lol... my son said there was a Lego Star Wars movie coming out. I didn't realize what he meant until I discovered he'd seen a commercial for this one, and assumed it was all Lego.
American culture doesn't have this level of fear. Nobody I know of has cut short travel plans because of the terrorism threat, though I imagine some people have. Nobody I know of thinks TSA is making air travel safer.
This whole fear thing has been manufactured by the government as an excuse to remove our civil liberties.
Don't ever EVER think that the American people are demanding it. We're not. This is being done TO us, not FOR us.
That's actually true of Americans as well. The Catholic Church sees no conflict between belief and science, and I know for certain the Episcopal Church knows the difference between metaphor and research as well. Those ate the only two churches I have been involved with, but I don't consider anti-intellectualism to be a property of all American religion.
I thought this sounded bizarre, and when I googled it, I found a lot of sources repeating this story, but no reliable ones. Lots of anti-fundamentalist blogs or other non-journalistic sources.
If that's the story I'm thinking of, a nerdy scientist, part of an expedition to Mars, investigating an alien communication device is being teased by a bullying coworker because he believes the device is using gravity waves as a carrier by vibrating a micro black hole. To prove he's right, he turns off the magnetic containment, releasing it to eventually devour the planet, and by the way killing the bully.
James P. Hogan's "Thrice Upon a Time" discusses a prototype fusion reactor which accidentally sends two million quantum black holes into orbit within the earth. Luckily, they have a Decwriter-based time machine to help.
More often than not, companies hold the rights to the work, so you can't rely on the artist's continued interest to keep the copyright valid. Companies will keep EVERY work tied up FOREVER under your proposal.
What really will happen is that most of the stuff we value will just disappear because it was locked away. Sure, the most famous stuff will live on, but the vast majority will be entirely forgotten. We'll become -- are becoming -- a culture with no memory.
People at Harvard do illegal file sharing. Now the government can take all their computers! Woohoo! I bet they have nice stuff. They can go there on their way to MIT!
The government is going to have absolutely awesome computers. And the beauty of it, is they can sell them, then go back and impound them later! Sell them again and again and instant $$$ Budgest crisis? Solved! Funding wars against the rest of the world? PAID FOR! Impound and auction, rinse and repeat!
The page the link brings you to is full of ads for domain squatters, including a big picture one at the bottom for "Domain Fool", which "brings you domain names at foolish discounts!"
So, they tried to figure out what domain names you might want, BOUGHT THEM from under you for pennies, and now are trying to sell them back to you for piles of money...
"Hey, new mothers! After you have your baby, we're gonna take it, then sell it back to you for a FOOLISH DISCOUNT! Woo woo!"
I even set my language to German and then back to English(US) just in case that was a problem, but nope, I'm in the same boat as the other "IMAP-Wanters".
Gyroplanes use unpowered rotors that rotate horizontally for lift. The cyclogyro of this article uses horizontally mounted, powered wings rotating vertically for lift. It's a different beast.
Well, perhaps Microsoft is planning on going to the governments that buy the OLPC and mentioning that Microsoft holds over 200 patents that Linux is violating, and if they would like to protect their computer investment and not have to face a lawsuit costing millions, they should get a license for Windows and solve all their problems in one blow -- their OLPC laptops will still work, they will be in zero danger of messy lawsuits, and their children will grow up skilled in the software of modern business instead of a UI they will never see anywhere else?
It's a great and inevitable move for Microsoft -- if you buy into their vision.
Whether it's great for anyone else, well, I dunno, but Microsoft is just there to worry about Microsoft, not anyone else.
Maybe not, but I know I only registered so I could change the sorts of stories that got full text on the front page. For years and years, I just read and posted anonymously...
So a low UID would actually give people who did similarly the (geekly) acknowledgment they feel they deserve!
It's always good to be reminded that our text messages are read, our cell phone conversations are easily eavesdropped, and the government can listen to any of our communications at any time and many carriers will gladly help the government invade our privacy.
Scott McNealy said it best -- "Privacy is dead, get over it."
