And if a thin layer of unblooded skin would block the scan, it would also make it fail when cold or for people with circulation problems. Or, if the skin is sweaty, dirty, etc.
So a gummy bear mold comes well within required tolerances.
what is taught as being the way a `true' Muslim varies from culture to culture
As the Koran is claimed to be the literal word of god passed through Muhammad, and is internally consistent, this looks like a clear definition to me: either you obey it (and thus are a true follower), or disregard it (and are a heathen).
Thus, the evilness of Koran, and its incompatibility with sane peaceful society, can't be handwaved around.
Even if you and neighbours pay only lip service to it, your neighbours' kid may read what he's taught to be the word of god, and decide to actually act according to its commandments.
The majority of the Bible is harmful too, but because of obvious contradictions pretty much everywhere inside, most attempts to read it literally are defused.
As you have first-hand knowledge, could you tell us how the rule of inviolability of the Koran goes in practice?
Just Koran -- while, as you say, the hadiths are considered vital, there's no consensus on which are canon and which not, and thus an interpretation that excludes the bad ones can be argued to be true to Islam. Yet, as far as I understand, you are not allowed to cherry-pick from the Koran.
(My mom has a master's degree in theology, so I had quite a lot of exposure to finer details of Christianity, yet what I know about Islam comes from reading, including the holy book. You may tell us how the scripture is read; a fellow Slashdotter is more trustworthy than a random webpage with strong agenda one way or the other.)
By then, the Nobel Committee had some shreds of dignity left. Yet I'd count hundreds of millions of children forced to sing songs in school that call Stalin the "sun of humanity", "father of peace", and so on.
How in the hell this has been modded "5 Insightful"?
There are two kinds of muslims: * peaceful sinners who cherry-pick from the Koran * murderous savages who do as the prophet commanded
I see you're used to Bible which contains thousands of contradictions and thus can't possibly be followed without massive cherry-picking. It does contain savage commandments like "when you approach a town, you need to issue an ultimatum: if the denizens surrender, kill only old women/the infirm/those uppity/etc and put the rest into slavery, taking their women as your wives and concubines -- but if they refuse to surrender, you must slaughter them all. Except for a list of tribes, which you're not allowed to spare and must slaughter without quarter, including livestock" -- yet no one takes such commandments seriously today, despite Jesus reaffirming the old law multiple times.
On the other hand, the few contradictions in Koran are limited to "how many angels visited Miriam", the biggest one IIRC is about permissibility of alcohol. There's not a shred of doubt about being obliged to murder infidels. You must be forgiveful but only to those who convert to Islam, you may subjugate people of four religions but only for a period of time, you should offer infidels a chance to convert, and when facing overwhelming force you may merely lie and use "stratagems" until a time to strike happens.
It is impossible to follow the Bible in full. It is well possible to follow the Koran. And thus I disagree with your claim that those who do are merely "few loud attention seekers who do not represent Islam".
I was hoping that, even after seeing "(D-CA)", this would be someone talking about making IP laws sane.
You got party affiliation wrong. It's Democrites who suck on MAFIAA's teat more. Repugnicants prefer big oil and military contractors; both parties are all-out whores to big finance.
But really, the difference between these two parties is pretty cosmetic.
Yes, but you can put that greed to your advantage: "the one who delivers the best product for its price gets to profit". All it takes is eliminating or vastly reducing corruption. Considering that the US is the only country in the world that outright legalised corruption ("campaign donations"), this would be pretty hard.
Not sure if you're joking or you actually managed to get some text through, but my experience with Every. Single. Recognition. Program. is same as the Frist Psot on this very article. And it's not just me: when some version of ViaVoice came out with much hype, I and a bunch of friends wasted a good part of a day trying to get a single sentence intact. With no luck -- even getting a single word through was a cause for celebration.
It looks like they're making a marketing mistake: they make it sound as if they added recognition of arbitrary text.
There are only two things voice recognition is useful for: * taking a small number of distinct commands * producing nonsense poetry that keeps rhythm and rhyme with input voice
A small corpus of words can be distinguished between pretty easily -- as long as no two are similar to each other. In a real language, with many thousands of words, even a human has a hard time without understanding the subject matter and filling the gaps from context. In fact, what you hear is mostly gaps -- just try to transcribe a series of random words with any real speed. Or, for another example: in a written text, randomly permute all letters except the first and last in every word -- it will still be pretty understandable if you recognize its sense or not at all if you don't. And recognizing the sense is an AI-hard task.
At my previous work, I tried to tell some old dudes about this redefinition, and they couldn't believe I'm not bullshitting them. If you're 60, have worked in this field all your life, and suddenly get told one of core concepts becomes redefined out of the blue, you would have similar thoughts.
It was not helped by the point that sparked that particular talk: Debian installer shown some value as "MiB". As MB is 1048576 bytes, it's very obvious what MiB means: million, ie, 1000000 bytes, right? Whoever came up with the replacement proposal must have pondered hard how to make this as misleading as possible.
