So if they leave their door unlocked after hours, it's okay to go in and get yourself a cappuccino? Neat!
I turn on my computer, their AP says 'hey, I'm a network, connect to me.' My wireless card says 'hey, I'm MAC address 11-11-11-11-11-11, can I please connect,' and their AP says sure.
The locked door analogy just doesn't cut it. Think of the coffee shop having a robot butler that they forget to program correctly. It serves at all hours instead of just working hours. Who's fault would that be? Now, take your archaic straw man and get lost.
Note: I did not suggest or imply that I decoded their WEP key to get an internet connection.
Nmap helped me pick out a flaw in my sister's router. She asked me to figure out why it needed rebooting once a day, nmap showed several open ports, and after hitting one multiple times the router locked. Repeat the experiment, it locks again. Experiment concluded.
Kismet showed some family members why they needed both wireless encryption and MAC filtering. Telling them I was going to log every IM conversation, and then showing them the logs went a ways towards convincing them that their wireless was not really all that secure. They now know that MAC filtering only keeps out the honest, and WEP only hides their data with a thin layer of gauze, but at least it is their informed choice now.
Kismet and other wireless scanners have helped me pick out channels for my router based on where they have the least interference. I blame a cranky windows 'wireless assist tool' for picking the strongest AP instead of the one I select, but since it was what I was dealing with I just made the best out of it.
And yes, wireless scanners have also found me open hotspots to connect to when I am traveling. If the coffee shop leaves it on after hours, how am I supposed to ask for permission anyways?
On the other hand, my laugh sounds exactly like my dad's. Not surprising until you find that I didn't live with my dad and didn't really spend much time with him at all. Many of our mannerisms are also the same. Like the way we walk, with a one hand in my pocket. The resemblence between our personalities is uncanny considering we didn't live together. So I have to ask, how much is based on what we see, and how much is based on our genes. The old nature vs. nurture question.
You don't say if you knew your dad at all growing up, or if you looked at him as a father figure. If either or both of those fit, then even the child behavior of mimicking the mannerisms of adults could explain a lot of those traits.
On the nature side of the argument, how much of your gate and posture is controlled by your muscle structure? Same goes for your voice.
My opinion, you start with the genetic and add the environment later. It is hard for the environment to over come strong traits presented by genetic predisposition, but easy for it to mold how minor traits present.
People do not get sued for purchasing a book, even if the author home prints it and just hands it out for 2 cents on the street. The author and copyright holder is the one distributing the work, and in most (if not all) service agreements with hosting providers is a clause stating the author gives them a license to distribute the work for them. No sane judge would let this happen.
Now, again with the book analogy, if I buy a book and sell it to someone else, I should not be sued for copyright infringement. However, if I edit pages of this book without the author's consent and then resell it, then I would have created and distributed a derivative work and would probably get my ass handed to me by the legal system.
This should apply equally to web pages, but IANAL, and the courts still havn't caught up with technology.
My friends with cell phones, they aren't particularly attached to their phone numbers so each time they renew their contract they just get a new number instead of transferring it. They may even change provider depending on the cost. I'm not going to put the time into learning a 10 digit number that will change in 12 months. Compare that to even my own child hood, to call a friend I had to only remember 7 numbers tops and only 4 most of the time.
The other obvious difference is that prior to getting a cell phone, if I wanted to call someone I would look up their number and then punch it into the phone. With a cell phone, I scroll to their name and hit send. What is it, that term for reading something and then writing it again to help memory, rote memorization?
Birthdays are completely different. I'd forget my own if other people didn't remind me. I can remember the general time of year, sometimes even the week of the month for some people, but anything closer then that is reserved for immediate family only.
If that could've been properly documented I think there is federal protection for termination threats based upon political affiliation.
If they were threatening him for that, sure. But that's not what the article said.
falsely accused me of representing that they endorsed my own political goals
The company was upset because, in their eyes, he used their name in a way that made it look like they supported him. They just threatened him with termination over misuse of the company name. The problem is, even if he never mentioned that name in his blog, he would probably have to get fired before he could turn around and sue the company for terminating him without a cause.
Yeah, it really depends on what type of graphic work you do. Some ray-tracing might make more use of the FPU when rendering, but while you are modeling the object it uses the graphics card. CAD tends to have more trouble displaying the work in real time, so those specialty graphics cards work wonders. Something like After Effects might have to keep lots of frames of video in memory to apply an effect, and could be bottle necked by the CPU or memory or even the bus between the two.
