Maybe his dickhead is smarter than his real head. Then again notice the shortness of the article compared to his usual diatribes, it appears it was being typed with one hand only.:)
Prozac/antidepressants are a fucking necessity. Talk to those who pay the obscene price of it and cut out expenditure from food and rent to pay for it.
Whats next? You pay a tax on bicylces because it may cost the Auto Industry revenue?
You pay a tax on Beer because it may cost the Win Industry revenue?
A tax on marriage because it costs the whores more money.
As in all cases it depends on the ingenuity of the people using the computer system. In one such horror, I found that I could not pay a utility bill by check on the phone because an earlier check that I had issued bounced as I had forgotten to put the date on it. The person said their computer wont accept my check and I would have to pay it by cash at a collection center. I said that this is ridiculous. Then he seemed to have an epiphany and asked if I had a middle initial. I gave him the middle initial, and the computer happily accepted it.
This is pretty close to the Japanese way of hunting whales for 'research' and later on marketing the meat. Now China can legitimately export the 'dam-building' technology to the 'rogue nations'.
You are wrong beyond the bremsstrahlung is a physical process part. Bremsstrahlung is the release of radiation by accelerated charged free particles as in a plasma.
Well, Here in Columbus, Ohio the Columbus Metropolitan Library Has quite a bit of software available for checkout. Yes, it has games like Chessmaster 7000 and Simcity 3000 which I got from there. Lots of MS stuff particularly games. There is some sort of a sticker on top which says you are responsible for any copyright violations occuring. That's all. Interestingly I could not find any Open Source stuff like *any* Linux distro there.
India has quite a few ISPs, although they are usually restricted to the big cities, get your facts before you start bashing your neighbours. Also India doesn't have ridiculous laws like not allowing encryption or the fact that you have no privacy from the goverment.
Which is bullshit, of course.;) Which is not bullshit. An infinite number of data points != infinitely accurate reproduction 'cause the noise tends to get in the way. That's why a digital recording can be copied accurately but an analog recording will at some level always have its own quirks. And more importantly, analog recording != infinite number of data points. The number of data points are limited by the grain size of your magnetic media(or optical media), which is nowhere near infinite. A big factor in high quality recordings, which is the reason why magnetic tapes themselves don't do very well at the high end of the spectrum. Again analog recordings tend to decay with time. FarHat.
but reasonably geeky and educated programmer can pull something like that in ideal conditions -
Not necessarily, a point that was repeatedly emphasized in the article was that these guys are not ego-driven. Most people who are geeky and educated have pretty huge egos as well. they like to put their signatures in the code. Did you notice that no programmer's name came up in the entire article while a typical article on a project like linux or quake would make gods of Linus and Carmack. You can't have it both ways. And although everybody agrees some tightening up is required but this kind of rigidity which is perfectly justified here would be harakiri in a corporate environment.
A large part of the software in this world started as a hack in some university lab and was then improved upon till it came to a passably useful stage. That is why you have these EULAs which absolve the software makers from all responsibility in contrast with this group's software where they take full responsibility for anything going wrong.
and lastly, the late night coding sessions are not all that bad. I bet a large part of the kernel code for linux and BSD was written that way. But you should have a independent review process that is responsible for catching the bugs. Peer review can do wonders for the code before the final version comes out.
cables but if they can made thin enough they could become cables themselves. You could have self assembling structures. And if they are modular they could be able to join with each other to become longer chains or break up into smaller sections to search or repair in parallel. Cool...the possibilities are endless.
Why is paper considered more "permanent" by any standards? It is bulky, it requires trees, something we don't have a lot of, it is way too difficult to disseminate (as someone who has done a quite some research I can tell you how backbreaking it is when you have to lug massive journals to and fro), it is difficult to search through it. And if you happen to find that the particular article you happen to be looking for has been neatly cut out by someone, well can't do much about it except cursing it. Photocopying journals is a pita. And most important, the speed with which research is done today means that by the time that paper journal is compiled and reviewed and edited and mailed, the whole thing is already outdated. Journals aren't something you curl up in bed with (usually). And data on hard drives is way more easy to backup, archive, disseminate then on paper. Paper decays with time and degrades with use, which can't be said for electronic media. I for one, think that paper journals can be completely done away with.
