Win 95 to Win98 was an improvement, 98 was more stable, and supported more hardware (or so it seemed). Thus the masses bought Win98, and they thought Win98 to ME would be an improvement. Windows ME was such an unstable POS and Win 2k didn't support their consumer hardware. The masses revolted and went back to Win 98, with a bitter taste in their mouth. A then an economic downturn ensued (not related) - the masses stopped spending, and made due with what they had.
As the economy picks up, win XP (which is a far cry from the miserable ME experience) will start to be adopted more and more. MS has to overcome the bitter taste left in the mouth of consumers when they tried to foist ME on us. Oh yeah, and businesses REALLY didn't like ME (I know of at least 2 companies that would purchase dell laptops, and would wipe and reload 98 on them when they arrived).
A couple of axioms for the MS marketing people to remember
Time heals all wounds
People know what people know, and generally are scared of change (thus MS gives us the "classic" look in XP)
Bad word of mouth travels twice as fast and twice as far as good word of mouth
Have you used SCO UNIX? The DOS is probably SCO admins who just wished their OS could have features that have only been available in other OSes for YEARS!
One of the top countries pushing for UN control over the Internet is China. You know the country that has it's own firewall to help them government sniff out subversives. I guess actually having someone in a prepatory meeting that believes in free speech and open elections was a problem.
Finally there are a few EU countries (France) that really like the idea as well. They want to protect their innocent youngsters from "American Culture which is so pervasive on the Internet". The gentleman from ICANN wasn't a native French speaker, he definitely shouldn't be allowed to participate.
The Internet is a wonderful experiment, but it is almost entirely dominated by the US, and the english language. That rubs many the wrong way. I'd am VERY suspicious of such meetings, the motives behind them dont seem very "egalitarian". They are self serving, and mostly trying to prevent the free exchange of ideas IMHO.
ATF - Wonderful - weren't the first shots fired at the Koresh compound fired by an ATF agent shooting himself in the thigh?
Judging by the reports that I have read, we can expect the following healines soon.
ATF RAIDS HOME (ATF press release) In an effort to stamp out musical piracy, which leads to terrorism - the ATF today raided the home of Amanda Johnson (age 12) and her brother brad (age 9). Both pirates were taken down. One of the pirates was shot in the raid when he attacked the ATF agents with a fluid projectile weapon. The ATF agent is expected to make a full recovery, while the pirate is listed in stable but critical condition.
"We're just trying to protect our American way of life", said Butch Howitzer. "These pirates are destroying the ability of the RIAA to run a good monopoly, besides, if this piracy thing gets out of hand we might actually have to pay artists. Ticketmaster and the record label executives can't afford this. Lets be honest, the money these pirates steal prevents a record executive from getting the thereapy they need every day."
When we first tested JFS wasn't really ready. We couldn't get it to work on the boot partition and had some bad oopses under heavy load. I understand that these have been fixed now. As far as straight testing is concerned they were pretty close. When the DB files got really big (1.3 GB or larger) XFS started to outshine JFS.
After patching every single kernel thats come out since the early 2.4s, I now have a kernel that I don't need to patch. WOW, about darn time!! Perhaps I'll even get lucky enough that RedHat and others that do not support XFS yet will build it into their kernels. That will make MY life easier, and updates go faster.
We chose XFS after lots of serious testing. It beat all comers at the time and we've been using it ever since. The only downside to XFS is file deletion times are a bit long, especially compared to Reiser, but when you have a server that is uner HEAVY load (Databses, mail servers) and with LARGE files (log server) nothing beats XFS.
Thanks guys, this is one of those merges that has made me estatic!
......but will not allow private parties to sue spammers
Considering the FTC's prompt aggressive approach to enforcing current consumer protection law, I have little faith in this latest legislative foray. Be it stock scams, penis patches, pornography, or purchase drugs on-line, SPAM already breaks CURRENT laws. I have yet to seem effective enforcement of the laws we already have, does anyone honestly believe that this will this really make a difference?