My previous job -- in California -- was just like this. An hourly wage except it was salaried -- exempt. What that basically meant is if I was under 40 hours a week, I got paid for the actual time, but if I was OVER 40 hours a week, I got paid for 40 hours, even when my boss had to go away for business (we were a two-person department) and I had to cover his job as well. Everyone else in the company at my level (bottom level peon) were hourly and got overtime. I was expected to work as much as them -- that's not unfair -- but get paid less -- and that WAS unfair.
I could see no reason why my job -- keep computers running, do server maintenance, backups and some sweeping/cleaning -- was considered professional and exempt. They did it, of course, because they could get away with it.
Well, I'm willing to give a show its fantasy premise. You have to do that. So I can give Chuck "its guy with all the nation's secrets embedded in his head, but despite being an invaluable and irreplaceable national intelligence resource, continues in his old life". I think everything else was dumb, but ymmv. Wasn't as bad as Big Bang Theory.
I thought Wargames was pretty realistic; his hacking techniques -- war dialing, social engineering, research -- were on track, he gained a ton of geek cred by having an Altair, and once you gave him the premise of contacting a self-aware computer, the rest of the movie felt right -- and hey, Fred Thompson!
Tron wasn't trying to be realistic:) it doesn't count.
Most of the geeks I know don't watch much TV. The ones that do watch Simpsons, Family Guy, Heroes, Mythbusters (not one I follow, but whatever), Lost... not sure how many watch BG or Doctor Who (I have to convince people to give them a try). X-Files was hugely popular back when it was on. Probably any show that has a fan convention for it, would be by definition a favorite of geeks. Who BUT a geek would go to a convention based on a television show?
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Can't get much funnier than getting your astronomy news from a gadget site.
lol... my son said there was a Lego Star Wars movie coming out. I didn't realize what he meant until I discovered he'd seen a commercial for this one, and assumed it was all Lego.
If you sell your Oscar tickets on Craigslist, the terrorists win.
Well, maybe not Toronto. Alert Mounties tasered an agitated Polish immigrant who spoke no English to death in a Vancouver airport...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/14/bc-taservideo.html
American culture doesn't have this level of fear. Nobody I know of has cut short travel plans because of the terrorism threat, though I imagine some people have. Nobody I know of thinks TSA is making air travel safer.
This whole fear thing has been manufactured by the government as an excuse to remove our civil liberties.
Don't ever EVER think that the American people are demanding it. We're not. This is being done TO us, not FOR us.
If neither are possible, then both are equally possible. So you're both right.
That's actually true of Americans as well. The Catholic Church sees no conflict between belief and science, and I know for certain the Episcopal Church knows the difference between metaphor and research as well. Those ate the only two churches I have been involved with, but I don't consider anti-intellectualism to be a property of all American religion.
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I thought this sounded bizarre, and when I googled it, I found a lot of sources repeating this story, but no reliable ones. Lots of anti-fundamentalist blogs or other non-journalistic sources.
Do you have a credible link?
But then you penalize the indie artists who own their own work, forcing them to sell it to corporations.
If that's the story I'm thinking of, a nerdy scientist, part of an expedition to Mars, investigating an alien communication device is being teased by a bullying coworker because he believes the device is using gravity waves as a carrier by vibrating a micro black hole. To prove he's right, he turns off the magnetic containment, releasing it to eventually devour the planet, and by the way killing the bully.
James P. Hogan's "Thrice Upon a Time" discusses a prototype fusion reactor which accidentally sends two million quantum black holes into orbit within the earth. Luckily, they have a Decwriter-based time machine to help.
More often than not, companies hold the rights to the work, so you can't rely on the artist's continued interest to keep the copyright valid. Companies will keep EVERY work tied up FOREVER under your proposal.
What really will happen is that most of the stuff we value will just disappear because it was locked away. Sure, the most famous stuff will live on, but the vast majority will be entirely forgotten. We'll become -- are becoming -- a culture with no memory.
Python: ''.join([chr(int(s[i:i+2],16)) for i in range(0,len(s),2)])
Prints just what he wrote. Kinda disappointing actually, I was hoping it would be different.
(Yes, I know this probably could be written shorter in Perl...)