Farhat.
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Thus, with sufficiently powerful technology, total freedom of information could lead to total human extinction.
As technology grow, it grows both ways, so when guns came up, you also had bullet proof vests after some time. With electricity, you got circuit breakers after some time. And granted, the protective measures can follow only after the initial discovery has been made. Freedom of the information could possibly lead to someone building a better bulletproof vest or maybe a nukediffuser[TM]. As has been said here many times, security by obscurity is almost always a bad idea.
The individual sperms do not have to contain different chromosomes. The differentiation occurs in the way in which the 23 chromosomes from the dad combine with the 23 chromosomes of the mom. The number of combinations, given the number of genes is horrendous which is why the chances of somebody giving birth to identical kids is negligible unless they are monozygotic twins. In which case they have the same genome. Farhat
2) When the power has been switched ON, and the current reachs 300 A,
this is a lot of current. You could pretty easily have magnetic fields accounting for the loss of weight here.
It says Fran De Aquino has published a paper. No info whatsoever on where it has been published. According to the date in the document it has been published on 30th Jan. Why did nobody take any notice in the preceding two months?
I haven't gone through the whole thing in detail but on the very surface at least, the guy is low on theory and very high on presentation. What is the galaxy java applet doing out there?
I wish there was a little more checking before the submission is accepted.
No wonder Cyber Patrol doesn't want you to look "under the hood", given how broad the are about restricting things. To be fair, it is not easy at all to make any kind of filtering software. I experienced this at during my undergraduate when my univ tried to block inappropriate sites and failed miserably by blocking a lot of sites that shouldn't have been blocked or not blocking those that could have been. BTW, I am from India, so a lot of this civil liberties stuff doesn't wash there. Anyway, the idea that I have is, don't flame me if you don't like it;), how about an open source blocking software. The banned urls or the criteria by which sites are blocked would be completely public. There could be a central server on which people could add url's they found offensive and others could have a look and there could be some sort of a slashdot style moderation to determine whether it really should be banned or not. Responsible adult sites might like to add themselves voluntarily to this database.
I am not for censorship at all. But given the net and the fact that a parent cannot be expected to supervise all the time a kid is on the net some measures can be expected. The chance of accidently bumping into offensive stuff is not as low as most would like to beleive out here. Just my 2 cents. Farhat. ** Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
France, with its tradition of rational centralized government, had fought bitterly even against the electric telegraph, which seemed to the French entirely too anarchical and frivolous. For decades, nineteenth-century France communicated via the "visual telegraph," a nation-spanning, government-owned semaphore system of huge stone towers that signalled from hilltops, across vast distances, with big windmill-like arms. In 1846, one Dr. Barbay, a semaphore enthusiast, memorably uttered an early version of what might be called "the security expert's argument" against the open media.
"No, the electric telegraph is not a sound invention. It will always be at the mercy of the slightest disruption, wild youths, drunkards, bums, etc. . . . The electric telegraph meets those destructive elements with only a few meters of wire over which supervision is impossible. A single man could, without being seen, cut the telegraph wires leading to Paris, and in twenty-four hours cut in ten different places the wires of the same line, without being arrested. The visual telegraph, on the contrary, has its towers, its high walls, its gates well-guarded from inside by strong armed men. Yes, I declare, substitution of the electric telegraph for the visual one is a dreadful measure, a truly idiotic act."
I see no reason why this measure shouldn't go the semaphore way.
Begun in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. Coordinated by the government and very loosely coordinated at that. The govenment provides part of the funding and private companies put up the rest of it. A significant area of controversy is that the NIH wanted (I am not sure if that is still its position) the entire genome to be sequenced while the companies are more interested in the "working genes", which comprise about 3% of the total genome. The rest of the DNA wasteland, more diplomatically known as "non-coding" DNA is bypassed by the private companies.
