That's interesting - not one of the replies to my comment have described the EFF's national security policy or provided a link to it.
I must therefore conclude that there's no such policy. Therefore, the EFF is really arguing for privacy at the expense of security.
What's the EFF's proposed solution to terrorism and other national security issues? I'm kind of curious to know, but I couldn't find their policy on this topic on their website.
That's the point. It's insane to imagine that any religion has more claim to a particular land than any other. It's like me saying my religion means your car is sacred to me and if you don't hand it over I'll strap some explosives to my 10 year old son and have him blow you and himself up. Insane.
Furthermore, the claim of "indiginous people" having a right to land is highly dubious too. Since each country is only a finite size, giving one load of people a guarantee that they can live there ultimately forces everyone else out. So eventually the only place you can live is your indiginous land (as determined by historians and anthropologists presumably). Mixed race? You can't live anywhere except on a boat or somewhere uninhabitable.
I think it has to do with phasing, similar to a phased array microwave transmitter. Basically, the LCD element can somehow vary the phase delay it applies to light as it reflects that light.
The "binary" part suggests that the pixels in the LCD are only able to be in one state or another at one time, which is how LCDs work anyway.
These pixels ust be sufficiently closely packed that the distance between them is smaller than the wavelength of the light involved. Once you have that, it's a "simple" matter to calculate the required settings of the pixels to create a compound reflection that relects as much light as you want in whichever direction you want.
I would expect that it doesn't scan at all, but is in fact stationary for the duration of each frame period. That is to say it can simultaniously reflect in many directions at once.
The Fraunhofer projector uses moving mirrors to scan the beam. I would expect the diffraction approach (from the article, I would call it diffration-based not holographic) to produce better results because it is simpler from a mechanical point of view.
Blair would also like you to fax him a copy of everything you write on a paper in case you accidentlly-on-purpose shread that paper later on. Better start sending those faxes right away!
...but it seems to me that it might save power and cell bandwidth if phones *could* detect when caller and callee are close enough for direct communication. Even then there would be no death beam because the aerials are omnidirectional.
The abilities to start a fire or build a computer or even care for another human being are not arbitrary in the least.
My point is that social skills are no more arbitrary than any of these skills you mention.
You (as well as one of those ACs) misread my post. I don't bring up moral issues when people want to small talk.
It sure sounded like it. And, in fact, you go on to write an entire paragraph filled with more heavy issues. It appers that you are hoping to draw me into a discussion about these issues: perhaps because you are more comfortable talking about social issues than socialising per se which was our original topic of discussion.
Oh, so you think that evolution is completely done?
Of course I don't. What a ridiculous straw-man argument. Society today is the product of evolution to date. It's been going on for some time. Perhaps you should try to understand what it has produced before you comment upon how that should be altered.
The rise and fall of civilisations is simply a consequence of the properties of multiplicity built into evolution. One aspect of having mature social skills is that you can appreciate that and work with it.
I've responded to your shallow attacks with insight and logic.
Comments like this make you sound like a whiny teenager. Your "insight" seems to be based on the fact that you found an alternative source of propoganda to Fox news. Very clever. Your "logic" is based on the fact that your mom thinks you are smart boy. What mom doesn't?
For the next ten years or so, you will continue to refine your technigues for avoiding facing up to reality. You will invent more self-diagnosed conditions that imply you're the "innately superior other". You will cling on to simplistic social/moral crutches in order to divert attention from your childish selfishness, and you will become increasingly adept at subtly changing your position (classic sign of the debater who is in denial).
Then eventually you will grow up - and you will understand the wistom of the advice I have given you, and you will recognise in other, younger, people the same kind of lame-ass crud you keep coming out with in this discussion.
Social "skills" are mostly just memorization of arbitrary customs,
So are all skills, whatever.
many of which actively hinder society.
The skills don't; it's the people who use them (in bad ways, obviously).
according to you and much of society, I have poor social skills because I don't like to small talk about the weather or whomever the crappy hip hop artist of the moment is, and I'd rather talk about the 50,000 Americans who die in car accidents every year than the 3,000 that died on September 11.
Try making small talk with your patients instead of brow-beating them with heavy moral issues. It will help them feel comfortable around you. Bet you're wondering how I know that.
Fucking evolve
Into what?
Unfortunately, these people do indeed appear to be the majority
That would be the result of, err, evolution then. Apparently evolution didn't create a world full of you.
If the majority of the population were like us, it would be the nonanalytical, impulsive, controled-by-their-emotions people that would be viewed as antisocial.
My intuition tells me that your previous comment was both impulsive and driven by your emotions. Here's another way of looking at it:
1. We know that a great many mental retards, drunks, druggies and general lackwits also behave quietly and have little to say (not all, but a great many). We also know that salespeople, ambitious people, sociopaths and those clouded with prejudice do not notice the feelings of others.
