Go get bfilter and massively cut bandwidth wastage on ads. Some will still get through, sure, but you'll soon get used to wide blank areas on those pages:-D
Not really. MD5 is obsolete if you're trying to make a cryptographically secure hash. MD5 is great for everything where you just need a pretty damn fucking great checksumming function. For checking whether a chunk of a file is indeed what it's meant to be, md5 will do the job way faster (and hence better) than sha1.
Security for the sake of security is just as stupid as no security.
What's the problem? You guys must have really crummy hardware shops. All the shops I shop at will take the memory back, test it immediately and give a replacement if they also find it doesn't work.
Looks like the US Forestry service is rubbing its own nose into its clear conflict of interests... maybe this proposed legislation is a cry for help? Or a prank...
Your last proposition is correct, but your first is false. It's a well-known logical error to think that "if A and B come together often then A causes B (or B causes A)". In fact, they could both be caused by C, which no one knows about yet.
Every time two things have a causal relationship there's a correlation between them. But if two things are correlated that doesn't mean there's a causal relationship between them.
Evolution (in the Darwinian sense) is a really slow process that takes place because of natural selection. Thus, it requires that there be some selection procedure to decide who gets to put his genes in the next generation's gene pool according to some criteria. At the moment there is no such selection - there hasn't really been for thousands of years now, but especially these days everyone gets to put their genes in the nex gen's gene pool.
So no, there are no documented contemporary events of humans evolving.
Yup, totally right. Mod the parent up and empty the article poster's karma for bad posting!
From the article, O'Connor only joined DoubleClick after they had become the privacy big bad wolf, and actually helped sort all that shit out. Notice you haven't heard that many DoubleClick horror stories recently...
There's a far cry from going out and killing all stupid people and/or forbidding them to breed, which is the kind of "low-tech" eugenics that the Nazis were applying, and giving people a possibility to make sure that whatever kids they have kids are clever (through some sort of pre-birth gene therapy for instance).
Low-tech eugenics, ie encouraging the "intelligent" gene by forcefully preventing the "stupid" gene from entering the next generation's gene pool is horrible, barbaric and totally unacceptable. High-tech eugenics, ie encouraging the "intelligent" gene by allowing people to choose to alter their children's genes to remove "stupid" genes, is far more acceptable. There are still issues with that, but it should be considered seriously... after all, there is not much evolution happening for humans anymore.
Ditto. Where do you think all these cosmic particles travelling at relative velocities much closer to c than we can expect to reproduce any time soon are going? They go and hit stationary targets in the atmosphere. That's what happens in an accelerator, the only difference being that there's a whole lot of detectors around the collision.
Generally, "supporting the population" means feeding them (and potentially giving them adequate medical care). The only reason why people MUST have access to jobs is because they need money to buy food and medicine. You could easily live on your ass in a field without any worries if you didn't need to eat and couldn't get ill. Any country can support that.
The usual over-sensationalistic/. headline is, as usual, over-sensationalistic. This is not censorship, but self-control and self-direction. It's not about not publishing things which exist and have been researched (that would be censorship), but about deliberately avoiding avenues of research which are too dangerous given our current rather low level of social evolution.
However, it's very hard to decide which avenues of research should be avoided. Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and all that promise great benefits, potentially helping us progress socially much faster (eliminating hunger and disease wouldn't do us much harm socially, would it?). The only ones that should clearly be avoided are clear-cut cases like nerve agents, genetic creation of deadly diseases, and all that. Otherwise, it makes little sense to restrain research in other directions...
If all you want is to prevent them from tracing it back to you in particular (but don't care about anonymity from legal pursuits, and you aren't going to use that domain to do bad stuff) have you considered simply getting it registered under a friend's name? Anybody you can trust will do, really, and it's a lot more trustworthy than any of these companies that will "register it for you"... (imho)
No idea, but it does seem pretty suspicious that the whois records at register.com DO display a register date of March 17th when Jessica Lynch was only captured on March 23rd... It wouldn't be the first time the US govt manufactures news for a purpose.
