to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years
And on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day from all his work which he had made.
Surely the specifications will be open sourced, but does it meant the code of the software in it will be opened too? If so I'd love to see some of that hit the front page of The Daily WTF.
I'm sure that those rocket scientists has already consider those options you've mentioned.
You're kidding right? Or maybe you're new here. Cause everybody around here knows that it only takes us Slashdotters a few seconds to find major flaws in what highly qualified scientists and engineers come up with.
There's nothing our superior collective intelligence cannot quickly debunk, including the truth.
Sure, these are all good from the emotional point of view of keeping people alive and making childless couples happy etc, but does it really help the human gene pool?
It's not the big issue. Because our biggest issue, it's not what "Mother Nature" would get ourselves rid off, but what it wouldn't get us rid off no matter what. I'm talking about diseases that mainly occur far after our age of reproduction, such as cancer, Alzheimer and heart diseases. These are our biggest problem, and there's nothing natural selection can do about it, since all of these old age diseases go under the radar (i.e. there's no way to determine so far in people's 20's who's gonna have Alzheimer or pancreas cancer).
The janitor will come by, type a few random key strokes into the terminal, and boom, no more linux box. *nix computers are just too easy too kill.
Yeah, that's the major flaw of Unix operating systems, and it still hasn't been solved in the 35 years Unix has been around.
If only there was some sort of system under which some special user with special powers could create user accounts deprived of these special powers so that they wouldn't be able to break everything...
the reason gamers are skewed toward male is because women are too busy doing housework?
No, the real reason why lies in the content of the games. Let's take a few example games, say, Call of Duty 4, Kane & Lynch, and GTA San Andreas. These games feature cars, helicopters, fire weapons of all sorts, and killing tens of people every couple of minutes. Make no mistake about it, these features on their own aren't what turns women away from such games, no, the real problem is not what is in these games, but what's not in them. Namely, ponies.
When is the last time you've seen a pony in a game? Where are the scenes of combat against pony-riding RPG-totting Iraqi insurgents? Where are the cops who protect themselves from your bullets behind ponies? Where can you jack a mother fucker for his pony and run away with it with the mounties on, literally speaking, your tail? Not in any of the games mentioned, and that's why so many members of the female population prefer to watch cheesy movies that reminds them of the pony their father never offered them for their sixth birthday than to play the games we like to play.
who is going to pay to take care of the waste for the next 100,000 years?
I'm going to deserve my flamebait mod points, because you guys are so full of shit. What the hell do you know, fool, how do you know that in 200 years we'll have found a way to deal with these things for good or simpler yet that we won't have drilled a hole to the core of Earth to dump that waste with the rest of the inner Earth radioactive stuff, or even sent these things into the Sun (I would expect that in 200 years it will be fairly trivial to reach the 30 km/s needed in space to make something fall into the Sun) which is a huge nuclear reaction anyways?
Sudden break out of common sense? Please make the retarded hippies who tagged this line up so I can shove some sense up their arses. Fool, every scientist that hasn't been bribed by Washington agrees to say that we have the climate situation so far up our gastrointestinal system that even if we stopped rejecting gases in the air we'd still be fucked, and that the way things are going it's going to be twice as bad, and you retards are concerned about a few tons of underground waste? Are you fucking retarded?!? YOU'RE GONNA DIE IN HURRICANE KATRINA x10 YOU TRIPLE IMBECILE!! All because instead of pressuring the government to move to nuclear energy that would save our arses as much as we can you morons are going "but, we could do it all if we built more wind mills than there are trees and if we covered half the midwest of the country with solar panels". Wake up, you licensed cretins, if we don't replace our coal power plants with nuclear power plants soon enough it will only make things worse. Blame that on all the mother fucking so called Earth-loving hippies when a tropical tornado kills all your relatives in Scotland, because they've slowed the adoption of nuclear power more than any other lobby.
Yay, way to change the world dude, and by change I mean ruin!
