Good point about the litigation cost. Gotta wonder how much money will be used up by this rather pointless lawsuit... not to mention all the bad press for NASA, looking like pricks for picking on an 80yo man. Yeah, Mitchell is a bit "woo-woo" weird, and he really shouldn't have taken that camera, etc., etc... big deal. Just issue a press release condemning the auction and be done with it. Get on with the real business of exploring space.
I saw a report like that too, and was about to get angry until they showed the patent for that idiotic round mouse (ie: directionless pointing device) that came out with the iMac G3's about 11~12 years ago. Some cub reporter comes across a Steve Jobs patent for a mouse, and assumes he invented the entire industry. Never mind that it was the single biggest FAIL in the history of pointing devices.
I (mostly) like Apple products, and am thankful for Jobs's contribution to the industry. But I also empathize with RMS's point of view.
Chicks who prefer the "Apple Cafe" over Starbucks ought to count as "geekier" than the average... It's not much, I know, but perhaps the best chance an average/.er can hope for.
Well, a couple dozen cases are all that have surfaced in that time. And given the Republicans' particular focus on this issue, you'd think they could have dug up more than that.
Out of curiosity, where where your foreign friends from, and how did they vote in the gay rights thing?
On the contrary, Republicans (in particular) have been looking for it for a long time. But even so, they have not been able to come up with much evidence of it.
As for your "foreign" voting friends, are you certain of their status at the time of voting? Did they tell you they were cheating? If so, did you try to talk them out of it? Did you report it to the authorities? When I was in school, back in the 80's, I would hang out with foreign students all the time, and I never met anyone who claimed to have voted in a US election.
Show me some evidence (not just hearsay) that there is a significant number of voter registrations which can't be matched with local records of birth, school, etc., then perhaps I'll take "voter fraud" more seriously.
I'm sure this would be successful, at least in some markets. It would fit right in with the coffee-shop/bookstore theme that has been popular for quite a while.
How about a "scientific" soundbite? If the science is difficult for the "masses" just deliver a pithy one-liner that actually describes the science -- something along the line of "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" -- and then let the media explain it to the masses. That is their job, after all.
If they ask you to explain it, just say, "I'm sorry, did you not take biology in high school? Well, go ahead and google it, and if you still have questions, feel free to call me tomorrow, I just don't want to take up valuable time right now, when so many others have questions to ask. Thank you."
Somehow I have to wonder if scientists themselves don't contribute to this dumbing down because they get too caught up in the limelight. Here's a geek who probably isn't used to media attention, especially not when being interviewed by a busty female reporter who's suddenly fascinated by his hard-earned knowledge. Then of course, there's the ego-trip of demonstrating how much smarter you are than "normal" people... so there's plausible cause for scientists to "dumb down" their findings, which would naturally have the undesirable effect of reinforcing the notion that "science is hard" among the masses.
> we have a hard time even making people identify themselves at the polls
Actually voter fraud is quite rare. There's been something like a couple dozen cases in the last decade or two, and most of those were just mistakes (eg: people voting in the wrong precinct). Election fraud, on the other hand, is a real reason for concern. With recent revelations on the weakness of electronic voting machines, that seems a far greater hazard.
Apparently another common factor in SHC deaths is that the victims tend to live alone. However, there is one freaky story in the Wikipedia article linked above.
In September 1985, Debbie Clark was walking home when she noticed an occasional flash of blue light.[13] As she claimed, "It was me. I was lighting up the driveway every couple of steps. As we got into the garden I thought it was funny at that point. I was walking around in circles saying, 'Look at this, mum, look!' She started screaming and my brother came to the door and started screaming and shouting 'Have you never heard of spontaneous human combustion?'" Her mother, Dianne Clark, responded, "I screamed at her to get her shoes off and it [the flashes] kept going so I hassled her through and got her into the bath. I thought that the bath is wired to earth. It was a blue light, you know, what they call electric blue. She thought it was fun, she was laughing."
Obviously that would have nothing to do the the wick effect, and there doesn't seem to be any corroboration of the event. Still... makes you wonder.
The best explanation I've heard is the wick effect.
The "wick effect" hypothesis suggests that a small external flame source, such as a burning cigarette, chars the clothing of the victim at a location, splitting the skin and releasing subcutaneous fat, which is in turn absorbed into the burned clothing, acting as a wick. This combustion can continue for as long as the fuel is available. This hypothesis has been successfully tested with animal tissue (pig) and is consistent with evidence recovered from cases of human combustion.[5][6] The human body typically has enough stored energy in fat and other chemical stores to fully combust the body; even lean people have several pounds of fat in their tissues.
