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Can scapy or any other util modify packets on the fly?

I've always wanted an "nsed" -- to mimic the "ngrep" idea. A quick and dirty way to, for example, modify HTTP headers on the fly.
Sort of. The curve maxed out way faster than modern MMOs. Getting all GM (grandmaster) levels in your main skills took way shorter than, say, what ever absurd level you can get to on WOW after the 10th expansion.

The game even had an inbuilt macro system that wasn't super sophisticated but it wasn't considered "hacking" an you could max out the easier skills that way.

So in some sense, the devs actually tried to get rid of the grind element. In any case, it definitely was not institutionalized. You could gain skill in fencing by killing monsters OR by dueling friends. There definitely was not a "kill 6 monsters and return the belts for a cool prize" style stuff. So in some sense, it was a bit like you would have liked, just not as all-out.

The thing is that the better players were people who understood how game mechanics worked, and they were older and more mentally capable than I was at 14. So they understood how to make "builds" and how to strategize, while my efforts were based on trial and error, and thus getting to a good build took the better part of a year than a month.
Most of what i 've heard about consciousness and experience from philosophers involve arbitrary constructs such as "qualia"; one of the most prominent philosophers of mind posits that consciousness should be an ubiquitous property on top of the physical world, leading to some sort of panpsychism [1].

While charming, these sound to me as borderline serious new-age dualist contraptions. Consciousness and experience are under active investigation by neuroscientists and we have no reason to believe they won't be explained away.

Imho, the most valuable domain of philosophy is still the domain of Ethics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
I can see your point but these "advances" are immediately sold to authoritarian regimes by those democracies. Most of the time before they are even used in the democratic country.
That science can't yet know you're experiencing love at this moment (if indeed that's the case) isn't a reason to think it never will be able to. I know it's common to think of our internal thoughts and experiences as metaphysical things, but I know of no evidence that they're anything but chemical and physical processes. You know, science.
I was deliberately flippant in my answer. Of course I would need to challenge one of my racing buddies who are on the same level as I am. But no need for that, I have tried some low carb diets (described in Ferriss' four hour body book) in the off season to try to lower my weight, and even though they work short term (I can do it for a couple of weeks), the performance on the bike started to suffer immensely. I just can't keep up my watts. But that is to be expected.

I will agree that the modern western diet is a horrible thing. I have grown up eating typical Mediterranean diet with mostly home grown organic ingredients, and I find it incredibly hard to continue to eat like that living in Canada.

I think the biggest problem in North America at least is economical. The fact that certain produce like corn are subsidized by the government to the point that they are so cheap they make it into everything where you would never expect. This means you have to exclude certain foods altogether unless you have the time to make them yourself every time you want to eat them, which is rather impractical.
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1) Should the US sterilize the mentally retarded?

Quoting Wikipedia: "Eugenics became an academic discipline at many colleges and universities, and received funding from many sources. Three International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York. Eugenic policies were first implemented in the early 1900s in the United States.[8] Later, in the 1920s and 30s, the eugenic policy of sterilizing certain mental patients was implemented in a variety of other countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and Sweden,..."

We now believe the negatives of the eugenics movement, justifying the genocide done by the Nazis, outweighs any social good which might be possible from the scientific principles behind eugenics.

2) Should the US develop and use Orion-style nuclear propulsion?

Quoting Freeman Dyson: "this is the first time in modern history that a major expansion of human technology has been suppressed for political reasons." In short, it's better to ban nuclear bombs because of the increased mortality due to radioactive fallout than to have a single-stage-to-Saturn lift technology.
I'm always suspicious of people who are think they've got it all figured out...in any area, much less the full extent of human knowledge. I've been there, and I was always out of my depth; I just didn't realize it.
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Sound like a great idea, good luck!

I often read a paragraph or two from a book just to get the feel of it, so if your site would display those, people like me could use it as a sort of discovery engine for book or authors.

In terms of design - take a look at changemakrs.com, they're doing a good job at presenting content (quotes, in their case) in a very appealing way.
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No doubt about that; yet postmodernists seem to be the ones most engaged in what is perceived as a pursuit to discredit or trivialize science. Unfortunately, they are loud people so it's hard to hear other, more interesting views on the philosophy of science. I would be grateful if you could suggest some good books.
> I'm speaking broadly here, but qualia are not scientific.

Do you think they'll remain unscientific?
It won't hang as long as you're redirecting only standard output. If you want to read both StandardOutput and StandardError, you need to do it from separate threads: either with explicit BeginInvoke/EndInvoke calls as in Kudu, or more simply, by listening on the OutputDataReceived/ErrorDataReceived events then calling BeginOutputReadLine/BeginErrorReadLine.

