Format it, and then install FreeDOS and nothing else. Let him figure out the rest on his own. It should keep him out of trouble for quite a while. If you're feeling generous, install some sound card drivers for him (though not necessarily the best ones, or even the right ones).
... And apparently we are again not ready for it. Electric cars were common decades ago, and the electric service did not collapse. Now we have two large auto manufacturers debuting cars that can be charged at home - even though few people will be able to afford the entire setup right now - and for some reason the power companies are proclaiming that the sky is falling. Hell the power companies have a solid business model right now, as few people are in a position to maintain their lifestyles without the electricity they currently pay for. So the problem for the electric companies then is what, again?
How many people does Facebook employ in Ireland (or anywhere outside the US for that matter)? I have a hard time imagining that a large part of the Irish economy is hinged on facebook; or at least enough to justify presenting this article first with the facebook logo...
The "threat level orange" was getting pretty ridiculous, and political chances of the "threat level" ever returning to "green" or even "yellow" seemed awfully remote.
Technically, it was only the airports in the US that were permanently frozen at "threat level orange". Of course, most people never heard the threat level announced anywhere else, so they never realized that the threat level for the rest of the country was indeed variable.
I point this out not to defend the system - which sucks beyond any potential defense - but rather because I was myself surprised when I found this out.
After all, airports have been at code orange permanently ever since the code system was introduced. Yet for some reason every airport in the US plays the same announcement that is worded to make it sound as if the TSA just changed it to Orange this morning. Hell, I've heard that announcement so many times I can usually recite it from memory... I guess we are retiring this system because the new machines at the airport now make us all dramatically safer from terrorist threat?
There are times when having actual dials and tactile controls is valuable. I can adjust the station and volume on my car stereo without looking at the deck which is considerably safer than having to take my eyes off the road to find the right button on an all-touch interface.
Because that's what the electorate wants. And most of the reactions on/. prove it.
I'm not sure that most of the electorate wants it the way it is (any more). I have spoken to people of a variety of political persuasions, including ones about as far from my own as you can get. I rarely encounter anyone who truly supports throwing out people who have come to our country for PhDs as soon as they finish.
I suspect that this has instead been kept on the books out of laziness than anything else.
Note that I absolutely agree with you.
I suspect more than a few other people do as well.
This system pisses me off greatly (and I am an American citizen, born in the US; but I have seen many good colleagues end up deported under this idiotic legislation). If a student from another country comes to the US to do their PhD, they will - on average in the hard sciences - be here for 4-7 years doing work for an American lab. That time they are doing important research, in our country, in English. Then when they finish, we give them an agonizingly short amount of time to get a work visa or leave. I am being far too kind to call this shortsighted on our part. If there was any law I could change in this country today, it would be this one. Students who come to the US for doctoral research should be, in my opinion, short-tracked for citizenship.
And it is even worse if that student wants to visit their birth country while studying here or immediately after finishing. I know someone from an Eastern European country who did her PhD here and was told if she went back to see her family after finishing she would not be allowed back into the US for 6-9 months minimum. She has spoken English since she was about 3 years old. Why should we punish her for doing her research (and contributing to American science) here?
The media can help curb the idiotic partisan bickering aspect of the national dialog by simply omitting a politician's party affiliation in each story unless the issue at hand is expressly party-related.
Won't the parties inevitably claim that it is then imperative that the party name be included if either
I noticed that the summary did not mention the senator is a Democrat. Interesting, considering how often slashdot summaries mention the party affiliation of Republicans when they do something that slashdot agrees with, or Democrats when they do something that slashdot opposes. I had to look him up on wikipedia to find his affiliation.
... another rumor of Nintendo's impending collapse. Just because the two main competitors - neither of whom have matched the Wii sales numbers with their latest consoles - have released motion controls, is not enough to claim that Nintendo will be gone next week. Neither the PS3 nor the XBox 360 controls have been out long enough to have any sense of how often they will be implemented in upcoming games.
Conservatives here love to rant about KDawson being a hack of an editor, with a liberal bias. Meanwhile this conservative piece of garbage was only up here for about 20 minutes before someone pointed out that it is total bullshit. Yet I don't see an outpouring of people calling for Timothy's head...
