It is very interesting to see this technology being used by several nations and across political spectra (free world, communist world..etc). Sure, China won't get it's satellite comm systems straight from the US, but I will bet you anything that western states allied against certain blocks of nations will direct limited amounts of tech into Chinese (and other) hands, through the French for example. The common tech may seem like an advantage to the enemy, but just think what could happen if all of China's ground coordination technology went offline during a major offensive against Vietnam, say. If I was a non-ally of the US of A, I would build my very own Skynet thank you very much.
Was gonna crack the ole Beowulf cluster joke, then realized it would take them till the year 2460 or something to build it. I honestly don't understand how such small number can be of analytical utility. It would be great if someone could volunteer to RTFA and inform us.
Why do you seem to have a fascination with the size of his or her genitals? Gender equality is very noble, but I think omitting the "her" would be OK in this particular case.
Excellent! I will now run off to the heretic Christian boards and show them which god exactly made us in his image. This is scientific proof! They can't deny his noodliness now!
Please understand that Christians are not the only people in the world with views on sexual ethics (..you insensitive clod!).
The dishonor/disliking/utter hatred inherent in many cultural dispositions on the issue of promiscuity all around the world, suggests that there may be an evolutionary benefit to be had from not engaging in this conduct. People everywhere, despite extremely divergent belief systems, seem to agree that long lasting relationships are acceptable premise for sex whereas stand-ups aren't. In some places, the father of the bride will stand guard outside her bedroom (where she is being.. screwed) yet the same father would violently attack that same girl and a lover if they were in a casual-relationship situation. Even in the western parts of the globe where people are now habituated to the erotic/sex culture thing, the feelings persist.
Indoctrination is one way to explain this, but given the similarities in entirely unrelated regions, I would say it's probably because long-term relationships have a far better chance of allowing the offspring to prosper and survive, whereas casual sex is generally a "mess". This is true until today, no matter how many condom adverts are put up and sex education classes are taught. Humans are stupid, impulsive beings for the most part. This instinct may be a good thing.
But they did give me this nice "re-elect Bush in 08" tee-shirt Well, I'm not very awake right now and for a few seconds I thought it was possible. Never been so pissed in my life. Don't do that again, man, seriously.
What a silly question! End users include the adult industry, who produce erotic materials and various other distractions that [raises voice here] cause stupid programmers to waste all their time jacking off and forget checking input string lengths thereby introducing remote root vulnerabilities in the OS kernels! Why did I never think of it before? Pure genius.
The question should be: which *type* of design flaws is thinking-about-the-users responsible for? And is it actually possible to overcome this?
Hey, I'm with you there. You guys have it easy in Australia, down here (good ole US of A) we WISH it was only about fighting corporations, rather than masses of extreme right wing/evangelist nutjobs. I never said voting changes anything, but in a democracy voting has a better chance of changing something than breaking the laws that exist because of the fact that we put democracy into use.
Also, nobody said that democracy is ideal in any way. If science was as fanatically reliant on public consensus, we would be in caves right now. But governance and morality is a different matter, and I am willing to give in to the (mistaken) majority if the only other option is to force my view on that majority. That's totalitarianism, and is doupleplusunnice. And if I violate the law, why shouldn't everybody else who is as convinced in their viewpoint as I?
Many share the view that democracy is a shitty system, but nobody has yet suggested viable alternatives. Maybe in the future we will have systems where pluralism is a more mature concept and points of view are "weighted" so as to defeat the herd-mentality problem, but for now, chaos cannot replace democracy while retaining civilization.
That's funny, I didn't know you had internet access in jail:)
On a serious note, this is NOT the thinking we need at all. It's the sort of thinking that will get you behind bars, that's all. Protesting against the system should be done by voting, not by violating the laws you disagree with. We cannot ignore the apparatus of democracy and then claim that the system failed us. I personally don't think we have become a totalitarian country (US) just yet, and if anybody was about to refute me by saying that, please consider that a solution to a problem of that size will likely need more than a little cannabis.
