Myelin allows the chemical-electrical transmission to happen in a more "productive" manner. Faster and better neurotransmissions from one neuron to the next.
Glial cells are the support structure, but myelin is separate. Glial cells are not neurons. I guess now their finding that Glial cells do more than just support and can influence neurons cells in certain ways. If you ask me this isn't that extrodinary, because the more glial cells you have around the neurons, the better off things are so its obvious the glial cells influence neurons in some way. I guess we're just getting more knowledgable about how.
Maybe by the time I get this post in someone will have explained it better but I'll add my 2 cents anyways and expand on Chmrr's explanation. The computer mouse analogy works well. The mouse is a neuron. The big plasic chunk is the body of the neuron, and the tail is the axon. On the body are little strands which extend out to "touch" the axons of other neurons. When the neuron gets enough impulses from other neurons through the little strands (called dendrites) the neuron body fires a charge down the axon (mouse cord) off to one other neuron.
>The IRS, DoJ (Reno) and the FBI (Freeh) all are part of the Executive..
Whoops. I should have remembered that. Sigh.
Well anyway I hope my point still gets across- when any one of power in the Federal govt. makes a crypto announcement about wanting to loosen regs, and then they get a bunch of phone calls from other angry feds and the new proposed policies end up in the circular file.
Our silly crypto policies only hamstring US businesses from selling crypto products. It's not like the US is the only source of high end crypto products. When a foreign country wants to purchase crypto products they just go to some other foreign business. US businesses lose out.
Each time one branch of the US govt wants to loosen up on the crypto regs, another branch starts complaining. Last time it was Janet Reno, and then Louis Freeh. Now the IRS.
"Randy Lewis of RTMX said they started providing real-time code to the OpenBSD project last October or November, but lately, the integration of the real-time code has become more emphasized."
"Several engineers are currently working on integrating the RTMX O/S code into the OpenBSD 2.7 release, said Lewis. And he said that it will be completely integrated before the OpenBSD 2.8 release (in about six months). Once it is working on at least three architectures, Lewis said, it will be committed to OpenBSD and it will be officially announced."
It seems to me this won't combat piracy much - in one particular crowd. The average home user. When they go to do a big hardware upgrade and their Windows (recovery) CD can't do crap for them, are they going to go to the store and spend $100 on a OS they already have and own? No, they're going to get really pissed off and borrow someone else's copy. Why pay twice for something you already have? If Microsoft/OEM can have no morals, why should they?
The real big time pirates, or whatever you call them, don't care. They just go down to the store to buy the first original copy anyways.
Microsoft and the OEMs sure are doing their part to make sure the end users are powerless. Why don't they just start calling them what the OEMs and MSoft really think they are... "maggots." I can see it now "Dear MAGGOT, thank you for buying a Dell computer w/Windows 2000....."
Theo de Raadt said in a recent article that he was getting at least one venture capitalist calling him a week - and that he's turning down the offers. He's just not interested in going that route at all. I would think the GNU-like minded folks might respect that, but who knows?
I said above: Basically www.OpenBSD.org runs on a University of Alberta server. The bandwidth is provided free. OpenBSD is looking for venture capital and funds are limited so why look a gift horse in the mouth?
I meant to write the OpenBSD group is NOT, repeat, NOT looking for venture capital, and they're not like other distros like Red Hat who are more able to spend money on bandwidth and not worry about how it will affect the project's overall finances. Basically the OpenBSD project has limited financial resources so they want to use all the free resources they can get.
Basically www.OpenBSD.org runs on a University of Alberta server. The bandwidth is provided free. OpenBSD is looking for venture capital and funds are limited so why look a gift horse in the mouth?
While you're looking around the site, check out their T-shirts. I like the fish-cipher t-shirt t-shirt that any open source guy would like. It has the Blowfish code printed on the t-shirt's back.
Well the reason I used a family member as an example rather than say a friend or something is there are laws in the US which allow families to share property and money and such and not be penalized. I'm thinking about how you can work for a family business and be taxed differently or how you can gift a certain amount of money to a family memeber and not be taxed, etc. So there's this idea that a family can legally share property . So a father can buy a Disney video for their kids, but its ok if the wife watched Sleeping Beauty too. If they make you ID youself eachtime you listen to a song or a video, then your family can't share the property anymore. Thats the question I was trying to ask, is are we going to end up that way? No more sharing of family property amoung family memebers? I certainly wasen't trying throw out flame-bait. That's the first time one of my posts have been labeled flame-bait that I can remember. Odd.
