Thank you for that. I'm going to endorse this great piece of musical innovation at my workplace, and will turn the volume up all the way.
On a more serious note, you are all very wrong. Art can be defined, albeit with a lacking definition, just as art can be judged by a panel of professionals. In this age of open source and internet tubes you might be led to think that it is public opinion (the "audience") that can determine what is and what isn't art - but hold on. In the case of 4'33" people may have commented on the artistic innovation of the idea, but that is like getting +5 Interesting instead of +5 Informative, when your aim is informative. Music can be defined, because music has a language. Art in general is a product of higher level human cognitive thought - abstraction of sematics into audible/visible elements while maintaining direction so as to preserve meaning. Video games involve art, their storytelling is art, their programming is artistic, their music is art...
But the player's actions take that all away.
If it has no meaning, no purpose, no semantic goal behind its perception, then it is not art.
What happened to all that microkernel superiority now? A bunch of geeks have just DOSed your wonderful servers while eating lunch. I'm not trolling you, O masterful Tanenbaum, but surely thou must be monolithically embarassed?
That was probably the most insightful thing I've read all week. Why do people like to make up random, shitty postulations about things so clearly out of their reach in terms of empirical evidence? Why can't they just sit down for a while and wait until something has really been done worth talking about, and maybe throw in some mathematically verifiable hypotheses?
Exactly, the different is in their head. There is no difference *at all* between "available" and announced on the internet. You have a set of documents accesible via a port and a protocol. Why are people always putting their nasty little secrets online if they don't want to be caught with them? If you must, use a diary, or send email to your friends, or restrict access by setting up your own blog/site with password protection. Then you can claim your privacy has been invaded if the information leaks, and you can in fact sue people, for big money.
But don't put things up for the world to see then get shocked that they really did see them. We know you are not all comp.scientists and stuff, but for Gates' sake this is slashdot!
So is a floppy disk. But cells have this tiny little problem of being organic, and having the information about the organism of which they are part encoded in molecular structures that have not been fully understood. Cell division (into various types) is a hot topic, and stem cell research is focused on this right now I believe. While full control over DNA may be partly possible, the arbitrary environment of organic cells continously acts on that DNA to produce strange results. This happens during embryonic develpoment, and apparently (in cancer) all the time.
As for "evolution's answer", I think it is pretty damn good for now. Who knows what would happen if older specimens didn't weaken and die?
Yes but in that case a handwriting expert in a court of law will prove your forgery (due to different speeds/areas of emphasis), whereas in the original poster's scheme there is nothing they can do.
You have the perfect crime, execpt the paper is of a special type, so courts may require this new material to be excluded from printing all official documents.
Interconnected digital technology means networks, and networks mean MS servers and MS boxes, which means internet, and the internet means hackers and hackers would no doubt like to say:
What. You actually think we're gonna apply? Dude you're crazy. 100% nuts. Hawking gives out too many brain waves..dealing with that kind of mind on a daily basis is possibly lethal. I spent the last couple of years with hapless creeps who can't program in C, and now you want me to work with Stephen Hawking?
This must be the first brain-related discovery that didn't involve mice! Ever! What have you done to the mice? Those rodents have provided their biological services to us all those years and they just get dumped in the end when we start making important cognitive psychology discoveries? Mice have concepts too..cat..cheese..maze..electric shock.
I think stores should do all the freakish Big-Brother stuff they want to protect their valuable commodities, but people need to be informed. If the methods are effective, they will work whether people know or not (perhaps even better if they do)- if not, they will fail once a thief gets wind of the details.
You can't get software security by hiding your code, and you can't get store security by keeping us in the dark.
P.S on RFIDs, I just walked out of a library with an RFID tag that failed to register with the checkout machine as borrowed, but allowed me to get past the front door. Since I was informed about the tag (standard anyway, but for arguments' sake) I went and reported it. But if they were playing wise-ass on us, I would have kept the book for ever and ever. And ever.
I am very happy with these efforts. MAC filtering is one of the best ways to keep your bandwidth for yourself.
If you can make sure MAC A is actually A, include-only filtering rules will guarantee even the "advanced" kiddies (those who know what wireless MAC spoofing is )will have trouble downloading pr0n from your handsomely-paid-for broadband.
But how on earth are you going to eliminate signal analysis and a database of signatures (assuming every single card is different, even from chipsets in its own batch)?
This worked when we bombed Hiroshima, when Saddam gassed the kurds..but it does not work everywhere. OF course, we are assuming here that killing scores of thousands of innocent people in another country can serve as acceptable means to get "peace" at home. The assumption is morbid, inhuman, and utterly wrong.
