Flaser Posts

Flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Why would one stick with an outdated artifice when one could be so much more?

A person's ability to think is strongly constrained by the availability of information. Furthermore teenagers aren't adults yet. Their sense of responsibility, their willingness to think things through is not yet developed.

...so of course I won't agree with you.

When a kid comes from a household where *any* talk of sex is taboo, when they go to a curriculum that strongly advises abstinence and when contraceptives are hard to come by...

...and yet it is the *sole* responsibility of the teenagers that they end up with a kid? The same teenagers who are under different circumstances are quickly labeled immature, irresponsible? Who can go to war at 18 but not drink until 21?

I don't say that all teens are irresponsible and immature but American culture seems to do a lot to ensure they *are*.

One could also highlight the patriarchal values leading to this, since they value male conquest of females so high and is quick to put the blame on the girl.

Boy going around screwing girls = Damn big playa, a "big boy".
Girl getting screwed = Sluuuut.

...if one were to sum it up. Of course this disgusts me, but this is *the* standard attitude never the less.

Excuse me, but a person's action can't be reduced to his sole responsibility. Yes, it's the person who takes the actions and he *is* responsible for them... however not solely him.

The environment one acts in, and the decisions that created that environment also take a great part.

...and on this note, I can't agree. Sex education in America is often dismal, and attitudes toward birth control even more so. With the rise of religious fundamentalism and its penetration of everyday politics by the way of the neo conservatives are to blame for a lot of this.

Teaching abstinence (from sex) and downplaying the importance of birth control, preventing teens from easily obtaining birth control methods... these were all on their platter and have contributed to the problem.

Good explanation, but you're claim that light can't transfer momentum is *plain* *WRONG*. Light, *does* transfer momentum, but it's a very small energy/photon, so it almost invisible most of the time.

However it *is* there and that's how solar sails work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail



By using huge surfaces (compared to the mass of the payload), even the infitestimal push of light can be harnessed to accelerate an object in orbit.

Yes, this have been proven. In fact if engineers didn't take this into account several space missions would have been in jeopardy as the light pressure would have pushed the probes off course.



Flaser throws ash on his head and contemplates throwing himself on his ball-pen to atone for the shame... then goes back to browsing porn.

Anyway, good catch Grover.

Something: Girls don't *fap*, they *shlick*!

I've just posted this twice within an hour.

The elaborate answer to your question is a bunch of other questions:
-Are you using a router? (I'd guess since you're using port-forwarding)
-Does the router have a firewall function? Can your torrent client access the proper ports?
-Do you have a software firewall on your torrenting PC? Is that properly configured?
-Are you sure your ISP is not doing traffic shaping?
Read more here:
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs

Aye, and he was one "sexy looser". Also, something else: Girls don't *fap*, they *shlick*!

...we shall rise! We can't let them contaminate the purity of our essence!

What, no one suggested the Cleveland or the Boston steamer so far? Not even the rodeo position? You guys are tame.

Gah! The Internet is not running out of *storage* or *memory* space.
It's running out of IPv4 address space.

Actually American girls do. Welcome to the (full on SARCASM mode=ON) "wonderful" world of vaginoplasty, sometimes also called "designer vaginas".

If money can be made on it, people will be talked into it.

One more for uncut. Nowadays, except in rare cases (such as the picture above) there's no reason for circumcision. Actually it can lead to complications that further down the line could lead to problems in one's sex life.

Also, there's been no conclusive study so far that showed a genuine benefit from the practice. Lower HVP and AIDS prevalence? Bullshit. Correlation does not imply causation. Did it occur to any of you, that males who *do* get circumcision may just lead lives that put them (and their partner) less at risk of HPV & AIDS than those who do not? In America circumcision is more wide spread in the middle and upper class than the lower.

Once again, no proven causality. Just immature journalism that can't even do basic research.

That's not totally accurate. A particle of light is called a photon. It *does* have mass, and that's why big masses attract it. It just doesn't have a mass at rest. Light has both wave and particle qualities... however this duality is not limited to light, all particles show this, this is how quantum tunneling works (which is used in some transistors).

