Oh I'm not surprised at all, and I wouldn't be surprised the least if no decent such solution existed as of right now. But it could, technically, even if that's 15 years down the road (Sudanese refugees won't get satellite broadband for next Christmas, we know that, it's more a longer term problem).
The rest of your comment is such obvious fallacious nonsense that I'm not going to bother ripping it to pieces, because anyone reading it who can't tell for themself isn't interested in making sense, anyway.
Nice way to chicken your way out, sissy. More like you can't even begin to scratch it.
Since gun fetishists like you haven't slowed down America's tyrannies though you've got all the guns you can carry
What sort of tyranny are you drivelling about, you bloody hippy? By the way I'm French, live in Ireland and never even held a gun.
I suppose that those 29,000 gunshot dead Americans a year are all killed by "massive organized crime"
No, only two thirds of them are, and most of them are criminal-on-criminal crime. Accidents are insignificant in comparison, check statistics. And criminal sellers are much more important regarding crimes involving guns than "underregulated" sellers. When you're a Mexican gang member from Los Angeles your guns come from the Mexican mafia and such, not your average NRA-type dealer who operates a bit under the radar.
By the way, guns kill people. So we should ban them, right? Cars kill people. Tens of thousands, every year. Innocent people. Children. Ruins people's lives. Shouldn't we ban them as well? Oh no, we don't, because they're not weapons, it's not obvious enough that they're dangerous because they weren't built to kill, so their danger isn't obvious enough. Let's all roll around in our oil-powered coffins and wait until the next time someone crashes against a windscreen, be it your kid in the back seat or someone's who's crossing the street.
You're missing the point. Guns these days aren't necessary to maintain our democracy, but to guarantee our direct security, as persons. Remember the LA riots of 1992? Remember these Korean shop owners on roof-tops with rifles in their hands? Do you remember what happened to the shops of those who didn't have guns that didn't happen to the ones with the rifles? It's a shame that they had to defend themselves like this, but that's the way it is in this country, you can't rely on the police to protect you, mostly in certain areas.
And remember how Martin Luther King used to be considered the most dangerous man in America, a bit before his "Santa Clausification"? You can argue that his shooter tried "guaranteeing our security" by what he and many others had to see as a "threat to our nation". This example was an unfortunate demonstration of a lack of 'cowardice' as you define it.
Maybe if we required anyone who wanted a gun to have training and regular tests of competence for their guns, and insurance, and register each gun, and get it inspected every year, and require each gun to have safety features the way that cars have antilock brakes, airbags and seatbelts, guns might be dragged back into some kind of safe degree of use.
In Germany prior to WWII they had guns but with very strict restrictions, a bit like what you suggest. Then in 1938 thanks to that neat file with everybody who had a gun's name on it they started disarming the Jews, and when they had done that they could safely proceed with their plans. Yay for registration of firearms!
Why yes, I Godwined myself in the foot, but who cares.
But instead, gun fetishists act like guns don't kill over 29,000 Americans every year.
And anti-gun nut jobs don't realise that the problem isn't law-abiding citizens owning guns but massive organised crime.
Hey thank you random Slashdotter! It's good to hear from someone who has better insight on the Constitution than the founding fathers! And you make a great point, since everything over the last 200 years of 2nd amendment went fine, that means we don't need it! If you take some measure of precaution against something and that this something didn't happen, it doesn't mean your precaution worked, it means your precaution was useless! You don't believe me? So why didn't the Y2K bug catastrophe happen? Really it was quite stupid of the founding fathers to try to equip the civilians with firearms just to invade half an already-populated continent.
And I mean even if it was relevant back then it's not like it's still relevant now. All of our problems with rampant crime could be just solved by repealing the 2nd amendment. Repeal it today and tomorrow you'll see gang members from Detroit to South Los Angeles surrendering their AK-47s, Mac-10s and Tec-9s to the police, let alone the fact that a lot of these weapons came to them illegally from abroad anyways and have little to do with the 2nd amendment to begin with.
