I'm a graduate student at Texas A&M, and we just had a fatal knifing in the local bar area of town. Some off-duty marine killed one guy, and almost killed another with just a pocketknife. Are we going to have to have mandatory friskings before you can enter an establishment that serves alcohol?
You might argue that if he'd had a gun, he'd have killed a lot more people, but those "flare ups" that you speak of are generally focused to just one or a few people. Stuff like this kid pulled at VT sounds like it came from a long-standing hatred of humanity in general.
What makes it practically unusable is the fact that clicking on a headline doesn't actually take you to the story, it takes you to a siliconnews.net subpage that has the actual link. There are better solutions out there than this.
This is just a new spin on an old trick. Geneticists have been using tiny gold pellets coated in DNA in so-called "gene guns" for a long time. They're mainly used to transform plant cells, as these cells have tough cell walls.
Using them on the human cells is a logical step, but applicability is going to be rather narrow.
Every time there's a story about Windows insecurity, there are several posts like this. "Well, I don't have any problems, because I have programs X, Y, & Z running, so you must be an idiot."
If somebody sold me a car, and the only way I could get it to work without it busting into flames and immolating me immediately was to install several aftermarket parts, in addition to rebuilding the engine, I'd be pretty pissed off.
Even with SP2, Microsoft is selling a broken product, and in today's day and age (what with the billions of exploits available) they, not the average user, are accountable.
Douglas Kee, then Direct Revenue's chief of quality assurance (QA)...
Isn't having a quality assurance branch for a spyware company kind of an oxymoron?
That's like having an "ethics department of sudan" or "NSA oversight committee".
Yes, but frankly, it is not any of the government's any business to care. At least not as far as it extends to datamining sites like MySpace or facebook, or any major social site on the 'net, just on the offchance someone posts "I'm gonna blow up a Wal-Mart today." Just about everything else falls under free speech, which allows me to post a "I don't trust my government" sign on my virtual lawn and not expect a gang of SWAT thugs kicking in my door.
This program smacks of the all-two common "everyone is potentially guilty, so let's keep a close eye on them" mantra that seems to be a favorite these days.
If the government wanted to keep a close eye (and I'm sure they are) on obvious sites related to terrorism, fine. They shouldn't be spending millions of taxpayer dollars spying on me, just so if they ever need out-of-context dirt they can have it from some post I made on my sisters blog.
It's this pompus disdain for American citizenry that really pisses me off about my government. Instead of fixing the myriad of very real and very pressing issues (war in Iraq, energy prices, america's brain-drain, etc.), they're instead enacting hundreds of poorly planned, expensive, and (in many ways) intrusive "policies" with minimal oversight. That's what has me dreading the future possibilites. It might not be all that bad now, but this pervasive paranoid mentality scares me.
In any case, eyes or not, that's not a scorpion, that's a crayfish.
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The article brings up an interesting point that I've always used to defend myself against more radical religious elements I've come into contact with:
Men are fricking war machines, and throughout nearly any of the world's holy books war is a fact of life: the Bible, the quran, (heck even the Bhagavad-Gita is narrated in a war setting).
In today's culture, men are told that the very things that selected their genes for greatness in the past (i.e. warrior prowess and the ability to survive) are liabilities. Thousands of years of genetic selection aren't going to be reversed in a few hundred years.
In that vein, I believe video games are a reasonable (and even constructive) outlet for a man's natural agressions. It could be said that God made men this way, so who are we to deny that?
For me, my faith is almost exclusively about self control, but at the same time I'm fully aware of my own humanity. Having a safe and (legal) outlet for myself is a wise choice. Obviously, games can become pathological, but that's true about anything.
My personal poison is Halo, and I've found that during the game I increasingly find myself looking after the welfare of my marine NPCs. I do generally tend to steer away games that are violent for violence sake. I think if you look back, the reason so many early games were generally pointless (i.e. DOOM's run-and-shoot mentality) is because back then that was already pushing the limits.
Just my two cents. Most rabid religious types are simply afraid of change. There are some of who aren't blindly reactionary, and realize that this isn't an bridge we want to burn our credibility/time over. Don't lump us all together.
I thought about that too, but notice where the hookup for the iPod is: The glove compartment. Most people aren't going to drive around with their glove compartment open just to watch video on it.
Of course, you might be referring to them just holding it in their hands while driving, but that same complaint is applicable across the board to any device.
I always thought putting the iPod in the glove box seemed rather pointless, as it would have made sense pre-video iPod to have it visible. Maybe SJ is a bigger visionary than even we thought?
I actually partipated in the Sunrayce 97 and 99, with the LLCC team (http://www.formulasun.org/history/). The NGM motors that most of the teams used (and the one used by all of the top finishers) was digitally limited to approximately 72mph.
One of the best questions ever asked was about the feasibility of these cars. (i.e. are they actually viable, or are they engineers toys?)
I would pretty much have to respond that these are still very much just testbeds for solar research. Several square yards of solar cells (usually very fragile) are never going to be mainstream, and these vehicles are built to be as absolutely light as possible.