So let's invent a sandboxed layer that can interface with the kernel, but can't do damage to it? Also, make the API stable, unlike innards of the kernel. Let's call this novel idea "userspace" or such.
Your phone doesn't have a static IP, neither does a hotel or a random customer whom whose premises you need to quickly fix something. Or aunt Judy, if shit happens to your home server while you're away.
Random IPs in China?
You usually recall you've set up such blocks when you're already on your business trip you didn't expect 5 years ago.
And looking at my logs, they use botnets anyway. Heck, among 37 distinct IPs from today on one box, I see even a pwned IP from Vatican.
That's trivial for you and me. But not for 99.999% of users of these services -- and I probably used too few nines, as most of kind would set up an own server, or perhaps even write our own code (just see what happened when Knuth was unhappy with typesetting software he used. Even if we're dumb peons in comparison, tendencies are the same). Parsing that html, ripping out the contents, figuring out how to import it into another platform... that's not something an average person can do.
Well, the US issues them to people convicted of drunk driving. How can anyone with multiple DUIs be still allowed to drive, even "just home to work", is beyond me.
20 years of unnecessary deaths so capitalism can have its way.
You mean "mercantilism". Capitalism by itself doesn't really care about free vs controlled market, but you can have both free market capitalism and that where only large accumulation of capital matters (great landlords in the past, big corporations nowadays). Note that mercantilism is not directly an opposition of free market, just mostly so -- unlike communism, it allows limited economic freedoms outside of big interests that the government chooses to support.
Our governments do so not even out of malice, mostly due to corruption. Yet the effects are clear: war on culture (copyright), war on innovation (patents), with effects that include 20 years of unnecessary deaths in this very article.
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And if a thin layer of unblooded skin would block the scan, it would also make it fail when cold or for people with circulation problems. Or, if the skin is sweaty, dirty, etc.
So a gummy bear mold comes well within required tolerances.
what is taught as being the way a `true' Muslim varies from culture to culture
As the Koran is claimed to be the literal word of god passed through Muhammad, and is internally consistent, this looks like a clear definition to me: either you obey it (and thus are a true follower), or disregard it (and are a heathen).
Thus, the evilness of Koran, and its incompatibility with sane peaceful society, can't be handwaved around.
Even if you and neighbours pay only lip service to it, your neighbours' kid may read what he's taught to be the word of god, and decide to actually act according to its commandments.
The majority of the Bible is harmful too, but because of obvious contradictions pretty much everywhere inside, most attempts to read it literally are defused.
As you have first-hand knowledge, could you tell us how the rule of inviolability of the Koran goes in practice?
Just Koran -- while, as you say, the hadiths are considered vital, there's no consensus on which are canon and which not, and thus an interpretation that excludes the bad ones can be argued to be true to Islam. Yet, as far as I understand, you are not allowed to cherry-pick from the Koran.
(My mom has a master's degree in theology, so I had quite a lot of exposure to finer details of Christianity, yet what I know about Islam comes from reading, including the holy book. You may tell us how the scripture is read; a fellow Slashdotter is more trustworthy than a random webpage with strong agenda one way or the other.)
When did Stalin or Hitler when Nobel Peace Prize?
By then, the Nobel Committee had some shreds of dignity left. Yet I'd count hundreds of millions of children forced to sing songs in school that call Stalin the "sun of humanity", "father of peace", and so on.
How in the hell this has been modded "5 Insightful"?
There are two kinds of muslims:
* peaceful sinners who cherry-pick from the Koran
* murderous savages who do as the prophet commanded
I see you're used to Bible which contains thousands of contradictions and thus can't possibly be followed without massive cherry-picking. It does contain savage commandments like "when you approach a town, you need to issue an ultimatum: if the denizens surrender, kill only old women/the infirm/those uppity/etc and put the rest into slavery, taking their women as your wives and concubines -- but if they refuse to surrender, you must slaughter them all. Except for a list of tribes, which you're not allowed to spare and must slaughter without quarter, including livestock" -- yet no one takes such commandments seriously today, despite Jesus reaffirming the old law multiple times.
On the other hand, the few contradictions in Koran are limited to "how many angels visited Miriam", the biggest one IIRC is about permissibility of alcohol. There's not a shred of doubt about being obliged to murder infidels. You must be forgiveful but only to those who convert to Islam, you may subjugate people of four religions but only for a period of time, you should offer infidels a chance to convert, and when facing overwhelming force you may merely lie and use "stratagems" until a time to strike happens.
It is impossible to follow the Bible in full. It is well possible to follow the Koran. And thus I disagree with your claim that those who do are merely "few loud attention seekers who do not represent Islam".
I was hoping that, even after seeing "(D-CA)", this would be someone talking about making IP laws sane.
You got party affiliation wrong. It's Democrites who suck on MAFIAA's teat more. Repugnicants prefer big oil and military contractors; both parties are all-out whores to big finance.
