> Science is not perfect, it never was. I remember 20 years ago the HUGE > butter scare
If there's one thing that pisses me off about Slashdot above all others it's the tendency for anecdotes to be passed off as some of evidence of something. Sir, either your memory, your ability to read reasonably detailed scientific texts (by which I mean: at the level of SciAm or a good broadsheet newspaper) is fucked, or you really don't care about your cardio-vascular health.
There's a lot of evidence to link large scale climate change with periods of heightend and lowered activity in the Sun.
You're a troll, this is highly misleading to the extent that the meaning you are trying to convey IS NOT TRUE. *plonk*
There was a recent discussion on NANOG on this topic which ended with a fairly definitive statement from One Who Knows This Shit (actually it was Dan Golding) that virtually no colleges use SSNs as unique IDs any more; but that they have to maintain *old* data, which *did* use SSNs as UIDs. I'm paraphrasing, badly; go read the archived post.
I've a friend, a Mac freak, who'se in Beijing on an intensive Chinese language course. I suggested he try tor out, expecting to have lots of hassles walking thru his first ever configure / make / install cycle. Eventually he tried it out & got it working without any help from me - just let me know he was using it, it was working fine, and to remind him to give a donation to the EFF (I'd mentioned making a donation myself a few weeks earlier.)
Wow, how do you get a USB modem to work on BSD? My DSL connection arrived with one, I grepped around looking for a way to make it work on Linux before giving up and getting a proper router. (I say 'proper' but YKWIM in this context;)
I have here a shiny CD of 3.7, complete with Wizard of OS poster with oh-so-hilarious caricature of RMS with a pair of gnu horns... somehow the expression on his face just makes me laugh, it's a moment of cartoon zen's what it is. (And lest the wrong idea be given, tho' I bought an OpenBSD CD, I support the FSF financially too. A little bit). I ordered my CD on monday from the wonderful Holborn Books whose meatspace shop is a perilous void of stuff you want to empty your wallet for. And the CD arrived yesterday morning.
Trouble is, I just resusitated my trusty old v3.0 machine which has been dormant for 2 years after the PSU let the magic smoke out. For some reason networking's not happy talking to the new LAN, so I can't archive the bits I want to keep*, so I can't vape it with 3.7... but... must... run... newest... CODE!!!
* There's no CD burner - it's a Compaq Deskpro P166, c.1996, FFS! - and I only have one (CRT) monitor - & no KVM - switching the cable is a PITA and stressign the VGA socket on the back of my main computer, a relatuively-speaking gleaming new P2/233 from 1997.
I have not yet tried booting the Sun SS2 yet , since you ask.
The Lisa wasn't a commercial success but it certainly was a technological success, paving the way for the Mac. (If you haven't seen a picture of one, google around... they looked a bit like an original Mac (aka 'Mac Classic') rotated through 90 degrees. It had a revolutionary WIMP interface. I remember as an awestruck almost-teenager reading a breathless review in the UK's then only PC mag, "Personal Computer World" which said "the only bad thing we could find to say about it is that some of the icons look a little whimsical. How long could you look at a whimsical icon before it becomes irritating?" It was also over eight grand sterling, four times the price of the ugly, clunky CGA IBM PCs that were the competition...
I was going to compose a careful rebuttal of the garbage in the last paragraph... but look let's keep it simple.
Countries with nuclear power will tend to get nuclear weapons. Countries without one or the other are likely to feel that it's none of the USA's damn business if they decide to build a bomb - indeed that's what all the nuclear non-proliferation / IAAA hoohaa about N Korea and Iran is about. How many countries do *you* want to have the bomb?
You comments about Iraq would be funnny if they weren't so tragically misinformed. You are aware that the Iraq situation has (according to oil market economists) been soley responsible for keep the world oil price 20% higher than it would otherwise have been? Reference today's The Business - www.thebusinessonline.com.
Given the state of the US exconomy there IS no alternative: you will have to face a severe recession, with mass unemployment and poverty, deflation and very possibly a big dollop of inflation too. (Anyone else here remember the word 'stagflation'?) Sorry to break this to you, but all the manufactured wars, facile plans for going to Mars and shouting about gay marriages isn't going to change the laws of economics - only divert your attention from them.
An unpopular opinion here, I know, but I really believe the US will be rapidly dropping down the economic and political league tables in the next half-dozen decades.
This is a misleading writeup. The problem only shows up in certain configurations and is easily worked around. From TFA:
Solution
- - --------
Any of the following methods can be used to rectify this issue:
1. Configure ESP to use both confidentiality and integrity protection. This is the recommended
solution.
