And Aesop says the lesson of the story is: If it's not yours, leave it the FUCK alone already! If you don't, they will write about how stupid you are for years to come.
I was typing while tired... twt? I need a client with VPN also. I have the SideKick telnet client, and your review is accurate. It serves a couple needs though. Built a backdoor of some complexity to handle a couple of things, but I really need a bit more speed and VPN to remote on-the-go things properly.
I've managed to mangle/fix scripts remotely with it. That was an experience. When your world view of the code gets that small, it's a lot of button pushing. Trying to do so after 3 beers adds just enough fun to call it X-coding, if you will.
There is one situation that Webmin or a GUI will simply not work:) I feel lucky to have been able to avoid a 45 minute trip to reset a few processes. I was 45 mins from either work or home at the time. Where I live, it's easy to be that far away in terms of time.
Anyway, I'm still looking for a PDA with nice text editor, VPN client, SSH client, and text window navigation in the editor; word wrap sucks at times. Ideally, I'd like a GUI view of the text file with view-box placement sort of like you get on the page-view of a pdf file.
I'm hoping that some of the OpenHardware supports stuff/features for the technically minded. I hope, but not holding my breath. Meanwhile, I hang out near free WiFi APs. I really am looking for a reasonable emergency substitute for a laptop... sigh. Lately, the SSD technology is getting my hopes up. The ARM processors are looking pretty damned nice actually, and battery technology is coming around the corner. It's possible that something only slightly larger than the SideKick will make it to market.
That's all just personal wants of course. But damn, full qerty on two thumbs and some text-type correction and I can hit 25+ wpm. I've been using 2-way pagers before the SKII. I can take quite effective meeting notes on the things too. I don't want too much, but a screen that will support 15-20 lines by 80 char is pretty damn good actually. Just niggly little things that I'd like changed. Not that I want to be editing 400K scripts or anything, just the emergency stuff without having to use up 20% of the life of the page up/page down keys while I'm doing it.
That was in reference to the other poster's comment:
....means inviting idiots who don't know anything about software engineering to come change the direction of your project the month before you hit important milestones.... When the project scope is being redirected, or attempts to do so, in such fashion, then those people did not participate as they should have at the beginning, and the PM did not do their job right to start with. With transparency and inclusivity, the project should already have accounted for their needs. Any derivation from the agreed goals/schedules etc. requires that everything be reviewed, and any change in scope be either shut down asap or the project re-aligned to meet these hidden agenda goals, including reshaping the timeline, milestones, and scope of the project. Read that as a do-over agreed to by all the principles. In effect, stopping the current project cold, then starting a new project that covers the newly agreed goals.
Actually, part of the reason that you pay a project manager big bucks is that s/he will avoid such scope creep, and use big hammers to ensure that there is none.
When you invite such creatures as you describe, limiting their input to a choice of two limited options is one way to keep them in check. There are others, but you NEVER let anyone have that much control, ever. Once you do, you are no longer managing the project, just taking orders.
I am very quick to throw the yellow or red cards in meetings when scope creep is showing. I've been known to repurpose meetings entirely on the spot to deal with the fact that there are one or two who think the project goals and schedule are not suitable to 'their' needs. If done right, this clearly defines not only what is supposed to be happening, but who is actually in charge. It's definitely a game of socio-political chess, but to get things done it is necessary. A good PM never ever loses sight of project goals and scope, and keeps the project reigned into those parameters. period. or fail results.
Not just anyone with PMP is going to be able to do that though. It takes skills developed over years of working projects, and the ability to efficiently use positional authority, as well as the ability to simply walk away and wish them luck on their project when they don't want to listen.
I feel for you in the lack of acknowledgment, but I have to say that in 20+ years of managing technical projects, these two simple things help make ANY project work better: inclusivity and transparency.
I've done projects almost picture perfect only to later see someone attempt same or similar that fails miserably because of the lack of one or both of these.
Openness: It's not just for F/OSS
Treat everybody like mushrooms and dank musty smelling product is what you end up with.
I've started collecting links about how the Internet is changing everything, and I have to say that there are a lot of people here who seem to miss a value add point to PDAs/cell phones etc.