I wholeheartedly agree. The real problem with Wikipedia is not the aforementioned type of vandalism, but people pushing their agenda, and as you said actual admins, who do a tremendous job, but who on a few topics push their agenda, sometimes without meeting any resistance, as few people besides the ones trying to push that very agenda care about.
That's what I find profoundly irritating about trying to edit Wikipedia, you can meet topics that are entirely controlled by sorts of special interest groups, in my personal experience that was on afro-centrist topics, only afro-centrists care about these, therefore they control them.
Earth isn't the largest planet in the world? If you define "the world" as Earth (as most people do), then it definitely is.
O RLY? How insightful! Thanks, Captain Obvious! Obviously it is, but it's an absurd claim, aduh! I didn't claim it was a false claim, only that it was vandalism.
The terrorists can boot up and IM each of the pasengers
What would be great if you could send e-mails to the pilots.
Dear Friend,
I wish to approach you with a request that would be of immense benefit to
the both of us. In order for us to ascend to heaven, we need to participate
in destroying America. To fulfill that purpose, we've been assigned
by the hierarchical superiors of our terrorist organisation the task of
landing this airplane into the White House.
However, we unfortunately do need meet the qualifications required to perform
ourselves such a task. This is why we would like the skilled pilot that you are
to do it for us.
Shall you comply and succeed, you will ascend with us to heaven. If you refuse,
we will denote the bomb we have put under your seat (please do not look), and
we will all die a pointless death. Awaiting your urgent reply.
Best regards,
The Al-Qaeda terrorists on board.
Thanks to that destroying America will be as simple as sending spam.
A study found mis-information... on.. the internet...? Where's the shocker here?
That people pay more attention and prefer to rely to mis-information from nobodies instead of what experts in the field say? Yeah, that's the beauty of our era and its anti-experts culture in which people suddenly feel empowered by the limitless access to sources of information and the ease of publishing their opinions and think they can challenge the claims of experts who make a living out of the research these claims are based on.
People make the mistake to think that there's some democratic aspect to science, and that their voice is worth as much as an expert's voice. There's not a single democratic aspect to science.
I'm not one to support eugenics, but... this might be nature's way of working out its own kinks.
Yeah, exactly, unlike what stupid scientists say, poor education is a genetic problem, because ignorance = stupidity, and stupidity is genetic. If we somehow make the uneducated die young, then the human race will become genetically more educated! I know that, I had biology classes in high school, until I dropped out.
The paper seals were easily bypassed, and the lock could be picked with a "common office implement". After cracking the physical security of the device, the testers found it simple to reconfigure the BIOS to boot off external media. After booting a version of Linux, they found that critical system files were stored in plain text. They also found that the election management system that initializes the voting machines used unencrypted protocols to transmit the initialization data to the voting machines, allowing for a man-in-the-middle attack.
Well, sounds good enough! What are we waiting for to adopt this thing?! Do these guys make avionics software as well? Because I'd be delighted to put my life in the same hands we put our democracy in!
If that was the case, that is France and Europeans in general really loved the USA they would have supported us with the various wars against the ARABS.
You know what's wrong with you? Your problem is that you seem to think that "arab" is an acronym. It's not.
Both of your respective communities seem to be into complete denial about what the rest of the world is like, what personal responsibility is, what it is to respect people from different culture than yours and frankly have a huge disregard for life.
Hey, no fair! That's OUR arguments against Americans, you can't use them against us! Make up your own!
But then again, I know many French people, and they're opposed to proprietary software becoming an ISO standard, especially with patent and copyright as it stands now here in the US.
Dude, I'm French, I live in France, and not only do I not have an opinion on whether or not proprietary software becoming an ISO standard is bad, but I don't know anyone here or matter of fact anywhere who would have an opinion on this or even hear about such a process.