Let's say you have a complex job that needs doing. It has too many random elements to trust to a computer yet is too repetitive to interest people.
Aren't you contradicting yourself. If it has too many random elements it possibly can't be too repetitive. Life is worth living because of the random elements in it. Farhat.
A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Maybe his dickhead is smarter than his real head. Then again notice the shortness of the article compared to his usual diatribes, it appears it was being typed with one hand only. :)
FarHat
Prozac/antidepressants are a fucking necessity. Talk to those who pay the obscene price of it and cut out expenditure from food and rent to pay for it.
The parent post is spam!:)
A tax on marriage because it costs the whores more money.
As in all cases it depends on the ingenuity of the people using the computer system. In one such horror, I found that I could not pay a utility bill by check on the phone because an earlier check that I had issued bounced as I had forgotten to put the date on it. The person said their computer wont accept my check and I would have to pay it by cash at a collection center. I said that this is ridiculous. Then he seemed to have an epiphany and asked if I had a middle initial. I gave him the middle initial, and the computer happily accepted it.
This is pretty close to the Japanese way of hunting whales for 'research' and later on marketing the meat. Now China can legitimately export the 'dam-building' technology to the 'rogue nations'.
He killed himself in the early 50's not the late 40's.
you must be trollig....why should linux worry abt compatibility here.../etc/ was there way before /winnt came into existence
You are wrong beyond the bremsstrahlung is a physical process part. Bremsstrahlung is the release of radiation by accelerated charged free particles as in a plasma.
Well, Here in Columbus, Ohio the Columbus Metropolitan Library Has quite a bit of software available for checkout. Yes, it has games like Chessmaster 7000 and Simcity 3000 which I got from there. Lots of MS stuff particularly games. There is some sort of a sticker on top which says you are responsible for any copyright violations occuring. That's all. Interestingly I could not find any Open Source stuff like *any* Linux distro there.
FarHat
India has quite a few ISPs, although they are usually restricted to the big cities, get your facts before you start bashing your neighbours. Also India doesn't have ridiculous laws like not allowing encryption or the fact that you have no privacy from the goverment.
FarHat
Lucky bitch.
Which is bullshit, of course. ;) Which is not bullshit. An infinite number of data points != infinitely accurate reproduction 'cause the noise tends to get in the way. That's why a digital recording can be copied accurately but an analog recording will at some level always have its own quirks. And more importantly, analog recording != infinite number of data points. The number of data points are limited by the grain size of your magnetic media(or optical media), which is nowhere near infinite. A big factor in high quality recordings, which is the reason why magnetic tapes themselves don't do very well at the high end of the spectrum. Again analog recordings tend to decay with time. FarHat.
How primitive! So they don't want an 'ice' or 'peach' flavored powermac to do their numbercrunching.
Not necessarily, a point that was repeatedly emphasized in the article was that these guys are not ego-driven. Most people who are geeky and educated have pretty huge egos as well. they like to put their signatures in the code. Did you notice that no programmer's name came up in the entire article while a typical article on a project like linux or quake would make gods of Linus and Carmack. You can't have it both ways. And although everybody agrees some tightening up is required but this kind of rigidity which is perfectly justified here would be harakiri in a corporate environment.
A large part of the software in this world started as a hack in some university lab and was then improved upon till it came to a passably useful stage. That is why you have these EULAs which absolve the software makers from all responsibility in contrast with this group's software where they take full responsibility for anything going wrong.
and lastly, the late night coding sessions are not all that bad. I bet a large part of the kernel code for linux and BSD was written that way. But you should have a independent review process that is responsible for catching the bugs. Peer review can do wonders for the code before the final version comes out.
FarHat
cables but if they can made thin enough they could become cables themselves. You could have self assembling structures. And if they are modular they could be able to join with each other to become longer chains or break up into smaller sections to search or repair in parallel. Cool...the possibilities are endless.