Also the lot of you don't get what relativity is about: The speed of light (in vacuum) is constant in *every* reference frame. That's it, but this has a lot of consequences:

1) Time is *NOT* independent of your reference frame. So different observers in different reference frames would observe things differently. So an event that would appear simultaneous in one frame may not appear so in another.
2) The speed of light can't be exceeded.
3) When particles with mass at rest go closer and closer to the speed of light in a reference frame their *observed* mass in that frame increases.
4) Under similar conditions objects undergo Lorentz contraction, that is they appear to be shorter (along the axis of their movement) than they'd be at rest.
5) Velocities can't be simply added up. If two rockets approach each other at 2/3 of light-speed, they *wouldn't* be closing at 4/3 light-speed.
6) Mass and energy are equivalent.This means, that the energy stored in an object at rest equals c-times the square of its mass. Conservation of energy implies that in any reaction a decrease of the sum of the masses of particles must be accompanied by an increase in kinetic energies of the particles after the reaction. Similarly, the mass of an object can be increased by taking in kinetic energies. This is why an object moving close to light speed "gains" weight when it's further accelerated.

FTL opens a whole can of worms as the saying goes:
Causality, Relativity, FTL - pick any two. So if FTL is possible it would break either relativity or causality.

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I can't believe no one suggested Linux so far, so I will.

a) If you're studying to be a sys-op, programmer or other IT professional
b) If you need an OS with Mac's stability for a "fraction of its price"
c) If you need an OS with Mac's stability but with a waster program palette
d) ...and if you haven't used anything beside Windows, but want to try a Unix type OS

...you might want to try out Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Just download a live CD/DVD, boot it up and start experimenting. It's free and you can do nowadays a lot of things on Linux you can on Mac or Windows. Even Cory Doctorow was impressed by what Ubuntu offers nowadays and he was (still is) a hardline Mac fanboi.

Granted there *are* other Linux distributions out there. Oh, boy, are there... linux pundits can argue 'til rapture on which distribution is the best (...or which is the best for a given purpose if they're less bigoted). However Ubuntu is a good distro to start with, as it has been tailored for beginners and has very good on-line support.

This is the recommended procedure. +1
Here's a bit more elaborate scheme of what to do if the system has locked up:
1. First try Ctrl-Alt-Del.
2. If the above doesn't work, press and release the power button. This might send the machine into sleep mode, from which you can normally wake this. This "order" has very high priority and may get the machine out of lock-down even if normal user input doesn't.
3. If the above doesn't work, push the reset button. (It's very small but it's purpose is just that - reset the machine when all else fails).
4. If the above doesn't work, push and hold the power button. The computer will stop, and you'll need to once again push the power button to start it.
5. ...if all else fails flip the switch on your PSU. This is preferable to pulling the plug, as in the later case sparks may fly and damage your equipment and the PSU's connector.
6. ...if you don't have a switch on your PSU, use a power distributor with a built in switch.

This is not restricted to the ISPs. The end users also have a lot of old devices that don't support IPv6, so they too will have to upgrade.

Argh! So much misinformation.
Here's the deal: Machines on the Internet need a unique address, called the IP address. There are two standards used today:

IPv4: A 32-bit number. Usually divided into 4 octets, this is why an address is usually given as 4 number between 0-255 divided by dots. Ie. 192.168.0.1 (this is a C-class address in the range reserved for internal netwroks).

IPv6: A 128-bit number. Too damn big to ever input numbers by hand. Thanks to DNS (which translated IP addresses into actual "names" that humans can use) this won't be a problem.

Why do we need IPv6? In theory IPv4 should've been enough. After all it's 2^32 or about 4.3 *billion* addresses.

Here's why:
-Mobile devices: when everything from your mobile-phone to your alarm clock will be on the net each person will use dozens of addresses.
-Always-on connections: since dial up is gone (and good riddance!) users will keep using their addresses so they can't be reassigned to another user.
-Inefficient address use: Class A and Class B addresses when sold/given away carried millions of addresses in the address space to big companies & government and education entities (ie. universities). They're unlikely to ever use these.

What can be done? Move to IPv6. Why isn't everyone doing this?
-A lot of big players (ie. Google) have already switched.
-So did the USA and other countries with enough federal/state budget.
-It's the ISPs and smaller countries that are dragging their feet as there's a big debate on *who* should cover the cost of moving.
-Some of the unused address space given to Class A and Class B IP holders will likely be resold now. (This is also called address space reclamation).

What can you do on your own to be IPv6 compliant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms

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This can be done and is called "dual-stack". Check the Wikipedia link above.

Until Bulldozer and Fusion comes out, investing in AMD is a budget option and not something I'd recommend to anyone building a serious system.