Where on Earth do you find your Frenchmen? And why on Earth do you all act like we're all behind this vote? We've got riots and strikes going on, but wait, PDF is about to become an ISO standard! Let's all stop burning cars to prevent this from happening! Merde, too late! What will become of us!?!
I have no illusions however, they hate my fucking US guts
What the hell is wrong with you people? (Disclaimer : I'm French and I live in France). Why do Americans seem to love so much the idea that the rest of the world (and particularly the French and Arabs) hates them viscerally? The video you linked to was made by a bunch of liberal hippies who, just like all liberal hippies from San Francisco to Prague, like to bash George Bush, the military industrial complex and large corporations.
That doesn't mean we hate you, none of us hates you or America in here, you stupid fat pig!
Oh crap, did I say it out loud? I was supposed to "keep it under covers", like the sneaky Frenchman that I am..
Barrow Gurney, instead of trying to do away with this new source of traffic, adapt! Enjoy the opportunity of having all these truck divers going through your locality to develop your economy and move on to the next level!
Everyone knows a truck driver craves fornication with women. Have whores! Put some money into turning an old farm in dereliction into a brothel and import truckloads of east European prostitutes! Then build your economy around this, build hotels, fast-food restaurants, gynaecology clinics, and soon enough you'll be the city every European truck driver wants to stop in!
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to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years
And on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day from all his work which he had made.
Surely the specifications will be open sourced, but does it meant the code of the software in it will be opened too? If so I'd love to see some of that hit the front page of The Daily WTF.
Just remember to give thanks to the hardworking Chinese factory workers putting together your toys for pennies.
And they'll thank you back for their two digits growth rate, and for still buying their toys despite all the lead they've tried to poison you with ;-)
the most period in human history
The most period.. The moist period? I don't get it..
I'm sure that those rocket scientists has already consider those options you've mentioned.
You're kidding right? Or maybe you're new here. Cause everybody around here knows that it only takes us Slashdotters a few seconds to find major flaws in what highly qualified scientists and engineers come up with.
There's nothing our superior collective intelligence cannot quickly debunk, including the truth.
Sure, these are all good from the emotional point of view of keeping people alive and making childless couples happy etc, but does it really help the human gene pool?
It's not the big issue. Because our biggest issue, it's not what "Mother Nature" would get ourselves rid off, but what it wouldn't get us rid off no matter what. I'm talking about diseases that mainly occur far after our age of reproduction, such as cancer, Alzheimer and heart diseases. These are our biggest problem, and there's nothing natural selection can do about it, since all of these old age diseases go under the radar (i.e. there's no way to determine so far in people's 20's who's gonna have Alzheimer or pancreas cancer).
MS does a good job supporting cheap hardware. Apple does a good job supporting mid price systems. *Nix needs to find it's own niche.
Yeah, Unix, as opposed to Apple, definitely needs to do that. And it's not like Mac OS X is a fully featured Unix system.
Oh wait..
The janitor will come by, type a few random key strokes into the terminal, and boom, no more linux box. *nix computers are just too easy too kill.
Yeah, that's the major flaw of Unix operating systems, and it still hasn't been solved in the 35 years Unix has been around.
If only there was some sort of system under which some special user with special powers could create user accounts deprived of these special powers so that they wouldn't be able to break everything...
Hehe, not like I invented "viewing music" tho, it pretty much existed ever since the Bell Labs analog spectrographs from the late 1930's.
the reason gamers are skewed toward male is because women are too busy doing housework?
No, the real reason why lies in the content of the games. Let's take a few example games, say, Call of Duty 4, Kane & Lynch, and GTA San Andreas. These games feature cars, helicopters, fire weapons of all sorts, and killing tens of people every couple of minutes. Make no mistake about it, these features on their own aren't what turns women away from such games, no, the real problem is not what is in these games, but what's not in them. Namely, ponies.
