It has always occurred to me we might as well use our badges to log in since if someone has access to our security badge, they can get into the office anyways and use a USB or a boot CD to get to our hard drives anyways.
I suppose we would then only have to worry about our coworkers stealing our badges to do nefarious stuff as our own so perhaps we could combine it with thumb print scanner and maybe a pin number.
Still, I guess one could beat the password out of the poor worker, steal his badge, and then cut off his thumb... Or maybe kidnap his kid and blackmail him.
Seriously, unless you are working in a government agency, I don't see anymore security you are going to get out of a badge through and a thumb print.
Is that even though the US has a low population density, the population is moving towards Urban centers rather than into the country side.
So in truth, if you just look at Urban areas, those are increasing exponentially towards higher density, while many people are moving from the rural the urban areas.
Eventually the US will have more citizens living in Urban areas in a decade or so and there will beno excuse for lack of broad band.
The Democrats pander to big business just as often (if not more often) than the Republicans do.
Something will change and that is simply that President Bush will not be able to pass what he wants and neither will congress will get bills past the veto.
This simply means that less legislation will be passed which in turn means less pork and effectiveness of corporate lobbying.
Sure they can still lobby but since congress can't get their bills passed, it will be a moot point.
As they say... The Government that Governs least, governs best!
Still... Isn't it sad, that the only way to have our government work for the people is to have it not work at all?
Yeah. I had a similar experience. I went to school for Computer Science, but it really didn't teach me anything that made me a better at what I do (99% of my skills have been learned on the job).
However, if I had unlimited time and money (see winning the lottery) I would go back to school for things that interest me more than working in just IT.
Perhaps a PHD in Artificial Intelligence, robotics, or Quantum physics which I doubt I'd be ever to land a job in. Seeing I don't have the free time or money... It is a moot point.
...with Linux on consoles? Is it just for the fun of getting it to run?
People have gotten Linux installed on a DS and VNC client as well. There are even some utility apps like email and web browsers (not the official opera kind) floating around.
However, because of the DS's limited ram many things are just limited in what you can do.
Then don't! Sigh... why is everyone so stuck on the 2-party system?
When I voted this morning, out of the 15 or so odd candidates, there was only one non-two party candidate and they were a Green. The funny thing was that they had blanks for Libertarian, Greens, and Socialists because it was a generic sheet over the machine.
I suppose I could have written in myself as a libertarian, but that wouldn't really do much to change the course of history.
Depends. On personal accounts I don't, but on generic emails like info@ and sales@ I get flooded. Keep in mind I've never used these emails to send people emails or register for forums or lists. The simply exist for automation for other things. Spam messages that don't match those automations don't come through.
I should more than likely change them to something like sales-something123@ but the need isn't really there.
Copyright infringement is to theft as assault is to murder.
No one argues that assault is murder. Even though both are a crime, I'd rather be punched in the face than shot in the face.
One I can of course sue the other in a civil court and the other... Well... The other all I can hope for is a criminal case because I won't be around to care or enjoy my court settlement.
Unfortunately your personal experience does not add meaningful data to the debate
Anecdotal evidence is still evidence.
Although local, he might want to point out what many of us have been seeing around the elsewhere. I'd have to say that North Carolina faces the same problem when it comes to snow.
Sure the states are next to each other, but we can use my anecdotal evidence and realize that it is more than just Tennessee.
However, we can't use this do determine the whether in Japan without asking someone there.
Assuming the country also allow freedom to express and identity thief, what is such a bad thing of removing annomity?
During the American Revolutionary War, most of the founding fathers published works with pseudo names. Had they published under their own name and the red coats picked them at their homes and whisked them away to some prison... Perhaps we wouldn't be having this conversation.
As another poster has said, the brain drops 90% of all input from the eyes. Secondly, our eye cannot process even 1% of the light rays/photons that go into it so our brain does approximations.
This is the reason why optical illusions work on us and we can see objects in clouds and various other issues to why humans hallucinate.
However, if we were to make a "cyborg baseball player" we could use other sensory input directly into the brain. Besides the optical, we could use a camera to calculate the speed, location, acceleration/acceleration's, and velocity of the baseball and give the cyborg more sensory input like touch and sound to help him know when the ball will be in range (think of it like a Doppler sound coming in with pressure building up).
Of course if you are getting that complex you might as well have the computer do all the calculation and move his muscles for the cyborg so he doesn't even had to think about moving his muscles but rather give his body a command to hit the ball when it approaches.
If the author sells what he was smoking while coming up with the article, he stands to make tons of money.
