The real problem if that in order for somebody to really "get" a satire, they have to understand exactly what is being satirized. This might be the funniest damn movie of the decade, but I won't spend my money on it because I haven't spent my money on any other teen movies.
I'm sure not going to dump my hard earned money on an overpriced chance to spend two hours wondering why everyone else is laughing.
Not entirely true. I get what you're saying, but strictly speaking, proving that P=NP would mean that it is possible to find a better way to send your pizzas and packages. P=NP would imply that an exponential-time algorithm exists. It does not actually provide you with that algorithm.
That said, given that problems can be mapped to other problems, (the knapsack problem to the partitioning problem, frex) the nature of the proof would most likely provide some path for mapping the travelling salesman problem to something known to be in P.
...that you've given. Cop, astronaut, fireman, on some level all of these people train with, work with and rely on the physical competence and cooperative effort of their colleagues.
Debugging code? Enh. Not so much.
Don't kid yourself - there's a real sense that you rely your coworkers in jobs that are physically demanding. Team sports can do that, too. You get a sense of kinship with the people you strive hard with to accomplish the common goal.
I haven't seen that kind of camraderie anywhere that's got a cubicle on the premises, to be honest. Private industry or government work, you name it; the person in the next office is an idiot, people get talked about behind their backs, and it's really as if the cubicle isolates people socially as well as physically.
I decided a few years ago that as much fun as this lone-wolf stuff can be, it's pretty goddamn lonely, and twenty years from now I don't want to end up a pale, scrawny guy haplessly prowling around singles bars without any idea how to interact anymore. I decided to pick up Ultimate, and went to sign up for a novice team. Whatever sport it is, if you're looking to meet people, looking for that kind of camraderie, you've got to put yourself in a situation where that kind of thing occurs.
And I'll tell you, a co-ed team and a warm summer evening beats the fuck out of an all-nighter in a cubicle.
"They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that,'' he said.
So reading a hair past the ha-ha bad product description, we've learned that the CIA can stick a wire into your head and change the way you feel.
And they knew how to do this in 1960. Damn, but they must have some cool toys by now.
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Will the guy in 2020 buying the plug-in-and-leave Linux box for his small business's network know when and where to go for the next patch to Sendmail/Apache/Bind?
We know from chaos theory that a butterfly batting its wings in France can eventually cause a hurricane in the Atlantic, so the trick is to harness enough supercomputing power to analyze the flight paths of all the butterflies in the world, and use that to calculate the effects on weather patterns around the globe. Isn't science great?
...about where that critical point is. Eventually, sure - most of us only have a single connection. The problems is that sometimes our ISPs only have a single connection, and sometimes those ISPs have hundreds of thousands of clients.
Last month, Rogers@Home, the internet-via-cable provider in Ontario, lost connectivity for a day and a half. Not just locally, but every single client in the province, because of a cut cable in Boston. A cable that's cut in a different country, for crying out loud.
The problem isn't about individual connections. It's about states, provinces and possibly entire countries dropping off the net for days or weeks while the sabotaged hardware is repaired or replaced.
We get really upset when countries insist on being able to do this deliberately - how much more upset should we get if countries aren't preventing from happening inadvertently?
This is terrible news. We all need to become very, very concerned about this.
Microsoft has been lobbying against the GPL for one simple reason. Their Trademarked(tm) Strategy(tm) For(tm) Dealing(tm) With(tm) Rivals(tm) doesn't work on GPL'ed work. Microsoft has obviously decided go a step further - if they can't E&E(tm) Linux then they're going to have to take their plan to the next level: They're going to Embrace And Extend Linus Torvalds himself.
Mark my words - over the next few weeks, you'll see Steve Ballmer give Linus a pat on the back at a conference, then it'll be a handshake, pretty soon Bill Himself will welcome Linus to his house with a friendly hug, and then whammo! it'll be Linus on the new Microsoft MS-Rack, being extended so far he'll never be compatible with a keyboard again, much less GCC or the latest kernel.
There's only one thing to do: Linus has to GPL himself. He has to belong to the community. We should be free to take Linus and make any changes we want, as long as those changes are given back to the world, so we can all benefit from each other's Linus innovations. Otherwise, Microsoft might be able to take Linus and make their own, proprietary MS-Linus that isn't compatible with other Linuses, and leverage their market share to make their MS-Linus the standard, stifling other Linuses and preventing innovative new developments and applications of Linus.
We'll have to remember, though, that it won't be "Linus Torvalds" anymore. Strictly speaking, he should now be referred to as "GNU-Linus".
