And in regards to this specific story, under the Fair Tax there wouldn't be an IRS, nor would any other government agency need comprehensive files about every single American that contain sufficient information to steal their identity.
Between the 1950s and 1980s, the amount of solar energy penetrating through the atmosphere to the Earth's surface appeared to be declining, by about 2% per decade.
then later:
"During the solar dimming we had really no temperature rise. And only when the solar dimming disappeared could we really see what is going on in terms of the greenhouse effect, and that is only starting in the 1980s."
Every single time I've ever pointed out the global temperature drop from 1942 to 1975, a number of liberals jump at my throat and claim I'm making it up. Now here's a climatologist making the statement that temperature didn't rise from '50s to the '80s. The liberals will never buy this; that one statement of his invalidates the entire study in their eyes.
That is truly the point of being a scientist and the point of following the rigors of the scientific process.
I know a lot of scientists. Very few of them give this as their reason for becoming a scientist. Usually it's more along the lines of "[insert well-known example of their discipline] are cool and I wanted to work with them". Often it's "there's big money in [insert example of their discipline]".
If you think scientists are impartial guardians of truth in everything and everybody else is the opposite, you're not even naive; you're delusional. And in my experience, those who truly feel they are such paragons of verity are the ones most likely to fool themselves about anything that doesn't support their pet theory.
Of course, the fact that scientists are human and flawed doesn't make science invalid; I just refuse to replace worship of god with worship of science. I'll take worship of neither, thanks, and recognize science for what it is; a human invention that happens to be pretty good for learning about the world around us, but like any other invention is subject to manipulation by human hands, hearts, and minds.
If you for some reason HAVE to use Internet Explorer, at the very least you should be using Deepnet Explorer, with the anti-phishing (and anti-everything-else) turned on. If you don't know that by now, please sell your computer before you hurt somebody.
Automated installs have been available on Unix for over a decade. Why is re-installing a machine still a big deal?
Mainly because on UNIX, the need was recognized long ago and so we developed the capability to reinstall the OS and then recover everything else from a backup and it works.
On Windows it isn't so straightforward. The OS doesn't cooperate very well with backing up crucial pieces that make recovering a backup of your applications problematic. Unless you invest in third-party tools, you're likely to need to reinstall all your applications manually and be selective in how you recover the backup.
More proof people see what they want to see in spite of the facts.
For instance, some people didn't read down further, to see what the Republicans proposed in its place; namely, to broaden the powers of the FCC to investigate claims regarding net neutrality, and establishing stiff fines.
This bill wouldn't have just prevented a group of property owners from choosing to downgrade service to their competitors; it would also have prevented them from offering premium services to their partners. In fact, it might have prevented your local ISP from offering cheaper rates for service to non-profit organizations.
Throwing more laws at a problem isn't always the best way to deal with it; this was more about attempting to get votes than attempting to protect consumers.
Based on the assumption that your average crack-addled goblin will steal anything that's not nailed down, I achieve the same effect by carrying a gun, studying American Kenpo, and not letting my laptop bag out of my reach in public places.
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Finally, I'm certainly not above trolling, but my comments in this article have been both sincere representations of my personal opinion and have been stated appropriately. Your accusation of trolling is as inaccurate as it is inflammatory.
In hindsight, I think you're right; it was unnecessarily confrontational. I apologize.
So... when the customers are done with their proofs of concept, will they then build out their apps on the AMD boxes in their own datacenters?
Some. But most will continue to use Intel for the near future, and even if in the farther future AMD passes Intel in Enterprise server sales, this'll still be worth Intel's time because they're not just competing with AMD; they're also competing with Sun and IBM in the server space. Linux competes with that even more (currently) than it does with Windows, in my opinion.
I personally prefer Ubuntu on AMD, but the Fortune 500 company for which I work uses RedHat on Intel, and it's a joy to work with but could be better. Hopefully this will help make it better.
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While what you say about Mutt vs. Pine is true, it's not relevant. It's not like Gmail is Open Source either. Yes, you can use an Open Source web browser to access it, but you can use an Open Source ssh/telnet/whatever client to access Pine.
