CFLs don't leak mercury into your environment either--unless they break.
I'm not saying it's not terrible, I'm saying that the very people that would have opposed we place a blanket ban on all mercury thermometers during that time would have likely had the same position.
That said, you also have to keep in mind it only poses a POTENTIAL issue *if broken*. I would imagine that you probably had more kids that chewed on/crushed/smashed/broke thermometers than what would ever happen with CFL bulbs.
Not to mention, how many of those things ended up in our landfills? You didn't go to Home Depot or Lowes or any other big box store at the time to dispose of mercury-filled thermometers. People just threw them out in the trash.
And what I'm implying isn't that/. is a conservative circle jerk, it's usually not. What I'm implying is that on certain charged issues it always seems like a ton come out of the woodwork.
Sounds like a conservative circle jerk in here. Gotta love the right wing purchasing of major media sites, particularly like Slashdot.
A) The law only mentions the incandescant bulb as a reference to what they're phasing out. The law never states that you "MUST" use CFL, only that bulbs need to meet a certain efficiency rating.
B) I always laugh at people who complain about mercury in a CFL. Up until very recently, that is, the past 15 years, we used to stick glass mercury sticks in our mouths *for hundreds of years*. In each of these sticks, it could contain up to 3 grams of mercury (Source: Wikipedia) If you want to use the EPA numbers, the EPA says that they contained 500mg of Mercury.
According to the EPA, your average CFL has 4mg of Mercury, or rather, it takes 125 CFL bulbs to equal that of *ONE* glass thermometer.
I'm not saying that Mercury isn't bad, because it is--but the reality is we used to stick MUCH more of it IN OUR MOUTHS, and most of you on here probably grew up doing so.
I think all of these issues tie together into this massive anti-intellectualism movement in the US. You are certainly correct on not being able to think independently (and challenge the status quo) in addition to people not being taught how to dissect arguments and even defend their own points.
Having lived in the US I can tell you that the problems you mentioned aren't actually that of the President's, but of the general populous. The entire economy and country is going to shit and it's a foundational problem with our core beliefs here in the US. It starts in school born out of initial social groups and anti-intellectualism. One could argue that we could change the schools to focus more on intellectual ability, but when you have extroverted people running the schools this is the sort of thing you get.
This starts in High School, but continues well into University. All across the US universities are trying hardest to get NCAA basketball teams and college football teams. They are building arenas, stadiums; while their science education programs fall by the wayside. Invest in more computers!? HA! No! We need that money to repaint the football team's field!
There are all sorts of arguments one can make about "oh well, you wouldn't HAVE a computer lab if the university couldn't generate money from the sports to build them!"--meanwhile, tuition costs continue to rise with no drops in sight. And ultimately, regardless of how you spin the numbers it still all boils down to the fact that we are VERY anti-intellectual here.
It's not an easy problem to fix. A President didn't cause it, and a President can't fix it. It's a fundamental problem that digs down deep into our society. It permiates VERY deeply. I'll put it another way. Our job interview process has become so insignificant about whether or not you can do the job and so much more about how you can "impress" someone during the interview. We have very specific do's and don'ts of interviews that are laid out very meticulously that have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you can do the job. The ability to potentially MAYBE do the job (i.e. you have a university degree) merely gets you through the HR trash pile. The interview itself involves a lot of things like "speak assertively, be confident." "Make direct eye contact." "Smile, shake hands." "Dress appropriately." and lovely interview questions such as "What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
In fact, this process has boiled down to even the lowliest of retail jobs: Best Buy and others make you take a personality test before you're invited in for a job interview. They are looking for extroverted, bubbly, happy people.
And this doesn't even get into the extremely polarized issues such as healthcare and "gay marriage". But we do have an enterprising group of people that are keenly aware of this and take massive advantage of it.
Until the country as a whole can overcome these issues, it doesn't ultimately matter who is in office--we're still fucked.
He might fit the technical bill at the company but I'm not sure he has the innovative skill. I mean, he wrote Sysinternals and knows Windows in and out--but how well he could translate that technical knowledge into some new and exciting product, who knows.
Create completely malware infected repository that keeps most common packages +1 to the version in say, Ubuntu.(so the system always thinks there's upgrades) Local privilege escalation on client machine. Insert new public key that accepts malware hosts. Add malware repository to user's sources.list. Go to town.
Well, I mean, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be equal, but the reality is they aren't. Tests like this don't tell the whole story because someone feels the "test isn't equal" if they don't.
The regular person doesn't know that. This article hitting slashdot will reach a lot of people that won't know the difference. It should be a test of what you experience.
It's not a matter of whether or not they included 3D Compositing on Ubuntu. In Windows 7, Aero is the default view for Windows and should be treated as such. Almost no computer with Windows 7 doesn't include Aero.
