Not a bad point really. What can they do to you if the keyfile has been truly lost? I mean besides kick your ass six ways from sunday just to see if you've got another copy.
All the more reason for everyday folks to use encryption. It is within your rights (at least in US, don't know otherwise) to encrypt your correspondence and data to whatever level you want. If a large enough section of the population uses encryption on a regular basis, the "only criminals encrypt" mentality will go away. Law enforcement, needs to have probably cause to hold someone and encrypted email is not probably cause (IMO). Meanwhile, the anti-terrorism guys need to learn that there are better solutions to terrorism than busting the pawns on the street. Same with drug enforcement.
Or perhaps the modern day battleground of evolution against the challenging new scientific theory of intelligent design, which suggests that certain biological features such as the flagellum are irreducibly complex and therefore could not possibly have been developed by increments as evolutionists would have it.
There is no modern day battleground of evolution against anything.
There is no theory of intelligent design. I suppose you could argue that there is a hypothesis of intelligent design.
The fundamental problem here is that "evolutionists" do NOT claim that evolution is a series of incremental changes. "Evolutionists" claim that evolution is a combination of a series of incremental changes alongside a series of radical mutations. These radical mutations generally result in the premature death of the creature, but can also give rise to the "irreducibly complex" of which you speak. Take for example the idea of bacteria which are resistant to certain anti-bacterial compound. The "incremental" development of resistance is ridiculous. Being slightly less dead from exposure to anti-bacterial compounds is not an inheritable trait so you cannot pass it on to your offspring. You can, however, encounter a mutation that gives resistance and then pass that mutation to offspring. Try reading up on evolution and natural selection a bit.
It's a bit like hazing, and while people on both sides of the issue become almost fanatical in defense of their sacred cow the end result is good science.
Sacred cows are Hindu. You are probably a christian. You might want to pick a different metaphor. There are no "sides" or "issues." There is fact and belief. If your beliefs are contrary to fact, then you are not on some "side," you are delusional.
But the overhead of trying to generate acceptance of a scientific breakthrough is almost as difficult as making the breakthrough to start with!
There is no need to generate acceptance of a scientific breakthrough. Science is science. The results of an experiment are fact. Whether people accept the results or not is immaterial. If you cool water to a temperature below 32 degrees fahrenheit at one atmosphere, the water will become a solid. If you choose not to "accept" that fact, you are free to, but that does not change the fact that the water is now a solid.
most I imagine you could get would be the amount of the "chargeback" plus a nominal cost for the accounting dept to track it. Lets see... $8,000-29.99 for the chargeback hmm... that only leaves me about 4 minutes to process the thing. What's the problem here?
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when i used to be into pen & paper roleplaying i was always much interested in the design of the different rule systems and how they affected gameplay, ease of play vs realism vs support for interesting stories.
this always had more appeal to me than the really wacked out geeks who would hang around the halls of highschool talking about who got the crit. hit with what vorpal weapon. For me there was definitely an appeal to coming up with different ways to model a universe and make it playable. I was turned off by the guys who would actually (I shit you not) wear their DM's wizard robe to freakin' school. These are the same kind of guys who you'd probably find arguing, seriously, about esoteric bits of Enterprise power conduits at the Trek-Con. Most of these guys couldn't code themselves out of a paper bag.
In my experience, the overlap between coders and RPGamers was superficial at best with the most extreme members of each set in diametric opposition.
Frankly, the most fun I ever had with rpg's was later in life when it was an excuse to sit around, smoke a fatty, and stay up all night without the wives/SO's hanging around...
Current white LED fixtures put out color tempuratures around 5000K or more, which while close to "daylight" can be a fairly harsh blue-white light especially when compared to the common incandescent bulb putting out more like 3000K give or take. In the house, this can be pretty harsh light (think of that flourescent tube in the kitchen at 2:00 AM). Some fixtures attempt to make a warm glow by mixing in some red and yellow LED's in the matrix but frankly I think this looks stupid and doesn't really work. Also, white LED's are relatively expensive compared to colored LED's. I think the point here is that this quantum dot mixture could be used to generate a soft-white color, using current colored LED technology, less expensively than white LED's.
