Completely wipe the hard drive? Can he provide an example when this was necessary? Or even a theoretical example of how nascent files on a hard drive would assist in re-cracking the machine?
That's a crock. Plasmas are made out of glass and steel while LCD's are made from plastic. LCD's are rugged? You can break an LCD by pushing it with your finger.
This article raises a valid point that for the price, LCD's are pretty damn good. But they're not superior to plasmas in all regards.
>I wouldn't be at all surprised if 90% of the functionality could not be provided by secure web servers and good quality wiki.
Exactly. This story isn't believable. Scroll down on page 2 of the article and you'll find this:
"The FBI's primary information management system, designed using 1980s technology already obsolete when installed in 1995,
See? This has happened before. I was hearing about this story in the early 90's. The FBI screwed up its computer system twice in a row, over a period of 30 years?? Come on.
Yep. Take a look at the case of Mark Bingham, who was GAY and called his mother using his last name. Various internet theories have circulated that calling by his last name was "his thing," which contradicts interviews with his mother showing her incredulity at the incident. Even if a gay boy had done such a thing, it doesn't explain why he repeated himself or why he ignored questions about the hijacking taking place in his presence.
The report claims Longhua's workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hours a day to make the iconic music player, the report claims. They earn £27 per month. The report reveals that the iPod nano is made in a five-storey factory (E3) that is secured by police officers.
But I thought the iPod nano was cool and could be traded for 2 grams of coke on the open market??
As evidenced by Sept. 11's Flight 93, cell phones work perfectly well at high altitudes. So as the broadband capability of these phones increases, it's obvious that dedicated services such as Connexion are targeting a redundant market.
>The question is whether undetectable, binary liquid bombs are feasible. To be undetectable, they couldn't be nitrogen-based explosives, as that is what all the detectors sniff for.
Well according to Wiki's account of the incident, not only did Ramzi's bottle of nitroglycerin get past the explosive detectors, but the wires hidden in his shoe got past metal detectors because "At that time, metal detectors used in airports did not go down far enough to detect anything there."
Wiki also says he loaded 4 large drums of nitroglycerin on the van for the WTC bombing. I seriously have to wonder what chemical company would ship drums of nitroglycerin anywhere.
>In short, they were either bloody idiots, or they never really intended on blowing up the planes but to do something else.
You missed a rather obvious and more likely third scenario, which is that the terror plot never existed.
For example, in the 1993 WTC bombing, the terrorists returned twice for their deposit on the van used to carry the explosives. The official explanation, again, is that they were idiots.
The FBI also bragged about having a mole inside the 1993 operation, who somehow allowed the bombing to proceed anyway. So whether you believe the 1993 bombing was carried out by terrorists, or by the FBI, you can blame our officials for it either way, using their own words.
I think, based on my personal, and arm-chair experience with the immune system (and my personal experience is rather extensive at this point), that the immune system is far more capable of battling cancers than bacteria. Cancer is expected in the lifecycle of any organism, so over thousands of years of evolution, the immune system is quite effective at shutting it down. Cancer's danger is in malignancy, or its ability to outpace the immune system with sheer growth, and nestle itself in obscure corners of the body where the immune system has trouble reaching.
On the other hand, there is evidence that the body is naturally filled with many types of bacteria, and that internal bacteria may represent a stable ecosystem. The success of antibiotics seems to support this, as antibiotics seem to do a job that the immune system cannot do. Of course, with facial acne it's clear that the immune system can fight bacteria, it just doesn't seem to be one of its strengths.
I wonder where all of this fits into standard immune theory. I opened up a book called "Intro to Immunology" over the weekend and it was all math.
Heh. There's definitely something to be said for how the corporate world co-opted the web and guided its developments from there on. Imagemaps were popular for a while, narrow (640, 800, etc) pages still are.
The web went graphical around 1993 and by 1995 every corporate television ad had a url in it. So, I see your point:)
I agree, music theory is not as open-ended as the OP feels. Most of the medieval era through Mozart fits into two semesters, a third semester should take you through Beethoven, at least as far as the basic theory goes.
They have kids writing symphonies these days, because the construction of these symphonies can be made mechanical once you know the rules. Mozart was famous because he stretched the rules, which is good art.
What modern music would take four lifetimes to master? Classical music was solved early in the century, otherwise you wouldn't have b.s. like Schoenberg in the 1950's. Rock music has been solved for over ten years. Rock is essentially a classical form, so it only took a couple of generations to port that to a new set of instruments.
It's true that a good melody never goes out of style. However, there's only so many songs you can write in atonal harmony, using an alternating rhythm of 11 and 13, before you realize you're running out of ideas. Maybe the next great rock band will only write rhythms using prime numbers? lol. Cue Schoenberg, aka Deep Blue.
