The problem here is that I don't pay taxes to fund public schools so Microsoft can go advertise their products. Enhancing vendor lock through targeting public institutions is not cool with me. OTOH, maybe open-source advocates should just offer free training and resources of their own.
How can you assume causation when there are still apes around, if we evolved from them (or something very similar to them)?
There's a million other questions like this, but they all point to the same idea: evolutions neat, linear process does not seem to exist in nature.
You assume a dire lack of understanding because you have already presumed substantial exclusive evidence for evolution. I see no such thing. For all the empirical evidence you offer on evolution, I could offer an equal and greater amount for creationism, sometimes pointing to similar evidence you might use. You seem to have missed my point that there is very little data that proves to us conclusively anything about the origin of species. I recommend Mr. Charles Darwin's book of the same name; it's a fantastic insight on the interesting possibilities of natural selection, and how we might go about studying it.
Nope, no problems with any of those. There's nothing factual, based solely on empirical evidence in any of these fields that conclusively proves macro-evolution. Micro-evolution is undeniable -- species are constantly changing. But the jump from a new breed of dog to man evolving from a single-celled organism is just a bit too much for me, given any time frame. There's no interemediary reliable fossil record, even though we've gone through enough rock to have seen that by now (geology), no proof that just because there are (as far as we can tell, and the evidence makes sense) old stars that this somehow proves the evolution of life (cosmology), no empirical proof that carbon dating is even accurate, let alone that this only proves that some creatures are very old if it is accurate, not that they evolved (carbon dating), and I'm missing what in physics conclusively proves evolution.
Creationism and evolution both require faith. I realize that makes you uncomfortable, but perhaps when we can both realize the severe limitations of our knowledge and stop accepting assumptions as fact, we can discover the truth together. This is what science is about, isn't it?
Regarding sexuality and other religions, I do have a problem with ideas that are wrong, as everyone does. That does not stop me from loving people, and listening to and learning from them.
The decision to allow the embryos was made after research showed that people in large are OK with the idea. They didn't ask me, because I'm sure as hell not "OK" with the idea of destroying human embryos to blend them with animals. There's already enough breeding farm business out there for other reasons, no need to extend it with ridiculous BS like this.
Thus a teacher wanting to make a student do hard research must give that student a more difficult assignment to make them go off of google.
Exactly. Throw some curveballs that require deeper research than just a precursory Google search, and maybe we'll get somewhere. This is a wonderful time to be training a young researcher -- because of the wealth of information out there, and how quickly so much of it can be acquired, the bar can be raised higher than ever before. Weren't computers supposed to be making us smarter, anyway? For me, at least, most of my college papers could be written with Google Scholar, except for one particular professor I had, who made his assignments so damn hard I actually had to Google and (GASP!) read some books. For that, I'm eternally grateful.
Also, I'm mad as hell someone already took my "tldr" line.
Consider that added. And another hundred fifty additional if he can show me step by step the processes he performed, and make a useful (albeit uninsured) recommendation to protect against that method.
I dont get the whole turn off ssid and mac filtering, change default password crap. more often than not kismet works out the ssid if hidden, mac can be spoofed using macchanger, and i usually guess peoples passwords or look it up on list of manufacturer default list. the alternative is to completely crash a router as it just resets with factory defaults and you can completely take over the router.
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. You come (wirelessly) break into my router, change the current settings by opening port 1337, and I'll refund the cost of your travel (as determined by hotwire or expedia's fare rates on the day of your travel), and pay you $100 additional, all in cash on the same day.
It's a SOHO router, but I won't tell you what make/model -- if your prowess is as you claim, you should have no trouble determining that. You may not enter the apartment or inspect any systems currently connected -- but you shouldn't need to. I have no other firewalls, proxy servers, or tricks on the front end of this router -- it's straight from modem to unit. You may have 48 consecutive hours to complete the task.
Still confident? Email me at radams theatsign tohuw.net and make arrangements.
HTML 5/CSS3 will help improve the layouts and tagging of such layouts. And XAML can make all the pretty tags it wants, anything that threatens vendor lock is going to be flushed down the e-toilet.
I understand your point, and agree to some extent. It does need to be clear that there is so much to space research beyond "pure" research. However, consider the development of the computing industry, an initiative almost exclusively driven by private industry. How was this done? By capitalizing off the intermediary points -- each step of the way, a profitable path had to be found. This is true progress -- the creation of a self-sustaining and burgeoning enterprise. I realize this process is quite a bit more daunting to apply to the space industry, but it surely can. This would be the best possible benefit for research.
If it's too important to ignore, let the market dictate that. You'd be surprised at the risks business people will take when less capital is sunk into "involuntary" (taxes) expenses.
