WTF, totally OT, but I just booted my computer and instead of the standard GNOME desktop there was some 80's style VR simulation with blocky structures representing the files on my computer. It's a good thing I know Unix, I was able to fly to the proper building to get my system back on line. Close call, though.
Seriously? You have nothing better to do than repeatedly install an OS on different hardware? I'd rather play with my arduino...
Who said anything about repeatedly? Anytime you need to do something repetitive it might be better to chain some tools together and let logic do the lifting.
Are you saying that out of any extensive experience or did you just pull that little factoid out of your bum?
I thought National Geographic did a report on the underground electronics trade thriving in parts of Africa, but am not finding a link. Here is something from a site I don't know much about, but it matches what I have heard elsewhere about the underground trade in product made from 100% salvage material: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ghana/090427/cell-phone-waste
The first time something breaks is just the beginning of the product life-cycle. The GP would have been better off with different phrasing, but I think this is what was being referenced. This African underground has been reported on television and the net.
Maybe he just hates the way the world looks. Why does the A-word get tossed out every time someone acts a little unusual? Viewing humanity with total disgust is not an extreme position in this day and age.
Immunosuppressants are dangerous. I am not eligible for Remicade because I exhibited a negative reaction to a related immunosuppressant. It put me in the hospital for a week of round the clock infusions of Dilaudid to manage the pain. Dilaudid is a trade name for the compound that was introduced to replace Heroin in clinical settings.
It was a nightmare come to life. I had IV's coming out of all sorts of places, and my left arm alone was drilled top to bottom, front and back with different bore sizes. I was constantly going in and out of awareness so that I couldn't tell what was really happening and what was in my head. Once you get knocked down like that the only thing to do is start pumping the body with good stuff and hope it comes around.
I hate steroids and the way they make me feel erratic, but the way you die if you react negatively to immunosuppressants is horrific. I experienced the doorstep, I can't imagine what would have happened if I had a full infusion of Remicade in me. Make sure you do your own research before considering going on this class of drugs.
My doctor told me at the time that around 4% of people exhibit significant reactions, but less than 2% react as seriously as I did. Some of those people die. This happened around 2002, there may be newer treatments to combat negative reactions or better screening techniques for candidates - I was told that those things were being researched. Anyhow, this needed to be mentioned for those thinking of looking at new treatments.
All the best to O'Bannon's survivors. Living in support of a crohnsie is an admirable thing.
show me the peer-reviewed journal article demonstrating the error here
Of course, on of the issues revealed is that they were preventing dissenting opinions from being accepted in peer reviewed journals...
You can prove anything when you're allowed to select the peers reviewing.
No, you can't. You can stonewall outsiders at best, and only until they are willing to circumvent your avenue of peer review despite the hardships and go public.
At that point, provided there is demonstrable merit to the work, the establishment can't just keep claiming that there isn't demonstrable merit without risking their credibility as 'Peers' qualified to do review.
Anyhow, whoever penned the response comes across as someone not directly involved with the talent in the field, only involved with normals. Anyone having been exposed to enough abnormal cognitive talent would understand that pinning a bar to entry on PHD status will get your ass alienated and your career prospects dimmed. Whoever wrote this was most likely trained to see what they see, and therefore attaching undue importance to the training. That is how most normals are. The others choose to apply preexisting cognitive talent to a field of interest and gain credentials in the process. My experience is that these types attach importance to rigor and precision, find these qualities lacking in many of their titled peers, and are therefore ready to recognize it untitled individuals when they come to their attention.
All that being said, I have no idea if there is any merit to the particular works being discussed.
Not only am I raped over $40 in fees just to cross your petty border. You Americans must protect your tourism industry and stop this harassment.
Most of the intensely dissatisfied people I know are of the opinion that no action is required. Those in power are doing more damage than civilian pressure could hope to counter. Things have gone so far that the collapse does not appear imminent, it appears to be in full swing. Why get all hot and bothered when the current issues will be gone in ten years along with the Nation as we knew it.
Persevere, keep your head down, breed, cultivate a diverse network of people that don't seem likely to do anything too stupid, and grieve for the others that are wasting their lives fighting useless battles over a country that started rotting from within sometime shortly after Eisenhower left office. Hell, without the pressures WWII put on the political infrastructure the last feel good American President would have been T.R., and the last both honest and effective one would have been Lincoln.