Until the people that are harmed (i.e. the people that own the mail servers) can sue for damages, and pursue the SPAMMERS on their own, nothing will change. If you don't take the consequences out of the cyber world and put it into the real world, we will continue to get spammed. While this is a tiny, tiny, tiny step in the right direction, until tour government allows/starts using much more aggressive tactics, very little will change.
What about baseball bats and cousins named Vinny? It seems to me that it would be hard to send spam with broken fingers and knees. [Don't flame me, notice that tongue in my cheek!]
an executive scolded programmers for leaving software files on an Internet site without password protection.
I think we can call this "Open source by accident", or perhaps "Almost Open Source", then again "Effectively Open Source" sounds good as well. I for one would like to thank Diebold for leaving the source code were we can all look at it.
On to a more serious matter - the code SHOULD be open to scrutiny, especially by third party, independant coders. Then again, running on top of a MS OS, that may have a virus or back door scare me. What about a voteing machine that runs from a bootabel CD-Rom? The results are all kept in memory with a line printer and some smart cryptography as a backup/confirmation? It shouldn't be hard, the CD's could be inspected post election to make sure that the voting program code wasn't tampered with (unlike hard drives where I could tamper with the code and no one owuld know it). Seems to me the open source community could do a lot better in short order. PS the username and password for the open source code would be anonymous and myvotcounts@fukudiebold.com
*shrug* perhaps - of course I'm the type of person that will yell at you quite loudly not to pollute my street when you throw your trash on it. Amazing what a little bit embarassment will do. If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem.
They sent him e-mail
No he installed software on his machine that did not disclose that it continuously served adds to him no matter where he surfed or what he did. It also is designed to make removal extremely difficult. It basically destroyed the functionality of his personal property. Since the first court descion excused Timberline software some years ago - software writers can freely write malicous and bad code and sell it to you. As long as you accept the agreement. This is of course entirely the oposite off all other consumer protection law.
Why in the holy name of FUCK would the government come to HIS aid?
Because he is a consumer that was obviously injured by defective software.
Seriously, this is a case of some ass that thought it would be funny/cool to say incredibly stupid shit to a company he thought would do nothing, and found out he was wrong.
Ah yes, well as far as I see it, considering the advertising they were sending him (Highly offensive to some people), I would say that they are about even - wouldn't you? Whats the matter, can't they take a joke? Better yet, can't they just help the guy out - or was that too much to ask?
How about you take off your tinfoil hat, step down from that box you call a podium, and stfu, k?
Please take a second and get a clue - just a small one, in your case almost any size clue will do. While your at it, develop a small sense of humor - read things with your tongue in your cheek - try ever so hard to find the satire.
Booker threatened to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to the company, to "disable" an employee with a bullet and torture him with a power drill and ice pick; and to hunt down and castrate the employees unless they removed him from their e-mail list, prosecutors said.
Hmm, nothing wrong with that, lets look at it a little differently. The company in question -
1. Insulted him repeatedly about his penis size. Thus making the internet a hostile and intimidating place.
2. They made his computer unuseable causing a loss of income.
3. They intruded into his home and refused to leave his personal property alone.
And the government did nothing about it. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all of these were infringed by the spammers. I think the defendant has his atitude wrong. He need NOT apologize, instead change his defense to "I was being harmed, pursued, harassed and the government refused to come to my aid. What options were left I was was to continue on with my life?".
Now THAT would be interesting, instead, all that we see is another story about hwo bad spam is. It will drive you crazy.
1. No requirement for opt-in 2. No jail time only monetary damages 3. No public stonings
Does it matter yes
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The IT budget has to be looked at the same exact way as any other departmental budget. What does your company get for the money invested. If your ebay - the money may be well spent in IT. If your bricks and mortar inc you may wish to invest in other areas. It all depends. Only an analytical ruthless, pencil to paper approach will tell you that.
Unfortunately too many executives - scared at their own ineptness when it comes to IT think that a big IT budget and a smart (insert favoritte IT stereotype here) is going to make them a million bucks. Feast your eyes on the dot bomb waste land ladies and gentlemen.
In the end it is the talent of the people that make it work that will be the deciding factor - as long as they were hired after a very careful and down to earth review of what was needed. There is no substitute for hard work, and good analysis.