Your response is more of an anti-Pine troll than a commentary on the article.
Lies. They donated the money to Theo de Raadt. If he wants to buy old hats with it he is free to do so.
Pardon me if this has been discussed before, but does anybody know what the relevant laws are? I imagine Theo isn't just free to blow OpenBSD donations on candy and gum; that would seem like fraud. Leaving aside for the moment any questions of personal ethics, wouldn't it open him up to charges?
I linked them to you several times. Since you've taken time out of this discussion to add me to your Foes list, but not to read the things I've sent you, you are clearly not interested in learning anything here, so I'll just return the favor and bid you good day.
There is nothing that can be ignored on the page you linked to. You're just blowing smoke.
Oh, I agree there's nothing that can be ignored. There is, however, scientific data that the "global warming will kill us all and it's the fault of the United States of America" crowd are trying very very hard to ignore, and to cover with smoke so that others will ignore it.
I repeat; there is no theory that both attributes global warming to the actions of mankind AND accounts for the proven global cooling trend from the early '40s to the mid '70s. There is ample data showing this trend wasn't confined to one hemisphere, and even if it were, it's the hemisphere where most industrialization is to be found. Weart doesn't attempt to address that; he just lies about the data that doesn't fit his pet theory.
There are, however, theories that account for all the observed facts. None of them attribute global warming to mankind more than as a slight contributing factor, and none of them can predict how the trend will proceed. Nobody knows what global temperatures will be like in 100 years. Nobody can prove that any suggested changes in how mankind does business will have any measurable effect on global temperatures in 100 years. Anybody that tells you he can predict either is lying to you.
I frankly don't understand why that doesn't bother you.
The Slashdot post is misleading; they donated to the OpenBSD project in general, not one specific subproject within it. Doing that would open up a can of auditing worms that wouldn't be in anybody's best interest.
Yes. And then I linked back to you one of the references in that article that is completely ignored by its author, which is current confirmation of the global temperature drop from the mid '40s to the mid '70s. Weart basically links to sources then refuses to incorporate their data into his conclusions, where that data conflicts with those conclusions. I'm encouraging you to do more than just read what you linked; I'm encouraging you to read it CRITICALLY.
You didn't read far enough in your own references. You took a paragraph, essentially, and didn't question its conclusions based on its own references. In other words, just like Weart.
They don't want people to use outside e-mail (especially ones running over https) because then they can't easily monitor what their staff is doing.
That is exactly it. Most companies don't mind their employees doing limited personal business on company time, but whereas it's legal under the ECPA to monitor personal emails sent through the company email system, it's a felony to do so for personal emails sent outside that system, even if a company computer is used to access them.
If you make 'em use the company's email system, they're less likely to do things like email company secrets to their news reporter buddies. You can't stop it all, but you can certainly raise the bar. If nothing else, this makes it easier to fire people for violating the policy, since they had to jump through hoops to do it can't claim it's a misunderstanding.
Of course, no matter where one cares to draw the line, some employer will take it too far.
I see the first few comments suggesting a switch to Linux or Macintosh. At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible.
Wouldn't matter anyway. Best practices for recovering from UNIX intrusion have always been to wipe the disks, reinstall the OS, and recover the last known-good backup. Nothing has changed here but Microsoft's attitude; they're starting to grow up a little.
You can buy a portable DVD player for around $100. And you don't have to buy a special version of every DVD.
My 3-year-old has one. When mommy has to go to a client site and can't get a sitter, she can take him with a couple of Dora/Diego DVDs, and it's all good. If you rip and reburn them right, you can stick 12 episodes of a typical half-hour cartoon on a single disk.
And after all that, the Sun will continue be in a cycle of higher energy output, and the current trend of global warming will continue unabated until the Sun reverts back to a cooling trend, as it did from 1942 to 1975.
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And in regards to this specific story, under the Fair Tax there wouldn't be an IRS, nor would any other government agency need comprehensive files about every single American that contain sufficient information to steal their identity.
Hackers can't steal what isn't there.
...BSD just coughed up water and started breathing again.
Of course, this means that President Bush keeping us out of Kyoto might have saved us all from certain doom.