In many cases it doesn't work. The Muslim world would not stand by and look on with grief if we bombed a holy site in response to a few terrorists who represent no culture or religion. The Muslim world would go to war, the least of that being a depravation of energy(oil) to the west for the next 200 years or so. Russian nukes will be bought, smuggled into New York, and..?
Similarly, Lebanon did not succumb to Israel after 1800 civilians were killed, their homes and infrstructure bombed with laser-guided missiles. What they did is fight back, and they are more interested in that now than ever before.
You can only repress people with state-terror when the logic behind your attack is understandable (e.g a dictator asserting power) and they can live with it.
Well that's not nice now, is it? At least they're not hurting anyone with their printer ink business.
Technological innovation = huge evil corporation doing research = products that will pwn a consumer/rip him off/ruin his shit. Windows was marketed as innovation, now look where that got us.
As others have suggested, anybody who is seriously affected by this bout of judicial idiocy can possibly sue for defamation.
Lets take the lost-jobs scenario: You realise that not only have you lost your job to this stupid database, but you have been defamed among your colleagues and have trouble getting good positions elsewhere in companies that do research on their candidates. You are unemployed for a year due to this, and can prove it.
What to do? A million dollar law-suit. IF they keep on making stupid laws, let them pay for it.
I'm saying it's unreasonable to compare a bunch of cowboys that do stuff for fun with a few paid employees along with them to JPL making robots and sending them to Mars.
You're a hardware geek aren't you?:)
The boys at NASA send their stuff to Mars, but guys at Mozilla (paid or not) send their stuff to China. Besides, when Mars loses its planet status you will have made a moot point.
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Thank you for that. I'm going to endorse this great piece of musical innovation at my workplace, and will turn the volume up all the way.
On a more serious note, you are all very wrong. Art can be defined, albeit with a lacking definition, just as art can be judged by a panel of professionals. In this age of open source and internet tubes you might be led to think that it is public opinion (the "audience") that can determine what is and what isn't art - but hold on. In the case of 4'33" people may have commented on the artistic innovation of the idea, but that is like getting +5 Interesting instead of +5 Informative, when your aim is informative. Music can be defined, because music has a language. Art in general is a product of higher level human cognitive thought - abstraction of sematics into audible/visible elements while maintaining direction so as to preserve meaning. Video games involve art, their storytelling is art, their programming is artistic, their music is art...
But the player's actions take that all away.
If it has no meaning, no purpose, no semantic goal behind its perception, then it is not art.
or something.
What happened to all that microkernel superiority now? A bunch of geeks have just DOSed your wonderful servers while eating lunch. I'm not trolling you, O masterful Tanenbaum, but surely thou must be monolithically embarassed?
And Pledge. You can't go wrong with Pledge.
It's great to have an imagination, and to reflect all the time..in fact, it's the main driving force in human intelligence.
However, publishing something in a magazine is very different from pondering about it over breakfast.
That was probably the most insightful thing I've read all week. Why do people like to make up random, shitty postulations about things so clearly out of their reach in terms of empirical evidence? Why can't they just sit down for a while and wait until something has really been done worth talking about, and maybe throw in some mathematically verifiable hypotheses?
Human beings are complete a-holes, in my opinion.
Exactly, the different is in their head. There is no difference *at all* between "available" and announced on the internet. You have a set of documents accesible via a port and a protocol. Why are people always putting their nasty little secrets online if they don't want to be caught with them? If you must, use a diary, or send email to your friends, or restrict access by setting up your own blog/site with password protection. Then you can claim your privacy has been invaded if the information leaks, and you can in fact sue people, for big money.
But don't put things up for the world to see then get shocked that they really did see them. We know you are not all comp.scientists and stuff, but for Gates' sake this is slashdot!
Cells, after all, is just a stroage medium.
So is a floppy disk. But cells have this tiny little problem of being organic, and having the information about the organism of which they are part encoded in molecular structures that have not been fully understood. Cell division (into various types) is a hot topic, and stem cell research is focused on this right now I believe. While full control over DNA may be partly possible, the arbitrary environment of organic cells continously acts on that DNA to produce strange results. This happens during embryonic develpoment, and apparently (in cancer) all the time.
As for "evolution's answer", I think it is pretty damn good for now. Who knows what would happen if older specimens didn't weaken and die?
Grand-Parent was joking. or something.
Yes but in that case a handwriting expert in a court of law will prove your forgery (due to different speeds/areas of emphasis), whereas in the original poster's scheme there is nothing they can do.
