You're missing the "blind" part of what I said, I think. Same for the other reply. People should follow authority, when it makes sense, and they should understand why it makes sense before doing it.
Hmmm. Lets take a long hard look at the crimes against humanity commited by atheists, shall we?
Humanity does not need to get rid of religious people, or atheist people. What we need is to get rid of religious tendencies -- anything that requires blind devotion or submission to a deity or other entity, imaginary or otherwise.
The atrocities you mention were accomplished by regimes that put into place a sort of cult of state. All were forced to submit to a national ideal, in the place of religion. It had the same problems as a religion, just without the typical face of [insert your pet faith here].
It's not about whether atheists or religious people have committed atrocities; there's plenty of blood on both sides. It's about freeing our minds from the shackles of blind faith and submission, allowing for freedom of inquiry and flow of information. That's all.
The "slow" in "slow bruteforce" refers to the intervals between attempts. Attackers have made their attempts less frequent in order to evade some detection mechanisms.
You can't point to any one spot in an embryo's development (except fertilization) and say "There. Now it is human." With that ambiguity, is it not better to err on the side of caution?
FTFA:
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) involves taking a cell from an embryo at the eight-cell stage of development, when it is around three-days old, and testing it.
I can certainly point to this spot and say "There. It is not yet human." It is eight cells. What counts is a nervous system and perhaps some sort of brain function. We can surely agree on some sort of "fuzzy" criteria that say "if it looks like it could feel pain or might be self-aware, don't kill it." I think this stage is safely below any such possible criteria.
I understand wanting to protect life, but saying that even the potential for life must be protected can be taken to absurd extremes -- as religious proscription of contraceptive measures has shown -- and is really just absurd in itself.
One other thing: use any local OS/language/software user groups to your advantage! I started attending my local LUG meetings about two years before finding the first Linuxy job, and it did come through a LUG contact. Build connections; they are the degreeless person's best hope of finding a good job.
make sure you're solid technically (which you should be anyways), then either try at smaller companies where you're more likely to be noticed, or impress someone and have them bring your resume in.
Yes. If you aren't good at what you want to do, don't bother. Also, starting with small companies is key.
I am 22, and have no degree or certifications. My first full-time job (at 19) was in a call center while I looked for a better job. Six months later, I started work as tech support at a small (~10 employees) company who had a Linux product. Over the course of about 3 years there, I worked my way up through [Linux product] team lead to systems administrator (~50 Linux/FreeBSD/Windows servers).
That experience served me well when looking for a new job when relocating (yes, I relocated without a job lined up... probably not the best idea). I worked in another call center for about a month, then found a good position at a slightly larger (~50 employees) company in my new location -- better pay, less responsibility (not being the only sysadmin), and comparable benefits. I've been there for about a month and a half so far, and everything appears to be going well.
My boss, the head sysadmin at my new job, also has no degree, but possesses a massive amount of experience. So, it hasn't just worked for me (so far), it's worked for him as well.
Good thing I have 10 stations programmed into my radio dial so I can skip commercials.
I have begun to hate commercials with a passion, since I stopped watching normal TV and started downloading shows. The radio ads got to me just as much after a while.
I now exclusively listen to my local listener-supported classical radio station (http://allclassical.org -- 89.9 FM in Portland, OR). They, along with many other listener-supported stations, simply read aloud written messages from some business sponsors; I find this massively less obnoxious than normal radio ads. There are apparently a few of these stations around (there was one in my home town of Tulsa), since the demand tends to be lower than is viable for a commercial classical station.
So, if you can't stand ads, don't want to pay for satellite radio, and NPR isn't your thing, there is probably something else available.
We're talking about Apple's rejection of applications which are deemed to "compete" with Apple's own functionality, or even planned functionality. Here's a (probably incomplete) list of higher profile apps that have been rejected by Apple, for various reasons.
Regarding Opera's rejection -- if Microsoft could have locked users into using only Internet Explorer on Windows, they would have. Once IE had killed Netscape, most internet-savvy people were even okay with using IE. Just because most of us are okay with Apple, and Safari doesn't suck, doesn't mean that Apple is justified in locking its users into its choice of software.
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Oops -- 3600000 joules.
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measurements like miles per kilowatt
Kilowatt-hour is what you want here. The watt is a _rate_ of energy consumption (power), not a lump of energy. Kilowatt-hour is the equivalent of one kilowatt consumed over the course of one hour:
1 kWh = (1000 joules / second) * 3600 seconds = 36000 joules
So we're at least close to a good working model. I call that a relatively successful prediction. Here's the section (right above the one I linked previously) that talks about the accuracy of his previous predictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil#Accuracy_of_predictions
Ray Kurzweil, in his book The Singularity Is Near (the only book I've read on the topic), sets the date for around 2045. He makes further predictions for things before that; here's a nice list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil#Future_Predictions
Indeed, as another replier said, there is already an Internet2. However, even before that, "internets" was a valid term.
See RFC 1918, titled "Address Allocation for Private Internets".
In the Rockies, Colorado Springs came late to the party, but offered the coolest location: inside Cheyenne Mountain, which once served as headquarters of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), but is now used mostly for training.
I might have to apply if they make Cheyenne Mountain their base. "I work with the Air Force... in Cheyenne Mountain... doing computer stuff. Stargate? What are you talking about?"
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You're missing the "blind" part of what I said, I think. Same for the other reply. People should follow authority, when it makes sense, and they should understand why it makes sense before doing it.
Do you, by any chance, live in Tuttle, OK?
Hmmm. Lets take a long hard look at the crimes against humanity commited by atheists, shall we?
Humanity does not need to get rid of religious people, or atheist people. What we need is to get rid of religious tendencies -- anything that requires blind devotion or submission to a deity or other entity, imaginary or otherwise.
