Err, it doesn't actually say that. What it does say is that we don't yet know *enough* for hasty judgement, which I think is accurate even today. E.g. "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth" etc.
Love and obedience are both voluntary according to Christianity. We have an invitation, but you and I aren't forced to go either way. It's entirely up to each and every one of us.
In Christianity, God isn't just an adult who is a few decades older than we are. He's eternal.
Of course God could have created a world without the godless afterlife. But that would have been equivalent to forcing everyone into heaven, and God respects our free will too much to do that. His company is voluntary.
Jesus taught that God created us for a fulfilling eternal life. Humanity (you and I and most people in history) messed up, and we are currently subject to a partly-godless world, with a way back provided for us, and another way to try and stick it out without God.
I don't want to change your mind about God. If you want to be an atheist or a skeptic, be one. But the understanding in your comment doesn't have much to do with Christianity.
To the AC 2 below: The tree of morality (kudos, many don't understand it for what it is) represented the choice between letting God tell / teach humanity what's right and wrong. Eating from the fruit was about taking that right into our own hands, which set mankind on a painful but fixable detour.
If God hadn't left such a way out of the Garden, he would have locked us in, which would have conflicted with that crucial principle at the start of my comment: love relationships are voluntary.
> "Love me, and obey me, or I will torture you forever."
About the first part: children should love and obey their parents, because they are their parents, and because they know what's best for them. True or false? Regarding the second part - Christianity doesn't teach anything like that. Pain, suffering and regret will be the *inherent* consequences of the godless afterlife.
> "You are evil and you deserve to suffer, and the only thing good about you is your association with Me."
"I know the plans I have for you: to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
He is right though. If you can get yourself to trust HaveIBeenPwned.com (and it's a pretty well-known security site), then you get free reports of all major password leaks from all other sites, even itself if that ever happens. If you can't trust it, then you you implicitly trust *all* the other sites you sign up for to not get hacked, or to reliably notify you when they do. Now which is easier: to trust one site, or to trust all of them minus the first one?
I wonder how many more upcoming breach announcements we'll have, all hoping to get away with minimal casualties because they aren't as bad as the disasters at Equifax and Yahoo.
Developers of new software sometimes bump into false positives, and they are either smart enough to avoid malware or never even notice when one gets past their installed virus scanner. So they prefer one of the weakest virus scanners. [acts surprised]
I like the professor's idea. However, the problem is after this, there's an increased likelihood that they will deliberately allow the next attack (or even fake one), like many think they did at 9/11.
Watch for 9/11-esque nonsense explanation after the next attack.
That's just it. The Constitution is being trampled upon, because good men who signed up to defend it are instead being used as puppets to further the Big Co's indecent agenda.
Don't you get it? Veterans' day, war movies, etc. are now nothing but government propaganda to keep the sinking Empire afloat in the sea of moral corruption and debt. Soldiers today are nothing like the World War veterans of old. Many who enlist want the right thing, but that doesn't matter if today they are only deployed for unjust causes. The American military has become what it was created to fight, and the Constitution proves it. Think of all the ways the forefathers distanced themselves from the British in the Constitution. The US is doing the exact same things today.
The military is no better than what it's used for, and these days I can only cry at how it's being abused.
I heard that people no longer enlist to the armed forces anymore because it's no longer the noble thing to do. They have too much precedent that they will just become toys of corrupt politicians.
They can see how many have ended up helping the slaughter of a million innocent civilians in the Middle-East. Others helped with the assassination of legitimate leaders who genuinely cared for their country, and installed puppet dictators who were willing to help maintain the Empire while pushing their own citizens to poverty. Yet others ended up regularly spying on half the world...
Apart from 5-year-old children who were mesmerized by the latest G.I. Joe or other propaganda film, I don't know anyone in their right mind who would willingly sign up to be such a puppet.