Unfortunately the article is worded as if they simply used out of the box software. Windows 7, and Ubuntu. But the reailty is, out of the box, Windows 7 uses Aero. If they turned off Aero, that's not an out of the box test and it should be noted as such.
This is likely even more of a concern on the combination GPU/CPU systems where Intel/AMD are banking on the fact that you'll be rendering entirely on the GPU.
What got Microsoft in trouble with IE was when they announced that they were disbanding the IE team and were no longer working on the browser. This was in the early 2000's after Windows XP's release.
We would be on IE10 or 11 by now had they not made that stupid move.
None of the information in that pastebin points to any person he's named being involved with Lulzsec.
[19:53] kayla also, word on the internet 306 fox.com employess passwords are getting leaked on http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec soon after a destruction of many of their linkdins [20:19] Sabu http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec [20:19] Sabu it begins
What does this mean? Means nothing. It means that someone posted a link to the twitter page saying that "passwords are getting leaked" and this "Sabu" kid acknowledging that they're posted. Doesn't mean he posted 'em.
This in and of itself is not an admission of involvement with Lulzsec because there was somebody that posted about it *BEFORE* he did.
Once again, no proof that any of these dudes are involved. Just because they sit on IRC, hang out with each other, maybe run a botnet, and know python? They're Lulzsec?
It is perfectly within an employer's right to not hire you except within the bounds of discrimination laws, and even then they can usually get away with most things unless you can actually prove it.
Also, racial employment is only really counted company-wide. So if a particular manager hates black people, as long as there's enough black people in the rest of the company he's free to discriminate.
They are biased against stupidity, though once in a while you can tell when someone has paid off an organization to rank their stories highly (typically when major Republican news gets to the top of the front pages of these sites).
You can tell that those are flukes/artificially increased because it's not normal when a Pro-Right article makes it to the front page of Reddit. And while there's a lot of "pro right-wing stuff" going on, it's always the *big* articles that make it there, never the small stuff--always the large, provocative things.
Either way, if you think it's biased because the people there are more calculated and logical, then I dunno what to tell you:P
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah. They needed something for all of those "liberal arts" types to do.
Learning IPv6 for this reason :P
lol. I came here to make the same post. Good one.
CFLs don't leak mercury into your environment either--unless they break.
/. is a conservative circle jerk, it's usually not. What I'm implying is that on certain charged issues it always seems like a ton come out of the woodwork.
I'm not saying it's not terrible, I'm saying that the very people that would have opposed we place a blanket ban on all mercury thermometers during that time would have likely had the same position.
That said, you also have to keep in mind it only poses a POTENTIAL issue *if broken*. I would imagine that you probably had more kids that chewed on/crushed/smashed/broke thermometers than what would ever happen with CFL bulbs.
Not to mention, how many of those things ended up in our landfills? You didn't go to Home Depot or Lowes or any other big box store at the time to dispose of mercury-filled thermometers. People just threw them out in the trash.
And what I'm implying isn't that
Sounds like a conservative circle jerk in here. Gotta love the right wing purchasing of major media sites, particularly like Slashdot.
A) The law only mentions the incandescant bulb as a reference to what they're phasing out. The law never states that you "MUST" use CFL, only that bulbs need to meet a certain efficiency rating.
B) I always laugh at people who complain about mercury in a CFL. Up until very recently, that is, the past 15 years, we used to stick glass mercury sticks in our mouths *for hundreds of years*. In each of these sticks, it could contain up to 3 grams of mercury (Source: Wikipedia) If you want to use the EPA numbers, the EPA says that they contained 500mg of Mercury.
According to the EPA, your average CFL has 4mg of Mercury, or rather, it takes 125 CFL bulbs to equal that of *ONE* glass thermometer.
I'm not saying that Mercury isn't bad, because it is--but the reality is we used to stick MUCH more of it IN OUR MOUTHS, and most of you on here probably grew up doing so.
I think all of these issues tie together into this massive anti-intellectualism movement in the US. You are certainly correct on not being able to think independently (and challenge the status quo) in addition to people not being taught how to dissect arguments and even defend their own points.
@AC
Having lived in the US I can tell you that the problems you mentioned aren't actually that of the President's, but of the general populous. The entire economy and country is going to shit and it's a foundational problem with our core beliefs here in the US. It starts in school born out of initial social groups and anti-intellectualism. One could argue that we could change the schools to focus more on intellectual ability, but when you have extroverted people running the schools this is the sort of thing you get.
This starts in High School, but continues well into University. All across the US universities are trying hardest to get NCAA basketball teams and college football teams. They are building arenas, stadiums; while their science education programs fall by the wayside. Invest in more computers!? HA! No! We need that money to repaint the football team's field!
There are all sorts of arguments one can make about "oh well, you wouldn't HAVE a computer lab if the university couldn't generate money from the sports to build them!"--meanwhile, tuition costs continue to rise with no drops in sight. And ultimately, regardless of how you spin the numbers it still all boils down to the fact that we are VERY anti-intellectual here.