The only part of a computer that I can not picture graphics work using would be the sound card, and that's only because I haven't heard of anyone crazy enough to try it yet.
It makes perfect sense for plagiarism software to mark a 10-word verbatim sentence as potentially plagiarized.
No, it doesn't, and that is the point. With professors reusing and borrowing term paper topic, how many ways are there for students to word a thesis statement? In high school and college English 101, the textbooks had guidelines and suggestions for turning a topic into a thesis statement that would frame the rest of the paper. These rules were drilled into my head in high school. Ask 100 students who were taught from the same book, or even just the same guidelines, to write just an introduction to a report on any one topic and I suspect you would have more then a few that over lap. In a final report, these sentences might not even show up in the same order making them much harder for a human to look at and spot the 'copying,' but a machine could spot the shared lines easily.
That's the problem. Even if a human grader noticed the same sentence in two reports they are more likely to recognize it as a statement of topic and not as potential plagiarism. With professors now having to resort to computerized means to catch plagiarism, how are they going to determine what is actually plagiarized and what just happens to be worded the same? Will the professors set an arbitrary point scale, that if a scanner reports more then 5 incidents of 'potential plagiarism' then the paper is failed? Simply by using this automated scanning the professors have admitted to needing help, so at what point is the software trusted to be right, and how easy is it for an innocent student and paper to some how end up with a failing grade or worse?
They already exist. OpenNic provides DNS loopups for several TLDs such as.null,.geek, and.oss while wiki has a list of other DNS root servers.
Generally, all you need to do to use them is convince your computer to use one of their DNS server instead of the one provided by your ISP. Or better yet, convince your ISP to use their DNS in addition to ICANN's.
Single core, chess2 only takes me 347.58 seconds to render! I know that 'beta' makes it seem like a newer and better test, but look at the 'known issues' of the beta. They could have just stuck with 3.6 and one of the multi-thread patches.
Actually, I'm just upset that they didn't list what kinds of fps they got with POV-Ray's real time raytrace demos.
That was not my point. My point was that the anti-abortion argument of 'life begins at conception' should be extended to contraception by the rhythm method as well, since it would be possible to kill one of these 2-cell souls that are apparently so in need of protection.
If you are going to argue against abortion, then a better argument is needed. If you don't have one, there is really no hope for that argument other then ad hominem attacks.
Menstruation does not kill an embryo, which is what you seem to be implying.
What about couples who use the rhythm method and have so far avoided having a child? At some point, the egg could be fertilized and be timed just right (or wrong depending on who's view) to avoid implanting and being carried to term.
Would this theoretical woman be a murderer? Since at this point it would have a soul, and it was both the intended and willful choice of when to have sex that caused the death of what is possibly just 2 cells with a soul. Note that I'm not asking about a couple who just don't know enough about the woman's fertility cycle, since that would not be willful or intended.
Now, if this woman is not a 'murderer' then what is the real separation between this and an abortion? And for the Catholics reading, why is a condom considered 'worse' then the rhythm method, when in this thought experiment it is possible to see that it could occur where the rhythm method could result in the death of a soul.
Long before advocating ANYONE read any Gor novels I'd be suggesting The Story of O and probably the works of the Marquis de Sade - its better to see some middle ground on a topic before going right to the extreme end.
You skipped Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs as well, which might provide a good alternative of woman in power that counters both de Sade and The Story of O.
I don't see how Heinlein's later novels come anywhere near the explicit sexual nature of any of these other books discussed. Heinlein's stories seemed more focused on the social and political ramifications with the behavior of the characters providing both the reason to discuss those issues and another way of keeping the reader feeling slightly out of place, while the others seem more tuned to the psychological behaviors of the characters involved and the character's reasons for being where or what they are.
note: I haven't read the Gor novels yet, so I'm not making any note about how those portray the behaviors of the characters.
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Not that it's easy to do, but no amount of work and and science will save your parents or you from death. As a society, we could take those millions of dollars spent on rare diseases, and immunize young children. We don't have to undertake hysterical, desperate work at all costs when life presents a problem to you.
Your argument seems to be that "everything we don't have a cure for should just be accepted, and everything we think we have a cure for should be covered by the government." And how do you think those immunizations came about, magic and pixie dust? They came out of research, which now days costs money. I agree that it is not the government's place to save everyone's 'someone special' who happens to be dying from some rare disease, but if there is no funding put into studying them then there will never be a cure. As much as your argument seems to focus on cancer in older people, cancer hits young children too. Why shouldn't science try to find cures for those, just because it's a 'fact of life'?