The presumption is that the person dies of other causes, and then a lit cigarette or some other ignition source starts the process. And you're right, from what I've heard, a high percentage of SHC victims were known to be heavy drinkers, which would only add more fuel to the fire.
Yes. Don't fear the CLI. As the GP says, UbuntuForums is a great resource, and in many cases you can cut-n-paste commands directly from there into your terminal. If the OP is completely new to the CLI, he/she will want to be cautious about this and do some research (RTFman-page) to make sure the commands do what's wanted.
From the summary, it sounds like the OP wants to set up a forum for some group. Therefore, most of the "hard" part (the CLI stuff) will be required during initial setup. Once phpBB is up and running, most of the admin stuff will be done within the native phpBB interface.
One suggestion: get familiar with one of the numerous backup/restore utilities available. Google around for a comparative review and you'll probably find one that fits your GUI requirements. Figure out how to use it (preferably before you go live with the server) so you can easily save your bacon in case of a catastrophic fuckup.
The point is not the "piston" part, it's the "all makes and models" part. IANAPilot (just took a few lessons) but I know that you only get certified for a certain type of plane, one at a time. If you learned on a Cessna 152, they'll probably let you fly a Cessna 172, but that's about it. You have to get checked out on every make/model plane you fly. (And of course, for your check-out flight, you not only have to pay the rental for the plane, you also have to pay for the test.) That's why it's so rare to have a "blanket" rating like this.
None of the videos I've seen thus have a good view of the accident, which is a bit surprising, given the number of people in the audience and the ubiquity of cameras these days. Perhaps some others will surface in the coming days. It may help in determining the cause.
To me, the most useful-sounding application of this tech would be the ability to differentiate between click and hover. I only recently started using a multitouch smartphone (HTC Desire), and the thing I miss the most is the ability to hover over a widget to get the tool-tip popup to tell me what it's for.
The only thing that worries me is if the "Intelligent Design" folks latch onto this. It seems like this guy is going to continue tweaking the experiment in hope of generating some self-replicating strain of his bubbles. (Heck, I would too.) But the ID crowd might see this as "proof" that life could only begin with "guidance" from above.
Fair enough, but I can still blame Bush for ignoring his counter-terrorism team (eg: Richard Clark) practically screaming at him to take notice of Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks. And I can blame Bush (and particularly Cheney) for railroading the country into a second, unnecessary war in Iraq, based on false information (eg: Downing Street memo). There's plenty more to mention, but you get the idea.
Yes, I also blame the Dems for going along with it. But there's no denying it was pushed by the neo-cons from the beginning.
They wanted to goad America into war, in order to bankrupt the country (just like they did with the USSR). Bush gave them all that plus an extra "bonus" war for good measure.
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Good point about the litigation cost. Gotta wonder how much money will be used up by this rather pointless lawsuit... not to mention all the bad press for NASA, looking like pricks for picking on an 80yo man. Yeah, Mitchell is a bit "woo-woo" weird, and he really shouldn't have taken that camera, etc., etc... big deal. Just issue a press release condemning the auction and be done with it. Get on with the real business of exploring space.
I saw a report like that too, and was about to get angry until they showed the patent for that idiotic round mouse (ie: directionless pointing device) that came out with the iMac G3's about 11~12 years ago. Some cub reporter comes across a Steve Jobs patent for a mouse, and assumes he invented the entire industry. Never mind that it was the single biggest FAIL in the history of pointing devices.
I (mostly) like Apple products, and am thankful for Jobs's contribution to the industry. But I also empathize with RMS's point of view.
Fucked over and over beyond all recognition?
> Republican focus on trying to dig up cases of voter fraud
That was the whole point of cutting assistance to ACORN, remember?
(BTW, gays are still weird.)
Chicks who prefer the "Apple Cafe" over Starbucks ought to count as "geekier" than the average... It's not much, I know, but perhaps the best chance an average /.er can hope for.
Well, a couple dozen cases are all that have surfaced in that time. And given the Republicans' particular focus on this issue, you'd think they could have dug up more than that.
Out of curiosity, where where your foreign friends from, and how did they vote in the gay rights thing?
Hm... I meant to put a link in there, but forgot...
http://politics.salon.com/2008/04/28/scotus_2/
On the contrary, Republicans (in particular) have been looking for it for a long time. But even so, they have not been able to come up with much evidence of it.
As for your "foreign" voting friends, are you certain of their status at the time of voting? Did they tell you they were cheating? If so, did you try to talk them out of it? Did you report it to the authorities? When I was in school, back in the 80's, I would hang out with foreign students all the time, and I never met anyone who claimed to have voted in a US election.