Does it mean it's putting an end to the ban on the District of Columbia and thus an end to over three decades of "oh shit crime is on the rise ever since we banned guns, let's make even more sure that no law-abiding citizen has a gun so that only criminals can have one oh wait a second no nevermind remember guns kill people therefore let's ban guns and ignore the fact that criminals will always get as many guns as they want"-type shit?
I notice that the unit we're using here is "Nagasaki bombs" or "bombs like the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945". Clearly the solution to this problem is to build and drop some bigger bombs.
Well actually we've made and detonated bombs up to 4,000 as powerful as Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs (different tech, same power). But I agree, at this point, nobody realises what it means anymore. I suppose that instead of Hiroshima bombs, we express astronomical collisions in Libraries of Congress of TNT.
Unlikely. Pluto's orbit doesn't come close to intersecting with that of Mars, and circularizing a Pluto-sized object's orbit after the huge Mars collision event would require... another huge collision event.
Or crossing Neptune very closely. And since we suspect that Triton was captured by Neptune as it was forming a couple with a similar body which got ejected away when Triton was captured, we can imagine that Mars' hypothetical Moon was that other body. Now who knows, Mars probably caught that asteroid that made this moon to protect its beloved Phaeton, who was ultimately destroyed by the mighty gravitational pull of the ruthless and jealous Jupiter who failed to capture Phaeton in the past despite his numerous attempts, and thus pulverized it to make Mars miserable in retaliation.
Meanwhile, in the solar system. Will Jupiter find out which of the other gas planets threw a Shoemaker-Levy 9 at him? What surprise lurks in the confines of the solar system for Mars' old moon? Are Pluto and Charon about to divorce? Find out in the next episode of Desperate Planets!
If I'm running the GPS in my car, I find myself waiting for it to tell me where to go even if I have a good idea of the directions.
I feel like it cripples my sense of direction when I rely on it too much. I'm sure these combat systems could do the same thing
Likewise, trying to watch a show in English with French subtitles (I'm French) and trying to read the subtitles at the same time as keeping up with what's being said impairs my understanding of what goes on because I can't be concentrated enough to understand the English and read the French at the same time. Hence why now that my understanding of English has reached such a level that I understand everything I hear under ideal conditions that I try to ignore the subtitles more than anything else.
Concentration and multi-tasking don't get along so well it seems. In other news a lot of people fail at simultaneously tapping repeatedly the top of their head with one hand while rubbing their stomach in circles with the other. News at 11 (by the way, I've always wondered, does that expression mean 11 AM or PM? I only hear it in shows so I get too little a context to be able to tell).
How do you propose we get Internet access to these people? We can't even get food or water to them. You listed corruption, war, and market failures as reasons for that but then you ignore them when you start talking about the Internet. Food and water don't need much infrastructure for transport, just people. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn't work like that.
Right on. Considered the list of obstacles, the only solution can only be satellite-based. Not the kind with parabolas and POTS lines but more the satellite-telephone type. I'm not too aware of technologies in that domain but if you can transmit voice using a handset via satellite, then you can use that to dial some computer in the world and communicate like dial-up modems do. The cool thing about information is that you can use satellites (or even blimps, but these may be easier to gun down) to transmit it, as you can't really de-orbit food or water into the middle of Sudan.
That one is probably not 'une pipe' because 'pipe' only refers to a smoking pipe, and not a general pipe, which would be 'tuyau'. I wonder if the maker of this thing was aware of that or not, it's not obvious to me.
If jobs were very exciting and fulfilling in and of themselves, we wouldn't need to pay people to do them.
Wow, what a retarded statement, I hope people didn't mod you up because of this. Of course you need to pay people to do jobs, no matter how exciting. If I've gotta choose between the most awesome job in the world (which would be mmmmh.. a secret cowboy agent who goes to space and gets to shoot ninjas) and flipping burgers for a minimum wage then I'll take the fast food job. Cause if I don't find at least $300 every week I'm screwed.
That cluster could surely run enough web clients that you could create your own "Slashdot Effect".
Just put a front-end web page on it with a simple URL submission box.
I suggest that anyone in this thread suggesting any Internet bandwidth intensive applications rather than computationally intensive applications get their Slashdot UIDs multiplied by 10.