But really, the difference between these two parties is pretty cosmetic.
Yes, bribing legislatures this way is a textbook definition of corruption.
Yes, but you can put that greed to your advantage: "the one who delivers the best product for its price gets to profit". All it takes is eliminating or vastly reducing corruption. Considering that the US is the only country in the world that outright legalised corruption ("campaign donations"), this would be pretty hard.
Not sure if you're joking or you actually managed to get some text through, but my experience with Every. Single. Recognition. Program. is same as the Frist Psot on this very article. And it's not just me: when some version of ViaVoice came out with much hype, I and a bunch of friends wasted a good part of a day trying to get a single sentence intact. With no luck -- even getting a single word through was a cause for celebration.
Things have improved since then but not by much.
It looks like they're making a marketing mistake: they make it sound as if they added recognition of arbitrary text.
There are only two things voice recognition is useful for:
* taking a small number of distinct commands
* producing nonsense poetry that keeps rhythm and rhyme with input voice
A small corpus of words can be distinguished between pretty easily -- as long as no two are similar to each other. In a real language, with many thousands of words, even a human has a hard time without understanding the subject matter and filling the gaps from context. In fact, what you hear is mostly gaps -- just try to transcribe a series of random words with any real speed. Or, for another example: in a written text, randomly permute all letters except the first and last in every word -- it will still be pretty understandable if you recognize its sense or not at all if you don't. And recognizing the sense is an AI-hard task.
I don't know if these wasps can infect humans, but let's better not take any chances.
Arrington is an interesting person but it's a stretch to say the he's either a terrorist or natural disaster.
Unlike the DHS.
At my previous work, I tried to tell some old dudes about this redefinition, and they couldn't believe I'm not bullshitting them. If you're 60, have worked in this field all your life, and suddenly get told one of core concepts becomes redefined out of the blue, you would have similar thoughts.
It was not helped by the point that sparked that particular talk: Debian installer shown some value as "MiB". As MB is 1048576 bytes, it's very obvious what MiB means: million, ie, 1000000 bytes, right? Whoever came up with the replacement proposal must have pondered hard how to make this as misleading as possible.
That's not enough, there's Metro poking its ugly head out in many places beyond the start menu.
SSDs with say 120GB of storage instead of 128GB
And then they use drivermakers' gigabytes instead of regular ones, so people see a nice round number like 128 and assume they don't get cheated.
Oh, sorry, they sponsored some commission to redefine pi^Hkilobyte, so when they get sued, they can claim they don't falsely advertise.
I can't believe that all the honey in the grocery store is fake. Or that the local producer's honey is really twice as good.
If your local producer's honey is only twice as good, search better. You want that in unlabeled jars, at most with a handwritten post-it label.
I have no idea what mass-produced honey is made from, but one thing is certain: it has nothing to do with bees.
So let's invent a sandboxed layer that can interface with the kernel, but can't do damage to it? Also, make the API stable, unlike innards of the kernel. Let's call this novel idea "userspace" or such.
You regularly connect via SSH from random IPs?
Your phone doesn't have a static IP, neither does a hotel or a random customer whom whose premises you need to quickly fix something. Or aunt Judy, if shit happens to your home server while you're away.
Random IPs in China?
You usually recall you've set up such blocks when you're already on your business trip you didn't expect 5 years ago.
And looking at my logs, they use botnets anyway. Heck, among 37 distinct IPs from today on one box, I see even a pwned IP from Vatican.
DROP means regular TCP retransmit will defeat your throttle without the cracker having to do anything.
I'd instead use REJECT.
That's trivial for you and me. But not for 99.999% of users of these services -- and I probably used too few nines, as most of kind would set up an own server, or perhaps even write our own code (just see what happened when Knuth was unhappy with typesetting software he used. Even if we're dumb peons in comparison, tendencies are the same). Parsing that html, ripping out the contents, figuring out how to import it into another platform... that's not something an average person can do.
Are you accusing Mark Zuckerberg of being a hacker?
No, most hackers can be expected to have some basic integrity.
Well, the US issues them to people convicted of drunk driving. How can anyone with multiple DUIs be still allowed to drive, even "just home to work", is beyond me.
Then bastards like you eat the food of my food.
it's monopolised for 20 years
20 years of unnecessary deaths so capitalism can have its way.
You mean "mercantilism". Capitalism by itself doesn't really care about free vs controlled market, but you can have both free market capitalism and that where only large accumulation of capital matters (great landlords in the past, big corporations nowadays). Note that mercantilism is not directly an opposition of free market, just mostly so -- unlike communism, it allows limited economic freedoms outside of big interests that the government chooses to support.
Our governments do so not even out of malice, mostly due to corruption. Yet the effects are clear: war on culture (copyright), war on innovation (patents), with effects that include 20 years of unnecessary deaths in this very article.
Or, since you have the right to second-hand sell your license, just sell it to yourself for 0. Problem solved.