"I cannot be deceived into thinking that I don't exist, for by thinking, I must exist, else who does the thinking?" Cogito ergo sum. Yes, I suppose distinction between oneself and the rest of reality might be an observation, but probably not the variety you meant.
It is like the difference between a job that earns $6 per hour doing ditch digging or a job that earns $300 per half hour just to tell someone they are crazy.
Our half hour is up. The secretary will handle your bill.
Stripped to its bare, ideological minimum, science is nothing more than observation. You can extrapolate the implications of those observations, but in the end everything we know in science can be traced down to an observation. That is why intelligent design fails at being a science: while it technically might be true, it is not an observation, it is a guess. FSM is not an observation it is a (silly) guess.
All the trappings of science, the double-blind experiments, the peer review, etc. are merely ways to improve the accuracy of our observations. It is really beautiful, actually, to realize that for any fact in science you can say, "how do we know this?" and get back to the original observations that show it to be true. This is not something you can do with religion, or philosophy, or literary criticism.
Without philosophy, observation is only historical cataloging; mere correlation. Recognition of Causation requires something outside of observation: "silly" guesses. Even after doing hundreds of observations, we'll never know if any of the silly guesses are true, but we'll know which ones turn out false. But, pure philosophy has one on science: certain things can be proved true with mere thought experiment.
Oblig. XKCD: http://xkcd.com/435/ But he forgot the logician on the far right telling the mathematician to stuff it.
I never knew global warming could be so fucking cold.
It's global climate change now, you insensitive clod. That also covers gnats, frogs, locusts, blood, and other precipitation we're bound to see up to 2012.;)
User connects their laptop to "Free Wireless Internet" AP (a real, live accesspoint). User then leaves, and parks butt in another location. Windows again looks for a network with SSID "Free Wireless Internet" as well as doing scans for other networks (ad-hoc or otherwise). Inadvertently, it also broadcasts this as an ad-hoc SSID, so a second user doing a scan sees it and tries to connect. They fail (obviously), but now their laptop will look for an ad-hoc network called "Free Wireless Internet", to which others will try to connect, fail, and broadcast anew ad-hoc network.
It's spread to the point where you can see that SSID everywhere. A viral SSID, effectively.
This sounds like a great basis for an "around the world in 80 days" style bet: "I bet I can start a 'Free Porno Libre' SSID in Alaska and you'll see it spread to Morocco, Japan, Paris, and Beijing in less than five days". It might even kill "Free Wireless Internet" as the default viral SSID.
1) Each day is a smaller percentage of your life as you get older.
My thoughts exactly. I wonder if a person suffering from total or partial amnesia senses passage of time differently. And if so, whether a test made to determine sense of time's passage could help diagnose levels of amnesia.
When you're one year old, your entire life memory is a year. Thus, a year's passage is a lifetime. When you're 100, a year's passage is 1/100th of the same time.
Exactly. Someone already tagged this "idle", but I think it should really be "yro", because this opens up the possibility for mass-market real-time "Wag The Dog" scenarios.
but I am truly interested in what he has done in all that time.
Just guessing, but: Fishing, watching his (grand)children grow up, changing the oil in his truck. My bet is he's reclusive because he doesn't want to bore us with the details. If C&H is any indication, he's a guy that enjoys *life*, not attention.
What do you object to in/etc/sudoers? I looked at it, but it was so long I didn't bother checking everything.
From what I read online, it looks like any user is granted root privs without a password. So if you've got apache installed, and someone finds/uses a vulnerability, they can make the apache user switch to root unless you've locked down sudoers.
it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.
People used to say, "Windows 95 is Mac 84." The roles have now reversed.
Out of the other 30% maybe 10% become doctors, 10% become (surplus and now unwanted) engineers and 10% actually push things forward via research.
The 70% lives on the backs of the 30%, farmers, blue collar workers and small business men.
LOLWUT? I'd love to see how long society lasts without farmers, blue collar workers and small business men. We could exist for a while without doctors, engineers, and researchers...albeit without progress, and eventually the oil will run out so we'd fall back to agrarian levels, but there would still be farmers, blue collar workers and small business men.
Basically, grammar is less a formal series of rules for better writing, and is more a formal series of rules for petty "one-upmanship" among writers.
No, grammar is, a formal means of, determining what a set of writing means when you cant ask the writer what it means cuz hes not standing their in front of u i wish people wood rite better use punctuation good. Grammer and spelling well.
If u write a letter and only way reader has to find out weather you meant "Man eats dog" or "Dog eats man", it helps to half written in formal universally excepted whey.
I lollled when I thought of Microsoft's having started offshoring back in 2004; the thought of Indian programmers writing code for their old colonial master's warships is...amusing.
Funnier than American programmers writing code for their old colonial master's warships?
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And with nothing to blow up, they'd put nitro in the ammunition.
"I cannot be deceived into thinking that I don't exist, for by thinking, I must exist, else who does the thinking?" Cogito ergo sum. Yes, I suppose distinction between oneself and the rest of reality might be an observation, but probably not the variety you meant.
It is like the difference between a job that earns $6 per hour doing ditch digging or a job that earns $300 per half hour just to tell someone they are crazy.
Our half hour is up. The secretary will handle your bill.
Stripped to its bare, ideological minimum, science is nothing more than observation. You can extrapolate the implications of those observations, but in the end everything we know in science can be traced down to an observation. That is why intelligent design fails at being a science: while it technically might be true, it is not an observation, it is a guess. FSM is not an observation it is a (silly) guess.
