Unless you can get scientology to sue slashdot over it, the piece you refer to will stay. It has already been down moderated so as to not be seen (he's referring to a spam comment) but that is as far as it will go here.
Of course, there is a paywall at sciencemag.org. Being as all the researchers are Canadian, there is no NIH requirement for the paper to be released for free. You may need to venture to your local university library to download the paper, but with those links it won't be hard to get. You can get as far as the abstract for free:
Long-term population viability of Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) is threatened by unusually high levels of mortality as they swim to their spawning areas before they spawn. Functional genomic studies on biopsied gill tissue from tagged wild adults that were tracked through ocean and river environments revealed physiological profiles predictive of successful migration and spawning. We identified a common genomic profile that was correlated with survival in each study. In ocean-tagged fish, a mortality-related genomic signature was associated with a 13.5-fold greater chance of dying en route. In river-tagged fish, the same genomic signature was associated with a 50% increase in mortality before reaching the spawning grounds in one of three stocks tested. At the spawning grounds, the same signature was associated with 3.7-fold greater odds of dying without spawning. Functional analysis raises the possibility that the mortality-related signature reflects a viral infection.
The significant choices that were made by the republicans in charge included the number of voting machines available per location, which directly influences how long it takes to get through the line. There was nothing even remotely approaching equality in terms of voting machines per capita in various voting districts in Ohio. Suburban whites found they could vote in 5 minutes, urban blacks found it took 5 hours or more.
And am I supposed to believe that not only do all "working people" vote Democrat, they all voted Kerry?
No, but you should be aware of the blatant voter suppression effort that took place in Ohio at the hands of the republicans. If all people in Ohio had genuinely equal ability to vote, the results could have been vastly different.
Hmm, could that sudden shift have been caused by people getting off of work and then voting?
That's a good one, there. We heard about the massive lines in the largest cities in Ohio, where working people had to stand in line for several hours to vote if they lived in less-than-affluent districts. Many people were unable to take enough time off of work, and simply walked away from the line, not casting a vote at all.
Unless they've changed stances recently, Apple does not support running macs with any OS version earlier than the one they shipped with. They don't specifically try to stop you; but they make no effort to be particularly helpful about it. Outside of tiny shops, that pretty much squashes the "Well, we just won't upgrade" plan. People still routinely run XP because it is still quite easy to buy brand new hardware with full, vendor supported, XP compatibility.
Are Apple shops really that dependent on Apple for support? PC users, and shops that have large implementations of PCs running something other than Mac OS X, have become accustomed to finding support places other than their OS provider.
In other words, the software problems that people are having with PCs have already been seen by other PC users. It seems unlikely that this is distinctly not the case with OS X users. If the business is capable of running well with a current version of OS X (or any other OS for that matter) and they don't like what is next in the pipeline, then why should they feel forced into it?
And if the server is the question, why would they need to upgrade their server OS immediately? A well-configured server shouldn't even need to reboot more than once or twice a year, it certainly shouldn't need to have an OS upgrade every time the vendor releases something new.
The summary mentions only two choices for IT professionals:
Upgrade to Lion
Switch to Windows server
I can easily think of two more:
Stay with what you have
Switch to a non-windows, non-MacOS option
I have not heard any reason why a currently working installation of OS X would suddenly stop working altogether just because the owner did not upgrade. Windows people have seen this before; there are plenty of people still running Windows XP even though two newer version of the same have been released since.
Their lobbyists will use it to ensure that we go another several decades without an alternative to air transport for getting across the country faster than you can in your own car.
Many US consumers still think of the 70s/80s diesel monstrosities that the big three were making
GM won't market it worth a damn - see the Jeep Liberty Diesel as a good example of a good product that wasn't marketed for shit
Dealers won't carry it because they don't want to confuse their customers
Which is too bad, because it could be a great vehicle for a lot of people who want better fuel economy with excellent reliability and tremendous range.