When is the last time you've seen a pony in a game? Where are the scenes of combat against pony-riding RPG-totting Iraqi insurgents? Where are the cops who protect themselves from your bullets behind ponies? Where can you jack a mother fucker for his pony and run away with it with the mounties on, literally speaking, your tail? Not in any of the games mentioned, and that's why so many members of the female population prefer to watch cheesy movies that reminds them of the pony their father never offered them for their sixth birthday than to play the games we like to play.
who is going to pay to take care of the waste for the next 100,000 years?
I'm going to deserve my flamebait mod points, because you guys are so full of shit. What the hell do you know, fool, how do you know that in 200 years we'll have found a way to deal with these things for good or simpler yet that we won't have drilled a hole to the core of Earth to dump that waste with the rest of the inner Earth radioactive stuff, or even sent these things into the Sun (I would expect that in 200 years it will be fairly trivial to reach the 30 km/s needed in space to make something fall into the Sun) which is a huge nuclear reaction anyways?
Sudden break out of common sense? Please make the retarded hippies who tagged this line up so I can shove some sense up their arses. Fool, every scientist that hasn't been bribed by Washington agrees to say that we have the climate situation so far up our gastrointestinal system that even if we stopped rejecting gases in the air we'd still be fucked, and that the way things are going it's going to be twice as bad, and you retards are concerned about a few tons of underground waste? Are you fucking retarded?!? YOU'RE GONNA DIE IN HURRICANE KATRINA x10 YOU TRIPLE IMBECILE!! All because instead of pressuring the government to move to nuclear energy that would save our arses as much as we can you morons are going "but, we could do it all if we built more wind mills than there are trees and if we covered half the midwest of the country with solar panels". Wake up, you licensed cretins, if we don't replace our coal power plants with nuclear power plants soon enough it will only make things worse. Blame that on all the mother fucking so called Earth-loving hippies when a tropical tornado kills all your relatives in Scotland, because they've slowed the adoption of nuclear power more than any other lobby.
Yay, way to change the world dude, and by change I mean ruin!
Just look at some of these idiotic names for serious telescopes:
Idiotic? Sure! If by idiotic you mean totally awesome!!
Makes me wanna rename my own 5-inch telescope into Not So Large But Hey Size Doesn't Matter It's How You Use It Telescope.
YOUR KIDDING!
Note Willy..
I wholeheartedly agree. The real problem with Wikipedia is not the aforementioned type of vandalism, but people pushing their agenda, and as you said actual admins, who do a tremendous job, but who on a few topics push their agenda, sometimes without meeting any resistance, as few people besides the ones trying to push that very agenda care about.
That's what I find profoundly irritating about trying to edit Wikipedia, you can meet topics that are entirely controlled by sorts of special interest groups, in my personal experience that was on afro-centrist topics, only afro-centrists care about these, therefore they control them.
Earth isn't the largest planet in the world? If you define "the world" as Earth (as most people do), then it definitely is.
O RLY? How insightful! Thanks, Captain Obvious! Obviously it is, but it's an absurd claim, aduh! I didn't claim it was a false claim, only that it was vandalism.
and noted that Wikipedia is still prone to vandalism
Yeah, that would suck if because of vandalism on Wikipedia kids wrote in papers that the Earth is the largest planet in the world, or that Mark Taddonio built the pyriamids (sic).
The terrorists can boot up and IM each of the pasengers
What would be great if you could send e-mails to the pilots.
Dear Friend,
I wish to approach you with a request that would be of immense benefit to
the both of us. In order for us to ascend to heaven, we need to participate
in destroying America. To fulfill that purpose, we've been assigned
by the hierarchical superiors of our terrorist organisation the task of
landing this airplane into the White House.
However, we unfortunately do need meet the qualifications required to perform
ourselves such a task. This is why we would like the skilled pilot that you are
to do it for us.
Shall you comply and succeed, you will ascend with us to heaven. If you refuse,
we will denote the bomb we have put under your seat (please do not look), and
we will all die a pointless death. Awaiting your urgent reply.