All the trappings of science, the double-blind experiments, the peer review, etc. are merely ways to improve the accuracy of our observations. It is really beautiful, actually, to realize that for any fact in science you can say, "how do we know this?" and get back to the original observations that show it to be true. This is not something you can do with religion, or philosophy, or literary criticism.
Without philosophy, observation is only historical cataloging; mere correlation. Recognition of Causation requires something outside of observation: "silly" guesses. Even after doing hundreds of observations, we'll never know if any of the silly guesses are true, but we'll know which ones turn out false. But, pure philosophy has one on science: certain things can be proved true with mere thought experiment.
Oblig. XKCD: http://xkcd.com/435/ But he forgot the logician on the far right telling the mathematician to stuff it.
It will always be in the process of being created with the best 3D effects available to film?
I never knew global warming could be so fucking cold.
It's global climate change now, you insensitive clod. That also covers gnats, frogs, locusts, blood, and other precipitation we're bound to see up to 2012. ;)
Even a global warming partisan activist like James Hansen )NASA) calls this a scam, and favors a simpler "carbon tax"
Who better to scam than a scammer? What are they going to do, run to the police? Oh wait, carbon allowance trading is legal...
User connects their laptop to "Free Wireless Internet" AP (a real, live accesspoint). User then leaves, and parks butt in another location. Windows again looks for a network with SSID "Free Wireless Internet" as well as doing scans for other networks (ad-hoc or otherwise). Inadvertently, it also broadcasts this as an ad-hoc SSID, so a second user doing a scan sees it and tries to connect. They fail (obviously), but now their laptop will look for an ad-hoc network called "Free Wireless Internet", to which others will try to connect, fail, and broadcast anew ad-hoc network. It's spread to the point where you can see that SSID everywhere. A viral SSID, effectively.
This sounds like a great basis for an "around the world in 80 days" style bet: "I bet I can start a 'Free Porno Libre' SSID in Alaska and you'll see it spread to Morocco, Japan, Paris, and Beijing in less than five days". It might even kill "Free Wireless Internet" as the default viral SSID.
1) Each day is a smaller percentage of your life as you get older.
My thoughts exactly. I wonder if a person suffering from total or partial amnesia senses passage of time differently. And if so, whether a test made to determine sense of time's passage could help diagnose levels of amnesia.
So my conclusion is to go with Einstein in that time is relative.
Except that Einstein's special theory of relativity is talking about time _really_ being relative, not perception of absolute-time being relative.
When you're one year old, your entire life memory is a year. Thus, a year's passage is a lifetime. When you're 100, a year's passage is 1/100th of the same time.
Conversely, is there a way to automate root cert imports into FF across tons of machines?
Exactly. Someone already tagged this "idle", but I think it should really be "yro", because this opens up the possibility for mass-market real-time "Wag The Dog" scenarios.
Maybe it's obvious to everybody else, but what problem is this law supposed to solve? What are the arguments in favor of it?
Your local member of parliament propositioned me in the toilet. He's worse than a randy 'roo.
Oops, I forgot to check "Post Anonymously".
Can you put a mule on standby?
That's the default. Waking from standby is the trick.
but I am truly interested in what he has done in all that time.
Just guessing, but: Fishing, watching his (grand)children grow up, changing the oil in his truck. My bet is he's reclusive because he doesn't want to bore us with the details. If C&H is any indication, he's a guy that enjoys *life*, not attention.
There was a time when we thought we could rely on ethics to keep things in check.... how has that worked out for us?
If Ethics are failing, I sure as hell don't want Law involved.
People used to say, "Windows 95 is Mac 84." The roles have now reversed.
So now "Windows 95 is Mac 84." says people?
That's deep man.
Wow, I shouldn't have eaten the brownies in the lunch room. Now arbitrary strings are being anthropomorphized.
What do you object to in /etc/sudoers? I looked at it, but it was so long I didn't bother checking everything.
From what I read online, it looks like any user is granted root privs without a password. So if you've got apache installed, and someone finds/uses a vulnerability, they can make the apache user switch to root unless you've locked down sudoers.
it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.
People used to say, "Windows 95 is Mac 84." The roles have now reversed.
"Mac 10.3 is Windows 7"?
Out of the other 30% maybe 10% become doctors, 10% become (surplus and now unwanted) engineers and 10% actually push things forward via research. The 70% lives on the backs of the 30%, farmers, blue collar workers and small business men.
LOLWUT? I'd love to see how long society lasts without farmers, blue collar workers and small business men. We could exist for a while without doctors, engineers, and researchers ...albeit without progress, and eventually the oil will run out so we'd fall back to agrarian levels, but there would still be farmers, blue collar workers and small business men.
He said he had degrees from there, he didn't say he attended. Shoot, I have a laser printer too.
They might be real; did he say whose name was on those degrees?
Basically, grammar is less a formal series of rules for better writing, and is more a formal series of rules for petty "one-upmanship" among writers.
No, grammar is, a formal means of, determining what a set of writing means when you cant ask the writer what it means cuz hes not standing their in front of u i wish people wood rite better use punctuation good. Grammer and spelling well.
If u write a letter and only way reader has to find out weather you meant "Man eats dog" or "Dog eats man", it helps to half written in formal universally excepted whey.
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I lollled when I thought of Microsoft's having started offshoring back in 2004; the thought of Indian programmers writing code for their old colonial master's warships is...amusing.
Funnier than American programmers writing code for their old colonial master's warships?
For awesome dance club effects.