For a physical analogue, if everything we know about the speed of light is correct, there is no way to ever observe what is inside a black hole. Yet obviously there is something inside.
Why would you assume that there is anything inside of a black hole? Because of the extreme gravity? If the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light, then nothing inside of the black hole is causing the gravity to exist... which means that the gravity felt outside of the black hole has nothing to do with anything inside of the black hole as the gravity can not propagate fast enough to escape; therefore, there is not evidence that anything even exists inside of the black hole.
Look, you wouldn't a guy without experience running warships in charge of the Navy would you? Would you put someone with no experience flying airplanes in charge of the air force?
You wouldn't put an MBA in charge of precision equipment manufacturer would you? You wouldn't put an MBA in charge of a web search/directory company would you?
I could go on and on, but yes, you would. All it takes to run a business is an understanding of business processes. There is no need at all to actually know anything about what the business does. Look at Apple. They had the CEO of PepsiCo running the business and look at them now. Steve Jobs was just a slick salesman is all. He was just riding on the well organized business that the previous MBA had set up for him.
I am wondering if anyone heard the sarcasm in there or if they were just nodding in agreement... until they read this sentence.
I've worked in places where it was against the gods if you simply had a catch( Exception e). You had to *know* which exceptions you are catching and then catch each one separately.
I would argue that you are doing it wrong. The point of view should be: I do not care about anything other than correct input.
There are an infinite number of things that could be wrong. Why worry about them? Worry about what you are trying to do and ignore or discard the rest.
Ping packet not at the expected size? Who cares? Parse only until you reach the maximum expected size. Drop it otherwise.
Malformed URL? Who cares? Stop parsing at the first invalid character.
We keep getting bitten by this stupid shit all the time. We can not know everything and we can not handle everything. Handle what we know and let the rest fall into/nev/dull.
Microsoft tries so hard to coat the world in eye candy and do things for the user that they often go straight to the "well, you clearly want me to run that".
That is because from Microsoft's point of view, you are not supposed to be in control of your computing experience. The programmer, the website developer, the business whose advertisements your are viewing, Microsoft itself, etc. Those are the people in control of your experience. You purchased a ticket to go along for the ride, not to decide what your destination will be.
Which is why I used to love Linux. SystemD (groan, not this shit again), while solving some problems, removes that sense of fine-grained (binary logging, changed commands, untraceable errors, etc.) control that I have enjoyed in the past.
I dislike being forced to do anything, even if it is in my best interests, but I am genuinely GLAD that I was given vaccinations against polio, mumps, etc.
Yes. Any time you take or drop $10k in cash in a bank or $5k in cash in a casino, there will be a report.
It is not that simple. I needed to withdraw about $6k in cash and my bank tried to get me to avoid doing so since it required a lot of "paperwork" (likely electronic, but whatever) on their end.
The amounts requiring reports are far less than what is publicly known about.
But really think about it, and now think that there could be things in the Universe just like light which we simply do not have organs to perceive. How can we understand it?
Every thing that exists leaves some sort of trace or has some sort of effect on something else.
Take light for example: Without eyes, we would still know that it exists.
Yes.
Why? Because when the photons impact atoms, it can be released as heat. We would discover the heat and ask why it was there. We would eventually discover light even without eyes.
Would we understand light in the same way as we understand it now if we had no eyes? Maybe not... but maybe our eyes limit our understanding of light in ways that a being with no eyes would not experience.
Compare this to one of Apple's absurd interfaces. This day calendar program is clearly trying to emulate a physical day calendar, complete with leather stitching and yellow lined legal paper.
Regardless of what is "cool" or not, it is usable.
My questions is: Why is there only ONE TRUE WAY?
I mean, even if they offer a default which demonstrates their ONE TRUE WAY, why can't they have other themes... or allow us to build our own themes? It would be nice to be in control of our interfaces instead of having someone else decide that we need to use the ONE TRUE WAY. *sigh*
I am used to being disrespected by programmers and the people who manage them. Let it continue while I seethe quietly in the background.
