I found that clip hilarious, then I looked down at the info and saw that 125 were on board and 100% fatalities. Then I felt a bit guilty. I go sit in the corner.
BAE Systems of Britain said yesterday that it won a $29 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security... BAE has received more than $100 million in funding for aircraft-protection systems.
Money moving from American government to British company, it seems to be working already.
About as useful as having a lifejacket under your seat. A large commercial jet has never managed to make a water landing. If they are in a good enough state to consider that, then they can normally find some bit of land to crash the plane into. If not then you are dead already.
It is just about fear and using fear to control you. Look we protect you with these nonsense lasers. They can't even shoot missiles down with hug stationary lasers in heavily controlled tests, so they have no chance in real life on the butt of a commercial airliner, no chance.
Stalin and Hitler are the most high profile atheists, does that mean all atheists are mad authoritarian killers, of course not, as you have pointed out, you do some important things for humanity.
Christian fundamentalism does not equal Christianity. Indeed outside the US, I doubt would would find much of it of all, the majority of Christians are not fundamentalists. Of course the fundamentalists do solicit and get most of the press, but that is just how the media works.
Good for them, but do they need an ancient, terribly sourced, gay-hating, slavery-loving, wildly self-contradicting book to tell them to do that?
Again, it is the interpretation that some people choose to put on it, rather than the book itself.
I don't think Christian fundamentalism is anywhere near as noxious as Islamic radicalism, but it's nonetheless a cultural disease.
Perhaps a sign that the Slashdot demographic is getting older (including myself, admittedly) and more out-of-touch?
Possibly. Although everyone here seems to listen to Japanese imports, creative commons music or death metal, so don't be too surprised if we have no idea who is in the top ten.
I won't buy any except perhaps some Chinese DRM free HD extended EVD. Or even just huge hard-drives. In five years time we will have 10 terabyte hard-drives as standard. Blueray disks are 25 Gb single layer and 50GB dual layer. A ten terabyte hard-drive can hold 200 to 400 of these films.
I don't like the idea of owning ideas and other things that do not exist, but if we have to have a patent system, then I think there should be a "use it or lose it" element to the patent system. If you can prove that you are trying to make a product out of it, or have licensed it to someone who is trying to make a product out it, then you are allowed to approach the courts to try to have your patents enforced. Otherwise, all bets are off.
70% of patent actions are by people who stockpile patents but produce no products. These patent trolls are just leeches are should not be allowed to hinder real companies who actually make things.
One of the patents is for a method for playing games on a network. Network gaming systems have been around for as long as networks. For example, in 1977 there was a little game called MUD.
Obviousness in to the US patent office is of course different than the rest of humanity.
People who take Genesis 1 literally are partially the victims of the translation. The original Hebrew is the ancient equivalent of a poem, but the translators normally present in the manner of modern prose rather than in the manner of a modern poem, which is a shame.
Understanding Genesis 1 as a poem leads to some rather wonderful finds. For example, the way I like to understand Genesis 1 is as follows:
So in 3-19, the author presents the various elements of the non-living world, the climax of which is the stars in the sky and finally the Sun and the moon, who "rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness".
In 20-31, the author presents the various living things of the world, the climax of which is man and woman who rule over the animals and plants. The men and women are given the same position and same responsibility as the sun and the moon. The same mission to bring light and remove the darkness.
I was not implying only catholic priests, there are lots of different churches. However, I am not denying that it has been a huge problem for some churches in particular.
I am not catholic, and I do not believe in enforced celibacy. I believe priests should be able to have monogamous relationships with another adult if they want.
I have no evidence about it, but if you have jobs that only (on the surface) celibate people can take, you will get some actually celibate people and a good number of people fooling themselves.
Every question asking for meanings ("why") rather than mechanisms ("how").
As a Christian I heartily agree with you.