One seed brings many thousands of seeds. You keep some of them and eat the rest. You don't know much about agriculture, do you? You take energy from the sun, and nutrients from waste, and put that energy into multiplying your crop yield. Simple, really.
unfortunately, with the likes of Monsanto, that is becoming impossible.
But why do you need to sell it, if you have enough to eat for yourself? It can also be bartered locally for other goods. Distribution doesn't have to be complex - it can involve simply taking a wagon down to the local farmer's market.
Exactly, and the idea that you have to have centralized distribution is destroying these areas. A lot of the land is not suited for mass agriculture and as a result it is either too expensive or fails outright. So many people would be better off raising a few crops behind the house, trading the excess and generally being happy... Remember that our "totalitarian agriculture" - B is the most labor intesive devised.
Huh? What does this have to do with my post? Also, it would probably be difficult for me to live as a pheasant. How would I change my species from being human?
Why, don't you know that when you reach enlightenment you transform into a pheasant? That way I can shoot you and eat you and achieve my own enlightenment. sheesh.
We're coming out with new development tools that help people write applications that make sense in that kind of scientific computing environment. We see a great opportunity to thrive with innovation versus open source, verus Linux.
Granted I know jack-poop about clustering and the scientific environment, but the implication is that there are no devel tools or apps that "make sense". Everything that is currently used is all CRAZY-like. And substitute MS for innovation (HAH!) and you have MS vs. open-source vs. Linux. WTF? Linux is OS and MS is NOT innovation, IMHO.
This kind of twisted double-speak is all over our press now: govt and corp alike and it makes me crazy. I hope noone else buys this kind of crap.
This is why we should send people to mars. If the "machine" doesn't work, it's because it's either on strike or dead. You don't have sit around and scratch your head figuring out how to reboot the thing from millions of miles away. And if it's on strike, well, send in the knuckle-busters.
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I, for one, love it. But I've only had one cup of coffee and haven't actually turned my brain on. Others will find the problems with this approach. Ideally, all you need to distribute is a header with the filename, whatever id3 tags are appropriate, and a key to how big the final file should be. Then the file could be generated locally and the header thrown out (after, of course, being distributed to everyone you know). Then sit back, crack a cool one, and wait for the nibbles.
in my whole life I've only had a handful of real dates that included a movie. Nothing like finding someone you like, spending a little time chatting, agreeing to go on a date, and then sitting next to them completely ignoring them for 2 hours while wondering if the boob-shot is making her uncomfortable. All my best dates have specifically excluded movies. Now, my wife and I hit the second run movie theatre ($3 a ticket, and locally owned to boot) for the ones that scream out for BIG SCREEN and that's it.
Plus, there's nothing really innovative going on in movies anymore. I can't remember the last time I was surprised by the ending. I think movies were a novelty for so long (30's-50's at least) as a way out of the house and into air conditioning (hence the summer blockbusters). TV's weren't ramapant. Then in the 70's you saw some really innovative stuff with good sci-fi movies, great thrillers, the development of the slasher flick, 80's and 90's saw the rise of CG and now what are we left with? Until we get full surround holo-deck type experience, I think big screen movies are dead. There's nothing left to provide that novelty factor anymore.
The thing I don't get and IANARS (rocket scientist...) is why the whole structure of ISS and other space station concepts is typically so specialized. Long booms that only fill a few purposes. Very few (at least from views I've seen) duplication of parts. No clear ability to expand. Sort of like we're building knowing we're gonna throw it away. Why not make some plan for the future, continued use of it. It'd be cool if 100 years from now, tourists could view the original ISS parts still buried in the heart of some sprawling space city.
I know this is slightly OT, but years and years ago there was a sci-fi book that has always stuck with me. The book was about a guy who was essentially the first EMT in space. But, the really interesting part was the simple space-station technology. basically, they stuck a really simple box-car sized tube on the top of a booster and shot it up there. The astronauts came back in some kind of capsule (lifting body?, reusable?) but left the big tube (sort of like a tank) up there. These tanks had basic standard life support systems and standard airlocks on each end and on two sides. Each launch put a new one up there, they'd strap 'em together and eventually they had a space station. Need more solar power? send one up with a bunch of panels inside it. Deploy them over the surface of existing modules already in orbit. Need more computers? life-support? water treatment? whatever, just send another one up with the gear crammed in and depoy it as needed throughout the standardized compartments. neat concept. love to see it. prolly never happen. ho hum.
not to mention the part about taking a personal interest in those who didn't want to receive the newsletter. further, the non-opt-in addresses (i.e. those who didn't explicitly click the "Send a newsletter" button) were people who had contacted me directly for business purposes or were people I knew. So they didn't explicitly opt-in. If they wanted out, I took them out.