Doesn't everyone know that games are only art when they are so realistic that they can not be distinguished from a TV movie? Since the Wii is incapable of such graphics prowess, it must be an inferior system.
In other news, paintings should not be in art galleries, since paint and ink are not realistic enough to be art. Camera lens also distort what the eye could naturally see, and so photography is not art. Movies require people to 'act' and behave in ways they might not normally, and so those are not art either.
To better secure the keys, get a laundry bag that's meant to hold delicate fabrics in the washer. A small mesh bag, about the size of a plastic grocery bag, is easy to find at a box store and more often used by people who own clothing that needs more care then the average geek. Put the keys in that, with something soft to scrub them, and then you shouldn't even need to worry about loosing one.
So they should be dying from AIDS. But they aren't. They should also be SPREADING the virus and the number of so-called 'HIV positive' people should be increasing year upon year. It isn't.
Who says they aren't doing both? They infect someone else, they die, the number stays the same! Just because there are promiscuous people having unprotected sex with everyone they meet doesn't mean they are passing the virus to each person. The second person could already be one of those "infected who doesn't know," which also helps keep down the new cases that you seem to need as evidence. And if course they don't die of AIDS, they die of the flu or a cold or any other number of common illnesses. I can see why the doctor you quote would ignore this, but why do you?
Duesberg is a crackpot who some how believes that a retroviruses must be harmless to survive, but for some reason doesn't explain why the feline leukemia virus is deadly. It is a retrovirus, so why does it kill host animals that are infected by it? When he can explain away the people who died before treatment with AZT became the norm, then maybe he will be taken seriously.
Just waving your arms and declaring that 'It must be harmless, here is logic on why,' doesn't make the facts disappear.
"start in the tavern, piss some bigwig off, run all over the town escaping the thief catchers, then the angry populace, try to climb the city walls unseen getting out, never even see the entrance of the dungeon". I was so glad I never even started mapping...
One of my favorite DM experiences was when this happened in the middle of a game. Experienced player, we had picked up a new game to try. After a few levels worth of learning the rules, I had an idea for a story and they had moderately skilled characters. For some reason, the character with no acting or espionage skills took the job of offing a bigwig in his own house. The thief and others prepared a funeral for their weapon expert friend after he was caught at the front door by guards.
Then the player stood up, took an accent that resembled his muscle bound character, and ad-libbed his part of the conversation faster then I could either roll dice or even keep up. A minute or so later, I was confused and I couldn't think of why the guards or bigwig wouldn't be either. The dice landed in plain view with the worst roll, so I declared an acting bonus for staying in character and confusing the hell out of me, and wished him luck in getting his friends to switch sides like he just did.
I believe the negotiation of payment ended when, minutes later, he shot the bigwig while the guard was getting them drinks.
The problem is convincing everyone to behave reasonably and logically. We are not Vulcans.
If a person goes into an ebay auction and has to type in the amount each time, they tend to think 'do I need this item this much," while if they just put in their high bid at the start this whole complaint about sellers boosting the price of their own auction would be a much bigger deal.
I have a solution for all of you who whine about snipers. It is really simple, 100 percent effective, and completely free. Bid more than you are willing to pay. That's it.
Ahh, now I see why you want them to behave this way. You are one of those sellers jacking up their own prices.
(37065N-89115)(46^(N-4))+(2N-1)(2(^N-1)) in fact, and that is just for N number of bricks in a tower N-1 bricks tall. I think they predict the final value to be around 100^n
Do you use the Linux kernel on a computer? Just from experimenting with different distros, it seems each one comes with it's own custom patched kernel now days. CK, hppa, mm, and then you have stuff like the gentoo custom patch set, and I'm pretty sure Red Hat and many others do the same thing.
Given those choices, which kernel would you choose?
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The locked door analogy just doesn't cut it. Think of the coffee shop having a robot butler that they forget to program correctly. It serves at all hours instead of just working hours. Who's fault would that be? Now, take your archaic straw man and get lost.
Note: I did not suggest or imply that I decoded their WEP key to get an internet connection.
Kismet showed some family members why they needed both wireless encryption and MAC filtering. Telling them I was going to log every IM conversation, and then showing them the logs went a ways towards convincing them that their wireless was not really all that secure. They now know that MAC filtering only keeps out the honest, and WEP only hides their data with a thin layer of gauze, but at least it is their informed choice now.