But you aren't familiar with the setting of the story. There will come a time when writing code is too complex for a single person anymore unless of course the compilers are so advanced we basically let Strong AI write it for us. There will come a day when the average office application will have trillions of lines of code in them and the operating system quite a large jump beyond that.
Having to write from scratch will be infeasible for even a hundred developers working in cohesion. Think of it how most computer games these days are made by hundreds of people rather than the single coder back in the 80s.
So unless we find that we want our software to be less complex, this trend will continue until it is no longer feasible for anyone (at least a human) to write a project from scratch.
However, this doesn't take into account for better programming languages and programs that write themselves.
Of course at that point we may no longer need human coders.
Well, as long as you don't believe that thinking is the act of an individual, you should probably be in favor of the change.
That's not too hard to grasp considering our thoughts are simply the by products of 10,000 years of civilization.
You didn't come up with your language on your own did you? Did you come up with math either? How about problem solving?
Did you think your personality and thought process came about over night or perhaps it was the evolution of our language, past thinks, philosophers, and various religious personalities.
The truth of the matter is that most modern ideas and information is pretty much the result of efforts of people long dead.
Most of what we come with today is not really that novel, but rather rehashing of what is old.
Unless you really want to make your own language and thought process, chances are you ideas aren't really novel but rather a recombination of prior ones in an ingenious way.
Personally, I'm against paying people for simply coming up with ideas... It is better to pay them for application of ideas.
Application and creation are quite two different things.
Designing an Atomic weapons isn't that hard. Just get a bullet with appropriate fission material and shoot it at a core of enriched Uranium or for you hydrogen bomb... Get some plutonium and put it in a sphere and detonate with appropriate explosives to get it to implode.
The hard part is getting the enriched Uranium or Plutonium.
If you are able to design systems to refine either material, then its a cakewalk making the bomb.
Right now Linux doesn't have proper drivers, flash player was just added, and there're more things missing. Tell me, why? What's the problem in playing game that comes precomplied on CD? Don't you think it's much easier for Joe Average to just click 'Install' and play it?
I'll tell you why, and it has nothing to do with GNU or even the Linux distro developers themselves.
It is the fact that many vendors refuse to even make compiles of binaries or give specs to people who would be willing to do so for free and out of the kindness of their hearts.
And when they do compile binary blobs they are often broke for certain people under certain hardware configurations which if they were able to compile it themselves they might be able to resolve the issue.
When you use GNU products it doesn't force you to only use GNU products... Flash and proprietaries drivers can be used without breaking any laws or EULA's. It just so happens that those who are creating said software aren't forthcoming with the support needed to make it compatible.
Whereas these same developers sign NDA's with Microsoft to get access to API's hidden in Windows, but yet they can't seem to provide the same level of support for programs that they already have access to all inner working too.
Lastly, the point of Linux is not about being the top dog of the world when it comes to desktop usage, but to give those who want the option for freedom in their operating system to be able to do so.
Linux is for the Geeks and those who want to compile and change their operating system into configuration in which even the distro devs would cringe.
Take away the GNU and Linux becomes something else other than what it was intended to be made for.
And before anyone marks me as Troll or Flamebait, I am a Republican but people like Allen, or in my case Santorum, in no way represent me.
I've told my friends, Santorum is the kind of guy I would vote for if he wasn't an insane asshole.
He is pretty much the only reason I am voting . I just happened to be listening to the radio in the car and they him an interview about family values and pretty much the man's own words made me so ill (seeing his diatribe about morality and history of Judeo-Christian and world values was historically incorrect) that I vowed to vote against this guy. He goes on about how our culture in Western Civilization has always been like this in its morals rather than to take into account of all the changes (much less other civilizations) on certain issues.
Hell... I don't know who the guy he is running against is.
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It has always occurred to me we might as well use our badges to log in since if someone has access to our security badge, they can get into the office anyways and use a USB or a boot CD to get to our hard drives anyways.
I suppose we would then only have to worry about our coworkers stealing our badges to do nefarious stuff as our own so perhaps we could combine it with thumb print scanner and maybe a pin number.
Still, I guess one could beat the password out of the poor worker, steal his badge, and then cut off his thumb... Or maybe kidnap his kid and blackmail him.
Seriously, unless you are working in a government agency, I don't see anymore security you are going to get out of a badge through and a thumb print.
This just reconfirms my belief that Google should have waited a few months/years to buy YouTube.
You don't even have to RTF but to RTS to know that the person is suing Google Video not Youtube.
Is that even though the US has a low population density, the population is moving towards Urban centers rather than into the country side.