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with spamming the spammers and other tactics (which, see sibling, I've learned is not what this article is about) especially because we're not actually shooting anybody. I find the parallels interesting. I guess in this case, we're riding over to the ranch and complaining to the foreman about the behavior of his cow-hands and hoping he gives a lick. meanwhile, cookie left the grinds in my coffee and burned my biscuits!! Tarnation!
I know my user number is pretty high, but even I know not to RTFA...
I agree, and its beats the spam-the-spammer by a lot.
i used to send a newsletter to roughly 500 addresses, some of which were opt-in and some of which were scavenged by other methods. As the merchant, I always took the "take me off the list" emails very seriously and made a reply to each with from personal email account. I wager that other merchants will take this serioiusly as well. it takes a lot for someone to get off their ass and actually complain....
There's not much law enforcement around so when things get really bad, the "good townsfolk" rally together and solve the problem.
Bad points: many times the wrong guys end up on the end of a short rope, no real legitimacy due to lack of law-enforcement sanctioning, retaliatory escalation of hostilities.
Of course, if the general public can solve the problem without government involvement, that's probably a good thing. If not, then the government involvement will probably have a negative effect on all of us.
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yup yup yup yup yupyupyup. Awh-haw Awh-haw Awh-haw.
Not a bad point really. What can they do to you if the keyfile has been truly lost? I mean besides kick your ass six ways from sunday just to see if you've got another copy.
I only travel by climbing fences and digging tunnels.
s/probably/probable
though "probably cause" is just as applicable...
All the more reason for everyday folks to use encryption. It is within your rights (at least in US, don't know otherwise) to encrypt your correspondence and data to whatever level you want. If a large enough section of the population uses encryption on a regular basis, the "only criminals encrypt" mentality will go away. Law enforcement, needs to have probably cause to hold someone and encrypted email is not probably cause (IMO). Meanwhile, the anti-terrorism guys need to learn that there are better solutions to terrorism than busting the pawns on the street. Same with drug enforcement.
meh.
Or perhaps the modern day battleground of evolution against the challenging new scientific theory of intelligent design, which suggests that certain biological features such as the flagellum are irreducibly complex and therefore could not possibly have been developed by increments as evolutionists would have it.
There is no modern day battleground of evolution against anything.
There is no theory of intelligent design. I suppose you could argue that there is a hypothesis of intelligent design.
The fundamental problem here is that "evolutionists" do NOT claim that evolution is a series of incremental changes. "Evolutionists" claim that evolution is a combination of a series of incremental changes alongside a series of radical mutations. These radical mutations generally result in the premature death of the creature, but can also give rise to the "irreducibly complex" of which you speak. Take for example the idea of bacteria which are resistant to certain anti-bacterial compound. The "incremental" development of resistance is ridiculous. Being slightly less dead from exposure to anti-bacterial compounds is not an inheritable trait so you cannot pass it on to your offspring. You can, however, encounter a mutation that gives resistance and then pass that mutation to offspring. Try reading up on evolution and natural selection a bit.
It's a bit like hazing, and while people on both sides of the issue become almost fanatical in defense of their sacred cow the end result is good science.
Sacred cows are Hindu. You are probably a christian. You might want to pick a different metaphor. There are no "sides" or "issues." There is fact and belief. If your beliefs are contrary to fact, then you are not on some "side," you are delusional.
But the overhead of trying to generate acceptance of a scientific breakthrough is almost as difficult as making the breakthrough to start with!
There is no need to generate acceptance of a scientific breakthrough. Science is science. The results of an experiment are fact. Whether people accept the results or not is immaterial. If you cool water to a temperature below 32 degrees fahrenheit at one atmosphere, the water will become a solid. If you choose not to "accept" that fact, you are free to, but that does not change the fact that the water is now a solid.