I am English and a member of the Church of England (in America it is called episcopalian) and I heartily agree that on current evidence evolution is by far the best way of describing "how". Indeed, Darwin was a practicing Anglican most of his life, and the fact he could not reconcile his scientific observations with the theological thought of his day was a short-term bug.
So to any six-day creationists reading this, I would say chill out and give it a go. My approach is to follow the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Robinson in putting less emphasis on God as the old angry father in the sky issuing commands and more on a decentralised flowing holy spirit, e.g. the spirit in Genesis 1:2, the spirit 'hovering over the waters'. So you have the holy spirit inside and caring for the cells as they split and life moves on until we get to humans and cats and dogs and so on, it seems rather more beautiful to me.
nowadays religion brings nothing good it seems, what happened to compassion and love thy neighbour? instead we get peadophile priests and sexual abuse cases,
If the only interaction with organised religion is through what the media reports, then yes it seems that it brings nothing good. However, for every pedophile priest, there will be 10,000 quietly busting their guts out for their parishioners.
what happened to helping the poor?
Again, what have you done for the poor in the last year? Most church members I know give a massive amount of cash and time for the poor. Who is giving the homeless meals and a place to stay? In my town it is the church. The government won't feed or home anyone who cannot pass random drug tests, which is basically all the homeless in the west. (At least here in Europe, if you are not on drugs and have half a brain then you can easily earn enough to eat at least).
I think the whole analogy is a bit misguided and has no historical basis and does not represent how science works.
People have beliefs, that is an attribute that all people have. Maybe we evolved to have beliefs, a coping mechanism, but whatever everyone has beliefs. Some people's beliefs are formalised into religions, other people randomly ingest beliefs through the TV, society and Slashdot. Someone believes in God and another person believes there is no God, both have beliefs.
In the bible it talks about that if there is a red sky at night then it will be a sunny day tomorrow, while a red sky in the morning means it will rain (Matthew 16:2 I think).
Now we know it is solar rays refracting through particles of moisture in the moving clouds that makes the sky red. However, the adage still works. Knowing how it works has not changed the phenomenon.
The traffic is not one way, it just looks it because you are hiding many intermediate baskets. So, some scientist in lab A will attribute the red sky to moisture particles. Some other scientist in lab B will attribute giving people electric shocks with curing depression. These will be tested, and the moisture particles makes it into your basket, while the giving people electric shocks one does not.
This is the same as old people saying that the new hymns are rubbish, only the old hymns are good. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, there were both good and bad hymns, but only the good ones survive. With modern music, there has not been enough time for the bad hymns to fall away and the good ones to take precidence.
The hardware innovations, on the other hand, have much greater immediate potential
To whom? You are thinking of the potential for the western laptop market. To the child in the developing world, the 50 preloaded books and the educational software are far more important.
But it is caused by lack of information and lack of education.
The OLPC comes loaded with electronic 50 books in the native language, it would cost $1000 to print that many books, even more to ship them to the kids. The OLPC also gives access to the web, which allows an amazing amount of information (and an amazing amount of crap too, but that doesn't stop the information).
Yes, this is about itunes offering different prices in different EU countries. The EU is supposed to have a single market, which means someone in the UK should be allowed to buy songs from the German iTunes store if it is cheaper, but Apple don't want you to.
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I found that clip hilarious, then I looked down at the info and saw that 125 were on board and 100% fatalities. Then I felt a bit guilty. I go sit in the corner.
BAE Systems of Britain said yesterday that it won a $29 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security... BAE has received more than $100 million in funding for aircraft-protection systems.
Money moving from American government to British company, it seems to be working already.
About as useful as having a lifejacket under your seat. A large commercial jet has never managed to make a water landing. If they are in a good enough state to consider that, then they can normally find some bit of land to crash the plane into. If not then you are dead already.
It is just about fear and using fear to control you. Look we protect you with these nonsense lasers. They can't even shoot missiles down with hug stationary lasers in heavily controlled tests, so they have no chance in real life on the butt of a commercial airliner, no chance.
who's to say Xbox Live DOES run on Windows?