It is amazing at how consistently these frosty piss postings occur. Even if someone were paid to do this, they would not be as reliable as "Anonymous Coward" at producing these posts.
After all of these years, I just HAVE to ask: What is the motivation?
UEFI Secure Boot with 3rd party UEFI CA removed from the UEFI database
Note the part that I bolded.
No more dual booting. The next step in the "destroy all others" is being taken. You will not be able to dual boot, even with the distros that tried to play along with the TPM shenanigans.
If you want control over your computing environment, it is paramount that you not upgrade to Windows 10. "Right to Read" will mostly likely come to pass, but the longer we delay it, the more chances we have to prevent it.
Interesting. So you "upgrade" for free and lose functionality. Ah well, millions will "upgrade" regardless. Gotta have the new shiny... even if it is all smoke and mirrors.
Everything is still flat and the colors still solid. It is very difficult to impossible to tell what is a border and what is a window control and which window it may belong to.
Why would I want to subject myself to an interface like that when those are the only cues at all as to how to interact with the operating system, minus the command line.
Yeah, I blame Bush for what he did, and I blame Obama for making the crap Bush did the new normal, which is actually worse.
Noticing a pattern yet? Noticing that this has NOTHING to do with which political party is in power?
Yeah... this country has been taken over. The nifty part is we do not know who or which organized group of people did it, but you can bet they are exceedingly wealthy... enough to make Bill Gates blush.
My diet has not changed over the past decade. I eat twice a day; eggs and bacon for breakfast, some sort of sandwich and soup for late lunch.
My exercise levels have not changed at all during that decade. I do not exercise.
I weighed 245 pounds. I weighed 190 pounds. I weighed 240 pounds. I weigh 200 pounds. I gain and lose weight based on what exactly? 40-50 pounds of gain and loss is not exactly small. Why does my weight vary so much? It is not diet and it is not exercise.
I feel certain that my weight would be more stable if I were to exercise, with the stabilization point likely at about 180. I know for a fact I would be healthier if I exercised...
But would my weight really stabilize if I exercised or would it still bounce around by 50 pounds?
I get comments all the time after a fat episode is over and a thinning episode starts: I am so jealous. What are you doing to lose weight?
Frequently, they are very unhappy when I tell them: Nothing.
Being a high school dropout, I have to ask: Do Gallileo's findings take into account masses of vastly different sizes?
The reason I ask is this: All masses exert gravity, yes? So say a planet exerts an acceleration of 8m/s squared. The prevailing theory is that ALL objects, regardless of mass fall at the same speed... yes?
What if one of the objects is a bowling ball and the other is an asteroid the size of a mountain... wouldn't the asteroid fall faster? Before you answer no, I would need an explanation of why the acceleration of gravity of the bowling itself and the asteroid itself is not added to the acceleration of gravity of the planet itself...
Just pulling random numbers that are likely orders of magnitude off but are sufficient to demonstrate my question: planet 8m/s squared, asteroid.00008ms squared, bowling ball,.000000008m/s squared of acceleration. To the human eye, there would be no difference in speed over a 100 mile fall, but when measuring to the picosecond, wouldn't there be a difference in time between the bowling ball and the asteroid hitting the surface due to their own masses exerting gravitic pull?
Again, a mountain sized asteroid has outrageously less mass than a planet so for most purposes, there is no reason to to account for its mass... but for scientific purposes and pedantry, wouldn't we need to account for it?
Hm. I would say that there is a further issue going on here, namely that people are conflating strong AI and consciousness. They may not be the same thing.
Intelligence is like a tool that consciousness uses to make sense of the universe. Consciousness just is: To quote the Old Testament when God is speaking to Moses, "I am that I am."
Strong AI does not necessarily need consciousness in order to be strong. It does not have to have a "will" or the need to dominate its environment like an animal does.
In short, strong AI would merely be a tool for us to use unless consciousness is required for intelligence.
I do not know which window I am closing when I have multiple windows open... that is assuming I can even find a "close" button anywhere in the confusing mess of windows that are open.
Drop shadows helped a LOT to show which window was on top of which window. Gradients on the buttons and window edges differentiated them from background noise.