That said, these vehicles are amazing. I could easily push our vehicle with only my pinky, and total energy consumption at top speed was less than a hair drier. In my experience, these competitions really distinguish the brilliant and intuitive engineers from the commonplace ones.
All cars must pass several exhaustive safety checks, "scrutineering", where literally every bolt, nut, wire and square inch of composite is inspected by experienced engineers. (They even check the manufacturer's marks on bolts!) As a matter of fact, I remember that Texas A&M was disqualified because their vehicle rode an inch and a quarter too low to the ground. I wouldn't want to put one of our cars up against a semi, but safety is a primary concern to those involved. I mean, c'mon, how many people drive around much smaller (and less protected) motorcycles?
Actively targeting Girls/Women as a demographic for computer games is sort of barking up the wrong tree.
It reminds me of a move made by the Lionel toy train company back in the sixties. They made a train set where the locomotive and cars were molded in pastel colored plastics. They overlooked the possibility that the type of girl who would play with model trains probably didn't want them in exceptionally unrealistic pastel shades.
As a husband to a wife addicted to both Halos and PoP, I can say that there are plenty of women attracted to video games for the same reason your average slashdotter is.
(Or maybe I just got really really lucky...yeah, that's it).
While electron spin entaglement is quite difficult, entangled photon polarization (as an information "protocol") is quite straightforward.
An army physicist I worked with as an undergrad used entagled photon polarization as a method to make remote measurements. Because particular compounds can specifically polarize light, polarization of one photon will cause the immediate polarization of its entangled sister photon. (This means that you could, in theory, shine a laser beam at a chemical vapor a mile away, and by reading the polarization states of trapped entagled photons, remotely measure the vapor's composition)
The facinating thing is that this "information" transferral happens instantly. A polarization change in one photon immediately results in the polarization of its sister, regardless of the distance between them.
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So that's the specifications that Microsoft thinks being "Vista-Capable" implies? A thin client?
No wonder they've been getting in trouble with the "Vista Ready" branding on shitty machines.
I'm a graduate student at Texas A&M, and we just had a fatal knifing in the local bar area of town. Some off-duty marine killed one guy, and almost killed another with just a pocketknife. Are we going to have to have mandatory friskings before you can enter an establishment that serves alcohol?
You might argue that if he'd had a gun, he'd have killed a lot more people, but those "flare ups" that you speak of are generally focused to just one or a few people. Stuff like this kid pulled at VT sounds like it came from a long-standing hatred of humanity in general.
So, this is the best MOAB has to offer? A security bug in a third-party "enhancement"?
This is scaremongering at its best. Nothing to see here, move along.
Meh. It's little better than a link aggregator.
What makes it practically unusable is the fact that clicking on a headline doesn't actually take you to the story, it takes you to a siliconnews.net subpage that has the actual link. There are better solutions out there than this.
This is just a new spin on an old trick. Geneticists have been using tiny gold pellets coated in DNA in so-called "gene guns" for a long time. They're mainly used to transform plant cells, as these cells have tough cell walls.
Using them on the human cells is a logical step, but applicability is going to be rather narrow.
Every time there's a story about Windows insecurity, there are several posts like this.
"Well, I don't have any problems, because I have programs X, Y, & Z running, so you must be an idiot."
If somebody sold me a car, and the only way I could get it to work without it busting into flames and immolating me immediately was to install several aftermarket parts, in addition to rebuilding the engine, I'd be pretty pissed off.
Even with SP2, Microsoft is selling a broken product, and in today's day and age (what with the billions of exploits available) they, not the average user, are accountable.
Douglas Kee, then Direct Revenue's chief of quality assurance (QA)...
Isn't having a quality assurance branch for a spyware company kind of an oxymoron?
That's like having an "ethics department of sudan" or "NSA oversight committee".
Sigh...
Yes, but frankly, it is not any of the government's any business to care. At least not as far as it extends to datamining sites like MySpace or facebook, or any major social site on the 'net, just on the offchance someone posts "I'm gonna blow up a Wal-Mart today." Just about everything else falls under free speech, which allows me to post a "I don't trust my government" sign on my virtual lawn and not expect a gang of SWAT thugs kicking in my door.
This program smacks of the all-two common "everyone is potentially guilty, so let's keep a close eye on them" mantra that seems to be a favorite these days.
If the government wanted to keep a close eye (and I'm sure they are) on obvious sites related to terrorism, fine. They shouldn't be spending millions of taxpayer dollars spying on me, just so if they ever need out-of-context dirt they can have it from some post I made on my sisters blog.
It's this pompus disdain for American citizenry that really pisses me off about my government. Instead of fixing the myriad of very real and very pressing issues (war in Iraq, energy prices, america's brain-drain, etc.), they're instead enacting hundreds of poorly planned, expensive, and (in many ways) intrusive "policies" with minimal oversight. That's what has me dreading the future possibilites. It might not be all that bad now, but this pervasive paranoid mentality scares me.
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And what has the NSA learned from this?
That I'm a lazy, self-aggrandizing slashdot reader with way too much time on my hands.
In any case, eyes or not, that's not a scorpion, that's a crayfish.