This is one way for families to stay connected while still enjoying different parts of the park at the same time. These are COMMUNICATIONS devices. Whether the park administration has the right to ban them or not is not of any concern. I'm welcome to, and will spend my money elsewhere. I have no problem with that.
My WTF moment here is that the park simply does not get it, at all. period. Perhaps they find that their business model is failing if families are not joined at the hip so that mom and dad have to pander to every whimsical wish of their child? Perhaps individuals decide to spend less if they are not shackled to others of their kith and kin?
What reasoning would there be, other than money, for doing something that potentially has the ability to harm their business?
The parental-like 'we know better than you' attitude will fail quite miserably IMHO. (whispering under my breath: fucking idiots)
A day without privacy is like... well, like a day living in a police state.
As for the reaction to this.... waaaaaa fucking waaaaahhh
While it's still part of the law, you police people will just have to do your jobs the way you were meant to... investigate, get warrants, follow the procedures laid out in the law. Remember, protect and serve? It hasn't changed. You are still charged with those roles in society. If you forget that, or ignore that, you are no better than warlords in mogadishu.
You are absolutely right, and that is why Anonymous is a good thing. They are informing the public on a specific issue. This is what might be required for any issue these days because of the roadblocks that you have pointed out. It will take the Internet and groups of demonstrators to make the public aware of what is happening.
I'm hoping that those monitoring the government and legislators will start to grade politicians, and widely publish their grade marks. If your senator is getting an F or D- you might want to read more about that. Anything that would get joe sixpack's attention would help. Perhaps parodies of reality tv? Something! The people have to become more politically aware in order to exercise their rights and duties.
completely dark Internet 3.0 sites that give you links to sites outside of the USA in 3.... 2.... 1...
Bad laws are bad laws, the community will 'route around them' and that will be that. Also get ready for the court cases that the **AA will lose because the content was not infringing etc.
It's not possible to continue their berserk legal campaign and not injure some parties. I believe that the blowback will always be expensive for them, and continued elucidation of their antics to the public will be harmful to their standard revenue streams. There will be NO new CD's or DVD's in my house from now on. I can live without them. period. it's not so difficult.
In the USA in particular, any effort to educate the populace should be squarely aimed at government legislators. That is to say: When you publish, publish in the form of:
Look what we sent to Senator XYZ? All this information about IP and how the law is not good, and why it's not good. Senator XYZ doesn't care about your rights, here is how s/he voted on issues relating to your rights.
If 800 legislators have to be swift boated, meh, who fscking cares. That's what happens when you volunteer for public service.
Once the issues become election issues, it will get sorted out because they cannot begin to help the lobbyists if they are serving biggie sized burgers in their home city after the election. They have to get elected, and if doing so means forsaking their **AA lobbyist friends, believe me, they will.
That is how the people shut down a bad law campaign. Elect only people that do not support those laws.
Personally, I like the SideKick. Not sure what future models will look like, but I hope there is room inside the case for something that allows Telnet/SSH client with room to customize terminal emulation, and on the text editor, I'd like to see templates applied in a way similar to EditPad Pro where can select dictionary and context highlighting etc. These are modifiable and can be tweaked for just about anything, and are. Features like that would pry my fingers off the SideKick and get them wrapped around some other PDA/mobile device.
There is a missing item to consider. Much of the infrastructure that exists, even in rural USA is that there are more than one pair of copper to most homes. Ma Bell wanted to see you two phone lines at one time, so the possibility of DSL grade equipment that bridges two network connections could in fact provide a quite reasonable ride for your bits.
In fact, if the RBOCs sold that bundled with VoIP, I'm certain that it would be bought up handily. I know that some of my family would do so if reasonably priced without blinking an eye.
So think not of just a single DSL capable line, but of two or more of them shared across a single network (TCP/IP) access point within the home. That could easily fall inside the definitions of broadband connectivity.
This kind of networking is simple for router type equipment: terminate two DSL lines, bridge, route, add switching for end user connections... done.
Yes Sir, and if you are smart, add (for nominal monthly fee) a small fanless backup server in the router box. Not that I believe for a second that RBOC management is smart in that way.
The technology is available. The infrastructure is available. Those paying for satellite, phone, cell might well save a good bit of cash to convert to a bundle service, so cash should be available....
DOH! slap forehead... why isn't this done already?
