Well, yes. Obama's not been a great President, but he's at least average. From what I've seen of him, Romney could be even worse than Bush. If there was no Libertarian or Green party I'd vote for Obama's reelection. Actually, if Obama supported pot legalization I could vote for him, but everyone in the US has a brother, sister, father, friend, son, or someone else close to them who smokes the stuff. How can you vote for a man (both major candidates) who would put your loved ones in prison? So I vote either Green or Libbie, because although both parties have policies I disagree with, at least they don't want to incarcerate me and my loved ones.
Of course, to do this people have to be suckered into using Windows 8 and Microsoft runs the risk of pissing off a great many people. Plus those who paid money for Windows 8 won't like being thought of as guinea-pigs.
Huh? MS customers should be used to that by now. Actually, customers of most software companies, but MS is particularly bad about it. Most n.0 software shouldn't have left the building.
MS has the advantage of having their OS preloaded on almost every computer manufactured. Unless you buy a boxed copy to slap on your whitebox or upgrade the OS on your present computer, the experience has to be pretty damned bad to run most people off.
Plus, most non-nerds don't know they have a free, superior, and avalaible alternative to Windows.
I'd like to see the browser developers make this a moot point. Why not, when a site drops a cookie, have a dialog box come up saying
this site is attempting to leave a cookie. o refuse this site always o refuse this site one time only o accept this time only o accept this site always X don't ask me again
You bring to mind something I read long ago, too long ago for a citation. A researcher was running a turing test with one subject seeing if he could decide which terminal was a computer and which had a computer on the other end.
The tester just sat there without inputting anything. Pretty soon a message came up on one screen: "Is there anybody there?"
Whoever modded that informative post "overrated" is one of the aliterates who don't understand that sometimes a misspelling can completely change the meaning of a sentence, as the GP did. The parent clarified the GP and should have been modded up.
Whoever modded the parent "overrated", waste some points on this comment so you don't have them do make any more bad moderations. Or better yet, JUST STOP MODERATING.
On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7. This was a suborbital flight which lasted 15 minutes and 37 seconds. After splashdown, emergency explosive bolts unexpectedly fired and blew the hatch off, causing water to flood into the spacecraft. Quickly exiting through the open hatch and into the ocean, Grissom was nearly drowned as water began filling his spacesuit. A nearby helicopter tried to lift and recover the spacecraft, but the flooding spacecraft became too heavy, and it was ultimately cut loose before sinking.
Grissom asserted he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and NASA officials eventually concluded that he was correct. Initiating the explosive egress system required hitting a metal trigger with the side of a closed fist, which unavoidably left a large, obvious bruise on the astronaut's hand,[citation needed] but Grissom was found not to have any of the tell-tale bruising. Still, controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, at the end of his October 3, 1962 flight, remained inside his spacecraft until it was safely aboard the recovery ship, and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand.[26]
If you fall for spam and phishing, you're a moron. As to broken servers and clients, I haven't see a single one broken in the fifteen years I've been using email.
If the MAFIAA wants YouTube content screened, let them spend the money to hire screeners. The DMCA, bad as it is, at least protects the web site in this regard.
I'm not a Twitter twit, but I use my real name on slashdot, used my real name at K5, used my real name on the websites I used to publish, used my real name in articles I wrote that Planet Quake published.
Nothing bad that I know of has resulted, but then I never threatened to bomb an airport, either.
You could have just googled; that's what I do when I run across an unfamiliar acronym. And did you notice the ironic play on words, I Anal? Needing to point out that one is not a lawyer seems pretty anal to me.
We're going to need a LOT more knowledge about how neurons, axions, and other brain components work first. Just because the circuit is based on ions doesn't mean it's anything at all like an animal's brain works. Note that TFS says "Like silicon-based chips, the integrated chemical chip contains logic gates, such as NAND gates, that form the basis of digital electronics by allowing for the construction of all logical functions."
Your brain contains no digital circutry. The brain is analog, not binary.
However, if you're referring to cybernetic implants to help those suffering from brain damage, then perhaps. I don't know enough about the brain or these ionic logic gates to be able to tell. I'm pretty sure there's going to need a hell of a lot more research on the brain to find out.
I've always wondered why they haven't studied insect brains. Flies do way more complex things than any robot so far invented, and would surely be easier to understand than the workings of a mammal brain.
So does slashdot moderation, apparently. Mods, disagreeing with a comment is NOT a valid reason to mark it down. There is no "-1, disagree" for a reason. If you disagree with an opinion like at least one moderator did with hatta, the "I disagree" link is labeled "reply to this".
I don't, because it would be rather wasteful and the one I have is sufficient; it's 42 inches, has a flat CRT, displays widescreen format at 720p (36 inches in widescreen mode), and I paid a grand for it ten years ago. I'll probaby replace in 3 to 5 years, the phosphors are starting to dim.
Plus, it weighs 215 pounds and getting it in and out of the hoouse is a pain.
I agree about the safety point. Exploration isn't about safety.
SpaceX isn't about exploration, it's a commercial enterprise. NASA and the ESA are the explorers. As such, I'm sure SpaxeX is going to make their rockets as safe as possible, to aviod lawsuits if nothing else.