Kismet and other wireless scanners have helped me pick out channels for my router based on where they have the least interference. I blame a cranky windows 'wireless assist tool' for picking the strongest AP instead of the one I select, but since it was what I was dealing with I just made the best out of it.
And yes, wireless scanners have also found me open hotspots to connect to when I am traveling. If the coffee shop leaves it on after hours, how am I supposed to ask for permission anyways?
They did, though. If I remember correctly, the Prius version 1 was built on the Echo frame with a body very similar to the Echo and Camry.
You don't say if you knew your dad at all growing up, or if you looked at him as a father figure. If either or both of those fit, then even the child behavior of mimicking the mannerisms of adults could explain a lot of those traits.
On the nature side of the argument, how much of your gate and posture is controlled by your muscle structure? Same goes for your voice.
My opinion, you start with the genetic and add the environment later. It is hard for the environment to over come strong traits presented by genetic predisposition, but easy for it to mold how minor traits present.
Now, again with the book analogy, if I buy a book and sell it to someone else, I should not be sued for copyright infringement. However, if I edit pages of this book without the author's consent and then resell it, then I would have created and distributed a derivative work and would probably get my ass handed to me by the legal system.
This should apply equally to web pages, but IANAL, and the courts still havn't caught up with technology.
My friends with cell phones, they aren't particularly attached to their phone numbers so each time they renew their contract they just get a new number instead of transferring it. They may even change provider depending on the cost. I'm not going to put the time into learning a 10 digit number that will change in 12 months. Compare that to even my own child hood, to call a friend I had to only remember 7 numbers tops and only 4 most of the time.
The other obvious difference is that prior to getting a cell phone, if I wanted to call someone I would look up their number and then punch it into the phone. With a cell phone, I scroll to their name and hit send. What is it, that term for reading something and then writing it again to help memory, rote memorization?
Birthdays are completely different. I'd forget my own if other people didn't remind me. I can remember the general time of year, sometimes even the week of the month for some people, but anything closer then that is reserved for immediate family only.
If they were threatening him for that, sure. But that's not what the article said.
The company was upset because, in their eyes, he used their name in a way that made it look like they supported him. They just threatened him with termination over misuse of the company name. The problem is, even if he never mentioned that name in his blog, he would probably have to get fired before he could turn around and sue the company for terminating him without a cause.
It is available as a GBA cart, usually pretty cheap if you don't mind getting a used copy. Granted, it is GBA quality, not VGA and redbook audio.
The only part of a computer that I can not picture graphics work using would be the sound card, and that's only because I haven't heard of anyone crazy enough to try it yet.
No, it doesn't, and that is the point. With professors reusing and borrowing term paper topic, how many ways are there for students to word a thesis statement? In high school and college English 101, the textbooks had guidelines and suggestions for turning a topic into a thesis statement that would frame the rest of the paper. These rules were drilled into my head in high school. Ask 100 students who were taught from the same book, or even just the same guidelines, to write just an introduction to a report on any one topic and I suspect you would have more then a few that over lap. In a final report, these sentences might not even show up in the same order making them much harder for a human to look at and spot the 'copying,' but a machine could spot the shared lines easily.
That's the problem. Even if a human grader noticed the same sentence in two reports they are more likely to recognize it as a statement of topic and not as potential plagiarism. With professors now having to resort to computerized means to catch plagiarism, how are they going to determine what is actually plagiarized and what just happens to be worded the same? Will the professors set an arbitrary point scale, that if a scanner reports more then 5 incidents of 'potential plagiarism' then the paper is failed? Simply by using this automated scanning the professors have admitted to needing help, so at what point is the software trusted to be right, and how easy is it for an innocent student and paper to some how end up with a failing grade or worse?
Generally, all you need to do to use them is convince your computer to use one of their DNS server instead of the one provided by your ISP. Or better yet, convince your ISP to use their DNS in addition to ICANN's.
Actually, I'm just upset that they didn't list what kinds of fps they got with POV-Ray's real time raytrace demos.
If you are going to argue against abortion, then a better argument is needed. If you don't have one, there is really no hope for that argument other then ad hominem attacks.
What about couples who use the rhythm method and have so far avoided having a child? At some point, the egg could be fertilized and be timed just right (or wrong depending on who's view) to avoid implanting and being carried to term.
Would this theoretical woman be a murderer? Since at this point it would have a soul, and it was both the intended and willful choice of when to have sex that caused the death of what is possibly just 2 cells with a soul. Note that I'm not asking about a couple who just don't know enough about the woman's fertility cycle, since that would not be willful or intended.