Best regards,
The Al-Qaeda terrorists on board.
Thanks to that destroying America will be as simple as sending spam.
Yeah, and it's not like you could use VPN, SSH, DNS or ICMP tunneling to bypass that. Oh wait, you can..
Is it really worth pouring more money into this idiotville if every bit of scientific progress they make is practically public knowledge soon after?
Exactly, because scientific progress is so worthless if it's made public.
A study found mis-information... on.. the internet...? Where's the shocker here?
That people pay more attention and prefer to rely to mis-information from nobodies instead of what experts in the field say? Yeah, that's the beauty of our era and its anti-experts culture in which people suddenly feel empowered by the limitless access to sources of information and the ease of publishing their opinions and think they can challenge the claims of experts who make a living out of the research these claims are based on.
People make the mistake to think that there's some democratic aspect to science, and that their voice is worth as much as an expert's voice. There's not a single democratic aspect to science.
I'm not one to support eugenics, but... this might be nature's way of working out its own kinks.
Yeah, exactly, unlike what stupid scientists say, poor education is a genetic problem, because ignorance = stupidity, and stupidity is genetic. If we somehow make the uneducated die young, then the human race will become genetically more educated! I know that, I had biology classes in high school, until I dropped out.
The paper seals were easily bypassed, and the lock could be picked with a "common office implement". After cracking the physical security of the device, the testers found it simple to reconfigure the BIOS to boot off external media. After booting a version of Linux, they found that critical system files were stored in plain text. They also found that the election management system that initializes the voting machines used unencrypted protocols to transmit the initialization data to the voting machines, allowing for a man-in-the-middle attack.
Well, sounds good enough! What are we waiting for to adopt this thing?! Do these guys make avionics software as well? Because I'd be delighted to put my life in the same hands we put our democracy in!
If that was the case, that is France and Europeans in general really loved the USA they would have supported us with the various wars against the ARABS.
You know what's wrong with you? Your problem is that you seem to think that "arab" is an acronym. It's not.
Both of your respective communities seem to be into complete denial about what the rest of the world is like, what personal responsibility is, what it is to respect people from different culture than yours and frankly have a huge disregard for life.
Hey, no fair! That's OUR arguments against Americans, you can't use them against us! Make up your own!
But then again, I know many French people, and they're opposed to proprietary software becoming an ISO standard, especially with patent and copyright as it stands now here in the US.
Dude, I'm French, I live in France, and not only do I not have an opinion on whether or not proprietary software becoming an ISO standard is bad, but I don't know anyone here or matter of fact anywhere who would have an opinion on this or even hear about such a process.
Where on Earth do you find your Frenchmen? And why on Earth do you all act like we're all behind this vote? We've got riots and strikes going on, but wait, PDF is about to become an ISO standard! Let's all stop burning cars to prevent this from happening! Merde, too late! What will become of us!?!
I have no illusions however, they hate my fucking US guts
What the hell is wrong with you people? (Disclaimer : I'm French and I live in France). Why do Americans seem to love so much the idea that the rest of the world (and particularly the French and Arabs) hates them viscerally? The video you linked to was made by a bunch of liberal hippies who, just like all liberal hippies from San Francisco to Prague, like to bash George Bush, the military industrial complex and large corporations.
That doesn't mean we hate you, none of us hates you or America in here, you stupid fat pig!
Oh crap, did I say it out loud? I was supposed to "keep it under covers", like the sneaky Frenchman that I am..
Barrow Gurney, instead of trying to do away with this new source of traffic, adapt! Enjoy the opportunity of having all these truck divers going through your locality to develop your economy and move on to the next level!
Everyone knows a truck driver craves fornication with women. Have whores! Put some money into turning an old farm in dereliction into a brothel and import truckloads of east European prostitutes! Then build your economy around this, build hotels, fast-food restaurants, gynaecology clinics, and soon enough you'll be the city every European truck driver wants to stop in!