A lot of Slashdot readers are probably wrapping up four months of textbooks and research. For me, it's been four months of looking for books that may or may not be in the libraries I can get to. How great would it be if every time you found one decent reference for The Next Big Essay, you could just click on the footnotes to call up related references in their entirety?
Reading books for the sake of bettering yourself and expanding your horizons is great, but those of us who also read because we need to get at that information, process it, understand it and use it to create something new are inevitably limited by our ability to access that information.
How great would it be if the library never failed to have the specific book you're looking for on the shelf? If books became like free software - no matter how many people have it, it's always there for the next person?
How much better would our academic lives be if no matter how many people in class need the half-dozen or so references the library has about Obscure Topic X, those books were always available, 24/7, for everybody?
This is what the "information revolution" is about, for cryin' out loud.
REUTERS, 04/07/00 -- Distributed.Net and Slashdot.Org announce Partnership. Press release claims new allies "...to explore "Massively Parallel Simian-Keyboard Output Research, with an eye towards individual education."
In an interview earlier this week, Rob Malda was quoted as saying "...and then we realized, hey, all these computers have people in front of them. I bet we could get them to do stuff too." This simple idea signalled the beginning of Distributed.Net's latest cooperative processing effort with Slashdot, tentatively named "MonkeyDo (tm)". Rave reviews have been pouring in ever since:
"I thought it was a great idea. I mean, there must be millions of people reading Slashdot right now, just sitting their drooling. All that brainpower was going completely to waste. Now, we can put all that extra thinking into solving complex and difficult problems like "how do I type 'crypto' into Google" or "how come the Dewey Decimal System at the library is so hard?"
MonkeyDo(tm) proponent Cliff, speaking alongside Hemos and CmdrTaco, said "We get millions of pageviews a day, and for the time it takes to download a page, our readers are just sitting there slack-jawed, not accomplishing anything! We decided that if we pooled their collective efforts, we could really help these kids!"
"I mean, we're not talking about a lot of brainpower, here", he added. "A tenth of an I.Q. point here, a third there. But with that many monkeys, and our innovative 'Anonymous Coward' function, we can be sure that one of them will eventually come up with the right answer!"
Has excessive feelings of isolation and/or rejection.
Conveys violence in writings and/or drawings.
Uses drugs or alcohol on campus.
Makes threats.
Suddenly has bad grades or little interest in school.
Is easily angered by minor things.
Firearms aside, these all seem to me like predictable reactions to being bullied or ostracised. Somebody being bullied/alienated at school is perfectly justified in feeling angry and rejected, because they have been rejected. And what are the odds that anyone will be interested in getting good grades at that point?
Who wouldn't become intolerant or feel isolated in that environment? And what teenager, what anyone wouldn't think about some kind of revenge?
"Fix the symptoms" is what this says. Don't sweat the disease.
It doesn't matter if "Coke" is a trademark or not.
There's already legal precedent for this. Clue Computing defeated Hasbro, owners of the game "Clue", when Hasbro sued for the domain name. Info available here.
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Christ, they're not going to move those, are they?
Our 2001: You want to kill your computer.
I'm sure not going to dump my hard earned money on an overpriced chance to spend two hours wondering why everyone else is laughing.
That said, given that problems can be mapped to other problems, (the knapsack problem to the partitioning problem, frex) the nature of the proof would most likely provide some path for mapping the travelling salesman problem to something known to be in P.
Much respect, drkich.
It will be the cracker community's first real chance to affect government policy in years.
Debugging code? Enh. Not so much.
Don't kid yourself - there's a real sense that you rely your coworkers in jobs that are physically demanding. Team sports can do that, too. You get a sense of kinship with the people you strive hard with to accomplish the common goal.
I haven't seen that kind of camraderie anywhere that's got a cubicle on the premises, to be honest. Private industry or government work, you name it; the person in the next office is an idiot, people get talked about behind their backs, and it's really as if the cubicle isolates people socially as well as physically.
I decided a few years ago that as much fun as this lone-wolf stuff can be, it's pretty goddamn lonely, and twenty years from now I don't want to end up a pale, scrawny guy haplessly prowling around singles bars without any idea how to interact anymore. I decided to pick up Ultimate, and went to sign up for a novice team. Whatever sport it is, if you're looking to meet people, looking for that kind of camraderie, you've got to put yourself in a situation where that kind of thing occurs.
And I'll tell you, a co-ed team and a warm summer evening beats the fuck out of an all-nighter in a cubicle.
So reading a hair past the ha-ha bad product description, we've learned that the CIA can stick a wire into your head and change the way you feel.
And they knew how to do this in 1960. Damn, but they must have some cool toys by now.
Well, the FAA just fined American Airlines a pile of money for lax security practices.
Check it out.