The server side scripts and all related software running behind the google.com engine is probably the greatest package of web software ever put together, in terms of usefulness. My 2 cents.
I, for one, am amused. I was not familiar with the ex-lover before: EIGHT MURDERS? And he's not really sure about number nine, because y'know, it was just another murder and he doesn't pay much attention to these things?
If Reiser really is the killer after this miracle, it will be the funniest murder ever(not that they're funny, but just saying). Bitch cheats on husband with a serial killer/psychopath. Leaves psycho but geek husband finds out anyway, geek husband reads TFM on homicide and kills wife before psycho gets to her, psycho infuriated to the degree of staunchly defending himself on this one murder (out of he doesn't know how many) in order to get back at husband for killing the woman first.
"Love, Robert" would indicate he wrote with a good post-sex mood. "Love Robert" indicates he wrote after a few beers and signing as "Robert Love" just means the cocaine was good:)
As far as the war, Richardson wants a complete withdrawal with ZERO residual troops by the end of 2007. If he is as smart as he seems, then he is lying. Nobody who has a clue about the Iraq situation can make a proposition like that and be serious about it. I've spent more than 17 years in the Middle-East, including about 10 in Kuwait. Anyone who understands the demographics and watches the news will know just how big a mistake that 2003 invasion was, and how much worse a blank withdrawal would be. It scares me to death that people are willing to do this, to just leave. It will be the worst civil war the world has ever seen. Millions will die in a few months. Minorities will get utterly wiped out. Instead of just causing chaos and some sectarian conflict, we would cause an immense regional catastrophe that will include full theocratic-type participation from Iran and others.
The solution (and I am not happy to say it) is to become ugly, not cowardly. Saddam knew the Shiite extremists well, and his actions were, apart from being disgustingly inhuman, very wise. Read up on them - the sect is entirely political in nature. Every nuance of their theocracy is politically motivated in their own terms. Their very existence is because of conflict over power. If the US army can destroy the shiite militias and al-qaeda branches WITHOUT excessive civilian damage, there will be an opportunity to install a puppet government with at least some peace and therefore gradual improvement. It's the best that can be done. Already the tribal elders are learning that the Americans are the only sane ones on the battlefield, and various sects are now BEGINNING to enlist their sons(previously characterless insurgents) in police forces. Pull this off, and we can withdraw with at least some hope of a reasonable future. But if we leave now, the world will never forget, they will never forgive us.
At most they would put half of us down there. Not sure if you were being funny or not, but here we go:
[Scene: Nazi Death Camp]
Prisoner 1: They're going to kill us all! Prisoner 2: Nonsense, you're demonizing them, try to get some rationale in there. If they kill us all, who will they have to sweep the bones into the ovens? At most, they would put half of us down there.
[scene cut]
Seriously though, GP is wrong. Capitalism and human greed are thankfully kept back somewhat due to free, civilized governments that respect human rights and therefore enforce minimum wages. The job market is also a competitive one. Corporations can be sued by civil rights NGO's and bad business sentiment is created when things get into the press(which is, again, is free). This is why the CEO of a company like Apple is taking time to respond to silly allegations.
From what I saw in the video, there's not enough of a match between the Chladni patterns and the designs on the cubes to convince me that this is what the sculptors intended Ok, but the statue figure holding the musical "scales" had his fingers on what appeared to be the exact notes that the cubes above him represented if they were cymatics. That makes it a little more convincing in my opinion, too many coincidences.
Even with all the bogus vocals added in the youtube video, this composition sucks in a major way. There's got to be something else to it. I'd hate to think these people mystified the world for 600 years with an encoded, slow version of a bad Evanescence flop. And dammit, I like classical!
On a sidenote, the cymatics were very interesting, and I believe I never encountered them before, despite a physics/maths - heavy education. The wikipedia article is sadly very brief, although the main point I guess is the physical effect of harmonic wave functions.
