If you don't mind my asking, what sort of work do you do where you feel that obscurity is the only possible answer?
Try making a MMORPG without a central server to save on bandwith, and half the latency. Yet have it so people can't just pull a Diablo 1, and have Greater Plate of the Whale or simply God mode. The short time of 3-6 months before hacks are created and propogated in the wild would get me enough money to either go the central server route, or create anti hacks. But if I release the MMORPG with source code too, people can write all sorts of hacks, or even recompile the client.
I don't see World of Warcraft releasing their source code, and they have a central server. Maybe you claim Glider could not have been made if WOW released its source code.
Some of my projects I have involve security through obscurity. Obviously this gets hacked eventually, but making it Open Source would get it hacked immediately and harder. I run a game of hack and counter hack in my projects like an escalating war. If I'm lazy and want to release early, I may not put a lot of counter hacks in.
I know the counter argument that releasing a project will let it become secure. But there are some things which simply cannot be made more secure. An example of this would be Starcraft 1 which transfers the data between both clients so you can't prevent the map hack. Any way you look at it, if both computers have the information of every unit, a hack can be made. Now you can have counter hacks by security professionals to identify hackers and ban them. But if the information of the counter hacks was made public, hackers would work around them and not be identified and banned.
So there are times when you want your code secretive instead of publishing to Open Source.
Allow people to complain that they don't have broadband online(they can use dialup or someone else's service).
Then the biggest clusters of people complaining get targetted first.
Newer MMORPGS are more fun. You don't perma die. You don't get stolen from. Thievery is only fun for one person. And if you can steal from an NPC, you can just farm it, so there needs to be limitations.
Regardless if Global Warming is real or not, there is a definitive political agenda for pushing that it is real. If the world's governments need to unite to combat global warming, the formation of world government fits some people's agendas. Real or Fake, there is a certain group of powerful people that will be pushing it on you.
In other news Obama did the first thing I liked, he commissioned the first nuclear power plant in 30 years claiming it is better for the environment than coal or gas. I'm glad nuclear is being opened up again so we can make better power plants. If the USA pursues an aggressive energy creation policy so we have a surplus, and vehicles are made that run on electricity/hydrogen, we could be paying less to fuel up our cars in 20 years. And cheaper fuel equates to cheaper food. Cheaper food and fuel results in more money we can donate in charity to help the poor. And a lower global poverty level results in less abuses of the environment.
Creationism does not in anyway detract from evolution. Some people on both sides think creationism and evolution can not exist together, but they can with the long day theory.
As for interpreting the constitution, I agree that it should stay in its current form unless it gets ammended. I think the focal point is that Christian enemies are arguing for,"Seperation of Church and State" while Christians argue that the Constitution says this nowhere in it. The only thing the Constitution says is the first ammendment where it says,"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech," Yet, there this is interpreted that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit. To me, this is a law abdridging freedom of speech.
Wow, a religious person having a hard time believing something that can be scientifically proven that contradicts their own personal views that cannot be scientifically proven.
I have no problems believing these people experienced "warm fuzzy feelings" more than people with more brain matter. I do have problems when you start defining "warm fuzzy feelings" as spirituality because spirituality is not a feeling.
It's not quite so simple. Remember that Newton was highly religious. It would be hard to describe him as not having a fully functional brain.
Though one may argue a person who reads a study and infers their own biased opinion of others may not have a fully functional brain.
I've seen it on Digg and Reddit. There is a crowd hatred towards those who are spiritual in those places. I profess nothing more than what Jesus did: Love everyone even if they hate you. And I get lots of people raging that I'm the cause of all the world's problems. It is like they fail to read that all I profess for others is love.
I do understand scientists who see some Christians as a threat that argue against evolution, but I don't argue against evolution or an old Earth myself. I say God created the universe and life, but life is evolving, no doubt about that. There is even likely theistic evolution, but since we generally don't see God's hand at work, there is no use worrying about it.
Finally I'd like to conclude that spirituality is not a "feeling". I don't wake up one day and say I feel more spiritual than another day. Spirituality is your relationship with God. Do you dismiss God and go about your way, or do you realize he is there and strive to live differently as a result? God is good and truth, so we should also be good and never lie. There's a lot of times it is tempting to lie, but if we're trying to please God, we're to never lie. So I'm really suspicious of a test that says one person is "feeling" more spiritual than another person since that isn't even how it works.
