill and the blue pill. Hmmmmmmmmmm........
Morpheus: This is your last chance, Neo. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you awake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.Remember: all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more. Neo: And the purple pill? Morpheus: Oh, the purple pill gets you high. I can't guarantee what happens later. Neo: I'll take the purple pill. (*gulp*) (After a short pause...) Whoa, dude, I can see what's behind the mirror! Whoa... everything's like computer code! I understand what the Matrix is now!! (Back in the nebuchadnezzar...) WE'RE LOSING HIM! Neo: I can fly dude!!! Excellent!!! Flatline: beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep....
(Some time later...) Trinity: Seriously, Morpheus. This is the 20th time we lose a potential "One" because of the purple pill! Morpheus: He wasn't "The One". "The One" would have survived. Trinity: Idiot.
The toxylizer that was used to mark him needs to be confiscated and reverse-engineered to see if the code running on it, is effectively produced by the source code in question (It could be modded, youknow). If it can't be found, then we can safely assume that the evidence has been altered. Voila, reasonable doubt.
The revolution of XHTML failed to change the world
Not quite... i think the XHTML revolution was more like a silent one. You can't see it, but it's there. It's in javascript dom handling, in XSLT webpage generation, in less-cluttered webpages... and don't forget that RSS is an XML format, too.
But if we admit that the XHTML revolution did fail, it was not because of the standard itself: XSLT browser support came too late, and incomplete (proprietary extensions, features neglected by the designers). If IE6 and Netscape/Mozilla/whatever had implemented XSLT as they should, all the webpages today would be in an xml format. Another important factor was advertising (without free webpages there wouldn't be blogs or social networking sites today, and free webpages always come with ads). Advertisers didn't put the effort to use XHTML-compliant code in their ads. And last, but not least, IE6 stagnation contributed a lot to it.
Perhaps XHTML came either too late, or too soon. If it had come before Netscape 4, perhaps the web would be VERY, VERY different today.
Is it just me, or does it seem hypocritical that Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes this? He's been in some incredibly violent movies, after all.
It's not hypocritical, but planned: After the children are deprived from videogame violence, they will crave the violence so they'll rush to the cinema to see his newest action film: "Governator 3: The judge's day". However, they'll be terrified when he says his last line on the movie: "I'll be back."
I don't think bulimics would like that. It's supposed to make you sick because it makes you dizzy. I bet that before you throw up (or even after) you'll feel an awful headache similar to migraines.
Had you ever watched one of those ancient b/w sci-fi shows or movies on TV? They predict scientific and technological advances to a certain extent - on some they fall short (DNA anyone?), and on some they expected too much (dude, where's my flying car?). But most of them are way off track on something: Society. The way it changes, advances or goes back is unpredictable.
Think about it. 10 years ago, sites like youtube or facebook were simply out of the radar. (Heck, 15 years ago Google didn't exist!) What to say of Survivor or Big Brother? World of Warcraft? Identity theft? Guys catching thieves with webcams on their laptops? Internet cults like Heaven's Gate? Corporations patenting certain kinds of corn? The RIAA's war on priv^H^H^H^Hpiracy?
maybe you have certain behaviours and ways of organizing/managing/participating that alienate women and you need to address them personally.
Unless we're told WHICH are those certain behaviors (putting the sexual jokes aside, those are easy to pinpoint), how are we supposed to know how to behave?
So, please, tell us HOW you were treated, and what did men do to make you leave, and WHAT we can do to stop the problem. Think of it as a bug report: We can't replicate the bug! We need more info.
there are many many eloquent papers/reports/studies/etc. that explain what that problem is and that suggest some strategies to approach it.
Yes, but assume that some sites DO implement security features like only allowing your data to be shown to your "buddies". What happens when these security measures get broken?
The other day i could watch a demonstration of a XSS attack on meebo due to lack of server-side validation.
Now add a little AI / data mining to this:
(New entry, mo/day/yr) "Here's a picture of me and my daughter Jessica playing on the NN. park" -> AI -> name: Jessica. Picture: (insert here). Last seen on: MMDDYY. Location: NN. Park.
There! You could make a database of potential victims for threats, blackmailing, and what not. The only thing that makes me feel safe is that such AI data mining technology hasn't been developed... yet.
As a rule of thumb, follow Murphy's law: What can go wrong, WILL go wrong (remember the recent SSN leaks?) Unless social networking sites have been PUBLICLY certified as having greater security than Fort Knox, stay away.
I think it might have to do with apps developed with SQL server. As a mySQL user, I'm dissatisfied with its transaction handling (InnoDB is known for being slow as molasses when dealing with bulk inserts, for example). Another example of IIS is enterprises using huge SQL Server datawarehouses and having the webserver as only a frontend. It's logical to assume that SQL Server developers have more experience with IIS + dotnet than with Apache+PHP. And don't forget the built-in MS Office interoperability.