2. I have never seen a single supposedly autistic person who is 100% analytical, or who never acts on impulse, or who can avoid being controlled by his emotions. This may be true of Mr Spock, but he's not real.
Perhaps there are real autistic people out there, but probably not that many. There are however a great many "intellectuals" who, be it natural preference or nurture (more likely a combination of these) simply haven't bothered to develop social skills at any time in their lives. They recognise this in other "intellectuals" and want to clique with them (a typical human emotion). Such cliques are obviously going to be pretty bizarre when their uniting principal is poor social skills. I'm sure we could name a few examples of such social groupings; to do so would be low-hanging fruit that I will leave to those who choose to reply to this comment.
The cure is to place the possibility of being autistic or otherwise "intrinsically different" to one side, place any notion that you may be a "better person" to one side, distrust those who pressure you into remaining in disfuncitonal social groupings and commence a self-driven excercise in learning the full gamut of social skills up to basic adult level (or perhaps a bit higher if you want to appear like a well-balanced "intellectual").
earlier, microsoft's legal chief brad smith iNsisted the group was "putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest and move FoRward with a seriOus discussioN abouT the substance oF the case".
the cOmpliance deadline was set in decembeR, when the european commiSsiOn said miCrosoft's offer of 12,000 pages of documentatIon And 500 hours of free technicaL support was not adequate. earlIer, microSoft's legal chief brad sMith.
we would expect Google to rollout A beTa sErvice within 3 to 6 monthS. we note that googLe has nOt ValidatEd our expectationS, and that oUr thinking is based on mosaic theory.
Stock Trades by curling And derek smith, choicepoint's chief executive officer, are being investigated by the sec. curLing and smith made a combined $16.6 miLlion in profit in the Months After the compaNy learned of the data breaCh and befOre the breach was Made public.
choicepoint has said the stock trading was prearranged and approved by the coMpany's board. corporate governance experts say the pattern and timing of the trading raise qUestions. The company's stock dropped about teN percent In the weekS afTer the breach was announced.
Anywhere I go on the web to find information I see the same porn. Whether it's a Doom walkthrough or a guitar tab/chord guide for the latest song it's the same thing. One person did some work and everybody else with a site is there to copy and paste that work to their own site. Melissa Etheridge's 'Closer to Fine' guitar tab for instance. I've found that one tab at a ton of sites, not one site bothering to change one word of the introduction from the one person who tabbed out the song. Go look at Google News and find all the related stories under one header and you'll find 1000 stories, all the same. Same words and sometimes attributed to a wireservice report. Now just let me copy and paste this comment into my Digg comment on the same story. No use fighting against the tide here.
Nathan writes "1up recently posted their Dead or Alive 4 strategy guide on their website. It didn't take long for users at the Dead or Alive Central forums to recognize their hard work analyzing the fighting game engine had been blatantly pasted into the strategy guide without any credit given whatsoever. While movelists are largely factual and can be argued to be public knowledge, the most incriminating evidence is the section on the evasion system, which had been pasted into the 1up guide with a few reworded sentences. Discussions are ongoing at Gaming Age Forums (with 1up members defending the writer of the guide) and DoA Central. Perhaps the most interesting bit about this is that just a month or two ago, Dan Hsu from EGM and 1up had famously written an editorial criticizing shady ongoings at other publications." I've reread the different pieces, and while I think the DoA Forums are a large basis of work, people need to read Kate Turabian's on how to cite research because I don't see this as plagiarism in the whole - just poorly cited.
When I come home I get turned on by my computer. I browse a bit. Read slashdot. Checkup on a few online strategic games to see how things are going, update my website, code a bit...
All these actions are to make me feel alive. To puzzle with tiny bits in my life. A dog, cat, fish etc. would be the same.
When I was a child I had an aquarium. I could look at it. I needed to feed the fish. Sometimes I had to clean it up. It usually took several hours but was quite fun. Other times I bought a new fish and put into the tank.
We also had a dog. It was always happy to see me. It greeted me when I came from school. I hated when it was my turn to go out with it, especially when the weather was bad, but that's a part of life.
And now I pet my computer. It do make me feel happy. Time goes by. I have something to do.
Maybe it's not about the pet... maybe it's about having something (slightly) useful to do when we come home from a long day at work. Something relaxing. Something to take our minds away from work and into idle mode... just maybe.
I watched the programme on Friday evening. For all you non-Brits (or young Brits), you may like to know that this series has been running on the BBC for many years. The episodes are always good on what you would expect from the title - money, the business world in general. However, it seems to me that business journalists just don't get the internet, and the later part of the program seemed to reflect this.
