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That is a :big facepalm:
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Quote: Let's Encrypt uses Certificate Authority software called Boulder.
So is that a small boulder the size of a large boulder?
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SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data. Vulcans told them to stop spamming?
Or because no one uses screen savers anymore?
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Logical conclusion would be that no advanced race sends us a recognizable signal, or that none exist.
Doesn't rule out they didn't exist, the may have died of some cough ofc.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Logical conclusion would be that no advanced race sends us a recognizable signal, or that none exist.
I hope the second... because it is the first one, we would probably have very, very few options against them.
No matter if they would come in peace... we would surely fvck it up and they would have to start fighting just in legitime defense.
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Evolution says it is them or us; this idea of peace is a bit.. choosing the loosing side. Peace is anti-evolutionary and people will not abide. A nice sentimental idea, but also a loosing strategy.
Evolution and progress, is built on war.
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I see your point and kind of agree with it. But although the end is almost always the same, the way leading to it might be very different, and in some of the possibilities we could have better chances to be the ones ending alive.
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For perhaps the first time on this site, I would use a downvote button if available. The ability to deter aggressors is very important, but aggression is a lose-lose game, and statements to the contrary are...I will demur.
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Aggression is the only way to winning; the peacefull bacteria are extinct. The bacteria left are the conquerors, not the peacemakers.
Feel free to vote me as a spammer, if enough people do, I'd be banned. It is not against CP policy for you to do so, and no law in any country would prohibit it.
Evolution is still in progress and the meek are at a disadvantage. And they will be replaced by a stronger, more competitive kind. As should be. It is about the fittest after all, not the "most woke".
Or to be even more rude; a criminal mind is an evolutionary advantage, and an upbringing about fairness and equality is a mental handicap that should be forbidden. In this game only predators win.
Meaning the psychopaths who don't feel a thing are ahead of you. Science says the same thing.
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I certainly wouldn't vote you as a spammer. That's far from what I meant.
I'm not talking about bacteria, I'm far from "woke", and I don't believe in equality of outcomes.
Fortunately, psychopaths and sociopaths are a minority, and self-defense is still legal, though many jurisdictions are idiotic enough to ban various weapons suitable for that purpose. I don't advocate being meek, but aggression only works until the aggressor meets someone capable of defending themselves. A criminal mind is a sign of stunted thinking, which is a serious disadvantage in civil society where transactions (unless you're the government) are voluntary.
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Greg Utas wrote: A criminal mind is a sign of stunted thinking
My upbringing agrees with you. My parents agree with you.
Evolution does not. It does not care about nobility. It cares not about intentions. It gives not an elephant about your devout ideas about good or wrong. Evolution will win, regardless of the noble ideas of my parents.
A criminal mind, is an evolutionary superiour one. We are a competing species. And the foul player wins, simple as that.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Aggression is the only way to winning; the peacefull bacteria are extinct. The bacteria left are the conquerors, not the peacemakers.
The extremely aggressive bacteria kill their host, and die shortly after. The successful bacteria are those that either don't harm the host, or are beneficial. Think gut flora vs. Ebola.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I question whether either totally peaceful or totally violent society would be able to progress enough technologically to communicate.
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Quote: We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper
I can't wait to see that.The first draught of the paper: We dain't done find nuthin'.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or because no one uses screen savers anymore?
The BOINC platform has long since embraced multi-core systems ability to run computationally intensive work without the computer grinding to a halt and defaults to running 24/7 with idle CPU resources. Projects can, but AFAIK aren't required to, have a screen saver module; but since the visualization wastes CPU most users just turn it off.
SETI has 92k active users according to BoincStats.com. IIRC active means having done at least one work unit in the last 30 days.
Their shutting down's going to have a major cascading effect on all the other projects running on the network; temporary outages by seti and a few other large projects have caused others to suffer server overloads as large numbers of users run out of work and fail over to their designated backup projects. Most of those are fairly short outages and users who chose to keep a lot of work on hand can ride them out. Seti's currently #6 in terms of how many Fake Internet Points(tm) it reports awarding; but because it's relatively stingy in how many it awards that greatly understates the number of users it has. None of the other top6 projects show more than a few thousand users; but some of them have decided that GDPR requires opt in consent to export stats and are only reporting a small fraction of their users as result.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Shows how long it's been since I looked at SETI@Home. Is this the same network being used for Folding@Home?
TTFN - Kent
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No. Folding is one of the few distributed projects running its own platform. The only other one I'm aware of is Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search[^]; which predates SETI.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That will free up an old Win-95 box to mine me some bitcoins
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How do you know if your testing team is doing a good job? These five guidelines are a good start. Who will test the testers?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who will test the testers?
Quis spectat ipsos testicles?
Something like that.
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The people who choose the next pope do. There's a chair for that.
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Well, you'll never know if they're normal or all shrivelled up, until you open the box. That's science, that, but it applies to some religious stuff, too.
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Schrödinger's Testes?
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A bizarre bug could affect some Windows 10 users that try to install the latest Windows release on computers where the BIOS date is set to January 19, 3001, or later on AMD or Intel motherboards. This will have a huge affect on my life style
It is nice that someone is planning ahead though.
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