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If you haven't read the article, they also point to a few more folks building realistic commercial aircraft simulators around the world...

For example,
this one http://web.me.com/mattford1/Site/Matts_Boeing_737_Flight_Sim.html
or this one http://www.hyway.com.au/747/747.html

Although it sounds like Mr. Price's is the first one with an actual nose from a real 737 (the some of the other ones merely use some fraction of the real cockpit equipment in a shell).

So... Just in time. Just finished my full electric conversion Sunday, only $70,000. less. view here http://gallery.me.com/stevengottlieb#100417

I've posted this before, but thought I'd do so again...

And the problem is that, for all the compliments that others pay me, calling me "talented" and "intelligent," I feel paralyzed, like everyone is always expecting something great to come out of me, and all I ever do is disappoint when I don't meet those expectations. So I stop trying.

Read Carol Dweck

Here's what I've posted before...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck

In short, there may be some upper limit to raw brain power, but for most, that limit isn't ever reached.

So, claiming that "intelligence" is some inherent trait and, like most, assuming that failure equals non-intelligence causes a whole range of problems.

People can sharpen their skills and those skills are usually viewed as intelligence.

The real rub is this: When kids think they are "intelligent" or not, then nothing they do can impact that inherent trait. They will do all sorts of odd things to avoid failure and being labeled "stupid." [The inverse of intelligent.]

When they are told they can learn, and that "intelligence" is not a fixed trait, they do much better, and the odd behaviors of attempting to either gain entry into the "intelligent" club, futility of being in the stupid club, or working to avoid losing the "intelligent" club card vanish.

Read this: [It's from Dweck herself. Her book "Mindset" is an excellent start too.]
http://web.me.com/dianamadsen/Walden_Webpage/Parent_Resources_files/The%20Perils%20and%20Promise%20of%20Praise.pdf

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Seriously - I think this is a MUST read for any parent. Not just parents of talented kids - ANY PARENT - ALL PARENTS.

I think many of us see the truth in this work and appreciate it more because we can see these forces at work in our own lives.

-Greg

You bring up the fallacy that people making money from sex are slaves. As pointed out by your references, the media has gone along way into exploiting this myth (and making a lot of money and having increased ratings in the process).

The pathetic thing is that most people like yourself will gladly argue that it is OK for children to be indentured in India and China so that they can make cheap electronics and running shoes for Westerners, while the sex trade is somehow enslaving them. And when I say "people like you", I am referring to people I have often argued with in person, including in social science classes, who often have no idea what they are talking about except to vociferously argue that their own biases and prejudices could not possibly be wrong.

In reality, many children actually break out of poverty through the sex trade. I NEVER hear anybody saying that it is immoral and should be illegal to buy clothes or electronics from countries that don't protect children for (non-sex) slavery. In fact people often argue that it's good for children to have jobs as third-world industrial slaves. If people like yourself would argue against industrial slavery with the same zeal that you argue against the largely mythical and politically motivated idea of "sexual slavery" then this world would be a more humane and free-er place to live.

References:
The Virgin Trade: Sex, Lies and Trafficking
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047543/

Read Carol Dweck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck

In short, there may be some upper limit to raw brain power, but for most, that limit isn't ever reached.

So, claiming that "intelligence" is some inherent trait and, like most, assuming that failure equals non-intelligence causes a whole range of problems.

People can sharpen their skills and those skills are usually viewed as intelligence.

The real rub is this: When kids think they are "intelligent" or not, then nothing they do can impact that inherent trait. They will do all sorts of odd things to avoid failure and being labeled "stupid." [The inverse of intelligent.]

When they are told they can learn, and that "intelligence" is not a fixed trait, they do much better, and the odd behaviors of attempting to either gain entry into the "intelligent" club, futility of being in the stupid club, or working to avoid losing the "intelligent" club card vanish.

Read this: [It's from Dweck herself. Her book "Mindset" is an excellent start too.]
http://web.me.com/dianamadsen/Walden_Webpage/Parent_Resources_files/The%20Perils%20and%20Promise%20of%20Praise.pdf

Cheers,
Greg

Here, information. I went and took 5 pictures, true daylight, LED neutral, LED cool, LED warm, and mixed LED neutral/cool/warm, of my hand and a bundle of colored wires (rescued from the side of the road, a snow plow tore this out from somewhere and made a mess of it). All at ISO 100, all at "Cloudy" White Balance, let the camera pick aperture and shutter. A bit half-assed, but I think it supports both our claims. Cool white, not soo good for white/yellow. Warm white, not so good for orange/red/brown. Mix them up, it's pretty good, in a pinch, "neutral" is not bad.