From the article:
Between the 1950s and 1980s, the amount of solar energy penetrating through the atmosphere to the Earth's surface appeared to be declining, by about 2% per decade.
then later:
"During the solar dimming we had really no temperature rise. And only when the solar dimming disappeared could we really see what is going on in terms of the greenhouse effect, and that is only starting in the 1980s."
Every single time I've ever pointed out the global temperature drop from 1942 to 1975, a number of liberals jump at my throat and claim I'm making it up. Now here's a climatologist making the statement that temperature didn't rise from '50s to the '80s. The liberals will never buy this; that one statement of his invalidates the entire study in their eyes.
Every honest Ph.D. shares a common belief in the pursuit of impartial truth in everything.
The above is an example of the logical fallacy "begging the question"
That is truly the point of being a scientist and the point of following the rigors of the scientific process.
I know a lot of scientists. Very few of them give this as their reason for becoming a scientist. Usually it's more along the lines of "[insert well-known example of their discipline] are cool and I wanted to work with them". Often it's "there's big money in [insert example of their discipline]".
If you think scientists are impartial guardians of truth in everything and everybody else is the opposite, you're not even naive; you're delusional. And in my experience, those who truly feel they are such paragons of verity are the ones most likely to fool themselves about anything that doesn't support their pet theory.
Of course, the fact that scientists are human and flawed doesn't make science invalid; I just refuse to replace worship of god with worship of science. I'll take worship of neither, thanks, and recognize science for what it is; a human invention that happens to be pretty good for learning about the world around us, but like any other invention is subject to manipulation by human hands, hearts, and minds.
If you for some reason HAVE to use Internet Explorer, at the very least you should be using Deepnet Explorer, with the anti-phishing (and anti-everything-else) turned on. If you don't know that by now, please sell your computer before you hurt somebody.
Automated installs have been available on Unix for over a decade. Why is re-installing a machine still a big deal?
Mainly because on UNIX, the need was recognized long ago and so we developed the capability to reinstall the OS and then recover everything else from a backup and it works.
On Windows it isn't so straightforward. The OS doesn't cooperate very well with backing up crucial pieces that make recovering a backup of your applications problematic. Unless you invest in third-party tools, you're likely to need to reinstall all your applications manually and be selective in how you recover the backup.
More proof people see what they want to see in spite of the facts.
For instance, some people didn't read down further, to see what the Republicans proposed in its place; namely, to broaden the powers of the FCC to investigate claims regarding net neutrality, and establishing stiff fines.
This bill wouldn't have just prevented a group of property owners from choosing to downgrade service to their competitors; it would also have prevented them from offering premium services to their partners. In fact, it might have prevented your local ISP from offering cheaper rates for service to non-profit organizations.
Throwing more laws at a problem isn't always the best way to deal with it; this was more about attempting to get votes than attempting to protect consumers.
Based on the assumption that your average crack-addled goblin will steal anything that's not nailed down, I achieve the same effect by carrying a gun, studying American Kenpo, and not letting my laptop bag out of my reach in public places.
Finally, I'm certainly not above trolling, but my comments in this article have been both sincere representations of my personal opinion and have been stated appropriately. Your accusation of trolling is as inaccurate as it is inflammatory.
In hindsight, I think you're right; it was unnecessarily confrontational. I apologize.
So... when the customers are done with their proofs of concept, will they then build out their apps on the AMD boxes in their own datacenters?
Some. But most will continue to use Intel for the near future, and even if in the farther future AMD passes Intel in Enterprise server sales, this'll still be worth Intel's time because they're not just competing with AMD; they're also competing with Sun and IBM in the server space. Linux competes with that even more (currently) than it does with Windows, in my opinion.
I personally prefer Ubuntu on AMD, but the Fortune 500 company for which I work uses RedHat on Intel, and it's a joy to work with but could be better. Hopefully this will help make it better.
While what you say about Mutt vs. Pine is true, it's not relevant. It's not like Gmail is Open Source either. Yes, you can use an Open Source web browser to access it, but you can use an Open Source ssh/telnet/whatever client to access Pine.
Your response is more of an anti-Pine troll than a commentary on the article.
