I'd assume that a washing machine and a shower would effectively neutralize the chips. However, I can't help but wonder about accidental ingestion of these dust particle-size tags. A chip that is inhaled might stick around longer than one simply present on the skin or clothing.
To the Canadians: please, PLEASE help out your neighbors down south and oppose this proposal before our infernal RIAA decides it would be a good idea to pay off some Congress-critter to tack it onto another "defence-related" bill.
I do agree that we do need a stronger form of authentication for things like taxes and other government affairs. What I don't like is the fact that there will be more information stored in some database than just my name and ID number. A SSN gives a name, but a national ID will probably give my driver's license number, a physical description or picture, and my residence, at the very least. Stronger authentication is a good thing, but I don't like the idea of not having any control over to whom I give such exact identifying information, and any information in some government database somewhere should not be considered "safe." I'd rather ha more ambiguity.
I have a question: the kernel is GPL, so what's stopping distros from asserting their rights and distributing kernels that don't contain the limitation? All they have to do is make the source available, which is something they have to do anyway if they're using a patched kernel (and most are).
This is exactly what I've been saying for a while. Thank you.
The problem isn't so much the fact that cameras are being used now as it is that children are growing up acceptant (and expectant) of the surveillance. These children, already accustomed to a level of surveillance which we might find obtrusive, will be much more willing to implement more radical "security" solutions than most of us ever would be. Chances are, we'll still be alive, but more or less powerless to do anything about it at that point.
Leftist and liberal mean very different things today. IMO, the Republicans seem to be much more about government control than the Democrats do after this current administration. The Republicans aren't what they used to be, something I doubt many really realize.
But then Past Dwight will not drink the coffee, which will change Future Dwight, and the message will never be sent. If the message was never sent, Past Dwight drank the coffee (assuming drinking coffee is something Dwight does regularly, of course, which is why he would need to be warned in the first place), realized it was poisoned, and sent the message from the future. Upon receipt of this message, Past Dwight decides he shouldn't drink the coffee, which causes the message not to be sent, which in turn causes Dwight to send the message...
No science guys, csh is not a worthy shell in 2006. If you have to suffer with the wacky behavior of a csh variant, at least use tcsh.
I admin a linux cluster for the high energy physics group at my university, and although we're moving away from fortran and PAW in favor of C++ and ROOT, most of my users insist on tcsh. I suspect the reason may have something to do with the fact that less than half of them really know there's a difference between tcsh and, for example, bash. Every time I have to debug some strange behavior related to someone's environment (usually just something like an nfs share being down) it occurs to me that ~/.tcshrc is almost a carbon copy of everyone else's.:) A few people wrote some useful things in tcsh, and since no one else knew or cared enough to rewrite them in bash, they ended up just being copied around. It can be quite frustrating sometimes to have to maintain two copies of scripts I've written in bash that people wanted in tcsh as well.
Nope. Lasers are just monochromatic, polarized light, meaning they're beams of photons with nearly the same energy that are all travelling in the same direction. 300MeV is actually really high for a laser; after a little algebra, the wavelength of a laser with that energy is 4.13e-6 nanometers. Most lasers that I know of are visible light or infrared, but light with a wavelength on the order of 10^-6 nm (10^-15 m) is high on the gamma side of the spectrum.
If you were to put a sandwich into a 300MeV proton beam (for example), what you'd end up with would depend on the intensity of the beam. Low intensity gives you a radioactive sandwich, and high intensity gives you a hole in a radioactive sandwich. I imagine similar things would happen with a 300MeV laser, but you wouldn't even need a laser if you could shoot 300MeV photons at things:)
Disclaimer: I am a physicist-in-training, so IANAP (yet).
Newton's laws of motion are still called 'laws' even though we've known for the better part of a century now that they're wrong. In modern science, that distinction between 'law' and 'theory' really doesn't exist, as any good scientist will take everything that has been 'proved' with a grain of salt.
Now, if you really want to add insult to injury, stay home on voting day after collecting the $300. Everyone wins: none of the parties you cheated get your vote against them, and Corporate America pays half your rent for the month.
This whole issue is simply ridiculous. The game was rated Mature (17+) with a list of reasons included on the box, and parents/politicians/blood-sucking lawyers are complaining that their (less-than-17 year-old) children who play it are seeing polyboobies? Wouldn't 'mature' seem to indicate, well, a certain level of maturity, such that children who are allowed to play the game by their parents are probably capable of handling polyboobies without spontaneously combusting? And if the parents aren't aware of what kind of games their kids are playing because of negligence on their part, how is it Rockstar's fault?
Another side-effect of a particular bomb being noticed on the Web is that such attention helps to foster the bomb and keep it as the first result for the affected keywords. Therefore, once a bomb is noticed, chances are it's here to stay because every page that mentions it increases its ranking in the algorithm a little.
Or do you just want to copy what others are doing and give it away for free?
Yes.
More to the point: The free software/open source software community is not a market, and I really don't like the business-speak that comes to the surface every time free software comes up. The goal of everything is not profit or some idea of "winning." Sometimes people just like to share things that they've written to be useful, in the hope that it will help someone else.
I don't write code for a living; instead, it's a hobby to me. I would argue that much of the free software community began like that: they write code because they enjoy it as something to do on the side, not because it makes them money. I don't really feel any compusion to try to charge people for the things I produce for fun.
Alright, you're drunk! Unfortunately, that barmaid you were eying slipped a little "surprise" into your drink. Roll a fort save to avoid passing out...
In an ideal world, all water would be perfectly fresh, and there would be no pop-up ads on the Net. However, if the mercury's already in the water and said filters are easy to come by and available for free, it seems quite unwise not to use them because "the water should be clean." Ads abound, and ad blockers make them go away. There's no sense in complaining about a problem that can be solved in a few clicks.
