Okian Warrior sez: In the mean time, feel free to send your kid to public school. Mine is home-schooled and I want to give him as much of an edge as possible. No, really: send your kid to public school, do us all a favor. This problem will sort itself out in a generation or two.
That is a bit harsh. It sounds like you would like to grind up other people's kids to feed yours. While it might be great if every family was like yours and could provide a good home school environment, that is not currently the case. Indeed, if it were the case, you would lose your edge so I guess it is to your advantage that public education be as crappy as possible.
So if China was two countries, everything would be fine, since each country would only put out 2/3 of the C02 of the US, while maintaining their 1/3 output per capita. The way to solve climate change is obviously to divide up the big countries into smaller countries:)
Also, I take issue with this meme that 25% of all those incarcerated are locked up ONLY for non-violent drug charges. For that to be true, it would require that ON AVERAGE one in for convicts behind bars was guilty of either using or selling drugs, without any associated crimes, like robbery, assault, possession of a gun, etc., and that is simply unbelievable.
Federal prisons were estimated to hold 179,204 sentenced inmates in 2007. Of these, 15,647 were incarcerated for violent offenses, including 2,915 for homicide, 8,966 for robbery, and 3,939 for other violent crimes. In addition, 10,345 inmates were serving time for property crimes, including 504 for burglary, 7,834 for fraud, and 2,006 for other property offenses. A total of 95,446 were incarcerated for drug offenses. Also, 56,237 were incarcerated for public-order offenses, including 19,528 for immigration offenses and 24,435 for weapons offenses. http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p07.pdf
According to a federal survey of jail inmates, of the total 440,670 jail inmates in the US in 2002, 112,447 (25.5%) were drug offenders: 48,823 (11.1%) for possession and 56,574 (12.8%) for trafficking. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/sdatji02.pdf
Post-consumer materials, like plastic, is almost never recycled because of the contamination issues. A water bottle can be recycled but if one neck ring from a cap gets into the mix the entire batch is worthless. As of yet, this level of sorting and handling removing neck rings and caps can only be done by hand - at union wages for the most part. This eliminates any reason for recycling water bottles or milk containers - it costs maybe 100x what the recycled materials would be worth to sort them to that level.
According to my research, the plastic top and ring are separated during processing nowadays, which is possible because the two kinds of plastic are of very different density; apparently one type floats in water and the other sinks.
There you go - one of the most influential and powerful AGW proponents using his influence to keep journals from printing papers that contradicted some of the basis for his work. Even if he has to "redefine what peer-reviewed literature is!"
There is even more supression in the mainstream media.
Were these papers actually repressed or was "peer review" redefined by the IPCC? I remember reading that they they were indeed published despite Phil Jones' dramatic email, but I can't find the citation right now.
We don't have enough arable land on planet earth to fully convert from oil to biofuel.
Can you provide a link to something that shows that?
Furthermore, [biofuel]'s a physical fuel that must be grown (on land, using fertilizers, pesticides and farm machinery), processed (expending energy) and then transported (expending energy)
Yes, of course gasoline pumps, refines and transports itself with no expenditre of energy, duh.
If I understand the CCC's paper correctly, as long as *even one* of the CA certs trusted by the browser uses MD5, it is possible (with considerable effort) to create an intermediate CA cert that can be used to sign a cert for any FQDN, say paypal.com. Then with a little DNS poisoning, the user is directed to an https site, with a correct domain name and (if the user looks, not bloody likely) a perfectly good certificate that looks like it was signed by a cert that was signed by a cert trusted by the browser.
You don't have to create many rogue certs, all you have to to is create one rogue intermediate CA cert that can sign as many certs as you like, all of which will be accepted with the default browser config. This is what the CCC has done.
Michal Geist started the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group a few months ago, and it now has almost 40,000 members. Check it out, if you're Canadian and use Facebook.
Since when has Slashdot become the outpost for the war on terror articles? Everything posted here anymore seems to be political. What was that Taco was saying the other day about loosing control of his website? Dude, it's already happened.
Dude, go to your Preferences Homepage and decide what YOU want to see instead of whining that the world is not feeding you exactly what you want in some kind of IV drip. Blocking the Politics category makes/. at lot more readable.
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If you think Bennett Hazelton is a spammer, then you are obviously without clue. Look at http://peacefire.org/ if you actually want to know who he is and what he does.
mhall119 says: Therefore they are not bound by the GPL distribution requirements, they didn't even have to accept the GPL as a license.
Moot point. No one has to "accept" the GPL; there's no button to click. The way it works is that the GPL is what gives you the right to distribute at all, so if you distribute a GPLed app, you are bound by the GPL for that app.
If you don't like it, well, no one is forcing you to distribute it.
That said, I don't believe that pointing to a Sourceforge link counts as "distributing".
stratjakt sez: You can't discuss linux on slashdot any more honestly than you could discuss the latest Zelda game on a Nintendo forum.
You aren't allowed to suggest that linux may not be secure, or that the desktop environments for it are kludgy and half-assed, or anything else. It cannot be sanely and calmly discussed in the "linux community".
When my 14 year old daughter was asked by a new online "friend" to snail mail a photograph of herself, I asked her how she would feel if she thought that a middle-aged man was masturbating looking at that picture.
