Well sure, the contents probably will be known in time. But all I'm saying is, until you do know don't be so quick to assume what's in there. You know what happens when you assume things...
Step back out of the land of speculation. What is known about the insurance file:
* It's 1.4 GB * It's encrypted with AES-256 * If anybody has the key they haven't published it.
What you can reasonably infer: It's information the gov. doesn't want released, providing Assange with "insurance".
Unless you have AES-256 goggles that let you peer through the encryption I would hesitate to comment in further detail on the contents of the file and therefore the moral character of the man who published it.
8/10/2009: I haven't really been keeping up with API changes in the GIMP, or with emails people send me. If you emailed me and I haven't replied, I'm sorry. If you want to take over as maintainer of this project, email me. Other emails will probably continue to sit unread in my inbox.
Dropping anything normal for 24 hours is weird. I had a friend in high school (one of them cross-country folks) who would run a few miles each morning before school. One day he didn't, and there was a marked difference in his personality until he ran home (a distance of 5 miles) afterwards. He seemed mentally slower to respond than normal, yet craved physical activity. Was he "addicted" to running?
Actually, he might have been mildly so. Running makes you feel good because it stimulates the release of endorphins (a portmanteau of its earlier name, "endogenous morphine"). A runner's high actually is a high.
Great idea. Make the students waste their time fucking around just getting the thing up and running so they can start studying while every day the quarter slips away more and more. A virtual image is a great idea - hardware incompatibilities can happen at any level of the system (kernel, X.org, HAL/DeviceKit/CUPS/SANE regressions, etc, etc), so I think a good working knowledge of Linux is probably a prerequisite to troubleshooting hardware incompatibilities. Let the students actually understand what the kernel is and how modules work before making them go fetch sources to compile kernel modules.
I’ll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn’t affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can’t possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don’t account for dark matter.
This will change the ratio of luminous matter:dark matter but not eliminate dark matter entirely.
Not that you said that it would necessarily get rid of dark matter, but it was a conclusion that suggested itself from the summary's wording.
Very correct, although of course now that the argument that a web cache doesn't constitute possession has been made in one court system it might be possible to adapt the argument for another, and hopefully it will happen. It's utterly insane that somebody should be held legally liable for the contents of their cache.
'That's far too young to be thrown into an environment with college students who are about 18 to 23 years old.... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,' says Mary Anderson, headmaster of Pinkerton Academy."
Speaking as a 19-year old who is attending a community college with a high enrolment of under-18's (via the Running Start program) I can say with full confidence that a lot of them are quite capable of handling it. They tend to place into the same classes as most freshmen anyways, they do about as well, and most of them adjust quite easily to the community college culture.
CC is easy stuff, not much harder than high school in the first place. I think this is a great move - it's at least worth a try.
This is why we should care. I know that it's clichéd, but these companies care nothing about you, or about music, or about the well-being of the world in which they operate. They are wholly evil, in a way that almost no other business is.
What other companies _actually_ care about the consumer, the product they sell, or the world in which they operate? Modern society boils all of business down to a search for short-term profit. Consumers only matter because they have wallets, products only matter because they need to open the consumer's wallets somehow, and the world at large only matters when it begins being bad for business.
What sexist crap! I want lesbian porn for lesbians.
The market of lesbian porn for lesbians is, I imagine, pretty small in comparison to the market for lesbian porn for heterosexual males. The whole porn industry is geared towards what will sell to the maximum number of people for the lowest investment of time, effort, and/or bodily fluids.
It's all about troop movement. Where did England colonize? America, India, and East Africa. All accessible via sea-routes. And for the more inconveniently-located colonies (East Africa) it was a neat coincidence that they weren't all that technologically advanced or well-organized, so it's not like they exactly needed many troops.
But getting troops to Russia is a bit of a tough nut to crack when you're in France, especially when the Black Sea route is carved up between Turks and Russians, and the northerly sea-route just sucks ass all-around. Pretty much the best way to invade Russia (not that there's any good way to do it: but probably the least-worst) from France is overland, and that means you have all of Europe to wade through. And countries are notorious for not being all that excited about just letting foreign troops waltz right through.
Though it's not exactly like Napoleon started his campaigns with the intent of conquering Russia; he got drunk with power and success after conquering or bringing under his influence most of Europe, and, realizing the troop-movement problem was solved and always being game for bringing more land under his direct control, figured Russia might make a good addition to the French empire.
Um, do they have to pay? I don't see that anywhere. Just that Apple was affected by the scam. And I would be surprised if Apple was in on it, since it seems like Apple would have a vested interest in keeping LCD prices low, not high, what with it not being an LCD manufacturer.
I see no reason why the phenomenon couldn't be repeated 10+ years later with a more advanced tool.
Then you haven't seen the pictures of this thing, because there are no clouds on which to project an image.