Show me some evidence (not just hearsay) that there is a significant number of voter registrations which can't be matched with local records of birth, school, etc., then perhaps I'll take "voter fraud" more seriously.
Sorry about the typo...
I'm sure this would be successful, at least in some markets. It would fit right in with the coffee-shop/bookstore theme that has been popular for quite a while.
How about a "scientific" soundbite? If the science is difficult for the "masses" just deliver a pithy one-liner that actually describes the science -- something along the line of "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" -- and then let the media explain it to the masses. That is their job, after all.
If they ask you to explain it, just say, "I'm sorry, did you not take biology in high school? Well, go ahead and google it, and if you still have questions, feel free to call me tomorrow, I just don't want to take up valuable time right now, when so many others have questions to ask. Thank you."
Somehow I have to wonder if scientists themselves don't contribute to this dumbing down because they get too caught up in the limelight. Here's a geek who probably isn't used to media attention, especially not when being interviewed by a busty female reporter who's suddenly fascinated by his hard-earned knowledge. Then of course, there's the ego-trip of demonstrating how much smarter you are than "normal" people... so there's plausible cause for scientists to "dumb down" their findings, which would naturally have the undesirable effect of reinforcing the notion that "science is hard" among the masses.
Higher expectations tend to beget better results.
> we have a hard time even making people identify themselves at the polls
Actually voter fraud is quite rare. There's been something like a couple dozen cases in the last decade or two, and most of those were just mistakes (eg: people voting in the wrong precinct). Election fraud, on the other hand, is a real reason for concern. With recent revelations on the weakness of electronic voting machines, that seems a far greater hazard.
Apparently another common factor in SHC deaths is that the victims tend to live alone. However, there is one freaky story in the Wikipedia article linked above.
Obviously that would have nothing to do the the wick effect, and there doesn't seem to be any corroboration of the event. Still... makes you wonder.
The best explanation I've heard is the wick effect.
The presumption is that the person dies of other causes, and then a lit cigarette or some other ignition source starts the process. And you're right, from what I've heard, a high percentage of SHC victims were known to be heavy drinkers, which would only add more fuel to the fire.
Yes. Don't fear the CLI. As the GP says, UbuntuForums is a great resource, and in many cases you can cut-n-paste commands directly from there into your terminal. If the OP is completely new to the CLI, he/she will want to be cautious about this and do some research (RTFman-page) to make sure the commands do what's wanted.
From the summary, it sounds like the OP wants to set up a forum for some group. Therefore, most of the "hard" part (the CLI stuff) will be required during initial setup. Once phpBB is up and running, most of the admin stuff will be done within the native phpBB interface.
One suggestion: get familiar with one of the numerous backup/restore utilities available. Google around for a comparative review and you'll probably find one that fits your GUI requirements. Figure out how to use it (preferably before you go live with the server) so you can easily save your bacon in case of a catastrophic fuckup.
The point is not the "piston" part, it's the "all makes and models" part. IANAPilot (just took a few lessons) but I know that you only get certified for a certain type of plane, one at a time. If you learned on a Cessna 152, they'll probably let you fly a Cessna 172, but that's about it. You have to get checked out on every make/model plane you fly. (And of course, for your check-out flight, you not only have to pay the rental for the plane, you also have to pay for the test.) That's why it's so rare to have a "blanket" rating like this.
None of the videos I've seen thus have a good view of the accident, which is a bit surprising, given the number of people in the audience and the ubiquity of cameras these days. Perhaps some others will surface in the coming days. It may help in determining the cause.
To me, the most useful-sounding application of this tech would be the ability to differentiate between click and hover. I only recently started using a multitouch smartphone (HTC Desire), and the thing I miss the most is the ability to hover over a widget to get the tool-tip popup to tell me what it's for.
The only thing that worries me is if the "Intelligent Design" folks latch onto this. It seems like this guy is going to continue tweaking the experiment in hope of generating some self-replicating strain of his bubbles. (Heck, I would too.) But the ID crowd might see this as "proof" that life could only begin with "guidance" from above.
Fair enough, but I can still blame Bush for ignoring his counter-terrorism team (eg: Richard Clark) practically screaming at him to take notice of Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks. And I can blame Bush (and particularly Cheney) for railroading the country into a second, unnecessary war in Iraq, based on false information (eg: Downing Street memo). There's plenty more to mention, but you get the idea.
Yes, I also blame the Dems for going along with it. But there's no denying it was pushed by the neo-cons from the beginning.
They wanted to goad America into war, in order to bankrupt the country (just like they did with the USSR). Bush gave them all that plus an extra "bonus" war for good measure.
Maybe they should change the name to Playtronics.
Nailed it.