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>As Chomsky said, "it isn't a coincidence that all children in a household learn a language, while none of the pets do so."
Lol, that's a good quote, innate language was one of Chomsky's finer moments. However, I think the pets do learn language, they just don't have tongues. Try meowing back at a cat, and seeing the surprised look on his face when he realizes, because you are imitating him, that you didn't understand what he said:)
If you define language as an audible, message-based communication, then a whole bunch of species have it. What they don't have, as evidenced by research on apes, is grammar.
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I think the American composer Charles Ives is an even better example, because the training his father gave him reflected very specifically in his later works. His dad was an experimental bandleader, and forced Charles to listen to atonal, semitonal, and overlapping music.
Semitonal and quatertonal music never really caught on, but for Charles Ives it was quite natural, because he was familiar with it as a child. However, overlapping music is an entire industry, we call it deejaying today.
>supposedly pre-school children can have the grasp of physics of a 14-year-old.
Mmm, I wonder about this. If preschool children are doing physics at a 9th or 10th grade level (nearly Advanced Placement), does this mean they get to graduate preschool and go get a job and an apartment?
Or is there something else we're supposed to be teaching kids besides Greek symbols?
Ever wonder why so many people have "Autism Awareness" magnets on the back of their cars? I like that new show Eureka on sci-fi channel, but their utopian vision of child prodigies is a nightmare to me.
AIDS has something to do with sex? That's a new one.
I thought destruction of the immune system happened, you know, when you overload your immune system. Like when you overload your insulin receptors by eating sugar, or overload your arteries by eating fried chicken, or overload your liver by drinking alcohol.
Sex destroys the immune system? How??
OT perhaps, but it deserves to be said, over and over, until people get it. Especially Bill Gates, who is misleading the world on a massive scale with this new venture of his.
Slashcode doesn't even make the top 20 blogging software list, although it's gotten popular anyway, probably because it's an unholy mess (and yes, I've looked at it). I suspect there's something comfortable about seeing the mess, as opposed to not seeing the non-mess in a better piece of software.
As to that bit of psychology, there's other examples I could give. Tcl's near-lack of syntax drives some people nuts, Lisp vs Unix is another example of willfully choosing the bug-filled road, which is taught in cs curricula as a mostly positive lesson.
He was referring to 1984's MacOS, which was pretty damn cool with its file menus and wysiwyg editor. In my high school english class, Macs were great, although over in my BASIC/Pascal class, they were useless compared to a PC or even an Apple ][.
I never got to try BeOS either, but I did try OS/2 and it gave me the chills. Real multitasking, real window-resizing. My friend used to take a dump while it booted on his 386. It was funny how long it took to come up, but once it did, it had the responsiveness of a videogame.
Imagine where we would be today if M$ hadn't split from that project. Linux itself may have never been an issue.
CAD in any form is a good call to make the list, not to mention any type of 3D rendering software used to make movies, or games.
CAD is partly responsible for the success of strip-malls, which are as bland and uniform on the computer screen as they are in real life. It's been a tremendous time-saver for the more industrial parts of the industry, not to mention making the Boeing 777 possible. However, some engineers, even younger ones, still do ink their drawings by hand, because there's no repeatability in the custom work they perform. I've inked structural drawings myself, for customers, and it's not even my field (supervised, of course, it's the law:)
The IMG tag was powerful enough to make most of us fall off our seats the first time we saw the graphical web. I'd hate to see you make the argument that photo essays aren't useful content, if anything, the web still *lacks* images...just look at the text-only articles that Slashdot routinely links to.
The bigger, show-stopping problem with HTML is that it was designed to be hand-coded. By 1999 or so, when scripting got popular, it took weeks of study to make a proper selectbox, or learn form handling. (Don't forget to trim leading spaces, or call a stack of urlencodes/decodes, or filter by length, or fill your own arrays, or that pesky/FORM, etc. etc. fun fun!)
In the context of scripting, these things should have been automatic. Instead, HTML 4.0 was standardized around that time, and still is. The updates that have been released since then, XML, Flash, etc. jump right over the problem instead of fixing the fundamental un-programmability of HTML.
"A badly animated TV with a buy button" is absolutely true. But it takes $100k in programmer salary just to get that much out of HTML. Maybe the hacked IMG tag is part of the problem, but I would say hacked tags are the rule and not the exception in this language.
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>Another question: Does DirecTV pull a TiVo and make content you have recorded on your purchased hardware expire?
On my series2, selecting "Keep until I delete" keeps it forever. So I'm not sure what you mean.
Hahaha. I just looked at that jpeg of the series 3. The only input is coax?! Not even yellow RCA? They must have done that on purpose.
Completely wipe the hard drive? Can he provide an example when this was necessary? Or even a theoretical example of how nascent files on a hard drive would assist in re-cracking the machine?