There is a small portion of this equation that seems to have been left out. This law seems to be ostensibly aimed at protecting the **AA and associated groups and their business models.
What happens to their business models when artists won't sign with them in protest of what they are doing to consumers? What happens to their businesses when barely anyone is buying their products?
In this one point, a good boycott of **AA et al and their products, say something lasting 2-6 months, the industry would get the message. When you make ZERO or vastly negative income for a quarter, investors go somewhere else with their dollars, your stock drops to penny range, and people laugh when you complain to the media. In fact, after 6 months, buying products from the **AA et al might become passe' and forever cause even further declines in their revenues.
When they begin prosecuting every tiny detail they can, imprisoning people for downloading etc. then you will see plenty of people ready to boycott and demonstrate. You might even see people who own guns get angry.
The truth of this is closer to the argument that bad laws should not be followed nor enforced. These are bad laws. Drug laws are bad laws. When your law criminalizes a huge percentage of your population, it's a bad law, and quite obviously not on par with community standards of conduct.
A federal law should only be enacted to protect the people. Who do laws like this protect? Directly, they protect the **AA et al. Indirectly, who do they protect? IMHO, nobody! I believe that this is the definition of 'bad law'. YMMV
I'm not sure, but have you tried to re-license Windows after moving it from one of your own home machines to another?
I don't think that this is in-line with anything that MS wants or does. It will clearly have an impact on the legality of DRM if your 'second hand purchased' media won't play on DRM infested hardware/software. I look forward to that group of lawsuits.
yes, I.. I was just watching the television on the Internets.. hee hee, I had some help. but I understand that you have the power, or that hubble guy does... to ahhh.... find suns, even exploding ones. Is that right?
Why yes, Mr President, it is. We are quite fortunate to have the Hubble, thank you.
Well, err, I was thinking... sniff, what's that smell?.............sniff... nevermind. I wanted to know, can Mr Hubble point his power toward... ahh, the middle easts? Can he search out Saudi sons? We've...we.. the boys and I, we've been trying to get this one to explode for a couple years now... and well, it would be might patriotic of Mr Hubble to help us with this one. Can I speak to him?
Huh? Sorry, IANAL nor a degreed professional, but if I'd spent that much time of my life and that much money... uhm, I'd have given it way more thought than you seem to have done.
Not to slam you unconditionally, I'm sure you have given this some thought, but since we don't really know what you are good at and what you like (other than school) how about you give us a multiple choice list of things you have considered and we as slashdotters will duly vote in the latest poll.
If you simply want/.'s opinion of the worth of computational biology, well I'd say that there is lots of work to be done yet. That whole genetic splicing and stem cell research and genomic research etc. There is also AI and robotics research teams that you might find interesting.
One clusterfsck at a time. Fixing a list of problems is often best accomplished by finding the loudest/largest/biggest problem, reduce it to negligibility, move on to the next loudest/largest/biggest.
You will often find that in doing so, you manage to take care of some of the smaller problems at the same time, while preventing the large ones from becoming overwhelmingly large. Jack T. was a mouthpiece for a fair sized group of people who would also speak out in his place if he just quietly went away. Putting him behind bars fixes some of those little problems down the road. Shoving a cork down his gob in public purview, even metaphorically, has the effect of stifling any who would gladly take his place otherwise.
What are you thinking? The last time I was in the local 'sports bar' the longer the night wore on, the more sure I was that the place was full of 5 year olds!!
The trouble I see with your point is that while you are correct, the cult of Christianity teaches their adherents that the Bible is God inspired writings, and is the word of God, literally. Many sects within the cult consider the words of the Bible are to be taken literally; young earthers, creationists, snake handlers etc. as examples.
The cult has grown, and in it's aging has forgotten it's roots, and has been taught not to question or seek truth outside what they are told is the truth. This is problematic in and of itself, and IMO makes Christianity also a dangerous cult. Then again, that's just my opinion.
This problem with the patent system has been brought up many times before. Clerks without technical knowledge often let patents that shouldn't slip through. Sometimes patent trolls abuse this to extort companies into paying them royalties because it's either cheaper or because they don't have the money for the legal battle to fight it. This isn't one of those times. The prior art is obvious, the companies have the means to fight and probably would fight as it's part of their primary business model. I sort of agree, but I'm having EXTREME difficulty understanding how a patent inspector is put on this little project and somehow does NOT know about the prior art? WTF!