Pretty simple. And anyhow, most of my fellow Americans appear to deserve what they are getting right now. I have lived all across the country and the majority of the people I knew considered repeating things they heard on the news as 'conversation.' Repeating things half remembered from college days qualifies someone as a brain-iac.
It is a wasteland, complete with a population of people without any distinguishing mental habits aside from the work routine and the web surfing routine... headpieces stuffed with straw so to speak.
This isn't a pretty thing to watch, so you should probably stay home anyhow. The current state of affairs was kinda inevitable given the attitudes I witnessed while growing up, while living up and down both coasts, and traveling extensively through the interior. A country can't survive on the faith that it is inherently better than other countries, and that is an attitude that was not only common, but dominant in people that are more than a few years removed from their college days.
In summation, I can't think of a better way to keep people that don't deserve to experience the pain that is going on in America from coming than having a few publicized border incidents. Keep it up Border Agents. Hell, let's close the borders and keep the next couple years all in the family to minimize needless collateral damage.
It will probably be more like the U.S. Medal of Honor... Basically, if some prick runs a stop sign and rumples-up on a family of lovely people, the douche behind the negligent prick gets the peanut butter cup for calling in the medics and providing first aid.
I know people who work in the US government. As I understand it, when releasing material that is partially blacked out, in most departments the procedure is to simply black it out on a hard copy and then photocopy the hard copy or scan it if it is to go online. This removes any chance of clever ways of getting the data if there's something about the file format or such that is strange. I don't see why the TSA wouldn't do the same thing. Moreover, isn't the fact that you can do this with PDFs well known? I've even seen it used as a way of covering up spoilers. What were they thinking?
Either I am way too far gone this evening, or there is something wrong with this article. The system that is described is existing tech from the 'AFRL,' a division of the U.S. Air Force. The contract is described like so:
Northrop Grumman is expected at this point to deliver a study that will outline how the AFRL can reduce cost and develop future plug-and-play space systems.
This does not equate to Northrop Grumman designing the next gen interface, it means they will be the consultants doing the position reviews on the AFRL personnel for the next downsizing, right? I bet those Northrop G. folk like Michael Bolton... celebrate his entire body of work in fact.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Though I suppose it could be the same kind of fiction found in the bible or other religious works - in some cases based on reality, but clearly distorted.
Not representations of reality? Not representations of the visual appearance aspect of reality perhaps. Your second point about intentional distortion seems more likely. I just looked at the book for the first time, the whole thing wreaks not of straight cryptography, but mnemonic devices. If this is the case, then the words and images may not be arranged 'in sequence,' but should contain a sequence map, possibly derived from the distorted images (counting features and number of meaningful items between various feature occurrences, etc).
Fraudulent wizards who bestow 'mystical' knowledge to paying patrons via occult text, and prodigious savants could both be assumed to produce works like this during the normal course of their lives. I don't see this book being much different from any number of 'codex' style manuscripts that are floating around out there.
Anyhow, I would have started by analyzing the features of the drawings on each page, counting tips/shapes/groupings... Matching that to numbers of letters and words when grouped in different ways. It is possible that not simple re-arrangement, but actual expansion needs to be performed. It has always amazed me that we don't have more complex and prestigious examples of early semantic compression... just mystical shapes many of which are of dubious lineage. Maybe that is what this is.
He's modded troll because he is projecting some sort of faith in these press releases on to the rest of us. Reading green tech/energy content is kinda like reading optimistic sci-fi - you know - gee, wouldn't it be nice.
Even if the tech is viable, the IP situation in the Western World dictates a long road from conceptualization to delivery. Simply having a story posted doesn't mean anyone is buying into it... Just means we won't be as surprised as everyone else if it turns out to work.
Your lack of disclosure of the relationship is the problem. With a proper disclaimer on your original link you may have ended up with a nice bounce today.
I agree philosophically with the change the devs made. That does not change the fact that the upstream community is demonstrating either a lack of political acumen or a desire to forcibly measure some vital signs from their community.