(Now cue the obligatory government agent trying to sway public opinion in a response post:)
I have big hopes for asm.js. Even with its teething problems, it's the best chance we have for a truly multi-platform common ground to develop networked apps in.
At the same time, this awesomeness has traditionally been ignored by the big players who desired fragmentation. Hopefully this time is different, as all browser vendors have a lot to lose if they are the last to implement asm.js.
The big missing feature is threading - here's hoping for an extension to asm.js to make it complete.
I can eliminate PWM on some of my monitors by setting the brightness to maximum and lowering contrast and the color levels. When I watch those monitors for a full day, my eyes are OK. When I watch my laptop (240 Hz PWM) where I can't eliminate the flicker, my eyes are tired by the end of the day.
When I first learned about how LCDs are made, I was furious that after all the problems with CRT monitors, LCD makers resorted to such a poor choice. The world my eyes see is flicker-free. Why should monitors be different?
The technology for flicker-free LCDs exists and it's called calibrated color level compensation. It should be the standard.
I kinda need both my eyes until the end of my years, so I'd appreciate it if manufacturers stopped wearing them out with PWM...
Like the subject says - is this something the Chinese government might be able to use to break TOR or SSL or any other encryption which is commonly used by political dissidents, freedom fighters, or even foreign military contractors etc.?
I'm curious e.g. how long it would take to break a standard 128-bit SSL session that they find potentially interesting?
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Err, it doesn't actually say that. What it does say is that we don't yet know *enough* for hasty judgement, which I think is accurate even today. E.g. "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth" etc.
Love and obedience are both voluntary according to Christianity. We have an invitation, but you and I aren't forced to go either way. It's entirely up to each and every one of us.
In Christianity, God isn't just an adult who is a few decades older than we are. He's eternal.
Of course God could have created a world without the godless afterlife. But that would have been equivalent to forcing everyone into heaven, and God respects our free will too much to do that. His company is voluntary.
Jesus taught that God created us for a fulfilling eternal life. Humanity (you and I and most people in history) messed up, and we are currently subject to a partly-godless world, with a way back provided for us, and another way to try and stick it out without God.
I don't want to change your mind about God. If you want to be an atheist or a skeptic, be one. But the understanding in your comment doesn't have much to do with Christianity.
To the AC 2 below:
The tree of morality (kudos, many don't understand it for what it is) represented the choice between letting God tell / teach humanity what's right and wrong. Eating from the fruit was about taking that right into our own hands, which set mankind on a painful but fixable detour.
If God hadn't left such a way out of the Garden, he would have locked us in, which would have conflicted with that crucial principle at the start of my comment: love relationships are voluntary.
> "Love me, and obey me, or I will torture you forever."
About the first part: children should love and obey their parents, because they are their parents, and because they know what's best for them. True or false?
Regarding the second part - Christianity doesn't teach anything like that. Pain, suffering and regret will be the *inherent* consequences of the godless afterlife.
> "You are evil and you deserve to suffer, and the only thing good about you is your association with Me."
"I know the plans I have for you: to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
Agreed. Thinkpads have the best keyboard and the best positioning device (=trackpoint), by far.
Sounds like an event that hardware keylogger manufacturer(s) were looking forward to.
He is right though. If you can get yourself to trust HaveIBeenPwned.com (and it's a pretty well-known security site), then you get free reports of all major password leaks from all other sites, even itself if that ever happens. If you can't trust it, then you you implicitly trust *all* the other sites you sign up for to not get hacked, or to reliably notify you when they do. Now which is easier: to trust one site, or to trust all of them minus the first one?
I wonder how many more upcoming breach announcements we'll have, all hoping to get away with minimal casualties because they aren't as bad as the disasters at Equifax and Yahoo.
https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?t...
Developers of new software sometimes bump into false positives, and they are either smart enough to avoid malware or never even notice when one gets past their installed virus scanner. So they prefer one of the weakest virus scanners.
[acts surprised]
Good answers. People, including Twain, tend to forget the meaning, the implications and the ultimate outcomes of *free will*.
