I haven't been following these results too closely, but I gather from the response here that the neutrinos did not travel through a tunnel. So, then, did they just travel through the Earth? I guess this wouldn't cause any or much interference, so I'm assuming that's what was done, but I haven't found this directly stated.
TFA is a load of strawmanning - he discusses an interesting point, which I won't go into because I haven't thought/read enough about it, but his discussion is oh-so-exaggerated. To quote:
"The classics, being books, are also outmoded. They are outmoded because they are often long and hard to read, so those of us raised around the distractions of technology can’t be bothered to follow them; and besides, they concern foreign worlds, dominated by dead white guys with totally antiquated ideas and attitudes. In short, they are boring and irrelevant."
It would be rather hard to find any person, geek or no, who would say something like that. I think that definitely, there are some geeks who are decidedly anti-intellectual. (Just like there are some geeks who are decidedly intellectual.) And if Larry Sanger wants to copy a couple of their statements and distill them down to a J'accuse - well, congratulations. He's done what every political pundit does every day.
I'm going to go with the rest of the bandwagon and say no, I wouldn't be creeped out.
Say I've been watching a bunch of TV shows about scientific developments, because I am interested in those things. I also happen to be an environmentalist, and really hate Big Oil. Just last week, hypothetical me watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and was very interested, so I did some Googling around and reading of Wikipedia (in Chrome). Google knows everything I do, and Google knows that I would be a target audience for an electric car. If I saw an ad for a reasonably-priced, powerful, electric car, then I would want to buy it. And I want to see that ad so I can know about it.
Advertisers could use Google's massive datamining to bring this to a "whole new level", as you say. They will be able to do so much more, and target so many more ads. Oh no! I'll have to put up with ads for things I actually want! I won't see those Blackberry ads that keep repeating the same two bars of a Beatles song! How will I ever survive?
The only scary thing about Google owning my life is the worry of their servers failing. But I trust their computers more than I trust mine.
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Have a receipt the following way: It says "Obama", "McCain", et cetera, and a bunch of bubbles to the left of the names. The receipt has the bubble of your vote colored in. In this way, it's readable by both humans and computers.
But the ballot itself doesn't have to work that way. Just the receipt.
Unfortunately, the problem with the 135 degrees position is that you need a very good chair with a head-rest, otherwise, sitting at 135 degrees while keeping you head straight (in order to be looking horizontally at your monitor, rather than at the ceiling) hurts the neck.
I'm typing this in a normal chair, leaning back, back two legs on the ground. My head is resting on the back of my bed, on the headrest. Very comfortable, and I moved the keyboard onto my lap. Maybe it's "a very good chair with a headrest", but everything is fairly standard equipment in a common home. (Then again, some of us aren't at home...)
While in the development stages, I frequently had X crash, and went back to Dapper, and found a way to stop it crashing.
If you upgrade every single package before rebooting even once, it works fine. I don't know why, but it has worked invariably.
But only because it's in the search bar, and I use Google for non-learning-about-this stuff. If I want to learn about something, I search for "wiki blah blah" and click on the Wikipedia entry that just happens to be the first result.
...if you use the deborphan command to figure out all "leaf" packages (i.e packages that aren't dependencies for others). Then you can cull down the ones you don't want, rerun deborphan again, rinse and repeat. Also very useful for culling bloat in the system, from extra software installed over time.
It's wonderfully easy to seemingly cull the bloat, until you run into the libc6 trap (nobody ever should run into that one), the lbreakout2 trap, or any others like that. Deborphan says:
lbreakout2-data? No, lbreakout2 depends on that, it's not a leaf.
lbreakout2? No, lbreakout2-data depends on that, it's not a leaf.
And it blissfully ignores the fact that any of those packages exist.
If Google were to do that, it would be opening the Writely/Google Calendar/Google Spreadsheets source to anyone who had one. Some people would like that, but I don't think Google would.
Maybe there's a way to distribute it to servers without distributing source, but aren't Ajax apps all source?
"You can only run desktop X if you also use filesystem Y" is likely to go over like a lead balloon.
Sorry if this is trolling, or I'm misunderstanding something, but I believe that you can only use Windows XP if you use filesystem NTFS, and I don't think that went over too badly.
Watch out... The government will be out to get you for that comment. And the NSA knows exactly where you live. It will be quite easy to accuse you as a terrorist, put you in prison without a trial in the name of the War on Terror, and they can force OSTG to get rid of that comment. Sorry, but that's life.
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This looks like really interesting and important research - perhaps even a tenth as important as these physicists think it is!
I haven't been following these results too closely, but I gather from the response here that the neutrinos did not travel through a tunnel. So, then, did they just travel through the Earth? I guess this wouldn't cause any or much interference, so I'm assuming that's what was done, but I haven't found this directly stated.