The political implications are the most bothersome. Was this a case of devs moving in an inevitable but unpopular direction in a discrete manner to avoid flak(distasteful and possibly dishonest), or a case of attempting to precipitate an unavoidable crisis to gain the initiative (tactics possibly deserving of public career assassination)?
I don't believe this is a change that no one thought would make a splash, even though many people seem to suggest that.
The sheer number of disagreements on finer points of implementation and administration that have resulted in all the distros over the years are still in play. Changes of this sort should be marked as HANE, and the expectation during implementation should be significant disruption of interpersonal communications while people come to terms with the reasons behind the changes.
I think you're confused about the English language! "In America" certainly includes any country in either North or South America.
English is defined by customary usage. If you said "In America" to 100 English speakers, MAYBE one would include any other country than the US. If you're lucky.
So what you are saying is it is 'lucky' in this day and age to find another human that both knows how to read and is unwilling to mindlessly redefine terms based on how they hear other people using them? Are you sure you didn't just proclaim to the world that your mind is lazy? That's what it sounds like to me.
Anyhow, by living in University centric towns I meet a large number of English speaking Americans that are from other countries across the Americas. The problem is with the lazy minds of your social circle, and your own lack of precise thinking that has lead you to this +5 modded monument to ignorance and arrogance.
I don't get what you are saying. Apple vets the apps in the app store. If my ISP attempted to vet my traffic I would want a lawsuit and Congressional hearings.
Apple audits apps every day, chooses to not carry apps for whatever reasons, de-lists apps after the fact. While it would not surprise me to discover they aren't screening for security, I am pretty sure it will surprise the majority of iPhone owners that I know. They all seem to be under the impression that the app-store is under Apple quality control.
That doesn't account for the absence of change in metabolic function that is supposed to accompany a regimen of aerobic physical exertion. The article does not mention at what time of day the exercise took place, though. My personal experience has been that exercise undertaken first thing in the morning transforms the whole day, allowing dietary or controlled substance ingestion choices throughout the day to be dealt with more effectively.
So let's recap. Someone finishes their post with this:
It's a kind of blood sport. It's a form of entertainment. It's completely shameful.
You respond with this:
If ever the state needs a volunteer, I'll step up. I can do the needle, I can knot a rope, I can throw an electrical switch, I can pull a trigger, or I can swing an axe.
You get modded down and respond with this:
I can't help wondering what kind of lowlife modded me down. He probably lurks around the bathrooms at his local park, waiting to get a peek at the little boys and girls.
Your possession of the motor skills required to manipulate a needle, tie knots, swing an axe, or pull a trigger on command is not the problem. Your diction/presentation within the context of this conversation is the problem. To put this another way, you are presenting an argument using techniques commonly employed by fuck-tards.
If you are able to re-read your down mod'd posts without picking up on the fuck-tard aspects of those posts, then you might consider simply ignoring the moderation system altogether. Either way, this is/., so unless you take up sock-puppetry your fuck-tardish posts have simply joined the proud tradition of -1 fuck-tardary on this site, and it will all be forgotten by morning.
Yeah, I'm sure Biko enjoyed begging for it while they were bashing his brains out. I am sure am glad to run an OS based on such a fun concept. Now, about bug #1, maybe we need to go tickle Ballmer till he keels over with joy... Or just keep saying Mandriva till he begs for mercy.
Nah, he is still alive and acting - I saw him in another movie. They must have used special effects in Top-Gun - they totally ruin the realism if you ask me.
Con drove Con away. Someone update me if this news is stale - but Kolivas blamed hacking for all of his woes and didn't just quit kernel development when he left. Even if he is still hacking - the statements he made at the time are worth branding the guy over.
He was not a maintainer, he was something of an artist. He could not control himself once emotions became involved and this is a fatal flaw with the maintainers.
Everything I saw at the time these things went down suggested that Con had decided he wanted a particular thing from his involvement in the kernel - and it was the one thing he was not well suited to receive.
Slashdot Mirror
WTF, totally OT, but I just booted my computer and instead of the standard GNOME desktop there was some 80's style VR simulation with blocky structures representing the files on my computer. It's a good thing I know Unix, I was able to fly to the proper building to get my system back on line. Close call, though.