If they don't know enough about computers to know how obvious the prior art is, WHY are the involved with computer software patent applications in the first place? Just how fscking incompetent is the USPTO? I can't see any other way to describe this but pure, unadulterated, and blatant incompetence.
The difference, and what makes that argument invalid, is that once you start a nuclear war things only get worse. With malware your chances of getting rich with no negative results are increasingly getting better. Apples and oranges.
It is the lack of negative results like nuclear winter, global destruction, and unimaginable loss of life etc. that make the probability of malware an ever increasing threat. It's not at all like a cold war. Having that kind of optimism about things is what I would call a bit naive. Mind you, you're in good company. Look at all the people that voted to put Bush back in the Whitehouse?
More bizarre and/or insane than what? FFS man, talking telepathically to an imaginary friend who is solely responsible for all that happens in the universe (including putting dinosaur bones in place as is to fool us) compares to evil galactic rulers and volcanoes in a better light in exactly what way?
I have often spoke when I shouldn't have, but I have to say that there are far too many people who 'know' about religion, or think they do when in fact they know about some parts of ONE religion.
Yes, the CoS is a cult, so is the CoE, by technical definition all religions are cults. That is what makes the entire censorship here totally ridiculous. It's rather like saying that there are dangerous humans at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, or 10 Downing street.
Drinking blood and eating flesh? Is that bizarre enough for you? How about sacrificing your own children? Incest? Genocide? The Christian Bible is full of examples of things that would just not work in today's society.
I fail to see how CoS is any more bizarre than Christianity.
Technology solves problems whose descriptions start with things like this:
I can do it, but only one at a time... It is just slow because you have to do x, then y, then z I'm a spreadsheet wizard, but crunching all those numbers by hand would take eons I can build a house, but I can build it faster if I use nailing guns
See... it doesn't solve problems, it only makes the answer fit into our skill sets.
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And Aesop says the lesson of the story is: If it's not yours, leave it the FUCK alone already! If you don't, they will write about how stupid you are for years to come.
I was typing while tired... twt?
:) I feel lucky to have been able to avoid a 45 minute trip to reset a few processes. I was 45 mins from either work or home at the time. Where I live, it's easy to be that far away in terms of time.
I need a client with VPN also. I have the SideKick telnet client, and your review is accurate. It serves a couple needs though. Built a backdoor of some complexity to handle a couple of things, but I really need a bit more speed and VPN to remote on-the-go things properly.
I've managed to mangle/fix scripts remotely with it. That was an experience. When your world view of the code gets that small, it's a lot of button pushing. Trying to do so after 3 beers adds just enough fun to call it X-coding, if you will.
There is one situation that Webmin or a GUI will simply not work
Anyway, I'm still looking for a PDA with nice text editor, VPN client, SSH client, and text window navigation in the editor; word wrap sucks at times. Ideally, I'd like a GUI view of the text file with view-box placement sort of like you get on the page-view of a pdf file.
I'm hoping that some of the OpenHardware supports stuff/features for the technically minded. I hope, but not holding my breath. Meanwhile, I hang out near free WiFi APs. I really am looking for a reasonable emergency substitute for a laptop... sigh. Lately, the SSD technology is getting my hopes up. The ARM processors are looking pretty damned nice actually, and battery technology is coming around the corner. It's possible that something only slightly larger than the SideKick will make it to market.
That's all just personal wants of course. But damn, full qerty on two thumbs and some text-type correction and I can hit 25+ wpm. I've been using 2-way pagers before the SKII. I can take quite effective meeting notes on the things too. I don't want too much, but a screen that will support 15-20 lines by 80 char is pretty damn good actually. Just niggly little things that I'd like changed. Not that I want to be editing 400K scripts or anything, just the emergency stuff without having to use up 20% of the life of the page up/page down keys while I'm doing it.
Just rambling....
....means inviting idiots who don't know anything about software engineering to come change the direction of your project the month before you hit important milestones.... When the project scope is being redirected, or attempts to do so, in such fashion, then those people did not participate as they should have at the beginning, and the PM did not do their job right to start with. With transparency and inclusivity, the project should already have accounted for their needs. Any derivation from the agreed goals/schedules etc. requires that everything be reviewed, and any change in scope be either shut down asap or the project re-aligned to meet these hidden agenda goals, including reshaping the timeline, milestones, and scope of the project. Read that as a do-over agreed to by all the principles. In effect, stopping the current project cold, then starting a new project that covers the newly agreed goals.Actually, part of the reason that you pay a project manager big bucks is that s/he will avoid such scope creep, and use big hammers to ensure that there is none.
When you invite such creatures as you describe, limiting their input to a choice of two limited options is one way to keep them in check. There are others, but you NEVER let anyone have that much control, ever. Once you do, you are no longer managing the project, just taking orders.
I am very quick to throw the yellow or red cards in meetings when scope creep is showing. I've been known to repurpose meetings entirely on the spot to deal with the fact that there are one or two who think the project goals and schedule are not suitable to 'their' needs. If done right, this clearly defines not only what is supposed to be happening, but who is actually in charge. It's definitely a game of socio-political chess, but to get things done it is necessary. A good PM never ever loses sight of project goals and scope, and keeps the project reigned into those parameters. period. or fail results.
Not just anyone with PMP is going to be able to do that though. It takes skills developed over years of working projects, and the ability to efficiently use positional authority, as well as the ability to simply walk away and wish them luck on their project when they don't want to listen.
I feel for you in the lack of acknowledgment, but I have to say that in 20+ years of managing technical projects, these two simple things help make ANY project work better: inclusivity and transparency.
I've done projects almost picture perfect only to later see someone attempt same or similar that fails miserably because of the lack of one or both of these.
Openness: It's not just for F/OSS
Treat everybody like mushrooms and dank musty smelling product is what you end up with.
I've started collecting links about how the Internet is changing everything, and I have to say that there are a lot of people here who seem to miss a value add point to PDAs/cell phones etc.
This is one way for families to stay connected while still enjoying different parts of the park at the same time. These are COMMUNICATIONS devices. Whether the park administration has the right to ban them or not is not of any concern. I'm welcome to, and will spend my money elsewhere. I have no problem with that.
My WTF moment here is that the park simply does not get it, at all. period. Perhaps they find that their business model is failing if families are not joined at the hip so that mom and dad have to pander to every whimsical wish of their child? Perhaps individuals decide to spend less if they are not shackled to others of their kith and kin?
What reasoning would there be, other than money, for doing something that potentially has the ability to harm their business?
The parental-like 'we know better than you' attitude will fail quite miserably IMHO. (whispering under my breath: fucking idiots)
meh!
It's not just for the police anymore.
A day without privacy is like... well, like a day living in a police state.
As for the reaction to this.... waaaaaa fucking waaaaahhh
While it's still part of the law, you police people will just have to do your jobs the way you were meant to... investigate, get warrants, follow the procedures laid out in the law. Remember, protect and serve? It hasn't changed. You are still charged with those roles in society. If you forget that, or ignore that, you are no better than warlords in mogadishu.
Get over it.
He's probably the aloof adventurer type. When asked by the press (repeatedly) he'll probably respond with some 3 word sentence.
Press: How was the trip? What did you experience?
Fournier: It was pretty exciting.
Press: What went through your mind as you were falling?
Fournier: I remembered that I had forgot to shut the garage door at home at one point.
blah blah blah.....
You are absolutely right, and that is why Anonymous is a good thing. They are informing the public on a specific issue. This is what might be required for any issue these days because of the roadblocks that you have pointed out. It will take the Internet and groups of demonstrators to make the public aware of what is happening.
I'm hoping that those monitoring the government and legislators will start to grade politicians, and widely publish their grade marks. If your senator is getting an F or D- you might want to read more about that. Anything that would get joe sixpack's attention would help. Perhaps parodies of reality tv? Something! The people have to become more politically aware in order to exercise their rights and duties.
completely dark Internet 3.0 sites that give you links to sites outside of the USA in 3.... 2.... 1...
Bad laws are bad laws, the community will 'route around them' and that will be that. Also get ready for the court cases that the **AA will lose because the content was not infringing etc.
It's not possible to continue their berserk legal campaign and not injure some parties. I believe that the blowback will always be expensive for them, and continued elucidation of their antics to the public will be harmful to their standard revenue streams. There will be NO new CD's or DVD's in my house from now on. I can live without them. period. it's not so difficult.