Columbus set out to find a trade route to India he knew some motherfuckers would die on the way over. But he went anyway because he knew there would be some major dubloons in it for him if he made it.
It's sad that some members of society haven't evolved at all in five hundred years. In columbus' day you could be executed for poaching. They burned people at the stake, used the rack and other methods of torture for punishing criminals, and you would go back to those "good old days"? I'm sure there are still places on Earth still so primitive that you would fit right in. Sierra Leone, maybe.
Risking lives unnecessarily is both barbaric and juvenile.
Are you a dick for deleting a program you wrote? For tearing down a building you built? For burning a book that you wrote? I'd say God has every right to do whatever he wants; he built the whole damned thing, including you.
"And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." It doesn't "kill your children", it says they'll die. Remember, one of the ten commandments is to honor your father and mother. Also remember that both of those books are old testament and the old covenant, Christians have a completely different covenant.
Your leviticus citation doesn't say that, it says don't go to church drunk or you'll die. Which, of course, you will whether or not you go to church drunk.
The sooner the entire world can bury all their holy books in the trash heap of history, the better.
The sooner an atheist can parse a sentence without reading shit into it htat isn't actually there, the better.
This place is a ghost town compared to what it was 5 years ago.
Hogwash. Five years ago I seldom saw topics with 500 comments, now there are usually several every day. In fact, if the story's been posted for more than a few hours it doesn't even make much sense to comment unless you're sure of at least a +3, because nobody will see the comment.
Ten years ago it was really deserted, but slashdot still slashdotted sites (probably because servers were a bit more primitive then).
A journalist interviews a man on his 100th birthday. "How did you manage to reach such an old age? What's your secret?"
"Well," says the old man, "in the first place, I don't drink. I don't smoke, and I never drink. I get plenty of exersize and eat right and I don't drink. I attend church every sunday and I don't let a drop of alcohol pass my lips..."
Right then there's a huge crashing noise from the other room. Startled, the reporter exclaims "What was that?!?"
"Oh, that's just my dad. He gets like that when he's drunk."
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Well, yes. Obama's not been a great President, but he's at least average. From what I've seen of him, Romney could be even worse than Bush. If there was no Libertarian or Green party I'd vote for Obama's reelection. Actually, if Obama supported pot legalization I could vote for him, but everyone in the US has a brother, sister, father, friend, son, or someone else close to them who smokes the stuff. How can you vote for a man (both major candidates) who would put your loved ones in prison? So I vote either Green or Libbie, because although both parties have policies I disagree with, at least they don't want to incarcerate me and my loved ones.
Of course, to do this people have to be suckered into using Windows 8 and Microsoft runs the risk of pissing off a great many people. Plus those who paid money for Windows 8 won't like being thought of as guinea-pigs.
Huh? MS customers should be used to that by now. Actually, customers of most software companies, but MS is particularly bad about it. Most n.0 software shouldn't have left the building.
MS has the advantage of having their OS preloaded on almost every computer manufactured. Unless you buy a boxed copy to slap on your whitebox or upgrade the OS on your present computer, the experience has to be pretty damned bad to run most people off.
Plus, most non-nerds don't know they have a free, superior, and avalaible alternative to Windows.
I'd like to see the browser developers make this a moot point. Why not, when a site drops a cookie, have a dialog box come up saying
this site is attempting to leave a cookie.
o refuse this site always
o refuse this site one time only
o accept this time only
o accept this site always
X don't ask me again
You bring to mind something I read long ago, too long ago for a citation. A researcher was running a turing test with one subject seeing if he could decide which terminal was a computer and which had a computer on the other end.
The tester just sat there without inputting anything. Pretty soon a message came up on one screen: "Is there anybody there?"
"That's the human," the tester said
Whoever modded that informative post "overrated" is one of the aliterates who don't understand that sometimes a misspelling can completely change the meaning of a sentence, as the GP did. The parent clarified the GP and should have been modded up.
Whoever modded the parent "overrated", waste some points on this comment so you don't have them do make any more bad moderations. Or better yet, JUST STOP MODERATING.
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Details:
On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7. This was a suborbital flight which lasted 15 minutes and 37 seconds. After splashdown, emergency explosive bolts unexpectedly fired and blew the hatch off, causing water to flood into the spacecraft. Quickly exiting through the open hatch and into the ocean, Grissom was nearly drowned as water began filling his spacesuit. A nearby helicopter tried to lift and recover the spacecraft, but the flooding spacecraft became too heavy, and it was ultimately cut loose before sinking.
Grissom asserted he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and NASA officials eventually concluded that he was correct. Initiating the explosive egress system required hitting a metal trigger with the side of a closed fist, which unavoidably left a large, obvious bruise on the astronaut's hand,[citation needed] but Grissom was found not to have any of the tell-tale bruising. Still, controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, at the end of his October 3, 1962 flight, remained inside his spacecraft until it was safely aboard the recovery ship, and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand.[26]
Interesting, thank you for the link.