Try Knoppmyth, you might be surprised. I've got my dual tuner box running like a champ and I'll never regret it.
most I imagine you could get would be the amount of the "chargeback" plus a nominal cost for the accounting dept to track it. Lets see... $8,000-29.99 for the chargeback hmm... that only leaves me about 4 minutes to process the thing. What's the problem here?
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And since it doesn't lose suction, the dyson will continue pulling in the random detritus of our galaxy until its all cleaned up. Isn't that nice?
when i used to be into pen & paper roleplaying i was always much interested in the design of the different rule systems and how they affected gameplay, ease of play vs realism vs support for interesting stories.
this always had more appeal to me than the really wacked out geeks who would hang around the halls of highschool talking about who got the crit. hit with what vorpal weapon. For me there was definitely an appeal to coming up with different ways to model a universe and make it playable. I was turned off by the guys who would actually (I shit you not) wear their DM's wizard robe to freakin' school. These are the same kind of guys who you'd probably find arguing, seriously, about esoteric bits of Enterprise power conduits at the Trek-Con. Most of these guys couldn't code themselves out of a paper bag.
In my experience, the overlap between coders and RPGamers was superficial at best with the most extreme members of each set in diametric opposition.
Frankly, the most fun I ever had with rpg's was later in life when it was an excuse to sit around, smoke a fatty, and stay up all night without the wives/SO's hanging around...
Current white LED fixtures put out color tempuratures around 5000K or more, which while close to "daylight" can be a fairly harsh blue-white light especially when compared to the common incandescent bulb putting out more like 3000K give or take. In the house, this can be pretty harsh light (think of that flourescent tube in the kitchen at 2:00 AM). Some fixtures attempt to make a warm glow by mixing in some red and yellow LED's in the matrix but frankly I think this looks stupid and doesn't really work. Also, white LED's are relatively expensive compared to colored LED's. I think the point here is that this quantum dot mixture could be used to generate a soft-white color, using current colored LED technology, less expensively than white LED's.
One seed brings many thousands of seeds. You keep some of them and eat the rest. You don't know much about agriculture, do you? You take energy from the sun, and nutrients from waste, and put that energy into multiplying your crop yield. Simple, really.
unfortunately, with the likes of Monsanto, that is becoming impossible.
But why do you need to sell it, if you have enough to eat for yourself? It can also be bartered locally for other goods. Distribution doesn't have to be complex - it can involve simply taking a wagon down to the local farmer's market.
Exactly, and the idea that you have to have centralized distribution is destroying these areas. A lot of the land is not suited for mass agriculture and as a result it is either too expensive or fails outright. So many people would be better off raising a few crops behind the house, trading the excess and generally being happy... Remember that our "totalitarian agriculture" - B is the most labor intesive devised.
Huh? What does this have to do with my post? Also, it would probably be difficult for me to live as a pheasant. How would I change my species from being human?
Why, don't you know that when you reach enlightenment you transform into a pheasant? That way I can shoot you and eat you and achieve my own enlightenment. sheesh.
Right up the same alley as this line of crap:
We're coming out with new development tools that help people write applications that make sense in that kind of scientific computing environment. We see a great opportunity to thrive with innovation versus open source, verus Linux.
Granted I know jack-poop about clustering and the scientific environment, but the implication is that there are no devel tools or apps that "make sense". Everything that is currently used is all CRAZY -like. And substitute MS for innovation (HAH!) and you have MS vs. open-source vs. Linux. WTF? Linux is OS and MS is NOT innovation, IMHO.
This kind of twisted double-speak is all over our press now: govt and corp alike and it makes me crazy. I hope noone else buys this kind of crap.
If Scotty (may he rest in peace) couldn't park the Enterprise in the 24th century, how can we expect to do it in our time?
Okay, maybe it was Chekov who couldn't park it, but then that explains the current problem too...
They might want to think about stopping their cars from spontaneously bursting into flames while they're at it....
This is why we should send people to mars. If the "machine" doesn't work, it's because it's either on strike or dead. You don't have sit around and scratch your head figuring out how to reboot the thing from millions of miles away. And if it's on strike, well, send in the knuckle-busters.
