Also, you can't be both an atheist (KNOWING there is no god)
Well... by it's very definition, God's non-existence is not a knowable thing (or at least, not provable). The best you can do is believe he doesn't exist (or think you know he doesn't exist), and if that's the case then you now have a religious belief, so atheism becomes a contradiction in terms... and most atheists that I've met have been pretty religious about it:)
The evidence put forward is the mountains of historic text describing miracles etc from years gone by. Now I'm an athiest/agnostic (and lets not get into what that means), but just suppose that Jesus rose from the dead today and started performing miracles, and those miracles were scientifically verified etc by all the worlds leading skeptics, and then documented for all eternity, and then we got bored with him, crucified him (again) and we never heard from him again.
In 2000 years time, would any of the documented evidence be believed? What about in 100 years?
well... if it had xfs_repair on it, it could save me a lot of mucking around trying to repair the filesystem on an unbootable system (at home), like I did this morning.
The same result could be achieved with a bootable Disk on Chip though.
I don't care which one you keep, as long as it's English.
According to this page, if you chose your 'one true language' by the number of people who spoke it as a first language, English would be second or third on the list. And if you chose it based on the number of people who could speak it (eg first or second language), it still might not win.
Just watch, this will be the one thing the French are willing to fight over.
Is it just me, or is the frequency of cheese eating surrender monkey jokes increasing of late?
I agree. Every language lost embiggens all of mankind. Curse those non-English languages with their non-cromulent words.
Hmmm... something must be wrong with my spell checker... it doesn't recognise two words in the above sentence.
But do you know what the worst part of it is? Right now kids in chat rooms are inventing new languages, with strange and mysterious words like '1337', 'pr0n', and 'h@X0r'...
Seriously though, I think the only really useful second language you can teach in school is some form of sign language.
The theory being put forward is that if the filter is not a 'one way' filter, then it wouldn't be too hard to get the actual original data back again. eg if the filter worked on a 2 x 2 matrix, and it said 'swap the points at 0,0 and 1,1, and the points at 0,1 and 1,0', then all of the original data is still there, just moved around. If you can figure out the translation (eg if you have a copy of the original and the blurred copy) then you can reconstruct it. If, however, the filter was something like 'take the average of all the points in the matrix and set the whole matrix to that value', then you've lost information and can't go back (except in crime shows).
That being said, i'm sure that google will have thought of these things. They haven't gotten where they are by being stupid!
The survey also assumes that "kissing a co-worker" means kissing a co-worker of the opposite sex
For some people, a peck on the cheek or an 'air kiss' (is there a proper name for that?) is an acceptable form of greeting between a male and a female. Was the type of kiss defined?
I have about 90 inches of air between my computer and the network, and it's not stopping me.
The "1 inch (or mm) air gap" idea is a good one, but getting harder and harder to implement. If a tech has a laptop connected to the internal network, and has wireless enabled, and its in range of the hacker then you have a problem (in theory - see the recent apple wireless compromise)
If he has a PC connected to the internal network with no wireless, but has his phone connected to it via USB, then in theory that could also be an attack path (ok... that one's a stretch).
You've also got to remember, all it takes is one employee with a grudge, or who you aren't paying enough, and all the air gaps in the world won't help you. There is never a single solution.
... of people doing exactly what you asked them not to!
It doesn't particularly bother me, I do it myself sometimes, although I tend to use elipses (sp?) when doing it, which at least gives a clue that the first sentence of the post is a continuation of something else.
But that's just me. I even approve of top posting in email messages. It means that the 'download only the first kilobyte' option on my pda actually gives me something useful to read!
Have you been on an instant messaging service lately? Thngs r mch wors ovr thr! Hlf teh tme ppl dnt evn bthr puttng vwls in thr sntnces.
That depends on how easily the half-failure can be detected.
If you are in a metropolitan area and your car just goes dead, you call someone and they come out and fix it for you. The failure mode of 'just goes dead' is a lot more common for cars these days. No points to burn out and progressively make the car run rougher and rougher until you think it's about time you had it serviced, and a lot of other similar changes. Thus there is a tendency to just drive the thing until it stops, then get it fixed.
If I was a thousand miles from the nearest tow truck or any other form of assistance, it would be a bit of a toss up between a car that is less likely to break, but impossible to fix (who carries a spare computer with them, or the tools to replace it?), or a car that was more likely to break, but much more likely to be able to repair enough to get home again. An old school diesel engine is quite a simple machine.
Then there is the problem of a component failing progressively vs failing suddenly. In the first case, routine maintenance will pick it up if done properly, in the second case you have less warning. A bit of a problem if you aren't on the ground at the time. I think one of the issues with carbon fiber failure is that you don't get a lot of warning when failure is approaching, even if failure is probably further away than with aluminium.
But, i'm not an expert in either aluminium or carbon fiber, and i'm quite happy to trust those who are (because if they're wrong, i'll sue them:)
Probably has to do with the massive hard-ons they can now achieve thanks to e-mail offers. What a truly wonderful age in which we live!