Seriously? You have nothing better to do than repeatedly install an OS on different hardware? I'd rather play with my arduino...
Who said anything about repeatedly? Anytime you need to do something repetitive it might be better to chain some tools together and let logic do the lifting.
Are you saying that out of any extensive experience or did you just pull that little factoid out of your bum?
I thought National Geographic did a report on the underground electronics trade thriving in parts of Africa, but am not finding a link. Here is something from a site I don't know much about, but it matches what I have heard elsewhere about the underground trade in product made from 100% salvage material: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ghana/090427/cell-phone-waste
The first time something breaks is just the beginning of the product life-cycle. The GP would have been better off with different phrasing, but I think this is what was being referenced. This African underground has been reported on television and the net.
Maybe he just hates the way the world looks. Why does the A-word get tossed out every time someone acts a little unusual? Viewing humanity with total disgust is not an extreme position in this day and age.
Immunosuppressants are dangerous. I am not eligible for Remicade because I exhibited a negative reaction to a related immunosuppressant. It put me in the hospital for a week of round the clock infusions of Dilaudid to manage the pain. Dilaudid is a trade name for the compound that was introduced to replace Heroin in clinical settings.
It was a nightmare come to life. I had IV's coming out of all sorts of places, and my left arm alone was drilled top to bottom, front and back with different bore sizes. I was constantly going in and out of awareness so that I couldn't tell what was really happening and what was in my head. Once you get knocked down like that the only thing to do is start pumping the body with good stuff and hope it comes around.
I hate steroids and the way they make me feel erratic, but the way you die if you react negatively to immunosuppressants is horrific. I experienced the doorstep, I can't imagine what would have happened if I had a full infusion of Remicade in me. Make sure you do your own research before considering going on this class of drugs.
My doctor told me at the time that around 4% of people exhibit significant reactions, but less than 2% react as seriously as I did. Some of those people die. This happened around 2002, there may be newer treatments to combat negative reactions or better screening techniques for candidates - I was told that those things were being researched. Anyhow, this needed to be mentioned for those thinking of looking at new treatments.
All the best to O'Bannon's survivors. Living in support of a crohnsie is an admirable thing.
show me the peer-reviewed journal article demonstrating the error here
Of course, on of the issues revealed is that they were preventing dissenting opinions from being accepted in peer reviewed journals...
You can prove anything when you're allowed to select the peers reviewing.
No, you can't. You can stonewall outsiders at best, and only until they are willing to circumvent your avenue of peer review despite the hardships and go public.
At that point, provided there is demonstrable merit to the work, the establishment can't just keep claiming that there isn't demonstrable merit without risking their credibility as 'Peers' qualified to do review.
Anyhow, whoever penned the response comes across as someone not directly involved with the talent in the field, only involved with normals. Anyone having been exposed to enough abnormal cognitive talent would understand that pinning a bar to entry on PHD status will get your ass alienated and your career prospects dimmed. Whoever wrote this was most likely trained to see what they see, and therefore attaching undue importance to the training. That is how most normals are. The others choose to apply preexisting cognitive talent to a field of interest and gain credentials in the process. My experience is that these types attach importance to rigor and precision, find these qualities lacking in many of their titled peers, and are therefore ready to recognize it untitled individuals when they come to their attention.
All that being said, I have no idea if there is any merit to the particular works being discussed.
Not only am I raped over $40 in fees just to cross your petty border. You Americans must protect your tourism industry and stop this harassment.
Most of the intensely dissatisfied people I know are of the opinion that no action is required. Those in power are doing more damage than civilian pressure could hope to counter. Things have gone so far that the collapse does not appear imminent, it appears to be in full swing. Why get all hot and bothered when the current issues will be gone in ten years along with the Nation as we knew it.
Persevere, keep your head down, breed, cultivate a diverse network of people that don't seem likely to do anything too stupid, and grieve for the others that are wasting their lives fighting useless battles over a country that started rotting from within sometime shortly after Eisenhower left office. Hell, without the pressures WWII put on the political infrastructure the last feel good American President would have been T.R., and the last both honest and effective one would have been Lincoln.
