While I was manually updating to 7u11, I found out that the 64-bit version does not even have auto update - only the 32-bit version does. How the hell can Oracle be so irresponsible? I know most people use the 32-bit version, but still, what the fuck.
These two quotes from the article are confusing to me: "We do have sensors and it usually takes about five minutes before the sensors will see the earthquake" and "scientific alerts can take between two and 20 minutes".
Why would a seismometer take so long? Can someone explain this?
As far as I know, the USGS website has data in realtime and doesn't necessarily wait for any kind of human verification. For example, within approximately 15 seconds of the Virginia quake last year, I checked the USGS site and they already had it in their list of recent quakes. For other quakes I've seen reported on Twitter, the USGS site has always had data up at least as soon as the first tweets I've seen.
Obviously this is a grand conspiracy by the Europeans to distract us from what really matters today - blowing shit up! If they really wanted to celebrate the Fourth, they would have blown up CERN.
There are all kinds of strategies that can be used to speed this up.
Let's say that we're trying to find a short path between someone in the US and someone in China. Start by trying to find a link that allows you to hop the Pacific ocean as quickly as possible. Try to find an American friend of the Chinese guy, or vice versa. When you've got it to two people in the same country, then start picking the nodes that allow you to hop the greatest distance.
You could come up with a group of highly-connected people to start with - the people who have lots of connections in various countries, economic classes, interests, etc. Create a graph of these people and pre-compute all the shortest paths between them. Then when you're going through all the combinations, you just need to get to brute-force your way to this central graph.
Of course this won't get you the shortest path between each pair of people, but it'll probably get you pretty close. Close enough to say if an average of "six degrees" is reasonable.
There was a series of chicken pox vaccine emails from around January 18, 2008, that caught my eye. Somewhat worrying that these emails have so many redactions. Seems like there might have been a turf battle between the governor's office and the Board of Education, and maybe the governor's office was engaging in some campaign to torpedo the immunization regulations. Here's part of them:
From: Sarah Palin
To: Frank Bailey; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry; Talis Colberg
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
Thanks - the Lt. Governor's release will hopefully clarify. I'll ask Talis to [REDACTED]
From: Frank Bailey
To: Sarah Palin; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
We can try to get this word out. I believe Gail Neubrugge's grandaughter (?) was severely disabled by a vaccine. Dan Saddler's pretty sharp on this issue as well. This'll be a tough pill for some folks.
From: Sarah Palin
To: Sean Parnell, Mike Tibbles
Subject: Re: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
[REDACTED]
From: Sean Parnell
To: Mike Tibbles
Cc: Sarah Palin
Subject: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
We received a regulations packet from the Board of Ed in which they mandate immunizations against chicken-pox for kids in school beginning July 1, 2009. [REDACTED]
I wonder if they have thought out the security of this system. Sending a message to nearly every person in the United States at the same time would be an amazing hack. Is it supposed to be all automated, or does each provider have to get the message from FEMA and then manually send it out on their network?
The submitter messed up two of the basic details of this story - the number is actually 295, not 250, and this value is as of 2007, rather than the implied present day.
(I know, I must be new here.)
Is this legal? I thought the MPAA cartel automatically owns the copyright to everything. These pirates should pay some sort of fine for attempting to subvert our capitalist democracy. Maybe send them to gitmo.
Title: "Electronics parts = Toyota woes"
Article: "condensation from heaters caused increased friction in the gas pedal, making it stick in some cases, making the problem a mechanical one and not an issue of electronics."
So electronics had nothing to do with it at all. And their suggestion that the complexity of electronics made this issue harder to diagnose isn't backed up at all.
Slashdot Mirror
While I was manually updating to 7u11, I found out that the 64-bit version does not even have auto update - only the 32-bit version does. How the hell can Oracle be so irresponsible? I know most people use the 32-bit version, but still, what the fuck.
I agree. We Americans do have rather large penises.
These two quotes from the article are confusing to me: "We do have sensors and it usually takes about five minutes before the sensors will see the earthquake" and "scientific alerts can take between two and 20 minutes".
Why would a seismometer take so long? Can someone explain this?