All I see are lines. I have no idea which line indicates a window edge or some menu/workspace delineation marker.
Removing all of that (shadowing/gradients) removes vital clues that ANYONE, programmer or novice, needs in order to be able to operate a windowing interface efficiently.
Perhaps I am supposed to be using the taskbar to choose which application window I am trying to manipulate? If that is true, then why don't sub-windows always show up in the taskbar? Many do not. How can I manipulate the windows effectively without clues as to what is what? It is supposed to be a windowing paradigm right?
I am not disagreeing with anything you said, I am reinforcing it. The only point that I am making is that the interface is terrible for everyone, not just one class of user as your parent poster implied.
American traffic is pretty tame compared to many other regions: Middle East and South Korea come immediately to mind. The laws of physics do not apply in their minds. Other regions, like India or the Philippines are just plain chaotic as hell, not necessarily rude, but primitive.
American traffic behavior may be poor compared to say, The Netherlands or Sweden, but it is MUCH more tame than a large majority of the world... and let's not bring Russian traffic into this discussion.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. Next thing you know, they will be integrating an email client, a news client, and a chat client. I wonder why Firefox never had it before?
Yes. Yes. I just rolled my eyes so far that they fell out of my head. *sigh*
For a physical analogue, if everything we know about the speed of light is correct, there is no way to ever observe what is inside a black hole. Yet obviously there is something inside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Why would you assume that there is anything inside of a black hole? Because of the extreme gravity? If the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light, then nothing inside of the black hole is causing the gravity to exist... which means that the gravity felt outside of the black hole has nothing to do with anything inside of the black hole as the gravity can not propagate fast enough to escape; therefore, there is not evidence that anything even exists inside of the black hole.
No?
Look, you wouldn't a guy without experience running warships in charge of the Navy would you? Would you put someone with no experience flying airplanes in charge of the air force?
You wouldn't put an MBA in charge of precision equipment manufacturer would you? You wouldn't put an MBA in charge of a web search/directory company would you?
I could go on and on, but yes, you would. All it takes to run a business is an understanding of business processes. There is no need at all to actually know anything about what the business does. Look at Apple. They had the CEO of PepsiCo running the business and look at them now. Steve Jobs was just a slick salesman is all. He was just riding on the well organized business that the previous MBA had set up for him.
I am wondering if anyone heard the sarcasm in there or if they were just nodding in agreement... until they read this sentence.
At one IT company I worked for, labor costs grew anywhere between 6 and 10% per year ...
How can that be when raises are not coming in at 6 and 10% per year? Where is all that money going if it is not going into the workers pockets?
Furthermore, money is losing value at roughly 4% per year... that means someone who is only getting a 6% raise is barely keeping up with inflation.
Where is the value going?
I've worked in places where it was against the gods if you simply had a catch( Exception e). You had to *know* which exceptions you are catching and then catch each one separately.
I would argue that you are doing it wrong. The point of view should be: I do not care about anything other than correct input.
There are an infinite number of things that could be wrong. Why worry about them? Worry about what you are trying to do and ignore or discard the rest.
Ping packet not at the expected size? Who cares? Parse only until you reach the maximum expected size. Drop it otherwise.
Malformed URL? Who cares? Stop parsing at the first invalid character.
We keep getting bitten by this stupid shit all the time. We can not know everything and we can not handle everything. Handle what we know and let the rest fall into /nev/dull.
Microsoft tries so hard to coat the world in eye candy and do things for the user that they often go straight to the "well, you clearly want me to run that".
That is because from Microsoft's point of view, you are not supposed to be in control of your computing experience. The programmer, the website developer, the business whose advertisements your are viewing, Microsoft itself, etc. Those are the people in control of your experience. You purchased a ticket to go along for the ride, not to decide what your destination will be.
Which is why I used to love Linux. SystemD (groan, not this shit again), while solving some problems, removes that sense of fine-grained (binary logging, changed commands, untraceable errors, etc.) control that I have enjoyed in the past.
When I was growing up, we had no choice...