So I have to type in a magic sentance now to listen to my music if its on my computer.
What if a family memeber wants to listen to my music and I'm not at home? They can't listen to it because they don't type the same as me? Do they have to buy their own copy? Or does the music industry really expect each individual to buy their own copy even if they're family?
In the future, am I going to have to speak my password out loud to listen to music on my walkman?
OpenBSD is slow including new features/software sets on purpose. Some OpenBSD developers have made remarks that if you want the latest feature "X", then OpenBSD may not be for you. They like to audit and examine things and make sure everything works and is secure first before including it. Some people may not like it, but that's their basic design philosophy.
But its really not a big deal (in my opinion). If you want Bind 8 on your OpenBSD box you can just install it.
My Slashdot Observation... What really funny though, is how the same general questions show up on every BSD related article on slashdot. "Whats the difference between Linux and BSD, which is better...." Someone should just make a Slashdot FAQ for this and be done with it.
On the subject of lipomas being a related symptom of Gulf War syndrome, well lipomas are found in people from the age of puberty to old age. Most often they take a year or more to grow into a size thats noticeable. So I wouldn't think that lipomas would be directly linked to Gulf War syndrome if the patient had them while in the Gulf. If they started getting a bunch of them later, well then mabye. Lipomas are actually pretty common and I know a few people who have them, even a doctor I know has them. They're usually never a problem and they're usually not noticable. You have to grab the surrounding tissue and move it around to feel 'em. Mabye you where removing those big ugly nasty ones they show in those photos. I definetly say something was amiss if you saw lots of soldiers with huge lipomas. Just mabye not Gulf War syndrome.
Personally, I have an uneducated guess that these symptoms are related to getting multiple vaccinations at once, stressing the immune system - and some people's bodies just react poorly to that. Do I have any proof? No. Just a guess.
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Rejewski from Poland taught the British how to crack the Enigma. The British expanded on it. He built and nammed the first 'bombe' used in decyphering the Enigma.
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They exclude hard drives because of cost factors and reliability. No hard drive equals cheaper product, higher profit margin (on public version, maybe their being nice with educational prices) and less stuff that breaks, which equals higher profit margins.
It also gives hardware hackers something to do figuring how to get a hard drive to work on that thing though! Fun.
The tech mail list is not the best list for those questions, which is why some people were probably crotchety and stuff. Bad excuse for them though. The Misc list is the best place for those questions - and you will still run into crotchety people there too, but you will get friendly people too. Personalities differ. I get the same results no matter where I go in real life or on the computer. Sorry to hear your experience wasen't so positive.
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To anyone who doesn't regularly read the BSD section this will seem like a fresh new post. In reality its been cut 'n pasted so many times its beyond belief. Someone really has it out for *BSD.
There are few worthy projects out there that DO NOT have interesting characters and wild political battles. Please take into consideration the technical merits of these operating systems, and remember that some people hate *BSDs for political reasons that are just as lowly as the not so nice stuff that goes on in the OS battles.
Well, I thought it was worthy of a discussion. I'd like to see some discussion and information that is independant of the source which wants you to sign over rights.
I find the whole notion of "we know whats best for you, so let us make the decisions and give us rights" very limiting to my freedom, but I'm very interested in hearing why it may still be a good idea, like having their attorney's defend it for me, etc. All in all, its a very foreign concept to me of handing over control of my creation, but I suppose that lack of control in inherent in code thats public, no matter what the liscence - which may mean that handing over the copyright to FSF shouldn't be such a big deal to me. Either way I think its worthy of a discussion, rather than just reading one sided arguments from once source.
Attention person who posted the above comment. We know some people who would be VERY interested in your little scheme. Please send a e-mail with your name, address, contact information, and your "plan" to root@fbi.gov.
Thank you.
Violence is not the answer. Remember Martin Luther King and M. Ghandi.
I agree. Its obvious that its legal, and it has stood up in courts. I'm not sure why this is on "Ask Slashdot" because there isn't he can do.
If they want to raise a general discussion about whether this is right or wrong a regular/. forum might be more normal I guess (oh well, who cares really - now that I think about it, I don't). His work falls under the DoE. What does he expect? If spy on employees is legal at IBM, why wouldn't you expect this at the DoE? Its not his equipment, and its not his time. Its our tax-dollars and I'm kinda glad that security is a strong concern of the supervisors there - but then I'm a security freak. Would I want to work their? No, probably not. Being watched sounds really icky, but its legally backed. It may be morally ambiguous, but legally, as you said, it is not.
