What was the deal with the pizza delivery guy going to that one chick's house to deliver a sausage pizza? Did they ever get around to eating the pizza?
I vehemently disagree. Messes are a problem, not consumption... The solution to all our problems is more technology, not less.
There's a non-obvious but significant error in your assumption.
You assume that modern societies are thermodynamically optimal. The key isn't wasting unnecessary energy or planet resources when producing food / clothing / technology.
I don't care if I get my clothes from "grandma" or from "New Wave(TM)". If "New Wave(TM)" produces more pollution per item than "grandma", then it simply won't work for sustained development.
Technology COULD help to reduce energy consumption. Take a look at fluorescent lamps, or more recently, OLED. They consume much less energy than the incandescent bulb. However, many technology innovations consume huge amounts of energy - most computer monitors used in the world still depend on cathode ray tubes. There's a lot of heat generated. In general, more heat = more wasted energy = more planet destruction.
Another example: Cars. Cars use only 20% of the energy they "produce" to move. Plus, they're much heavier than the cargo. More waste. If we managed to produce cars as energy-efficient as horses (and even the horses' "byproducts" can be used as fertilizer material), we wouldn't be suffering air pollution in big cities.
It's not technology per-se that is good... it's the RIGHT technology used IN THE RIGHT PLACE. The key is EFFICIENCY.
Birth control only allows us to consume more and not give a shit about the world resources because "there's plenty for everybody". The real solution is that every human being should contribute to the environment.
It doesn't matter if it's two human beings, or 6 billion. As long as we destroy more than we construct, with time we will end up destroying the planet, ourselves, or both. We're a living entropy machine.
Have you guys wondered why all the animals in the world contribute to the ecosystem and help other species? Why are humans the ONLY ONES destroying it?
We burn and cut trees, generate hundreds of times more heat than the one our bodies produce on their own, generate non-biodegradable byproducts, produce non-nutritional food, pollute water with chemicals, help bacteria become more destructive...
You know, now that I think of it, the Amish people are much more eco-friendly than us "civilized" beings.
The technical aspects are easy - it's just about reducing CO2 production, using more energy efficient lighting, investing more into research and development for "green" technologies, protecting endangered species, etc.
The POLITICAL aspect, however, screws everything up. I believe the world is doomed to a tragic end, we'll have famine, wars, people fighting each other over a plant of wheat, etc while rich people will be isolated in their bunkers for fear of their lives.
Unless we can get organized and take care of the planet, we're in a path leading to self-destruction. Good riddance, maybe THEN the surviving species can do fine without having to worry about the human plague.
We had a virrtualization story just four stories back, i'm thinking it wouldn't be that hard to modify an open source virtualization solution so that the video and audio output devices can be captured from.
Virtualization. In other words, "rootkit". Take that, Sony!
Anyway, we users DON'T need such rootkits. It's the "smart sheep" argument. Only one needs to find the hole, the others will follow. And with "follow" i mean "download".
Unfairly? He broke into their computers. He committed a crime. Now he pays the price.
Fine, I'll shoplift and be charged with 50 million dollars. It's fair, i committed a crime and i'm paying the price. Right?
My point is, it's ok that he'll be judged and condemned - but will the sentence be PROPORTIONAL to the crime committed? I don't think the US will be fair in that. They'll try to make an example of him, and give him an exaggerated sentence.
Black woman over white woman? RACISM! Oh wait, it's only racism if it's the other way around.
That's because black people haven't used white people as SLAVES. It's not about racism per-se, it's evoking the memory of slavery and humilliation of black people in the past centuries.
Spare me the "hacking i OK if I ain't trying to break shit" bullshit.
This is about someone being condemned unfairly to set a public example. Sort of what the RIAA does with "OMG the evil pirate filesharers!".
Because if you STILL believe there's justice in the USA, you might as well believe in spaceships from another planet. The USA should be treated like a dictatorship where human rights CONTINUE to be abused systematically.
Want an example? The NSA spying on the citizens. Curiously, it could be ALSO interpreted as "hacking" AT&T users. Are the guys who ordered wiretapping in jail? No, they aren't.
I studied english by myself, and learned the grammatical rules. The rest comes with experience. I became very frustrated when I began chatting with people over the internet, and found aberrations like "should of". The word "of" denotes posession, it's NOT a verb, and cannot possibly go in front of "should". Why is that so f***ing hard to learn? The first time I read "should of" in a chat, I was caught completely off guard and couldn't understand what people were trying to tell me, until they explained.
So, who's right? The people who learn grammar rules properly, or those who don't?
The truth is that kids DO NOT LEARN these rules at school. Why? And why are teachers so tolerant with people who don't learn to spell "should have" properly?