Back when they were trying to get congress to vote for war in Iraq in 90, they had these witnesses testify that the Iraqi soldiers had stolen incubators from Kuweiti hospitals and tossed the babies out on the floor while doing so (*shock* *horror*). Turns out the people who witnessed to this at the UN and such were, for one, a cousin of a Kuweiti prince who wasn't even in Kuweit around the time this happened, and the "nurse" was his sister or something similar... And when Amnesty International went in to try to figure out where this happened, they found that although everyone had "heard of it" nobody could point to exactly where (and I doubt that the deaths of 300 babies would have gone unnoticed).
At the time, Bush Sr. used that bit of manufactured propaganda 7 times in various speeches to the US Congress to get the support for war. So it's not very surprising that his descendents (and most of his staff) manufacture a rescue to give americans something happy to think about.
Yup. Gamma rays are high-energy photons. Photons are particles. In fact, all particles are waves, and all waves are quantized in particles, so you could call an electron an "electron wave-packet", a photon a "light particle", etc... Plus the term "gamma rays" was coined when they discovered radioactivity, at which point they knew very little about all this, so alpha rays and beta rays (which are most definitely particles - helium nuclei and electrons, respecitvely) are also called "rays".
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Go get bfilter and massively cut bandwidth wastage on ads. Some will still get through, sure, but you'll soon get used to wide blank areas on those pages :-D
Daniel
Not really. MD5 is obsolete if you're trying to make a cryptographically secure hash. MD5 is great for everything where you just need a pretty damn fucking great checksumming function. For checking whether a chunk of a file is indeed what it's meant to be, md5 will do the job way faster (and hence better) than sha1.
Security for the sake of security is just as stupid as no security.
Daniel
What's the problem? You guys must have really crummy hardware shops. All the shops I shop at will take the memory back, test it immediately and give a replacement if they also find it doesn't work.
Daniel
Looks like the US Forestry service is rubbing its own nose into its clear conflict of interests... maybe this proposed legislation is a cry for help? Or a prank...
Daniel
Your last proposition is correct, but your first is false. It's a well-known logical error to think that "if A and B come together often then A causes B (or B causes A)". In fact, they could both be caused by C, which no one knows about yet.
Every time two things have a causal relationship there's a correlation between them. But if two things are correlated that doesn't mean there's a causal relationship between them.
Daniel
Evolution (in the Darwinian sense) is a really slow process that takes place because of natural selection. Thus, it requires that there be some selection procedure to decide who gets to put his genes in the next generation's gene pool according to some criteria. At the moment there is no such selection - there hasn't really been for thousands of years now, but especially these days everyone gets to put their genes in the nex gen's gene pool.
So no, there are no documented contemporary events of humans evolving.
Daniel
Yup, totally right. Mod the parent up and empty the article poster's karma for bad posting!
From the article, O'Connor only joined DoubleClick after they had become the privacy big bad wolf, and actually helped sort all that shit out. Notice you haven't heard that many DoubleClick horror stories recently...
Daniel
There's a far cry from going out and killing all stupid people and/or forbidding them to breed, which is the kind of "low-tech" eugenics that the Nazis were applying, and giving people a possibility to make sure that whatever kids they have kids are clever (through some sort of pre-birth gene therapy for instance).
Low-tech eugenics, ie encouraging the "intelligent" gene by forcefully preventing the "stupid" gene from entering the next generation's gene pool is horrible, barbaric and totally unacceptable. High-tech eugenics, ie encouraging the "intelligent" gene by allowing people to choose to alter their children's genes to remove "stupid" genes, is far more acceptable. There are still issues with that, but it should be considered seriously... after all, there is not much evolution happening for humans anymore.