Being massively parallel it could be interesting to do some AI research. Like chess algorithms or something more fun perhaps a good automated tech support system via chat. Or trying to decode, capatacha. Map optimizations... a bunch of fun stuff. At least it would be for me.
Yup, and anything that involves neural networks, I heard they're a great buzzword. You know what would be neat? A neural network that would learn from Slashdot summaries and its associated comments and make it post automatically on Slashdot. If it gets modded up to eventually get an excellent karma, then write a paper about how you devised a new variant of the Turing test based on human moderation and how your neural network based AI passed it. Eventually get Slashdot to include a '-1, AI' moderation option to make things tougher.
Bonus points if your AI program can spell 'Intelegence' correctly.
That's a retarded point that is brought back only too often when opponents of the mythical Jesus hypothesis run out of facts to back their claims up. That kind of retarded "No one living is witness to these people or the events they participated in." comments has to go. All I have to say is read the Wikipedia article on historical method, see how it applies to both Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar and what makes a difference between the two.
That's too easy to dismiss such claims as mine as non-factuals, when non-christian sources more or less contemporary to his life as as few as I enunciated. Yes I read this Wikipedia article prior to writing this comment, this is where I got my facts from.
Instead of going after my motivations how about you go after my claims?
As far as other myths go, don't forget that a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him
Wait, you forgot about the record of the execution by hanging of a guy named vaguely like him about a decade after his presumed death for wizardry. Not to mention the extensive writings of his life all written at least a couple of generations after his presumed death! I mean with evidence like that who could reasonably doubt that Jesus ever existed, son of God or not? It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to think that all (except a few heretics) of modern scholars and historians accept his historicity as a fact!
Where's the corruption in science besides when the government pays scientists to give them the desired bias in their research? Honest question, I just have no idea.
Indeed. I'm letting you guess how God made clouds of comets. If then you consider the theories of panspermia, you'll eventually realise the real nature of our planet.
That's right, the Earth is an ovule. Now you know.
That's called being a hippie. Throwing at people in the most ostentatious way possible what you think they need to know about what you consider to be the important issue of the hour. That's what hippies do, try to make you care about an issue that they find so important and not leave you alone until they made you care or made you tell them to sod off. And yes, for a lot of them, the issue they care the most about sounds fairly ridiculous, be it free software, dirty beaches or religion, when compared to seemingly much graver issues like crime, poverty or genocides.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh I'm not surprised at all, and I wouldn't be surprised the least if no decent such solution existed as of right now. But it could, technically, even if that's 15 years down the road (Sudanese refugees won't get satellite broadband for next Christmas, we know that, it's more a longer term problem).
The rest of your comment is such obvious fallacious nonsense that I'm not going to bother ripping it to pieces, because anyone reading it who can't tell for themself isn't interested in making sense, anyway.
Nice way to chicken your way out, sissy. More like you can't even begin to scratch it.
Since gun fetishists like you haven't slowed down America's tyrannies though you've got all the guns you can carry
What sort of tyranny are you drivelling about, you bloody hippy? By the way I'm French, live in Ireland and never even held a gun.
I suppose that those 29,000 gunshot dead Americans a year are all killed by "massive organized crime"
No, only two thirds of them are, and most of them are criminal-on-criminal crime. Accidents are insignificant in comparison, check statistics. And criminal sellers are much more important regarding crimes involving guns than "underregulated" sellers. When you're a Mexican gang member from Los Angeles your guns come from the Mexican mafia and such, not your average NRA-type dealer who operates a bit under the radar.
By the way, guns kill people. So we should ban them, right? Cars kill people. Tens of thousands, every year. Innocent people. Children. Ruins people's lives. Shouldn't we ban them as well? Oh no, we don't, because they're not weapons, it's not obvious enough that they're dangerous because they weren't built to kill, so their danger isn't obvious enough. Let's all roll around in our oil-powered coffins and wait until the next time someone crashes against a windscreen, be it your kid in the back seat or someone's who's crossing the street.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong. No way the official Estonian government's website's DNS could be taken over by a botnet in such conditions.