But if what you're telling me is true (that spelling and grammar isn't taught until 4th grade), then school education is truly f***ed up.
Once we got a request from one office saying they couldn't access the network.
We went there, checked out the machines wondering why they couldn't access the network. Finally, we saw the culprit: A coffee heater was plugged in the wall socket... in place of the hub.
So in the report we wrote: "We recommend not unplugging the hub next time".
Did Mexico declare all religion illegal or just the Catholic Church?
It seems that all religion was declared illegal, but only catholics were persecuted. I'm not quite sure, but someone told me that Calles started inviting protestants and followers of other religions to live in Mexico and promote their religion. This way, the catholic unity would be broken.
There was a mexican movie (ficticious) about a 19-yo guy who went into coma in 1971 and woke up in 1992, having to cope with a grown up family, an older (and remarried) wife, and of course, new political times.
It was called "El bulto" (the bag). Very interesting movie.
One thing I've always wanted in firefox: A download manager that can resume files, even after having restarted the computer. I have a friend with a modem connection and he has to use Getright (eew) because he usually downloads large files, and he can't leave the computer on all the time.
I don't know of particular packages, but try searching google for "image segmentation" programs. Most of it would be in scientific papers and such, but some of them usually have demo programs. You could also try searching for "paint by numbers".
After discovering truecrypt, I realized how easy it is to have your sensitive data secured. Provided that the laptop doesn't contain spyware, only the person with password to the truecrypt volume can read it. After it's turned off, nobody else can.
And the hidden volumes feature in truecrypt makes it much harder to steal the data (not only you'd need the normal volume password, you'd also need the hidden volume password - IF there is a hidden volume, which you don't know).
Slashdot Mirror
I found the patent that EpicRealm holds. It was filed in 1999.
AH HAH! The Bubble strikes back!
What was the deal with the pizza delivery guy going to that one chick's house to deliver a sausage pizza? Did they ever get around to eating the pizza?
:)
Depends... did she order it with Extra anchovies?
I vehemently disagree. Messes are a problem, not consumption... The solution to all our problems is more technology, not less.
There's a non-obvious but significant error in your assumption.
You assume that modern societies are thermodynamically optimal. The key isn't wasting unnecessary energy or planet resources when producing food / clothing / technology.
I don't care if I get my clothes from "grandma" or from "New Wave(TM)". If "New Wave(TM)" produces more pollution per item than "grandma", then it simply won't work for sustained development.
Technology COULD help to reduce energy consumption. Take a look at fluorescent lamps, or more recently, OLED. They consume much less energy than the incandescent bulb. However, many technology innovations consume huge amounts of energy - most computer monitors used in the world still depend on cathode ray tubes. There's a lot of heat generated. In general, more heat = more wasted energy = more planet destruction.
Another example: Cars. Cars use only 20% of the energy they "produce" to move. Plus, they're much heavier than the cargo. More waste. If we managed to produce cars as energy-efficient as horses (and even the horses' "byproducts" can be used as fertilizer material), we wouldn't be suffering air pollution in big cities.
It's not technology per-se that is good... it's the RIGHT technology used IN THE RIGHT PLACE. The key is EFFICIENCY.
Birth control only allows us to consume more and not give a shit about the world resources because "there's plenty for everybody". The real solution is that every human being should contribute to the environment.
It doesn't matter if it's two human beings, or 6 billion. As long as we destroy more than we construct, with time we will end up destroying the planet, ourselves, or both. We're a living entropy machine.
Have you guys wondered why all the animals in the world contribute to the ecosystem and help other species? Why are humans the ONLY ONES destroying it?
We burn and cut trees, generate hundreds of times more heat than the one our bodies produce on their own, generate non-biodegradable byproducts, produce non-nutritional food, pollute water with chemicals, help bacteria become more destructive...
You know, now that I think of it, the Amish people are much more eco-friendly than us "civilized" beings.
The technical aspects are easy - it's just about reducing CO2 production, using more energy efficient lighting, investing more into research and development for "green" technologies, protecting endangered species, etc.
The POLITICAL aspect, however, screws everything up. I believe the world is doomed to a tragic end, we'll have famine, wars, people fighting each other over a plant of wheat, etc while rich people will be isolated in their bunkers for fear of their lives.
Unless we can get organized and take care of the planet, we're in a path leading to self-destruction. Good riddance, maybe THEN the surviving species can do fine without having to worry about the human plague.
We had a virrtualization story just four stories back, i'm thinking it wouldn't be that hard to modify an open source virtualization solution so that the video and audio output devices can be captured from.
Virtualization. In other words, "rootkit". Take that, Sony!