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18
The Hobbs Act defines "extortion" as "the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2).
Considering the original was written pre 9/11, my guess would be that the author no longer feels that way. This has nothing to do with keeping corporate America honest. This has to do with keeping a web site relavent and up to date. No one is trying to HIDE what he said, and it is print and freely available all over the place (google is your friend)
The world changes, no one expects us to follow the policies as laid out in the cold war toward the Soviet Union. With that in mind, I believe it is only the painfully naive that would suggest that we treat the world the same way we did pre 9/11.
I think the 300,000+ bodies in mass graves, and the payments to suicide bombers post Gulf War I show us that Bush Sr. was mistaken.
Slashdot - you provide some good security information and the next thing you know - 2.5 million hits later your server is a puddle of smoldering silicon and smells really bad. XSS isn't anything compared to the damage that slashdot's attention can get you.
The refusal to admit a partisan bias isn't nieve. It's just plain dumb!!!!
In palm beach county, which is using the Diebold machines, the officials that ordered them, and the officials that approved said order are all DEMOCRATS. I guess the democrats have been paid off, and are actually secret Bush supporters. (Ooops damn tongue got stuck in my cheek)
Side Note: The appearance of inpropriety doesn't make it so. Every citizen should keep a sharp eye on ANY company involved with the election process. This should be thoroghly investigated, BUT the rants of obvioulsy biased commentators hurt the process.
I've read and seen tremendously outlandish claims all over the internet, most not even backed up by a hint of evidence. If people become numb (and they already are) because there is so much chaff, then everyone looses. With a jaded and sceptical pulic it becomes easier for the big power types to pull the wool over our eyes.
Claims to be investigated are one thing, vitrol and unfathonable (unless you think I shot kennedy) claims of corruption don't help, they hurt the process.
A court challenge to the voting machines would probably be the best idea. Followed closely by not useing them (ie get an absentee ballot and bitch at your local eletion officials until they give in)
Wait the GOP is suing? What about all that stuff I read on the internet that Diebold is in the pocket of the GOP? How can I believe anything I read on the Internet any more? Does this mean that Diebold is in the Democrats pockets?
Answer:Yes, it's ture, Diebold isn't in anyone's pockets - they are simply incompetent.
I will not vote on any machine that doesn't produce a verifiable paper trail at the time I vote. Neither should you.
BTW the original debate was about the apparent fact that the original author of a study that showed global warming as a serious problem was wrong. In essence someone got their math wrong by accident, or perhaps ignored certain data to further their point (ie get funding for more research).
USA totally dominates others in pretty much all respects. Try basing your posts on actual math next time.
Actually, if the truth be told Indonesia has the largest per capita greenhouse emmision of any country (1997-2001). Yet the have a very low per capita energy use. Energy use doesn't necessarily mean greenhouse gas emitter - while the two ar related they are not inexorably tied. For example: Google (your favorite accurate research tool *cough*) France and her Nuclear power and compare it to Saudi Arabia.
It seems that natural occurences can still produce way more greenhouse gas than the little ole US can. Below is a select quote from new scientist. BTW, last I checked those peat bogs were still burning.
From New Scientist: "... Now a team of scientists from Britain, Germany and Indonesia has reported that as Indonesia's forests burned in 1997, the smouldering peat beneath released as much as 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon into the air.
That is equivalent to 40 percent of the global emissions from burning fossil fuels that year, and was the prime cause of the biggest annual increase in atmospheric CO2 levels since records began more than 40 years ago."
I am a virus writer and would be happy to sell you my virii. These can be purchased by depositing 250,000 USD in my numbered Austrian bank account. By doing this you will save future embarassement, and you can look through your wonderfully robust windows code and provide patches to it before a similliar virus is seen "in the wild".
I know this may just blow my pay day, but perhaps you could just write secure code in the first place? Just a thought.