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Pong was intellectually stimulating; my cat could watch that for hours.
I'd assume that a washing machine and a shower would effectively neutralize the chips. However, I can't help but wonder about accidental ingestion of these dust particle-size tags. A chip that is inhaled might stick around longer than one simply present on the skin or clothing.
this is BULLSHIT.
To the Canadians: please, PLEASE help out your neighbors down south and oppose this proposal before our infernal RIAA decides it would be a good idea to pay off some Congress-critter to tack it onto another "defence-related" bill.
I do agree that we do need a stronger form of authentication for things like taxes and other government affairs. What I don't like is the fact that there will be more information stored in some database than just my name and ID number. A SSN gives a name, but a national ID will probably give my driver's license number, a physical description or picture, and my residence, at the very least. Stronger authentication is a good thing, but I don't like the idea of not having any control over to whom I give such exact identifying information, and any information in some government database somewhere should not be considered "safe." I'd rather ha more ambiguity.
I have a question: the kernel is GPL, so what's stopping distros from asserting their rights and distributing kernels that don't contain the limitation? All they have to do is make the source available, which is something they have to do anyway if they're using a patched kernel (and most are).
I don't really have any "sensitive" information on my computer :)
If you did, would you tell us, in today's world?
This is exactly what I've been saying for a while. Thank you.
The problem isn't so much the fact that cameras are being used now as it is that children are growing up acceptant (and expectant) of the surveillance. These children, already accustomed to a level of surveillance which we might find obtrusive, will be much more willing to implement more radical "security" solutions than most of us ever would be. Chances are, we'll still be alive, but more or less powerless to do anything about it at that point.
Leftist and liberal mean very different things today. IMO, the Republicans seem to be much more about government control than the Democrats do after this current administration. The Republicans aren't what they used to be, something I doubt many really realize.
But then Past Dwight will not drink the coffee, which will change Future Dwight, and the message will never be sent. If the message was never sent, Past Dwight drank the coffee (assuming drinking coffee is something Dwight does regularly, of course, which is why he would need to be warned in the first place), realized it was poisoned, and sent the message from the future. Upon receipt of this message, Past Dwight decides he shouldn't drink the coffee, which causes the message not to be sent, which in turn causes Dwight to send the message...
Nope. Lasers are just monochromatic, polarized light, meaning they're beams of photons with nearly the same energy that are all travelling in the same direction. 300MeV is actually really high for a laser; after a little algebra, the wavelength of a laser with that energy is 4.13e-6 nanometers. Most lasers that I know of are visible light or infrared, but light with a wavelength on the order of 10^-6 nm (10^-15 m) is high on the gamma side of the spectrum.
:)
Disclaimer: I am a physicist-in-training, so IANAP (yet).
If you were to put a sandwich into a 300MeV proton beam (for example), what you'd end up with would depend on the intensity of the beam. Low intensity gives you a radioactive sandwich, and high intensity gives you a hole in a radioactive sandwich. I imagine similar things would happen with a 300MeV laser, but you wouldn't even need a laser if you could shoot 300MeV photons at things
Newton's laws of motion are still called 'laws' even though we've known for the better part of a century now that they're wrong. In modern science, that distinction between 'law' and 'theory' really doesn't exist, as any good scientist will take everything that has been 'proved' with a grain of salt.
Hmm, like this? ;)
Now, if you really want to add insult to injury, stay home on voting day after collecting the $300. Everyone wins: none of the parties you cheated get your vote against them, and Corporate America pays half your rent for the month.
I don't know if it's been posted yet, but the apology is here:
t ask=view&id=2336&Itemid=125
http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=content&
Seems he's had a change of heart, and now he's saying exactly what many of the people who left comments on Chris' blog wrote.
This whole issue is simply ridiculous. The game was rated Mature (17+) with a list of reasons included on the box, and parents/politicians/blood-sucking lawyers are complaining that their (less-than-17 year-old) children who play it are seeing polyboobies? Wouldn't 'mature' seem to indicate, well, a certain level of maturity, such that children who are allowed to play the game by their parents are probably capable of handling polyboobies without spontaneously combusting? And if the parents aren't aware of what kind of games their kids are playing because of negligence on their part, how is it Rockstar's fault?
America needs to grow the fuck up.
Well, at least he would've done one thing right!
Another side-effect of a particular bomb being noticed on the Web is that such attention helps to foster the bomb and keep it as the first result for the affected keywords. Therefore, once a bomb is noticed, chances are it's here to stay because every page that mentions it increases its ranking in the algorithm a little.
Yes.
More to the point: The free software/open source software community is not a market, and I really don't like the business-speak that comes to the surface every time free software comes up. The goal of everything is not profit or some idea of "winning." Sometimes people just like to share things that they've written to be useful, in the hope that it will help someone else.
I don't write code for a living; instead, it's a hobby to me. I would argue that much of the free software community began like that: they write code because they enjoy it as something to do on the side, not because it makes them money. I don't really feel any compusion to try to charge people for the things I produce for fun.
Wow, I hadn't heard. Thanks!
Alright, you're drunk! Unfortunately, that barmaid you were eying slipped a little "surprise" into your drink. Roll a fort save to avoid passing out...
You're missing a step:
3½. ???
In an ideal world, all water would be perfectly fresh, and there would be no pop-up ads on the Net. However, if the mercury's already in the water and said filters are easy to come by and available for free, it seems quite unwise not to use them because "the water should be clean." Ads abound, and ad blockers make them go away. There's no sense in complaining about a problem that can be solved in a few clicks.
This post made my evening just a little bit better. :) Thank you!
Someone mod parent troll :p