Dodos were not inherently dumb - in spite of their name - they just lacked fear of predators because there were none in their habitat. The same thing happens all over the world; isolated species lose innate fear of potential predators because they don't recognize them as such.
Your comment on crows is spot on, though. And indeed there is a great variance in bird intellect.
And if some stranger I just met kissed my kid on the lips
That was the original complaint from the neighbor. If we take this on its own, and presume nothing before or after, I think it warrants a little more examination of what happened. We are, after all, talking about a small child. Sure, based on what we know about this nutjob it is certainly possible he intended to plant a kiss on the lips of a kid, in which case he is a dirty pedophile who should be taken out of society.
On the other hand, we should consider the behavior of a lot of typical 4 year old kids - rather unpredictable. If your neighbor kissed your kid on the cheek or forehead you might not be offended, right? What if that is what the guy was going for and the kid moved his own head at the last second? Now the stranger's lips are on the kid's lips unintentionally.
Of course, I would generally think it unwise to kiss a kid you have never met before. and based on what he did afterwards the guy is psychotic and should be put away.
But there is a chance, particularly given how little information we have, that the first encounter was innocent in intent, and ended up blown out of proportion. There is, of course, an equal chance that it was just as bad as it looked.
It says this occurred in Blaine, MN; which is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district. Anyone from Minneapolis can tell you that district represents the bulk of MN's redneck population. Frankly I'm surprised he didn't try to run them over with his monster truck instead.
and placed my card on the "do not accept charges from this card, ever" list;
So, the fact that they are keeping your credit card number on a list, in a database, presumably as clear text, doesn't bother you at all?
Being as that card was cancelled before they did so, it does not. The WoW purchases were only one of many fraudulent purchases made on that card, so by the time I called Blizzard I had already had my bank cancel the card anyways. However it was useful because it meant that they would proactively cancel any pending charges that the person who had my numbers had setup to occur later, which my bank would have honored.
They realize that a compromised account started as an active account, and thus is less likely to be blacklisted at a border. That, and as a legitimate account the payload is more likely to go through mail servers that are commonly whitelisted (or at least, not blacklisted).
The article tries to compare him to George Clooney's character in Up In The Air. Reading the article (I know, we don't do that here) suggests there is a better comparison, based on what he does for a living.
I think he is more like Jeremy Piven's character in The Goods.
Of course, I am one of about 20 or so people who actually bothered to see that movie, so the comparison is likely lost on most. So we might as well instead compare him to a character in a well-known movie that nobody watched, instead of a lesser-known movie that nobody watched.
I do not understand how you read that and interpret it to be racist. It was certainly not intended as such. Someone else understood it to be a joke, but somehow you decided it was racist? I would be interested in knowing how you reached that conclusion.
It took three purchases from that online vendor before I was sure that the compromise was always coming as a result of shopping with them. The first time, there was a delay between ordering from them and the result of my card being compromised; hence it was hard to tell exactly how my card was compromised. The second time was such a very different collection of purchases made on my compromised card that it didn't seem at the time to be related to the previous time of having my card compromised. The third time it happened quicker and for more money, but it wasn't until I noticed several websites of people complaining about this happening to their cards after buying from this merchant that I realized where the cause of the problem was.
And years ago I used to buy from these guys regularly without a problem. It was only more recent purchases from this fairly popular (for what they sell) merchant that have consistently lead to my card being compromised.
I saw that, but I'm wondering why it is in the title and not the summary. The text from the submitter is short enough that he easily could have said "handheld" if that is what he wanted, but he never did. Which leaves me wondering why it is in the subject line but not in the text.
Of course, we all know that slashdot editors are perfect and never make a mistake, ever, anywhere...
But does anyone know of an open terminal (with printer + Wi-Fi), preferably running Linux, that we can use to run a custom application for retail, made by a reputable manufacturer?