So I think your "more than cookie cutter sites" argument doesn't hold. Actually, it's the opposite: Cookie cutter sites are more easily delivered with shared LAMP hosting.
In any case, it's more probable that the reason for the IIS usage increase has more to do with corporate, rather than technical reasons.
Hacker: Look! Behind that mask hides a reporter from Dateline NBC! Reporter: And i would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for these meddling kids!
Yes, they did. I remember this software, Irfanview, that allows you to read JP2 files. Oh, but to write them, you had to license ($buy$) the extension to be able to write in formats bigger than 640x480.
The result: Nobody gave a dime for Jpeg2000.
To put it in other words, patents (or licensing restrictions, actually) are the bane of image formats. Put a tiny restriction on the format, and people will go for a free unencumbered one. Like what happened with GIF and PNG.
I stopped going to the movie theaters when they minimized their size. When I was a kid, the theaters were huge, large as halls, and pretty wide (that's why they were called THEATERS). The actual screen had a field of view of around 30 to 40 degrees.
Current theaters are much smaller, and the screens' FOV are around 120 degrees or more, specially if the only seats available are the front ones - this makes me VERY dizzy and at the end of the movie i usually end up with a strong headache due to motion sickness (similar to the one i get when playing 3D games for more than 2 hours).
I enjoy DVD movies much more - I don't get headaches from watching them.
he should've known what he was getting into. Yes, he MIGHT be just copying a 20-sec clip... but he could have copied the whole movie and uploaded it to the internet where thousands of people could have downloaded it.
The most ironic part of this tragedy is that it was their naiveness (i.e. innocence) that resulted into the guy being treated as an evil criminal, while an expert pirate would've been much more careful.
A sad but true statement: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Secretary (undercover alien working for the CIA): Would either of you care for more coffee? Agent Wolf: You didn't fertilize it with alien mind control spores, did you? Secretary: For the last time, agent Wolf, I AM NOT AN ALIEN. Agent Wolf: YOU HAVE A TAIL!!! Their boss: Agent Wolf, that's enough! Or do you want to be sent to sensitivity training again? Agent Wolf: No, sir.
The Alice and Bob analogy
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No, it's flawed because it CAN be cracked easily: The decrypting key is in the firmware contained in your DVD player.
In cryptography, we have an explanation using Alice and Bob. Alice is communicating with Bob, while Eve (eavesdropper) tries to decrypt the message. Alice and Bob have the key to decipher the message, but Eve doesn't. She wants to decrypt the communication *without* the key.
A --- E --- B
Alice in this case, is the Digital Media producer (or encrypter), and B is your DVD. You're Eve. The problem with DRM is that Eve *HAS* the key. By cracking the DVD software (some disassembly, debugging and you're done), Eve can obtain the key from Bob.
A --------- B E
This is the problem with DRM. It's flawed by design. The DMCA is a legal "patch" to this algorithm, punishing Eve if she gets the key from Bob. The problem with DMCA is that the punishment doesn't apply to all countries, and trying to enforce it results in attacking freedom of speech.
This is called "the Smart Cow problem"
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The Smart Cow Problem describes the method by which a group of individuals, faced with a technically difficult task, only requires one of their number to solve the problem. Having been solved once, an easily repeatable method may be developed, allowing non-technically proficient entities to accomplish the task. The term Smart Cow Problem is thought to be derived from the expression: "It only takes one smart cow to open the latch of the gate, and then all the other cows follow." [1]
This has recently been applied to Digital Rights Management (DRM), where, due to the rapid spread of information on the internet, it only takes one individual to defeat a DRM scheme to render the method obsolete. [2]
Smarter girls can't be swayed by the "if you love me show me" or be as stupid as "not wanting to be left out of the group". So they delay their sexual encounters.
So if you want to have sex you'd have to pick the more stupid girls. The kind that likes muscular guys and show offs.
In other words, smart girls delay their sex life because they choose to. Smart guys delay their sex life because the circumstances force them to. But it's not that bad - I've met a lot of people who have ended up working to support their children, because they had the LUCK of having sex whenever they wanted to.
If what you want is a girlfriend, you should look for a girlfriend, not for a girl to have sex with. So stop watching so much pr0n and get your mind out of the gutter. This will help you find many female friends, and eventually, a girlfriend.
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The real problem is that huge american companies are NOT willing to find out the truth, whatever it is. Why? Because if it turns out that global warming COULD be caused by them, and that it COULD have negative consequences for the rest of the world, they COULD lose their big buckets o' money.
Remember the case of the girl that wasn't given an MRI scan to see if she *COULD* have cancer, even when she was bleeding and had awful headaches? One month later she was dead. Why? Negligence. The same is happening to the planet. Floods here, floods there, and the people who can make a difference, don't give a damn.