The atrocities you mention were accomplished by regimes that put into place a sort of cult of state. All were forced to submit to a national ideal, in the place of religion. It had the same problems as a religion, just without the typical face of [insert your pet faith here].
It's not about whether atheists or religious people have committed atrocities; there's plenty of blood on both sides. It's about freeing our minds from the shackles of blind faith and submission, allowing for freedom of inquiry and flow of information. That's all.
IANAEE, but that wouldn't really reduce the brightness of the light at all, now, would it?
Also, here's the code (transcribed a damn Flash file; wtf you guys):
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Lameness filter ... it was presented in caps on the original, so it is presented as such here!
The "slow" in "slow bruteforce" refers to the intervals between attempts. Attackers have made their attempts less frequent in order to evade some detection mechanisms.
You can't point to any one spot in an embryo's development (except fertilization) and say "There. Now it is human." With that ambiguity, is it not better to err on the side of caution?
FTFA:
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) involves taking a cell from an embryo at the eight-cell stage of development, when it is around three-days old, and testing it.
I can certainly point to this spot and say "There. It is not yet human." It is eight cells. What counts is a nervous system and perhaps some sort of brain function. We can surely agree on some sort of "fuzzy" criteria that say "if it looks like it could feel pain or might be self-aware, don't kill it." I think this stage is safely below any such possible criteria.
I understand wanting to protect life, but saying that even the potential for life must be protected can be taken to absurd extremes -- as religious proscription of contraceptive measures has shown -- and is really just absurd in itself.
One other thing: use any local OS/language/software user groups to your advantage! I started attending my local LUG meetings about two years before finding the first Linuxy job, and it did come through a LUG contact. Build connections; they are the degreeless person's best hope of finding a good job.
make sure you're solid technically (which you should be anyways), then either try at smaller companies where you're more likely to be noticed, or impress someone and have them bring your resume in.
Yes. If you aren't good at what you want to do, don't bother. Also, starting with small companies is key.
I am 22, and have no degree or certifications. My first full-time job (at 19) was in a call center while I looked for a better job. Six months later, I started work as tech support at a small (~10 employees) company who had a Linux product. Over the course of about 3 years there, I worked my way up through [Linux product] team lead to systems administrator (~50 Linux/FreeBSD/Windows servers).
That experience served me well when looking for a new job when relocating (yes, I relocated without a job lined up ... probably not the best idea). I worked in another call center for about a month, then found a good position at a slightly larger (~50 employees) company in my new location -- better pay, less responsibility (not being the only sysadmin), and comparable benefits. I've been there for about a month and a half so far, and everything appears to be going well.
My boss, the head sysadmin at my new job, also has no degree, but possesses a massive amount of experience. So, it hasn't just worked for me (so far), it's worked for him as well.
Good thing I have 10 stations programmed into my radio dial so I can skip commercials.
I have begun to hate commercials with a passion, since I stopped watching normal TV and started downloading shows. The radio ads got to me just as much after a while.
I now exclusively listen to my local listener-supported classical radio station (http://allclassical.org -- 89.9 FM in Portland, OR). They, along with many other listener-supported stations, simply read aloud written messages from some business sponsors; I find this massively less obnoxious than normal radio ads. There are apparently a few of these stations around (there was one in my home town of Tulsa), since the demand tends to be lower than is viable for a commercial classical station.
So, if you can't stand ads, don't want to pay for satellite radio, and NPR isn't your thing, there is probably something else available.
which is a shell builtin, so no, it has no corresponding binary.
We're talking about Apple's rejection of applications which are deemed to "compete" with Apple's own functionality, or even planned functionality. Here's a (probably incomplete) list of higher profile apps that have been rejected by Apple, for various reasons.
Regarding Opera's rejection -- if Microsoft could have locked users into using only Internet Explorer on Windows, they would have. Once IE had killed Netscape, most internet-savvy people were even okay with using IE. Just because most of us are okay with Apple, and Safari doesn't suck, doesn't mean that Apple is justified in locking its users into its choice of software.
Oops -- 3600000 joules.
measurements like miles per kilowatt
Kilowatt-hour is what you want here. The watt is a _rate_ of energy consumption (power), not a lump of energy. Kilowatt-hour is the equivalent of one kilowatt consumed over the course of one hour: 1 kWh = (1000 joules / second) * 3600 seconds = 36000 joules
Houdini would have been discrediting his own work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini#Debunking_spiritualists
At first, I thought that was "Rate my DDs" ... good way to draw clicks, I suppose!
In fact I have this vision of everyone in the world getting one routable IPv4 address
One small problem: we already have over six billion people in the world, and 32 bits provides only about four billion values. Thanks for playing.
Correct. Link (see line 33): http://iment.com/maida//familytree/henry/xmas/poemvariants/troysentinel1823.htm
I saw an article a while back on a really neat little portable gadget that does on-the-fly speech translation, albeit imperfectly. I couldn't find the one I read, but here's a link to a similar one: http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/digital_tokyo/articles/us_military_to_use_ibm_arabic_translation_gear_in_iraq/
So we're at least close to a good working model. I call that a relatively successful prediction. Here's the section (right above the one I linked previously) that talks about the accuracy of his previous predictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil#Accuracy_of_predictions
Ray Kurzweil, in his book The Singularity Is Near (the only book I've read on the topic), sets the date for around 2045. He makes further predictions for things before that; here's a nice list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil#Future_Predictions
See sig.
Indeed, as another replier said, there is already an Internet2. However, even before that, "internets" was a valid term. See RFC 1918, titled "Address Allocation for Private Internets".
I might have to apply if they make Cheyenne Mountain their base. "I work with the Air Force ... in Cheyenne Mountain ... doing computer stuff. Stargate? What are you talking about?"
I'm leaving!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_satellite