WTF? Javascript can do POSTs to unrelated sites, and the browser includes authentication/cookies appropriate to that site? (Please excuse my ignorance, I'm no web developer) Really? WTF?
You should never use GET for actions. The last company I was at had a 'delete' link that was a GET action. And we had a spider that indexed our intranet...
Direct personal experiences you don't understand don't immediately imply that the experiences were created just for you by the creator of the universe.
Think rationally about what evidence you would need to be sure that the agent was "god" (the all-powerful all-knowing creator of the universe). To convince me, I'd need to be able to ask any question and get an answer that could be verified by science. If "god" couldn't explain it to me, then he's not all-knowing, or he's not all-powerful.
An interesting start to convincing me might be to have someone post a reply with the 30 digit number I'm thinking of...
Your disbelief of the possibility of thousands of new species evolving in 10 million years goes to the inability of humans to comprehend such long time spans more than the lack of science's ability to explain it.
New species can be created in the lab in a small number of generations. Certainly large scale changes in the environment due to outside factors (meteor impact, snowball earth) could induce such speciation over 10,000,000 years (500,000+ _human_ generations!).
Certainly the belief or disbelief of the religious is no guide to the truth. Even a christian should understand that, since the Jews and the Muslims are obviously wrong, right?
I've heard the phrases, "outside of time" and "god is eternal", but I've never heard any meaningful explanation of what that means. Or how something "outside of time" could affect something "inside of time". People who defend the idea of God, especially a "personal god" have retreated from the advances of science to explain their idea in such a way as to be "out of reach of science" but to do so have resorted to nonsensical ideas.
Ah, the micro vs. macroevolution bullshit. Speciation can be invoked in the lab in shortlived species. Ring species show the continuous changes that lead to speciation. Molecular biology shows the path that evolution took, from the earliest bacteria to the animals of today.
People are apes (some more than others). Get over it.
How the first replicators got started is an open question, and will probably forever be one, but I believe we'll be able to simulate the early conditions of the earth and create replicators from non-replicating chemicals in the lab in the next 50-100 years. That'll be pretty good evidence to show that life from the non-living is possible, even probable over the timescales we're talking about.
Not to mention that positing a Creator doesn't get you anywhere, since there's no explanation for how the Creator came into being. If you want to say that our universe is a simulation, and some incredibly advanced Creator made it, fine. But then that Creator, or the Creator of that Creator evolved from simple, non-living, compounds.
Religious faith typically means belief without empirical evidence. Belief without evidence seems to be to be belief without truth. Thereby, faith in god is equivalent to faith in invisible unicorns or any other fanciful thing.
That's funny, especially because of all the "what about 911" stuff that comes up here on slashdot when VOIP or cell-only households talk about ditching land lines.
Also, for me, I'd much rather my friends be able to get in touch with me than me being able to waste yet more time in front of the idiot box. Now, between TV, Phone and Internet, Internet would be the last to go, even without VOIP.
I worked at a cable company (our company was doing a trial of Internet over Cable-TV before cable modems), and people would have their phone turned off before their cable. As a side benefit, this made it difficult for the CSRs to reach them about paying their cable bills once they couldn't pay those either.
Yep, the "common patriot":
'Sure, we reviled "them" when they did it, but "they" aren't "us", so when we do it, it's great!'
I fucking hate those flag waving morons.
I love the US because of the Constitution and the feeling that _all_ men (meaning people) are created equal, and should be given equal opportunities, not because I was born here.
I hate what we we've become in the last 6.5 years.
I was going to moderate, but I had to reply to this...
Rights aren't inherent in anything. "Rights" are a fiction humans came up with to make it easier to live together. Nothing more. Ask a dog or a lion about their rights. They certainly exist, but what rights do they have? What rights would that lion grant you, if you were on the other side of the bars?
If RAM is a document, so is the contents of cache and CPU registers. Record those too while you're at it. Oh, you can't record those with the computer you've got? Well, just have intel develop new ones that will write everything out the JTAG (or some new) port.
Requiring torrentspy to develop software to record the data to permanent storage is different only in scale & scope. If RAM is a document, so is a phone call, and so companies should be required to record every call.
Well, I wasn't really being serious, and I'll bet the NSA has some really bright people working there, but from my days contracting to the Navy on F-14 software, I'd say that the best and the brightest in the country are not all working on 'secret' classified projects. "Top Secret" maybe, but not on 'secret' stuff.
Even NeXTStep (or maybe OpenStep) supported Objective-C++ (mixing Objective-C and C++), though as far as I know, there isn't a 'native C++' interface to Cocoa.
I agree about Carbon being around a long time. However, a large portion of the problems with OSX (I would say) is that it's not a 'clean design' anymore, it's a merge of two totally different systems, both developed over years, and now OSX is hauling a bunch of baggage from both.
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In a large crufty codebase, a good test harness may not be easily made. We had unit tests required for checkin at my last job. God I wish we had that where I am now...
