Comment Re:systemd (Score 1) 229
I got the joke. I just didn't laugh.
I got the joke. I just didn't laugh.
From the GNU Hurd Wiki page:
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
—Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
2060: the year of the GNU Hurd desktop?
This is the same things muslims say. "Muslims don't commit crime. He isn't a muslim if he committed crime".
This is the same thing Christians say. "Christians don't commit crime. He isn't a Christian if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Jews say. "Jews don't commit crime. He isn't a Jew if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Hindus say. "Hindus don't commit crime. He isn't a Hindu if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Buddhists say. "Buddhists don't commit crime. He isn't a Buddhist if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Sikhs say. "Sikhs don't commit crime. He isn't a Sikh if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Humanists say. "Humanists don't commit crime. He isn't a Humanist if he committed a crime."
This is the same thing Atheists say. "Atheists don't commit crime. He isn't an Atheist if he committed a crime."
[sarcasm off]
Seriously, the "true Scotsman" defense has been invoked by many groups, not just Muslims. And I think they may be entitled to do so. Our ideals of behavior, expressed in many philosophies, are not necessarily followed consistently by all of their adherents.
The internet is not a broadcast medium.
This.
But alas, turning the internet into a broadcast medium is exactly what ISPs want to do.
I hope that someday net neutrality also means bandwidth into your home equals bandwidth out of it. Check your service: we don't live in that world today.
The issue is not open and unfettered internet vs. evil corporate control. It is one set of bureaucrats and corporations against another set of bureaucrats and corporations. Just because they use the words "net neutrality" doesn't mean there is anything neutrality related involved. Remember, the same national politicians got together to give us the Republic-led bipartisan "USA PATRIOT Act", which had absolutely nothing to do with patriotism.
False equivalence. Just because the Patriot Act was newspeak doesn't mean Net Neutrality is.
"free and open internet" as we knew it is not an option on the table. The discussion at hand is about how much power Washington will have to pick winners and losers in corporate fights. And who in Washington will wield that power.
Net Neutrality is not about giving Washington the power to pick winners and losers. It's about keeping that power out of the hands of service-providers.
Oh, and a few new fees and tacked-on unrelated regulations "just because".
Citation please?
The launch was scrubbed due to attached-anvil clouds and lightning risk.
For the curious, attached-anvil clouds are also known as cumulonimbus clouds.
Weather doesn't want to cooperate. Anvil clouds within 10 miles of launch site.
Tune in tomorrow for next attempt.
Next lift-off attempt is tomorrow at around 4:10 PM EDT, if I heard correctly.
Solar is also doomed because eventually it will have to scale up to the point where enclosing the entire sun simply isn't enough.
Good lord, are you on crack? How do you think Planet Earth handled its energy needs before Homo Sapiens got here?
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portman overlord garden ornaments with hot grits poured down their pants welcomes you!
[Soviet Russia is sounding good right about now...]
I remember when most of the Slashdot stories revolved around fire and the wheel.
Eh? Speak up, sonny..
These climate models that this is based on are complete rubbish. There are so many variables that you can make them reach any conclusion you want simply by changing the values you input. We can't even predict an accurate weather forecast more than 10 days in the future. How could we possibly predict what the weather is going to be like in 100 years? Or 50 years? Or 1 year? Or even next month.
Climate != Weather.
If you are reporting about a protest, you should, at the very minimum say WHY they are protesting.
This article totally fails to do that.
From TFS and TFA:
Thirty Meter Telescope is constructing the telescope on land that is held sacred to some Native Hawaiians.
Genuine question as I have no expertise in this whatsoever...would crafted contact lenses help out here?
Excellent question. I was wondering the same thing.
I'd assume a technology that could read irises could be designed to detect contact lenses as well, and alert a human screener to their presence.
Also, I'd assume the contacts could not be entirely opaque for various reasons, so perhaps a technology could still read the irises beneath them?
a future black market in human irises.
"Hello, Mr. Yakamoto, welcome back to the Gap."
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
