This belief that humans are no longer evolving is wrong.
Oh yeah, turns out you're right. Funny, like two years ago, the philosophy teacher said that we were not evolving anymore. Back then I said it was bullshit, then I read in a scientifical magazine (Science & Vie) that it was so. Now we just found out it's wrong.
Awesome, I was wrong two years ago by claiming what's considered true now, and I am wrong now for claiming what was considered true up to 3 months ago. Thanks for making me update the truth.
allow people to reproduce who would otherwise not be able to
Oh yeah that's right, with all these people not living up to reach 14 back then, the only problem is that I can't think of a genetic cause for these deaths that would prevent reproduction. If there's not really any, this factor should have a limited impact on our evolution.
Which raises a question, if people who died of genetic diseases to young to reproduce themselves can live to reproduce themselves, does it mean that it will turn out that more and more of us will have such early-age deadly genetic diseases such as mucoviscidosis for example?
Can we guess the numbers from the lottery? Maybe, says preliminar research I just did.
Evolution works by having random variations and mutations based on what is physically possible and better adapted to the environment.
I think it's a bad analogy. Numbers from the lottery are trully random. Evolution is based on random mutations, but the one mutations that will stay can be predicted, although we are unable to do so due to our lack of informations and knowledge.
Example. Imagine than us, the humans, more or less suddenly find ourselves in an environnent where only the tall and hairless survive (random example). You'll agree to say that someone's height and hairiness is quite random, but on a global scale, there's a whole lot of tall and hairless mutants out here.
So although hairiness and height mutations are quite random, you can tell that we will evolve to become tall and hairless (this example is purely fictious of course), but there's no way you can predict the lottery numbers, because nothing makes some number more likely to come out than another.
With more complex species, for example humans, other, less easily determined factors, including one commonly known as 'attraction', will come into play.
Ugly people don't have any less kids that "attractive" people. Example : Marilyn Monroe : 0 kids. Osama bin Laden : at least 24.
And it all comes down to how many kids you get in the end, not how often or how easily you get laid.
I think the guys who did this game are only attention whores who, as any self-respecting attention whore does, tried to get attention. They get a great attention/effort-put-into-the-dev.-of-the-game ratio.
By featuring them on Slashdot we're only giving them more of that precious attention, IMHO.
For the purist, UTC really stands for Coordinated Universal Time, but both terms are used. Mills somewhat humorously notes that we follow the politically correct convention of expressing international terms in English, and their abbreviations in French.
Actually not exactly, there's no way you can put it in french so it fits the UTC abbreviation, but as the wikipedia says, it's a compromise between the english CUT and the french TUC, which is quite unusual.
If you had to click 'send', and then re-read your mail and click 'send' again ten minutes later, there'd be far fewer misunderstandings and a great deal less internet drama.
I don't agree. While there might be slightly less misunderstandings, it won't help, mainly because the main informations you need to correctly interpret the intended tone are lacking, therefore, you can read it again and again, you might attempt to see things differently to have a range of different possible intended tones, but you still won't really know better.
They make for a nice way of expressing tone and intent. ^_^
Totally agree. Although they're annoying, there the best way of defining your tone when something might sound ambiguous. I think TFA should mention this, because after all this is a substitute for facial expressions, although it should be used with care (because personally I think that a couple of smileys per mail is already enough)
This only brings us back to the article about the origin of flamewars we had a few months ago, explaining that flamewars on internet start mainly because people's tone gets misinterpreted, due to the same lack of informations as the summary here talks about (didn't bother reading the article, I will once I post this, I'm not new here anymore).
There's a major problem with the SpamOrHam tests, it's that we are not the person it's sent to.
For example, I tried taking the test, and the first email seemed to be encrypted in something like ROT13, but I tried rotating it and it didn't work. Was there another way to decode it to reveal the true and maybe genuine message? I don't know, the reason for that is that I'm not the person it was destinated to, therefore I'm not supposed to know, as if I was, I would know what it's about or not, in this case I would consider it spam or so.
That's how people took an email showing a financial discussion between two persons for spam, it's because they weren't part of the discussion, it's like getting someone else's mail.
Instead of claiming that people suck at spotting fishing/spam, it would be more accurate to say they suck at sorting out other people's mail.
fool, if you gotta talk shit everytime you're contradicted when you're tired rather go to bed. talking shit just cuz I get my info from wikipedia, I could have as well took it from some of the geology books that I used to study like 10 years ago.
I can only imagine some bank manager "now where did I put that thumb drive...."