But nothing beats daylight.

I suppose, for completeness, I should repeat the experiment other other light bulbs of various sorts. We've got some halogens kicking around.

http://gallery.me.com/dr2chase#100285

Is this monochromatic? (hint: I used a diffraction grating to help you get the correct answer)
http://gallery.me.com/dr2chase#100277/LEDSpectrum
These are three different Luxeon Rebel LEDs, driven at 350mA, I believe the color temperatures are 3000K, 4000K, and 5000K. Still not as cheap as I would like, but coming down (cheaper than before) and the light is creeping up. Another good choice is Cree; I have 9 last-gen Cree neutral-whites (4000K, I think) in my kitchen under the cabinets, and they look good there, too. As long as I am blogwhoring (since I just went and took these pictures to give a proper reply for you, I think I am entitled), here:
http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/undercabinet-lights-basement-kitchen/ (used for the picture above, mixed spectrum)
http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/more-undercabinet-lights/ (all neutral white, an earlier effort)
Note that these are "do not look at LED with remaining eye" grade lights.

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1. There are three generally agreed-upon planes, not two - control, management, and data.

2. The described methodology isn't novel. Observing the effects of attacks is something attackers do routinely, as is attack selectivity in order to garner maximum impact. This goes back a couple of decades with regards to DDoS attacks in particular.

3. Routers will continue to forward and process priority 6/7 traffic - i.e., control-plane traffic like BGP - whilst dropping enough data-plane traffic to ensure sufficient link bandwidth & RP/LC CPU overhead to keep routing sessions up and process routing updates. This undercuts the central thesis of the paper.

4. Re-marking all priority 6/7 traffic at the edge is a best current practice (BCP) for network operators; this prevents attackers from sending floods of priority 6/7 traffic in order to force punts.

5. iACLs and GTSM, two more BCPs, protect BGP sessions against direct attack via SYN-flooding, et. al.

6. Control-plane policing (CoPP) is yet another BCP which indirectly limits the number of updates/sec via rate-limiting control-plane traffic exchanged between routers.

So, the assertions of novelty in the paper aren't really justified, nor are all the assumptions and assertions regarding the way routers work and the way they handle control-plane traffic. Also, standard BCPs to protect control-plane traffic aren't taken into account. Nor are routine defensive BCPs discussed and taken into account.

Finally, there are other mechanisms which are considerably more effective in disrupting control-plane communication due to high RP CPU which aren't touched upon in the paper, nor are they cited in references. Though there are defenses against those attack mechanisms, as well, they aren't as well-known.

It's generally a good idea for researchers to consult with members of the global operational security (opsec) community while looking for topics and methodologies which are truly unique. This saves a lot of time and effort in duplicating existing work and going down paths which don't lead to truly novel research and results.

It's also a good idea for researchers investigating routing resilience to launch real attacks (in a lab environment) on real routers, rather than just theorizing and simulating, in order to gain an understanding of how they actually behave under attack, and how the various BCPs and other defensive mechanisms come into play.

This .pdf presentation may be of interest, as well.

I would draw a distinction between an cautious observer and a argument spewing movement.

There was (and sadly is) an anti-vax movement spreading FUD about vaccines. That FUD has caused real world deaths for no good reason. I know a number of mommies who are very cautious of vaccines now that I wouldn't say are anti-vaxxers. They've heard the FUD and have doubts. That is reasonable. Spreading the FUD is not.

What I have problems with are the people making the arguments for others to repeat who don't understand what genes are, what they do, how they are modified in GM, how traditional breeding works, and other important details.

The movement creates words like "frankenfood" and examples like fish tomatoes (which never made it out of the lab.) People with limited time and caring get a very one sided, bad perception. And we are rightly a risk intolerant species. If one thing has more risks then the other, we tend to avoid it. There are risks in both GM food and traditionally breed food, and people who understand GM the best are the least worried about it.

PBS has a decent site with varying points of view. It's probably the least biased piece I've seen on the issue yet.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/exist/arguments.html

I consider myself a green, but I'm not an anti-corporate luddite as the "green" movement has become. I'm not the only one who think so: Go ask Patrick Moore (Founder and former president ofGreepeace), Stewart Brand(Whole Earth Catalog, Long now Foundation), and other luminaries.