As for printing state, depending on the system, printing may not be possible (embedded), or may throw off timing (or whatever) enough to make the problem go away...
A good debugger and skills in using it properly can be a huge advantage.
Well, Safari (according to otool) links against Carbon & Cocoa, so I'm not sure what they can pull out of either/both of those. I think it's really unfortunate that Apple decided to make Carbon part of the underpinning of Cocoa (at least as I understand it), rather than making Carbon a minimal transistion API to get Developers off Classic. But then I haven't done "Cocoa" development since OpenStep 4.x, and I've never done OS-X development, so I'm just talking out of my ass...:-)
It will have an MMU so it will not have what you or I think of as OS/X.
I think you left out a 'not' in there, but I'm pretty sure Xscale procs have MMUs, so you'd be wrong if you had. Either way, the statement doesn't make much sense.
Anyway, if you're not blowing all your CPU doing stupid graphics, 500MHz is more than capable for tons of cool apps. My primary OS-X machine is a 400MHz G3 powerbook, and while it has 1GB of ram and certain video codecs don't play at high resolutions, it doesn't have hardware support for that either...
Remember, OSX has a lot of cruft now, but it's decended from something that ran well at 25MHz on a 68040...
My Menu design of choice was NeXTStep with the menu offscreen, except for the title of it as a note of which app had focus. I'd always right click to get the menu, the menu would always be at hand without moving the mouse. Of course that doesn't really work these days with contextual menus...
with a conviction typically reserved for occasions where one is required to place one's right hand on the bible, that they were very strong believers in intellectual property protection. The silence in the room seemed to suggest that the issue was a black and white one, somewhat akin to being against flag burning,
That's funny. I tend to vote against people who think flag burning is a bad thing. Hell, I think the entire government should have a flag burning ceremony every year. First thing in the morning, they should all gather together and burn a flag, then people should be able to file past them and tell any/all of them what's on their mind or just curse at them. The first amendment wasn't put there for the things we want to hear, but too many people think it was.
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WTF? Javascript can do POSTs to unrelated sites, and the browser includes authentication/cookies appropriate to that site? (Please excuse my ignorance, I'm no web developer) Really? WTF?
That's just insane!
You should never use GET for actions. The last company I was at had a 'delete' link that was a GET action. And we had a spider that indexed our intranet...
And the spider deleted everything!
Direct personal experiences you don't understand don't immediately imply that the experiences were created just for you by the creator of the universe.
Think rationally about what evidence you would need to be sure that the agent was "god" (the all-powerful all-knowing creator of the universe). To convince me, I'd need to be able to ask any question and get an answer that could be verified by science. If "god" couldn't explain it to me, then he's not all-knowing, or he's not all-powerful.
An interesting start to convincing me might be to have someone post a reply with the 30 digit number I'm thinking of...
Your disbelief of the possibility of thousands of new species evolving in 10 million years goes to the inability of humans to comprehend such long time spans more than the lack of science's ability to explain it.
New species can be created in the lab in a small number of generations. Certainly large scale changes in the environment due to outside factors (meteor impact, snowball earth) could induce such speciation over 10,000,000 years (500,000+ _human_ generations!).
Certainly the belief or disbelief of the religious is no guide to the truth. Even a christian should understand that, since the Jews and the Muslims are obviously wrong, right?
I've heard the phrases, "outside of time" and "god is eternal", but I've never heard any meaningful explanation of what that means. Or how something "outside of time" could affect something "inside of time".
People who defend the idea of God, especially a "personal god" have retreated from the advances of science to explain their idea in such a way as to be "out of reach of science" but to do so have resorted to nonsensical ideas.
Ah, the micro vs. macroevolution bullshit.
Speciation can be invoked in the lab in shortlived species. Ring species show the continuous changes that lead to speciation.
Molecular biology shows the path that evolution took, from the earliest bacteria to the animals of today.
People are apes (some more than others). Get over it.
How the first replicators got started is an open question, and will probably forever be one, but I believe we'll be able to simulate the early conditions of the earth and create replicators from non-replicating chemicals in the lab in the next 50-100 years. That'll be pretty good evidence to show that life from the non-living is possible, even probable over the timescales we're talking about.
Not to mention that positing a Creator doesn't get you anywhere, since there's no explanation for how the Creator came into being. If you want to say that our universe is a simulation, and some incredibly advanced Creator made it, fine. But then that Creator, or the Creator of that Creator evolved from simple, non-living, compounds.
Religious faith typically means belief without empirical evidence.
Belief without evidence seems to be to be belief without truth.
Thereby, faith in god is equivalent to faith in invisible unicorns or any other fanciful thing.
Since Mar 26th 2007 I've gotten dns requests for SPF (type 99) records 35 times, and text records (possibly/probably? for SPF) 692 times.
So, someone is checking.