Anyway, we users DON'T need such rootkits. It's the "smart sheep" argument. Only one needs to find the hole, the others will follow. And with "follow" i mean "download".
shut up already, it's only racist if you see it that way.
So that means I can say "nigger" and be fine with it? Hey, it's only racist if you see it that way.
Unfairly? He broke into their computers. He committed a crime. Now he pays the price.
Fine, I'll shoplift and be charged with 50 million dollars. It's fair, i committed a crime and i'm paying the price. Right?
My point is, it's ok that he'll be judged and condemned - but will the sentence be PROPORTIONAL to the crime committed? I don't think the US will be fair in that. They'll try to make an example of him, and give him an exaggerated sentence.
Black woman over white woman? RACISM! Oh wait, it's only racism if it's the other way around.
That's because black people haven't used white people as SLAVES. It's not about racism per-se, it's evoking the memory of slavery and humilliation of black people in the past centuries.
Spare me the "hacking i OK if I ain't trying to break shit" bullshit.
This is about someone being condemned unfairly to set a public example. Sort of what the RIAA does with "OMG the evil pirate filesharers!".
Because if you STILL believe there's justice in the USA, you might as well believe in spaceships from another planet. The USA should be treated like a dictatorship where human rights CONTINUE to be abused systematically.
Want an example? The NSA spying on the citizens. Curiously, it could be ALSO interpreted as "hacking" AT&T users. Are the guys who ordered wiretapping in jail? No, they aren't.
Justice, yeah right.
So THAT's why slashdot users' machines are so secure... They would never believe such a catch line!
I studied english by myself, and learned the grammatical rules. The rest comes with experience. I became very frustrated when I began chatting with people over the internet, and found aberrations like "should of".
The word "of" denotes posession, it's NOT a verb, and cannot possibly go in front of "should". Why is that so f***ing hard to learn? The first time I read "should of" in a chat, I was caught completely off guard and couldn't understand what people were trying to tell me, until they explained.
So, who's right? The people who learn grammar rules properly, or those who don't?
The truth is that kids DO NOT LEARN these rules at school. Why? And why are teachers so tolerant with people who don't learn to spell "should have" properly?
But if what you're telling me is true (that spelling and grammar isn't taught until 4th grade), then school education is truly f***ed up.
Hello there! :) Looks like your braking system just failed!
(ten seconds later...)
Looks like you're losing a lot of blood! Would you like to...
Once we got a request from one office saying they couldn't access the network.
We went there, checked out the machines wondering why they couldn't access the network. Finally, we saw the culprit: A coffee heater was plugged in the wall socket... in place of the hub.
So in the report we wrote: "We recommend not unplugging the hub next time".
I have tried injecting rose, tulip and daffodil stem cells and my health has not improved one iota
:D
No, but you began to grow roots, specially when your mother's basement is full of moisture
Did Mexico declare all religion illegal or just the Catholic Church?
It seems that all religion was declared illegal, but only catholics were persecuted. I'm not quite sure, but someone told me that Calles started inviting protestants and followers of other religions to live in Mexico and promote their religion. This way, the catholic unity would be broken.
The man who created the site causing more child abductions than AOL...
Don't you mean "more frivolous lawsuits by spoiled brats who willingly disobey the terms of service and lie about their age"?
There was a mexican movie (ficticious) about a 19-yo guy who went into coma in 1971 and woke up in 1992, having to cope with a grown up family, an older (and remarried) wife, and of course, new political times.
It was called "El bulto" (the bag). Very interesting movie.
We need a name for this recovery process. How about "brain nukem forever"? :)
One thing I've always wanted in firefox: A download manager that can resume files, even after having restarted the computer. I have a friend with a modem connection and he has to use Getright (eew) because he usually downloads large files, and he can't leave the computer on all the time.
That's all I can say right now ... just wait.
:(
Wait for what? I'm confused now
I don't know of particular packages, but try searching google for "image segmentation" programs. Most of it would be in scientific papers and such, but some of them usually have demo programs. You could also try searching for "paint by numbers".
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Wait, I think I found one. http://sharewareconnection.com/color-by-number.ht
Good luck.
it is very likely that they will fall behind China and India in terms of innovation.
Sorry, but I think you misspelled "already fell".
that Intellectual Ventures was founded by a former Microsoft Exec?
I smell a rat. A big, fat and ugly one.
After discovering truecrypt, I realized how easy it is to have your sensitive data secured. Provided that the laptop doesn't contain spyware, only the person with password to the truecrypt volume can read it. After it's turned off, nobody else can.
And the hidden volumes feature in truecrypt makes it much harder to steal the data (not only you'd need the normal volume password, you'd also need the hidden volume password - IF there is a hidden volume, which you don't know).