You're welcome to donate to whatever scientific causes you see fit. I, for one, would love to see all of NASA privately funded and Gov't and taxes removed from it entirely (speaking as a NASA enthusiast here).
That's quite possibly the worst analogy and analysis I've ever read on Slashdot. The feces-eater-in-the-library post was more on-point than what you said.
My statement was that there is a difference between a game, which is strictly for entertainment, and a hybrid entertainment/business environment like SL, where some people are earning (or losing) significant profits. I never said anything dramatic. To use your first half-baked metaphor, ask a professional poker player if he considers his winnings, and protecting those assets, important.
Being some random griefer who sends flying phallic objects across the Metaverse doesn't make you an expert in anything except flying genitals. So let's step through your insolent propaganda point by point.
"...they're [sex and money] the only reasons anyone uses it [Second Life], despite claims to the contrary by media-whorish Linden Labs." Perhaps you're not aware of the number of corporate entities using Second Life, not even for direct profit, but simply as a platform to deliver product information, such as Sun Microsystems, or the educational institutions using it as part of a prototype distance learning initiative, such as Bowling Green State University. Maybe you're not aware of the high-profile full-time businesses in Second Life, or the many, many articles reputable business publications have written noting the unique opportunities that exist in SL. There's much more than just sex and money. As in real life, there is entertainment, education, experimentation and economy. You know little about these because you spend all your time making the experience inconvenient for others.
"As the Linden (the currency of Second Life) is not based on anything, Linden Labs simply dumps currency into the market whenever they feel like it." A quick look through the SL Economy metrics and blogs shows you're full of it. There is an actual regulation to the currency in SL, you're just ignorant of it.
[Your last statements] Again, your ignorance shines through. Do you do any investing in the real world? Do you know what happens when you invest 100k in prime real estate in California and an earthquake devastates it? Unless you took out insurance of some kind with an organization who certainly makes more than they will ever put out (on a sidenote, there are investement insurers in SL), you are SOL. Linden is careful to use the terminology "unit of trade" for the Linden dollar, because the Metaverse is not a seperate governmental body, has no legal jurisdiction in the real world, and wants to avoid the IRS putting their grubby mitts any further in. If you are foolish enough to make an unwise investment in SL, then, just as in real life, you learn that a fool and his money are soon parted.
In conclusion, please know what the hell you're talking about before you respond. And stop griefing the Metaverse, it's obnoxious.
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Well, given the number of patents Amazon has and wants for nonsense garbage like this, it would take a cavity of that magnitude! duh-dun chhhhhh!
*runs away*
What's that? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my Unreal Tournament 2004/Nexuiz/Tremulous/Quake4/et. al.
The problem here is that I don't pay taxes to fund public schools so Microsoft can go advertise their products. Enhancing vendor lock through targeting public institutions is not cool with me. OTOH, maybe open-source advocates should just offer free training and resources of their own.
Withholding judgment...
How can you assume causation when there are still apes around, if we evolved from them (or something very similar to them)? There's a million other questions like this, but they all point to the same idea: evolutions neat, linear process does not seem to exist in nature.
If they have their way, Google will be able to beat that eventually... if the information wants to be free, that is...
You assume a dire lack of understanding because you have already presumed substantial exclusive evidence for evolution. I see no such thing. For all the empirical evidence you offer on evolution, I could offer an equal and greater amount for creationism, sometimes pointing to similar evidence you might use. You seem to have missed my point that there is very little data that proves to us conclusively anything about the origin of species. I recommend Mr. Charles Darwin's book of the same name; it's a fantastic insight on the interesting possibilities of natural selection, and how we might go about studying it.
Nope, no problems with any of those. There's nothing factual, based solely on empirical evidence in any of these fields that conclusively proves macro-evolution. Micro-evolution is undeniable -- species are constantly changing. But the jump from a new breed of dog to man evolving from a single-celled organism is just a bit too much for me, given any time frame. There's no interemediary reliable fossil record, even though we've gone through enough rock to have seen that by now (geology), no proof that just because there are (as far as we can tell, and the evidence makes sense) old stars that this somehow proves the evolution of life (cosmology), no empirical proof that carbon dating is even accurate, let alone that this only proves that some creatures are very old if it is accurate, not that they evolved (carbon dating), and I'm missing what in physics conclusively proves evolution.
Creationism and evolution both require faith. I realize that makes you uncomfortable, but perhaps when we can both realize the severe limitations of our knowledge and stop accepting assumptions as fact, we can discover the truth together. This is what science is about, isn't it?