First of all the TrustedBSD project is not is own separate OS. From the TrustedBSD site:
"TrustedBSD provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC). This project is still under development, and much of the code is destined to make its way back into the base FreeBSD operating system.."
Secondly, its not Linux emulation as it appears you think it is when you said:
In this situation, you wouldn't want to be emulating another OS, you'd want to stay native. I have no idea if the linux emulation will take advantage of multiple processors, but if not, you could well be losing out
Its not emulation like runnning VirtualPC's software that allows Macs to run Windows. It is Linux compatible.
"Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, SCO, NetBSD, and BSDI.
Result: users will not have to recompile programs already compiled for one of the compatible OS's, and will have access to a greater selection of off-the-shelf software, like the Microsoft FrontPage Server extensions for BSDI or WordPerfect for SCO."
See also the OpenBSDman page for Linux compatiblity to get more info on another BSD's linux compat.
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Chmrr,
The material that covers the axons of the neurons is myelin, not glial cells (see http://www.dictionary.com/cgi -bin/dict.pl?term=myelin.
Myelin allows the chemical-electrical transmission to happen in a more "productive" manner. Faster and better neurotransmissions from one neuron to the next.
Glial cells are the support structure, but myelin is separate. Glial cells are not neurons. I guess now their finding that Glial cells do more than just support and can influence neurons cells in certain ways. If you ask me this isn't that extrodinary, because the more glial cells you have around the neurons, the better off things are so its obvious the glial cells influence neurons in some way. I guess we're just getting more knowledgable about how.
Maybe by the time I get this post in someone will have explained it better but I'll add my 2 cents anyways and expand on Chmrr's explanation. The computer mouse analogy works well. The mouse is a neuron. The big plasic chunk is the body of the neuron, and the tail is the axon. On the body are little strands which extend out to "touch" the axons of other neurons. When the neuron gets enough impulses from other neurons through the little strands (called dendrites) the neuron body fires a charge down the axon (mouse cord) off to one other neuron.
>The IRS, DoJ (Reno) and the FBI (Freeh) all are part of the Executive..
Whoops. I should have remembered that. Sigh.
Well anyway I hope my point still gets across- when any one of power in the Federal govt. makes a crypto announcement about wanting to loosen regs, and then they get a bunch of phone calls from other angry feds and the new proposed policies end up in the circular file.
Our silly crypto policies only hamstring US businesses from selling crypto products. It's not like the US is the only source of high end crypto products. When a foreign country wants to purchase crypto products they just go to some other foreign business. US businesses lose out.
Well the executive branch may feel ok about easing up on the stupid crypto-export policies this particular week, but the IRS doesn't want 'em to now.
http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,37573,00.html
Each time one branch of the US govt wants to loosen up on the crypto regs, another branch starts complaining. Last time it was Janet Reno, and then Louis Freeh. Now the IRS.
I went looking for some more details on RTMX O/S - OpenBSD integration and found an article at:
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Ne ws196.html
"Randy Lewis of RTMX said they started providing real-time code to the OpenBSD project last October or November, but lately, the integration of the real-time code has become more emphasized."
"Several engineers are currently working on integrating the RTMX O/S code into the OpenBSD 2.7 release, said Lewis. And he said that it will be completely integrated before the OpenBSD 2.8 release (in about six months). Once it is working on at least three architectures, Lewis said, it will be committed to OpenBSD and it will be officially announced."
There was a short discussion about the merits of giving UNIX systems real time capabilities.
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Its on the OpenBSD misc-mail list.
http:// www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archive/openbsd-misc/2
and hey, "where's the beef" on that http://www.rtmx.com/ page? I want more details.
It seems to me this won't combat piracy much - in one particular crowd. The average home user. When they go to do a big hardware upgrade and their Windows (recovery) CD can't do crap for them, are they going to go to the store and spend $100 on a OS they already have and own? No, they're going to get really pissed off and borrow someone else's copy. Why pay twice for something you already have? If Microsoft/OEM can have no morals, why should they?
The real big time pirates, or whatever you call them, don't care. They just go down to the store to buy the first original copy anyways.
Microsoft and the OEMs sure are doing their part to make sure the end users are powerless. Why don't they just start calling them what the OEMs and MSoft really think they are... "maggots." I can see it now "Dear MAGGOT, thank you for buying a Dell computer w/Windows 2000....."
Theo de Raadt said in a recent article that he was getting at least one venture capitalist calling him a week - and that he's turning down the offers. He's just not interested in going that route at all. I would think the GNU-like minded folks might respect that, but who knows?