(The reason for this is that the two streams are redirected to separate pipes, each of which has its own fixed-size buffer. If you forget to read from one pipe while you read from the other, its buffer fills up, and the writer - the program being executed - blocks. With standard error redirection turned off, the program writes directly to the console, which is safe.)
Perhaps that is the problem. Everyone talked about it as if it was a super-clever take on modern consumerist society. I suppose my expectations were probably wrong.
Peak aerobic performance requires carbohydrates. But most people expend less than 100 calories a day on peak aerobic performance, not 5000.

Carbohydrate-related hormones feel pleasant. Withdrawal is unpleasant. This is a good motivation for a hunter-gatherer, but not so much for someone with an unlimited supply of carbohydrates.
I think the narrator continually stating the obvious ruined it for me, which was reportedly (citation needed) against Judge's wishes (and unlike his humor stylings in general).

I didn't like Idiocracy the first time I saw it...but grew to appreciate it after rewatching it during the 2008 presidential election
This sounds like a response that would not exist if questions were being answered.
Starting right away with inheritance had always confused it for me, I still feel like it's a terrible way to introduce OOD. Also the fact that people sometimes refer to both classes and instances as "objects" I think is what confused me the most at first. The idea of a cookie cutter (class) vs a cookie (instance) is what made the most sense to me. I don't know if I had a specific aha moment, but that's what did it for me.
Would the console necessarily run Linux? I see no technical reason for it to not run Windows for backward compatibility and just launch Steam full-screen on boot.

Microsoft might throw up some licensing barriers to that, which strikes me as the only real reason to put Linux on these things.
Not sure when this was, and I guess this may be very belated, but I'm sorry you had that experience. Nowadays at least, although the text of the rules is interpreted much more literally than any real law system, and the policy is always to follow it where it is clear, vagueness in the rules is often interpreted in a convenient way, and there is quite a lot of (often ignored) precedent to deal with it, so it takes time to understand them. On the other hand, the CFJ system doesn't always get it right (in quite a few instances, later cases have struck down precedent without any particular reason that the answer should have changed - some cases are paid more careful attention than others, and sometimes emotion affects it in the case of scams), and often facts that seem completely self-evident to one person end up getting disputed (I've had this happen to me and observed it in others). I've learned through experience that it's best to avoid taking adverse judgements personally or getting ticked off about what seems to be misguided judging, especially if you're trying a scam.
Ethical questions cannot not really be answered by science cause that would be an appeal to nature. Some evo-psychologists may claim otherwise, but i think he's right about their narrow utilitarian position.
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I didn't get that from his response at all. He's asking what the "other ways of knowing" have done for us. Science has been demonstrably useful -- Coyne is asking why the criticisms of Scientism aren't followed by examples of the questions answered by "other ways of knowing". I wonder the same thing myself.
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Lua was never designed to be used for really large code basis.

Bases. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't be good for large code bases. Many languages end up getting used for purposes they weren't designed for.
What I'd love is a kit that converts PS/2 keyboards to wireless.
> Sokal was the original perpetrator of the hoax, and appeared to have initiated it with the sole aim of discrediting philosophers he did not approve of.

Yes, but why was he capable of doing so? The whole point of his paper was to use scientific words out of context in a way that fed into the postmodernist mindset, and the postmodernists ate it up.

Sokal was victorious to the extent he validated his idea that postmodernists wanted to use the trappings of science without having to apply any of the rigor of science to their own ideas.
I'm sorry that I've offended your sensibilities, but there is a strong parallel with the chaos in Afghanistan (or Somalia for that matter) and a zombie apocalypse. Two parallels in particular stick out: there is no strong central authority, and there is the constant threat of violence. For zombies, the violence is directed toward "eating brains" or something equally ridiculous, for Afghans the violence vector is directed toward "anyone who disagrees with me or who I or my tribe doesn't like", and seems particularly informed by Islamism and hatred of the West.

Further, the problem of 'infection' is very similar. Even if you create a "safe zone" it's not necessarily safe. Consider the recent rash of killings when our Afghan "allies" have turned on US servicemen, killing them in cold blood in so-called "Green on Blue" attacks. (About 100 servicemen have been murdered in this way in the last 3 years).
Not quite. The unicomp/model M's were clicky. The NeXT keyboard had a nice plastic "thonk", with an echo to it, but no click. It also had a very solid (no twist/wiggle) travel.

I am considering getting one of those keyboards with the coloured Cherry key switches.
Well, science is based on the rational interpretation of our five senses. Other ways of understanding the world include our five senses but also rely on other phenomena, such as our dreams and emotions, and then are subject to somewhat rational but mostly irrational personal and subjective interpretations. Note that irrational is not the same as incorrect, and I don't consider it a pejorative.