Pretty simple. And anyhow, most of my fellow Americans appear to deserve what they are getting right now. I have lived all across the country and the majority of the people I knew considered repeating things they heard on the news as 'conversation.' Repeating things half remembered from college days qualifies someone as a brain-iac.
It is a wasteland, complete with a population of people without any distinguishing mental habits aside from the work routine and the web surfing routine... headpieces stuffed with straw so to speak.
This isn't a pretty thing to watch, so you should probably stay home anyhow. The current state of affairs was kinda inevitable given the attitudes I witnessed while growing up, while living up and down both coasts, and traveling extensively through the interior. A country can't survive on the faith that it is inherently better than other countries, and that is an attitude that was not only common, but dominant in people that are more than a few years removed from their college days.
In summation, I can't think of a better way to keep people that don't deserve to experience the pain that is going on in America from coming than having a few publicized border incidents. Keep it up Border Agents. Hell, let's close the borders and keep the next couple years all in the family to minimize needless collateral damage.
And they have a great legal program. I only got in because my Aunt was an Alum.
It will probably be more like the U.S. Medal of Honor... Basically, if some prick runs a stop sign and rumples-up on a family of lovely people, the douche behind the negligent prick gets the peanut butter cup for calling in the medics and providing first aid.
I know people who work in the US government. As I understand it, when releasing material that is partially blacked out, in most departments the procedure is to simply black it out on a hard copy and then photocopy the hard copy or scan it if it is to go online. This removes any chance of clever ways of getting the data if there's something about the file format or such that is strange. I don't see why the TSA wouldn't do the same thing. Moreover, isn't the fact that you can do this with PDFs well known? I've even seen it used as a way of covering up spoilers. What were they thinking?
Ninety Nine Red Balloons.
Either I am way too far gone this evening, or there is something wrong with this article. The system that is described is existing tech from the 'AFRL,' a division of the U.S. Air Force. The contract is described like so:
Northrop Grumman is expected at this point to deliver a study that will outline how the AFRL can reduce cost and develop future plug-and-play space systems.
This does not equate to Northrop Grumman designing the next gen interface, it means they will be the consultants doing the position reviews on the AFRL personnel for the next downsizing, right? I bet those Northrop G. folk like Michael Bolton... celebrate his entire body of work in fact.
Simple : the illustrations are clearly not representation of reality.
Though I suppose it could be the same kind of fiction found in the bible or other religious works - in some cases based on reality, but clearly distorted.
Not representations of reality? Not representations of the visual appearance aspect of reality perhaps. Your second point about intentional distortion seems more likely. I just looked at the book for the first time, the whole thing wreaks not of straight cryptography, but mnemonic devices. If this is the case, then the words and images may not be arranged 'in sequence,' but should contain a sequence map, possibly derived from the distorted images (counting features and number of meaningful items between various feature occurrences, etc).
Fraudulent wizards who bestow 'mystical' knowledge to paying patrons via occult text, and prodigious savants could both be assumed to produce works like this during the normal course of their lives. I don't see this book being much different from any number of 'codex' style manuscripts that are floating around out there.
Anyhow, I would have started by analyzing the features of the drawings on each page, counting tips/shapes/groupings... Matching that to numbers of letters and words when grouped in different ways. It is possible that not simple re-arrangement, but actual expansion needs to be performed. It has always amazed me that we don't have more complex and prestigious examples of early semantic compression... just mystical shapes many of which are of dubious lineage. Maybe that is what this is.
He's modded troll because he is projecting some sort of faith in these press releases on to the rest of us. Reading green tech/energy content is kinda like reading optimistic sci-fi - you know - gee, wouldn't it be nice.
Even if the tech is viable, the IP situation in the Western World dictates a long road from conceptualization to delivery. Simply having a story posted doesn't mean anyone is buying into it... Just means we won't be as surprised as everyone else if it turns out to work.
Your lack of disclosure of the relationship is the problem. With a proper disclaimer on your original link you may have ended up with a nice bounce today.
The whole issue was ridiculously overblown.
I agree philosophically with the change the devs made. That does not change the fact that the upstream community is demonstrating either a lack of political acumen or a desire to forcibly measure some vital signs from their community.