Regarding sexuality and other religions, I do have a problem with ideas that are wrong, as everyone does. That does not stop me from loving people, and listening to and learning from them.
prediction: modded down: -1 disagree
Exactly. Throw some curveballs that require deeper research than just a precursory Google search, and maybe we'll get somewhere. This is a wonderful time to be training a young researcher -- because of the wealth of information out there, and how quickly so much of it can be acquired, the bar can be raised higher than ever before. Weren't computers supposed to be making us smarter, anyway? For me, at least, most of my college papers could be written with Google Scholar, except for one particular professor I had, who made his assignments so damn hard I actually had to Google and (GASP!) read some books. For that, I'm eternally grateful.
Also, I'm mad as hell someone already took my "tldr" line.
I put my mouth in my wallet, you insensitive clod! And no, the wireless is not off. I use it regularly.
No, but I'll still extend the offer to you.
I'm aware of both of those issues. My offer still stands.
Consider that added. And another hundred fifty additional if he can show me step by step the processes he performed, and make a useful (albeit uninsured) recommendation to protect against that method.
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. You come (wirelessly) break into my router, change the current settings by opening port 1337, and I'll refund the cost of your travel (as determined by hotwire or expedia's fare rates on the day of your travel), and pay you $100 additional, all in cash on the same day.
It's a SOHO router, but I won't tell you what make/model -- if your prowess is as you claim, you should have no trouble determining that. You may not enter the apartment or inspect any systems currently connected -- but you shouldn't need to. I have no other firewalls, proxy servers, or tricks on the front end of this router -- it's straight from modem to unit. You may have 48 consecutive hours to complete the task.
Still confident? Email me at radams theatsign tohuw.net and make arrangements.
State ID regulations != commerce regulations
That's too much of a stretch to tolerate. The Federal Government has no business regulating state IDs in any way.
...I am all for a set of design standards... The US Constitution disagreesHTML 5/CSS3 will help improve the layouts and tagging of such layouts. And XAML can make all the pretty tags it wants, anything that threatens vendor lock is going to be flushed down the e-toilet.
Columnar layouts, background selections, font choices... all are readily usable in CSS2, with no silly hacks needed.
Oh wait, I lied. If you want it to work in IE, you're almost guaranteed to have to hack something.
I understand your point, and agree to some extent. It does need to be clear that there is so much to space research beyond "pure" research. However, consider the development of the computing industry, an initiative almost exclusively driven by private industry. How was this done? By capitalizing off the intermediary points -- each step of the way, a profitable path had to be found. This is true progress -- the creation of a self-sustaining and burgeoning enterprise. I realize this process is quite a bit more daunting to apply to the space industry, but it surely can. This would be the best possible benefit for research.
If it's too important to ignore, let the market dictate that. You'd be surprised at the risks business people will take when less capital is sunk into "involuntary" (taxes) expenses.
You're welcome to donate to whatever scientific causes you see fit. I, for one, would love to see all of NASA privately funded and Gov't and taxes removed from it entirely (speaking as a NASA enthusiast here).
That's quite possibly the worst analogy and analysis I've ever read on Slashdot. The feces-eater-in-the-library post was more on-point than what you said.
My statement was that there is a difference between a game, which is strictly for entertainment, and a hybrid entertainment/business environment like SL, where some people are earning (or losing) significant profits. I never said anything dramatic. To use your first half-baked metaphor, ask a professional poker player if he considers his winnings, and protecting those assets, important.
Grow up, child.
Being some random griefer who sends flying phallic objects across the Metaverse doesn't make you an expert in anything except flying genitals. So let's step through your insolent propaganda point by point.
Perhaps you're not aware of the number of corporate entities using Second Life, not even for direct profit, but simply as a platform to deliver product information, such as Sun Microsystems, or the educational institutions using it as part of a prototype distance learning initiative, such as Bowling Green State University. Maybe you're not aware of the high-profile full-time businesses in Second Life, or the many, many articles reputable business publications have written noting the unique opportunities that exist in SL. There's much more than just sex and money. As in real life, there is entertainment, education, experimentation and economy. You know little about these because you spend all your time making the experience inconvenient for others.
This was no surprise to anyone not stupid.
A quick look through the SL Economy metrics and blogs shows you're full of it. There is an actual regulation to the currency in SL, you're just ignorant of it.
Again, your ignorance shines through. Do you do any investing in the real world? Do you know what happens when you invest 100k in prime real estate in California and an earthquake devastates it? Unless you took out insurance of some kind with an organization who certainly makes more than they will ever put out (on a sidenote, there are investement insurers in SL), you are SOL. Linden is careful to use the terminology "unit of trade" for the Linden dollar, because the Metaverse is not a seperate governmental body, has no legal jurisdiction in the real world, and wants to avoid the IRS putting their grubby mitts any further in. If you are foolish enough to make an unwise investment in SL, then, just as in real life, you learn that a fool and his money are soon parted.
In conclusion, please know what the hell you're talking about before you respond. And stop griefing the Metaverse, it's obnoxious.