Um, I believe I said something like I never really got math in school and only the geeks used it anyway -- to count the money they "donated" to me during the school year! I've been in computers for 15 years just by smacking the back of the head of the guy in the next cube to get him to do my work as well. Outsource that!
Science deals only with 5 senses. Well, no -- how often have you used your senses to detect neutrino flux? You've left out a huge dimension to science: indirect measurement of phenomena. There are many events in our little corner of the universe and that part which can causally access that are only
What's wrong with a Presentation Manager window manager on top of X?
I believe the U.S. has a right and responsibility to maintain its own creation. It must be remembered that the world wide web is merely an extension of that creation and should not be politicised to embrace individual agendas Exactly right! So control of the WWW should be handed back to the people who create
I agree that the hit-and-run trolling on /. is annoying (plus the nth repetition of various joke fads) but the lack of any/effective moderation and the bizarre and childish flamewars and open trolling just makes me yearn for a decent filter.
Sure there are redundant posts and such in threaded discussions, but if this article had 60 replies and we were in the middle, how would you easily tell that I'm replying to you? There are a bunch of articles that I've participated on here where the discussion has diverged into technical or specific details that others might not have wanted to read/watch. Besides, the key is a format that can be threaded, not that one has to ch
After reading through a bunch of articles I realise one of the reasons why I do far less of it on JU as opposed to, say, a site like Slashdot -- the lack of threaded discussion makes it hard to follow when the conversation diverges. As an (old) geek, I'm used to threaded interfaces for USENET, mail and news sites. It seems antiquated that JU doesn't employ th
To my knowledge Atheism has done nothing for the world. A strange thing to claim since atheism isn't an attribute upon which people socialize or unite around generally. Atheist groups have a very small membership compared to the total number of us around. It's a removal of religion from our lives -- this me
Some years back, he was involved in a study on how SOUTH AMERICAN RAINFORESTS contribute to global warming! Again, I'm not making this up! Wasn't the issue that cutting down and burning (i.e., slash and burn agriculture) was producing so much smoke as to contribute to the problem?
Somewhat OT -- in our family we introduce friends/relatives new to North America to the concept of turkey for the holidays. They can't believe the time and effort it takes for such a beast (compared to, say, a big roast chicken) and how long it takes to finally devour the thing (without too much intestinal damage). Needless to say, we only have turkey once a year and only if there're new immigrants to stupefy ...
sunwukong, the proposal was never intended to correct technical issues of DNS. The proposal is simply about control. I realize that -- it's just that as a techie that I'm willing to subsume whatever my cultural/national/whatever imperatives to just get DNS fixed! <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quo
Personally, if US dominance over the root servers and ICANN gets the reliability and security issues with DNS fixed and imposed (adopted for the nervous amongst you), I can stand to wait. The political issues might be battled back and forth for a long time but there are outstanding technical problems that just need to be fixed.
Again, I call for everyone to RTFA and think about what they're saying: "Greenland ice-melt 'speeding up'", July 28, 2004 - the margins (i.e., the outer edges) of the ice cap are rapidly retreating - glaciers are visibly shrinking "Greenland icecap thickens despite warming", October 21, 2005 - the icecap (i.e., the whole thing) is thickening -- especially at high altitudes (i.e., away from the margins) -
Ironically, your analysis falls directly in the realm of your previous article title, "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics". You deliberately (assuming you understood the article) mislead your audience by associating short term effects (ice thickening) with long term predictions (ice melting) and triumphantly pointing out the discrepency. Everyone, please RTFA and note that the statements within it are self-consistent. Is this the best, mo
I am afaid that I just cannot tie in scientific progress with a religious base. Science is science, even today most scientist DO NOT BELIEVE in God. To advance that scientific progress is linked or due to religion is a false premiss. You need to read more history and philosophy of science. Certain vie
Although you responded here you added nothing but questions, then demeaned other peoples replies I thought the thread was going along well and was very interesting except the points that I responded to were broad, false statements that should be disputed -- did everyone know they were false already?
You scored as agnosticism . You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don't believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof). Agnosticism is a philosophy that God's existence cannot be proven. Some say it is possible to be agnostic and follo
How about vegans, who think their diet is the only one true healthy and humane way to eat? But they think everyone else will probably die off soon anyways. admit you're just b
Possibly the dark ages again You mean when the Church controlled all aspects of life and Islamic nations were at the forefront of science? Christians have not forced anybody t
Let us assume that control was transferred over to Iran What exactly would be the issue for giving Iran control over its ccTLD? Because that's the most a single nation can exert direct control over outside of its own borders. Likewise, what's the problem with allowing the US one vote to suspend routing to Ir
To use an analogy, it is like a bunch of people deciding to set up a village in a farmer's field. Bad example -- there are many instances of where something like this has forced the farmer to give up at least total control (sometimes without or fair compensation) of the village land for the "common good".<BR
The point is that there is no more qualified nation or organization available. The posts so far fail to distinguish several technical details that make the whole topic viable: - the Internet itself was designed by the US military to be a network that could survive node loss by routing around dead co
Good topic! Here's a few that people have missed so far ... Just plain disturbing: Eraserhead ( Link ) Best monster thriller: The Thing ["John Carpenter's The Thing"]( Link ) Best character-driven thriller (mystery?): The Ninth Gate ( Link ) Best psych
There was a Kevin Spencer episode with the same idea.
If you still can, you should add "The On-line community survival guide" ( Link ) as your external link or mention it somewhere.
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