I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but he's just so cute! ^_^
Let's address these points one at a time, shall we?
Do a Google search faster than anyone else... Check Actually, the reason I had so much info on this particular subject was because I myself submitted this story...only to be rejected because I was too late. Other people actually appreciate the additional information I frequently bring to discussions...as you would if you were actually interested in participating in the discusion.
Stress that there is the always-more-informative article somewhere else... Check Some dilligent digging can usually (but not always) turn up some good additional information on a subject. It stimulates healthier discussion, but we've already established you're not interested in that sort of thing.
Quote the obviously-not-as-informative article... Check I call bullshit. If you want to accuse me of bringing references to the discussion that do not increase substantially the amount of information available, be so kind as to provide examples. Until then, keep your groundless accusations to yourself. Kthanx.
Make a pathetic and inane comment after the quote to trick people into thinking that TMM is so-o-o-o insightful... Check Here's one that never fails to amuse me...apparently, you feel that you and I are the only participants here who aren't sheep. Every time you bitch about me 'tricking people into thinking I'm insightful' you manage to insult the entire Slashdot readership. And you wonder why you're regarded as a 'troll'...
Add the anime smile that appears to be pissing a lot of people off... Whoops. Forgot that. Or perhaps the anime smile that appears to be pissing off one person multiple times...of course, we'll never know, since you insist on hiding under the AC blankie.
Get that first post in order to satisfy the pathetic ego... Damn. Missed it. TMM's probably crying in the bathroom now. It's true that I get my share of first posts....it's also true that I use them to discuss the topic at hand, instead of bleating 'frist psot!'. Sorry I ruined your hobby...
KARMA!!!... Check My karma has been maxed out for longer than I can remember. If this was about karma, I would have quit out of boredom long ago. What this is about is discussing issues in a forum of like-minded individuals, but it seems you can't get past the 'frist psot' and 'karma whore' slashdot-is-a-big-game mentality long enough to see that.
Wait for the annoying AC to come in and prove that TMM is karma whoring YET AGAIN... Check The only thing you've managed to 'prove' is that you are indeed annoying...but that should be some comfort to you.
Wait for TMM to ignore the AC because TMM thinks he's a fu*king god in his own mind... Check This one's cute. According to your fourth-grader logic, if I decline to answer, you're right and I'm a chicken shit, but if I do answer, you've successfully 'goaded' me into responding, and will crow 'YHBT YHL HAND'. Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. You're a evil mastermind. A regular Moriarty. Are you feeling better about yourself yet?
Yep, the Bitching and Moaning about TripMaster Monkey Trolling Method still works! The proven method for Slashdot trolls everywhere! ^_^
(BTW, I included two anime smilies in this post, so you could get twice as indignant. I like helping people.)
The theory that the QWERTY keyboard was designed specifically to slow typists down is a myth...the real reason was mechanical....commonly used keys needed to be placed far away from each other to prevent the levers from jamming.
*real* ID people don't always think it must be a perfect god who designed life. it could just be some smart aliens.
The problem with that line of logic is that such a non-supernatural designing race either itself requires a designer, or evolved naturally.
If the former is true, one must look at the designer's designer. If the designer's designer is again not supernatural in origin, this step must be repeated until one either arrives at a designing race that evolved naturally, or arrives at a supernatural Designer (capital D) that itself does not need to be designed.
If one arrives at a supernatural Designer at the end of this progression, we're right back to the classic Creationist argument, which has been amply shown to not be science.
If one arrives at a mundane designer who evolved naturally, ID is meaningless, since we're back to evolution.
in all of the universe, for ID to be possible there only has to be other intelligent life who we could be the children/experiement of. for ID to be utterly wrong, then life on earth must be the very first intelligent life in the universe. which do you think is more likely?
First of all, this is a straw man argument. For ID to be utterly wrong, it is not necessary that we be the very first intelligent life in the universe. The universe is very big and very old...more than big enough for intelligent races to evolve simultaneously without any inkling of the other's presence, let alone any way for the two to physically interact, and old enough for plenty of intelligent races to evolve, build civilizations, and die out long before we showed up. Second, given the stupendous gulfs of time and space that seperate our solar system from even the nearest star, I'd have to say that it's far more likely that we evolved naturally than to postulate some "smart aliens" intentionally designed us as some sort of demented science experiment.