But no mention of it needing to be handheld. Sure, a handheld POS is nifty and all, but it does make it that much more complicated. Really if someone is just establishing a retail setup a POS in a static location would be more reliable and less expensive, which are both positive traits in the chaos of a start-up.
I found a vendor online who seems to consistently manage to allow my credit card data - including my name, mailing address, and CVV number - to be compromised virtually every time I buy something from them. All kinds of worthless shit has been purchased in my name as a result, and my check card has been replaced no less than 3 times as a result.
To top it off some of the shit gets sent to me. Anyone want "Chinese" weight-loss green tea? Yeah, me neither. Although that wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as the time I had to call a Jewish dating site and tell them I did not want to run a personal ad on their site. They were at least willing to cancel the ad and refund the money, there was a different site who did neither, and none of the sites would give me the information that was on the ad that I was charged for.
On that note, I give Kudos to Blizzard software. One time my card was used to buy a bunch of WoW credits from their webserver. I contacted them, they immediately reversed all the charges and placed my card on the "do not accept charges from this card, ever" list; which is great as I have no interest in WoW.
That name itself just screams trustworthiness, doesn't it? I know I would happily hand over my secrets to someone named Booz to keep confidential and secured.
First, I feel the need to call out the article as a failure. They couldn't even get us the most elementary information about the TV - that is, what kind of TV is it? They tell us it does 3D HD; great. But is it an LCD? An LED? Plasma? CRT? Something else? Come on, it would have taken a minute fraction of a line to get that information into the article and they couldn't do it.
Second, fail to the manufacturer themselves. Someone there thought that calling their fancy 3D technology "Film Patterned Retarder". Really, why the hell would you voluntarily put the word "retard" into your own description of your technology?
Lawyer, MBA... hard decision if you only have one bullet...
Have them stand next to each other, ear to ear. If you shoot so the bullet passes through the MBA first, it will encounter so little resistance on the way through that it should still deliver a fatal shot to the lawyer on the other side!
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you can get scientology to sue slashdot over it, the piece you refer to will stay. It has already been down moderated so as to not be seen (he's referring to a spam comment) but that is as far as it will go here.
Genomic signatures predict migration and spawning failure in wild Canadian salmon.
Which gives you a link to sciencemag.org:
Science Abstract
Of course, there is a paywall at sciencemag.org. Being as all the researchers are Canadian, there is no NIH requirement for the paper to be released for free. You may need to venture to your local university library to download the paper, but with those links it won't be hard to get. You can get as far as the abstract for free:
Long-term population viability of Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) is threatened by unusually high levels of mortality as they swim to their spawning areas before they spawn. Functional genomic studies on biopsied gill tissue from tagged wild adults that were tracked through ocean and river environments revealed physiological profiles predictive of successful migration and spawning. We identified a common genomic profile that was correlated with survival in each study. In ocean-tagged fish, a mortality-related genomic signature was associated with a 13.5-fold greater chance of dying en route. In river-tagged fish, the same genomic signature was associated with a 50% increase in mortality before reaching the spawning grounds in one of three stocks tested. At the spawning grounds, the same signature was associated with 3.7-fold greater odds of dying without spawning. Functional analysis raises the possibility that the mortality-related signature reflects a viral infection.
Finally, we see a front page reference to a graph that includes stuffed animals and zombies!
Whose fault was that?
The significant choices that were made by the republicans in charge included the number of voting machines available per location, which directly influences how long it takes to get through the line. There was nothing even remotely approaching equality in terms of voting machines per capita in various voting districts in Ohio. Suburban whites found they could vote in 5 minutes, urban blacks found it took 5 hours or more.
And am I supposed to believe that not only do all "working people" vote Democrat, they all voted Kerry?
No, but you should be aware of the blatant voter suppression effort that took place in Ohio at the hands of the republicans. If all people in Ohio had genuinely equal ability to vote, the results could have been vastly different.
Hmm, could that sudden shift have been caused by people getting off of work and then voting?