Here's the qoute from the upside interveiw with de Raadt (Its down at the bottom of the page):
Next to shooting down potential investors -- "I'm basically getting somebody trying to offer us venture capital once a week"
--Theo de Raadt
I said above: Basically www.OpenBSD.org runs on a University of Alberta server. The bandwidth is provided free. OpenBSD is looking for venture capital and funds are limited so why look a gift horse in the mouth?
I meant to write the OpenBSD group is NOT, repeat, NOT looking for venture capital, and they're not like other distros like Red Hat who are more able to spend money on bandwidth and not worry about how it will affect the project's overall finances. Basically the OpenBSD project has limited financial resources so they want to use all the free resources they can get.
Sure, I'd be glad to explain. You're wondering why www.OpenBSD.org is running on a Solaris server. See this comment from the misc OpenBSD mail archive.
Basically www.OpenBSD.org runs on a University of Alberta server. The bandwidth is provided free. OpenBSD is looking for venture capital and funds are limited so why look a gift horse in the mouth?
While you're looking around the site, check out their T-shirts. I like the fish-cipher t-shirt t-shirt that any open source guy would like. It has the Blowfish code printed on the t-shirt's back.
Well the reason I used a family member as an example rather than say a friend or something is there are laws in the US which allow families to share property and money and such and not be penalized. I'm thinking about how you can work for a family business and be taxed differently or how you can gift a certain amount of money to a family memeber and not be taxed, etc. So there's this idea that a family can legally share property . So a father can buy a Disney video for their kids, but its ok if the wife watched Sleeping Beauty too. If they make you ID youself eachtime you listen to a song or a video, then your family can't share the property anymore. Thats the question I was trying to ask, is are we going to end up that way? No more sharing of family property amoung family memebers? I certainly wasen't trying throw out flame-bait. That's the first time one of my posts have been labeled flame-bait that I can remember. Odd.
So I have to type in a magic sentance now to listen to my music if its on my computer.
What if a family memeber wants to listen to my music and I'm not at home? They can't listen to it because they don't type the same as me? Do they have to buy their own copy? Or does the music industry really expect each individual to buy their own copy even if they're family?
In the future, am I going to have to speak my password out loud to listen to music on my walkman?
I don't like this.
OpenBSD is slow including new features/software sets on purpose. Some OpenBSD developers have made remarks that if you want the latest feature "X", then OpenBSD may not be for you. They like to audit and examine things and make sure everything works and is secure first before including it. Some people may not like it, but that's their basic design philosophy.
But its really not a big deal (in my opinion). If you want Bind 8 on your OpenBSD box you can just install it.
My Slashdot Observation...
What really funny though, is how the same general questions show up on every BSD related article on slashdot. "Whats the difference between Linux and BSD, which is better...." Someone should just make a Slashdot FAQ for this and be done with it.
Someone may have already pointed this link out, but here it is anyway
BBC: Vaccines linked to Gulf War Syndrome
On the subject of lipomas being a related symptom of Gulf War syndrome, well lipomas are found in people from the age of puberty to old age. Most often they take a year or more to grow into a size thats noticeable. So I wouldn't think that lipomas would be directly linked to Gulf War syndrome if the patient had them while in the Gulf. If they started getting a bunch of them later, well then mabye. Lipomas are actually pretty common and I know a few people who have them, even a doctor I know has them. They're usually never a problem and they're usually not noticable. You have to grab the surrounding tissue and move it around to feel 'em. Mabye you where removing those big ugly nasty ones they show in those photos. I definetly say something was amiss if you saw lots of soldiers with huge lipomas. Just mabye not Gulf War syndrome.
Personally, I have an uneducated guess that these symptoms are related to getting multiple vaccinations at once, stressing the immune system - and some people's bodies just react poorly to that. Do I have any proof? No. Just a guess.
Fiber ring around Africa? Its not Qwest. It was Global Crossing Ltd and Lucent Technologies who were supposed to be involved in that.
Find the registrar you want to use, contact them and ask them to transfer your current domains at NSI to them, your new registrar.
They want your business and most are happy to do it. I just did this myself a few weeks ago and switched from NSI to DomainDiscover.com. All in all, it was a pleasant, painless experience. DomainDiscover doesn't charge a transfer fee, but has you instead sign up for an additional year through them for $30 USD. They honor the rest of the time you had on NSI's contract.