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Last month, Rogers@Home, the internet-via-cable provider in Ontario, lost connectivity for a day and a half. Not just locally, but every single client in the province, because of a cut cable in Boston. A cable that's cut in a different country, for crying out loud.
The problem isn't about individual connections. It's about states, provinces and possibly entire countries dropping off the net for days or weeks while the sabotaged hardware is repaired or replaced.
We get really upset when countries insist on being able to do this deliberately - how much more upset should we get if countries aren't preventing from happening inadvertently?
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Microsoft has been lobbying against the GPL for one simple reason. Their Trademarked(tm) Strategy(tm) For(tm) Dealing(tm) With(tm) Rivals(tm) doesn't work on GPL'ed work. Microsoft has obviously decided go a step further - if they can't E&E(tm) Linux then they're going to have to take their plan to the next level: They're going to Embrace And Extend Linus Torvalds himself.
Mark my words - over the next few weeks, you'll see Steve Ballmer give Linus a pat on the back at a conference, then it'll be a handshake, pretty soon Bill Himself will welcome Linus to his house with a friendly hug, and then whammo! it'll be Linus on the new Microsoft MS-Rack, being extended so far he'll never be compatible with a keyboard again, much less GCC or the latest kernel.
There's only one thing to do: Linus has to GPL himself. He has to belong to the community. We should be free to take Linus and make any changes we want, as long as those changes are given back to the world, so we can all benefit from each other's Linus innovations. Otherwise, Microsoft might be able to take Linus and make their own, proprietary MS-Linus that isn't compatible with other Linuses, and leverage their market share to make their MS-Linus the standard, stifling other Linuses and preventing innovative new developments and applications of Linus.
We'll have to remember, though, that it won't be "Linus Torvalds" anymore. Strictly speaking, he should now be referred to as "GNU-Linus".
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They had to. You know how much blue-screen work their was in that show.
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Reading books for the sake of bettering yourself and expanding your horizons is great, but those of us who also read because we need to get at that information, process it, understand it and use it to create something new are inevitably limited by our ability to access that information.
How great would it be if the library never failed to have the specific book you're looking for on the shelf? If books became like free software - no matter how many people have it, it's always there for the next person?
How much better would our academic lives be if no matter how many people in class need the half-dozen or so references the library has about Obscure Topic X, those books were always available, 24/7, for everybody?
This is what the "information revolution" is about, for cryin' out loud.
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How did this earn a three? Using the same transparently bullshit logic, every single newsstand an corner store in the world is a publisher.
Sure. And every medicine cabinet and first aid kit in the world is a pharmacy.
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REUTERS, 04/07/00 -- Distributed.Net and Slashdot.Org announce Partnership. Press release claims new allies "...to explore "Massively Parallel Simian-Keyboard Output Research, with an eye towards individual education."
In an interview earlier this week, Rob Malda was quoted as saying "...and then we realized, hey, all these computers have people in front of them. I bet we could get them to do stuff too." This simple idea signalled the beginning of Distributed.Net's latest cooperative processing effort with Slashdot, tentatively named "MonkeyDo (tm)". Rave reviews have been pouring in ever since:
"I thought it was a great idea. I mean, there must be millions of people reading Slashdot right now, just sitting their drooling. All that brainpower was going completely to waste. Now, we can put all that extra thinking into solving complex and difficult problems like "how do I type 'crypto' into Google" or "how come the Dewey Decimal System at the library is so hard?"
MonkeyDo(tm) proponent Cliff, speaking alongside Hemos and CmdrTaco, said "We get millions of pageviews a day, and for the time it takes to download a page, our readers are just sitting there slack-jawed, not accomplishing anything! We decided that if we pooled their collective efforts, we could really help these kids!"
"I mean, we're not talking about a lot of brainpower, here", he added. "A tenth of an I.Q. point here, a third there. But with that many monkeys, and our innovative 'Anonymous Coward' function, we can be sure that one of them will eventually come up with the right answer!"
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Firearms aside, these all seem to me like predictable reactions to being bullied or ostracised. Somebody being bullied/alienated at school is perfectly justified in feeling angry and rejected, because they have been rejected. And what are the odds that anyone will be interested in getting good grades at that point?
Who wouldn't become intolerant or feel isolated in that environment? And what teenager, what anyone wouldn't think about some kind of revenge?
"Fix the symptoms" is what this says. Don't sweat the disease.
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Booya, baby.
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Taking control of a ship carrying cruise missiles now qualifies as "random harassment".
I'm gonna get me a script and randomly harass my old High School.
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There's already legal precedent for this. Clue Computing defeated Hasbro, owners of the game "Clue", when Hasbro sued for the domain name. Info available here.
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