In the USA in particular, any effort to educate the populace should be squarely aimed at government legislators. That is to say: When you publish, publish in the form of:
Look what we sent to Senator XYZ? All this information about IP and how the law is not good, and why it's not good. Senator XYZ doesn't care about your rights, here is how s/he voted on issues relating to your rights.
If 800 legislators have to be swift boated, meh, who fscking cares. That's what happens when you volunteer for public service.
Once the issues become election issues, it will get sorted out because they cannot begin to help the lobbyists if they are serving biggie sized burgers in their home city after the election. They have to get elected, and if doing so means forsaking their **AA lobbyist friends, believe me, they will.
That is how the people shut down a bad law campaign. Elect only people that do not support those laws.
Personally, I like the SideKick. Not sure what future models will look like, but I hope there is room inside the case for something that allows Telnet/SSH client with room to customize terminal emulation, and on the text editor, I'd like to see templates applied in a way similar to EditPad Pro where can select dictionary and context highlighting etc. These are modifiable and can be tweaked for just about anything, and are. Features like that would pry my fingers off the SideKick and get them wrapped around some other PDA/mobile device.
There is a missing item to consider. Much of the infrastructure that exists, even in rural USA is that there are more than one pair of copper to most homes. Ma Bell wanted to see you two phone lines at one time, so the possibility of DSL grade equipment that bridges two network connections could in fact provide a quite reasonable ride for your bits.
In fact, if the RBOCs sold that bundled with VoIP, I'm certain that it would be bought up handily. I know that some of my family would do so if reasonably priced without blinking an eye.
So think not of just a single DSL capable line, but of two or more of them shared across a single network (TCP/IP) access point within the home. That could easily fall inside the definitions of broadband connectivity.
This kind of networking is simple for router type equipment: terminate two DSL lines, bridge, route, add switching for end user connections... done.
Yes Sir, and if you are smart, add (for nominal monthly fee) a small fanless backup server in the router box. Not that I believe for a second that RBOC management is smart in that way.
The technology is available. The infrastructure is available. Those paying for satellite, phone, cell might well save a good bit of cash to convert to a bundle service, so cash should be available....
DOH! slap forehead... why isn't this done already?
There is a small portion of this equation that seems to have been left out. This law seems to be ostensibly aimed at protecting the **AA and associated groups and their business models.
What happens to their business models when artists won't sign with them in protest of what they are doing to consumers? What happens to their businesses when barely anyone is buying their products?
In this one point, a good boycott of **AA et al and their products, say something lasting 2-6 months, the industry would get the message. When you make ZERO or vastly negative income for a quarter, investors go somewhere else with their dollars, your stock drops to penny range, and people laugh when you complain to the media. In fact, after 6 months, buying products from the **AA et al might become passe' and forever cause even further declines in their revenues.
When they begin prosecuting every tiny detail they can, imprisoning people for downloading etc. then you will see plenty of people ready to boycott and demonstrate. You might even see people who own guns get angry.
The truth of this is closer to the argument that bad laws should not be followed nor enforced. These are bad laws. Drug laws are bad laws. When your law criminalizes a huge percentage of your population, it's a bad law, and quite obviously not on par with community standards of conduct.
A federal law should only be enacted to protect the people. Who do laws like this protect? Directly, they protect the **AA et al. Indirectly, who do they protect? IMHO, nobody! I believe that this is the definition of 'bad law'. YMMV
I'm not sure, but have you tried to re-license Windows after moving it from one of your own home machines to another?
I don't think that this is in-line with anything that MS wants or does. It will clearly have an impact on the legality of DRM if your 'second hand purchased' media won't play on DRM infested hardware/software. I look forward to that group of lawsuits.
The marketingdroids will call this the ... wait
MicroSoft PayYou! Search Service?
ring ring ... ring ring
.. I was just watching the television on the Internets .. hee hee, I had some help. but I understand that you have the power, or that hubble guy does... to ahhh.... find suns, even exploding ones. Is that right?
.............sniff ... nevermind. I wanted to know, can Mr Hubble point his power toward ... ahh, the middle easts? Can he search out Saudi sons? We've ...we.. the boys and I, we've been trying to get this one to explode for a couple years now... and well, it would be might patriotic of Mr Hubble to help us with this one. Can I speak to him?