I guess every once in a while we see the true bias of slashdot; I'll give you a clue and tell you it sure as hell isn't liberal.
face it, denying an authentication doesn't cost much bandwidth, but it can take a few cycles to fail to authenticate a key.
That is true. However, at the rates that I am usually attacked the CPU usage is trivial. Denying one attack every minute (that is the high end) doesn't do much to my meager P4, and denying one every 20 minutes (as in at this moment) barely counts as noise.
If the attack frequency suddenly picked up dramatically - which I don't expect to happen on my server - then I would be concerned. But right now I'd say slashdot uses more of my home bandwidth (and CPU time) than the distributed attack does.
That said, 1 per minute suggests it's either a very small botnet or someone renting a little capacity on one of the bigger ones. If you were the target of a well developed one you'd see a lot more traffic than that.:)
I don't kid myself into thinking that my webserver is an important target. There is nothing of great value on there. I fully suspect that someone was trolling through a very long list looking for open SSH ports and picked up on my server; I am now on a long list of IPs that they try periodically when they have a chance. Likely they are just doing this trying to find more systems to add to their botnet...
If I had another IP address it would be fun to put a windows box up running cygwin openssh - then their attempts would be even more meaningless as they would be trying to log in to a root account that doesn't exist anyways (of course on that they would just enter through a different security hole...)
My site at home has been under a distributed hack attempt (a long list of IPs all trying to ssh in as root*) for days now. On the first day the attempts were quite frequent; approaching 1 per minute. Now on day 4 the attempts are trickling it as infrequently as one every 20 minutes. A system on a reasonably fast connection could on its own surpass the 1/minute barrier when running a dictionary password attempt through ssh if it wanted to; hence this looks like it could well be systems on slow connections. Add in that some IPs disappear for a while and then come back - as if the PC is logging off and then on again - and it certainly does look like a low-speed botnet.
* Naturally, my ssh denies all root attempts. Even if they got the password right they wouldn't know it, because the rejection would be the same. Other botnets have tried whitepages-style attacks using long lists of common user names and not matched any allowed users on my system as well.
** Yes I know I could just change my ssh port and much of this would go away. But I find it amusing and I have bandwidth to burn.
Of course, he doesn't really meet many people's idea of "young", but he did save a plane full of people by keeping his cool under pressure. Plenty of lesser men would have ended up crashing the plane and losing everyone. Even though he doesn't think himself a hero, I'd say he is worthy of consideration at least.
but out of all bacteria that could use used why use one associated with human disease?
How many bacteria can you think of that are not associated with some human disease? Even the yeast that we use to make beer (and bread) can be a disease agent under the right (or wrong) circumstances.
That said, for each bacterium you can name that is associated with disease, the same has numerous strains that don't harm humans. The E Coli used in the lab is not the same strain that is found in cattle feces.
This is of course information that the cell companies have for any call (it is how they triangulate where a distress call comes from), and it would make the most sense for something like that. If they instead decided it by area code (or even area code + exchange prefix), it would be really quite useless since people tend to be mobile with their cell phones and likely wouldn't be interested in a disaster that is thousands of miles away at that moment.
As hard as some people here may find it to believe, there are people in this country - perhaps even in your own neighborhood - who don't own computers. Hence all the online and CD-ROM directories in the world won't help them a bit; they need the printed phone book to look up numbers. They don't use the printed phone book because they want "nostalgia", they use it because it's the only resource they have (or want).
Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Either way, though, Bluetooth was of course named for a Danish King. While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
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Format it, and then install FreeDOS and nothing else. Let him figure out the rest on his own. It should keep him out of trouble for quite a while. If you're feeling generous, install some sound card drivers for him (though not necessarily the best ones, or even the right ones).
It's still better than at least 90% of what counts as "music" today.
... And apparently we are again not ready for it. Electric cars were common decades ago, and the electric service did not collapse. Now we have two large auto manufacturers debuting cars that can be charged at home - even though few people will be able to afford the entire setup right now - and for some reason the power companies are proclaiming that the sky is falling. Hell the power companies have a solid business model right now, as few people are in a position to maintain their lifestyles without the electricity they currently pay for. So the problem for the electric companies then is what, again?