I, for one, love it. But I've only had one cup of coffee and haven't actually turned my brain on. Others will find the problems with this approach. Ideally, all you need to distribute is a header with the filename, whatever id3 tags are appropriate, and a key to how big the final file should be. Then the file could be generated locally and the header thrown out (after, of course, being distributed to everyone you know). Then sit back, crack a cool one, and wait for the nibbles.
there are fewer dates being brought to them
in my whole life I've only had a handful of real dates that included a movie. Nothing like finding someone you like, spending a little time chatting, agreeing to go on a date, and then sitting next to them completely ignoring them for 2 hours while wondering if the boob-shot is making her uncomfortable. All my best dates have specifically excluded movies. Now, my wife and I hit the second run movie theatre ($3 a ticket, and locally owned to boot) for the ones that scream out for BIG SCREEN and that's it.
Plus, there's nothing really innovative going on in movies anymore. I can't remember the last time I was surprised by the ending. I think movies were a novelty for so long (30's-50's at least) as a way out of the house and into air conditioning (hence the summer blockbusters). TV's weren't ramapant. Then in the 70's you saw some really innovative stuff with good sci-fi movies, great thrillers, the development of the slasher flick, 80's and 90's saw the rise of CG and now what are we left with? Until we get full surround holo-deck type experience, I think big screen movies are dead. There's nothing left to provide that novelty factor anymore.
yup. exactly like their Geode station concept.
The thing I don't get and IANARS (rocket scientist...) is why the whole structure of ISS and other space station concepts is typically so specialized. Long booms that only fill a few purposes. Very few (at least from views I've seen) duplication of parts. No clear ability to expand. Sort of like we're building knowing we're gonna throw it away. Why not make some plan for the future, continued use of it. It'd be cool if 100 years from now, tourists could view the original ISS parts still buried in the heart of some sprawling space city.
I know this is slightly OT, but years and years ago there was a sci-fi book that has always stuck with me. The book was about a guy who was essentially the first EMT in space. But, the really interesting part was the simple space-station technology. basically, they stuck a really simple box-car sized tube on the top of a booster and shot it up there. The astronauts came back in some kind of capsule (lifting body?, reusable?) but left the big tube (sort of like a tank) up there. These tanks had basic standard life support systems and standard airlocks on each end and on two sides. Each launch put a new one up there, they'd strap 'em together and eventually they had a space station. Need more solar power? send one up with a bunch of panels inside it. Deploy them over the surface of existing modules already in orbit. Need more computers? life-support? water treatment? whatever, just send another one up with the gear crammed in and depoy it as needed throughout the standardized compartments. neat concept. love to see it. prolly never happen. ho hum.
i used to send
So you're a spammer.
no. I WAS a spammer.
not to mention the part about taking a personal interest in those who didn't want to receive the newsletter. further, the non-opt-in addresses (i.e. those who didn't explicitly click the "Send a newsletter" button) were people who had contacted me directly for business purposes or were people I knew. So they didn't explicitly opt-in. If they wanted out, I took them out.
now i'll go FOAD.
lumper!
everyone is really polite all of a sudden
definitely.
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with spamming the spammers and other tactics (which, see sibling, I've learned is not what this article is about) especially because we're not actually shooting anybody. I find the parallels interesting. I guess in this case, we're riding over to the ranch and complaining to the foreman about the behavior of his cow-hands and hoping he gives a lick. meanwhile, cookie left the grinds in my coffee and burned my biscuits!! Tarnation!
Did you take a look at the Blue Security site
I know my user number is pretty high, but even I know not to RTFA...
I agree, and its beats the spam-the-spammer by a lot.
i used to send a newsletter to roughly 500 addresses, some of which were opt-in and some of which were scavenged by other methods. As the merchant, I always took the "take me off the list" emails very seriously and made a reply to each with from personal email account. I wager that other merchants will take this serioiusly as well. it takes a lot for someone to get off their ass and actually complain....
Reminds me of old-west vigilantism and the posse.
There's not much law enforcement around so when things get really bad, the "good townsfolk" rally together and solve the problem.
Bad points: many times the wrong guys end up on the end of a short rope, no real legitimacy due to lack of law-enforcement sanctioning, retaliatory escalation of hostilities.
Of course, if the general public can solve the problem without government involvement, that's probably a good thing. If not, then the government involvement will probably have a negative effect on all of us.