>plasma's burn-in vs. LCD's ruggedness,
That's a crock. Plasmas are made out of glass and steel while LCD's are made from plastic. LCD's are rugged? You can break an LCD by pushing it with your finger.
This article raises a valid point that for the price, LCD's are pretty damn good. But they're not superior to plasmas in all regards.
>I wouldn't be at all surprised if 90% of the functionality could not be provided by secure web servers and good quality wiki.
Exactly. This story isn't believable. Scroll down on page 2 of the article and you'll find this:
"The FBI's primary information management system, designed using 1980s technology already obsolete when installed in 1995,
See? This has happened before. I was hearing about this story in the early 90's. The FBI screwed up its computer system twice in a row, over a period of 30 years?? Come on.
> That's a direct line to the renter, which is how they actually caught the guys
And yet they had a direct line to the renter anyway. THink First.
Yep. Take a look at the case of Mark Bingham, who was GAY and called his mother using his last name. Various internet theories have circulated that calling by his last name was "his thing," which contradicts interviews with his mother showing her incredulity at the incident. Even if a gay boy had done such a thing, it doesn't explain why he repeated himself or why he ignored questions about the hijacking taking place in his presence.
The report claims Longhua's workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15-hours a day to make the iconic music player, the report claims. They earn £27 per month. The report reveals that the iPod nano is made in a five-storey factory (E3) that is secured by police officers.
But I thought the iPod nano was cool and could be traded for 2 grams of coke on the open market??
What am I missing?
As evidenced by Sept. 11's Flight 93, cell phones work perfectly well at high altitudes. So as the broadband capability of these phones increases, it's obvious that dedicated services such as Connexion are targeting a redundant market.
Yes. It's not an infection of any kind.
>The question is whether undetectable, binary liquid bombs are feasible. To be undetectable, they couldn't be nitrogen-based explosives, as that is what all the detectors sniff for.
Well according to Wiki's account of the incident, not only did Ramzi's bottle of nitroglycerin get past the explosive detectors, but the wires hidden in his shoe got past metal detectors because "At that time, metal detectors used in airports did not go down far enough to detect anything there."
Wiki also says he loaded 4 large drums of nitroglycerin on the van for the WTC bombing. I seriously have to wonder what chemical company would ship drums of nitroglycerin anywhere.
>In short, they were either bloody idiots, or they never really intended on blowing up the planes but to do something else.
You missed a rather obvious and more likely third scenario, which is that the terror plot never existed.
For example, in the 1993 WTC bombing, the terrorists returned twice for their deposit on the van used to carry the explosives. The official explanation, again, is that they were idiots.
The FBI also bragged about having a mole inside the 1993 operation, who somehow allowed the bombing to proceed anyway. So whether you believe the 1993 bombing was carried out by terrorists, or by the FBI, you can blame our officials for it either way, using their own words.
Great, so you know what I'm talking about.
"I know the truth about AIDS but I would rather troll." Oh boy.
I think, based on my personal, and arm-chair experience with the immune system (and my personal experience is rather extensive at this point), that the immune system is far more capable of battling cancers than bacteria. Cancer is expected in the lifecycle of any organism, so over thousands of years of evolution, the immune system is quite effective at shutting it down. Cancer's danger is in malignancy, or its ability to outpace the immune system with sheer growth, and nestle itself in obscure corners of the body where the immune system has trouble reaching.
On the other hand, there is evidence that the body is naturally filled with many types of bacteria, and that internal bacteria may represent a stable ecosystem. The success of antibiotics seems to support this, as antibiotics seem to do a job that the immune system cannot do. Of course, with facial acne it's clear that the immune system can fight bacteria, it just doesn't seem to be one of its strengths.
I wonder where all of this fits into standard immune theory. I opened up a book called "Intro to Immunology" over the weekend and it was all math.
Heh. There's definitely something to be said for how the corporate world co-opted the web and guided its developments from there on. Imagemaps were popular for a while, narrow (640, 800, etc) pages still are.
:)
The web went graphical around 1993 and by 1995 every corporate television ad had a url in it. So, I see your point
I agree, music theory is not as open-ended as the OP feels. Most of the medieval era through Mozart fits into two semesters, a third semester should take you through Beethoven, at least as far as the basic theory goes.
They have kids writing symphonies these days, because the construction of these symphonies can be made mechanical once you know the rules. Mozart was famous because he stretched the rules, which is good art.
What modern music would take four lifetimes to master? Classical music was solved early in the century, otherwise you wouldn't have b.s. like Schoenberg in the 1950's. Rock music has been solved for over ten years. Rock is essentially a classical form, so it only took a couple of generations to port that to a new set of instruments.
It's true that a good melody never goes out of style. However, there's only so many songs you can write in atonal harmony, using an alternating rhythm of 11 and 13, before you realize you're running out of ideas. Maybe the next great rock band will only write rhythms using prime numbers? lol. Cue Schoenberg, aka Deep Blue.
