Do we have stats on how many users don't know what RSS is, but use it nevertheless? How many know RSS not by name or technical function, but by the idea of I want to do X, and if I click on button Y, I can do it?
It's probably not true in this case, but a technology only reaches it's maximum exposure when most people use it without knowing it. When it just becomes something to be taken for granted.
That works for some things, but not everything, because shimgvw is NOT the problem dll. The real problem is in gdi32.dll, which IIRC is too important to be removed.
But SuperMACHO is an awesome project name! You just need to know a bit of the background here.
There are two main theories for Dark Matter (which, lest we forget, stands for missing mass that we can't seem to detect):
1. WIMPs - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Stuff like neutrinos that interact only though gravity/weak nuclear. They are dark because they are so tiny and ghostly. 2. MACHOs - MAssive Compact Halo Objects. Stuff like black holes, neutrons stars. Things so big and massive that they bend light around them and make themselves invisible, and of course emit no light themselves.
Isn't it so neat that we have two natural acronyms here that stand in juxaposition to each other? Naturally, we call a project to find MACHOs, Project MACHO, and a project to supersede that Project SuperMACHO.
That's silly. Whatever you think about it, the TRC is the legitimate and internationally recognised authority with regards to the apartheid era in South Africa. Whatever it says is legally the truth, and it's findings are legally way beyond mere allegations and rumours.
What's next? It is alleged that the Nazis killed millions of Jews? It is alleged that Stalin sent people to the Gulags? Feel free to include a section on groups that are notable for disputing the findings, but changing verified and legally valid statements into weasel worded and ambiguous junk is the very definition of 'politically correct' bad editing.
Re:one of the few success stories of wikibooks?
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Yeah. I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea of wikibooks - but unlike WP, the project is too vaguely goaled. No one seems to have an idea what they are trying to do. Thus, it's basically failed to capture the public imagination. Bazaar-style development needs many more eyeballs.
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The plan is to get developers of Blender in one place, plus get developers of other free software packages like GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus together too.
If there are multiple conflicting POVs, an expert based system has even more problems. I really fear that DU will quickly collapse into a bundle of dick-size-comparisons, because what they are doing is to formalise ad hominem attacks and arguments from authority.
It isn't true that on wikipedia only persistence matters. Verifiability is a key policy. However persistent you are, an individual that is clearly a wacko can and will be banned. On DU, however, people will be able to hide behind their mail-order PhDs. Who gets to judge which PhD is worth more? And who polices the policemen?
And worse are the subjects where the controversy is about who is actually an expert. What's going to happen with Global Warming-esque articles where one side claims the other are servants of a repressive scientific hegemony, while the other claims that their opponents are stooges of the oil industry? Who gets to be the expert vetting that article? And how are you going to defend against pressure groups trying to inject specific POVs?
Nonsense. In literature criticism, you need to put in intentions of the author in mind.
While plenty of readers have free-associated their way into believing that Ender's Game had a pacifist ideal, the fact of the reality is that Card, being the man he is, probably intended it to have the opposite meaning. The world of Ender in Card's eyes is not a dystopia as many readers have thought, but an utopia. The way the war is won at the end of the book, regardless of whatever remorse and respect for the enemy is felt, was how Card thought it should be fought - without diplomacy, without mercy, without belief in innocence, and to the ultimate end.
Let's not forget, the only way the cycle ends is by the creation of a new all powerful authority which would exert total dominance over all others. There's no anti-war message here. Wars are just means to an end - the eventual total consolidation of power.
Really. The thing that would really be useful is to search by melody - enter in some rough approximation of the main theme, a snatch of lyric, or something, and find the name of the song.
A tech novice with 4 computers? That seems sort of unlikely. I'm not saying he's guilty, but the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there.
Oh definitely. In my mind, if you've got the internet working, then you're home free. Any problem you are likely to ever come across can be fixed by a combination of googling, IRC, and a busy web forum...
Who's monitoring the monitors? Anyone can. The whole point of wikipedia is that it is wholly transparent. Every discussion is archived by default. Compare that with government, with the endless arrays of closed doors and backroom deals...
Parent is being misleading.
You were blocked under the 3RR - which means that reverting an article more than 3 times in 24 hours leads to an automatic 24 hour block. The opinions of the admin don't come into it.