That's a good one, there. We heard about the massive lines in the largest cities in Ohio, where working people had to stand in line for several hours to vote if they lived in less-than-affluent districts. Many people were unable to take enough time off of work, and simply walked away from the line, not casting a vote at all.
Well, I presume he means GNU Linux, of course! Because Gnu Not Unix!
Unless they've changed stances recently, Apple does not support running macs with any OS version earlier than the one they shipped with. They don't specifically try to stop you; but they make no effort to be particularly helpful about it. Outside of tiny shops, that pretty much squashes the "Well, we just won't upgrade" plan. People still routinely run XP because it is still quite easy to buy brand new hardware with full, vendor supported, XP compatibility.
Are Apple shops really that dependent on Apple for support? PC users, and shops that have large implementations of PCs running something other than Mac OS X, have become accustomed to finding support places other than their OS provider.
In other words, the software problems that people are having with PCs have already been seen by other PC users. It seems unlikely that this is distinctly not the case with OS X users. If the business is capable of running well with a current version of OS X (or any other OS for that matter) and they don't like what is next in the pipeline, then why should they feel forced into it?
And if the server is the question, why would they need to upgrade their server OS immediately? A well-configured server shouldn't even need to reboot more than once or twice a year, it certainly shouldn't need to have an OS upgrade every time the vendor releases something new.
I can easily think of two more:
I have not heard any reason why a currently working installation of OS X would suddenly stop working altogether just because the owner did not upgrade. Windows people have seen this before; there are plenty of people still running Windows XP even though two newer version of the same have been released since.
Their lobbyists will use it to ensure that we go another several decades without an alternative to air transport for getting across the country faster than you can in your own car.
Which is too bad, because it could be a great vehicle for a lot of people who want better fuel economy with excellent reliability and tremendous range.
While dodos were extremely stupid
Dodos were not inherently dumb - in spite of their name - they just lacked fear of predators because there were none in their habitat. The same thing happens all over the world; isolated species lose innate fear of potential predators because they don't recognize them as such.
Your comment on crows is spot on, though. And indeed there is a great variance in bird intellect.
And if some stranger I just met kissed my kid on the lips
That was the original complaint from the neighbor. If we take this on its own, and presume nothing before or after, I think it warrants a little more examination of what happened. We are, after all, talking about a small child. Sure, based on what we know about this nutjob it is certainly possible he intended to plant a kiss on the lips of a kid, in which case he is a dirty pedophile who should be taken out of society.
On the other hand, we should consider the behavior of a lot of typical 4 year old kids - rather unpredictable. If your neighbor kissed your kid on the cheek or forehead you might not be offended, right? What if that is what the guy was going for and the kid moved his own head at the last second? Now the stranger's lips are on the kid's lips unintentionally.
Of course, I would generally think it unwise to kiss a kid you have never met before. and based on what he did afterwards the guy is psychotic and should be put away.
But there is a chance, particularly given how little information we have, that the first encounter was innocent in intent, and ended up blown out of proportion. There is, of course, an equal chance that it was just as bad as it looked.
It says this occurred in Blaine, MN; which is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district. Anyone from Minneapolis can tell you that district represents the bulk of MN's redneck population. Frankly I'm surprised he didn't try to run them over with his monster truck instead.
And yes, that is Michele Bachmann's district.
and placed my card on the "do not accept charges from this card, ever" list;
So, the fact that they are keeping your credit card number on a list, in a database, presumably as clear text, doesn't bother you at all?
Being as that card was cancelled before they did so, it does not. The WoW purchases were only one of many fraudulent purchases made on that card, so by the time I called Blizzard I had already had my bank cancel the card anyways. However it was useful because it meant that they would proactively cancel any pending charges that the person who had my numbers had setup to occur later, which my bank would have honored.
They realize that a compromised account started as an active account, and thus is less likely to be blacklisted at a border. That, and as a legitimate account the payload is more likely to go through mail servers that are commonly whitelisted (or at least, not blacklisted).