As far as I know, the USGS website has data in realtime and doesn't necessarily wait for any kind of human verification. For example, within approximately 15 seconds of the Virginia quake last year, I checked the USGS site and they already had it in their list of recent quakes. For other quakes I've seen reported on Twitter, the USGS site has always had data up at least as soon as the first tweets I've seen.
Obviously this is a grand conspiracy by the Europeans to distract us from what really matters today - blowing shit up! If they really wanted to celebrate the Fourth, they would have blown up CERN.
The original source of this article, which was copied verbatim, is NASA Earth Observatory. Give credit where credit is due.
Which versions of Java are vulnerable? Basic details are nice to have...
She always carries four days' supply of salami with her, in case someone serves her some pasta, which she does not eat.
I think I'm in love.
Slashdot is an amazing site. Thanks for creating it. Great work.
There are all kinds of strategies that can be used to speed this up.
Let's say that we're trying to find a short path between someone in the US and someone in China. Start by trying to find a link that allows you to hop the Pacific ocean as quickly as possible. Try to find an American friend of the Chinese guy, or vice versa. When you've got it to two people in the same country, then start picking the nodes that allow you to hop the greatest distance.
You could come up with a group of highly-connected people to start with - the people who have lots of connections in various countries, economic classes, interests, etc. Create a graph of these people and pre-compute all the shortest paths between them. Then when you're going through all the combinations, you just need to get to brute-force your way to this central graph.
Of course this won't get you the shortest path between each pair of people, but it'll probably get you pretty close. Close enough to say if an average of "six degrees" is reasonable.
Haha. Mod parent up please.
From: Sarah Palin
To: Frank Bailey; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry; Talis Colberg
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
Thanks - the Lt. Governor's release will hopefully clarify. I'll ask Talis to [REDACTED]
From: Frank Bailey
To: Sarah Palin; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
We can try to get this word out. I believe Gail Neubrugge's grandaughter (?) was severely disabled by a vaccine. Dan Saddler's pretty sharp on this issue as well. This'll be a tough pill for some folks.
From: Sarah Palin
To: Sean Parnell, Mike Tibbles
Subject: Re: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
[REDACTED]
From: Sean Parnell
To: Mike Tibbles
Cc: Sarah Palin
Subject: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations
We received a regulations packet from the Board of Ed in which they mandate immunizations against chicken-pox for kids in school beginning July 1, 2009. [REDACTED]
I wonder if they have thought out the security of this system. Sending a message to nearly every person in the United States at the same time would be an amazing hack. Is it supposed to be all automated, or does each provider have to get the message from FEMA and then manually send it out on their network?
This is totally unfair of Google to punish JC Penney like this. We need to help them restore their page rank. I'll start.
Nazi memorabilia
abortion factory
murder weapons
penny stock
worst place to work
token black guy
The submitter messed up two of the basic details of this story - the number is actually 295, not 250, and this value is as of 2007, rather than the implied present day. (I know, I must be new here.)
It's really bizarre that every comment that has pointed out this error has been modded down to -1. Facts are overrated, I guess.
Fuck Michigan
Is this legal? I thought the MPAA cartel automatically owns the copyright to everything. These pirates should pay some sort of fine for attempting to subvert our capitalist democracy. Maybe send them to gitmo.
8pm EDT, not GMT.
The Coppertone girl must have mod points today.
Does anyone know if NO-AD can block ADS? That's what I use to prevent burning sensations on my skin.
We must take the HTML5 specification and throw it into the Cracks of Doom. That is the only way to stop Ian Hickson from destroying the World of Men.
I'm reminded of the Lander game while watching these videos. They should try testing this thing out on non-flat terrain with limited fuel :)
Can you imagine if the Congress of the 1950s had, instead of funding the Apollo program, wanted to fund production of the Wright Flyer?
firpanopticone? Is that an alternate spelling for "fire"?
Title: "Electronics parts = Toyota woes"
Article: "condensation from heaters caused increased friction in the gas pedal, making it stick in some cases, making the problem a mechanical one and not an issue of electronics."
So electronics had nothing to do with it at all. And their suggestion that the complexity of electronics made this issue harder to diagnose isn't backed up at all.