Hello, NASA SWIFT office, how may I help you?
Er, this is.. uh... the decider man
cough! Ah, how may we help you Mr President?
yes, I
Why yes, Mr President, it is. We are quite fortunate to have the Hubble, thank you.
Well, err, I was thinking... sniff, what's that smell?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH click.......
You are preaching to the choir, but when you say it is more bizzare than 'normal' religions, I have to take exception. Look at my sig?
Huh? Sorry, IANAL nor a degreed professional, but if I'd spent that much time of my life and that much money... uhm, I'd have given it way more thought than you seem to have done.
/.'s opinion of the worth of computational biology, well I'd say that there is lots of work to be done yet. That whole genetic splicing and stem cell research and genomic research etc. There is also AI and robotics research teams that you might find interesting.
Not to slam you unconditionally, I'm sure you have given this some thought, but since we don't really know what you are good at and what you like (other than school) how about you give us a multiple choice list of things you have considered and we as slashdotters will duly vote in the latest poll.
If you simply want
I'll wait for the multiple guess poll, thanks.
One clusterfsck at a time. Fixing a list of problems is often best accomplished by finding the loudest/largest/biggest problem, reduce it to negligibility, move on to the next loudest/largest/biggest.
You will often find that in doing so, you manage to take care of some of the smaller problems at the same time, while preventing the large ones from becoming overwhelmingly large. Jack T. was a mouthpiece for a fair sized group of people who would also speak out in his place if he just quietly went away. Putting him behind bars fixes some of those little problems down the road. Shoving a cork down his gob in public purview, even metaphorically, has the effect of stifling any who would gladly take his place otherwise.
Lets hope it works out that way.
What are you thinking? The last time I was in the local 'sports bar' the longer the night wore on, the more sure I was that the place was full of 5 year olds!!
The trouble I see with your point is that while you are correct, the cult of Christianity teaches their adherents that the Bible is God inspired writings, and is the word of God, literally. Many sects within the cult consider the words of the Bible are to be taken literally; young earthers, creationists, snake handlers etc. as examples.
The cult has grown, and in it's aging has forgotten it's roots, and has been taught not to question or seek truth outside what they are told is the truth. This is problematic in and of itself, and IMO makes Christianity also a dangerous cult. Then again, that's just my opinion.
If they don't know enough about computers to know how obvious the prior art is, WHY are the involved with computer software patent applications in the first place? Just how fscking incompetent is the USPTO? I can't see any other way to describe this but pure, unadulterated, and blatant incompetence.
wow, just wow
The difference, and what makes that argument invalid, is that once you start a nuclear war things only get worse. With malware your chances of getting rich with no negative results are increasingly getting better. Apples and oranges.
It is the lack of negative results like nuclear winter, global destruction, and unimaginable loss of life etc. that make the probability of malware an ever increasing threat. It's not at all like a cold war. Having that kind of optimism about things is what I would call a bit naive. Mind you, you're in good company. Look at all the people that voted to put Bush back in the Whitehouse?
More bizarre and/or insane than what? FFS man, talking telepathically to an imaginary friend who is solely responsible for all that happens in the universe (including putting dinosaur bones in place as is to fool us) compares to evil galactic rulers and volcanoes in a better light in exactly what way?
I have often spoke when I shouldn't have, but I have to say that there are far too many people who 'know' about religion, or think they do when in fact they know about some parts of ONE religion.
Yes, the CoS is a cult, so is the CoE, by technical definition all religions are cults. That is what makes the entire censorship here totally ridiculous. It's rather like saying that there are dangerous humans at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, or 10 Downing street.
Drinking blood and eating flesh? Is that bizarre enough for you? How about sacrificing your own children? Incest? Genocide? The Christian Bible is full of examples of things that would just not work in today's society.
I fail to see how CoS is any more bizarre than Christianity.
Technology solves problems whose descriptions start with things like this:
I can do it, but only one at a time...
It is just slow because you have to do x, then y, then z
I'm a spreadsheet wizard, but crunching all those numbers by hand would take eons
I can build a house, but I can build it faster if I use nailing guns
See... it doesn't solve problems, it only makes the answer fit into our skill sets.