Older ways are not necessarily better. New is not always less safe then old. Food safety is an important issue, and I'd personally like to see the debate raise above the sound bytes level. That is my personal goal. GM is not bad, but some ways it can be used are bad. Some corporations are more likely to use it to self serving ends, and patent both their discoveries and the basic tools use d to make those discoveries. There are great benefits and potential problems with GM, and we need to move past the initial fear of the unknown stage. Unfortunately, most people are only hearing the FUD.

Heh. Pics, including the pinball table next to it: Home arcade gallery.

Cheers,
Ian

Except there is an app for that, and it isn't flash, and its built into every iphone since the 3G

https://secure.me.com/account/#findmyiphone

Wow, son, it sure is your week to make aggressive assertions that are so incomplete as to become inaccurate, isn't it?

Tell you what. You seem to be going on and on about what I do or don't know about iPhone programming. This isn't the place to continue that discussion. There's another place we could continue this, where I'd have the freedom to discuss the exact behaviors of the exact APIs that deal with multitasking. So how about you join me over there, and we can pick this back up? Here's the URL:

https://devforums.apple.com/community/iphone

Here is how to find me over there:

https://devforums.apple.com/people/dfjdejulio

If you want a starting point for that discussion, here's the source code that I've been sharing with other registered iPhone developers in order to probe the capabilities of various devices running various operating systems. Go into the "Sources" folder and grab the "Runner" application:

http://public.me.com/dd26

And here's the thread in which the discussion of that source code (and its output) has been occurring:

https://devforums.apple.com/message/198165

I don't expect you'll follow me over there. I expect you'll instead stick to your usual pattern of ignoring 90% of what I wrote, latching on to some concept that doesn't match what's in your head, stamping your feet, getting red in the face, and yelling something incomplete and barely-coherent. In which case this is the last you'll hear from me. But, feel free to prove me wrong!

And do try to calm down a bit, for your own good. Your anger and misplaced contempt really do make you come across as even more stupid than your inaccurate assertions would on their own, and they paint you into a corner that makes it difficult for you to admit the cases in which even you have been able to figure out that you're wrong (which is, I suppose, why you just let those particular subjects drop). If you don't believe that, go try and find a neutral third party and ask them to read this whole back-and-forth, and see what they think.

* The battery life was woeful when you're actually using it as intended. I was lucky to get a day out of the thing and I used it as an ereader for about an hour during my daily commute and a phone casually.

That's true but then the same goes for many smart-phones out there (including HTC).

* It's not compatible (enough) with earlier iPod connectors/interfaces so my iPod capable car stereo won't work with it. A lot of other iPod capable stuff either failed or whinged at me. The phone quite often whinged too. Here's news Apple - if you use a "standard" connector on the thing then support it; don't change the damn internals and then tell the phone to whinge the thing on the other end is too old.

Get a firmware update for your car stereo. Failing that get a better quality stereo.

* It's locked down - you can only buy applications that Apple approve. If you jail break it you lose warranty, and on 3GS models the ability to reboot the fucking thing.

Tough luck. If you don't like what it says in the EULA don't use the product and for god's sake top whining.

* There is no pr0n (well there is, but Jobs is in denial that Safari can be used to access pr0n).

So? You can get your porn can't you?

* It crashed and froze up more often than not.

Had an iPhone's and iPod touch devices for years, same for many of my friends. That is not a common occurrence in my experience.

* I couldn't save anything in it that Apple doesn't want me to. That includes the videos/photos of my son that came attached to a series of MMS. They were forever trapped in the phone and I had to ask the sender to email me instead.

That pisses me off too.

* I can't send files via email/MMS that Apple doesn't want me to. I can't send that hillarious video that I just received to anyone else because it _might_ fuck over some record company somewhere.

Eh? Apple is censoring your email?

* I was stuck using iTunes to sync the address book and calendar. What kind of shit is that? Some people actually don't want to use iTunes. Apple won't expose those things in a standard way so I can't just use SyncML or something similar.

www.me.com

* The app store is full up with absolute garbage, low quality apps. There's an app for everything where "app" is defined as half-arsed P.O.S and "everything" is defined as {lim x->0 (1/x)}. Finding good quality software was difficult. A lot of the apps blatantly lie about their capability and you don't find out until you've paid for them.

That's true enough, the iTunes App-store interface sucks ass.

* Apple is reportedly known to stiff app developers.

That's true.

* Glass screen is uber-fragile; I know of several people who have managed to break them even when being mostly careful. It's such a common occurrence that a lot of insurance policies won't cover it anymore.

So get a leather or rubber cover, mine survived a trip down a flight of concrete stairs without breaking the glass.

