Or, more properly, maskirovka? For your consideration: A student posts items in a blog his school finds objectionable: they *attempt* to bully him into submission, in a semi-clear, INCOMPETENT attempt at violation of his First Amendment Rights (note, ZERO law enforcement reporting/involvement). My prediction: The student will have a lawsuit filed on his behalf by the ACLU, they will win, and this event will be trumpeted across all of the news media for days.
ONE case of a citizen's rights being defended and upheld, here, kids, watch *this* hand with the shiny coin!
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Senior government officials are routinely breaking laws that, were a common citizen to be caught doing same, would land them in prison so deep they'd be piping in daylight on alternate Wednesdays...
Now if y'all will excuse me, I'm gonna go look into Canada's immigration policies...
One thing about the rats that manage to successfulyy desert the sinking ship: They survive longer than the ship does.
It'd take me awhile to work out the math of a 3-body problem (I haven't used the calculus I learned in high school since class, 20-plus years ago), but I could do it. Granted, they got it to impact, "even with main sensor failing" - where the hell were the backup sensors, or the error-checking guidance control systems? Or, for that matter, the remote overrides?
I've seen the griping that goes on, as engineers blame under-educated management for pushing sloppy product out before it's good, management thinking that engineering PhD = wizard, and so on ad nauseum, but: As long as they're investing *my* tax dollars, I'd like to be able to get a little less "bang" for the bucks... It's sad really, in that results like these actually might be used to justify reducing funding still further, under the assumption that such compounded errors and other-than-optimal results shouldn't be rewarded with throwing good money after bad on further such projects...
Not hampered by engineering degree, can tell difference between "toward" and "away from" - will work for same 6 figure salary previous position holder was receiving...
Case A: Murder/homicide/manslaughter/involuntary ending of corporeal existence for one victim - that victim is dead *permanently* (so far as we know, religious beliefs set aside momentarily for purposes of simplicity)
Case B: OMGWTF PWN3D BY SP4M! 100,000,000+ (your number) of lives get interrupted for one second (or less) deleting an irritatingly unwanted UCE, then get OVER it and CONTINUE with their lives!!!
I've seen lots of similar "reasoning" - I've also seen the mud sluiced off of animals of the porcine persuasion prior to a county fair. Remarkably similar, they are....
Excuse me, one moment please: While I can understand that you (and many others) have a deep personal hatred for unsolicited commercial email, please consider correcting yourself - there is no way in kind or in degree that the irritation of Spam/UCE is equal to the tragedies of child pornography or rape.
May whatever Deity exists prevent you from learning the difference first-hand.
Buy XM because I hate what the RIAA-holes are trying to do to them? Or keep on using other avenues to get recordings of the music I enjoy, realizing that my subscription/contribution would only be slightly more statistically relevant overall than my vote in federal elections?
It is occasionally difficult to remember the difference between intelligence and education, especially when one of those non-computer-educated "geniuses" is reacting out of their guilt at not having backed up their mission critical data in a weak (but very loud) attempt to project onto the *tech* as the source of their frustration, because Gob FORBID the issue should be their own damn fault...
First, we calm the person - only then can we attempt to solve the problem.
I didn't elect them - I do participate in my civic duties, and am grieved sorely at that majority who both elected our current regime and are not (IMNSHO) sufficiently outraged at its shameless behaviors.
As regards the rest, my comment was more directed at what I perceived to be your optimism regarding any potential national ID card, that you seemed to believe it wouldn't suffer the same (or worse) abuses at the hands of those in power... I have no problem with the concept of a national ID card per se, just the abuses to which I can so horribly imagine it being put.
Given our current government's record of going after everything it can get information-access-wise, all in the name and pious pursuit of "security", can you think they'd do any less in the above instance?
"The study was rumored to be funded through several layers of dummies (because no financially prudent person would fund such a silly-seeming study): Originally, funds may have come from DARPA. When questioned, agency representatives refused to comment on the potential military uses of dragonflies as long-range recon scouting animals carrying larger transmitters with video, infrared or radar transmitting capabilities, yet seemed pleased overall with the results of the study."
Now, to confirm, all we need to see is some obscure article on enhancing the flight characteristics of dragonflies... laden, though not with coconuts...
We now return you to your tin-foil hats-making, already in progress...
assimilation! Given the wrist-band key-pads, blue-tooth headsets, I-pod ear-buds, then add these glasses to get one step closer to being Borg - granted, the concept has loads of different potentials once they get the resolution up and hands-free clearing/trans-lucing worked out, but until then, no, I won't own a pair - when they do, it'll give another dimension to the term "reading glasses"...
Any game with cool visuals can only be enhanced by hallucinatory chemicals.... What the hell, it's not like I was ever actually skilled at playing them anyway...
A fellow Robinson fan! Wireheading's dangers are really well known, and I hope they find a more certainly effective treatment for essential tremors sometime in the next two decades: that's my personal limit...
If people are gonna use, they're gonna use. Seems like removing the hangover is enabling on one hand, but relief for those who live with grumpy hangover drinkers on the other.
Personally, I'm waiting for phasers (replace paintball with stuns, much more fun) transporters (bank/vault walls? what?) and protoplasers (Sealing orifices shut "accidentally" - whoa.).
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Or, more properly, maskirovka? For your consideration: A student posts items in a blog his school finds objectionable: they *attempt* to bully him into submission, in a semi-clear, INCOMPETENT attempt at violation of his First Amendment Rights (note, ZERO law enforcement reporting/involvement). My prediction: The student will have a lawsuit filed on his behalf by the ACLU, they will win, and this event will be trumpeted across all of the news media for days.
ONE case of a citizen's rights being defended and upheld, here, kids, watch *this* hand with the shiny coin!