People at Harvard do illegal file sharing. Now the government can take all their computers! Woohoo! I bet they have nice stuff. They can go there on their way to MIT!
The government is going to have absolutely awesome computers. And the beauty of it, is they can sell them, then go back and impound them later! Sell them again and again and instant $$$ Budgest crisis? Solved! Funding wars against the rest of the world? PAID FOR! Impound and auction, rinse and repeat!
The page the link brings you to is full of ads for domain squatters, including a big picture one at the bottom for "Domain Fool", which "brings you domain names at foolish discounts!"
So, they tried to figure out what domain names you might want, BOUGHT THEM from under you for pennies, and now are trying to sell them back to you for piles of money...
"Hey, new mothers! After you have your baby, we're gonna take it, then sell it back to you for a FOOLISH DISCOUNT! Woo woo!"
I even set my language to German and then back to English(US) just in case that was a problem, but nope, I'm in the same boat as the other "IMAP-Wanters".
Gyroplanes use unpowered rotors that rotate horizontally for lift. The cyclogyro of this article uses horizontally mounted, powered wings rotating vertically for lift. It's a different beast.
:)
Nice video, though
Well, perhaps Microsoft is planning on going to the governments that buy the OLPC and mentioning that Microsoft holds over 200 patents that Linux is violating, and if they would like to protect their computer investment and not have to face a lawsuit costing millions, they should get a license for Windows and solve all their problems in one blow -- their OLPC laptops will still work, they will be in zero danger of messy lawsuits, and their children will grow up skilled in the software of modern business instead of a UI they will never see anywhere else?
It's a great and inevitable move for Microsoft -- if you buy into their vision.
Whether it's great for anyone else, well, I dunno, but Microsoft is just there to worry about Microsoft, not anyone else.
Perhaps because our government doesn't pay for our education?
At 10-20K per year, you can only go to school so long before you're too broke to continue.
Maybe not, but I know I only registered so I could change the sorts of stories that got full text on the front page. For years and years, I just read and posted anonymously...
So a low UID would actually give people who did similarly the (geekly) acknowledgment they feel they deserve!
It's always good to be reminded that our text messages are read, our cell phone conversations are easily eavesdropped, and the government can listen to any of our communications at any time and many carriers will gladly help the government invade our privacy.
Scott McNealy said it best -- "Privacy is dead, get over it."
My previous job -- in California -- was just like this. An hourly wage except it was salaried -- exempt. What that basically meant is if I was under 40 hours a week, I got paid for the actual time, but if I was OVER 40 hours a week, I got paid for 40 hours, even when my boss had to go away for business (we were a two-person department) and I had to cover his job as well. Everyone else in the company at my level (bottom level peon) were hourly and got overtime. I was expected to work as much as them -- that's not unfair -- but get paid less -- and that WAS unfair.
I could see no reason why my job -- keep computers running, do server maintenance, backups and some sweeping/cleaning -- was considered professional and exempt. They did it, of course, because they could get away with it.
Well, I'm willing to give a show its fantasy premise. You have to do that. So I can give Chuck "its guy with all the nation's secrets embedded in his head, but despite being an invaluable and irreplaceable national intelligence resource, continues in his old life". I think everything else was dumb, but ymmv. Wasn't as bad as Big Bang Theory.
:) it doesn't count.
I thought Wargames was pretty realistic; his hacking techniques -- war dialing, social engineering, research -- were on track, he gained a ton of geek cred by having an Altair, and once you gave him the premise of contacting a self-aware computer, the rest of the movie felt right -- and hey, Fred Thompson!
Tron wasn't trying to be realistic
That Couchville link is a pretty good find.
Most of the geeks I know don't watch much TV. The ones that do watch Simpsons, Family Guy, Heroes, Mythbusters (not one I follow, but whatever), Lost... not sure how many watch BG or Doctor Who (I have to convince people to give them a try). X-Files was hugely popular back when it was on. Probably any show that has a fan convention for it, would be by definition a favorite of geeks. Who BUT a geek would go to a convention based on a television show?
Oh, that's harsh :(
Having lost my geek creds, I return to my previous life as an office assistant.