Slashdot Mirror

I have no idea about the carter stimulus.

Basic Macroeconomics theory says that any spending in which the state intervenes on the market by hiring people to do some job has multiplier greater than one. of course how much greater depends on the job and the situation.

If you google around, actually see for example this:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/weerapana/econ202/econ202pdf/lecture%20202-16.pdf
in page 2 the multiplier is greater than one because b is positive.

See also the equations in here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier

This very basic models might be, and actually are, oversimplified, but during the crisis made correct prediction, e.g. about the rate while many other models had nothing to say or made completely wrong predictions.

By the way, see the bump in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Debt.png
that was the spending for WW2, arguably while those were money spent to DESTROY things, it served to reboot the whole US industry, getting the US (and the whole world including especially europe) out of a depression/stagnation and arguably into 20 a path of 20 years of solid growth. I'd argue the multiplier was greater than 1 :)

I wonder why the environment movement has been losing its credibility - or, since I suppose you were around in the 60's-70's, call it a "credibility gap" http://www.wellesley.edu/Writing/Nixon/Slideshow/nixon_sign.jpg

You can't make the excuse "kids today..."

Maybe the movement has been "infiltrated"?

http://www.ncforestry.org/docs/Latest%20News/articles/Archives/environmental_movement_is_rapidl.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/opinion/12kristof.html

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/

Ed is the true path to Nirvana! Ed has been the choice of educated and ignorant alike for centuries! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

(Goddamned "Lameness filter" has lessened the correct impact of this holy rant.)

And you know who is really laughing? The Chinese. They must be having hysterics.

You are aware that Kennedy and Kerry are the senators for Massachusetts and that there's a lot more in Massachusetts than just Boston, right?

You're right. There's Newton. Personally, I like how my friend Don, described Massachusetts. "Three towns away would be the length of those truly tiny New England states. But, the large commonwealth of Massachusetts can accomodate a full six or seven towns long, I'd imagine."

Ah, no.

Ed is the standard text editor

Microsoft Windows File Sharing needs to get fixed,
  too many wizzard interfaces with Windows XP and Vista hide what is really going on with the settings .

  Windows 95 and 98 had a great interface . Sure NTFS wasnt around then , but it was simple for the user
  http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/FileSharing/Win dows/98me_imgs/properties.jpg

  So many people Windows XP Home have lost data due to it sharing via Administrator and full rights .
  ( Yes the common user doesnt want to pay a extra amount for classic file sharing)
  The amount of times Ive seen people cut and paste data accross the network ,
  in the process losing it off the source PC is amazing .

  In the home envoirment most users now use DC++ instead of Windows File sharing ,
  its secure, easy and quicker only draw back they have to run a DC++ server .

  Isnt it about time a Desktop Windows os finaly removed Server and admin functions :
  Remove admin shares ,
  dont allow people to share the windows drive ,
  Store profiles , bookmarks and data on another partition ,
  Remove telnet server
  Remove ICS
  Remove ISS Webserver
  (basicaly a lot of options and stuff that Nlite and XPY does to fix windows bloat)

  Also another thing that beginers mixed with Windows file sharing is when DHCP fails
  on class C network , instead of re trying to askin the user , it goes to a class b 169.x.x.x IP

------------------------

Charliebrownau
http://charliebrownau.livejournal.com/

Isn't Kent State the college where they executed Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s?

I guess the only lesson the college learned from that hideous exercise was that published pictures of their students can get the college into trouble.

A couple of tips, in case someone might not be familiar with these...

Running as a plain old User privileges may be good for some situations, but I run my XP box with Power User privileges for a bit more power. This option is not presented by the Control Panel applet, but is available through Computer Management, opened by right-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage. Once there, go to System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups. Double-click Power Users on the right-side window and add your user account to the group.

For more info on the differences between the privilege levels, see here.

If you use applications that require admin privileges, either use the Run as... command from the right-click menus of the shortcuts (or the runas command inside the cmd shell), or modify the shortcuts permanently so clicking them always produces the dialog for entering alternate credentials: right-click an icon, choose Properties, click Advanced inside the Shortcut tab and check the box labeled Run with different credentials.

This category is otherwise known as "Ask Slashdot... to do your work."

This is the opposite idea: instead of rewarding pages that are linked from trusted Web sites, pages linking to bad Web sites are punished. See: Web Spam, Propaganda and Trust.

Have you seen Russian cartoons? Trust me, they make weird crap like that.

Like quiche, which is an omelet for all I can tell.

Here's a link describing some attributes of quiche eaters.

OK, cloned cat, nice, but how long will it live?

People who read about cloning don't realize that the cloned cells have shortened telomeres. The Telomere acts as a cap to protect DNA as its copied. As cells reproduce, the telomere gets shorter and shorter until the DNA isn't protected anymore and you start seeing aging diseases.

Sure, this cat looks like a kitten, but at a cellular level, it's still an aged cat. It may not have much longer to live than its twin did if it lived out the rest of its natural life.

This is exactly what happened to Dolly the sheep. Dolly lived to be 6, about half the age of an average sheep.

This is just flatly and totally WRONG. A power user can do exactly that.