It applies for alot of other small devices in other jobs. If you're an FBI agent and that you lost your security access card, if your some guard and you lost your keys, etc etc, it's just the same as if you're a bank manager who lost his thumb drive.
You're just not supposed to lose that kind of stuff, period.
But some form of our ancestors were. And I'm sure there were magnetic field reversals then as well. So he is right (even if that wasn't what he meant).
Hahaha, some form of our ancestors, as you'll see here, 780 million years ago, our ancestors consisted mainly of Proterospongia. Do you think we can compare their survival to ours? Now that you know that, do you still think he's right?
lol I don't mean to sound rude, but you should read/watch less sci-fi. These four scenarios don't sound very likely, even the fourth. As for the effect on the communications, as big or weak as it will be, we will have time to foresee and do what it takes to prevent any problems.
Quit trolling. It's no weak rumor, you fool, but I can't cite my sources if I don't remember and I won't bother looking for sources to confirm what I saw just to please trolls of your kind.
One time a girl asked a friend of mine if guys breathed through thier penis while they slept. She was completely serious.
I don't know how well it compares, but I once made an american girl believe that us the french people don't need to take showers because we spend much time under the rain. And yes she totally believed that.
But there's worse, just a few years ago I used to believe anything I was told without thinking twice about it, all of this just because of how I had been raised into believing the most senseless stuff
Like when I was 13-14, one friend told me that when he was 1, we took a ride on his bike, made a few miles and stopped at a phone booth to call his mom to pick him up. I totally believed that one. Some people just wouldn't suspect anyone of lying, I think the educational part is to teach that people lie, although they can be nice and not necessarily evil.
To say just because our ancestors lived through it 780 million years
780 million years ago, there was nothing close to a monkey on earth. There wasn't even any ammonites IIRC. I think you mean 780,000 years ago.
As for your skin cancer concern, I saw a show about the very topic of magnetic field reversal on TV about one year ago. They explained basically what this article explains about the field weakening and all that, and they answered to the question of whether cancers due to the the lack of a magnetic field would wipe all of us out of the surface of us, and the answer was that the number of cancers due to that wouldn't be that significant, however I forgot the estimates.
TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.
Didn't your last statement demonstrate that you don't need a certain amount of plot for a TV show to be successful? (because American Idol is successful, you can't say it's not)
Yup actually when something goes faster than the speed of light in the medium, it creates what's called the Cherenkov radiation. As you pointed out that's still not about breaking the speed of light in vaccum.
If so that makes about $285 a year! (provided you run it 24/7 under max load, which I do with my system since I run grid computing) Gonna make me think more than twice before buying such a thing. Actually I considered doing all that but if it's gonna cost me that much it's a no-no.
I'm not saying that your idea is wrong, but does the CPU produces such a big part of the heat? I mean, I think what makes the most eat on my computer is the power supply and -although you won't find any in an office- a big old 17" CRT.
And besides that, don't all CPU's produce about the same temperature when not overclocked?
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Oh yeah, turns out you're right. Funny, like two years ago, the philosophy teacher said that we were not evolving anymore. Back then I said it was bullshit, then I read in a scientifical magazine (Science & Vie) that it was so. Now we just found out it's wrong.
Awesome, I was wrong two years ago by claiming what's considered true now, and I am wrong now for claiming what was considered true up to 3 months ago. Thanks for making me update the truth.
allow people to reproduce who would otherwise not be able to
Oh yeah that's right, with all these people not living up to reach 14 back then, the only problem is that I can't think of a genetic cause for these deaths that would prevent reproduction. If there's not really any, this factor should have a limited impact on our evolution.
Which raises a question, if people who died of genetic diseases to young to reproduce themselves can live to reproduce themselves, does it mean that it will turn out that more and more of us will have such early-age deadly genetic diseases such as mucoviscidosis for example?
Evolution works by having random variations and mutations based on what is physically possible and better adapted to the environment.
I think it's a bad analogy. Numbers from the lottery are trully random. Evolution is based on random mutations, but the one mutations that will stay can be predicted, although we are unable to do so due to our lack of informations and knowledge.
Example. Imagine than us, the humans, more or less suddenly find ourselves in an environnent where only the tall and hairless survive (random example). You'll agree to say that someone's height and hairiness is quite random, but on a global scale, there's a whole lot of tall and hairless mutants out here.
So although hairiness and height mutations are quite random, you can tell that we will evolve to become tall and hairless (this example is purely fictious of course), but there's no way you can predict the lottery numbers, because nothing makes some number more likely to come out than another.
No, because we do not evolve anymore since the advent of agriculture (or so).