Both sides are wrong. Reality is neither conservative nor liberal.
and on a side note, it's been at least a year since I've had mod points
Like me, you post too much. Lurk for a week or two and you'll have fifteen every day.
If you fall for spam and phishing, you're a moron. As to broken servers and clients, I haven't see a single one broken in the fifteen years I've been using email.
If the MAFIAA wants YouTube content screened, let them spend the money to hire screeners. The DMCA, bad as it is, at least protects the web site in this regard.
I'm not a Twitter twit, but I use my real name on slashdot, used my real name at K5, used my real name on the websites I used to publish, used my real name in articles I wrote that Planet Quake published.
Nothing bad that I know of has resulted, but then I never threatened to bomb an airport, either.
You could have just googled; that's what I do when I run across an unfamiliar acronym. And did you notice the ironic play on words, I Anal? Needing to point out that one is not a lawyer seems pretty anal to me.
And "gay" originally meant "happy and carefree". Language evolves.
We're going to need a LOT more knowledge about how neurons, axions, and other brain components work first. Just because the circuit is based on ions doesn't mean it's anything at all like an animal's brain works. Note that TFS says "Like silicon-based chips, the integrated chemical chip contains logic gates, such as NAND gates, that form the basis of digital electronics by allowing for the construction of all logical functions."
Your brain contains no digital circutry. The brain is analog, not binary.
However, if you're referring to cybernetic implants to help those suffering from brain damage, then perhaps. I don't know enough about the brain or these ionic logic gates to be able to tell. I'm pretty sure there's going to need a hell of a lot more research on the brain to find out.
I've always wondered why they haven't studied insect brains. Flies do way more complex things than any robot so far invented, and would surely be easier to understand than the workings of a mammal brain.
Ignorant people are more likely to resort to violence as they don't have the intellectual means to express themselves otherwise.
You confuse ignorance with stupidity. Lack of knowlege is ignorance, lack if intellectual means is stupidity.
Ignorance can be cured, stupidity cannot.
Manufacturing in the US is far from dead.
So does slashdot moderation, apparently. Mods, disagreeing with a comment is NOT a valid reason to mark it down. There is no "-1, disagree" for a reason. If you disagree with an opinion like at least one moderator did with hatta, the "I disagree" link is labeled "reply to this".
I don't know why I don't get a modern TV instead
I don't, because it would be rather wasteful and the one I have is sufficient; it's 42 inches, has a flat CRT, displays widescreen format at 720p (36 inches in widescreen mode), and I paid a grand for it ten years ago. I'll probaby replace in 3 to 5 years, the phosphors are starting to dim.
Plus, it weighs 215 pounds and getting it in and out of the hoouse is a pain.
I agree about the safety point. Exploration isn't about safety.
SpaceX isn't about exploration, it's a commercial enterprise. NASA and the ESA are the explorers. As such, I'm sure SpaxeX is going to make their rockets as safe as possible, to aviod lawsuits if nothing else.
Columbus set out to find a trade route to India he knew some motherfuckers would die on the way over. But he went anyway because he knew there would be some major dubloons in it for him if he made it.
It's sad that some members of society haven't evolved at all in five hundred years. In columbus' day you could be executed for poaching. They burned people at the stake, used the rack and other methods of torture for punishing criminals, and you would go back to those "good old days"? I'm sure there are still places on Earth still so primitive that you would fit right in. Sierra Leone, maybe.
Risking lives unnecessarily is both barbaric and juvenile.
Every single word of the OT was commanded by Jesus himself to be obeyed.
Yes, by the Sons of Abraham, the Arabs and the Jews. They are "God's chosen people" and are expected to live to a higher standard than the rest of us.
Are you a dick for deleting a program you wrote? For tearing down a building you built? For burning a book that you wrote? I'd say God has every right to do whatever he wants; he built the whole damned thing, including you.
"And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." It doesn't "kill your children", it says they'll die. Remember, one of the ten commandments is to honor your father and mother. Also remember that both of those books are old testament and the old covenant, Christians have a completely different covenant.
Your leviticus citation doesn't say that, it says don't go to church drunk or you'll die. Which, of course, you will whether or not you go to church drunk.
The sooner the entire world can bury all their holy books in the trash heap of history, the better.
The sooner an atheist can parse a sentence without reading shit into it htat isn't actually there, the better.
This place is a ghost town compared to what it was 5 years ago.
Hogwash. Five years ago I seldom saw topics with 500 comments, now there are usually several every day. In fact, if the story's been posted for more than a few hours it doesn't even make much sense to comment unless you're sure of at least a +3, because nobody will see the comment.
Ten years ago it was really deserted, but slashdot still slashdotted sites (probably because servers were a bit more primitive then).
A journalist interviews a man on his 100th birthday. "How did you manage to reach such an old age? What's your secret?"
"Well," says the old man, "in the first place, I don't drink. I don't smoke, and I never drink. I get plenty of exersize and eat right and I don't drink. I attend church every sunday and I don't let a drop of alcohol pass my lips..."
Right then there's a huge crashing noise from the other room. Startled, the reporter exclaims "What was that?!?"
"Oh, that's just my dad. He gets like that when he's drunk."