It's completely fine to try out heresies in science. Say there wasn't a big bang. Say black holes don't exist. Say the Earth is flat. Say we have two moons, I couldn't care less! But right now, and specifically with global warming, we're talking about the destiny of the whole planet. The planet needs to be diagnosed, and fast. Is it ok to be an alarmist? To announce doomsday news? To scare everyone?
If it turns out that Global Warming isn't true, that we can pollute the air as much as we want without consequences, I'd be REALLY glad to be wrong! I'd celebrate! You can kill all the global warming theory supporters, including me. Fine by me. But if we're right... what will happen if the US doesn't listen? And we're running out of time. Is the corporations' money worth destroying the Earth? Is it?
In the end, it's all about money. Science isn't relevant, unfortunately.
Now, seriously, what's "purple pill"?
The toxylizer that was used to mark him needs to be confiscated and reverse-engineered to see if the code running on it, is effectively produced by the source code in question (It could be modded, youknow). If it can't be found, then we can safely assume that the evidence has been altered.
Voila, reasonable doubt.
The revolution of XHTML failed to change the world
Not quite... i think the XHTML revolution was more like a silent one. You can't see it, but it's there. It's in javascript dom handling, in XSLT webpage generation, in less-cluttered webpages... and don't forget that RSS is an XML format, too.
But if we admit that the XHTML revolution did fail, it was not because of the standard itself: XSLT browser support came too late, and incomplete (proprietary extensions, features neglected by the designers). If IE6 and Netscape/Mozilla/whatever had implemented XSLT as they should, all the webpages today would be in an xml format. Another important factor was advertising (without free webpages there wouldn't be blogs or social networking sites today, and free webpages always come with ads). Advertisers didn't put the effort to use XHTML-compliant code in their ads. And last, but not least, IE6 stagnation contributed a lot to it.
Perhaps XHTML came either too late, or too soon. If it had come before Netscape 4, perhaps the web would be VERY, VERY different today.
Phht, no HTML standard can possibly be complete without *OFFICIAL* sarcasm tags.
<sarcasm>You're ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!</sarcasm>
More things for IE to not support properly.
Or in other words...
Let the Browser Wars II... BEGIN!
Is it just me, or does it seem hypocritical that Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes this? He's been in some incredibly violent movies, after all.
It's not hypocritical, but planned: After the children are deprived from videogame violence, they will crave the violence so they'll rush to the cinema to see his newest action film: "Governator 3: The judge's day". However, they'll be terrified when he says his last line on the movie: "I'll be back."
I don't think bulimics would like that. It's supposed to make you sick because it makes you dizzy. I bet that before you throw up (or even after) you'll feel an awful headache similar to migraines.
Had you ever watched one of those ancient b/w sci-fi shows or movies on TV? They predict scientific and technological advances to a certain extent - on some they fall short (DNA anyone?), and on some they expected too much (dude, where's my flying car?). But most of them are way off track on something: Society. The way it changes, advances or goes back is unpredictable.
Think about it. 10 years ago, sites like youtube or facebook were simply out of the radar. (Heck, 15 years ago Google didn't exist!) What to say of Survivor or Big Brother? World of Warcraft? Identity theft? Guys catching thieves with webcams on their laptops? Internet cults like Heaven's Gate? Corporations patenting certain kinds of corn? The RIAA's war on priv^H^H^H^Hpiracy?
Truth is stranger than fiction, indeed.
maybe you have certain behaviours and ways of organizing/managing/participating that alienate women and you need to address them personally.
Unless we're told WHICH are those certain behaviors (putting the sexual jokes aside, those are easy to pinpoint), how are we supposed to know how to behave?
So, please, tell us HOW you were treated, and what did men do to make you leave, and WHAT we can do to stop the problem. Think of it as a bug report: We can't replicate the bug! We need more info.
there are many many eloquent papers/reports/studies/etc. that explain what that problem is and that suggest some strategies to approach it.
Excellent! Where can we find those?
Yes, but assume that some sites DO implement security features like only allowing your data to be shown to your "buddies". What happens when these security measures get broken?
The other day i could watch a demonstration of a XSS attack on meebo due to lack of server-side validation.
Now add a little AI / data mining to this:
(New entry, mo/day/yr) "Here's a picture of me and my daughter Jessica playing on the NN. park" -> AI -> name: Jessica. Picture: (insert here). Last seen on: MMDDYY. Location: NN. Park.
There! You could make a database of potential victims for threats, blackmailing, and what not. The only thing that makes me feel safe is that such AI data mining technology hasn't been developed... yet.
As a rule of thumb, follow Murphy's law: What can go wrong, WILL go wrong (remember the recent SSN leaks?) Unless social networking sites have been PUBLICLY certified as having greater security than Fort Knox, stay away.