Ugly people don't have any less kids that "attractive" people. Example : Marilyn Monroe : 0 kids. Osama bin Laden : at least 24.
And it all comes down to how many kids you get in the end, not how often or how easily you get laid.
lol, the problem about global warming is about anything but our resistance to heat.
By featuring them on Slashdot we're only giving them more of that precious attention, IMHO.
Actually not exactly, there's no way you can put it in french so it fits the UTC abbreviation, but as the wikipedia says, it's a compromise between the english CUT and the french TUC, which is quite unusual.
I don't agree. While there might be slightly less misunderstandings, it won't help, mainly because the main informations you need to correctly interpret the intended tone are lacking, therefore, you can read it again and again, you might attempt to see things differently to have a range of different possible intended tones, but you still won't really know better.
Totally agree. Although they're annoying, there the best way of defining your tone when something might sound ambiguous. I think TFA should mention this, because after all this is a substitute for facial expressions, although it should be used with care (because personally I think that a couple of smileys per mail is already enough)
In other words, that's not really news, is it?
For example, I tried taking the test, and the first email seemed to be encrypted in something like ROT13, but I tried rotating it and it didn't work. Was there another way to decode it to reveal the true and maybe genuine message? I don't know, the reason for that is that I'm not the person it was destinated to, therefore I'm not supposed to know, as if I was, I would know what it's about or not, in this case I would consider it spam or so.
That's how people took an email showing a financial discussion between two persons for spam, it's because they weren't part of the discussion, it's like getting someone else's mail.
Instead of claiming that people suck at spotting fishing/spam, it would be more accurate to say they suck at sorting out other people's mail.
Where I'm from (France) you don't need to wait for night to see sober men pee in the streets.
fool, if you gotta talk shit everytime you're contradicted when you're tired rather go to bed. talking shit just cuz I get my info from wikipedia, I could have as well took it from some of the geology books that I used to study like 10 years ago.
Are you scared of anyone to deduce how frequently and for how long you jack off from your heart and breathing rate? ;-)
It applies for alot of other small devices in other jobs. If you're an FBI agent and that you lost your security access card, if your some guard and you lost your keys, etc etc, it's just the same as if you're a bank manager who lost his thumb drive.
You're just not supposed to lose that kind of stuff, period.
Hahaha, some form of our ancestors, as you'll see here, 780 million years ago, our ancestors consisted mainly of Proterospongia. Do you think we can compare their survival to ours? Now that you know that, do you still think he's right?
lol I don't mean to sound rude, but you should read/watch less sci-fi. These four scenarios don't sound very likely, even the fourth. As for the effect on the communications, as big or weak as it will be, we will have time to foresee and do what it takes to prevent any problems.
Quit trolling. It's no weak rumor, you fool, but I can't cite my sources if I don't remember and I won't bother looking for sources to confirm what I saw just to please trolls of your kind.
You troll, ever heard of fossiles?
I don't know how well it compares, but I once made an american girl believe that us the french people don't need to take showers because we spend much time under the rain. And yes she totally believed that.
But there's worse, just a few years ago I used to believe anything I was told without thinking twice about it, all of this just because of how I had been raised into believing the most senseless stuff
Like when I was 13-14, one friend told me that when he was 1, we took a ride on his bike, made a few miles and stopped at a phone booth to call his mom to pick him up. I totally believed that one. Some people just wouldn't suspect anyone of lying, I think the educational part is to teach that people lie, although they can be nice and not necessarily evil.
780 million years ago, there was nothing close to a monkey on earth. There wasn't even any ammonites IIRC. I think you mean 780,000 years ago.
As for your skin cancer concern, I saw a show about the very topic of magnetic field reversal on TV about one year ago. They explained basically what this article explains about the field weakening and all that, and they answered to the question of whether cancers due to the the lack of a magnetic field would wipe all of us out of the surface of us, and the answer was that the number of cancers due to that wouldn't be that significant, however I forgot the estimates.
Didn't your last statement demonstrate that you don't need a certain amount of plot for a TV show to be successful? (because American Idol is successful, you can't say it's not)
Yup actually when something goes faster than the speed of light in the medium, it creates what's called the Cherenkov radiation. As you pointed out that's still not about breaking the speed of light in vaccum.
If so that makes about $285 a year! (provided you run it 24/7 under max load, which I do with my system since I run grid computing) Gonna make me think more than twice before buying such a thing. Actually I considered doing all that but if it's gonna cost me that much it's a no-no.
And besides that, don't all CPU's produce about the same temperature when not overclocked?