Consider this as a plot for a movie: After the first person successfully backs up their conscious on computer, he realizes he does not have the good feelings he had as a human. Then after concluding that living as a human is better than eternity as a robot, the other robots assume he is right and begin the reverse Singularity. Robots start actively seeking out humans to hijack and dump their AI into a real brain. The robot war is here, but it isn't just humans vs robots. It is humans vs robots vs exrobots now human.
I disliked doing Chemistry Stoiciometry because of all the sub case and super casing. I'm sure different types of maths its bad too. Maybe theres scientific notation out there, but I don't know about it.
I remember in physics class theorizing a propulsion system for a space ship. I figured that the only way to get thrust would be to accelerate hydrogen to as fast as you can then zip it out the thrusters. You'd have low mass, but high velocity propulsion. It sounds like this guy figured out a way to do this in a compact form. If this seriously works, I'm excited because it will allow satellites all over the solar system for relatively cheap. Put a high imaging camera on your satellite and snap pictures from around the solar system! It is nice that even though NASA has a shoestring budget that space exploration can still make advances.
Cell phones cause car accidents all the time. Even if you think you're skillful enough to operate a cell phone and drive, doing so can be a role model for someone else who can't do the feat. My friend was even in a bad car accident last week where he says the other driver was on a cell phone. He had some broken ribs, a collar bone, and was pulled out by jaws of life.
If you get a ring, down answer it. Then find a pull off and call the person back.
LOL. I did a drive by posting and I knew someone would say this! Thats why I came back.
When I say disturbing, I mean: If I knock at your door, you have to drop what you're doing and answer it and give me attention. This is a disturbance to your life. If I call you on your phone, you have to answer it and then likely you'll respond to me as a telemarketer which is an unhappy disturbance. That is what I mean by disturbance.
I use the Internet as much as I can to get the word out. God is good and he is real, so be good yourself and love everyone even if they are evil to you. I send out bulk email typically known as spam. I frequent message boards with Slashdot being my favorite. I talk to anyone who wants to talk. I also have a website at www.fatherspiritson.com
I like science boards because there is a mistake in knowing Christianity by some scientists and a mistake in knowing science by some Christians. The mistake is: Some people think Creationism and Evolution are mutually exclusive, but they can both exist. Creationism is how things started, Evolution is how things change. There is no scriptural problems if you look at a day for God being any length of time which is in scripture a few places.
My email is James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com if anyone wants to talk.
The Internet is a great place to let people know God is real. Before people had to travel to meet people. The Internet is less disturbing than a face to face meeting.
You're on to something here. We may have needed one newspaper for every town when there was distribution limits. But now everyone has access to any newspaper, so there is a lot of redundant news out there. We don't need redundancy, so some should go extinct. The funny thing is that the ones who are free are less likely to go extinct because they'll have more readership and ad revenue.
Get a cell phone without a plan that has VOIP capabilities. Someone said they run around 200$, some sort of Nokia. This will let you make home calls assuming you have broadband and a wireless internet.
Then buy trakphone minutes to use your phone when you're not home.
This will easily save you hundreds of dollars a year... Unless you make a large number of calls on the road.
Once a computer understands 3d objects with English names, it can then have an imagination to know how these objects interact with each other. Of course writing imagination space that simulates real life is exceedingly difficult and I don't see anyone doing it for several years if not a decade just to start.
Balance has been around since at least 2003 from a guy in Japan, but good enough balance that someone making all the leg movements manually can keep it up? Or maybe we don't really let the person have full control of the bot.
This robot is: A humanoid robot controlled entirely by the movements and actions of a live person.
I know we don't have the technology for a robot to keep its balance well enough on two legs, but we are there or at least close for controlling a skeleton in 3d.
What would a robot like this be called? I'm sure I'm not the first to think about it, so I figure there has to be a name for it.
Slashdot Mirror
This 8x8 version almost looks like a combination of Super Mario and Tetris
Hmmm... I wonder what that would be like . o O http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276
If you don't mind my asking, what sort of work do you do where you feel that obscurity is the only possible answer?