Daniel
Ditto. Where do you think all these cosmic particles travelling at relative velocities much closer to c than we can expect to reproduce any time soon are going? They go and hit stationary targets in the atmosphere. That's what happens in an accelerator, the only difference being that there's a whole lot of detectors around the collision.
Daniel
Generally, "supporting the population" means feeding them (and potentially giving them adequate medical care). The only reason why people MUST have access to jobs is because they need money to buy food and medicine. You could easily live on your ass in a field without any worries if you didn't need to eat and couldn't get ill. Any country can support that.
Daniel
The usual over-sensationalistic /. headline is, as usual, over-sensationalistic. This is not censorship, but self-control and self-direction. It's not about not publishing things which exist and have been researched (that would be censorship), but about deliberately avoiding avenues of research which are too dangerous given our current rather low level of social evolution.
However, it's very hard to decide which avenues of research should be avoided. Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and all that promise great benefits, potentially helping us progress socially much faster (eliminating hunger and disease wouldn't do us much harm socially, would it?). The only ones that should clearly be avoided are clear-cut cases like nerve agents, genetic creation of deadly diseases, and all that. Otherwise, it makes little sense to restrain research in other directions...
Daniel
Daniel
They could even be so dim that those inhabitants there don't ever realise there's a universe out there!
Daniel
Either that, or people will start smoking more pot.
They already do! Long Live Switzerland 8-D
Daniel
Do we get a badge that says we're spaceworthy?
Daniel
Maybe they'll be able to take a picture of God soon, if it keeps getting bigger! :-P
Daniel
If all you want is to prevent them from tracing it back to you in particular (but don't care about anonymity from legal pursuits, and you aren't going to use that domain to do bad stuff) have you considered simply getting it registered under a friend's name? Anybody you can trust will do, really, and it's a lot more trustworthy than any of these companies that will "register it for you"... (imho)
Daniel
Are there any big applications anyone knows about which are written with OMT? Out of curiosity...
Daniel
Somebody clone a record company executive before they die out!
Daniel
Definitely not bad. Maybe they'd stop being criminals because of all the hassle! Hey, maybe we can also send spam to war criminals :-)
Daniel
Don't bother keeping basil beyond a year. Just buy some new seeds and plant a new one. It grows very fast and tastes a lot more fresh.
Daniel
What are you talking about? Spammers should be exposed on stalls to have rotten eggs and tomatoes thrown at them. Privacy protection, riiiiight...
Daniel
There goes the Welsh's safety net!!! What will they do when the sheep run out?
Daniel
No idea, but it does seem pretty suspicious that the whois records at register.com DO display a register date of March 17th when Jessica Lynch was only captured on March 23rd... It wouldn't be the first time the US govt manufactures news for a purpose.
Back when they were trying to get congress to vote for war in Iraq in 90, they had these witnesses testify that the Iraqi soldiers had stolen incubators from Kuweiti hospitals and tossed the babies out on the floor while doing so (*shock* *horror*). Turns out the people who witnessed to this at the UN and such were, for one, a cousin of a Kuweiti prince who wasn't even in Kuweit around the time this happened, and the "nurse" was his sister or something similar... And when Amnesty International went in to try to figure out where this happened, they found that although everyone had "heard of it" nobody could point to exactly where (and I doubt that the deaths of 300 babies would have gone unnoticed).
At the time, Bush Sr. used that bit of manufactured propaganda 7 times in various speeches to the US Congress to get the support for war. So it's not very surprising that his descendents (and most of his staff) manufacture a rescue to give americans something happy to think about.
From the outside, it's quite disgusting, though.
Daniel
Yup. Gamma rays are high-energy photons. Photons are particles. In fact, all particles are waves, and all waves are quantized in particles, so you could call an electron an "electron wave-packet", a photon a "light particle", etc... Plus the term "gamma rays" was coined when they discovered radioactivity, at which point they knew very little about all this, so alpha rays and beta rays (which are most definitely particles - helium nuclei and electrons, respecitvely) are also called "rays".
Daniel