Maybe some bias has been introduced into the survey because of all the penis pills (which really work!!!) which means you can now have sex with your SO from across the room without leaving your chair! It's not that people won't get off the computer to have sex, it's that they don't need to.
Remember to fit the grave with a bell "just in case":)
Might I suggest 's/bell "just in case"/hard-wearing dance floor/'. There will be a long queue...
Actually by charging $2 admission for the chance to dance on SCO's grave, I'm sure we could put together some package to aquire the rights to whatever IP SCO claim to have, so that Darl can't just buy it at firesale prices and start all over again.
I wonder if the thing has an 'uncomfortable mode' setting... one that doesn't cause pain in any way, just a general feeling of 'I wish I was somewhere else'.
Failing that, if they know there is going to be a protest somewhere they could deploy these things beforehand in the place where the protesters are planning to be. That way the protesters would have to voluntarily enter the area - something that is not likely to happen.
If this thing really does use microwaves though, that tinfoil suit someone was advertising a few days ago might be just the thing for attending protests. Just make sure you bring your lunch in a microwave safe container and you'll get it warmed for free!
Oh yeah, and make sure you bring a dog/cat/sheep/gerbil to the protest too. While 'they' can mostly get away with using excessive force on adults, and probably on children, you'll have the animal protection (RSPCA here in AU) up in arms if a gerbil expired because of a blast of severe pain. Try and see them explain what threat the caged gerbil posed to national security!!!
Hmmm... maybe it collapsed an underground cave or something. Better call in David Duchovny and Julianne Moore to investigate... they've done this kind of thing before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(film) (Just filling in the void of Evolution references)
100 guys with shovels and wheelbarrows working for 500 hours at $2/hour = $10000. The same sort of thinking could probably 'dispose' of the dirt for the remaining $5000.
It doesn't matter if it'a KillaCycle, motorcycle, bicycle, or even a small car, because none of them are safe as long as they share the road with other drivers who talk on cell phones while driving. If we want to realistically promote more efficient modes of transportation, then we should work to make the current hostile enviroments into safer ones.
Before you flame, I'm aware he wasn't talking on a cell phone. But instead of addressing the rare occurance this incident was, I wanted to address a common occurance, and provide a solution that we could actually take steps toward achieving.
Look at me! I can make off topic posts to push an agenda too:p
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When someone around these parts speaks of 'the Moon', it's normally pretty clear which moon they are talking about.
Well... by it's very definition, God's non-existence is not a knowable thing (or at least, not provable). The best you can do is believe he doesn't exist (or think you know he doesn't exist), and if that's the case then you now have a religious belief, so atheism becomes a contradiction in terms... and most atheists that I've met have been pretty religious about it
The evidence put forward is the mountains of historic text describing miracles etc from years gone by. Now I'm an athiest/agnostic (and lets not get into what that means), but just suppose that Jesus rose from the dead today and started performing miracles, and those miracles were scientifically verified etc by all the worlds leading skeptics, and then documented for all eternity, and then we got bored with him, crucified him (again) and we never heard from him again.
In 2000 years time, would any of the documented evidence be believed? What about in 100 years?
Something to think about...
well... if it had xfs_repair on it, it could save me a lot of mucking around trying to repair the filesystem on an unbootable system (at home), like I did this morning.
The same result could be achieved with a bootable Disk on Chip though.
Howabout some crude oil instead, to lubricate the friction and prevent further earthquakes.
Finally... a market niche is opening up for my range of tinfoil underwear!
the past?
I live in Australia, and I can tell you that what some people here speak doesn't even come close to qualifying as English!
Who are you to question the almighty wikipedia anyway!
According to this page, if you chose your 'one true language' by the number of people who spoke it as a first language, English would be second or third on the list. And if you chose it based on the number of people who could speak it (eg first or second language), it still might not win. Is it just me, or is the frequency of cheese eating surrender monkey jokes increasing of late?
I agree. Every language lost embiggens all of mankind. Curse those non-English languages with their non-cromulent words.
Hmmm... something must be wrong with my spell checker... it doesn't recognise two words in the above sentence.
But do you know what the worst part of it is? Right now kids in chat rooms are inventing new languages, with strange and mysterious words like '1337', 'pr0n', and 'h@X0r'...
Seriously though, I think the only really useful second language you can teach in school is some form of sign language.
If I understood the GP, then you didn't :)
The theory being put forward is that if the filter is not a 'one way' filter, then it wouldn't be too hard to get the actual original data back again. eg if the filter worked on a 2 x 2 matrix, and it said 'swap the points at 0,0 and 1,1, and the points at 0,1 and 1,0', then all of the original data is still there, just moved around. If you can figure out the translation (eg if you have a copy of the original and the blurred copy) then you can reconstruct it. If, however, the filter was something like 'take the average of all the points in the matrix and set the whole matrix to that value', then you've lost information and can't go back (except in crime shows).
That being said, i'm sure that google will have thought of these things. They haven't gotten where they are by being stupid!
Hmmm... perhaps the survey was actually done on IRC, in which case all the girls were probably guys anyway.
I wonder if the survey clearly spelt out that cyber sex does NOT count as kissing a cow-orker.