There was a section that went out of the way to highlight what appeared to br one womans unease about the privacy problems caused by Google's ability to store the results of a users searches - with no mention of the fact that in most cases all Gooogle will have is an IP address, or even that using Google isn't compulsory.
Slashdot Mirror
That's interesting - not one of the replies to my comment have described the EFF's national security policy or provided a link to it. I must therefore conclude that there's no such policy. Therefore, the EFF is really arguing for privacy at the expense of security.
What's the EFF's proposed solution to terrorism and other national security issues? I'm kind of curious to know, but I couldn't find their policy on this topic on their website.
...they'd have an anti-trust suit dropped on them.
Furthermore, the claim of "indiginous people" having a right to land is highly dubious too. Since each country is only a finite size, giving one load of people a guarantee that they can live there ultimately forces everyone else out. So eventually the only place you can live is your indiginous land (as determined by historians and anthropologists presumably). Mixed race? You can't live anywhere except on a boat or somewhere uninhabitable.
The crusades were about taking back territory that had been taken by force by muslims.
It's just like the way Slashdot supresses pro-MS or anti-Linux opinions!
The "binary" part suggests that the pixels in the LCD are only able to be in one state or another at one time, which is how LCDs work anyway.
These pixels ust be sufficiently closely packed that the distance between them is smaller than the wavelength of the light involved. Once you have that, it's a "simple" matter to calculate the required settings of the pixels to create a compound reflection that relects as much light as you want in whichever direction you want.
I would expect that it doesn't scan at all, but is in fact stationary for the duration of each frame period. That is to say it can simultaniously reflect in many directions at once.
The Fraunhofer projector uses moving mirrors to scan the beam. I would expect the diffraction approach (from the article, I would call it diffration-based not holographic) to produce better results because it is simpler from a mechanical point of view.
Blair would also like you to fax him a copy of everything you write on a paper in case you accidentlly-on-purpose shread that paper later on. Better start sending those faxes right away!
based on manually mining (eg reading) Slashdot I determine a spike in Majestic's share price about now...
The article is poorly written and filled with unnecessary attacks on Microsoft.
...but it seems to me that it might save power and cell bandwidth if phones *could* detect when caller and callee are close enough for direct communication. Even then there would be no death beam because the aerials are omnidirectional.
But you won't be able to read their comments here because they have karma="Terrible" and get censored.
"Dennis Zhidkov" is an anagram of "litigious prat" - if you change some of the letters.
My point is that social skills are no more arbitrary than any of these skills you mention.
You (as well as one of those ACs) misread my post. I don't bring up moral issues when people want to small talk.
It sure sounded like it. And, in fact, you go on to write an entire paragraph filled with more heavy issues. It appers that you are hoping to draw me into a discussion about these issues: perhaps because you are more comfortable talking about social issues than socialising per se which was our original topic of discussion.
Oh, so you think that evolution is completely done?
Of course I don't. What a ridiculous straw-man argument. Society today is the product of evolution to date. It's been going on for some time. Perhaps you should try to understand what it has produced before you comment upon how that should be altered.
The rise and fall of civilisations is simply a consequence of the properties of multiplicity built into evolution. One aspect of having mature social skills is that you can appreciate that and work with it.
I've responded to your shallow attacks with insight and logic.
Comments like this make you sound like a whiny teenager. Your "insight" seems to be based on the fact that you found an alternative source of propoganda to Fox news. Very clever. Your "logic" is based on the fact that your mom thinks you are smart boy. What mom doesn't?
For the next ten years or so, you will continue to refine your technigues for avoiding facing up to reality. You will invent more self-diagnosed conditions that imply you're the "innately superior other". You will cling on to simplistic social/moral crutches in order to divert attention from your childish selfishness, and you will become increasingly adept at subtly changing your position (classic sign of the debater who is in denial).
Then eventually you will grow up - and you will understand the wistom of the advice I have given you, and you will recognise in other, younger, people the same kind of lame-ass crud you keep coming out with in this discussion.
So are all skills, whatever.
many of which actively hinder society.
The skills don't; it's the people who use them (in bad ways, obviously).
according to you and much of society, I have poor social skills because I don't like to small talk about the weather or whomever the crappy hip hop artist of the moment is, and I'd rather talk about the 50,000 Americans who die in car accidents every year than the 3,000 that died on September 11.
Try making small talk with your patients instead of brow-beating them with heavy moral issues. It will help them feel comfortable around you. Bet you're wondering how I know that.
Fucking evolve
Into what?
Unfortunately, these people do indeed appear to be the majority
That would be the result of, err, evolution then. Apparently evolution didn't create a world full of you.