I guess as a primary example, art is non-scientific, but it is an equally valid way of communicating the understanding of our experience to others. We understand beauty. The meaning of symbols in our society seems unlikely to ever come under some scientific theory but forms a very large part of our experience. The search for meaning in life is not a scientific one.

It is probably true that science is the only objective, factually accurate, rational, logical, and methodical approach to understanding the world. This does not invalidate other approaches, since we are more than objective, factually accurate, rational, logical, and methodical beings. Your subjective experience is yours and yours alone and totally resistant to the scientific method.
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That's sort of a dated rule. I've been here even longer than my account suggests, and the quality has most certainly degraded - both from comments like OP's, and from people defending it under the umbrella of free speech (kind of an absurd stance given every community enforces quality standards.)

PG himself has acknowledged the degrading quality. Thankfully some work has been done to curb this trend, but it does seem somewhat unavoidable as a community grows.
> My intuition says you have angry feelings.

This is just the kind of dismissive attitude that makes philosophers unpopular.
Why would you need NAT? Is it difficult to change the prefix that a network is on? Or would you have to reorganize the network if you were using external prefixes?
Great story. I was expecting the team to win the tournament when a local official with no governing power stepped in and allowed them three chances to score a last-second buzzer beater though...

(Hint: 1972 Olympics)

As an avid sports fan, and very active basketball player and cyclist, the major shifts in current thinking towards evaluating the world of sports through statistical and business eyes is to me quite unfortunate. To those that make their money through that world, fine, but as a fan, I want to marvel in the achievements of athletes, not be debating whether a pitcher is over-rated because of his exFIB.

Basketball is about the battles against racism of Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson, the soaring style of Dr. J, the elan of Magic, the blue collar work of Bird, the competitive viciousness of Michael Jordan, and the physicality of Lebron.

Cycling is about the will of Eugene Christophe, the ethics of Gino Bartali, the ferocity of Eddy Merckx, the spirit of Bernard Hinault, the pain of Marco Pantani, and the insanity of Jens Voigt.

Even if we can't reach that level ourselves, it is that approach to what makes sports great that allows for events and stories like this article. Without that spirit, there wouldn't be any reason to have amateur sports to begin with. Leave everything else alone.
It can't, that's my point. Arguing against rationality using rational arguments is self-contradictory.
This purely dismissive attitude is why philosophers are mocked and ignored.
Idicoracy is especially amusing because as the years go on, it only seems more prescient.

A part of that is just your curmudgeon factor increasing as you get older. [quickly steps off lawn]
Why? Just because every other time people gave complete control over their data and content it turned out be a bad idea and the the internet itself was invented to avoid this problem?

But it's different now, the companies involved are the ones I've read about since I was young and are therefore trustworthy and permanent. I know older people thought the same thing and turned out to be wrong every single time, but this time it's different. Why is it different? Uh ... I'll get back to you on that.
> Consciousness/experience.

These are both scientific.
As an actor: ha ha. As one who's worked with hackers... ha ha ha. Yes, you shall indeed be the butt of this show.
No, that's Portal 2.
Really? I thought most people found it pretty mediocre...especially compared to Office Space. The movie itself had a very hard time getting released, IIRC. So maybe my standards were so low coming into the movie that I ended up liking it (which I guess would kind of prove the movie's prophecy in some way...)
Ask HN: How to defend the source of a html5  audio/video player
I have spent some time thinking on how to build a html5 audio/video player that will actually hide the source of the content in a secure and efficient way.

I have some ideas but the all are about making the source use very restricted not about hiding it. Is this the way to go or do you have any other ides?

Thanks -Dennis Mårtensson
@trevore - great to see you on the thread! There are a lot of questions raised here that are hard to answer, but I can share a troubling observation. Of all the US personnel I have met in Afghanistan, fewer than a handful were engineers, makers, creators rather than enforcers, money dispensers, or supervisors. Sure, the military has its own engineers, but very few are outside the wire interacting with people. Where are the civil communication, construction, mechanical, etc. engineers? I think there is a larger role in global peer to peer diplomacy for such a cadre. I've got more stories to tell, so does @trevore, some of them are posted jalalagood.com/ --> more will come out guided by the questions you ask.
Who makes pilots anymore? What they really need is a Minimum Viable Production.
I'd be interested to know if anyone actually holds to the ideas mocked as 'Scientisim', or if it's just another example of a strawman in the 'Darwinist' mold.
> To give one ridiculous example, I had a graduate student in anthropology suggest to me that science needs to be democratized and taken away from the scientists and verified and decided upon by the common man. I asked by what method the common man could do such verification and make any such decisions, as the obvious answer to both is Science

The irony here is that your argument against the anthropologist is very similar to Hughes' argument against the institutional understanding of science.

