The meanings of words change, every day. Things that meant one thing yesterday means something else today. This is not something most people understand, but it is the truth. You cannot insist on a formal code of language which is absolute because a language is a living thing. Why don't you read this fine article written by an editor of the OED. It serves as a good example of ever-changing language.
I found this note very interesting. I wonder if the calculations had anything to do with Fibonacci numbers? That's the first problem they were used to solve, Fibonacci modeled an abstract population of rabbits using them. That would be so cool, if one of the most important sequences in mathematics were used 800 years after it was discovered in one of the first computers ever, for the same purpose of analyzing rabbits.
You're forgetting the first part of this secrecy equation: VMWare. If you run a virtual machine from inside TrueCrypt all those artifacts will be wholly inside encrypted and inside TrueCrypt. It is a complete and total sandbox, you cannot have a lnk-file from the host computer something in the VM. If you want total plausible deniability, just put one relatively harmless VM in the main TrueCrypt-drive and then hide your dangerous stuff inside a hidden folder. It will be impossible to even suspect that there is something there. When the police forces you to hand over your keys, they will decrypt the volume and only find the harmless VM and be none the wiser.
I know how you feel. Someone told me that a few years ago, and it was more traumatic than Bambi's mom's death. Work through the pain, you'll get over it.
Every high school I know teaches angles in degrees, not radians. When someone changes their stance completely, we say "It's a U turn or a 180-degree shift" Should we say 1.55 radians shift instead?
I haven't taken trig in more than a decade, but since when is 180 degrees the same as 1.55 radians? It's a much more memorable number than that, since 360 degrees = 2*pi radians, 180 degrees = pi radians. Seriously, that is not hard to remember.
It's true that it is just a game (well, I wouldn't really call SL a "game", exactly, more like IM with avatars), but he is running a business. He invests his time inventing stuff which he sells for money, expecting to get a return. Just because his business involves virtual stuff (information really) it doesn't mean he hasn't the right to protection like everyone else. I mean, if we are going to follow your logic to its conclusion (that information has no intrinsic value) you can see that it is absurd. What if someone was copying his podcast, violating his copyright, would he then not be allowed to sue either?
Listen, kid, if you don't know anything about law, don't try to act as if you do. publicly funded is not unconstitutional. How do you explain social security or medicare? Why are these federal programs legal, even if you count the Tenth Amendmendt? I know the answer, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. Suffice to say that you are so wrong, it's not even fun.
As for your other points, why the hell aren't you raising up a stink about the fire department? Why aren't you angry that YOUR tax-dollars are being used to put out OTHER peoples fires! They should have bought insurance so they could pay the firefighters, dammit! They're taking away your freedoms, man!
Socialized medicine does not take away any freedoms at all, in fact it gives people more freedom. You're an idiot, and you need to go away.
But there are legitimate uses for completely spoofing CallerID and misdirecting the numbers! I'm talking about the press. Many newspapers that talks to informers on a regular basis have lines that show up as nonsense numbers, so that a person can talk without being afraid of others knowing who they're talking to. It would be really bad if someone sneaked into a whistleblower's home and dialled *69 and "The New York Times information desk, how can I help you?" came up. Unless this law has a specific allowance for this, it shouldn't be passed.
You could take that logic even further. Czar comes (like most European words for "emperor") from the name Ceasar (as in "I am Gaius of the Julii, called Ceasar!"), and we all know what happened to him*!
A more appropriate term would be "Augustus", as in "Privacy Augustus", as in "I ruled for more than 40 years, brought peace and founded the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. Bitches!"
I think the author are referring to the Apple fanboys that go on messageboards and discussion-sites (like, say, slashdot) and defends Apple to the teeth, claiming that the safari-browser is really catching on, despite a bogus downloading number and the mountains of criticism it it has gotten. You know, the type that claims that apple fans really are the greatest computer users ever, that they do hold apple up to a huge standard that apple (and only apple) can possibly meet! It's not only apple that's the greatest computer company of all time, they also have the best greatest fans!
Ever seen those kind of posts?