>As Chomsky said, "it isn't a coincidence that all children in a household learn a language, while none of the pets do so."
:)
Lol, that's a good quote, innate language was one of Chomsky's finer moments. However, I think the pets do learn language, they just don't have tongues. Try meowing back at a cat, and seeing the surprised look on his face when he realizes, because you are imitating him, that you didn't understand what he said
If you define language as an audible, message-based communication, then a whole bunch of species have it. What they don't have, as evidenced by research on apes, is grammar.
I think the American composer Charles Ives is an even better example, because the training his father gave him reflected very specifically in his later works. His dad was an experimental bandleader, and forced Charles to listen to atonal, semitonal, and overlapping music.
Semitonal and quatertonal music never really caught on, but for Charles Ives it was quite natural, because he was familiar with it as a child. However, overlapping music is an entire industry, we call it deejaying today.
>supposedly pre-school children can have the grasp of physics of a 14-year-old.
Mmm, I wonder about this. If preschool children are doing physics at a 9th or 10th grade level (nearly Advanced Placement), does this mean they get to graduate preschool and go get a job and an apartment?
Or is there something else we're supposed to be teaching kids besides Greek symbols?
Ever wonder why so many people have "Autism Awareness" magnets on the back of their cars? I like that new show Eureka on sci-fi channel, but their utopian vision of child prodigies is a nightmare to me.
AIDS has something to do with sex? That's a new one.
I thought destruction of the immune system happened, you know, when you overload your immune system. Like when you overload your insulin receptors by eating sugar, or overload your arteries by eating fried chicken, or overload your liver by drinking alcohol.
Sex destroys the immune system? How??
OT perhaps, but it deserves to be said, over and over, until people get it. Especially Bill Gates, who is misleading the world on a massive scale with this new venture of his.
Slashcode doesn't even make the top 20 blogging software list, although it's gotten popular anyway, probably because it's an unholy mess (and yes, I've looked at it). I suspect there's something comfortable about seeing the mess, as opposed to not seeing the non-mess in a better piece of software.
As to that bit of psychology, there's other examples I could give. Tcl's near-lack of syntax drives some people nuts, Lisp vs Unix is another example of willfully choosing the bug-filled road, which is taught in cs curricula as a mostly positive lesson.
He was referring to 1984's MacOS, which was pretty damn cool with its file menus and wysiwyg editor. In my high school english class, Macs were great, although over in my BASIC/Pascal class, they were useless compared to a PC or even an Apple ][.
I never got to try BeOS either, but I did try OS/2 and it gave me the chills. Real multitasking, real window-resizing. My friend used to take a dump while it booted on his 386. It was funny how long it took to come up, but once it did, it had the responsiveness of a videogame.
Imagine where we would be today if M$ hadn't split from that project. Linux itself may have never been an issue.
CAD in any form is a good call to make the list, not to mention any type of 3D rendering software used to make movies, or games.
:)
CAD is partly responsible for the success of strip-malls, which are as bland and uniform on the computer screen as they are in real life. It's been a tremendous time-saver for the more industrial parts of the industry, not to mention making the Boeing 777 possible. However, some engineers, even younger ones, still do ink their drawings by hand, because there's no repeatability in the custom work they perform. I've inked structural drawings myself, for customers, and it's not even my field (supervised, of course, it's the law
But have you ever had to sit through "Hello, World" in Java? That was my first Computer Science class in college, ever
(extremely long, hairy code)
Oh, and it has to be in a file called "Hello.java", or it won't work. Case sensitive, too. And, of course, they had to explain every last detail.
For what it's worth (since you aren't wrong), I think he was calling it a toy for this reason.
The IMG tag was powerful enough to make most of us fall off our seats the first time we saw the graphical web. I'd hate to see you make the argument that photo essays aren't useful content, if anything, the web still *lacks* images...just look at the text-only articles that Slashdot routinely links to.
/FORM, etc. etc. fun fun!)
The bigger, show-stopping problem with HTML is that it was designed to be hand-coded. By 1999 or so, when scripting got popular, it took weeks of study to make a proper selectbox, or learn form handling. (Don't forget to trim leading spaces, or call a stack of urlencodes/decodes, or filter by length, or fill your own arrays, or that pesky
In the context of scripting, these things should have been automatic. Instead, HTML 4.0 was standardized around that time, and still is. The updates that have been released since then, XML, Flash, etc. jump right over the problem instead of fixing the fundamental un-programmability of HTML.
"A badly animated TV with a buy button" is absolutely true. But it takes $100k in programmer salary just to get that much out of HTML. Maybe the hacked IMG tag is part of the problem, but I would say hacked tags are the rule and not the exception in this language.