That's funny, especially because of all the "what about 911" stuff that comes up here on slashdot when VOIP or cell-only households talk about ditching land lines.
Also, for me, I'd much rather my friends be able to get in touch with me than me being able to waste yet more time in front of the idiot box. Now, between TV, Phone and Internet, Internet would be the last to go, even without VOIP.
I worked at a cable company (our company was doing a trial of Internet over Cable-TV before cable modems), and people would have their phone turned off before their cable. As a side benefit, this made it difficult for the CSRs to reach them about paying their cable bills once they couldn't pay those either.
Oh pleaze, our language isn't insane...
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It's just a _tool_ for making _people_ insane.
Interestingly, I just tried to make 4 marks, two 1cm apart and the other two 1 inch apart. I was about 15% too far apart on each.
Yep, the "common patriot":
'Sure, we reviled "them" when they did it, but "they" aren't "us", so when we do it, it's great!'
I fucking hate those flag waving morons.
I love the US because of the Constitution and the feeling that _all_ men (meaning people) are created equal, and should be given equal opportunities, not because I was born here.
I hate what we we've become in the last 6.5 years.
I was going to moderate, but I had to reply to this...
Rights aren't inherent in anything. "Rights" are a fiction humans came up with to make it easier to live together. Nothing more. Ask a dog or a lion about their rights. They certainly exist, but what rights do they have? What rights would that lion grant you, if you were on the other side of the bars?
If RAM is a document, so is the contents of cache and CPU registers. Record those too while you're at it. Oh, you can't record those with the computer you've got? Well, just have intel develop new ones that will write everything out the JTAG (or some new) port.
Requiring torrentspy to develop software to record the data to permanent storage is different only in scale & scope. If RAM is a document, so is a phone call, and so companies should be required to record every call.
Well, I wasn't really being serious, and I'll bet the NSA has some really bright people working there, but from my days contracting to the Navy on F-14 software, I'd say that the best and the brightest in the country are not all working on 'secret' classified projects. "Top Secret" maybe, but not on 'secret' stuff.
Even NeXTStep (or maybe OpenStep) supported Objective-C++ (mixing Objective-C and C++), though as far as I know, there isn't a 'native C++' interface to Cocoa.
I agree about Carbon being around a long time. However, a large portion of the problems with OSX (I would say) is that it's not a 'clean design' anymore, it's a merge of two totally different systems, both developed over years, and now OSX is hauling a bunch of baggage from both.
In a large crufty codebase, a good test harness may not be easily made. We had unit tests required for checkin at my last job. God I wish we had that where I am now...
As for printing state, depending on the system, printing may not be possible (embedded), or may throw off timing (or whatever) enough to make the problem go away...
A good debugger and skills in using it properly can be a huge advantage.
Yeah, from what I've seen of day-to-day Government competency, I'd imagine most of the NSA machines are part of botnets.
Yech, way too bloated. I still run WorldWideWeb.app on my NeXTStep box.
Well, Safari (according to otool) links against Carbon & Cocoa, so I'm not sure what they can pull out of either/both of those. I think it's really unfortunate that Apple decided to make Carbon part of the underpinning of Cocoa (at least as I understand it), rather than making Carbon a minimal transistion API to get Developers off Classic. But then I haven't done "Cocoa" development since OpenStep 4.x, and I've never done OS-X development, so I'm just talking out of my ass... :-)
It will have an MMU so it will not have what you or I think of as OS/X.
I think you left out a 'not' in there, but I'm pretty sure Xscale procs have MMUs, so you'd be wrong if you had. Either way, the statement doesn't make much sense.
Anyway, if you're not blowing all your CPU doing stupid graphics, 500MHz is more than capable for tons of cool apps. My primary OS-X machine is a 400MHz G3 powerbook, and while it has 1GB of ram and certain video codecs don't play at high resolutions, it doesn't have hardware support for that either...
Remember, OSX has a lot of cruft now, but it's decended from something that ran well at 25MHz on a 68040...
My Menu design of choice was NeXTStep with the menu offscreen, except for the title of it as a note of which app had focus. I'd always right click to get the menu, the menu would always be at hand without moving the mouse. Of course that doesn't really work these days with contextual menus...
Reminds me of the essay about C vs. Lisp and the Berkley UNIX hackers vs. the harvard OS implementors...
but I'm too lazy to find a link.
with a conviction typically reserved for occasions where one is required to place one's right hand on the bible, that they were very strong believers in intellectual property protection. The silence in the room seemed to suggest that the issue was a black and white one, somewhat akin to being against flag burning,
That's funny. I tend to vote against people who think flag burning is a bad thing. Hell, I think the entire government should have a flag burning ceremony every year. First thing in the morning, they should all gather together and burn a flag, then people should be able to file past them and tell any/all of them what's on their mind or just curse at them. The first amendment wasn't put there for the things we want to hear, but too many people think it was.