You can just look at the HTTP Headers, Microsoft-IIS/6.0.
Stalin and Hitler are the most high profile atheists, does that mean all atheists are mad authoritarian killers, of course not, as you have pointed out, you do some important things for humanity.
Christian fundamentalism does not equal Christianity. Indeed outside the US, I doubt would would find much of it of all, the majority of Christians are not fundamentalists. Of course the fundamentalists do solicit and get most of the press, but that is just how the media works.
Good for them, but do they need an ancient, terribly sourced, gay-hating, slavery-loving, wildly self-contradicting book to tell them to do that?
Again, it is the interpretation that some people choose to put on it, rather than the book itself.
I don't think Christian fundamentalism is anywhere near as noxious as Islamic radicalism, but it's nonetheless a cultural disease.
I agree 100%.
TFA says that Microsoft 'was "disappointed" with Xbox Live's performance'
... oh it's Microsoft.
Well it should blame the server software vendor for the lack of concurrency
50 laptops with 50 books on each can be used by 50 students at once. Then the teacher can dish out more.
I think pedagogically, one computer per child *is* the only ratio worth thinking about. I'm surprised more western schools don't do this.
> the numbers just don't add up.
One tomahawk missile = $750,000
Low-end Hawk Jet favoured by the military of developing countries - £23 million
Laptop for a child - $100 to $200
Well as I explained above, if you licence your patent to someone else and they try to make a product out of it, then you pass the test.
Perhaps a sign that the Slashdot demographic is getting older (including myself, admittedly) and more out-of-touch?
Possibly. Although everyone here seems to listen to Japanese imports, creative commons music or death metal, so don't be too surprised if we have no idea who is in the top ten.
I am ignoring both of this broken format.
I won't buy any except perhaps some Chinese DRM free HD extended EVD. Or even just huge hard-drives. In five years time we will have 10 terabyte hard-drives as standard. Blueray disks are 25 Gb single layer and 50GB dual layer. A ten terabyte hard-drive can hold 200 to 400 of these films.
I don't like the idea of owning ideas and other things that do not exist, but if we have to have a patent system, then I think there should be a "use it or lose it" element to the patent system. If you can prove that you are trying to make a product out of it, or have licensed it to someone who is trying to make a product out it, then you are allowed to approach the courts to try to have your patents enforced. Otherwise, all bets are off.
70% of patent actions are by people who stockpile patents but produce no products. These patent trolls are just leeches are should not be allowed to hinder real companies who actually make things.
One of the patents is for a method for playing games on a network. Network gaming systems have been around for as long as networks. For example, in 1977 there was a little game called MUD.
Obviousness in to the US patent office is of course different than the rest of humanity.
People who take Genesis 1 literally are partially the victims of the translation. The original Hebrew is the ancient equivalent of a poem, but the translators normally present in the manner of modern prose rather than in the manner of a modern poem, which is a shame.
Understanding Genesis 1 as a poem leads to some rather wonderful finds. For example, the way I like to understand Genesis 1 is as follows:
Genesis 1:1-2
Genesis 1:3-19 Genesis 1:20-30
Genesis 1:31
There are two parallel parts.
So in 3-19, the author presents the various elements of the non-living world, the climax of which is the stars in the sky and finally the Sun and the moon, who "rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness".
In 20-31, the author presents the various living things of the world, the climax of which is man and woman who rule over the animals and plants. The men and women are given the same position and same responsibility as the sun and the moon. The same mission to bring light and remove the darkness.
I was not implying only catholic priests, there are lots of different churches. However, I am not denying that it has been a huge problem for some churches in particular.
I am not catholic, and I do not believe in enforced celibacy. I believe priests should be able to have monogamous relationships with another adult if they want.