Lies. They donated the money to Theo de Raadt. If he wants to buy old hats with it he is free to do so.
Pardon me if this has been discussed before, but does anybody know what the relevant laws are? I imagine Theo isn't just free to blow OpenBSD donations on candy and gum; that would seem like fraud. Leaving aside for the moment any questions of personal ethics, wouldn't it open him up to charges?
I linked them to you several times. Since you've taken time out of this discussion to add me to your Foes list, but not to read the things I've sent you, you are clearly not interested in learning anything here, so I'll just return the favor and bid you good day.
There is nothing that can be ignored on the page you linked to. You're just blowing smoke.
Oh, I agree there's nothing that can be ignored. There is, however, scientific data that the "global warming will kill us all and it's the fault of the United States of America" crowd are trying very very hard to ignore, and to cover with smoke so that others will ignore it.
I repeat; there is no theory that both attributes global warming to the actions of mankind AND accounts for the proven global cooling trend from the early '40s to the mid '70s. There is ample data showing this trend wasn't confined to one hemisphere, and even if it were, it's the hemisphere where most industrialization is to be found. Weart doesn't attempt to address that; he just lies about the data that doesn't fit his pet theory.
There are, however, theories that account for all the observed facts. None of them attribute global warming to mankind more than as a slight contributing factor, and none of them can predict how the trend will proceed. Nobody knows what global temperatures will be like in 100 years. Nobody can prove that any suggested changes in how mankind does business will have any measurable effect on global temperatures in 100 years. Anybody that tells you he can predict either is lying to you.
I frankly don't understand why that doesn't bother you.
The Slashdot post is misleading; they donated to the OpenBSD project in general, not one specific subproject within it. Doing that would open up a can of auditing worms that wouldn't be in anybody's best interest.
Yes. And then I linked back to you one of the references in that article that is completely ignored by its author, which is current confirmation of the global temperature drop from the mid '40s to the mid '70s. Weart basically links to sources then refuses to incorporate their data into his conclusions, where that data conflicts with those conclusions. I'm encouraging you to do more than just read what you linked; I'm encouraging you to read it CRITICALLY.
You didn't read far enough in your own references. You took a paragraph, essentially, and didn't question its conclusions based on its own references. In other words, just like Weart.
Dig deeper. Weart is lying to you.
They don't want people to use outside e-mail (especially ones running over https) because then they can't easily monitor what their staff is doing.
That is exactly it. Most companies don't mind their employees doing limited personal business on company time, but whereas it's legal under the ECPA to monitor personal emails sent through the company email system, it's a felony to do so for personal emails sent outside that system, even if a company computer is used to access them.
If you make 'em use the company's email system, they're less likely to do things like email company secrets to their news reporter buddies. You can't stop it all, but you can certainly raise the bar. If nothing else, this makes it easier to fire people for violating the policy, since they had to jump through hoops to do it can't claim it's a misunderstanding.
Of course, no matter where one cares to draw the line, some employer will take it too far.
Ohh yeah, that "cooling trend" that only affected the Northern Hemisphere.
Reference for my claim. Where's yours?
I see the first few comments suggesting a switch to Linux or Macintosh. At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible.
Wouldn't matter anyway. Best practices for recovering from UNIX intrusion have always been to wipe the disks, reinstall the OS, and recover the last known-good backup. Nothing has changed here but Microsoft's attitude; they're starting to grow up a little.
(sniff). I remember when they were knee-high.
You can buy a portable DVD player for around $100. And you don't have to buy a special version of every DVD.
My 3-year-old has one. When mommy has to go to a client site and can't get a sitter, she can take him with a couple of Dora/Diego DVDs, and it's all good. If you rip and reburn them right, you can stick 12 episodes of a typical half-hour cartoon on a single disk.
And after all that, the Sun will continue be in a cycle of higher energy output, and the current trend of global warming will continue unabated until the Sun reverts back to a cooling trend, as it did from 1942 to 1975.
I submitted it as "State of the Pen and Paper RPG Industry". I got Zonked. :)
He did say he wanted "searchable". Producing searchable PDFs with your scanner is a non-trivial task.