2. Use the AH protocol alongside ESP to provide integrity protection. However, this must be done
carefully: for example, the configuration where AH in transport mode is applied end-to-end and
tunnelled inside ESP is still vulnerable.
3. Remove the error reporting by restricting the generation of ICMP messages or by filtering
these messages at a firewall or security gateway.
At the risk of being on-topic and imparting fresh, relevant information - always a no-no, I know - here's some prior art. I knew I remembered sitting in my local pub reading this LJ article when it came out; a Linux-controlled car which drove 2000km autonomously on (get this) Italian public roads. All the gory details in that typically excellent Linux Journal article. (I've no connection to them, I just wish I still had time to read it!)
(PS: check the not-inline images for cool shots of an X11 interface for your car! Move over MS, the engineers are comin' thru'!;)
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You appear to know something about the subject of consciousness, AI, simulations and such like, with your learned references to zombies, the theatre of consciousness, good grief man! You could even have read Dennett! How dare you intrude on our ill-informed speculation and nonsensical ramblings? Don't you know where this IS?
Next thing you know, someone will discover the Simulation Argument and then it's all over...
The story submitter appears to be confusing the amount of respect *displayed* or *perceived* (by the respectee) with the amount of respect *actually* felt by customers / clients.
I suggest a re-reading of 'The Tao of Programming' and 30 minutes meditation, once a day:)
I presume this is referring to the studies released at the current American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, by researchers from the deeply respected Scripps' Institute and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
BBC coverage here, probably a bit more detail than the Times. No, I haven't RTFA, it's just a gut reaction based on 20 years' exposure to the rotting carcase of a once-great newspaper, rotten with the maggots of the parasitical MurdochWasp that impregnated it with it's eggs... (yep, I don't like Rupe, does it show?:)
To some extent I agree with you, but it is a fact that Kyoto is controversial in the USA, even if it's not very controversial elsewhere in the world. And anyway, I wanted to get a sort reasonably interesting phrasing in the story that would bring the comments in thick & fast... it's a thin line between trolling and writing an interesting story:)
As of now, India and China combined emit about 14% of the world's CO2 (it was a lot lower when the treaty was being negotiated and India's share is still low), while the US all by itself emits 25%
Although this is true, the reason that Brazil, China and India (amongst others) are not asked to make reductions in their CO2 emissions at this stage is more a case of realpolitik; consider how much the US and European economies have emitted (or contributed towards the problem) in total over the past century; then ask yourself how fair that would seem to you if you were 9as you may be?) a citizen of one of those countries.
Of course this begs the question of economic advantages to developing technology, eg reducing dependence on oil.
I'm sorry Aaron, I stopped reading when you started quoting Michael Crichton. He's an author, and a bad author of trashy airport thrillers at that. He's not a scientist (in fact he studied Anthropology. Bleuchhh) and his conspiracy theories about climate change have been comprehensively debunked here and here, amongst other places.
I guess you didn't find the time to read much on RealClimate.org as you said you'd try to do? or do you disagree with what's said there?
yeah, you got me, I typed before checking. curse this autohide toolbar and my obsessive need for maximum screen realestate! It was actually about 1:40pm.
One issue mentioned on the radio this morning (BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme in fact - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today )was that with the price of oil likely to stay well above $40 per barrel for the forseeable future, and expected to rise significantly in the medium to long term, work on fuel efficiency and energy saving can only be beneficial for national economies. The Sky News burbling in the corner of my office that I mentioned in an earlier post has just popped up a 'breaking news' thingy to report that mysterious "someone" has fired some sort of missile in Iran, in the vicinity of some of their nuclear installations. Actually the BBC was already carrying a story that Iran had claimed that US UAV drones were regularly flying over nuclear installations. Interesting timing.
Passing rapidly over the political ramifications of this obviously grossly illegal act (whoever carried it out), it is interesting to note that oil prices have gone up over $1 since the news broke in the last few minutes. hmmm here's a chart that might bear watching.
If (if!) this is a deliberate attack by the US, then George Bush must be out of his tiny mind.
I left this out of the submission cos it looked like there were enough links in there to keep anyone happy for a while...
There is plenty of other news coverage of this. As I type this (2pm UK time) it's still the lead story on Murdoch's Sky News satellite TV channel. Although this is known to be generally right of center (by UK standards) the tenor of their reporting is much the same as the BBC's, with respect to the whole "pressure mounts on the USA" aspect, and the fact that the science has reached the status of accepted fact in popular discourse. (I know there are still plenty of areas of legitimate debate, disagreement, and continuing research amongst real scientists, but the basic thesis that anthropogenic CO2 can affect, and IS already affecting global climate is about as solidly accepted as anything gets in the public mind - over here at any rate.