And remember how Martin Luther King used to be considered the most dangerous man in America, a bit before his "Santa Clausification"? You can argue that his shooter tried "guaranteeing our security" by what he and many others had to see as a "threat to our nation". This example was an unfortunate demonstration of a lack of 'cowardice' as you define it.
Maybe if we required anyone who wanted a gun to have training and regular tests of competence for their guns, and insurance, and register each gun, and get it inspected every year, and require each gun to have safety features the way that cars have antilock brakes, airbags and seatbelts, guns might be dragged back into some kind of safe degree of use.
In Germany prior to WWII they had guns but with very strict restrictions, a bit like what you suggest. Then in 1938 thanks to that neat file with everybody who had a gun's name on it they started disarming the Jews, and when they had done that they could safely proceed with their plans. Yay for registration of firearms!
Why yes, I Godwined myself in the foot, but who cares.
But instead, gun fetishists act like guns don't kill over 29,000 Americans every year.
And anti-gun nut jobs don't realise that the problem isn't law-abiding citizens owning guns but massive organised crime.
The 2nd Amendment is wrong.
Hey thank you random Slashdotter! It's good to hear from someone who has better insight on the Constitution than the founding fathers! And you make a great point, since everything over the last 200 years of 2nd amendment went fine, that means we don't need it! If you take some measure of precaution against something and that this something didn't happen, it doesn't mean your precaution worked, it means your precaution was useless! You don't believe me? So why didn't the Y2K bug catastrophe happen? Really it was quite stupid of the founding fathers to try to equip the civilians with firearms just to invade half an already-populated continent.
And I mean even if it was relevant back then it's not like it's still relevant now. All of our problems with rampant crime could be just solved by repealing the 2nd amendment. Repeal it today and tomorrow you'll see gang members from Detroit to South Los Angeles surrendering their AK-47s, Mac-10s and Tec-9s to the police, let alone the fact that a lot of these weapons came to them illegally from abroad anyways and have little to do with the 2nd amendment to begin with.
Does it mean it's putting an end to the ban on the District of Columbia and thus an end to over three decades of "oh shit crime is on the rise ever since we banned guns, let's make even more sure that no law-abiding citizen has a gun so that only criminals can have one oh wait a second no nevermind remember guns kill people therefore let's ban guns and ignore the fact that criminals will always get as many guns as they want"-type shit?
I notice that the unit we're using here is "Nagasaki bombs" or "bombs like the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945". Clearly the solution to this problem is to build and drop some bigger bombs.
Well actually we've made and detonated bombs up to 4,000 as powerful as Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs (different tech, same power). But I agree, at this point, nobody realises what it means anymore. I suppose that instead of Hiroshima bombs, we express astronomical collisions in Libraries of Congress of TNT.Or crossing Neptune very closely. And since we suspect that Triton was captured by Neptune as it was forming a couple with a similar body which got ejected away when Triton was captured, we can imagine that Mars' hypothetical Moon was that other body. Now who knows, Mars probably caught that asteroid that made this moon to protect its beloved Phaeton, who was ultimately destroyed by the mighty gravitational pull of the ruthless and jealous Jupiter who failed to capture Phaeton in the past despite his numerous attempts, and thus pulverized it to make Mars miserable in retaliation.
Meanwhile, in the solar system. Will Jupiter find out which of the other gas planets threw a Shoemaker-Levy 9 at him? What surprise lurks in the confines of the solar system for Mars' old moon? Are Pluto and Charon about to divorce? Find out in the next episode of Desperate Planets!
I feel like it cripples my sense of direction when I rely on it too much. I'm sure these combat systems could do the same thing
Likewise, trying to watch a show in English with French subtitles (I'm French) and trying to read the subtitles at the same time as keeping up with what's being said impairs my understanding of what goes on because I can't be concentrated enough to understand the English and read the French at the same time. Hence why now that my understanding of English has reached such a level that I understand everything I hear under ideal conditions that I try to ignore the subtitles more than anything else.
Concentration and multi-tasking don't get along so well it seems. In other news a lot of people fail at simultaneously tapping repeatedly the top of their head with one hand while rubbing their stomach in circles with the other. News at 11 (by the way, I've always wondered, does that expression mean 11 AM or PM? I only hear it in shows so I get too little a context to be able to tell).