Now, if this woman is not a 'murderer' then what is the real separation between this and an abortion? And for the Catholics reading, why is a condom considered 'worse' then the rhythm method, when in this thought experiment it is possible to see that it could occur where the rhythm method could result in the death of a soul.
You skipped Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs as well, which might provide a good alternative of woman in power that counters both de Sade and The Story of O.
I don't see how Heinlein's later novels come anywhere near the explicit sexual nature of any of these other books discussed. Heinlein's stories seemed more focused on the social and political ramifications with the behavior of the characters providing both the reason to discuss those issues and another way of keeping the reader feeling slightly out of place, while the others seem more tuned to the psychological behaviors of the characters involved and the character's reasons for being where or what they are.
note: I haven't read the Gor novels yet, so I'm not making any note about how those portray the behaviors of the characters.
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Your argument seems to be that "everything we don't have a cure for should just be accepted, and everything we think we have a cure for should be covered by the government." And how do you think those immunizations came about, magic and pixie dust? They came out of research, which now days costs money. I agree that it is not the government's place to save everyone's 'someone special' who happens to be dying from some rare disease, but if there is no funding put into studying them then there will never be a cure. As much as your argument seems to focus on cancer in older people, cancer hits young children too. Why shouldn't science try to find cures for those, just because it's a 'fact of life'?
In other news, paintings should not be in art galleries, since paint and ink are not realistic enough to be art. Camera lens also distort what the eye could naturally see, and so photography is not art. Movies require people to 'act' and behave in ways they might not normally, and so those are not art either.
To better secure the keys, get a laundry bag that's meant to hold delicate fabrics in the washer. A small mesh bag, about the size of a plastic grocery bag, is easy to find at a box store and more often used by people who own clothing that needs more care then the average geek. Put the keys in that, with something soft to scrub them, and then you shouldn't even need to worry about loosing one.
Who says they aren't doing both? They infect someone else, they die, the number stays the same! Just because there are promiscuous people having unprotected sex with everyone they meet doesn't mean they are passing the virus to each person. The second person could already be one of those "infected who doesn't know," which also helps keep down the new cases that you seem to need as evidence. And if course they don't die of AIDS, they die of the flu or a cold or any other number of common illnesses. I can see why the doctor you quote would ignore this, but why do you?
Duesberg is a crackpot who some how believes that a retroviruses must be harmless to survive, but for some reason doesn't explain why the feline leukemia virus is deadly. It is a retrovirus, so why does it kill host animals that are infected by it? When he can explain away the people who died before treatment with AZT became the norm, then maybe he will be taken seriously.
Just waving your arms and declaring that 'It must be harmless, here is logic on why,' doesn't make the facts disappear.
I just hope they use two digits for cent calculations, and not floating point numbers.
Although, it would make saying "My account has about 10 cents, more or less" a bit more accurate.
One of my favorite DM experiences was when this happened in the middle of a game. Experienced player, we had picked up a new game to try. After a few levels worth of learning the rules, I had an idea for a story and they had moderately skilled characters. For some reason, the character with no acting or espionage skills took the job of offing a bigwig in his own house. The thief and others prepared a funeral for their weapon expert friend after he was caught at the front door by guards.
Then the player stood up, took an accent that resembled his muscle bound character, and ad-libbed his part of the conversation faster then I could either roll dice or even keep up. A minute or so later, I was confused and I couldn't think of why the guards or bigwig wouldn't be either. The dice landed in plain view with the worst roll, so I declared an acting bonus for staying in character and confusing the hell out of me, and wished him luck in getting his friends to switch sides like he just did.
I believe the negotiation of payment ended when, minutes later, he shot the bigwig while the guard was getting them drinks.
If a person goes into an ebay auction and has to type in the amount each time, they tend to think 'do I need this item this much," while if they just put in their high bid at the start this whole complaint about sellers boosting the price of their own auction would be a much bigger deal.
I have a solution for all of you who whine about snipers. It is really simple, 100 percent effective, and completely free. Bid more than you are willing to pay. That's it.
Ahh, now I see why you want them to behave this way. You are one of those sellers jacking up their own prices.
(37065N-89115)(46^(N-4))+(2N-1)(2(^N-1)) in fact, and that is just for N number of bricks in a tower N-1 bricks tall. I think they predict the final value to be around 100^n
Check the math here if you want.
Given those choices, which kernel would you choose?