Minor corection to the blurb: Jeremiah was a European comic a long time before US TV found out about it. My Yugoslavian friends used to read it in Belgrade in the 1980s.
I C'mere, kid, siddown & let me tell you a story about the old days. Well, it was back in the distant past - 1998 or 1999 I reckon - and the government were prosecuting Microsoft. Yes, that's right, the actual government were taking Microsoft to court! Sounds incredible, but it's true. Anyway, in the course of the trial (which ISTR was followed pretty closely on Slashdot at the time...) a number of highly amusing stroke interesting stroke horrifying stroke enlightening anecdotes came to light. (My personal favourite was the testimony of a senior IBM executive who testified that when his colleague took a call from Microsoft, Bill Gates was screaming abuse so loudly that it could be heard from the phone handset on the other side of the office.) Anyway, I don't know about the kneecap-busting comment, but both the air-supply and baby-knifing phrases were used by Microsoft execs to describe what they wanted to happen to competing products as part of a deal. ISTR it was Quicktime and Apple... Someone at MS specifically said "...and in return, we want you to knife the baby - that is, kill off Quicktime". Ahh, found a reference - now to see how accurate my memory was!
It has nothing whatever to do with the correctness of any of the science.
No, it doesn't address correctness; it addresses uncertainty.
Well if we're going to disagree on something so basic as the topic of an article I don't think there's any point continuing this exchange. I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong. Incidentally I just finished reading the whole MIT piece, which was overall very thoughtful & insightful into the fucked state of political discourse & policy making in the US, modulo that unfortunate sweeping comment about the science that he's unqualified to make. I'd love to hear how on earth you think you can back up your assertion that it addresses uncertainty in the science when it's by a political scientist & covers the way science interacts with politics via media distortions etc... but I think my brain would explode.
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And those of us who have progressed beyond the level of superstitious peasants know that *none* of us have souls, for there is NO SUCH THING.
> butter scare If there's one thing that pisses me off about Slashdot above all others it's the tendency for anecdotes to be passed off as some of evidence of something. Sir, either your memory, your ability to read reasonably detailed scientific texts (by which I mean: at the level of SciAm or a good broadsheet newspaper) is fucked, or you really don't care about your cardio-vascular health.
Enjoy the remaining thirty years of your life...
There's a lot of evidence to link large scale climate change with periods of heightend and lowered activity in the Sun. You're a troll, this is highly misleading to the extent that the meaning you are trying to convey IS NOT TRUE. *plonk*
There was a recent discussion on NANOG on this topic which ended with a fairly definitive statement from One Who Knows This Shit (actually it was Dan Golding) that virtually no colleges use SSNs as unique IDs any more; but that they have to maintain *old* data, which *did* use SSNs as UIDs. I'm paraphrasing, badly; go read the archived post.
Isn't it amazing what you can find on Google?
I've a friend, a Mac freak, who'se in Beijing on an intensive Chinese language course. I suggested he try tor out, expecting to have lots of hassles walking thru his first ever configure / make / install cycle. Eventually he tried it out & got it working without any help from me - just let me know he was using it, it was working fine, and to remind him to give a donation to the EFF (I'd mentioned making a donation myself a few weeks earlier.)
Wow, how do you get a USB modem to work on BSD? My DSL connection arrived with one, I grepped around looking for a way to make it work on Linux before giving up and getting a proper router. (I say 'proper' but YKWIM in this context ;)
Trouble is, I just resusitated my trusty old v3.0 machine which has been dormant for 2 years after the PSU let the magic smoke out. For some reason networking's not happy talking to the new LAN, so I can't archive the bits I want to keep*, so I can't vape it with 3.7 ... but... must... run... newest... CODE!!!
* There's no CD burner - it's a Compaq Deskpro P166, c.1996, FFS! - and I only have one (CRT) monitor - & no KVM - switching the cable is a PITA and stressign the VGA socket on the back of my main computer, a relatuively-speaking gleaming new P2/233 from 1997.
I have not yet tried booting the Sun SS2 yet , since you ask.
The Lisa wasn't a commercial success but it certainly was a technological success, paving the way for the Mac. (If you haven't seen a picture of one, google around... they looked a bit like an original Mac (aka 'Mac Classic') rotated through 90 degrees. It had a revolutionary WIMP interface. I remember as an awestruck almost-teenager reading a breathless review in the UK's then only PC mag, "Personal Computer World" which said "the only bad thing we could find to say about it is that some of the icons look a little whimsical. How long could you look at a whimsical icon before it becomes irritating?" It was also over eight grand sterling, four times the price of the ugly, clunky CGA IBM PCs that were the competition...