Try making a MMORPG without a central server to save on bandwith, and half the latency. Yet have it so people can't just pull a Diablo 1, and have Greater Plate of the Whale or simply God mode. The short time of 3-6 months before hacks are created and propogated in the wild would get me enough money to either go the central server route, or create anti hacks. But if I release the MMORPG with source code too, people can write all sorts of hacks, or even recompile the client.
I don't see World of Warcraft releasing their source code, and they have a central server. Maybe you claim Glider could not have been made if WOW released its source code.
Some of my projects I have involve security through obscurity. Obviously this gets hacked eventually, but making it Open Source would get it hacked immediately and harder. I run a game of hack and counter hack in my projects like an escalating war. If I'm lazy and want to release early, I may not put a lot of counter hacks in.
I know the counter argument that releasing a project will let it become secure. But there are some things which simply cannot be made more secure. An example of this would be Starcraft 1 which transfers the data between both clients so you can't prevent the map hack. Any way you look at it, if both computers have the information of every unit, a hack can be made. Now you can have counter hacks by security professionals to identify hackers and ban them. But if the information of the counter hacks was made public, hackers would work around them and not be identified and banned.
So there are times when you want your code secretive instead of publishing to Open Source.
Allow people to complain that they don't have broadband online(they can use dialup or someone else's service). Then the biggest clusters of people complaining get targetted first.
Newer MMORPGS are more fun. You don't perma die. You don't get stolen from. Thievery is only fun for one person. And if you can steal from an NPC, you can just farm it, so there needs to be limitations.
Regardless if Global Warming is real or not, there is a definitive political agenda for pushing that it is real. If the world's governments need to unite to combat global warming, the formation of world government fits some people's agendas. Real or Fake, there is a certain group of powerful people that will be pushing it on you.
In other news Obama did the first thing I liked, he commissioned the first nuclear power plant in 30 years claiming it is better for the environment than coal or gas. I'm glad nuclear is being opened up again so we can make better power plants. If the USA pursues an aggressive energy creation policy so we have a surplus, and vehicles are made that run on electricity/hydrogen, we could be paying less to fuel up our cars in 20 years. And cheaper fuel equates to cheaper food. Cheaper food and fuel results in more money we can donate in charity to help the poor. And a lower global poverty level results in less abuses of the environment.
Creationism does not in anyway detract from evolution. Some people on both sides think creationism and evolution can not exist together, but they can with the long day theory.
As for interpreting the constitution, I agree that it should stay in its current form unless it gets ammended. I think the focal point is that Christian enemies are arguing for,"Seperation of Church and State" while Christians argue that the Constitution says this nowhere in it. The only thing the Constitution says is the first ammendment where it says,"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech," Yet, there this is interpreted that clergy may not talk about a political candidate from the puplit. To me, this is a law abdridging freedom of speech.
Wow, a religious person having a hard time believing something that can be scientifically proven that contradicts their own personal views that cannot be scientifically proven.
I have no problems believing these people experienced "warm fuzzy feelings" more than people with more brain matter. I do have problems when you start defining "warm fuzzy feelings" as spirituality because spirituality is not a feeling.
It's not quite so simple. Remember that Newton was highly religious. It would be hard to describe him as not having a fully functional brain.
Though one may argue a person who reads a study and infers their own biased opinion of others may not have a fully functional brain.
I've seen it on Digg and Reddit. There is a crowd hatred towards those who are spiritual in those places. I profess nothing more than what Jesus did: Love everyone even if they hate you. And I get lots of people raging that I'm the cause of all the world's problems. It is like they fail to read that all I profess for others is love.
I do understand scientists who see some Christians as a threat that argue against evolution, but I don't argue against evolution or an old Earth myself. I say God created the universe and life, but life is evolving, no doubt about that. There is even likely theistic evolution, but since we generally don't see God's hand at work, there is no use worrying about it.
Finally I'd like to conclude that spirituality is not a "feeling". I don't wake up one day and say I feel more spiritual than another day. Spirituality is your relationship with God. Do you dismiss God and go about your way, or do you realize he is there and strive to live differently as a result? God is good and truth, so we should also be good and never lie. There's a lot of times it is tempting to lie, but if we're trying to please God, we're to never lie. So I'm really suspicious of a test that says one person is "feeling" more spiritual than another person since that isn't even how it works.