(you can argue all you want, but if you can't agree that apple-users are biased in favour of apple, then you are too biased yourself. The author certainly has a point.)
Yes, that is what I meant, I should have been clearer:) Space shuttles don't leave the atmosphere because they attain exit velocity, they leave the atmosphere because there is continuous thrust.
According to wikipedia, Mach 1 is 340.3 m/s and escape velocity from earth is 11.2 km/s. That would make escape velocity about Mach 32.
However, remember that you don't need escape velocity to exit the atmosphere, you just need continual force upwards that is greater than gravity. Space shuttles don't come anywhere near 11.2 km/s.
That's wrong, actually. I mean, practicality doesn't really figure into defining the other units, how practical is it to define a meter as the length light travels in 1/299,792,458ths of a second? The point is that it has to be absolute. 1 dm^3 of water at 4 degrees Celsius (whatever that is in Kelvin) is exact and absolute. Plus, we already have a similar definition, the Kelvin is defined as exactly 1/273.16 of the temperature of the triple point of water. If the hokey-ness of measuring temperature figures into the kg, it should figure into the definition of the Kelvin.
No, the REAL reason this is an impossible way to define mass is pressure. Water density depends ever so slightly on the pressure it is in. Pressure is measured in Pascals, and as we all know that 1 Pa = 1 N / 1 m^2 is the definition of the Pascal, and that Newton's second law is 1 N = 1 kg * 1 m/s^2. Which means that if you used this method, you would use the kilogram to define the kilogram. Not dice soldier. That's why we have a rusty lump.
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It's not exactly the most obscure one in the history of pop-culture references.
(i don't want to rag on the modding of my own post (please don't mod me down!), but it is slightly disturbing that my comment got a +5 Funny)
So, nothing new?
Yeah, that's the reason we shouldn't have driven Alan Turing to suicide.
The meanings of words change, every day. Things that meant one thing yesterday means something else today. This is not something most people understand, but it is the truth. You cannot insist on a formal code of language which is absolute because a language is a living thing. Why don't you read this fine article written by an editor of the OED. It serves as a good example of ever-changing language.
I found this note very interesting. I wonder if the calculations had anything to do with Fibonacci numbers? That's the first problem they were used to solve, Fibonacci modeled an abstract population of rabbits using them. That would be so cool, if one of the most important sequences in mathematics were used 800 years after it was discovered in one of the first computers ever, for the same purpose of analyzing rabbits.
You're forgetting the first part of this secrecy equation: VMWare. If you run a virtual machine from inside TrueCrypt all those artifacts will be wholly inside encrypted and inside TrueCrypt. It is a complete and total sandbox, you cannot have a lnk-file from the host computer something in the VM. If you want total plausible deniability, just put one relatively harmless VM in the main TrueCrypt-drive and then hide your dangerous stuff inside a hidden folder. It will be impossible to even suspect that there is something there. When the police forces you to hand over your keys, they will decrypt the volume and only find the harmless VM and be none the wiser.
I'm going to take a complete shot in the dark and say that hunter is an older profession than prostitute. That saying is complete BS.
I know how you feel. Someone told me that a few years ago, and it was more traumatic than Bambi's mom's death. Work through the pain, you'll get over it.
Actually, it's "GNU's Not UNIX's Not UNIX Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit"
Every high school I know teaches angles in degrees, not radians. When someone changes their stance completely, we say "It's a U turn or a 180-degree shift" Should we say 1.55 radians shift instead?
I haven't taken trig in more than a decade, but since when is 180 degrees the same as 1.55 radians? It's a much more memorable number than that, since 360 degrees = 2*pi radians, 180 degrees = pi radians. Seriously, that is not hard to remember.
I wasn't aware Republicans could count to one.
Could you please explain the difference? It seems like a shell to me. I mean, tftp isn't something you launch from a boot loader, is it?
It's true that it is just a game (well, I wouldn't really call SL a "game", exactly, more like IM with avatars), but he is running a business. He invests his time inventing stuff which he sells for money, expecting to get a return. Just because his business involves virtual stuff (information really) it doesn't mean he hasn't the right to protection like everyone else. I mean, if we are going to follow your logic to its conclusion (that information has no intrinsic value) you can see that it is absurd. What if someone was copying his podcast, violating his copyright, would he then not be allowed to sue either?