Slashdotters get used to security being absolute because we work with computers, where we tend to put all of our data eggs in one password basket. Security of physical objects is much more about making it inconvenient, not impossible, to steal something. I disagree - computer security is far more geared towards the "best possible" than absolute security. Passwords can ALL be broken, given enough time, same for anything involving encryption. Similarly ALL systems can be hacked, even if they are inside the most secure network. Getting inside NASA HQ from the web is a lot easier than getting in there with an army. What we try to achieve is have a level of difficulty that thwarts most attackers (hence the word "hardening" ) while at the same time we rely on the fact that not everyone has a supercomputer available to play crypto-analysis tricks with.
You should be LESS forgiving of slashdotters, in my opinion.
He probably means "overtly difficult, obscure, and philosophical" in a mildly humorous way i.e he's trying to say it's not worth all the haggle. I have to agree: I find reading the summary to be a waste of time, imagine the people actually involved.
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It is very interesting to see this technology being used by several nations and across political spectra (free world, communist world..etc). Sure, China won't get it's satellite comm systems straight from the US, but I will bet you anything that western states allied against certain blocks of nations will direct limited amounts of tech into Chinese (and other) hands, through the French for example. The common tech may seem like an advantage to the enemy, but just think what could happen if all of China's ground coordination technology went offline during a major offensive against Vietnam, say. If I was a non-ally of the US of A, I would build my very own Skynet thank you very much.
Was gonna crack the ole Beowulf cluster joke, then realized it would take them till the year 2460 or something to build it. I honestly don't understand how such small number can be of analytical utility. It would be great if someone could volunteer to RTFA and inform us.
So can I have your Hummer now please? I want to learn the hard way :)
Lucas returns; so successful
was the abomination of theater, that
T.V too must suffer
Mod parent informative.
If only the world knew what happens on slashdot..
Excellent! I will now run off to the heretic Christian boards and show them which god exactly made us in his image. This is scientific proof! They can't deny his noodliness now!
Please understand that Christians are not the only people in the world with views on sexual ethics (..you insensitive clod!).
The dishonor/disliking/utter hatred inherent in many cultural dispositions on the issue of promiscuity all around the world, suggests that there may be an evolutionary benefit to be had from not engaging in this conduct. People everywhere, despite extremely divergent belief systems, seem to agree that long lasting relationships are acceptable premise for sex whereas stand-ups aren't. In some places, the father of the bride will stand guard outside her bedroom (where she is being.. screwed) yet the same father would violently attack that same girl and a lover if they were in a casual-relationship situation. Even in the western parts of the globe where people are now habituated to the erotic/sex culture thing, the feelings persist.
Indoctrination is one way to explain this, but given the similarities in entirely unrelated regions, I would say it's probably because long-term relationships have a far better chance of allowing the offspring to prosper and survive, whereas casual sex is generally a "mess". This is true until today, no matter how many condom adverts are put up and sex education classes are taught. Humans are stupid, impulsive beings for the most part. This instinct may be a good thing.
What a silly question! End users include the adult industry, who produce erotic materials and various other distractions that [raises voice here] cause stupid programmers to waste all their time jacking off and forget checking input string lengths thereby introducing remote root vulnerabilities in the OS kernels! Why did I never think of it before? Pure genius.
The question should be: which *type* of design flaws is thinking-about-the-users responsible for? And is it actually possible to overcome this?
Because I love you all:
http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0703059
They are the race of cheese-nibbling, cowardly surrender monkeys descended from Europeans :)
j/k of course, Europe (and world history) without France would be an absurdity.
Hey, I'm with you there. You guys have it easy in Australia, down here (good ole US of A) we WISH it was only about fighting corporations, rather than masses of extreme right wing/evangelist nutjobs. I never said voting changes anything, but in a democracy voting has a better chance of changing something than breaking the laws that exist because of the fact that we put democracy into use.
Also, nobody said that democracy is ideal in any way. If science was as fanatically reliant on public consensus, we would be in caves right now. But governance and morality is a different matter, and I am willing to give in to the (mistaken) majority if the only other option is to force my view on that majority. That's totalitarianism, and is doupleplusunnice. And if I violate the law, why shouldn't everybody else who is as convinced in their viewpoint as I?