How many people does Facebook employ in Ireland (or anywhere outside the US for that matter)? I have a hard time imagining that a large part of the Irish economy is hinged on facebook; or at least enough to justify presenting this article first with the facebook logo...
The "threat level orange" was getting pretty ridiculous, and political chances of the "threat level" ever returning to "green" or even "yellow" seemed awfully remote.
Technically, it was only the airports in the US that were permanently frozen at "threat level orange". Of course, most people never heard the threat level announced anywhere else, so they never realized that the threat level for the rest of the country was indeed variable.
I point this out not to defend the system - which sucks beyond any potential defense - but rather because I was myself surprised when I found this out.
After all, airports have been at code orange permanently ever since the code system was introduced. Yet for some reason every airport in the US plays the same announcement that is worded to make it sound as if the TSA just changed it to Orange this morning. Hell, I've heard that announcement so many times I can usually recite it from memory ... I guess we are retiring this system because the new machines at the airport now make us all dramatically safer from terrorist threat?
There are times when having actual dials and tactile controls is valuable. I can adjust the station and volume on my car stereo without looking at the deck which is considerably safer than having to take my eyes off the road to find the right button on an all-touch interface.
Because that's what the electorate wants. And most of the reactions on /. prove it.
I'm not sure that most of the electorate wants it the way it is (any more). I have spoken to people of a variety of political persuasions, including ones about as far from my own as you can get. I rarely encounter anyone who truly supports throwing out people who have come to our country for PhDs as soon as they finish.
I suspect that this has instead been kept on the books out of laziness than anything else.
Note that I absolutely agree with you.
I suspect more than a few other people do as well.
This system pisses me off greatly (and I am an American citizen, born in the US; but I have seen many good colleagues end up deported under this idiotic legislation). If a student from another country comes to the US to do their PhD, they will - on average in the hard sciences - be here for 4-7 years doing work for an American lab. That time they are doing important research, in our country, in English. Then when they finish, we give them an agonizingly short amount of time to get a work visa or leave. I am being far too kind to call this shortsighted on our part. If there was any law I could change in this country today, it would be this one. Students who come to the US for doctoral research should be, in my opinion, short-tracked for citizenship.
And it is even worse if that student wants to visit their birth country while studying here or immediately after finishing. I know someone from an Eastern European country who did her PhD here and was told if she went back to see her family after finishing she would not be allowed back into the US for 6-9 months minimum. She has spoken English since she was about 3 years old. Why should we punish her for doing her research (and contributing to American science) here?
The media can help curb the idiotic partisan bickering aspect of the national dialog by simply omitting a politician's party affiliation in each story unless the issue at hand is expressly party-related.
Won't the parties inevitably claim that it is then imperative that the party name be included if either
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I noticed that the summary did not mention the senator is a Democrat. Interesting, considering how often slashdot summaries mention the party affiliation of Republicans when they do something that slashdot agrees with, or Democrats when they do something that slashdot opposes. I had to look him up on wikipedia to find his affiliation.
Bush administration: Defends corporate interests and their "right" to lock down on a market for maximum profit at the expense of the consumer.
Obama administration: Defends corporate interests and their "right" to lock down on a market for maximum profit at the expense of the consumer.
Holy shit, that is a profound change. I understand know why the people on the extreme right are up in arms over all this socialism.
Mostly via freight rail, at 500+ ton-miles per gallon of less-refined diesel fuel.
You missed a few. The tractor that plowed the field ran on petrochemicals.
Frequently diesel.
The fertilizer that was used was derived from petrochemicals.
That depends on the crop in question. Many crops are fertilized quite well by manure, which is usually delivered by ... diesel.
The truck that brought the food to your local grocery store ran on petrochemicals.
That truck generally runs on ... diesel.
The workers who harvested the food got to the field using petrochemicals.
Migrant workers rarely have driver licenses. They usually get driven from one field to another in a large truck that runs on ... diesel.
Keep living in your urban fantasy land where you don't benefit from cheap oil prices though :)
If you looked in a mirror you would realize that your idea of you not benefiting from mass transit is the real fantasy world here.