I dislike being forced to do anything, even if it is in my best interests, but I am genuinely GLAD that I was given vaccinations against polio, mumps, etc.
Look at this for polio: https://www.google.com/search?...
Why would ANYONE let their children risk this, no matter how minuscule the chance?
Take your vaccines. Takes your vaccines. Take you fucking vaccines!
If you want to skip on the yearly flu shot and do not work around vulnerable people, fine; but, take your vaccines!
Yes. Any time you take or drop $10k in cash in a bank or $5k in cash in a casino, there will be a report.
It is not that simple. I needed to withdraw about $6k in cash and my bank tried to get me to avoid doing so since it required a lot of "paperwork" (likely electronic, but whatever) on their end.
The amounts requiring reports are far less than what is publicly known about.
No. The NSA will "rent" the storage to the telcos from the Utah data center.
+++++++10ten10ten
THIS is exactly where things have gone disgustingly, oppressively, authoritanially, worthy-of-revolutionally, wrong.
If only I had enough mod points to mod you so high, the president himself would be forced to read this comment by you.
CAPTCHA is "discuss" oy.
But really think about it, and now think that there could be things in the Universe just like light which we simply do not have organs to perceive. How can we understand it?
Every thing that exists leaves some sort of trace or has some sort of effect on something else.
Take light for example: Without eyes, we would still know that it exists.
Yes.
Why? Because when the photons impact atoms, it can be released as heat. We would discover the heat and ask why it was there. We would eventually discover light even without eyes.
Would we understand light in the same way as we understand it now if we had no eyes? Maybe not... but maybe our eyes limit our understanding of light in ways that a being with no eyes would not experience.
We could always ask someone who was born blind...
Compare this to one of Apple's absurd interfaces. This day calendar program is clearly trying to emulate a physical day calendar, complete with leather stitching and yellow lined legal paper.
Regardless of what is "cool" or not, it is usable.
My questions is: Why is there only ONE TRUE WAY?
I mean, even if they offer a default which demonstrates their ONE TRUE WAY, why can't they have other themes... or allow us to build our own themes? It would be nice to be in control of our interfaces instead of having someone else decide that we need to use the ONE TRUE WAY. *sigh*
I am used to being disrespected by programmers and the people who manage them. Let it continue while I seethe quietly in the background.
It is amazing at how consistently these frosty piss postings occur. Even if someone were paid to do this, they would not be as reliable as "Anonymous Coward" at producing these posts.
After all of these years, I just HAVE to ask: What is the motivation?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
I quote:
Device Guard requires:
UEFI Secure Boot with 3rd party UEFI CA removed from the UEFI database
Note the part that I bolded.
No more dual booting. The next step in the "destroy all others" is being taken. You will not be able to dual boot, even with the distros that tried to play along with the TPM shenanigans.
If you want control over your computing environment, it is paramount that you not upgrade to Windows 10. "Right to Read" will mostly likely come to pass, but the longer we delay it, the more chances we have to prevent it.
Interesting. So you "upgrade" for free and lose functionality. Ah well, millions will "upgrade" regardless. Gotta have the new shiny... even if it is all smoke and mirrors.
Everything is still flat and the colors still solid. It is very difficult to impossible to tell what is a border and what is a window control and which window it may belong to.
Why would I want to subject myself to an interface like that when those are the only cues at all as to how to interact with the operating system, minus the command line.
Yeah, I blame Bush for what he did, and I blame Obama for making the crap Bush did the new normal, which is actually worse.
Noticing a pattern yet? Noticing that this has NOTHING to do with which political party is in power?
Yeah... this country has been taken over. The nifty part is we do not know who or which organized group of people did it, but you can bet they are exceedingly wealthy... enough to make Bill Gates blush.
Ha! If it were only so simple...
My diet has not changed over the past decade. I eat twice a day; eggs and bacon for breakfast, some sort of sandwich and soup for late lunch.
My exercise levels have not changed at all during that decade. I do not exercise.
I weighed 245 pounds. I weighed 190 pounds. I weighed 240 pounds. I weigh 200 pounds. I gain and lose weight based on what exactly? 40-50 pounds of gain and loss is not exactly small. Why does my weight vary so much? It is not diet and it is not exercise.