This points to one of the big problems in science. The method in which funding is aquired. If you produce a thesis that says "The sky is falling, but we can prevent it" you attract attention, and due to the potential acatstrophe that awaits man kind if we don't understand WHY the sky is falling, you get money. If you say "The sky looks like it's going through a natural cycle it won't fall" - you don't. The fact that a lot of the studies appear to have willfully ignroed data that didn't support their thesis is also equally as disturbing. Can you smell political agenda driven science here? See sig for final thought on the matter
Literature about guns, gun catalogs and of course, the physical guns themselves should be off-limits without adult supervision.
Then why was information about guns NOT blocked by the filter? There is quite a lot more information about guns on the sites allowed by the filter that were mentioned in the article. There is almost nothing about guns themselves on the legislative action web site that IS being blocked. That is of course the point - which you missed - by a country mile. The post was about censorship and a political slant in the "parental control" feature of a piece of software.
I think you'll find that the pro-gun crowd is the minority in this country - certainly among the computer literate.
I would say that among the slashdot crowd you appear to be wrong. The empiracal evidence presented by the posters to this forum would seem to suggest the opposite is true. If I didn't know any better I would say that your comment was a sleight regarding the intelligence of the pro gun crowd.
I think you'll find that you don't know quite as much as you think you do. That would be why you posted anonymously - you must realize that as well.
The problem with the software is that the default behaviour selectively stops kids from visiting gun sites. It allows anti-gun sites through with pictures of firearms all over the place, and pictures of bloody carnage (click on the links in the article). That while BLOCKING a legislative action site with no picutres of firearms and very little text about guns at all.
I don't object to parental control, I object to misleading and not very well documented default behaviour. Blocking gun saftey sites and classifying them as "weapons" just seems highly misleading.
My point was that this software may be used in libraries by government mandate. That would be government sponsored censorship and that my friend is a slippery slope.
These numbers are great, but only tell us a little about reliability or "real world" performance. When I did testing on these file system I used all the benchmarks here, plus a benchmark called postmark. This benchmark utility was released into the public domain by Net App and has to be one of the better "real world" benchmark suites.
The problem that we had with JFS during testing is that we had kernel panic with very large files. Thus we chose XFS - which has done an excellent job. I'm sure glad that the XFS file system has been merged into the 2.6 kernel, no more patching the 2.4's!
For more benchmarks on other file systems using postmark check out This
Slashdot Mirror
As the economy picks up, win XP (which is a far cry from the miserable ME experience) will start to be adopted more and more. MS has to overcome the bitter taste left in the mouth of consumers when they tried to foist ME on us. Oh yeah, and businesses REALLY didn't like ME (I know of at least 2 companies that would purchase dell laptops, and would wipe and reload 98 on them when they arrived).
A couple of axioms for the MS marketing people to remember
AngryPeopleRule
Have you used SCO UNIX? The DOS is probably SCO admins who just wished their OS could have features that have only been available in other OSes for YEARS!
Angry People Rule
Finally there are a few EU countries (France) that really like the idea as well. They want to protect their innocent youngsters from "American Culture which is so pervasive on the Internet". The gentleman from ICANN wasn't a native French speaker, he definitely shouldn't be allowed to participate.
The Internet is a wonderful experiment, but it is almost entirely dominated by the US, and the english language. That rubs many the wrong way. I'd am VERY suspicious of such meetings, the motives behind them dont seem very "egalitarian". They are self serving, and mostly trying to prevent the free exchange of ideas IMHO.
Angry People Rule
ATF - Wonderful - weren't the first shots fired at the Koresh compound fired by an ATF agent shooting himself in the thigh?
Judging by the reports that I have read, we can expect the following healines soon.
ATF RAIDS HOME
(ATF press release) In an effort to stamp out musical piracy, which leads to terrorism - the ATF today raided the home of Amanda Johnson (age 12) and her brother brad (age 9). Both pirates were taken down. One of the pirates was shot in the raid when he attacked the ATF agents with a fluid projectile weapon. The ATF agent is expected to make a full recovery, while the pirate is listed in stable but critical condition.
