Agreed. They're trumpeting this as a well-done audit, but the thought experiment is totally screwy. Even if 50% of people aren't at work, how is that worse than Cyber Monday or the days after Black Friday or Boxing Day, when almost everyone isn't working and they're done shopping for deals? GAO's trying to use H1N1 as the answer to any new things that "need" Government supervision. Sorry, 9/11, your days in the limelight are over.
What is it, exactly, about Christianity that you think is fraudulent? Is it the promise of immortality in exchange for obedience to some set of rules? That doesn't meet any definition of fraud that I'm aware of
What's more, Christianity's promise of immortality has nothing to do with obedience to rules.
But they're not on the plane. If you're restricted from carrying them onto the plane in any luggage or on your person, you can buy them at the convenient bomb dispenser where you pick up your luggage after the flight. Sure, you could set it on fire in the airport, but you can bring a much bigger bomb or shotgun to the luggage carousel right now. Battery machines are a ridiculous idea, but someone in the battery biz is getting jazzed thinking about it right now.
Battery Vending machines at every luggage carousel, featuring Sony, Dell, HP, etc etc. All charged and waiting for your $50. Just don't rock the machine if your battery gets stuck.
To snub Ubuntu because they no longer ship you free CDs, when the others never did, seems a bit petty.
Indeed, it is petty of me. Even after sleeping on it it feels like the correct action. Perhaps they should have considered the pettiness of mankind before providing free CDs in the first place. I would totally curse the disappearance of a plant that shaded me for free yesterday.
You assume that collective peace and smurfiness is the ultimate goal, and not individualistic peace/enlightenment/salvation/etc, which most religions tend to focus on.
I remember stories about that experiment. There were supposedly sections of circuitry that were not connected, but were crucial to the rest of the FPGA, and mere induction didn't explain the way in which they communicated (people were theorizing temperature variances expansion/contraction making the difference).
Were your robots' behaviors evolved or scripted? If evolved, did the robots lie about finding food when they really found poison, then move to the real food quietly while the other robots "ate" the poison? Although this isn't new (/. covered the same or similar ecperiment last January), it's newer than 90's robot behavior.
And offtopic: $&^@%! Taco, what's up with the popups that sneak past Firefox popup blocks? I've dutifully allowed advertising to continue, despite having that checkbox I could click to turn ads off for good behavior. Do I really need to turn on adblock and noscript for/.? Really?
Our local Linux gang has been a good advocate for Ubuntu Linux by ordering these free silkscreened CDs. Placed next to burned CDs of Fedora, Slack, Gentoo, et al, the Ubuntu CDs always flew off the show-tables at our tech shows (not always purely Linux shows). And no, we're not a LUG, and Canonical probably won't send us any more CDs, but we would order 100's, and only handed them out if people were really interested in trying Linux. We would only end up with a handful afterward. I'm not going to pay to do their marketing. I may not even burn their CDs to place on the table.
It would not be hard for a government censor operating the filter in a country like China to do the same thing. But this does not mean that UltraSurf's network is likely to collapse any day now; on the contrary, it means that it and similar programs are likely to flourish for years to come, since the censors obviously have other priorities.
Other priorities? That's a new assumption, not stated before the final assessment was made. It seems like all the Chinese Gov't needs to do is give one person the task of keeping the Great Firewall up to date for UltraSurf's range of IPs, so to any user in China: "UltraSurf's network is likely to collapse any day now"
You have narrow definitions of both "worldwide" and "meat". In northern climates, reindeer meat is a staple, and rainforests are only on postcards. Buffalo/Bison meat is becoming popular again in the USA now that people are raising them like cattle. Again, very little rainforest (percentage-wise) in the USA.
It took me a few minutes to realize that we were't talking about memory leaks.
You're not alone. I blame the editor. Software can *be* leaked (dispersed before official release), but software doesn't leak by itself except as memory leaks (and maybe software that controls hydroelectric dams or sprinkler systems). The title should be "When Software is Leaked", but it's not as "actiony" sounding.
But then you started to smile again, because the water was still warm and inviting, and you still had your friends, and you began to have fun. Only no one drove cars, and you invented things to do that didn't require money, electricity, or petroleum.
I was a huge Trek fan in high school, and I knew all about conventions and movie plans and whatnot.[...] but how did I ever find those without - not just without the Internet, but without ubiquitous search?
Word of mouth amongst friends. Local game/comicbook shop poster boards.
How long until someone writes a distributed computing app like this where the "main function" uses little CPU but uses a lot of time (like reading does).
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Agreed. They're trumpeting this as a well-done audit, but the thought experiment is totally screwy. Even if 50% of people aren't at work, how is that worse than Cyber Monday or the days after Black Friday or Boxing Day, when almost everyone isn't working and they're done shopping for deals? GAO's trying to use H1N1 as the answer to any new things that "need" Government supervision. Sorry, 9/11, your days in the limelight are over.
In many Christian sects, the obedience is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how good a person you are (or aren't), only faith will save you.
Thanks, AC! This was the point I was focusing on. Grace.
Leprechauns don't make sense.
Only because they're drunk all the time.
What is it, exactly, about Christianity that you think is fraudulent? Is it the promise of immortality in exchange for obedience to some set of rules? That doesn't meet any definition of fraud that I'm aware of
What's more, Christianity's promise of immortality has nothing to do with obedience to rules.