I feel certain that my weight would be more stable if I were to exercise, with the stabilization point likely at about 180. I know for a fact I would be healthier if I exercised...
But would my weight really stabilize if I exercised or would it still bounce around by 50 pounds?
I get comments all the time after a fat episode is over and a thinning episode starts: I am so jealous. What are you doing to lose weight?
Frequently, they are very unhappy when I tell them: Nothing.
Being a high school dropout, I have to ask: Do Gallileo's findings take into account masses of vastly different sizes?
The reason I ask is this: All masses exert gravity, yes? So say a planet exerts an acceleration of 8m/s squared. The prevailing theory is that ALL objects, regardless of mass fall at the same speed... yes?
What if one of the objects is a bowling ball and the other is an asteroid the size of a mountain... wouldn't the asteroid fall faster? Before you answer no, I would need an explanation of why the acceleration of gravity of the bowling itself and the asteroid itself is not added to the acceleration of gravity of the planet itself...
Just pulling random numbers that are likely orders of magnitude off but are sufficient to demonstrate my question: planet 8m/s squared, asteroid .00008ms squared, bowling ball, .000000008m/s squared of acceleration. To the human eye, there would be no difference in speed over a 100 mile fall, but when measuring to the picosecond, wouldn't there be a difference in time between the bowling ball and the asteroid hitting the surface due to their own masses exerting gravitic pull?
Again, a mountain sized asteroid has outrageously less mass than a planet so for most purposes, there is no reason to to account for its mass... but for scientific purposes and pedantry, wouldn't we need to account for it?
Hm...
Low user ID...
Initials of SJ...
Speaking knowledgeably about Apple insider stuff...
Hey guys! Steve Jobs is not dead! He is here posting on Slashdot. I guess pretending to be dead is boring eh? ;)
Hm. I would say that there is a further issue going on here, namely that people are conflating strong AI and consciousness. They may not be the same thing.
Intelligence is like a tool that consciousness uses to make sense of the universe. Consciousness just is: To quote the Old Testament when God is speaking to Moses, "I am that I am."
Strong AI does not necessarily need consciousness in order to be strong. It does not have to have a "will" or the need to dominate its environment like an animal does.
In short, strong AI would merely be a tool for us to use unless consciousness is required for intelligence.
The intention of the IMF is not to help those it gives money to. The intention is basically to control them.
...
And that's basically the IWFs function now. Though FJS could not even dictate how they may spend the money, unlike the IWF now.
Your 'M' got turned upside down in this last paragraph. ;)
International Wildlife Fund? Heheh
I do not know which window I am closing when I have multiple windows open... that is assuming I can even find a "close" button anywhere in the confusing mess of windows that are open.
Drop shadows helped a LOT to show which window was on top of which window. Gradients on the buttons and window edges differentiated them from background noise.
All I see are lines. I have no idea which line indicates a window edge or some menu/workspace delineation marker.
Removing all of that (shadowing/gradients) removes vital clues that ANYONE, programmer or novice, needs in order to be able to operate a windowing interface efficiently.
Perhaps I am supposed to be using the taskbar to choose which application window I am trying to manipulate? If that is true, then why don't sub-windows always show up in the taskbar? Many do not. How can I manipulate the windows effectively without clues as to what is what? It is supposed to be a windowing paradigm right?
I am not disagreeing with anything you said, I am reinforcing it. The only point that I am making is that the interface is terrible for everyone, not just one class of user as your parent poster implied.
ISIS, now known as Da'esh, started out as Al Queda in Iraq. Eventually, there were some management disputes and Al Queda kicked them out.
American traffic is pretty tame compared to many other regions: Middle East and South Korea come immediately to mind. The laws of physics do not apply in their minds. Other regions, like India or the Philippines are just plain chaotic as hell, not necessarily rude, but primitive.
American traffic behavior may be poor compared to say, The Netherlands or Sweden, but it is MUCH more tame than a large majority of the world... and let's not bring Russian traffic into this discussion.