FarHat
Why is paper considered more "permanent" by any standards? It is bulky, it requires trees, something we don't have a lot of, it is way too difficult to disseminate (as someone who has done a quite some research I can tell you how backbreaking it is when you have to lug massive journals to and fro), it is difficult to search through it. And if you happen to find that the particular article you happen to be looking for has been neatly cut out by someone, well can't do much about it except cursing it. Photocopying journals is a pita. And most important, the speed with which research is done today means that by the time that paper journal is compiled and reviewed and edited and mailed, the whole thing is already outdated. Journals aren't something you curl up in bed with (usually). And data on hard drives is way more easy to backup, archive, disseminate then on paper. Paper decays with time and degrades with use, which can't be said for electronic media. I for one, think that paper journals can be completely done away with.
Farhat.
Thus, with sufficiently powerful technology, total freedom of information could lead to total human extinction.
As technology grow, it grows both ways, so when guns came up, you also had bullet proof vests after some time. With electricity, you got circuit breakers after some time. And granted, the protective measures can follow only after the initial discovery has been made. Freedom of the information could possibly lead to someone building a better bulletproof vest or maybe a nukediffuser[TM]. As has been said here many times, security by obscurity is almost always a bad idea.
FarHat.
The other way round is far more likely to happen. Remember its got a lucky dolllar in its name. M$
Farhat.
The individual sperms do not have to contain different chromosomes. The differentiation occurs in the way in which the 23 chromosomes from the dad combine with the 23 chromosomes of the mom. The number of combinations, given the number of genes is horrendous which is why the chances of somebody giving birth to identical kids is negligible unless they are monozygotic twins. In which case they have the same genome. Farhat
Weight reduction != mass reduction.
Secondly,
2) When the power has been switched ON, and the current reachs 300 A,
this is a lot of current. You could pretty easily have magnetic fields accounting for the loss of weight here.
It says Fran De Aquino has published a paper. No info whatsoever on where it has been published. According to the date in the document it has been published on 30th Jan. Why did nobody take any notice in the preceding two months?
I haven't gone through the whole thing in detail but on the very surface at least, the guy is low on theory and very high on presentation. What is the galaxy java applet doing out there?
I wish there was a little more checking before the submission is accepted.
FarHat
***Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
I am not for censorship at all. But given the net and the fact that a parent cannot be expected to supervise all the time a kid is on the net some measures can be expected. The chance of accidently bumping into offensive stuff is not as low as most would like to beleive out here. Just my 2 cents. Farhat. ** Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
France, with its tradition of rational centralized government, had fought bitterly even against the electric telegraph, which seemed to the French entirely too anarchical and frivolous. For decades, nineteenth-century France communicated via the "visual telegraph," a nation-spanning, government-owned semaphore system of huge stone towers that signalled from hilltops, across vast distances, with big windmill-like arms. In 1846, one Dr. Barbay, a semaphore enthusiast, memorably uttered an early version of what might be called "the security expert's argument" against the open media.
"No, the electric telegraph is not a sound invention. It will always be at the mercy of the slightest disruption, wild youths, drunkards, bums, etc. . . . The electric telegraph meets those destructive elements with only a few meters of wire over which supervision is impossible. A single man could, without being seen, cut the telegraph wires leading to Paris, and in twenty-four hours cut in ten different places the wires of the same line, without being arrested. The visual telegraph, on the contrary, has its towers, its high walls, its gates well-guarded from inside by strong armed men. Yes, I declare, substitution of the electric telegraph for the visual one is a dreadful measure, a truly idiotic act."
I see no reason why this measure shouldn't go the semaphore way.
FarHat
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Begun in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. Coordinated by the government and very loosely coordinated at that. The govenment provides part of the funding and private companies put up the rest of it. A significant area of controversy is that the NIH wanted (I am not sure if that is still its position) the entire genome to be sequenced while the companies are more interested in the "working genes", which comprise about 3% of the total genome. The rest of the DNA wasteland, more diplomatically known as "non-coding" DNA is bypassed by the private companies.
Aren't you contradicting yourself. If it has too many random elements it possibly can't be too repetitive. Life is worth living because of the random elements in it. Farhat.
A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular.