BTW, since we're throwing out random theories: Mensa, as an organisation, is more attractive to people with a predisposition to mental illness. Highly intelligent people who are well-adjusted are less likely to join.
Almost true. Although there is undoubtedly many members who joined for the status symbol, there are probably a large percentage of members who actually enjoy the interaction of like minded people. The statistics would be more meaningful if they were broken down for the two groups separately.
It is not unusual for kids to be totally bored by how easy school work is and therefore not put any effort in to learning how to learn. I never needed to take notes, so I never learned how to. Now I need an ability that I should have developed many years ago.
I find the hype on this very misleading. Once I install an operating system modification that exists in the address space of an application, I can fairly well do whatever I want. This one happens to target Skype. Similar ones could just as easily have targeted browser login's and passwords, or ssh.
The study showed that underweight people were 70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die, and extremely obese people were 36 percent more likely to die.
Hey, I am ten pounds overweight. Does that mean that I have a chance to live forever?
Your "rambling" is all correct but not appropriate to the parent comment. He is lamenting that the phrase "explain that to the average person" means "he'll never understand that" Where it is true that you don't need to know the details of how comodities work, you should be receptive to people who try to explain things to you because they think that you need to know the details.
Teens have been having sex since time immemorial, it's built into us as a species and it's why we are all here. Parents have only been trying to stop it since the onslaught of religion.
As far as I know, various religions restrict the terms of a sexual relationship (they require some sort of institution of marriage) but not the age. In fact, religions recognize the drive for sexual relations and would advise younger marriages. In reality, the concept of underage sex is a tool to stop (or limit) premarital sex. In other words, it is a compromise between the religious stance that all sex outside of marriage is wrong and the current social expectation that adults should be free to enjoy themselves when it doesn't injure others. I'd be more likely to classify the tendency of parents to stop teenage sex as a sense of insecurity than as a dictate of religion (current mass marketers of religion not-withstanding).
Why are people so happy? The linked article merely states that the prosecution didn't demonstrate that they had the evidence that they said that they have. I thought that slashdot wanted a verdict of "They are doing everything that is claimed and that is okay because it is legal". Why would slashdot be interested in the competency of the prosecution?
I point out to you that the oldest traditional interpretations by a legal system of one of the ten commandments is that you shouldn't steal people. You respond by repeating your own logical arguments that unowned people can't be stolen. You can argue all you want that it shouldn't be classified as theft but to argue that it is impossible to be classified as theft is flying in the face of historical precedence.
That is actually somewhat debatable. While most societies considered the enslavement of foreigners, especially conquered people, to be normal, they considered the enslavement of their own to be a form of theft. One of the definitions of "Thou shall not steal" given in wikipedia is you shouldn't steal people.
Further, I would argue that kidnapping is the theft of people whether or not they are used as slave labor.
Problem being that there is no such thing as known good code. Even if you saw all of the source code and compiled it yourself, there is always the possibility that the compiler or linker/loader introduced a back door (this problem has been known for a long time). The best you could say is that certain code is trusted. On the other hand, there is such a thing as known bad code.
I am really surprised by most of the posts. People seem to forget that the top prize in journalism, the Pulitzer prize, is named after the man who was most noted for creating yellow journalism. He proved that a paper could survive much better on sensationalism than on investigative reporting (to be fair, he also did the latter). Every news source should be taken with a grain of salt. Newspapers and journalists have been known to stretch the truth to promote their own agenda.
Freeman Dyson and Murray Gell-Mann aren't exactly chopped liver either, and they could more or less be put in the same pantheon of Titans including Wheeler and Feynman (even though I think there's arguments to be made that Wheeler and Feynman were just a little extra special). Please restrict your comments to public accomplishments. Most of the correspondence on/. are in no position to evaluate the genius of a genius. Suffice it to say that 35 years ago Murray Gell-Mann was letting his friends know that he didn't hold a candle to Feynman.
Interesting. The blog actually gave enough information to state that the problem is Microsoft's. They explicitly state that they have chosen an implementation mechanism which creates a potential security problem. The bad rendering is indeed caused by security measures but the security problem is coming from Microsoft's implementation. If this causes them to change their rendering model it would be great.
Plato records the opinion that man was the original species. If an individual wasn't worthy it got reincarnated as a lower species. Sort of reverse evolution with a moral twist.
The article about microsoft taking on GNU sounds like microsoft is going to duplicate cygwin. Is this the great breakthrough? The only surprise is that they plan on doing this internally.
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Interesting premise. The Trump administration wants revenge for Wikileaks tanking Hillary's election.
BTW, since we're throwing out random theories: Mensa, as an organisation, is more attractive to people with a predisposition to mental illness. Highly intelligent people who are well-adjusted are less likely to join.
Almost true. Although there is undoubtedly many members who joined for the status symbol, there are probably a large percentage of members who actually enjoy the interaction of like minded people. The statistics would be more meaningful if they were broken down for the two groups separately.
It is not unusual for kids to be totally bored by how easy school work is and therefore not put any effort in to learning how to learn. I never needed to take notes, so I never learned how to. Now I need an ability that I should have developed many years ago.
And certainly not replying to Slashdot comments. Whoops
I know nothing about cars so I can't give you a car analogy, sorry.
You must be new here...
So new that he hasn't learned that knowledge is to his detriment when posting here.
I find the hype on this very misleading. Once I install an operating system modification that exists in the address space of an application, I can fairly well do whatever I want. This one happens to target Skype. Similar ones could just as easily have targeted browser login's and passwords, or ssh.
For the record, you can read the original post in firehose. The spelling there is definitely wrong.
The study showed that underweight people were 70 percent more likely than people of normal weight to die, and extremely obese people were 36 percent more likely to die.
Hey, I am ten pounds overweight. Does that mean that I have a chance to live forever?
Your "rambling" is all correct but not appropriate to the parent comment. He is lamenting that the phrase "explain that to the average person" means "he'll never understand that" Where it is true that you don't need to know the details of how comodities work, you should be receptive to people who try to explain things to you because they think that you need to know the details.
Teens have been having sex since time immemorial, it's built into us as a species and it's why we are all here. Parents have only been trying to stop it since the onslaught of religion.
As far as I know, various religions restrict the terms of a sexual relationship (they require some sort of institution of marriage) but not the age. In fact, religions recognize the drive for sexual relations and would advise younger marriages. In reality, the concept of underage sex is a tool to stop (or limit) premarital sex. In other words, it is a compromise between the religious stance that all sex outside of marriage is wrong and the current social expectation that adults should be free to enjoy themselves when it doesn't injure others. I'd be more likely to classify the tendency of parents to stop teenage sex as a sense of insecurity than as a dictate of religion (current mass marketers of religion not-withstanding).
What matters is that the opinion be formed through rigorous reasoning, based on provable facts ...
What was that again? I suppose that you also expect people to read the articles before responding.
Why are people so happy? The linked article merely states that the prosecution didn't demonstrate that they had the evidence that they said that they have. I thought that slashdot wanted a verdict of "They are doing everything that is claimed and that is okay because it is legal". Why would slashdot be interested in the competency of the prosecution?
I point out to you that the oldest traditional interpretations by a legal system of one of the ten commandments is that you shouldn't steal people. You respond by repeating your own logical arguments that unowned people can't be stolen. You can argue all you want that it shouldn't be classified as theft but to argue that it is impossible to be classified as theft is flying in the face of historical precedence.
That is actually somewhat debatable. While most societies considered the enslavement of foreigners, especially conquered people, to be normal, they considered the enslavement of their own to be a form of theft. One of the definitions of "Thou shall not steal" given in wikipedia is you shouldn't steal people.
Further, I would argue that kidnapping is the theft of people whether or not they are used as slave labor.
(I'm not going to link to any particular installations, because, well, slashdot has the capacity to swamp our entire nation's bandwidth.)
This post was worth reading just for this comment.
SYMPTOMS: Presence of the: "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npbasic.dll"
Does this mean that it can be avoided by not putting Firefox on your "c" drive?
Problem being that there is no such thing as known good code. Even if you saw all of the source code and compiled it yourself, there is always the possibility that the compiler or linker/loader introduced a back door (this problem has been known for a long time). The best you could say is that certain code is trusted. On the other hand, there is such a thing as known bad code.
I am really surprised by most of the posts. People seem to forget that the top prize in journalism, the Pulitzer prize, is named after the man who was most noted for creating yellow journalism. He proved that a paper could survive much better on sensationalism than on investigative reporting (to be fair, he also did the latter). Every news source should be taken with a grain of salt. Newspapers and journalists have been known to stretch the truth to promote their own agenda.
I knew this 50 years ago. Heckle and Jeckle are obviously self aware.
Copiers would be a better term. The original article has the same problem. What was their excuse?
Interesting. The blog actually gave enough information to state that the problem is Microsoft's. They explicitly state that they have chosen an implementation mechanism which creates a potential security problem. The bad rendering is indeed caused by security measures but the security problem is coming from Microsoft's implementation. If this causes them to change their rendering model it would be great.
Plato records the opinion that man was the original species. If an individual wasn't worthy it got reincarnated as a lower species. Sort of reverse evolution with a moral twist.
The article about microsoft taking on GNU sounds like microsoft is going to duplicate cygwin. Is this the great breakthrough? The only surprise is that they plan on doing this internally.