Many share the view that democracy is a shitty system, but nobody has yet suggested viable alternatives. Maybe in the future we will have systems where pluralism is a more mature concept and points of view are "weighted" so as to defeat the herd-mentality problem, but for now, chaos cannot replace democracy while retaining civilization.
That's funny, I didn't know you had internet access in jail :)
On a serious note, this is NOT the thinking we need at all. It's the sort of thinking that will get you behind bars, that's all. Protesting against the system should be done by voting, not by violating the laws you disagree with. We cannot ignore the apparatus of democracy and then claim that the system failed us. I personally don't think we have become a totalitarian country (US) just yet, and if anybody was about to refute me by saying that, please consider that a solution to a problem of that size will likely need more than a little cannabis.
The server side scripts and all related software running behind the google.com engine is probably the greatest package of web software ever put together, in terms of usefulness. My 2 cents.
I, for one, am amused. I was not familiar with the ex-lover before: EIGHT MURDERS? And he's not really sure about number nine, because y'know, it was just another murder and he doesn't pay much attention to these things?
If Reiser really is the killer after this miracle, it will be the funniest murder ever(not that they're funny, but just saying). Bitch cheats on husband with a serial killer/psychopath. Leaves psycho but geek husband finds out anyway, geek husband reads TFM on homicide and kills wife before psycho gets to her, psycho infuriated to the degree of staunchly defending himself on this one murder (out of he doesn't know how many) in order to get back at husband for killing the woman first.
In the good old hippie days:
:)
"Love, Robert" would indicate he wrote with a good post-sex mood. "Love Robert" indicates he wrote after a few beers and signing as "Robert Love" just means the cocaine was good
Is posting lame stories about whether "online rape" is a crime, a crime? I think it is.
The solution (and I am not happy to say it) is to become ugly, not cowardly. Saddam knew the Shiite extremists well, and his actions were, apart from being disgustingly inhuman, very wise. Read up on them - the sect is entirely political in nature. Every nuance of their theocracy is politically motivated in their own terms. Their very existence is because of conflict over power. If the US army can destroy the shiite militias and al-qaeda branches WITHOUT excessive civilian damage, there will be an opportunity to install a puppet government with at least some peace and therefore gradual improvement. It's the best that can be done. Already the tribal elders are learning that the Americans are the only sane ones on the battlefield, and various sects are now BEGINNING to enlist their sons(previously characterless insurgents) in police forces. Pull this off, and we can withdraw with at least some hope of a reasonable future. But if we leave now, the world will never forget, they will never forgive us.
[Scene: Nazi Death Camp]
Prisoner 1: They're going to kill us all!
Prisoner 2: Nonsense, you're demonizing them, try to get some rationale in there. If they kill us all, who will they have to sweep the bones into the ovens? At most, they would put half of us down there.
[scene cut]
Seriously though, GP is wrong. Capitalism and human greed are thankfully kept back somewhat due to free, civilized governments that respect human rights and therefore enforce minimum wages. The job market is also a competitive one. Corporations can be sued by civil rights NGO's and bad business sentiment is created when things get into the press(which is, again, is free). This is why the CEO of a company like Apple is taking time to respond to silly allegations.
Even with all the bogus vocals added in the youtube video, this composition sucks in a major way. There's got to be something else to it. I'd hate to think these people mystified the world for 600 years with an encoded, slow version of a bad Evanescence flop. And dammit, I like classical!
On a sidenote, the cymatics were very interesting, and I believe I never encountered them before, despite a physics/maths - heavy education. The wikipedia article is sadly very brief, although the main point I guess is the physical effect of harmonic wave functions.
You should be LESS forgiving of slashdotters, in my opinion.
I don't know if you were kidding about the fingers, but it's already happened for luxury car owners!
He probably means "overtly difficult, obscure, and philosophical" in a mildly humorous way i.e he's trying to say it's not worth all the haggle. I have to agree: I find reading the summary to be a waste of time, imagine the people actually involved.