So in truth, if you just look at Urban areas, those are increasing exponentially towards higher density, while many people are moving from the rural the urban areas.
Eventually the US will have more citizens living in Urban areas in a decade or so and there will beno excuse for lack of broad band.
The Democrats pander to big business just as often (if not more often) than the Republicans do.
Something will change and that is simply that President Bush will not be able to pass what he wants and neither will congress will get bills past the veto.
This simply means that less legislation will be passed which in turn means less pork and effectiveness of corporate lobbying.
Sure they can still lobby but since congress can't get their bills passed, it will be a moot point.
As they say... The Government that Governs least, governs best!
Still... Isn't it sad, that the only way to have our government work for the people is to have it not work at all?
Each run being limited to a length of 100 meters?
;)
In that case...
What is wrong with using fiber?
Yeah. I had a similar experience. I went to school for Computer Science, but it really didn't teach me anything that made me a better at what I do (99% of my skills have been learned on the job).
However, if I had unlimited time and money (see winning the lottery) I would go back to school for things that interest me more than working in just IT.
Perhaps a PHD in Artificial Intelligence, robotics, or Quantum physics which I doubt I'd be ever to land a job in. Seeing I don't have the free time or money... It is a moot point.
We have several programmers here who were Philosophy majors... Even a VP I think.
...with Linux on consoles? Is it just for the fun of getting it to run?
People have gotten Linux installed on a DS and VNC client as well. There are even some utility apps like email and web browsers (not the official opera kind) floating around.
However, because of the DS's limited ram many things are just limited in what you can do.
here is a screen shot of the DS VNC in action.
Perhaps the vision impaired could get audio captchas?
Click this button, listen to the sound, and then choose the selection what the sound was.
Like birds chirping, babies crying, piano playing and maybe other familiar sound effects that you would choose from a multiple choice list.
Of course if the user is deaf and blind, I'm not sure how they are using a computer to begin with.
Hrm... My personal goals seem to be a bit easier.
1. Find a girl with Canadian Citizenship
2. Marry her
3. Moved to Canada
Am I forgetting something?
Then don't! Sigh... why is everyone so stuck on the 2-party system?
When I voted this morning, out of the 15 or so odd candidates, there was only one non-two party candidate and they were a Green. The funny thing was that they had blanks for Libertarian, Greens, and Socialists because it was a generic sheet over the machine.
I suppose I could have written in myself as a libertarian, but that wouldn't really do much to change the course of history.
The only way you are going to get a 3rd party is move to the http://www.freestateproject.org/ or we get a Proportional Representation system
...is getting only 75% spam.
Depends. On personal accounts I don't, but on generic emails like info@ and sales@ I get flooded. Keep in mind I've never used these emails to send people emails or register for forums or lists. The simply exist for automation for other things. Spam messages that don't match those automations don't come through.
I should more than likely change them to something like sales-something123@ but the need isn't really there.
I suspect unless I boot into WinXP I won't have this on OS X native either?
Ungh...
If you want to use analogies with crimes.
Copyright infringement is to theft as assault is to murder.
No one argues that assault is murder. Even though both are a crime, I'd rather be punched in the face than shot in the face.
One I can of course sue the other in a civil court and the other... Well... The other all I can hope for is a criminal case because I won't be around to care or enjoy my court settlement.
Unfortunately your personal experience does not add meaningful data to the debate
Anecdotal evidence is still evidence.
Although local, he might want to point out what many of us have been seeing around the elsewhere. I'd have to say that North Carolina faces the same problem when it comes to snow.
Sure the states are next to each other, but we can use my anecdotal evidence and realize that it is more than just Tennessee.
However, we can't use this do determine the whether in Japan without asking someone there.
Assuming the country also allow freedom to express and identity thief, what is such a bad thing of removing annomity?
During the American Revolutionary War, most of the founding fathers published works with pseudo names. Had they published under their own name and the red coats picked them at their homes and whisked them away to some prison... Perhaps we wouldn't be having this conversation.
but if you want to spend millions upon millions of dollars looking up at the sky, then do it with your own damn money.
If it were up to me, I'd spend the money on Strong AI first and then let it search for the aliens once the technological singularity comes about.
As another poster has said, the brain drops 90% of all input from the eyes. Secondly, our eye cannot process even 1% of the light rays/photons that go into it so our brain does approximations.
This is the reason why optical illusions work on us and we can see objects in clouds and various other issues to why humans hallucinate.