* Bluetooth is a joke. Can't even transfer files with it. Apple's answer... use email or MMS. What if I'm sitting right next to the person and want to save some data charges? Nope. Use email or MMS.

Bluetooth has always been a joke. I don't think I've ever had a phone where that crap functioned completely the way it was supposed to.

* Apple seem to pander to the big telcos about ripping out features. For example it wouldn't let me download large (>5M) files over my data plan, even though I paid for a certain amount of data and wanted to use it as _I_ saw fit, not Apple. What if I need a 15M file right now this very instant and I'm now

http://web.me.com/brkirch/brkirchs_Software/switchDiskSizeBase/switchDiskSizeBase.html

This patches the file size calculation at a very low level in the OS. Enjoy.

"Everyday developers"? WTF? So finally at the end of the quote it becomes clear he was talking about 1/1000th of web users, the people who use the web for development daily, who probably managed just fine without Ubiquity.

This project deserved to die.

I agree. I was one of those "everyday developers", and one afternoon quickly put together the first ROT-13 encoder for Ubiquity 0.1 (link) (probably one of the first 20 Ubiquity plug-ins). I added it to their Wiki, and registered it with Ubiquity Herd. I watched it for some time to see the number of people who were using it, and was happy to see a variety of people doing so. It was simple, well debugged, and worked as expected.

Some time later, they upgraded Ubiquity, and required all of the plug-ins to be changed. Not that there was any real notification that it had changed and that my plug-in had to be updated, but having watched it relatively closely, I discovered the update after a week or so, updated my plug-in, and went on my merry way.

At some point later (after some time), I went to check Herd out of curiosity to see how many people were using my plug-in. And you know what? They dropped it from Herd, and replaced it with someone else's ROT-13 encoder plug-in! From that point on, I wanted nothing to do with keeping my plug-in updated. There was no notice to plug-in developers when API changes that required plug-ins to be rewritten were made (and these were made in virtually every single Ubiquity release!), no notice of being dropped off Herd (which was the way most people found plug-ins) or reasons why, nothing.

I did keep it up to date on my personal Firefox install, but you know what? I virtually never used it. I eventually let Firefox drop it when I installed Firefox 3.6. It simply wasn't useful enough. And 99.999% of people out there don't want to type commands to do things. It was always more of a "web hackers tool", and positioning it as anything else was just silly. Couple that with the fact that Ubiquity wasn't particularly friendly to those same "web hackers" (at least it wasn't to this old hacker...) that were writing plug-ins for it, and it was pretty much destined to go nowhere.

So good riddance, I say. Ubiquity promised the moon, but was only ever useful to those who weren't afraid of a command line for 1% of their usual tasks. Hopefully the developers involved in the core project will learn some lessons from it moving forward for their own sake.

Yaz.

Better yet, try Pocahontas.

You know that me.com is real?

"Nipples"

Quote:"PhotoelasticTouch is a tabletop system designed to facilitate touch-based interaction with real objects made from transparent elastic material. The elastic material provides a realistic haptic interface, which when combined with the visual content displayed on the LCD tabletop, enables a coupling of the physical world and digital content. The system utilizes the photoelastic properties of transparent rubber to detect when a user pushes, pulls, or pinches the object, while the LCD provides appropriate visual feedback in accordance with the stress applied to the rubber."

Well.

CC.

I hope the 'Media Pad / TouchBook' end up being true. Because it would be a product that would be useful to me.

I don't want a laptop. I have an old one, and even if my old iBook is rather small, over the years, I realized that it's not small enough for a lot of uses. Example: we don't use it at the dinner table to refer to Wikipedia and I don't bring it often when going to friends and family unless I know I'm going to use it because it's slightly too big and heavy.

On the other end, there's the iPod Touch and the like. Doubtlessly useful, and despite not owning one (I really try to buy as little stuff as possible because 'the things you own end up owning you' ;-), I fear the screen is too small to enjoy it as an input device (very small virtual keyboard) and media device (small screen too). On the plus side, smartphones / iPod Touch *are* really portable, and to a level that won't be attained by any "media pad".

NetBooks. Almost, but I don't think they're for me yet. Waiting for the next wave. Why? It's not really a laptop but it's not really that portable either. (that's obviously subjective)

And last but not least, Apple products integration. I don't consider myself a fanboy, but I want to be productive. Despite using Debian at work everyday, Linux is still not up to my expectations yet (yet!). Is there some lock-in with Apple? Yes. Is this a problem with me? Not that much, as long at it doesn't get in my way too often. I'm ready to pay to have more pleasure using a computer. I don't want crap, even if it's free. (this is a general statement, not specifically related to software)

Now, I guess I did not need to write all this other than to have feedback from you: what do you think? Where am I wrong?