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Senior government officials are routinely breaking laws that, were a common citizen to be caught doing same, would land them in prison so deep they'd be piping in daylight on alternate Wednesdays...
Now if y'all will excuse me, I'm gonna go look into Canada's immigration policies...
One thing about the rats that manage to successfulyy desert the sinking ship: They survive longer than the ship does.
Spot on - the Wii, at or under $250, will be my first and only new console purchase since the N64.
It'd take me awhile to work out the math of a 3-body problem (I haven't used the calculus I learned in high school since class, 20-plus years ago), but I could do it. Granted, they got it to impact, "even with main sensor failing" - where the hell were the backup sensors, or the error-checking guidance control systems? Or, for that matter, the remote overrides?
I've seen the griping that goes on, as engineers blame under-educated management for pushing sloppy product out before it's good, management thinking that engineering PhD = wizard, and so on ad nauseum, but:
As long as they're investing *my* tax dollars, I'd like to be able to get a little less "bang" for the bucks... It's sad really, in that results like these actually might be used to justify reducing funding still further, under the assumption that such compounded errors and other-than-optimal results shouldn't be rewarded with throwing good money after bad on further such projects...
Not hampered by engineering degree, can tell difference between "toward" and "away from" - will work for same 6 figure salary previous position holder was receiving...
I disagree, on the following:
Case A: Murder/homicide/manslaughter/involuntary ending of corporeal existence for one victim - that victim is dead *permanently* (so far as we know, religious beliefs set aside momentarily for purposes of simplicity)
Case B: OMGWTF PWN3D BY SP4M! 100,000,000+ (your number) of lives get interrupted for one second (or less) deleting an irritatingly unwanted UCE, then get OVER it and CONTINUE with their lives!!!
I've seen lots of similar "reasoning" - I've also seen the mud sluiced off of animals of the porcine persuasion prior to a county fair. Remarkably similar, they are....
From buying a TIVO. Pathetic, that none seem to be able to resist the advertising $.
I failed to consider that possibility - such a sad world this can be...
Excuse me, one moment please: While I can understand that you (and many others) have a deep personal hatred for unsolicited commercial email, please consider correcting yourself - there is no way in kind or in degree that the irritation of Spam/UCE is equal to the tragedies of child pornography or rape.
May whatever Deity exists prevent you from learning the difference first-hand.
Buy XM because I hate what the RIAA-holes are trying to do to them? Or keep on using other avenues to get recordings of the music I enjoy, realizing that my subscription/contribution would only be slightly more statistically relevant overall than my vote in federal elections?
It is occasionally difficult to remember the difference between intelligence and education, especially when one of those non-computer-educated "geniuses" is reacting out of their guilt at not having backed up their mission critical data in a weak (but very loud) attempt to project onto the *tech* as the source of their frustration, because Gob FORBID the issue should be their own damn fault...
First, we calm the person - only then can we attempt to solve the problem.
Of course it is! How else could it get out of light's way?
I didn't elect them - I do participate in my civic duties, and am grieved sorely at that majority who both elected our current regime and are not (IMNSHO) sufficiently outraged at its shameless behaviors.
As regards the rest, my comment was more directed at what I perceived to be your optimism regarding any potential national ID card, that you seemed to believe it wouldn't suffer the same (or worse) abuses at the hands of those in power... I have no problem with the concept of a national ID card per se, just the abuses to which I can so horribly imagine it being put.
Given our current government's record of going after everything it can get information-access-wise, all in the name and pious pursuit of "security", can you think they'd do any less in the above instance?
At Safeco Field, where the Mariners are determined to demonstrate that their level of play can power the entire western half of the state.
(C'mon, please hurry us into *FOOTBALL* season!)
"The study was rumored to be funded through several layers of dummies (because no financially prudent person would fund such a silly-seeming study): Originally, funds may have come from DARPA. When questioned, agency representatives refused to comment on the potential military uses of dragonflies as long-range recon scouting animals carrying larger transmitters with video, infrared or radar transmitting capabilities, yet seemed pleased overall with the results of the study."
Now, to confirm, all we need to see is some obscure article on enhancing the flight characteristics of dragonflies... laden, though not with coconuts...
We now return you to your tin-foil hats-making, already in progress...
Principals with references (must be willing to sign binding NDAs) only, please.
assimilation! Given the wrist-band key-pads, blue-tooth headsets, I-pod ear-buds, then add these glasses to get one step closer to being Borg - granted, the concept has loads of different potentials once they get the resolution up and hands-free clearing/trans-lucing worked out, but until then, no, I won't own a pair - when they do, it'll give another dimension to the term "reading glasses"...
Yeah - second kick if they've ever run for office!
Really? How many *anvil* handles have you ever broken?
"Whee!" Been a l-o-n-g time since something was fun enough to revert that far into childhood - I'm looking forward to owning one.
Any game with cool visuals can only be enhanced by hallucinatory chemicals.... What the hell, it's not like I was ever actually skilled at playing them anyway...
A fellow Robinson fan! Wireheading's dangers are really well known, and I hope they find a more certainly effective treatment for essential tremors sometime in the next two decades: that's my personal limit...
So, insanity/stupidity wind up being more "real" than most actual academic papers? Remove the Dali and Leary algorithms, guys!
If people are gonna use, they're gonna use. Seems like removing the hangover is enabling on one hand, but relief for those who live with grumpy hangover drinkers on the other.
Personally, I'm waiting for phasers (replace paintball with stuns, much more fun) transporters (bank/vault walls? what?) and protoplasers (Sealing orifices shut "accidentally" - whoa.).
offline mmorpg: Society for Creative Anachronism.