How do you propose we get Internet access to these people? We can't even get food or water to them. You listed corruption, war, and market failures as reasons for that but then you ignore them when you start talking about the Internet. Food and water don't need much infrastructure for transport, just people. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn't work like that.
Right on. Considered the list of obstacles, the only solution can only be satellite-based. Not the kind with parabolas and POTS lines but more the satellite-telephone type. I'm not too aware of technologies in that domain but if you can transmit voice using a handset via satellite, then you can use that to dial some computer in the world and communicate like dial-up modems do. The cool thing about information is that you can use satellites (or even blimps, but these may be easier to gun down) to transmit it, as you can't really de-orbit food or water into the middle of Sudan.That one is probably not 'une pipe' because 'pipe' only refers to a smoking pipe, and not a general pipe, which would be 'tuyau'. I wonder if the maker of this thing was aware of that or not, it's not obvious to me.
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Can you spell 'fail'?
If jobs were very exciting and fulfilling in and of themselves, we wouldn't need to pay people to do them.
Wow, what a retarded statement, I hope people didn't mod you up because of this. Of course you need to pay people to do jobs, no matter how exciting. If I've gotta choose between the most awesome job in the world (which would be mmmmh.. a secret cowboy agent who goes to space and gets to shoot ninjas) and flipping burgers for a minimum wage then I'll take the fast food job. Cause if I don't find at least $300 every week I'm screwed.
That cluster could surely run enough web clients that you could create your own "Slashdot Effect".
Just put a front-end web page on it with a simple URL submission box.
I suggest that anyone in this thread suggesting any Internet bandwidth intensive applications rather than computationally intensive applications get their Slashdot UIDs multiplied by 10.Being massively parallel it could be interesting to do some AI research. Like chess algorithms or something more fun perhaps a good automated tech support system via chat. Or trying to decode, capatacha. Map optimizations... a bunch of fun stuff. At least it would be for me.
Yup, and anything that involves neural networks, I heard they're a great buzzword. You know what would be neat? A neural network that would learn from Slashdot summaries and its associated comments and make it post automatically on Slashdot. If it gets modded up to eventually get an excellent karma, then write a paper about how you devised a new variant of the Turing test based on human moderation and how your neural network based AI passed it. Eventually get Slashdot to include a '-1, AI' moderation option to make things tougher.
Bonus points if your AI program can spell 'Intelegence' correctly.
That's a retarded point that is brought back only too often when opponents of the mythical Jesus hypothesis run out of facts to back their claims up. That kind of retarded "No one living is witness to these people or the events they participated in." comments has to go. All I have to say is read the Wikipedia article on historical method, see how it applies to both Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar and what makes a difference between the two.
I, in advance, accept your apology.
That's too easy to dismiss such claims as mine as non-factuals, when non-christian sources more or less contemporary to his life as as few as I enunciated. Yes I read this Wikipedia article prior to writing this comment, this is where I got my facts from.
Instead of going after my motivations how about you go after my claims?
As far as other myths go, don't forget that a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him
Wait, you forgot about the record of the execution by hanging of a guy named vaguely like him about a decade after his presumed death for wizardry. Not to mention the extensive writings of his life all written at least a couple of generations after his presumed death! I mean with evidence like that who could reasonably doubt that Jesus ever existed, son of God or not? It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to think that all (except a few heretics) of modern scholars and historians accept his historicity as a fact!
Burn ;-)
Where's the corruption in science besides when the government pays scientists to give them the desired bias in their research? Honest question, I just have no idea.
Indeed. I'm letting you guess how God made clouds of comets. If then you consider the theories of panspermia, you'll eventually realise the real nature of our planet.
That's right, the Earth is an ovule. Now you know.
That's called being a hippie. Throwing at people in the most ostentatious way possible what you think they need to know about what you consider to be the important issue of the hour. That's what hippies do, try to make you care about an issue that they find so important and not leave you alone until they made you care or made you tell them to sod off. And yes, for a lot of them, the issue they care the most about sounds fairly ridiculous, be it free software, dirty beaches or religion, when compared to seemingly much graver issues like crime, poverty or genocides.