Rejewski from Poland taught the British how to crack the Enigma. The British expanded on it. He built and nammed the first 'bombe' used in decyphering the Enigma.
Have whatever registration co. you are switching to do the dirty work of transferring the domain over for you.
Most registration companies want your business so they offer the service for free. I recently did it. I switched from NetSol to DomainDiscover for this EXACT reason. I didn't like NetSol's crappy disclaimers and legal baloney. DomainDiscover ranked high on the list of good registrars as far as legal issues. DomainDiscover did all the transfer work for me and all I had to do was extend my domain name out another year with DD. No actuall transfer fee. One year is $30 USD, which may not be as cheap as Dotster, but for the mental peace of mind its worth it.
They exclude hard drives because of cost factors and reliability. No hard drive equals cheaper product, higher profit margin (on public version, maybe their being nice with educational prices) and less stuff that breaks, which equals higher profit margins.
It also gives hardware hackers something to do figuring how to get a hard drive to work on that thing though! Fun.
The tech mail list is not the best list for those questions, which is why some people were probably crotchety and stuff. Bad excuse for them though.
The Misc list is the best place for those questions - and you will still run into crotchety people there too, but you will get friendly people too. Personalities differ. I get the same results no matter where I go in real life or on the computer.
Sorry to hear your experience wasen't so positive.
To anyone who doesn't regularly read the BSD section this will seem like a fresh new post.
In reality its been cut 'n pasted so many times its beyond belief. Someone really has it out for *BSD.
There are few worthy projects out there that DO NOT have interesting characters and wild political battles. Please take into consideration the technical merits of these operating systems, and remember that some people hate *BSDs for political reasons that are just as lowly as the not so nice stuff that goes on in the OS battles.
Well, I thought it was worthy of a discussion. I'd like to see some discussion and information that is independant of the source which wants you to sign over rights.
I find the whole notion of "we know whats best for you, so let us make the decisions and give us rights" very limiting to my freedom, but I'm very interested in hearing why it may still be a good idea, like having their attorney's defend it for me, etc. All in all, its a very foreign concept to me of handing over control of my creation, but I suppose that lack of control in inherent in code thats public, no matter what the liscence - which may mean that handing over the copyright to FSF shouldn't be such a big deal to me. Either way I think its worthy of a discussion, rather than just reading one sided arguments from once source.
Attention person who posted the above comment. We know some people who would be VERY interested in your little scheme. Please send a e-mail with your name, address, contact information, and your "plan" to root@fbi.gov.
Thank you.
Violence is not the answer. Remember Martin Luther King and M. Ghandi.
I agree. Its obvious that its legal, and it has stood up in courts. I'm not sure why this is on "Ask Slashdot" because there isn't he can do.
/. forum might be more normal I guess (oh well, who cares really - now that I think about it, I don't). His work falls under the DoE. What does he expect? If spy on employees is legal at IBM, why wouldn't you expect this at the DoE? Its not his equipment, and its not his time. Its our tax-dollars and I'm kinda glad that security is a strong concern of the supervisors there - but then I'm a security freak. Would I want to work their? No, probably not. Being watched sounds really icky, but its legally backed. It may be morally ambiguous, but legally, as you said, it is not.
If they want to raise a general discussion about whether this is right or wrong a regular
First of all the TrustedBSD project is not is own separate OS.
From the TrustedBSD site:
"TrustedBSD provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC). This project is still under development, and much of the code is destined to make its way back into the base FreeBSD operating system.."
Secondly, its not Linux emulation as it appears you think it is when you said:
In this situation, you wouldn't want to be emulating another OS, you'd want to stay native. I have no idea if the linux emulation will take advantage of multiple processors, but if not, you could well be losing out
Its not emulation like runnning VirtualPC's software that allows Macs to run Windows. It is Linux compatible.
As see on FreeBSD site:http://www.freebsd.org/features.html
"Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, SCO, NetBSD, and BSDI.
Result: users will not have to recompile programs already compiled for one of the compatible OS's, and will have access to a greater selection of off-the-shelf software, like the Microsoft FrontPage Server extensions for BSDI or WordPerfect for SCO."
See also the OpenBSD man page for Linux compatiblity to get more info on another BSD's linux compat.
This comment was totally uncalled for.
Having a job unrelated to computers does not make you a slime-ball.
Having computer-related skills is certainly admirable but not having them, again, does not make them scum.
I admire the work of many people. Do you not think that working as a doctor in the third-world w/o the aid of computers is admirable?
Perhaps you didn't mean that or were just unclear?