The political implications are the most bothersome. Was this a case of devs moving in an inevitable but unpopular direction in a discrete manner to avoid flak(distasteful and possibly dishonest), or a case of attempting to precipitate an unavoidable crisis to gain the initiative (tactics possibly deserving of public career assassination)?
I don't believe this is a change that no one thought would make a splash, even though many people seem to suggest that.
The sheer number of disagreements on finer points of implementation and administration that have resulted in all the distros over the years are still in play. Changes of this sort should be marked as HANE, and the expectation during implementation should be significant disruption of interpersonal communications while people come to terms with the reasons behind the changes.
I think you're confused about the English language! "In America" certainly includes any country in either North or South America.
English is defined by customary usage. If you said "In America" to 100 English speakers, MAYBE one would include any other country than the US. If you're lucky.
So what you are saying is it is 'lucky' in this day and age to find another human that both knows how to read and is unwilling to mindlessly redefine terms based on how they hear other people using them? Are you sure you didn't just proclaim to the world that your mind is lazy? That's what it sounds like to me.
Anyhow, by living in University centric towns I meet a large number of English speaking Americans that are from other countries across the Americas. The problem is with the lazy minds of your social circle, and your own lack of precise thinking that has lead you to this +5 modded monument to ignorance and arrogance.
I don't get what you are saying. Apple vets the apps in the app store. If my ISP attempted to vet my traffic I would want a lawsuit and Congressional hearings.
Apple audits apps every day, chooses to not carry apps for whatever reasons, de-lists apps after the fact. While it would not surprise me to discover they aren't screening for security, I am pretty sure it will surprise the majority of iPhone owners that I know. They all seem to be under the impression that the app-store is under Apple quality control.
That doesn't account for the absence of change in metabolic function that is supposed to accompany a regimen of aerobic physical exertion. The article does not mention at what time of day the exercise took place, though. My personal experience has been that exercise undertaken first thing in the morning transforms the whole day, allowing dietary or controlled substance ingestion choices throughout the day to be dealt with more effectively.
So let's recap. Someone finishes their post with this:
It's a kind of blood sport. It's a form of entertainment. It's completely shameful.
You respond with this:
If ever the state needs a volunteer, I'll step up. I can do the needle, I can knot a rope, I can throw an electrical switch, I can pull a trigger, or I can swing an axe.
You get modded down and respond with this:
I can't help wondering what kind of lowlife modded me down. He probably lurks around the bathrooms at his local park, waiting to get a peek at the little boys and girls.
Your possession of the motor skills required to manipulate a needle, tie knots, swing an axe, or pull a trigger on command is not the problem. Your diction/presentation within the context of this conversation is the problem. To put this another way, you are presenting an argument using techniques commonly employed by fuck-tards.
If you are able to re-read your down mod'd posts without picking up on the fuck-tard aspects of those posts, then you might consider simply ignoring the moderation system altogether. Either way, this is /., so unless you take up sock-puppetry your fuck-tardish posts have simply joined the proud tradition of -1 fuck-tardary on this site, and it will all be forgotten by morning.
Best of luck navigating the world.
It's the name. Ubuntu is fun to say.
Yeah, I'm sure Biko enjoyed begging for it while they were bashing his brains out. I am sure am glad to run an OS based on such a fun concept. Now, about bug #1, maybe we need to go tickle Ballmer till he keels over with joy... Or just keep saying Mandriva till he begs for mercy.
That's a good way to break it down.
Nah, he is still alive and acting - I saw him in another movie. They must have used special effects in Top-Gun - they totally ruin the realism if you ask me.
I'm not an aviator either... That looks a hell of a lot like a mig-29 to me.
Con drove Con away. Someone update me if this news is stale - but Kolivas blamed hacking for all of his woes and didn't just quit kernel development when he left. Even if he is still hacking - the statements he made at the time are worth branding the guy over.
He was not a maintainer, he was something of an artist. He could not control himself once emotions became involved and this is a fatal flaw with the maintainers.
Everything I saw at the time these things went down suggested that Con had decided he wanted a particular thing from his involvement in the kernel - and it was the one thing he was not well suited to receive.
Original reports said it was the size of the pacific ocean. I am guessing that the size is changing pretty constantly, though.