My intuition tells me that your previous comment was both impulsive and driven by your emotions. Here's another way of looking at it:
1. We know that a great many mental retards, drunks, druggies and general lackwits also behave quietly and have little to say (not all, but a great many). We also know that salespeople, ambitious people, sociopaths and those clouded with prejudice do not notice the feelings of others.
2. I have never seen a single supposedly autistic person who is 100% analytical, or who never acts on impulse, or who can avoid being controlled by his emotions. This may be true of Mr Spock, but he's not real.
Perhaps there are real autistic people out there, but probably not that many. There are however a great many "intellectuals" who, be it natural preference or nurture (more likely a combination of these) simply haven't bothered to develop social skills at any time in their lives. They recognise this in other "intellectuals" and want to clique with them (a typical human emotion). Such cliques are obviously going to be pretty bizarre when their uniting principal is poor social skills. I'm sure we could name a few examples of such social groupings; to do so would be low-hanging fruit that I will leave to those who choose to reply to this comment.
The cure is to place the possibility of being autistic or otherwise "intrinsically different" to one side, place any notion that you may be a "better person" to one side, distrust those who pressure you into remaining in disfuncitonal social groupings and commence a self-driven excercise in learning the full gamut of social skills up to basic adult level (or perhaps a bit higher if you want to appear like a well-balanced "intellectual").
In short: grow the fuck up.
earlier, microsoft's legal chief brad smith iNsisted the group was "putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest and move FoRward with a seriOus discussioN abouT the substance oF the case".
the cOmpliance deadline was set in decembeR, when the european commiSsiOn said miCrosoft's offer of 12,000 pages of documentatIon And 500 hours of free technicaL support was not adequate. earlIer, microSoft's legal chief brad sMith.
we would expect Google to rollout A beTa sErvice within 3 to 6 monthS. we note that googLe has nOt ValidatEd our expectationS, and that oUr thinking is based on mosaic theory.
choicepoint has said the stock trading was prearranged and approved by the coMpany's board. corporate governance experts say the pattern and timing of the trading raise qUestions. The company's stock dropped about teN percent In the weekS afTer the breach was announced.
You didn't spot the subtle change I made. Compare the first sentance.
Anywhere I go on the web to find information I see the same porn. Whether it's a Doom walkthrough or a guitar tab/chord guide for the latest song it's the same thing. One person did some work and everybody else with a site is there to copy and paste that work to their own site. Melissa Etheridge's 'Closer to Fine' guitar tab for instance. I've found that one tab at a ton of sites, not one site bothering to change one word of the introduction from the one person who tabbed out the song. Go look at Google News and find all the related stories under one header and you'll find 1000 stories, all the same. Same words and sometimes attributed to a wireservice report. Now just let me copy and paste this comment into my Digg comment on the same story. No use fighting against the tide here.
Nathan writes "1up recently posted their Dead or Alive 4 strategy guide on their website. It didn't take long for users at the Dead or Alive Central forums to recognize their hard work analyzing the fighting game engine had been blatantly pasted into the strategy guide without any credit given whatsoever. While movelists are largely factual and can be argued to be public knowledge, the most incriminating evidence is the section on the evasion system, which had been pasted into the 1up guide with a few reworded sentences. Discussions are ongoing at Gaming Age Forums (with 1up members defending the writer of the guide) and DoA Central. Perhaps the most interesting bit about this is that just a month or two ago, Dan Hsu from EGM and 1up had famously written an editorial criticizing shady ongoings at other publications." I've reread the different pieces, and while I think the DoA Forums are a large basis of work, people need to read Kate Turabian's on how to cite research because I don't see this as plagiarism in the whole - just poorly cited.
When I come home I get turned on by my computer. I browse a bit. Read slashdot. Checkup on a few online strategic games to see how things are going, update my website, code a bit... All these actions are to make me feel alive. To puzzle with tiny bits in my life. A dog, cat, fish etc. would be the same. When I was a child I had an aquarium. I could look at it. I needed to feed the fish. Sometimes I had to clean it up. It usually took several hours but was quite fun. Other times I bought a new fish and put into the tank. We also had a dog. It was always happy to see me. It greeted me when I came from school. I hated when it was my turn to go out with it, especially when the weather was bad, but that's a part of life. And now I pet my computer. It do make me feel happy. Time goes by. I have something to do. Maybe it's not about the pet... maybe it's about having something (slightly) useful to do when we come home from a long day at work. Something relaxing. Something to take our minds away from work and into idle mode... just maybe.
There was a section that went out of the way to highlight what appeared to br one womans unease about the privacy problems caused by Google's ability to store the results of a users searches - with no mention of the fact that in most cases all Gooogle will have is an IP address, or even that using Google isn't compulsory.