The 3RR rule is a policy designed to prevent unproductive revert wars like that which you were involved in. In your case, if you felt that the argument wasn't going anywhere, you should put a request up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for _comment or further a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation instead if escalating the conflict into a full blown where you are yelling at people:
"Look here you liar, you're the one out of loop and inserting nonsense, you're worse, you're a liar, and you know you are,"
"C|Net is reporting that an unpatched exploit in Firefox 1.5 has been made public, making it very easy for ne'er-do-well-sites to cause your browser to crash on startup with a single visit."
Why on earth would a malicious website want to do that? I'm sure there are much simpler ways of making it impossible for users to view your site.
I.e. we register one of the websites that Sober checks, and put a Sober removal tool on it. Come that day, Sober would download the file and delete itself without any user interaction.
Ok, maybe not. But I think it is fairly silly to suggest that the only alternative to free market capitalism (-3 PLANET, -5 POLICE, +2 ECON) is a soviet style communism with a planned economy. (-2 EFFICIENCY, +2 GROWTH, +1 INDUSTRY) I entirely suspect GP to have been referring to a deurbanised, agrarian pseudo-anarchist society with a green economy. (+2 EFFICIENCY, -2 GROWTH, +2 PLANET) However realistic that is. (http://firaxis.com/smac/)
The second is an Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Challenge, to create a robot which can fly a path using visual navigation and hit ground targets with a probe (no GPS allowed).
There is obviously a military connection here. For probe, read bomb, or bullet. Essentially, it's designing the next generation of autonomous UAVs. Presumeably, our military planners now believe GPS to be possible to compromise in times of war. (fairly reasonable thanks to the new attention on space war)
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Do we have stats on how many users don't know what RSS is, but use it nevertheless? How many know RSS not by name or technical function, but by the idea of I want to do X, and if I click on button Y, I can do it?
It's probably not true in this case, but a technology only reaches it's maximum exposure when most people use it without knowing it. When it just becomes something to be taken for granted.
That works for some things, but not everything, because shimgvw is NOT the problem dll. The real problem is in gdi32.dll, which IIRC is too important to be removed.
It's unofficial, but it works.
http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html
But SuperMACHO is an awesome project name! You just need to know a bit of the background here.
There are two main theories for Dark Matter (which, lest we forget, stands for missing mass that we can't seem to detect):
1. WIMPs - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Stuff like neutrinos that interact only though gravity/weak nuclear. They are dark because they are so tiny and ghostly.
2. MACHOs - MAssive Compact Halo Objects. Stuff like black holes, neutrons stars. Things so big and massive that they bend light around them and make themselves invisible, and of course emit no light themselves.
Isn't it so neat that we have two natural acronyms here that stand in juxaposition to each other? Naturally, we call a project to find MACHOs, Project MACHO, and a project to supersede that Project SuperMACHO.
See... Not horrible and fake at all.
The summary is a bit misleading. Light echoes are by no means a recent discovery. APOD viewers like me have seen them since at least 1997.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971023.html
That's silly. Whatever you think about it, the TRC is the legitimate and internationally recognised authority with regards to the apartheid era in South Africa. Whatever it says is legally the truth, and it's findings are legally way beyond mere allegations and rumours.
What's next? It is alleged that the Nazis killed millions of Jews? It is alleged that Stalin sent people to the Gulags? Feel free to include a section on groups that are notable for disputing the findings, but changing verified and legally valid statements into weasel worded and ambiguous junk is the very definition of 'politically correct' bad editing.
Yeah. I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea of wikibooks - but unlike WP, the project is too vaguely goaled. No one seems to have an idea what they are trying to do. Thus, it's basically failed to capture the public imagination. Bazaar-style development needs many more eyeballs.
The plan is to get developers of Blender in one place, plus get developers of other free software packages like GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus together too.
Then, launch one small cruise missile...
Netscape doesn't own Mozilla, silly. Microsoft can't buy Firefox, even if it wanted to.
A quick question... What will the copyright situation be like with DU articles?
Maybe I sounded too hostile there....
If it works, then great - as long as they keep the information Free, and so let us wikipedians steal all their content.
If there are multiple conflicting POVs, an expert based system has even more problems. I really fear that DU will quickly collapse into a bundle of dick-size-comparisons, because what they are doing is to formalise ad hominem attacks and arguments from authority.