TFA is a load of strawmanning - he discusses an interesting point, which I won't go into because I haven't thought/read enough about it, but his discussion is oh-so-exaggerated. To quote:
"The classics, being books, are also outmoded. They are outmoded because they are often long and hard to read, so those of us raised around the distractions of technology can’t be bothered to follow them; and besides, they concern foreign worlds, dominated by dead white guys with totally antiquated ideas and attitudes. In short, they are boring and irrelevant."
It would be rather hard to find any person, geek or no, who would say something like that. I think that definitely, there are some geeks who are decidedly anti-intellectual. (Just like there are some geeks who are decidedly intellectual.) And if Larry Sanger wants to copy a couple of their statements and distill them down to a J'accuse - well, congratulations. He's done what every political pundit does every day.
What about the audio track? They can't aim audio that precisely.
I'm going to go with the rest of the bandwagon and say no, I wouldn't be creeped out.
Say I've been watching a bunch of TV shows about scientific developments, because I am interested in those things. I also happen to be an environmentalist, and really hate Big Oil. Just last week, hypothetical me watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and was very interested, so I did some Googling around and reading of Wikipedia (in Chrome). Google knows everything I do, and Google knows that I would be a target audience for an electric car. If I saw an ad for a reasonably-priced, powerful, electric car, then I would want to buy it. And I want to see that ad so I can know about it.
Advertisers could use Google's massive datamining to bring this to a "whole new level", as you say. They will be able to do so much more, and target so many more ads. Oh no! I'll have to put up with ads for things I actually want! I won't see those Blackberry ads that keep repeating the same two bars of a Beatles song! How will I ever survive?
The only scary thing about Google owning my life is the worry of their servers failing. But I trust their computers more than I trust mine.
Good thing they have it. It's at 0:33:20 in the big fat video http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video.
Have a receipt the following way: It says "Obama", "McCain", et cetera, and a bunch of bubbles to the left of the names. The receipt has the bubble of your vote colored in. In this way, it's readable by both humans and computers. But the ballot itself doesn't have to work that way. Just the receipt.
Ever heard of the Milgram Experiment? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Sad. I've been on user-generated content sites with stupid users (read: Slashdot) too long; I could actually understand that.
Unfortunately, the problem with the 135 degrees position is that you need a very good chair with a head-rest, otherwise, sitting at 135 degrees while keeping you head straight (in order to be looking horizontally at your monitor, rather than at the ceiling) hurts the neck.
I'm typing this in a normal chair, leaning back, back two legs on the ground. My head is resting on the back of my bed, on the headrest. Very comfortable, and I moved the keyboard onto my lap. Maybe it's "a very good chair with a headrest", but everything is fairly standard equipment in a common home. (Then again, some of us aren't at home...)
How about 11 year olds? Do I need to leave too?
While in the development stages, I frequently had X crash, and went back to Dapper, and found a way to stop it crashing. If you upgrade every single package before rebooting even once, it works fine. I don't know why, but it has worked invariably.
But only because it's in the search bar, and I use Google for non-learning-about-this stuff. If I want to learn about something, I search for "wiki blah blah" and click on the Wikipedia entry that just happens to be the first result.
Oh. OK. Sorry.
Umm... this is a Slashback. That's the whole point.
...if you use the deborphan command to figure out all "leaf" packages (i.e packages that aren't dependencies for others). Then you can cull down the ones you don't want, rerun deborphan again, rinse and repeat. Also very useful for culling bloat in the system, from extra software installed over time.
It's wonderfully easy to seemingly cull the bloat, until you run into the libc6 trap (nobody ever should run into that one), the lbreakout2 trap, or any others like that. Deborphan says: lbreakout2-data? No, lbreakout2 depends on that, it's not a leaf. lbreakout2? No, lbreakout2-data depends on that, it's not a leaf. And it blissfully ignores the fact that any of those packages exist.
If Google were to do that, it would be opening the Writely/Google Calendar/Google Spreadsheets source to anyone who had one. Some people would like that, but I don't think Google would. Maybe there's a way to distribute it to servers without distributing source, but aren't Ajax apps all source?
How do you get to the text-based installer? It boots graphically, and I couldn't find any option to install text-based.
That sounds like a bug to me, not an intended feature.
It's not a feature, it's a bug!
Yes, I know it's backwards. It's supposed to be backwards.
Sorry if this is trolling, or I'm misunderstanding something, but I believe that you can only use Windows XP if you use filesystem NTFS, and I don't think that went over too badly.
Watch out... The government will be out to get you for that comment. And the NSA knows exactly where you live. It will be quite easy to accuse you as a terrorist, put you in prison without a trial in the name of the War on Terror, and they can force OSTG to get rid of that comment. Sorry, but that's life.
Of course, but there's some DRM, because the autographs are being released under GPL v3.