Consider this as a plot for a movie: After the first person successfully backs up their conscious on computer, he realizes he does not have the good feelings he had as a human. Then after concluding that living as a human is better than eternity as a robot, the other robots assume he is right and begin the reverse Singularity. Robots start actively seeking out humans to hijack and dump their AI into a real brain. The robot war is here, but it isn't just humans vs robots. It is humans vs robots vs exrobots now human.
The higher the bandwith = the more players you can have in the game
I disliked doing Chemistry Stoiciometry because of all the sub case and super casing. I'm sure different types of maths its bad too. Maybe theres scientific notation out there, but I don't know about it.
Warcraft3 AI only was charged like 1 gold per unit or something so you couldn't starve the AI.
Starcraft always knew all your units and built counter units.
Starcraft2 they say is supposed to have really keen ai that even needs to learn through fog of war, but we'll see.
I remember in physics class theorizing a propulsion system for a space ship. I figured that the only way to get thrust would be to accelerate hydrogen to as fast as you can then zip it out the thrusters. You'd have low mass, but high velocity propulsion. It sounds like this guy figured out a way to do this in a compact form. If this seriously works, I'm excited because it will allow satellites all over the solar system for relatively cheap. Put a high imaging camera on your satellite and snap pictures from around the solar system! It is nice that even though NASA has a shoestring budget that space exploration can still make advances.
News agencies should be reporting, not making up the news.
Thats no moon.
"Do not use your cell phone while driving"
Cell phones cause car accidents all the time. Even if you think you're skillful enough to operate a cell phone and drive, doing so can be a role model for someone else who can't do the feat. My friend was even in a bad car accident last week where he says the other driver was on a cell phone. He had some broken ribs, a collar bone, and was pulled out by jaws of life.
If you get a ring, down answer it. Then find a pull off and call the person back.
LOL. I did a drive by posting and I knew someone would say this! Thats why I came back.
When I say disturbing, I mean: If I knock at your door, you have to drop what you're doing and answer it and give me attention. This is a disturbance to your life. If I call you on your phone, you have to answer it and then likely you'll respond to me as a telemarketer which is an unhappy disturbance. That is what I mean by disturbance.
I use the Internet as much as I can to get the word out. God is good and he is real, so be good yourself and love everyone even if they are evil to you. I send out bulk email typically known as spam. I frequent message boards with Slashdot being my favorite. I talk to anyone who wants to talk. I also have a website at www.fatherspiritson.com
I like science boards because there is a mistake in knowing Christianity by some scientists and a mistake in knowing science by some Christians. The mistake is: Some people think Creationism and Evolution are mutually exclusive, but they can both exist. Creationism is how things started, Evolution is how things change. There is no scriptural problems if you look at a day for God being any length of time which is in scripture a few places.
My email is James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com if anyone wants to talk.
The Internet is a great place to let people know God is real. Before people had to travel to meet people. The Internet is less disturbing than a face to face meeting.
You're on to something here. We may have needed one newspaper for every town when there was distribution limits. But now everyone has access to any newspaper, so there is a lot of redundant news out there. We don't need redundancy, so some should go extinct. The funny thing is that the ones who are free are less likely to go extinct because they'll have more readership and ad revenue.
Get a cell phone without a plan that has VOIP capabilities. Someone said they run around 200$, some sort of Nokia. This will let you make home calls assuming you have broadband and a wireless internet.
Then buy trakphone minutes to use your phone when you're not home.
This will easily save you hundreds of dollars a year... Unless you make a large number of calls on the road.
Once a computer understands 3d objects with English names, it can then have an imagination to know how these objects interact with each other. Of course writing imagination space that simulates real life is exceedingly difficult and I don't see anyone doing it for several years if not a decade just to start.
Balance has been around since at least 2003 from a guy in Japan, but good enough balance that someone making all the leg movements manually can keep it up? Or maybe we don't really let the person have full control of the bot.
This robot is: A humanoid robot controlled entirely by the movements and actions of a live person. I know we don't have the technology for a robot to keep its balance well enough on two legs, but we are there or at least close for controlling a skeleton in 3d. What would a robot like this be called? I'm sure I'm not the first to think about it, so I figure there has to be a name for it.
The public doesn't win if satellite television is gone, Comcast does.