My vote's on the rocket hypothesis. It's simpler than supposing somebody managed to project an image of spirals onto an invisible screen in the sky for no discernible reason.
No, I'm also judging it by what I saw in the cities and medium-sized towns scattered across the subcontinent. The little village was just a particularly poignant example for me.
I've been to India. Some of the clearest cell reception I got was in this little wide-spot in the road in this little valley cradled in the foothills of the Himalayas. They had no police protection (for all the good that does you over there), they didn't have consistent electricity, they drew their water from the river and their idea of modern sanitation was a porcelain hole in the ground and not looking at the riverbanks where they dumped their garbage, but they had damn fine cell reception.
That country's higher-ups have some serious priorities problems.
Because people with any taste and sensitivity to such issues whatsoever know that it's racially-charged to use the symbolism of a monkey to represent a black person. In the name of not looking like a racist pig most people would just choose a different way to caricaturize the President.
The funny thing is, people criticize Obama all the time without being called racists. It's when they pull in the racist imagery that it becomes racist.
Sure is, but there's no solid evidence that Christianity is right. Being able to accept out-of-the-box thinking is different than just uncritically accepting the first odd idea that comes along.
Nature will adjust. The question is: will it adjust in such a way that's amenable to human civilization? After the Sumerians' unsustainable irrigation techniques turned their fields to salt pans and ruined agriculture, they had no choice but to abandon the cities. Lucky for them, there were other cities they could flee to. Where exactly are we going to flee to when every ecosystem on earth is disrupted by climate change?
And, not that it necessarily matters because nobody is denying that some places on Earth are getting colder (only that the number of places which will get warmer significantly outnumber the places that will get colder - hence,/average/ rise in temperature) where exactly in India did we see snow? The north is not particularly warm. If you see snow in north Uttarakhand that's one thing. Snow in Kerala is another thing entirely.
The reason your customers won't be interested in Chrome OS as a replacement for 7 is the same reason pickup-truck drivers aren't interested in motorcycles as replacements.
It's scratching a different itch, although I'm a little skeptical that anyone's seriously itching hard for a minimal OS capable of running only a web browser.
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I found A Scanner Darkly melodramatic and underwhelming anyway.
Well sure, the contents probably will be known in time. But all I'm saying is, until you do know don't be so quick to assume what's in there. You know what happens when you assume things...
Step back out of the land of speculation. What is known about the insurance file:
* It's 1.4 GB
* It's encrypted with AES-256
* If anybody has the key they haven't published it.
What you can reasonably infer: It's information the gov. doesn't want released, providing Assange with "insurance".
Unless you have AES-256 goggles that let you peer through the encryption I would hesitate to comment in further detail on the contents of the file and therefore the moral character of the man who published it.
> apocalypse
Well, if uncapped it is bound to start burning at some time, isn't?
Especially since part of our solution is lighting it on fire...
8/10/2009: I haven't really been keeping up with API changes in the GIMP, or with emails people send me. If you emailed me and I haven't replied, I'm sorry. If you want to take over as maintainer of this project, email me. Other emails will probably continue to sit unread in my inbox.
That would be as of August last year...
Dropping anything normal for 24 hours is weird. I had a friend in high school (one of them cross-country folks) who would run a few miles each morning before school. One day he didn't, and there was a marked difference in his personality until he ran home (a distance of 5 miles) afterwards. He seemed mentally slower to respond than normal, yet craved physical activity. Was he "addicted" to running?
Actually, he might have been mildly so. Running makes you feel good because it stimulates the release of endorphins (a portmanteau of its earlier name, "endogenous morphine"). A runner's high actually is a high.
Great idea. Make the students waste their time fucking around just getting the thing up and running so they can start studying while every day the quarter slips away more and more. A virtual image is a great idea - hardware incompatibilities can happen at any level of the system (kernel, X.org, HAL/DeviceKit/CUPS/SANE regressions, etc, etc), so I think a good working knowledge of Linux is probably a prerequisite to troubleshooting hardware incompatibilities. Let the students actually understand what the kernel is and how modules work before making them go fetch sources to compile kernel modules.
I’ll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn’t affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can’t possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don’t account for dark matter.
This will change the ratio of luminous matter:dark matter but not eliminate dark matter entirely.
Not that you said that it would necessarily get rid of dark matter, but it was a conclusion that suggested itself from the summary's wording.
Very correct, although of course now that the argument that a web cache doesn't constitute possession has been made in one court system it might be possible to adapt the argument for another, and hopefully it will happen. It's utterly insane that somebody should be held legally liable for the contents of their cache.
'That's far too young to be thrown into an environment with college students who are about 18 to 23 years old. ... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,' says Mary Anderson, headmaster of Pinkerton Academy."
Speaking as a 19-year old who is attending a community college with a high enrolment of under-18's (via the Running Start program) I can say with full confidence that a lot of them are quite capable of handling it. They tend to place into the same classes as most freshmen anyways, they do about as well, and most of them adjust quite easily to the community college culture.