I think it might have to do with apps developed with SQL server. As a mySQL user, I'm dissatisfied with its transaction handling (InnoDB is known for being slow as molasses when dealing with bulk inserts, for example). Another example of IIS is enterprises using huge SQL Server datawarehouses and having the webserver as only a frontend. It's logical to assume that SQL Server developers have more experience with IIS + dotnet than with Apache+PHP. And don't forget the built-in MS Office interoperability.
So I think your "more than cookie cutter sites" argument doesn't hold. Actually, it's the opposite: Cookie cutter sites are more easily delivered with shared LAMP hosting.
In any case, it's more probable that the reason for the IIS usage increase has more to do with corporate, rather than technical reasons.
Hacker: Look! Behind that mask hides a reporter from Dateline NBC!
Reporter: And i would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for these meddling kids!
Perhaps the horoscopes give some advice on studying - we all know horoscopes give random good advices based on random data.
Or perhaps it was just a stupid decision.
Did patents kill it?
Yes, they did. I remember this software, Irfanview, that allows you to read JP2 files. Oh, but to write them, you had to license ($buy$) the extension to be able to write in formats bigger than 640x480.
The result: Nobody gave a dime for Jpeg2000.
To put it in other words, patents (or licensing restrictions, actually) are the bane of image formats. Put a tiny restriction on the format, and people will go for a free unencumbered one. Like what happened with GIF and PNG.
If there are restrictions, Microsoft's HD photo will go the way of the GIF format.
I stopped going to the movie theaters when they minimized their size. When I was a kid, the theaters were huge, large as halls, and pretty wide (that's why they were called THEATERS). The actual screen had a field of view of around 30 to 40 degrees.
Current theaters are much smaller, and the screens' FOV are around 120 degrees or more, specially if the only seats available are the front ones - this makes me VERY dizzy and at the end of the movie i usually end up with a strong headache due to motion sickness (similar to the one i get when playing 3D games for more than 2 hours).
I enjoy DVD movies much more - I don't get headaches from watching them.
Oops. It was the GIRL who was videotaping. Double ouch.
he should've known what he was getting into. Yes, he MIGHT be just copying a 20-sec clip... but he could have copied the whole movie and uploaded it to the internet where thousands of people could have downloaded it.
The most ironic part of this tragedy is that it was their naiveness (i.e. innocence) that resulted into the guy being treated as an evil criminal, while an expert pirate would've been much more careful.
A sad but true statement: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
How about this one:
Truth: +5
FUD, lies: -5.
Verdict: Apple loses!
Your comment just reminded me of a comic strip.
Secretary (undercover alien working for the CIA): Would either of you care for more coffee?
Agent Wolf: You didn't fertilize it with alien mind control spores, did you?
Secretary: For the last time, agent Wolf, I AM NOT AN ALIEN.
Agent Wolf: YOU HAVE A TAIL!!!
Their boss: Agent Wolf, that's enough! Or do you want to be sent to sensitivity training again?
Agent Wolf: No, sir.
No, it's flawed because it CAN be cracked easily: The decrypting key is in the firmware contained in your DVD player.
In cryptography, we have an explanation using Alice and Bob. Alice is communicating with Bob, while Eve (eavesdropper) tries to decrypt the message. Alice and Bob have the key to decipher the message, but Eve doesn't. She wants to decrypt the communication *without* the key.
A --- E --- B
Alice in this case, is the Digital Media producer (or encrypter), and B is your DVD. You're Eve. The problem with DRM is that Eve *HAS* the key. By cracking the DVD software (some disassembly, debugging and you're done), Eve can obtain the key from Bob.
A --------- B E
This is the problem with DRM. It's flawed by design. The DMCA is a legal "patch" to this algorithm, punishing Eve if she gets the key from Bob. The problem with DMCA is that the punishment doesn't apply to all countries, and trying to enforce it results in attacking freedom of speech.
Smarter girls can't be swayed by the "if you love me show me" or be as stupid as "not wanting to be left out of the group". So they delay their sexual encounters.
So if you want to have sex you'd have to pick the more stupid girls. The kind that likes muscular guys and show offs.
In other words, smart girls delay their sex life because they choose to. Smart guys delay their sex life because the circumstances force them to. But it's not that bad - I've met a lot of people who have ended up working to support their children, because they had the LUCK of having sex whenever they wanted to.
If what you want is a girlfriend, you should look for a girlfriend, not for a girl to have sex with. So stop watching so much pr0n and get your mind out of the gutter. This will help you find many female friends, and eventually, a girlfriend.
Maybe MS should release a "critical update" that turns it into Windows ME or 98.
:)
Your suggestion is a little bit too late, it seems