It's not an easy problem to fix. A President didn't cause it, and a President can't fix it. It's a fundamental problem that digs down deep into our society. It permiates VERY deeply. I'll put it another way. Our job interview process has become so insignificant about whether or not you can do the job and so much more about how you can "impress" someone during the interview. We have very specific do's and don'ts of interviews that are laid out very meticulously that have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you can do the job. The ability to potentially MAYBE do the job (i.e. you have a university degree) merely gets you through the HR trash pile. The interview itself involves a lot of things like "speak assertively, be confident." "Make direct eye contact." "Smile, shake hands." "Dress appropriately." and lovely interview questions such as "What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
In fact, this process has boiled down to even the lowliest of retail jobs: Best Buy and others make you take a personality test before you're invited in for a job interview. They are looking for extroverted, bubbly, happy people.
And this doesn't even get into the extremely polarized issues such as healthcare and "gay marriage". But we do have an enterprising group of people that are keenly aware of this and take massive advantage of it.
Until the country as a whole can overcome these issues, it doesn't ultimately matter who is in office--we're still fucked.
He might fit the technical bill at the company but I'm not sure he has the innovative skill. I mean, he wrote Sysinternals and knows Windows in and out--but how well he could translate that technical knowledge into some new and exciting product, who knows.
This likely had to do with the bitlocker update.
Infect GCC with malware so that every future built package is infected.
Create completely malware infected repository that keeps most common packages +1 to the version in say, Ubuntu.(so the system always thinks there's upgrades)
Local privilege escalation on client machine.
Insert new public key that accepts malware hosts.
Add malware repository to user's sources.list.
Go to town.
This would not be difficult to do.
The Windows Recovery Disk can do this also without having to wipe the partitions.
Well, I mean, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be equal, but the reality is they aren't. Tests like this don't tell the whole story because someone feels the "test isn't equal" if they don't.
The regular person doesn't know that. This article hitting slashdot will reach a lot of people that won't know the difference. It should be a test of what you experience.
gl4ss:
It's not a matter of whether or not they included 3D Compositing on Ubuntu. In Windows 7, Aero is the default view for Windows and should be treated as such. Almost no computer with Windows 7 doesn't include Aero.
Unfortunately the article is worded as if they simply used out of the box software. Windows 7, and Ubuntu. But the reailty is, out of the box, Windows 7 uses Aero. If they turned off Aero, that's not an out of the box test and it should be noted as such.
This is likely even more of a concern on the combination GPU/CPU systems where Intel/AMD are banking on the fact that you'll be rendering entirely on the GPU.
Is it just me or did they not include Aero for the assessment?
The video hardware is more efficient at rendering than the CPU, so this could skew the results quite a bit by potentially having Aero off.
That I don't really know, but it's extremely pervasive here in the US. It's why certain political groups are able to get the control they have.
It probably traces back to at least the civil war though, maybe further.
What got Microsoft in trouble with IE was when they announced that they were disbanding the IE team and were no longer working on the browser. This was in the early 2000's after Windows XP's release.
We would be on IE10 or 11 by now had they not made that stupid move.
None of the information in that pastebin points to any person he's named being involved with Lulzsec.
[19:53] kayla also, word on the internet 306 fox.com employess passwords are getting leaked on http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec soon after a destruction of many of their linkdins
[20:19] Sabu http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
[20:19] Sabu it begins
What does this mean? Means nothing. It means that someone posted a link to the twitter page saying that "passwords are getting leaked" and this "Sabu" kid acknowledging that they're posted. Doesn't mean he posted 'em.
This in and of itself is not an admission of involvement with Lulzsec because there was somebody that posted about it *BEFORE* he did.
Once again, no proof that any of these dudes are involved. Just because they sit on IRC, hang out with each other, maybe run a botnet, and know python? They're Lulzsec?
LOL Come on.
Technically, it's businesses leaning on government which then lean on other businesses.
It is perfectly within an employer's right to not hire you except within the bounds of discrimination laws, and even then they can usually get away with most things unless you can actually prove it.
Also, racial employment is only really counted company-wide. So if a particular manager hates black people, as long as there's enough black people in the rest of the company he's free to discriminate.
Don't you just love our laws?
I wish I could mod you up significantly.
Because it's more secure than Linux? har har ;)
They are biased against stupidity, though once in a while you can tell when someone has paid off an organization to rank their stories highly (typically when major Republican news gets to the top of the front pages of these sites).
:P
You can tell that those are flukes/artificially increased because it's not normal when a Pro-Right article makes it to the front page of Reddit. And while there's a lot of "pro right-wing stuff" going on, it's always the *big* articles that make it there, never the small stuff--always the large, provocative things.
Either way, if you think it's biased because the people there are more calculated and logical, then I dunno what to tell you
Because he pirated XP.