"We're just trying to protect our American way of life", said Butch Howitzer. "These pirates are destroying the ability of the RIAA to run a good monopoly, besides, if this piracy thing gets out of hand we might actually have to pay artists. Ticketmaster and the record label executives can't afford this. Lets be honest, the money these pirates steal prevents a record executive from getting the thereapy they need every day."
AngryPeopleRule
When we first tested JFS wasn't really ready. We couldn't get it to work on the boot partition and had some bad oopses under heavy load. I understand that these have been fixed now. As far as straight testing is concerned they were pretty close. When the DB files got really big (1.3 GB or larger) XFS started to outshine JFS.
Angry People Rule
After patching every single kernel thats come out since the early 2.4s, I now have a kernel that I don't need to patch. WOW, about darn time!! Perhaps I'll even get lucky enough that RedHat and others that do not support XFS yet will build it into their kernels. That will make MY life easier, and updates go faster.
We chose XFS after lots of serious testing. It beat all comers at the time and we've been using it ever since. The only downside to XFS is file deletion times are a bit long, especially compared to Reiser, but when you have a server that is uner HEAVY load (Databses, mail servers) and with LARGE files (log server) nothing beats XFS.
Thanks guys, this is one of those merges that has made me estatic!
Angry People Rule
Considering the FTC's prompt aggressive approach to enforcing current consumer protection law, I have little faith in this latest legislative foray. Be it stock scams, penis patches, pornography, or purchase drugs on-line, SPAM already breaks CURRENT laws. I have yet to seem effective enforcement of the laws we already have, does anyone honestly believe that this will this really make a difference?
Until the people that are harmed (i.e. the people that own the mail servers) can sue for damages, and pursue the SPAMMERS on their own, nothing will change. If you don't take the consequences out of the cyber world and put it into the real world, we will continue to get spammed. While this is a tiny, tiny, tiny step in the right direction, until tour government allows/starts using much more aggressive tactics, very little will change.
What about baseball bats and cousins named Vinny? It seems to me that it would be hard to send spam with broken fingers and knees. [ Don't flame me, notice that tongue in my cheek! ]
Cluge
Angry People Rule
an executive scolded programmers for leaving software files on an Internet site without password protection.
I think we can call this "Open source by accident", or perhaps "Almost Open Source", then again "Effectively Open Source" sounds good as well. I for one would like to thank Diebold for leaving the source code were we can all look at it.
On to a more serious matter - the code SHOULD be open to scrutiny, especially by third party, independant coders. Then again, running on top of a MS OS, that may have a virus or back door scare me. What about a voteing machine that runs from a bootabel CD-Rom? The results are all kept in memory with a line printer and some smart cryptography as a backup/confirmation? It shouldn't be hard, the CD's could be inspected post election to make sure that the voting program code wasn't tampered with (unlike hard drives where I could tamper with the code and no one owuld know it). Seems to me the open source community could do a lot better in short order. PS the username and password for the open source code would be anonymous and myvotcounts@fukudiebold.com
From The site
1226 - User 'elementc_ms2' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 10000)
select value from sessions where sesskey = 'e7a0f201f2c33ff902cb8802ff8771af' and expiry > '1070329551'
[TEP STOP]
It looks like slashdot strikes again.
Mirror's anyone?
*shrug* perhaps - of course I'm the type of person that will yell at you quite loudly not to pollute my street when you throw your trash on it. Amazing what a little bit embarassment will do. If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem.
They sent him e-mail
No he installed software on his machine that did not disclose that it continuously served adds to him no matter where he surfed or what he did. It also is designed to make removal extremely difficult. It basically destroyed the functionality of his personal property. Since the first court descion excused Timberline software some years ago - software writers can freely write malicous and bad code and sell it to you. As long as you accept the agreement. This is of course entirely the oposite off all other consumer protection law.
Why in the holy name of FUCK would the government come to HIS aid?
Because he is a consumer that was obviously injured by defective software.
Seriously, this is a case of some ass that thought it would be funny/cool to say incredibly stupid shit to a company he thought would do nothing, and found out he was wrong.
Ah yes, well as far as I see it, considering the advertising they were sending him (Highly offensive to some people), I would say that they are about even - wouldn't you? Whats the matter, can't they take a joke? Better yet, can't they just help the guy out - or was that too much to ask?