I have no evidence about it, but if you have jobs that only (on the surface) celibate people can take, you will get some actually celibate people and a good number of people fooling themselves.
That is actually rather beautiful.
Far from burning karma, I was going to say 'Mod parent up' but it sounds rather mundane in this context.
Every question asking for meanings ("why") rather than mechanisms ("how").
As a Christian I heartily agree with you.
I am English and a member of the Church of England (in America it is called episcopalian) and I heartily agree that on current evidence evolution is by far the best way of describing "how". Indeed, Darwin was a practicing Anglican most of his life, and the fact he could not reconcile his scientific observations with the theological thought of his day was a short-term bug.
So to any six-day creationists reading this, I would say chill out and give it a go. My approach is to follow the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Robinson in putting less emphasis on God as the old angry father in the sky issuing commands and more on a decentralised flowing holy spirit, e.g. the spirit in Genesis 1:2, the spirit 'hovering over the waters'. So you have the holy spirit inside and caring for the cells as they split and life moves on until we get to humans and cats and dogs and so on, it seems rather more beautiful to me.
nowadays religion brings nothing good it seems, what happened to compassion and love thy neighbour? instead we get peadophile priests and sexual abuse cases,
If the only interaction with organised religion is through what the media reports, then yes it seems that it brings nothing good. However, for every pedophile priest, there will be 10,000 quietly busting their guts out for their parishioners.
what happened to helping the poor?
Again, what have you done for the poor in the last year? Most church members I know give a massive amount of cash and time for the poor. Who is giving the homeless meals and a place to stay? In my town it is the church. The government won't feed or home anyone who cannot pass random drug tests, which is basically all the homeless in the west. (At least here in Europe, if you are not on drugs and have half a brain then you can easily earn enough to eat at least).
I think the whole analogy is a bit misguided and has no historical basis and does not represent how science works.
People have beliefs, that is an attribute that all people have. Maybe we evolved to have beliefs, a coping mechanism, but whatever everyone has beliefs. Some people's beliefs are formalised into religions, other people randomly ingest beliefs through the TV, society and Slashdot. Someone believes in God and another person believes there is no God, both have beliefs.
In the bible it talks about that if there is a red sky at night then it will be a sunny day tomorrow, while a red sky in the morning means it will rain (Matthew 16:2 I think).
Now we know it is solar rays refracting through particles of moisture in the moving clouds that makes the sky red. However, the adage still works. Knowing how it works has not changed the phenomenon.
The traffic is not one way, it just looks it because you are hiding many intermediate baskets. So, some scientist in lab A will attribute the red sky to moisture particles. Some other scientist in lab B will attribute giving people electric shocks with curing depression. These will be tested, and the moisture particles makes it into your basket, while the giving people electric shocks one does not.
This is the same as old people saying that the new hymns are rubbish, only the old hymns are good. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, there were both good and bad hymns, but only the good ones survive. With modern music, there has not been enough time for the bad hymns to fall away and the good ones to take precidence.
Maybe a big customer moved to a free software anti-virus and they want their salesmen to have something to use while pitching against it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Enter.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
Sorry it is bad typing, should have been "free or at cost".
The hardware innovations, on the other hand, have much greater immediate potential
To whom? You are thinking of the potential for the western laptop market. To the child in the developing world, the 50 preloaded books and the educational software are far more important.
>Poverty isn't caused by a lack of computers
But it is caused by lack of information and lack of education.
The OLPC comes loaded with electronic 50 books in the native language, it would cost $1000 to print that many books, even more to ship them to the kids. The OLPC also gives access to the web, which allows an amazing amount of information (and an amazing amount of crap too, but that doesn't stop the information).
It is true.
Do rich people drink coke and eat cheap hamburgers?
Yes, this is about itunes offering different prices in different EU countries. The EU is supposed to have a single market, which means someone in the UK should be allowed to buy songs from the German iTunes store if it is cheaper, but Apple don't want you to.