For some people, a peck on the cheek or an 'air kiss' (is there a proper name for that?) is an acceptable form of greeting between a male and a female. Was the type of kiss defined?
Glad we cleared that up.
I have about 90 inches of air between my computer and the network, and it's not stopping me.
The "1 inch (or mm) air gap" idea is a good one, but getting harder and harder to implement. If a tech has a laptop connected to the internal network, and has wireless enabled, and its in range of the hacker then you have a problem (in theory - see the recent apple wireless compromise)
If he has a PC connected to the internal network with no wireless, but has his phone connected to it via USB, then in theory that could also be an attack path (ok... that one's a stretch).
You've also got to remember, all it takes is one employee with a grudge, or who you aren't paying enough, and all the air gaps in the world won't help you. There is never a single solution.
I've not used an Apple machine in years... Is it possible to buy a Mac without an O/S? Would there be a market for this?
On the other side of the coin, I wonder if we'll ever see OSX as an option on a Dell or HP computer...
... of people doing exactly what you asked them not to!
It doesn't particularly bother me, I do it myself sometimes, although I tend to use elipses (sp?) when doing it, which at least gives a clue that the first sentence of the post is a continuation of something else.
But that's just me. I even approve of top posting in email messages. It means that the 'download only the first kilobyte' option on my pda actually gives me something useful to read!
Have you been on an instant messaging service lately? Thngs r mch wors ovr thr! Hlf teh tme ppl dnt evn bthr puttng vwls in thr sntnces.
That depends on how easily the half-failure can be detected.
If you are in a metropolitan area and your car just goes dead, you call someone and they come out and fix it for you. The failure mode of 'just goes dead' is a lot more common for cars these days. No points to burn out and progressively make the car run rougher and rougher until you think it's about time you had it serviced, and a lot of other similar changes. Thus there is a tendency to just drive the thing until it stops, then get it fixed.
If I was a thousand miles from the nearest tow truck or any other form of assistance, it would be a bit of a toss up between a car that is less likely to break, but impossible to fix (who carries a spare computer with them, or the tools to replace it?), or a car that was more likely to break, but much more likely to be able to repair enough to get home again. An old school diesel engine is quite a simple machine.
Then there is the problem of a component failing progressively vs failing suddenly. In the first case, routine maintenance will pick it up if done properly, in the second case you have less warning. A bit of a problem if you aren't on the ground at the time. I think one of the issues with carbon fiber failure is that you don't get a lot of warning when failure is approaching, even if failure is probably further away than with aluminium.
But, i'm not an expert in either aluminium or carbon fiber, and i'm quite happy to trust those who are (because if they're wrong, i'll sue them
Maybe some bias has been introduced into the survey because of all the penis pills (which really work!!!) which means you can now have sex with your SO from across the room without leaving your chair! It's not that people won't get off the computer to have sex, it's that they don't need to.
Might I suggest 's/bell "just in case"/hard-wearing dance floor/'. There will be a long queue...
Actually by charging $2 admission for the chance to dance on SCO's grave, I'm sure we could put together some package to aquire the rights to whatever IP SCO claim to have, so that Darl can't just buy it at firesale prices and start all over again.
I wonder if the thing has an 'uncomfortable mode' setting... one that doesn't cause pain in any way, just a general feeling of 'I wish I was somewhere else'.
Failing that, if they know there is going to be a protest somewhere they could deploy these things beforehand in the place where the protesters are planning to be. That way the protesters would have to voluntarily enter the area - something that is not likely to happen.
If this thing really does use microwaves though, that tinfoil suit someone was advertising a few days ago might be just the thing for attending protests. Just make sure you bring your lunch in a microwave safe container and you'll get it warmed for free!
Oh yeah, and make sure you bring a dog/cat/sheep/gerbil to the protest too. While 'they' can mostly get away with using excessive force on adults, and probably on children, you'll have the animal protection (RSPCA here in AU) up in arms if a gerbil expired because of a blast of severe pain. Try and see them explain what threat the caged gerbil posed to national security!!!
Hmmm... maybe it collapsed an underground cave or something. Better call in David Duchovny and Julianne Moore to investigate... they've done this kind of thing before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(film) (Just filling in the void of Evolution references)
Yes but these are accountants we're talking about. I'm sure that they can take 20 away from 7 and still have 20 left.
Leave me alone. I'm a programmer not an accountant :p
100 guys with shovels and wheelbarrows working for 500 hours at $2/hour = $10000. The same sort of thinking could probably 'dispose' of the dirt for the remaining $5000.
It doesn't matter if it'a KillaCycle, motorcycle, bicycle, or even a small car, because none of them are safe as long as they share the road with other drivers who talk on cell phones while driving. If we want to realistically promote more efficient modes of transportation, then we should work to make the current hostile enviroments into safer ones.
:p
Before you flame, I'm aware he wasn't talking on a cell phone. But instead of addressing the rare occurance this incident was, I wanted to address a common occurance, and provide a solution that we could actually take steps toward achieving.
Look at me! I can make off topic posts to push an agenda too
I think the point might have been that you can't without becoming a terrorist yourself...