The article brings up an interesting point that I've always used to defend myself against more radical religious elements I've come into contact with:
Men are fricking war machines, and throughout nearly any of the world's holy books war is a fact of life: the Bible, the quran, (heck even the Bhagavad-Gita is narrated in a war setting).
In today's culture, men are told that the very things that selected their genes for greatness in the past (i.e. warrior prowess and the ability to survive) are liabilities. Thousands of years of genetic selection aren't going to be reversed in a few hundred years.
In that vein, I believe video games are a reasonable (and even constructive) outlet for a man's natural agressions. It could be said that God made men this way, so who are we to deny that?
For me, my faith is almost exclusively about self control, but at the same time I'm fully aware of my own humanity. Having a safe and (legal) outlet for myself is a wise choice. Obviously, games can become pathological, but that's true about anything.
My personal poison is Halo, and I've found that during the game I increasingly find myself looking after the welfare of my marine NPCs. I do generally tend to steer away games that are violent for violence sake. I think if you look back, the reason so many early games were generally pointless (i.e. DOOM's run-and-shoot mentality) is because back then that was already pushing the limits.
Just my two cents. Most rabid religious types are simply afraid of change. There are some of who aren't blindly reactionary, and realize that this isn't an bridge we want to burn our credibility/time over. Don't lump us all together.
...and a glowing report on the progress of Duke Nukem Forever.
The statement about the eye being poorly designed because it is "backward" has been shown to be wrong here> . /><br /> /><br /> /><br />
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The basic fact is that the rods and cones in our eyes require a massive amount of blood to operate properly. There is a literal lake of blood that the light-sensitive cells must sit in, both for nurishment and quick replacement (they actually "burn out" rather quickly). The blood vessels in <i>front</i> of those cells are probably necessary for dead cell removal and for supplying additional and necessary vascular function.
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The human eye is a multi-layered and incredibly complex piece of hardware. Although certain aspects of its design are shared in "lower" lifeforms, there are many aspects that appear miracously (at least from a developmental biologist's aspect). My personal theory is that these advancement were the result of design, but I can test that hypothesis by actively <i>looking for</i> intermediate organisms. If it can be explained via developmental biology, fine. But so far, explanations for many (if not most) of the more advanced components of our eyes (and higher chordates) have not been forthcoming.
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Many people have faith that science will one day be able to explain systematically how complex organs like the eye evolved from (currently undiscovered) precursors, and that's fine. I'm willing to allow that there might be another explanation. That doesn't stop me from looking, however, and if anything it makes me a better scientist.
I thought about that too, but notice where the hookup for the iPod is: The glove compartment. Most people aren't going to drive around with their glove compartment open just to watch video on it.
Of course, you might be referring to them just holding it in their hands while driving, but that same complaint is applicable across the board to any device.
I always thought putting the iPod in the glove box seemed rather pointless, as it would have made sense pre-video iPod to have it visible. Maybe SJ is a bigger visionary than even we thought?
Hitting a HD-sized target at 1000m with a 7.62mm round is...very difficult. You must have telescope eyes.
This would be absolutely excellent for games that use split screens. You effectively have double the real estate.
One of the best questions ever asked was about the feasibility of these cars. (i.e. are they actually viable, or are they engineers toys?)
I would pretty much have to respond that these are still very much just testbeds for solar research. Several square yards of solar cells (usually very fragile) are never going to be mainstream, and these vehicles are built to be as absolutely light as possible.
That said, these vehicles are amazing. I could easily push our vehicle with only my pinky, and total energy consumption at top speed was less than a hair drier. In my experience, these competitions really distinguish the brilliant and intuitive engineers from the commonplace ones.
All cars must pass several exhaustive safety checks, "scrutineering", where literally every bolt, nut, wire and square inch of composite is inspected by experienced engineers. (They even check the manufacturer's marks on bolts!) As a matter of fact, I remember that Texas A&M was disqualified because their vehicle rode an inch and a quarter too low to the ground. I wouldn't want to put one of our cars up against a semi, but safety is a primary concern to those involved. I mean, c'mon, how many people drive around much smaller (and less protected) motorcycles?
It reminds me of a move made by the Lionel toy train company back in the sixties. They made a train set where the locomotive and cars were molded in pastel colored plastics. They overlooked the possibility that the type of girl who would play with model trains probably didn't want them in exceptionally unrealistic pastel shades.
As a husband to a wife addicted to both Halos and PoP, I can say that there are plenty of women attracted to video games for the same reason your average slashdotter is.
(Or maybe I just got really really lucky...yeah, that's it).
http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/teleport ation2.htm
An army physicist I worked with as an undergrad used entagled photon polarization as a method to make remote measurements. Because particular compounds can specifically polarize light, polarization of one photon will cause the immediate polarization of its entangled sister photon. (This means that you could, in theory, shine a laser beam at a chemical vapor a mile away, and by reading the polarization states of trapped entagled photons, remotely measure the vapor's composition)
The facinating thing is that this "information" transferral happens instantly. A polarization change in one photon immediately results in the polarization of its sister, regardless of the distance between them.