YES, there are people who think ID may be possible, who aren't a bunch of religious bible-bangers. but you can't accept that, can you.
Yes, I can accept that...but given the arguments I've outlined above, the "smart alien" ID proponents are even more out of touch with reality than the fundies are....and that's saying a lot.
a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you use it for.
But will that be the standard the DMCA uses? Or will it be more like "a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you can use it for."?
That's why this case is so troubling...it has the potential to become a very bad precedent, and ruin mod-chipping for everyone. It doesn't help that these jerks were also distributing pirated games, making the case a virtual slam-dunk and cementing the 'mod-chipping == piracy' stereotype in the minds of everyone concerned.
The three men are being accused of "conspiring to traffic in a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system and conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement," in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
From the language, the first part of the charge sounds like they're talking about the XBox mod (...a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system...), while the second part is in regards to the pirated games (...conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement...).
From Google's "Ten Golden Rules by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian:
Don't be evil. Much has been written about Google's slogan, but we really try to live by it, particularly in the ranks of management. As in every organization, people are passionate about their views. But nobody throws chairs at Google, unlike management practices used at some other well-known technology companies. We foster to create an atmosphere of tolerance and respect, not a company full of yes men.
What you are outlining is the Anthropic Principle, which is a tautology.
Certainly, the odds are against such a confluence of good fortune, but if physical property X did vary from what we observe, we would not be around to observe it. Thus, the odds of such a confluence of good fortune rise from infinitesimal to 1:1.
Let me (and the rest of the/. universe) in on the secret if you have reference to any verified scientific publication that purports otherwise, would you?
It also included one fascinating one about a fish (sorry forgot what it's called) that has eyes (lots of them) that not only can see in much higher detail than our own but also in much greater spectrums of colour than our own.
You're thinking of the Mantis Shrimp. This was the shrimp I was attempting to allude to in my parent post, but for some reason I mistyped 'squid'. (This happens to me all the time...I can't count how many times I've tried to order 'shrimp scampi', and wound up with a bowlful of tentacles... ^_^).
Oh please. There are examples of intermediary steps in eye development throughout the animal kingdom, from simple eye spots all the way to mammalian eyes. Each step is fully functional and does what the organism possessing it requires it to do.
Here's a couple of questions for you:
If the eye is in fact designed, why does it suffer from the imperfection of the blind spot? Nerves in the mammalian eye actually lie on top of the retina, and where they gather together and plunge through the back of the eye to form the optic nerve, no light can be sensed. This is a design flaw any fallible human engineer would catch and correct...so what does this say about the superhuman Designer of ID fame? (And before you maintain that the eye needs to be designed in this manner, consider the eye of the octopus and squid, which is actually designed correctly (nerves lie under the retina, avoiding the problem of the blind spot).
Cats have eyes that can see clearly in what we perceive to be total darkness. Some squid have twelve different types of color sensing cells (as opposed to our three). Eagles have acuity of vision undreamt of by man. Bees and some birds can see into the ultraviolet. Pit vipers can see into the infrared by virtue of their pits (infrared-sensitive eye pits). Before you ask 'what good is half an eye, consider what good your eyes are to you, deficient as they are.
To preserve the separation of church and state mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and Art. I, 3 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, we will enter an order permanently enjoining Defendants from maintaining the ID Policy in any school within the Dover Area School District, from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as ID. We will also issue a declaratory judgment that Plaintiffs' rights under the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have been violated by Defendants' actions.
Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.
Honestly, we can't expect any better conduct from Bush, a president who has been quoted as saying the Constitution is'just a goddamned piece of paper'. Apparently he's forgotten all about that oath he took twice to uphold said 'piece of paper'. Fortunately, it looks like most of the Senate (including a few noteworthy Republicans who crossed the aisle on this one) have a slightly higher regard for the Constitution of the Unites States.
Excellent quote from TFA:
"I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care,"
Senator Russ Feingold D-Wisconson, and the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001.
We live in a nation where the government tortures people, spies on its citizens, and fabricates false evidence to draw us into unjust wars...but it's good to know that at least we don't have to worry about video games corrupting our little ones.
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I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but he's just so cute! ^_^
Let's address these points one at a time, shall we?
Do a Google search faster than anyone else
Actually, the reason I had so much info on this particular subject was because I myself submitted this story...only to be rejected because I was too late. Other people actually appreciate the additional information I frequently bring to discussions...as you would if you were actually interested in participating in the discusion.