It isn't true that on wikipedia only persistence matters. Verifiability is a key policy. However persistent you are, an individual that is clearly a wacko can and will be banned. On DU, however, people will be able to hide behind their mail-order PhDs. Who gets to judge which PhD is worth more? And who polices the policemen?
And worse are the subjects where the controversy is about who is actually an expert. What's going to happen with Global Warming-esque articles where one side claims the other are servants of a repressive scientific hegemony, while the other claims that their opponents are stooges of the oil industry? Who gets to be the expert vetting that article? And how are you going to defend against pressure groups trying to inject specific POVs?
Nonsense. In literature criticism, you need to put in intentions of the author in mind.
While plenty of readers have free-associated their way into believing that Ender's Game had a pacifist ideal, the fact of the reality is that Card, being the man he is, probably intended it to have the opposite meaning. The world of Ender in Card's eyes is not a dystopia as many readers have thought, but an utopia. The way the war is won at the end of the book, regardless of whatever remorse and respect for the enemy is felt, was how Card thought it should be fought - without diplomacy, without mercy, without belief in innocence, and to the ultimate end.
Let's not forget, the only way the cycle ends is by the creation of a new all powerful authority which would exert total dominance over all others. There's no anti-war message here. Wars are just means to an end - the eventual total consolidation of power.
How long before these robots turn evil and try to push us down the stairs?
Really. The thing that would really be useful is to search by melody - enter in some rough approximation of the main theme, a snatch of lyric, or something, and find the name of the song.
A tech novice with 4 computers? That seems sort of unlikely. I'm not saying he's guilty, but the facts just don't seem to mesh with the description there.
Maybe he broke the first 3.
Google is your best freind. ever. period.
Oh definitely. In my mind, if you've got the internet working, then you're home free. Any problem you are likely to ever come across can be fixed by a combination of googling, IRC, and a busy web forum...
Who's monitoring the monitors? Anyone can. The whole point of wikipedia is that it is wholly transparent. Every discussion is archived by default. Compare that with government, with the endless arrays of closed doors and backroom deals...
Parent is being misleading. You were blocked under the 3RR - which means that reverting an article more than 3 times in 24 hours leads to an automatic 24 hour block. The opinions of the admin don't come into it. The 3RR rule is a policy designed to prevent unproductive revert wars like that which you were involved in. In your case, if you felt that the argument wasn't going anywhere, you should put a request up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for _comment or further a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation instead if escalating the conflict into a full blown where you are yelling at people:
"Look here you liar, you're the one out of loop and inserting nonsense, you're worse, you're a liar, and you know you are,"
I think it just means they like to play Halo alot.
"C|Net is reporting that an unpatched exploit in Firefox 1.5 has been made public, making it very easy for ne'er-do-well-sites to cause your browser to crash on startup with a single visit."
Why on earth would a malicious website want to do that? I'm sure there are much simpler ways of making it impossible for users to view your site.
Can we use this discovery to distribute a cure?
I.e. we register one of the websites that Sober checks, and put a Sober removal tool on it. Come that day, Sober would download the file and delete itself without any user interaction.
Problem solved.
OMG you are destructing the planet itself!!one!
Ok, maybe not. But I think it is fairly silly to suggest that the only alternative to free market capitalism (-3 PLANET, -5 POLICE, +2 ECON) is a soviet style communism with a planned economy. (-2 EFFICIENCY, +2 GROWTH, +1 INDUSTRY) I entirely suspect GP to have been referring to a deurbanised, agrarian pseudo-anarchist society with a green economy. (+2 EFFICIENCY, -2 GROWTH, +2 PLANET) However realistic that is. (http://firaxis.com/smac/)
Really. It looks like a majority of the rich fictional characters listed received their fortunes by inheritance, not through their own efforts.
Is that a wry criticism of the failure of capitalism?
(Probably not)
The second is an Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Challenge, to create a robot which can fly a path using visual navigation and hit ground targets with a probe (no GPS allowed).
There is obviously a military connection here. For probe, read bomb, or bullet. Essentially, it's designing the next generation of autonomous UAVs. Presumeably, our military planners now believe GPS to be possible to compromise in times of war. (fairly reasonable thanks to the new attention on space war)
What are the ethics of this sort of competition?