Problem solved.
"God loves you so much that he'll torture forever if you don't love him back."
This doctor offered me some life-saving medicine. I would die without the medicine, so the doctor must be evil for offering to save me.
"A reasonable God would communicate with men in terms they understood."
I think He did. I think Jesus made a pretty good case of being God's communication to humanity. More than other God-claims I've considered.
Just great... Cue tens of thousands of paid campaign staff trying to boost their candidate's stats.
This is just damage control in action. PR stuff. Like when a thief is caught, and he wants to talk himself out of the mess.
Nothing honest has happened yet, and if things go on as they have been, nothing will.
I like the professor's idea. However, the problem is after this, there's an increased likelihood that they will deliberately allow the next attack (or even fake one), like many think they did at 9/11.
Watch for 9/11-esque nonsense explanation after the next attack.
When an article title ends with a question mark, the answer is NO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
...aaaaaaaaaaand he's gone. Hopefully out of reach of all repressive regimes, including the USA.
That's just it. The Constitution is being trampled upon, because good men who signed up to defend it are instead being used as puppets to further the Big Co's indecent agenda.
Don't you get it? Veterans' day, war movies, etc. are now nothing but government propaganda to keep the sinking Empire afloat in the sea of moral corruption and debt. Soldiers today are nothing like the World War veterans of old. Many who enlist want the right thing, but that doesn't matter if today they are only deployed for unjust causes. The American military has become what it was created to fight, and the Constitution proves it. Think of all the ways the forefathers distanced themselves from the British in the Constitution. The US is doing the exact same things today.
The military is no better than what it's used for, and these days I can only cry at how it's being abused.
I heard that people no longer enlist to the armed forces anymore because it's no longer the noble thing to do. They have too much precedent that they will just become toys of corrupt politicians.
They can see how many have ended up helping the slaughter of a million innocent civilians in the Middle-East. Others helped with the assassination of legitimate leaders who genuinely cared for their country, and installed puppet dictators who were willing to help maintain the Empire while pushing their own citizens to poverty. Yet others ended up regularly spying on half the world...
Apart from 5-year-old children who were mesmerized by the latest G.I. Joe or other propaganda film, I don't know anyone in their right mind who would willingly sign up to be such a puppet.
(Now cue the obligatory government agent trying to sway public opinion in a response post:)
I have big hopes for asm.js. Even with its teething problems, it's the best chance we have for a truly multi-platform common ground to develop networked apps in.
At the same time, this awesomeness has traditionally been ignored by the big players who desired fragmentation. Hopefully this time is different, as all browser vendors have a lot to lose if they are the last to implement asm.js.
The big missing feature is threading - here's hoping for an extension to asm.js to make it complete.
I can eliminate PWM on some of my monitors by setting the brightness to maximum and lowering contrast and the color levels. When I watch those monitors for a full day, my eyes are OK. When I watch my laptop (240 Hz PWM) where I can't eliminate the flicker, my eyes are tired by the end of the day.
When I first learned about how LCDs are made, I was furious that after all the problems with CRT monitors, LCD makers resorted to such a poor choice. The world my eyes see is flicker-free. Why should monitors be different?
The technology for flicker-free LCDs exists and it's called calibrated color level compensation. It should be the standard.
I kinda need both my eyes until the end of my years, so I'd appreciate it if manufacturers stopped wearing them out with PWM...
I applaud this article repeatedly and loudly... everyone else seems to be doing so.
Like the subject says - is this something the Chinese government might be able to use to break TOR or SSL or any other encryption which is commonly used by political dissidents, freedom fighters, or even foreign military contractors etc.?
I'm curious e.g. how long it would take to break a standard 128-bit SSL session that they find potentially interesting?
Easy, here's how: US intelligence (which Snowden worked for) found out about GCHQ's spying and documented it.
That seems like a reasonably likely scenario to me.