"Everything in science comes in twos, threes, and fives."
Someone hasn't heard of the Maxwell Equations
Listen, kid, if you don't know anything about law, don't try to act as if you do. publicly funded is not unconstitutional. How do you explain social security or medicare? Why are these federal programs legal, even if you count the Tenth Amendmendt? I know the answer, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. Suffice to say that you are so wrong, it's not even fun.
As for your other points, why the hell aren't you raising up a stink about the fire department? Why aren't you angry that YOUR tax-dollars are being used to put out OTHER peoples fires! They should have bought insurance so they could pay the firefighters, dammit! They're taking away your freedoms, man!
Socialized medicine does not take away any freedoms at all, in fact it gives people more freedom. You're an idiot, and you need to go away.
But there are legitimate uses for completely spoofing CallerID and misdirecting the numbers! I'm talking about the press. Many newspapers that talks to informers on a regular basis have lines that show up as nonsense numbers, so that a person can talk without being afraid of others knowing who they're talking to. It would be really bad if someone sneaked into a whistleblower's home and dialled *69 and "The New York Times information desk, how can I help you?" came up. Unless this law has a specific allowance for this, it shouldn't be passed.
You, sir, are truly an inspiration for the people! Where can I get in touch with Time? I want to nominate PopeRatzo for Man of the Year!
You could take that logic even further. Czar comes (like most European words for "emperor") from the name Ceasar (as in "I am Gaius of the Julii, called Ceasar!"), and we all know what happened to him*!
A more appropriate term would be "Augustus", as in "Privacy Augustus", as in "I ruled for more than 40 years, brought peace and founded the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. Bitches!"
Anansi Boys would also be pretty damn awesome movie. We're at least are getting Stardust this summer.
I think the author are referring to the Apple fanboys that go on messageboards and discussion-sites (like, say, slashdot) and defends Apple to the teeth, claiming that the safari-browser is really catching on, despite a bogus downloading number and the mountains of criticism it it has gotten. You know, the type that claims that apple fans really are the greatest computer users ever, that they do hold apple up to a huge standard that apple (and only apple) can possibly meet! It's not only apple that's the greatest computer company of all time, they also have the best greatest fans!
Ever seen those kind of posts?
(you can argue all you want, but if you can't agree that apple-users are biased in favour of apple, then you are too biased yourself. The author certainly has a point.)
Yes, that is what I meant, I should have been clearer :) Space shuttles don't leave the atmosphere because they attain exit velocity, they leave the atmosphere because there is continuous thrust.
According to wikipedia, Mach 1 is 340.3 m/s and escape velocity from earth is 11.2 km/s. That would make escape velocity about Mach 32.
However, remember that you don't need escape velocity to exit the atmosphere, you just need continual force upwards that is greater than gravity. Space shuttles don't come anywhere near 11.2 km/s.
That's wrong, actually. I mean, practicality doesn't really figure into defining the other units, how practical is it to define a meter as the length light travels in 1/299,792,458ths of a second? The point is that it has to be absolute. 1 dm^3 of water at 4 degrees Celsius (whatever that is in Kelvin) is exact and absolute. Plus, we already have a similar definition, the Kelvin is defined as exactly 1/273.16 of the temperature of the triple point of water. If the hokey-ness of measuring temperature figures into the kg, it should figure into the definition of the Kelvin.
No, the REAL reason this is an impossible way to define mass is pressure. Water density depends ever so slightly on the pressure it is in. Pressure is measured in Pascals, and as we all know that 1 Pa = 1 N / 1 m^2 is the definition of the Pascal, and that Newton's second law is 1 N = 1 kg * 1 m/s^2. Which means that if you used this method, you would use the kilogram to define the kilogram. Not dice soldier. That's why we have a rusty lump.
Steve Ballmer uses a red suit? I didn't like him before, but that is pimped out, dog!