However, if we were to make a "cyborg baseball player" we could use other sensory input directly into the brain. Besides the optical, we could use a camera to calculate the speed, location, acceleration/acceleration's, and velocity of the baseball and give the cyborg more sensory input like touch and sound to help him know when the ball will be in range (think of it like a Doppler sound coming in with pressure building up).
Of course if you are getting that complex you might as well have the computer do all the calculation and move his muscles for the cyborg so he doesn't even had to think about moving his muscles but rather give his body a command to hit the ball when it approaches.
If the author sells what he was smoking while coming up with the article, he stands to make tons of money.
But you aren't familiar with the setting of the story. There will come a time when writing code is too complex for a single person anymore unless of course the compilers are so advanced we basically let Strong AI write it for us. There will come a day when the average office application will have trillions of lines of code in them and the operating system quite a large jump beyond that.
Having to write from scratch will be infeasible for even a hundred developers working in cohesion. Think of it how most computer games these days are made by hundreds of people rather than the single coder back in the 80s.
So unless we find that we want our software to be less complex, this trend will continue until it is no longer feasible for anyone (at least a human) to write a project from scratch.
However, this doesn't take into account for better programming languages and programs that write themselves.
Of course at that point we may no longer need human coders.
Well, as long as you don't believe that thinking is the act of an individual, you should probably be in favor of the change.
That's not too hard to grasp considering our thoughts are simply the by products of 10,000 years of civilization.
You didn't come up with your language on your own did you? Did you come up with math either? How about problem solving?
Did you think your personality and thought process came about over night or perhaps it was the evolution of our language, past thinks, philosophers, and various religious personalities.
The truth of the matter is that most modern ideas and information is pretty much the result of efforts of people long dead.
Most of what we come with today is not really that novel, but rather rehashing of what is old.
Unless you really want to make your own language and thought process, chances are you ideas aren't really novel but rather a recombination of prior ones in an ingenious way.
Personally, I'm against paying people for simply coming up with ideas... It is better to pay them for application of ideas.
Application and creation are quite two different things.
Designing an Atomic weapons isn't that hard. Just get a bullet with appropriate fission material and shoot it at a core of enriched Uranium or for you hydrogen bomb... Get some plutonium and put it in a sphere and detonate with appropriate explosives to get it to implode.
The hard part is getting the enriched Uranium or Plutonium.
If you are able to design systems to refine either material, then its a cakewalk making the bomb.
Right now Linux doesn't have proper drivers, flash player was just added, and there're more things missing. Tell me, why? What's the problem in playing game that comes precomplied on CD? Don't you think it's much easier for Joe Average to just click 'Install' and play it?
I'll tell you why, and it has nothing to do with GNU or even the Linux distro developers themselves.
It is the fact that many vendors refuse to even make compiles of binaries or give specs to people who would be willing to do so for free and out of the kindness of their hearts.
And when they do compile binary blobs they are often broke for certain people under certain hardware configurations which if they were able to compile it themselves they might be able to resolve the issue.
When you use GNU products it doesn't force you to only use GNU products... Flash and proprietaries drivers can be used without breaking any laws or EULA's. It just so happens that those who are creating said software aren't forthcoming with the support needed to make it compatible.
Whereas these same developers sign NDA's with Microsoft to get access to API's hidden in Windows, but yet they can't seem to provide the same level of support for programs that they already have access to all inner working too.
Lastly, the point of Linux is not about being the top dog of the world when it comes to desktop usage, but to give those who want the option for freedom in their operating system to be able to do so.
Linux is for the Geeks and those who want to compile and change their operating system into configuration in which even the distro devs would cringe.
Take away the GNU and Linux becomes something else other than what it was intended to be made for.
Had you been paying attention to slashdot for a while, you'll notice a copy and paste of a particular sob story about their CD store.
I'd pull up the reference from the meme section on Wikipedia but someone has been busy merging articles and deleting information. *coughs*
And before anyone marks me as Troll or Flamebait, I am a Republican but people like Allen, or in my case Santorum, in no way represent me.
I've told my friends, Santorum is the kind of guy I would vote for if he wasn't an insane asshole.
He is pretty much the only reason I am voting . I just happened to be listening to the radio in the car and they him an interview about family values and pretty much the man's own words made me so ill (seeing his diatribe about morality and history of Judeo-Christian and world values was historically incorrect) that I vowed to vote against this guy. He goes on about how our culture in Western Civilization has always been like this in its morals rather than to take into account of all the changes (much less other civilizations) on certain issues.
Hell... I don't know who the guy he is running against is.
Christianity and Islam never sued anyone for copyright infringement.