- Countries with nuclear power will tend to get nuclear weapons. Countries without one or the other are likely to feel that it's none of the USA's damn business if they decide to build a bomb - indeed that's what all the nuclear non-proliferation / IAAA hoohaa about N Korea and Iran is about. How many countries do *you* want to have the bomb?
- You comments about Iraq would be funnny if they weren't so tragically misinformed. You are aware that the Iraq situation has (according to oil market economists) been soley responsible for keep the world oil price 20% higher than it would otherwise have been? Reference today's The Business - www.thebusinessonline.com
.
Given the state of the US exconomy there IS no alternative: you will have to face a severe recession, with mass unemployment and poverty, deflation and very possibly a big dollop of inflation too. (Anyone else here remember the word 'stagflation'?) Sorry to break this to you, but all the manufactured wars, facile plans for going to Mars and shouting about gay marriages isn't going to change the laws of economics - only divert your attention from them.An unpopular opinion here, I know, but I really believe the US will be rapidly dropping down the economic and political league tables in the next half-dozen decades.
See you in the soup line...
This is a misleading writeup. The problem only shows up in certain configurations and is easily worked around. From TFA: Solution - - -------- Any of the following methods can be used to rectify this issue: 1. Configure ESP to use both confidentiality and integrity protection. This is the recommended solution. 2. Use the AH protocol alongside ESP to provide integrity protection. However, this must be done carefully: for example, the configuration where AH in transport mode is applied end-to-end and tunnelled inside ESP is still vulnerable. 3. Remove the error reporting by restricting the generation of ICMP messages or by filtering these messages at a firewall or security gateway.
At the risk of being on-topic and imparting fresh, relevant information - always a no-no, I know - here's some prior art. I knew I remembered sitting in my local pub reading this LJ article when it came out; a Linux-controlled car which drove 2000km autonomously on (get this) Italian public roads. All the gory details in that typically excellent Linux Journal article. (I've no connection to them, I just wish I still had time to read it!) (PS: check the not-inline images for cool shots of an X11 interface for your car! Move over MS, the engineers are comin' thru'! ;)
Next thing you know, someone will discover the Simulation Argument and then it's all over...
I suggest a re-reading of 'The Tao of Programming' and 30 minutes meditation, once a day :)
BBC coverage here, probably a bit more detail than the Times. No, I haven't RTFA, it's just a gut reaction based on 20 years' exposure to the rotting carcase of a once-great newspaper, rotten with the maggots of the parasitical MurdochWasp that impregnated it with it's eggs... (yep, I don't like Rupe, does it show? :)
To some extent I agree with you, but it is a fact that Kyoto is controversial in the USA, even if it's not very controversial elsewhere in the world. And anyway, I wanted to get a sort reasonably interesting phrasing in the story that would bring the comments in thick & fast... it's a thin line between trolling and writing an interesting story :)
Of course this begs the question of economic advantages to developing technology, eg reducing dependence on oil.
I guess you didn't find the time to read much on RealClimate.org as you said you'd try to do? or do you disagree with what's said there?
yeah, you got me, I typed before checking. curse this autohide toolbar and my obsessive need for maximum screen realestate! It was actually about 1:40pm.
Passing rapidly over the political ramifications of this obviously grossly illegal act (whoever carried it out), it is interesting to note that oil prices have gone up over $1 since the news broke in the last few minutes. hmmm here's a chart that might bear watching.
If (if!) this is a deliberate attack by the US, then George Bush must be out of his tiny mind.
There is plenty of other news coverage of this. As I type this (2pm UK time) it's still the lead story on Murdoch's Sky News satellite TV channel. Although this is known to be generally right of center (by UK standards) the tenor of their reporting is much the same as the BBC's, with respect to the whole "pressure mounts on the USA" aspect, and the fact that the science has reached the status of accepted fact in popular discourse. (I know there are still plenty of areas of legitimate debate, disagreement, and continuing research amongst real scientists, but the basic thesis that anthropogenic CO2 can affect, and IS already affecting global climate is about as solidly accepted as anything gets in the public mind - over here at any rate.
Minor corection to the blurb: Jeremiah was a European comic a long time before US TV found out about it. My Yugoslavian friends used to read it in Belgrade in the 1980s.
If my aunt was a bicycle, I could ride her into town. (On-topic, you just have the think about it a little bit.)
Wild stuff, huh?