The point he's making is that if we reject the institutional understanding and take science to have a special legitimacy because of some property of the scientific method (say, theories are falsifiable by empirical data), the arguments of scientists, and the citing of empirical data don't provide this special legitimacy when the method employed doesn't possess that property. Yet when Hawking does metaphysics, the reverence for science as an institution leads people to treat it as they treat science.

I don't know what sounds anti-science about having a problem with that. Being careful about what we call science is a defence against pseudoscience.
There's also the part part where Valve would have to pay Microsoft to license Windows. With Linux, they wouldn't have to. Of course, Valve really hates Microsoft as of late, so you can't forget that.
> Consciousness, experience, spontaneity, 'the present moment'..

These are all part of science.
He made the Goode Family, which was short-lived but from most accounts, terrible. Hopefully he'd be able to grasp SV culture as much as he did in Office Space, and not miss it by going after typical caricatures of San Francisco.
I don't plan on being a car owner any time in the near future, but out of pure curiosity I wonder how easy/legal it will be to remove these?
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From time to time I see posts about makerspaces or family/kid friendly hackerspaces and just thought I would mention that we now have 2100 sq feet in Downtown LA dedicated to supporting makers of all ages.

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I was answering honestly. I receive strong cues from my intuition about other people's feelings.
The big mistake begins here:

"Simple physics requires that to lose weight, we must burn more calories than we ingest"

THAT fallacy is how the author leads the reader in to HIS strawman argument, that somehow Taubes is unaware of, or disregards, the laws of thermodynamics.

1) Ingesting calories is not relevant, digesting is.

2) We don't "burn" any calories whatsoever. We use various components of food as raw materials for various biological processes. One conceptual example: when you ingest some sort of protein, your body might break it down in to amino acid chains and then repair a muscle fiber using those raw materials.

Talking about the human body as if it is a closed system that burns food is just silly. We're accidentally taking our metaphors as literal. Yes, if we literally burned all the calories we ingest, the thermodynamics argument would be correct. However, that just a metaphor, don't mistake the map for the territory.
> We now believe the negatives of the eugenics movement, justifying the genocide done by the Nazis, outweighs any social good which might be possible from the scientific principles behind eugenics.

This is science and politics, and partially based on the science of modern genetics, which shows that a number of things we thought could be stopped using sterilization really cannot be ended in that fashion. Down Syndrome, for example, is genetic but not always inherited, so sterilization wouldn't eradicate it.

> In short, it's better to ban nuclear bombs because of the increased mortality due to radioactive fallout than to have a single-stage-to-Saturn lift technology.

This is, again, a scientific decision based on evidence and reason. Orion may have been stopped for unscientific reasons as well, but that argument is scientific.
The only real point being made was that less intelligent people currently tend to breed more often than more intelligent people, which has potential to lead humanity toward the scenario depicted in the movie. People enjoy it (or at least I do) because it's hilariously scary to think what a world entirely populated by Honey Boo Boos would be like.
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If all question are scientific question then what is a question 'What is right (in the sense of morals)?' and can that answer in any way help me?

Science isn't about truth. Science is about three things. Making hypothesis, making decisions based on hypothesis and testing them. It has no singular answer and that answer changes depending on scales we operate.
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My guess? We'll gradually shift back into larger households, with several generations living under one roof. Not that bad, when you come to think of it.
Cool, it's like Facebook, but for calculators.

I get why they do it this way (minimizes risk), but I wish people would create something interesting before they start up the marketing machine.
Complete? Lies? Those are strong statements.
How are you feeling right now?
The console could be $100 cheaper by not running Linux. Plus, I'd much rather see it running on Linux and OpenGL. Besides, Valve seems to want to become less dependent on Microsoft, not more, so making a Windows PC/console makes very little sense to me.
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Thanks, I know it wasn't always like this. And I don't think there's something genetically wrong with the Afghans. Heck, I've read the Kite Runner (which was heart-wrenching). And I've seen first-hand that they seem to do just fine in other parts of the world, and are particularly fun-loving (as hinted at in the OP's post).

My instinct says, "just leave 'em alone for a few generations, they'll figure it out". And that's what we tried, but then the Taliban set up a safe-haven for Al-Queda and we got 9-11. And then we got an 11-year-long war, the longest (and probably the most expensive) in US history.

Perhaps, though, that remains the best option. Just somehow keep an eye on money and arms that flow into the nation, and strike any training camps we detect. E.g. exactly what it seems like Israel does with the West Bank and Gaza. Of course that sucks, but our options are few.