... another rumor of Nintendo's impending collapse. Just because the two main competitors - neither of whom have matched the Wii sales numbers with their latest consoles - have released motion controls, is not enough to claim that Nintendo will be gone next week. Neither the PS3 nor the XBox 360 controls have been out long enough to have any sense of how often they will be implemented in upcoming games.
Conservatives here love to rant about KDawson being a hack of an editor, with a liberal bias. Meanwhile this conservative piece of garbage was only up here for about 20 minutes before someone pointed out that it is total bullshit. Yet I don't see an outpouring of people calling for Timothy's head...
I guess every once in a while we see the true bias of slashdot; I'll give you a clue and tell you it sure as hell isn't liberal.
What you describe is a significant component of what The Human Microbiome Project is about.
face it, denying an authentication doesn't cost much bandwidth, but it can take a few cycles to fail to authenticate a key.
That is true. However, at the rates that I am usually attacked the CPU usage is trivial. Denying one attack every minute (that is the high end) doesn't do much to my meager P4, and denying one every 20 minutes (as in at this moment) barely counts as noise.
If the attack frequency suddenly picked up dramatically - which I don't expect to happen on my server - then I would be concerned. But right now I'd say slashdot uses more of my home bandwidth (and CPU time) than the distributed attack does.
That said, 1 per minute suggests it's either a very small botnet or someone renting a little capacity on one of the bigger ones. If you were the target of a well developed one you'd see a lot more traffic than that. :)
I don't kid myself into thinking that my webserver is an important target. There is nothing of great value on there. I fully suspect that someone was trolling through a very long list looking for open SSH ports and picked up on my server; I am now on a long list of IPs that they try periodically when they have a chance. Likely they are just doing this trying to find more systems to add to their botnet...
If I had another IP address it would be fun to put a windows box up running cygwin openssh - then their attempts would be even more meaningless as they would be trying to log in to a root account that doesn't exist anyways (of course on that they would just enter through a different security hole...)
My site at home has been under a distributed hack attempt (a long list of IPs all trying to ssh in as root*) for days now. On the first day the attempts were quite frequent; approaching 1 per minute. Now on day 4 the attempts are trickling it as infrequently as one every 20 minutes. A system on a reasonably fast connection could on its own surpass the 1/minute barrier when running a dictionary password attempt through ssh if it wanted to; hence this looks like it could well be systems on slow connections. Add in that some IPs disappear for a while and then come back - as if the PC is logging off and then on again - and it certainly does look like a low-speed botnet.
* Naturally, my ssh denies all root attempts. Even if they got the password right they wouldn't know it, because the rejection would be the same. Other botnets have tried whitepages-style attacks using long lists of common user names and not matched any allowed users on my system as well.
** Yes I know I could just change my ssh port and much of this would go away. But I find it amusing and I have bandwidth to burn.
Of course, he doesn't really meet many people's idea of "young", but he did save a plane full of people by keeping his cool under pressure. Plenty of lesser men would have ended up crashing the plane and losing everyone. Even though he doesn't think himself a hero, I'd say he is worthy of consideration at least.
but out of all bacteria that could use used why use one associated with human disease?
How many bacteria can you think of that are not associated with some human disease? Even the yeast that we use to make beer (and bread) can be a disease agent under the right (or wrong) circumstances.
That said, for each bacterium you can name that is associated with disease, the same has numerous strains that don't harm humans. The E Coli used in the lab is not the same strain that is found in cattle feces.
This is of course information that the cell companies have for any call (it is how they triangulate where a distress call comes from), and it would make the most sense for something like that. If they instead decided it by area code (or even area code + exchange prefix), it would be really quite useless since people tend to be mobile with their cell phones and likely wouldn't be interested in a disaster that is thousands of miles away at that moment.
As hard as some people here may find it to believe, there are people in this country - perhaps even in your own neighborhood - who don't own computers. Hence all the online and CD-ROM directories in the world won't help them a bit; they need the printed phone book to look up numbers. They don't use the printed phone book because they want "nostalgia", they use it because it's the only resource they have (or want).
Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Either way, though, Bluetooth was of course named for a Danish King. While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
I've completed 12 graduate theses of 50 pages or more. All for someone else. All while taking tech support calls for Dell
Now its believable.