The article tries to compare him to George Clooney's character in Up In The Air. Reading the article (I know, we don't do that here) suggests there is a better comparison, based on what he does for a living.
I think he is more like Jeremy Piven's character in The Goods.
Of course, I am one of about 20 or so people who actually bothered to see that movie, so the comparison is likely lost on most. So we might as well instead compare him to a character in a well-known movie that nobody watched, instead of a lesser-known movie that nobody watched.
I do not understand how you read that and interpret it to be racist. It was certainly not intended as such. Someone else understood it to be a joke, but somehow you decided it was racist? I would be interested in knowing how you reached that conclusion.
It took three purchases from that online vendor before I was sure that the compromise was always coming as a result of shopping with them. The first time, there was a delay between ordering from them and the result of my card being compromised; hence it was hard to tell exactly how my card was compromised. The second time was such a very different collection of purchases made on my compromised card that it didn't seem at the time to be related to the previous time of having my card compromised. The third time it happened quicker and for more money, but it wasn't until I noticed several websites of people complaining about this happening to their cards after buying from this merchant that I realized where the cause of the problem was.
And years ago I used to buy from these guys regularly without a problem. It was only more recent purchases from this fairly popular (for what they sell) merchant that have consistently lead to my card being compromised.
Uh.... in the title?
I saw that, but I'm wondering why it is in the title and not the summary. The text from the submitter is short enough that he easily could have said "handheld" if that is what he wanted, but he never did. Which leaves me wondering why it is in the subject line but not in the text.
Of course, we all know that slashdot editors are perfect and never make a mistake, ever, anywhere...
But does anyone know of an open terminal (with printer + Wi-Fi), preferably running Linux, that we can use to run a custom application for retail, made by a reputable manufacturer?
But no mention of it needing to be handheld. Sure, a handheld POS is nifty and all, but it does make it that much more complicated. Really if someone is just establishing a retail setup a POS in a static location would be more reliable and less expensive, which are both positive traits in the chaos of a start-up.
I found a vendor online who seems to consistently manage to allow my credit card data - including my name, mailing address, and CVV number - to be compromised virtually every time I buy something from them. All kinds of worthless shit has been purchased in my name as a result, and my check card has been replaced no less than 3 times as a result.
To top it off some of the shit gets sent to me. Anyone want "Chinese" weight-loss green tea? Yeah, me neither. Although that wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as the time I had to call a Jewish dating site and tell them I did not want to run a personal ad on their site. They were at least willing to cancel the ad and refund the money, there was a different site who did neither, and none of the sites would give me the information that was on the ad that I was charged for.
On that note, I give Kudos to Blizzard software. One time my card was used to buy a bunch of WoW credits from their webserver. I contacted them, they immediately reversed all the charges and placed my card on the "do not accept charges from this card, ever" list; which is great as I have no interest in WoW.
That name itself just screams trustworthiness, doesn't it? I know I would happily hand over my secrets to someone named Booz to keep confidential and secured.
You are factually wrong and off-topic! I'm wondering if you can find a way for a trifecta of time-wasting?
First, I feel the need to call out the article as a failure. They couldn't even get us the most elementary information about the TV - that is, what kind of TV is it? They tell us it does 3D HD; great. But is it an LCD? An LED? Plasma? CRT? Something else? Come on, it would have taken a minute fraction of a line to get that information into the article and they couldn't do it.
Second, fail to the manufacturer themselves. Someone there thought that calling their fancy 3D technology "Film Patterned Retarder". Really, why the hell would you voluntarily put the word "retard" into your own description of your technology?
Lawyer, MBA... hard decision if you only have one bullet...
Have them stand next to each other, ear to ear. If you shoot so the bullet passes through the MBA first, it will encounter so little resistance on the way through that it should still deliver a fatal shot to the lawyer on the other side!