• Create local user accounts
• Modify user accounts which they have created
• Change user permissions on users, power users, and guests
• Install and run applications that do not affect the operating system
• Customize settings and resources on the Control Panel, such as Printers, Date/Time, and Power Options
• Do anything a User can

• Access other users' data without permission
• Delete or modify user accounts they did not create

It's bullshit security. If I delete the Root account on my Unix box, it doesn't make Unix suddenly more secure. It's just bullshit.

The fact that Windows ALLOWS you to log-in as a true administrator, doesn't make it any less secure, though it does allow someone stupid to use the OS in a less secure way.

• Babson College Wellesley
• Bentley College Waltham
• Berklee College of Music Boston
• Boston Architectural Center Boston
• Boston College Newton
• Boston Conservatory, The Boston
• Boston University Boston
• Brandeis University Waltham
• Bunker Hill Community College Boston
• Cambridge College Cambridge
• Emerson College Boston
• Emmanuel College Boston
• Fisher College Boston
• Harvard University Cambridge
• Hellenic College Brookline
• Lesley College Cambridge
• MIT Cambridge
• Massachusetts College of Art Boston
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
  and Allied Health Sciences Boston
• Mount Ida College Newton
• New England Conservatory of Music Boston
• New England School of Law Boston
• Northeastern University Boston
• Pine Manor College Chestnut Hill
• Radcliffe College Cambridge
• Simmons College Boston
• Suffolk University Boston
• Tufts University Medford
• Wellesley College Wellesley
• Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston
• Wheelock College Boston

The very fact that Unix-like OSs have a concept of a "root" account (which the Windows "equivalent", "administrator", does not even come CLOSE to matching in terms of actual separation of permissions), makes it all but invincible to virii.

Lots of other people have already corrected you on many points, but no one commented on "seperation of permission" so I'll go ahead and tell you why you're wrong about this one ;)

"root" gets full control of your box. In Unix-like OSes there is no "half-root" that can only do some super powerful things, and you can't easily & efficiently break out security roles.

Certainly "everything is a file" (except for when it isn't) so you can have a group own a file, and have multiple users be in that group. For example you can't have one user have full control, another user have only read access, another user only have write access, and a fourth user have both read&write access, while everyone else has no access. It's impossible in traditional Unix (some Unix's do support ACLs, but it's certainly not a standard feature). I imagine many syscalls are probably (although I haven't investigated) root or not root.

NT, on the other hand, does actually contain more seperation of privledges. Certainly there is still an Administrators group, and anyone belonging to this group has full access to the machine. NT uses security groups to give permission sets to users. So far we sound like Unix. But under NT the groups are used for providing broad different types of access. To list a few: Debugging Users, DNS admin, DHCP admin, certificate publishers, group policy admin, and I'm sure there's many more. And with NT's system you never get into a jam where you can't assign the permission combinations you want. ACLs provide all the flexibility you want.

And you can also take steps to provide interesting degrees of flexibility. Let me give you an example: I could make a InstallsNewSoftware group that has write access to %PROGRAMFILES% & access to write to a subset of the registry. Hell, I could even NOT give them the ability to delete files in %PROGRAMFILES%.

Under those conditions most programs would install. And guess what? Windows XP ships with a power users group which is like this, and even better. It also allows power users to create new user accounts & modify the accounts they've created (interestingly NOT the accounts they didn't create). They also get the ability to update settings in the control panel such as printers, date/time, & power options.

But they can't mess up the operating system. That's a pretty heavy set of privledge seperation that ships out of the box in a 2 year old Microsoft product. It beats anything the major Linux distributors ship today. Hopefully you can now affort to go and buy a clue :)

Welcome to Wellesley College , a liberal arts college for women.

Right. Because women are the target audience for anime. And I read Maxim for the articles.

I think the descriptions at Wikipedia and at everything2 are both better.

Unless you have some magic printer-ready toilet paper the results of that could be pretty ghastly.

However, I do not love the Harlequin romance. I do not love the latest business bore, or the danielle doorstop. I find Stephen King* mildly diverting, though rarely for all 600 pages.

Digitization will stop the disgusting waste of trees (which I also happen to like) on books that are truly consumables. What are the chances that you will keep the latest bestseller on your shelf and pass it down to your children? Very small, which is as it should be.

In this new world of electronic information, precious book-making time and space and labor will go towards creating the books that aren't consumer items. Rousseau's works will come out in marvelous new leather-bound limited editions, perhaps hand illustrated and hand bound, and signed by (for example) the author's nephew's brother's ex-wife. The most wonderful and enduring works will make it onto paper, and the home library will be a joy to walk through. The world is slowly changing to a place where people have enough money to afford material objects created by artisans** instead of by mass manufacture. The reason for this change is and will continue to be gains in efficiency in manufacturing consumer items, as well as the digitization of needlessly tree-based information***.

New books should have to past the test of time before we honor them with the hand of an artisan bookmaker****. I for one am looking forward to the day when I can research Victorian England by downloading scholarly texts, and then enjoy some quiet time on the porch with a beautiful copy of Little Dorrit.

Notes
* The perfect candidate for throwaway e-books, so we can stop throwing away the t-books
** Novica.com
*** Newspapers, most textbooks, newsletters, junk mail, romance novels, etc. -- just to name a few
**** I like maps too

----------