CC is easy stuff, not much harder than high school in the first place. I think this is a great move - it's at least worth a try.
This is why we should care. I know that it's clichéd, but these companies care nothing about you, or about music, or about the well-being of the world in which they operate. They are wholly evil, in a way that almost no other business is.
What other companies _actually_ care about the consumer, the product they sell, or the world in which they operate? Modern society boils all of business down to a search for short-term profit. Consumers only matter because they have wallets, products only matter because they need to open the consumer's wallets somehow, and the world at large only matters when it begins being bad for business.
What sexist crap! I want lesbian porn for lesbians.
The market of lesbian porn for lesbians is, I imagine, pretty small in comparison to the market for lesbian porn for heterosexual males. The whole porn industry is geared towards what will sell to the maximum number of people for the lowest investment of time, effort, and/or bodily fluids.
It's all about troop movement. Where did England colonize? America, India, and East Africa. All accessible via sea-routes. And for the more inconveniently-located colonies (East Africa) it was a neat coincidence that they weren't all that technologically advanced or well-organized, so it's not like they exactly needed many troops.
But getting troops to Russia is a bit of a tough nut to crack when you're in France, especially when the Black Sea route is carved up between Turks and Russians, and the northerly sea-route just sucks ass all-around. Pretty much the best way to invade Russia (not that there's any good way to do it: but probably the least-worst) from France is overland, and that means you have all of Europe to wade through. And countries are notorious for not being all that excited about just letting foreign troops waltz right through.
Though it's not exactly like Napoleon started his campaigns with the intent of conquering Russia; he got drunk with power and success after conquering or bringing under his influence most of Europe, and, realizing the troop-movement problem was solved and always being game for bringing more land under his direct control, figured Russia might make a good addition to the French empire.
Um, do they have to pay? I don't see that anywhere. Just that Apple was affected by the scam. And I would be surprised if Apple was in on it, since it seems like Apple would have a vested interest in keeping LCD prices low, not high, what with it not being an LCD manufacturer.
1. Something like a screensaver does not need root privileges to install, it can be unpacked to the user directory with just user rights.
FTFS:
'Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous 'waterfall' screensaver .deb file
Idle question: how accurate is it to describe a screensaver as "innocuous" if it's been infected with malware?
I see no reason why the phenomenon couldn't be repeated 10+ years later with a more advanced tool.
Then you haven't seen the pictures of this thing, because there are no clouds on which to project an image.
My vote's on the rocket hypothesis. It's simpler than supposing somebody managed to project an image of spirals onto an invisible screen in the sky for no discernible reason.
Yes, but the story isn't in German, is it? And if it were, they'd probably refer to the German parliament by its proper name, Bundestag.
No, you have it backwards. People place a lot of value on it because that's the only Amendment they can remember.
No, I'm also judging it by what I saw in the cities and medium-sized towns scattered across the subcontinent. The little village was just a particularly poignant example for me.
I've been to India. Some of the clearest cell reception I got was in this little wide-spot in the road in this little valley cradled in the foothills of the Himalayas. They had no police protection (for all the good that does you over there), they didn't have consistent electricity, they drew their water from the river and their idea of modern sanitation was a porcelain hole in the ground and not looking at the riverbanks where they dumped their garbage, but they had damn fine cell reception.
That country's higher-ups have some serious priorities problems.
Since when have BSD's been known as primarily "desktop" operating systems?
Because people with any taste and sensitivity to such issues whatsoever know that it's racially-charged to use the symbolism of a monkey to represent a black person. In the name of not looking like a racist pig most people would just choose a different way to caricaturize the President.
The funny thing is, people criticize Obama all the time without being called racists. It's when they pull in the racist imagery that it becomes racist.
Sure is, but there's no solid evidence that Christianity is right. Being able to accept out-of-the-box thinking is different than just uncritically accepting the first odd idea that comes along.
Nature will adjust. The question is: will it adjust in such a way that's amenable to human civilization? After the Sumerians' unsustainable irrigation techniques turned their fields to salt pans and ruined agriculture, they had no choice but to abandon the cities. Lucky for them, there were other cities they could flee to. Where exactly are we going to flee to when every ecosystem on earth is disrupted by climate change?
/average/ rise in temperature) where exactly in India did we see snow? The north is not particularly warm. If you see snow in north Uttarakhand that's one thing. Snow in Kerala is another thing entirely.
And, not that it necessarily matters because nobody is denying that some places on Earth are getting colder (only that the number of places which will get warmer significantly outnumber the places that will get colder - hence,
The reason your customers won't be interested in Chrome OS as a replacement for 7 is the same reason pickup-truck drivers aren't interested in motorcycles as replacements.
It's scratching a different itch, although I'm a little skeptical that anyone's seriously itching hard for a minimal OS capable of running only a web browser.