How about you take off your tinfoil hat, step down from that box you call a podium, and stfu, k?
Please take a second and get a clue - just a small one, in your case almost any size clue will do. While your at it, develop a small sense of humor - read things with your tongue in your cheek - try ever so hard to find the satire.
cluge
Booker threatened to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to the company, to "disable" an employee with a bullet and torture him with a power drill and ice pick; and to hunt down and castrate the employees unless they removed him from their e-mail list, prosecutors said.
Hmm, nothing wrong with that, lets look at it a little differently. The company in question -
1. Insulted him repeatedly about his penis size. Thus making the internet a hostile and intimidating place.
2. They made his computer unuseable causing a loss of income.
3. They intruded into his home and refused to leave his personal property alone.
And the government did nothing about it. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all of these were infringed by the spammers. I think the defendant has his atitude wrong. He need NOT apologize, instead change his defense to "I was being harmed, pursued, harassed and the government refused to come to my aid. What options were left I was was to continue on with my life?".
Now THAT would be interesting, instead, all that we see is another story about hwo bad spam is. It will drive you crazy.
cluge
A few things that the bill missed
1. No requirement for opt-in
2. No jail time only monetary damages
3. No public stonings
The IT budget has to be looked at the same exact way as any other departmental budget. What does your company get for the money invested. If your ebay - the money may be well spent in IT. If your bricks and mortar inc you may wish to invest in other areas. It all depends. Only an analytical ruthless, pencil to paper approach will tell you that.
Unfortunately too many executives - scared at their own ineptness when it comes to IT think that a big IT budget and a smart (insert favoritte IT stereotype here) is going to make them a million bucks. Feast your eyes on the dot bomb waste land ladies and gentlemen.
In the end it is the talent of the people that make it work that will be the deciding factor - as long as they were hired after a very careful and down to earth review of what was needed. There is no substitute for hard work, and good analysis.
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18
The Hobbs Act defines "extortion" as "the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2).
Considering the original was written pre 9/11, my guess would be that the author no longer feels that way. This has nothing to do with keeping corporate America honest. This has to do with keeping a web site relavent and up to date. No one is trying to HIDE what he said, and it is print and freely available all over the place (google is your friend)
The world changes, no one expects us to follow the policies as laid out in the cold war toward the Soviet Union. With that in mind, I believe it is only the painfully naive that would suggest that we treat the world the same way we did pre 9/11.
I think the 300,000+ bodies in mass graves, and the payments to suicide bombers post Gulf War I show us that Bush Sr. was mistaken.
Slashdot - you provide some good security information and the next thing you know - 2.5 million hits later your server is a puddle of smoldering silicon and smells really bad. XSS isn't anything compared to the damage that slashdot's attention can get you.
Our next paper - how to survive a slashdotting.
The refusal to admit a partisan bias isn't nieve. It's just plain dumb!!!!
In palm beach county, which is using the Diebold machines, the officials that ordered them, and the officials that approved said order are all DEMOCRATS. I guess the democrats have been paid off, and are actually secret Bush supporters. (Ooops damn tongue got stuck in my cheek)
Side Note: The appearance of inpropriety doesn't make it so. Every citizen should keep a sharp eye on ANY company involved with the election process. This should be thoroghly investigated, BUT the rants of obvioulsy biased commentators hurt the process.
I've read and seen tremendously outlandish claims all over the internet, most not even backed up by a hint of evidence. If people become numb (and they already are) because there is so much chaff, then everyone looses. With a jaded and sceptical pulic it becomes easier for the big power types to pull the wool over our eyes.
Claims to be investigated are one thing, vitrol and unfathonable (unless you think I shot kennedy) claims of corruption don't help, they hurt the process.
A court challenge to the voting machines would probably be the best idea. Followed closely by not useing them (ie get an absentee ballot and bitch at your local eletion officials until they give in)
cluge
Wait the GOP is suing? What about all that stuff I read on the internet that Diebold is in the pocket of the GOP? How can I believe anything I read on the Internet any more? Does this mean that Diebold is in the Democrats pockets?