Stress that there is the always-more-informative article somewhere else
Some dilligent digging can usually (but not always) turn up some good additional information on a subject. It stimulates healthier discussion, but we've already established you're not interested in that sort of thing.
Quote the obviously-not-as-informative article
I call bullshit. If you want to accuse me of bringing references to the discussion that do not increase substantially the amount of information available, be so kind as to provide examples. Until then, keep your groundless accusations to yourself. Kthanx.
Make a pathetic and inane comment after the quote to trick people into thinking that TMM is so-o-o-o insightful
Here's one that never fails to amuse me...apparently, you feel that you and I are the only participants here who aren't sheep. Every time you bitch about me 'tricking people into thinking I'm insightful' you manage to insult the entire Slashdot readership. And you wonder why you're regarded as a 'troll'...
Add the anime smile that appears to be pissing a lot of people off
Or perhaps the anime smile that appears to be pissing off one person multiple times...of course, we'll never know, since you insist on hiding under the AC blankie.
Get that first post in order to satisfy the pathetic ego
It's true that I get my share of first posts....it's also true that I use them to discuss the topic at hand, instead of bleating 'frist psot!'. Sorry I ruined your hobby...
KARMA!!!
My karma has been maxed out for longer than I can remember. If this was about karma, I would have quit out of boredom long ago. What this is about is discussing issues in a forum of like-minded individuals, but it seems you can't get past the 'frist psot' and 'karma whore' slashdot-is-a-big-game mentality long enough to see that.
Wait for the annoying AC to come in and prove that TMM is karma whoring YET AGAIN
The only thing you've managed to 'prove' is that you are indeed annoying...but that should be some comfort to you.
Wait for TMM to ignore the AC because TMM thinks he's a fu*king god in his own mind
This one's cute. According to your fourth-grader logic, if I decline to answer, you're right and I'm a chicken shit, but if I do answer, you've successfully 'goaded' me into responding, and will crow 'YHBT YHL HAND'. Damned if I do, and damned if I don't. You're a evil mastermind. A regular Moriarty. Are you feeling better about yourself yet?
Yep, the Bitching and Moaning about TripMaster Monkey Trolling Method still works! The proven method for Slashdot trolls everywhere! ^_^
(BTW, I included two anime smilies in this post, so you could get twice as indignant. I like helping people.)
Before you cite a source, you might want to read all of it first.
The last five panels on that page refute those myths.
That's about as clear as I can make it without screenies. Let me know how it goes.
Not hard at all.
The theory that the QWERTY keyboard was designed specifically to slow typists down is a myth...the real reason was mechanical....commonly used keys needed to be placed far away from each other to prevent the levers from jamming.
*real* ID people don't always think it must be a perfect god who designed life. it could just be some smart aliens.
The problem with that line of logic is that such a non-supernatural designing race either itself requires a designer, or evolved naturally.
If the former is true, one must look at the designer's designer. If the designer's designer is again not supernatural in origin, this step must be repeated until one either arrives at a designing race that evolved naturally, or arrives at a supernatural Designer (capital D) that itself does not need to be designed.
If one arrives at a supernatural Designer at the end of this progression, we're right back to the classic Creationist argument, which has been amply shown to not be science.
If one arrives at a mundane designer who evolved naturally, ID is meaningless, since we're back to evolution.
in all of the universe, for ID to be possible there only has to be other intelligent life who we could be the children/experiement of. for ID to be utterly wrong, then life on earth must be the very first intelligent life in the universe. which do you think is more likely?
First of all, this is a straw man argument. For ID to be utterly wrong, it is not necessary that we be the very first intelligent life in the universe. The universe is very big and very old...more than big enough for intelligent races to evolve simultaneously without any inkling of the other's presence, let alone any way for the two to physically interact, and old enough for plenty of intelligent races to evolve, build civilizations, and die out long before we showed up. Second, given the stupendous gulfs of time and space that seperate our solar system from even the nearest star, I'd have to say that it's far more likely that we evolved naturally than to postulate some "smart aliens" intentionally designed us as some sort of demented science experiment.
YES, there are people who think ID may be possible, who aren't a bunch of religious bible-bangers. but you can't accept that, can you.
Yes, I can accept that...but given the arguments I've outlined above, the "smart alien" ID proponents are even more out of touch with reality than the fundies are....and that's saying a lot.
a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you use it for.