You have the perfect crime, execpt the paper is of a special type, so courts may require this new material to be excluded from printing all official documents.
Interconnected digital technology means networks, and networks mean MS servers and MS boxes, which means internet, and the internet means hackers and hackers would no doubt like to say:
All your sk00l are belong to us!
Imagine a .... posting like this gets by without a single "beowulf cluster" comment. Wouldn't that be something.
death of privacy -> even more porn.
What? Not that privacy? Well then like you said, never mind. no big deal.
What. You actually think we're gonna apply? Dude you're crazy. 100% nuts. Hawking gives out too many brain waves..dealing with that kind of mind on a daily basis is possibly lethal. I spent the last couple of years with hapless creeps who can't program in C, and now you want me to work with Stephen Hawking?
This must be the first brain-related discovery that didn't involve mice! Ever! What have you done to the mice? Those rodents have provided their biological services to us all those years and they just get dumped in the end when we start making important cognitive psychology discoveries? Mice have concepts too..cat..cheese..maze..electric shock.
Is intel involved in this project?
I think stores should do all the freakish Big-Brother stuff they want to protect their valuable commodities, but people need to be informed. If the methods are effective, they will work whether people know or not (perhaps even better if they do)- if not, they will fail once a thief gets wind of the details.
You can't get software security by hiding your code, and you can't get store security by keeping us in the dark.
P.S on RFIDs, I just walked out of a library with an RFID tag that failed to register with the checkout machine as borrowed, but allowed me to get past the front door. Since I was informed about the tag (standard anyway, but for arguments' sake) I went and reported it. But if they were playing wise-ass on us, I would have kept the book for ever and ever. And ever.
But what if we keep coming back and taking $40 items at a time? On principle you can't touch us!
RC = ready to release unless fatal bugs found (ie. data loss, crashing)
Are you sure you want to stand by this statement? Hint: We are talking about a Microsoft OS.
I am very happy with these efforts. MAC filtering is one of the best ways to keep your bandwidth for yourself.
If you can make sure MAC A is actually A, include-only filtering rules will guarantee even the "advanced" kiddies (those who know what wireless MAC spoofing is )will have trouble downloading pr0n from your handsomely-paid-for broadband.
But how on earth are you going to eliminate signal analysis and a database of signatures (assuming every single card is different, even from chipsets in its own batch)?
In Egypt, they use the word "customer" interchangably with "sucker"/"easy picking", probably due to how shop owners view clueless customers.
Just remember, customer = sucker.
This worked when we bombed Hiroshima, when Saddam gassed the kurds..but it does not work everywhere. OF course, we are assuming here that killing scores of thousands of innocent people in another country can serve as acceptable means to get "peace" at home. The assumption is morbid, inhuman, and utterly wrong.
In many cases it doesn't work. The Muslim world would not stand by and look on with grief if we bombed a holy site in response to a few terrorists who represent no culture or religion. The Muslim world would go to war, the least of that being a depravation of energy(oil) to the west for the next 200 years or so. Russian nukes will be bought, smuggled into New York, and..?
Similarly, Lebanon did not succumb to Israel after 1800 civilians were killed, their homes and infrstructure bombed with laser-guided missiles. What they did is fight back, and they are more interested in that now than ever before.
You can only repress people with state-terror when the logic behind your attack is understandable (e.g a dictator asserting power) and they can live with it.
Well that's not nice now, is it? At least they're not hurting anyone with their printer ink business.
Technological innovation = huge evil corporation doing research = products that will pwn a consumer/rip him off/ruin his shit. Windows was marketed as innovation, now look where that got us.
You should be old enough to know this.
you can finish it.
As others have suggested, anybody who is seriously affected by this bout of judicial idiocy can possibly sue for defamation.
Lets take the lost-jobs scenario: You realise that not only have you lost your job to this stupid database, but you have been defamed among your colleagues and have trouble getting good positions elsewhere in companies that do research on their candidates. You are unemployed for a year due to this, and can prove it.
What to do? A million dollar law-suit. IF they keep on making stupid laws, let them pay for it.
What? You've never suffered from static electric shocks? I prefer working with dangerous marine animals to working with ATI cards.
I'm saying it's unreasonable to compare a bunch of cowboys that do stuff for fun with a few paid employees along with them to JPL making robots and sending them to Mars.
:)
You're a hardware geek aren't you?
The boys at NASA send their stuff to Mars, but guys at Mozilla (paid or not) send their stuff to China. Besides, when Mars loses its planet status you will have made a moot point.
The internet is too young for you!