To back this up, the video clearly shows the volume gained by not making the battery removable. I've taken screenshots of schematics a laptop with a removable and with a built-in battery. They increased battery volume by 40%.

screenshots here:

http://gallery.me.com/mllaneza/100021

Ok, I haven't seen a me.com gallery recently, I'm kinda impressed.

In case some are from warmer climes and don't know what the fuss with ice storms is all about, here are a couple of damage scenes for your perusal. Basically, ice builds up on all external surfaces of a structure until either (a) the weight of the ice causes the structure to collapse, or (b) the surface area of the structure is increased to the point that the wind in the storm blows the structure over.

This is the KC1XX amateur radio contest station in Mason, New Hampshire, after the storm. More than 1.5 inches of radial ice.

Scroll down to December 12 and 14 in the maintenance and upgrade blog to see pictures of the ice storm damage at the K1TTT station in Peru, Massachusetts. His December 15 entry lists the damage, and subsequent entries begin the long process of rebuilding.

sort of like having a short domain name prefix

Most are parked with typo magnet type pages:
yes.com
no.com

a few are borderline, actually having something of a topic:

go.com

And only a very few actually have a purpose:

me.com (how did they get that?)

Because everyone thinks of "nisson" when they see "Z" (Z)

Hey this is kinda fun.

Paypal of course reminds everyone of "X" (X) Makes you seriously wonder if it's legit doesn't it?

OK found one that makes sense. Say Q for Qwest! (Q)

And for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, NO other domains (A-Z).com are in use. Just Q, X, and Z.

As soon as you get into bed with a mobile phone service provider, you join their corrupt world and you can expect unpleasant and inconsistent legal crap like this to start. I have a bad and ongoing experience with O2 in Germany, documented here. I sought their advice and did everything they told me when moving house, but they still sent their lawyers after me to claw extra euros out of my bank account. The subsequent correspondence would suggest that I obviously imagined the "help" that their customer "service" team provided.

There is no way I'm going to sign for a contract phone again, f*k that. Apple and Google can stick the entire mobile market where the sun doesn't shine.

Err, iPhone has had push email since 2.0 hit at the start of July. Straight from Exchange. No insane Blackberry software required on your server.

If you don't want Exchange, Kerio pushes too.

If you don't want your own mail server, MobileMe.

RIM's time has come.

Mobile Me. http://www.me.com/

Take Apple's new MobileMe web site for example. Try browsing it from Firefox 3 on Linux and it redirects you to an "unsupported browser" page, where you're politely informed that you need to use a supported browser: Safari 3 or "Firefox 2 or greater (Mac / PC)".

Well sometimes I use Firefox 3 on a bloody PC, what's unsupported about that. Ok it's Linux (various flavours) and not Windows, but does Firefox on Windows implement JavaScript differently to Firefox on Linux? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

This sux, and Apple should know better!

i.dailymail.co.uk

Here she is early in her career as a sportscasterette:

web.me.com

And here she is as Governorette of Alaska, sitting on a Grizzly Bear couch, with a stuffed King Crab on the coffee table, wearing flip flops and red toenail polish to work:

graphics8.nytimes.com

Again, I ask you in all seriousness - what's not to like here?

I'm not even sure that Angelina Jolie is qualified to play this chick in the movie version, and AJ played Lara Croft, for Goodness's sake.

I installed it today, and decided to quickly create my own useful plug-in for it: ROT-13 Encoder/Decoder.

One of the nice things about Ubiquity for anyone here who hasn't tried it is that it can modify the content of a website. As such, you can use my ROT-13 plug-in to decode the following text in-place (just as I'm using it to encode it in-place):

Tnqf, qba'g gryy zr lbh npghnyyl vafgnyyrq vg???

It's the ability to actually modify pages which makes this a bit more interesting.

Yaz.

Nice comment!

Incidentally, I tried MobileMe. It's a heap of garbage, it should be up there with all other good ideas that are atrociously implemented with zero useful help.

Actually there's only one, but it's REALLLLY fast and REALLLLY big - and we LIKE it that way. :-P

You know, the Mothership Model.

http://www.ld8.org/servers/servers.html

http://www.me.com/not_found/

sl.me.com too

Dilbert_ writes "Since most dot com domains of the form www.[common english word].com are taken today, you could theoretically surf around using just a dictionary. Now you can search the web from a page that will will automatically generate a fresh load of links, based on a dictionnary. " For some reason this amuses me greatly.