But will that be the standard the DMCA uses? Or will it be more like "a mod chip becomes a copyright protection circumvention device when that's what you can use it for."?
That's why this case is so troubling...it has the potential to become a very bad precedent, and ruin mod-chipping for everyone. It doesn't help that these jerks were also distributing pirated games, making the case a virtual slam-dunk and cementing the 'mod-chipping == piracy' stereotype in the minds of everyone concerned.
From TFA: From the language, the first part of the charge sounds like they're talking about the XBox mod (...a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system...), while the second part is in regards to the pirated games (...conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement...).
So it seems to be about both.
(Lyrics from Too Bad, by Doug and the Slugs):
As if selling an illegal mod chip wasn't bad enough, these geniuses also helpfully loaded up the XBox with 77 pirated games.
These guys are screwed, and they have noone but themselves to blame.
From Google's "Ten Golden Rules by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian:
although i'm doing my best to find some naughty bits.
It's not that difficult...
The above mentioned link is one click away from the main page.
What you are outlining is the Anthropic Principle, which is a tautology.
Certainly, the odds are against such a confluence of good fortune, but if physical property X did vary from what we observe, we would not be around to observe it. Thus, the odds of such a confluence of good fortune rise from infinitesimal to 1:1.
I need not fear EvilMonkeySlayer, as I am not evil. ^_^
Let me (and the rest of the
Okay.
The HeLa cell.
It also included one fascinating one about a fish (sorry forgot what it's called) that has eyes (lots of them) that not only can see in much higher detail than our own but also in much greater spectrums of colour than our own.
You're thinking of the Mantis Shrimp. This was the shrimp I was attempting to allude to in my parent post, but for some reason I mistyped 'squid'. (This happens to me all the time...I can't count how many times I've tried to order 'shrimp scampi', and wound up with a bowlful of tentacles... ^_^).
Oh please. There are examples of intermediary steps in eye development throughout the animal kingdom, from simple eye spots all the way to mammalian eyes. Each step is fully functional and does what the organism possessing it requires it to do.
Here's a couple of questions for you:
If the eye is in fact designed, why does it suffer from the imperfection of the blind spot? Nerves in the mammalian eye actually lie on top of the retina, and where they gather together and plunge through the back of the eye to form the optic nerve, no light can be sensed. This is a design flaw any fallible human engineer would catch and correct...so what does this say about the superhuman Designer of ID fame? (And before you maintain that the eye needs to be designed in this manner, consider the eye of the octopus and squid, which is actually designed correctly (nerves lie under the retina, avoiding the problem of the blind spot).
Cats have eyes that can see clearly in what we perceive to be total darkness. Some squid have twelve different types of color sensing cells (as opposed to our three). Eagles have acuity of vision undreamt of by man. Bees and some birds can see into the ultraviolet. Pit vipers can see into the infrared by virtue of their pits (infrared-sensitive eye pits). Before you ask 'what good is half an eye, consider what good your eyes are to you, deficient as they are.
From the decision:
Lots of additional coverage on this decision is available at The National Center for Science Education and The Panda's Thumb, and the full text of the decision can be found here (PDF warning).
From the decision: Damn...what a smackdown.
Here's my suggestion:I've been using it for quite a while, and while it's not a complete replacement for Google, it's certainly useful.
It should be ammended to:
Story is a dupe...original story can be found here.
Wrong. I've only described everyone in the world who lacks integrity.
It's unfortunate that you believe my statement applies to everyone...what a sad, hopeless world you must live in.
It's rather wryly amusing that the event that might have tipped the scales against the renewal of the Patriot Act was Dubya authorizing the unlawful surveillance of American citizens.
Honestly, we can't expect any better conduct from Bush, a president who has been quoted as saying the Constitution is'just a goddamned piece of paper'. Apparently he's forgotten all about that oath he took twice to uphold said 'piece of paper'. Fortunately, it looks like most of the Senate (including a few noteworthy Republicans who crossed the aisle on this one) have a slightly higher regard for the Constitution of the Unites States.
Excellent quote from TFA:
We live in a nation where the government tortures people, spies on its citizens, and fabricates false evidence to draw us into unjust wars...but it's good to know that at least we don't have to worry about video games corrupting our little ones.
Nice, Hillary. Helen Lovejoy would be proud.