Answer:Yes, it's ture, Diebold isn't in anyone's pockets - they are simply incompetent.
I will not vote on any machine that doesn't produce a verifiable paper trail at the time I vote. Neither should you.
BTW the original debate was about the apparent fact that the original author of a study that showed global warming as a serious problem was wrong. In essence someone got their math wrong by accident, or perhaps ignored certain data to further their point (ie get funding for more research).
... Now a team of scientists from Britain, Germany and Indonesia has reported that as Indonesia's forests burned in 1997, the smouldering peat beneath released as much as 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon into the air.
USA totally dominates others in pretty much all respects. Try basing your posts on actual math next time.
Actually, if the truth be told Indonesia has the largest per capita greenhouse emmision of any country (1997-2001). Yet the have a very low per capita energy use. Energy use doesn't necessarily mean greenhouse gas emitter - while the two ar related they are not inexorably tied. For example: Google (your favorite accurate research tool *cough*) France and her Nuclear power and compare it to Saudi Arabia.
It seems that natural occurences can still produce way more greenhouse gas than the little ole US can. Below is a select quote from new scientist. BTW, last I checked those peat bogs were still burning.
From New Scientist:
"
That is equivalent to 40 percent of the global emissions from burning fossil fuels that year, and was the prime cause of the biggest annual increase in atmospheric CO2 levels since records began more than 40 years ago."
cluge
Dear MS,
I am a virus writer and would be happy to sell you my virii. These can be purchased by depositing 250,000 USD in my numbered Austrian bank account. By doing this you will save future embarassement, and you can look through your wonderfully robust windows code and provide patches to it before a similliar virus is seen "in the wild".
I know this may just blow my pay day, but perhaps you could just write secure code in the first place? Just a thought.
cluge
This points to one of the big problems in science. The method in which funding is aquired. If you produce a thesis that says "The sky is falling, but we can prevent it" you attract attention, and due to the potential acatstrophe that awaits man kind if we don't understand WHY the sky is falling, you get money. If you say "The sky looks like it's going through a natural cycle it won't fall" - you don't. The fact that a lot of the studies appear to have willfully ignroed data that didn't support their thesis is also equally as disturbing. Can you smell political agenda driven science here? See sig for final thought on the matter
Then why was information about guns NOT blocked by the filter? There is quite a lot more information about guns on the sites allowed by the filter that were mentioned in the article. There is almost nothing about guns themselves on the legislative action web site that IS being blocked. That is of course the point - which you missed - by a country mile. The post was about censorship and a political slant in the "parental control" feature of a piece of software.
I think you'll find that the pro-gun crowd is the minority in this country - certainly among the computer literate.
I would say that among the slashdot crowd you appear to be wrong. The empiracal evidence presented by the posters to this forum would seem to suggest the opposite is true. If I didn't know any better I would say that your comment was a sleight regarding the intelligence of the pro gun crowd.
I think you'll find that you don't know quite as much as you think you do. That would be why you posted anonymously - you must realize that as well.
The problem with the software is that the default behaviour selectively stops kids from visiting gun sites. It allows anti-gun sites through with pictures of firearms all over the place, and pictures of bloody carnage (click on the links in the article). That while BLOCKING a legislative action site with no picutres of firearms and very little text about guns at all.
I don't object to parental control, I object to misleading and not very well documented default behaviour. Blocking gun saftey sites and classifying them as "weapons" just seems highly misleading.
My point was that this software may be used in libraries by government mandate. That would be government sponsored censorship and that my friend is a slippery slope.
These numbers are great, but only tell us a little about reliability or "real world" performance. When I did testing on these file system I used all the benchmarks here, plus a benchmark called postmark. This benchmark utility was released into the public domain by Net App and has to be one of the better "real world" benchmark suites.
The problem that we had with JFS during testing is that we had kernel panic with very large files. Thus we chose XFS - which has done an excellent job. I'm sure glad that the XFS file system has been merged into the 2.6 kernel, no more patching the 2.4's!
For more benchmarks on other file systems using postmark check out This