But they're not on the plane. If you're restricted from carrying them onto the plane in any luggage or on your person, you can buy them at the convenient bomb dispenser where you pick up your luggage after the flight. Sure, you could set it on fire in the airport, but you can bring a much bigger bomb or shotgun to the luggage carousel right now. Battery machines are a ridiculous idea, but someone in the battery biz is getting jazzed thinking about it right now.
Oo, can an iphone or ipod touch be used for that? I foresee an official $999 app coming out soon from the CoS.
Battery Vending machines at every luggage carousel, featuring Sony, Dell, HP, etc etc. All charged and waiting for your $50. Just don't rock the machine if your battery gets stuck.
To snub Ubuntu because they no longer ship you free CDs, when the others never did, seems a bit petty.
Indeed, it is petty of me. Even after sleeping on it it feels like the correct action. Perhaps they should have considered the pettiness of mankind before providing free CDs in the first place. I would totally curse the disappearance of a plant that shaded me for free yesterday.
You assume that collective peace and smurfiness is the ultimate goal, and not individualistic peace/enlightenment/salvation/etc, which most religions tend to focus on.
I remember stories about that experiment. There were supposedly sections of circuitry that were not connected, but were crucial to the rest of the FPGA, and mere induction didn't explain the way in which they communicated (people were theorizing temperature variances expansion/contraction making the difference).
Were your robots' behaviors evolved or scripted? If evolved, did the robots lie about finding food when they really found poison, then move to the real food quietly while the other robots "ate" the poison? Although this isn't new (/. covered the same or similar ecperiment last January), it's newer than 90's robot behavior.
Same story more than a year ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/01/19/0258214.shtml
/.? Really?
And offtopic: $&^@%! Taco, what's up with the popups that sneak past Firefox popup blocks? I've dutifully allowed advertising to continue, despite having that checkbox I could click to turn ads off for good behavior. Do I really need to turn on adblock and noscript for
Our local Linux gang has been a good advocate for Ubuntu Linux by ordering these free silkscreened CDs. Placed next to burned CDs of Fedora, Slack, Gentoo, et al, the Ubuntu CDs always flew off the show-tables at our tech shows (not always purely Linux shows). And no, we're not a LUG, and Canonical probably won't send us any more CDs, but we would order 100's, and only handed them out if people were really interested in trying Linux. We would only end up with a handful afterward. I'm not going to pay to do their marketing. I may not even burn their CDs to place on the table.
And elderly bones are even more brittle. ...like peanut brittle.
It would not be hard for a government censor operating the filter in a country like China to do the same thing. But this does not mean that UltraSurf's network is likely to collapse any day now; on the contrary, it means that it and similar programs are likely to flourish for years to come, since the censors obviously have other priorities.
Other priorities? That's a new assumption, not stated before the final assessment was made. It seems like all the Chinese Gov't needs to do is give one person the task of keeping the Great Firewall up to date for UltraSurf's range of IPs, so to any user in China: "UltraSurf's network is likely to collapse any day now"
People worldwide eat lots of meat that's "grown" on land that used to be rainforest.
Technically, going back to Pangaea maybe. Reindeer meat is not grown on recent rainforest land despite the homophone.
Um... what? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=deforestation+cattle.
You have narrow definitions of both "worldwide" and "meat". In northern climates, reindeer meat is a staple, and rainforests are only on postcards. Buffalo/Bison meat is becoming popular again in the USA now that people are raising them like cattle. Again, very little rainforest (percentage-wise) in the USA.
People worldwide eat lots of meat that's "grown" on land that used to be rainforest.
Technically, going back to Pangaea maybe. Reindeer meat is not grown on recent rainforest land despite the homophone.
quite a few in the hospital and a few even in the morgue.
You state this as if it were an unintended consequence. Certain groups would love to cull the human population.
The third dimension called, they are suing flatland for prior art and copyright infringement.
The fourth dimension called, they already have (wioll haven) the judgment from the lawsuit, and flatland stands (willan on-stand) on parody.
It took me a few minutes to realize that we were't talking about memory leaks.
You're not alone. I blame the editor. Software can *be* leaked (dispersed before official release), but software doesn't leak by itself except as memory leaks (and maybe software that controls hydroelectric dams or sprinkler systems). The title should be "When Software is Leaked", but it's not as "actiony" sounding.
But then you started to smile again, because the water was still warm and inviting, and you still had your friends, and you began to have fun. Only no one drove cars, and you invented things to do that didn't require money, electricity, or petroleum.
Why reinvent the wheel? http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1417319&cid=29862151
And, our attention spans have gotten so short,
Sorry, I stopped reading after "+1000". Care to recap?
I was a huge Trek fan in high school, and I knew all about conventions and movie plans and whatnot.[...] but how did I ever find those without - not just without the Internet, but without ubiquitous search?
Word of mouth amongst friends. Local game/comicbook shop poster boards.
How long until someone writes a distributed computing app like this where the "main function" uses little CPU but uses a lot of time (like reading does).
Uhhh, yeah. Why don't you take the minute to download and try it before clogging up slashdot with stupid questions.
Because one answer here prevents 1000+ people from having to download and try it.