If the loud "Eeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!" I heard was any indication, I think I made my point.
abuse.net will test your mail server for you. It tries many ways of relaying and displays a report that you can print out and show your boss how secure your server is:-)
The point I was trying (and obviously failing, probably because I'm so stupid) to make is that I have trouble with the implication that doing any "bad" thing and using the "just doing my job" excuse is just like Nazi atrocities, except not as evil. A comparison of Interent censorship with Nazi gas chambers can't help but strike me as sensationalist.
Even if Google's censorship (or lack thereof) has any effect at all on the Chinese government or the oppression of the Chinese people (which I personally find hard to believe), it is difficult to equate Google's actions with that of the people firing up the gas chambers. You claim that Google is a contributor to the oppression by allowing their search results to be censored. Fine, but I still don't agree that that is the same as taking people out behind the police station and shooting them. The violence is the oppression.
Drinkypoo sez "I know I'm going from zero to Godwin in only ten seconds, but the Nazis were just doing their jobs, too. Obviously there is a huge difference between filtering search results and gassing people and putting them in mass graves, but the logic doesn't improve any as the severity decreases."
Sweet Zombie Jesus, you might as well compare the guy at the pizza place who won't substitute onions for green peppers because he's "just doing his job" with Nazi extermination camps.
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Maybe *you* didn't mind upstart, but I am fully in agreement with whoever called it a "lightly documented pachinko machine".
Okian Warrior sez:
In the mean time, feel free to send your kid to public school. Mine is home-schooled and I want to give him as much of an edge as possible. No, really: send your kid to public school, do us all a favor. This problem will sort itself out in a generation or two.
That is a bit harsh. It sounds like you would like to grind up other people's kids to feed yours. While it might be great if every family was like yours and could provide a good home school environment, that is not currently the case. Indeed, if it were the case, you would lose your edge so I guess it is to your advantage that public education be as crappy as possible.
So if China was two countries, everything would be fine, since each country would only put out 2/3 of the C02 of the US, while maintaining their 1/3 output per capita. The way to solve climate change is obviously to divide up the big countries into smaller countries :)
Do anyone have any information supporting this assertion of MSF's involvement in intelligence and/or special forces operations?
Headline: French nuclear waste site blast kills at least 1
Sidebar: At least 61 killed in Kenya pipeline explosion
Also, I take issue with this meme that 25% of all those incarcerated are locked up ONLY for non-violent drug charges. For that to be true, it would require that ON AVERAGE one in for convicts behind bars was guilty of either using or selling drugs, without any associated crimes, like robbery, assault, possession of a gun, etc., and that is simply unbelievable.
There is a lot of evidence for statistics like this, you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#United_States_domestic_policy.
Federal prisons were estimated to hold 179,204 sentenced inmates in 2007. Of these, 15,647 were incarcerated for violent offenses, including 2,915 for homicide, 8,966 for robbery, and 3,939 for other violent crimes. In addition, 10,345 inmates were serving time for property crimes, including 504 for burglary, 7,834 for fraud, and 2,006 for other property offenses. A total of 95,446 were incarcerated for drug offenses. Also, 56,237 were incarcerated for public-order offenses, including 19,528 for immigration offenses and 24,435 for weapons offenses.
http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p07.pdf
According to a federal survey of jail inmates, of the total 440,670 jail inmates in the US in 2002, 112,447 (25.5%) were drug offenders: 48,823 (11.1%) for possession and 56,574 (12.8%) for trafficking.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/sdatji02.pdf
Post-consumer materials, like plastic, is almost never recycled because of the contamination issues. A water bottle can be recycled but if one neck ring from a cap gets into the mix the entire batch is worthless. As of yet, this level of sorting and handling removing neck rings and caps can only be done by hand - at union wages for the most part. This eliminates any reason for recycling water bottles or milk containers - it costs maybe 100x what the recycled materials would be worth to sort them to that level.
According to my research, the plastic top and ring are separated during processing nowadays, which is possible because the two kinds of plastic are of very different density; apparently one type floats in water and the other sinks.
A woman naturally has about a dozen kids. Breast cancer is quite rare in countries where women birth early and often.
That is probably because she is dead before she has a chance to develop it.
There you go - one of the most influential and powerful AGW proponents using his influence to keep journals from printing papers that contradicted some of the basis for his work. Even if he has to "redefine what peer-reviewed literature is!" There is even more supression in the mainstream media.
Were these papers actually repressed or was "peer review" redefined by the IPCC? I remember reading that they they were indeed published despite Phil Jones' dramatic email, but I can't find the citation right now.
But how many would contain all 1s? Answer that, and provide a proof for your answer, and you'll make math history.
An infinite number. How much was the prize again? :)
We don't have enough arable land on planet earth to fully convert from oil to biofuel.
Can you provide a link to something that shows that?
Furthermore, [biofuel]'s a physical fuel that must be grown (on land, using fertilizers, pesticides and farm machinery), processed (expending energy) and then transported (expending energy)
Yes, of course gasoline pumps, refines and transports itself with no expenditre of energy, duh.
Posting to undo moderation error. Tried to moderate this interesting, which it is.
The nature-would-do-us-best thesis is a feelgood mythology for people ill suited for the present technological norms most humans practice.
It is only in 2007 that the world became more urban than rural, up until then "most" humans lived in a rural environment.
If I understand the CCC's paper correctly, as long as *even one* of the CA certs trusted by the browser uses MD5, it is possible (with considerable effort) to create an intermediate CA cert that can be used to sign a cert for any FQDN, say paypal.com. Then with a little DNS poisoning, the user is directed to an https site, with a correct domain name and (if the user looks, not bloody likely) a perfectly good certificate that looks like it was signed by a cert that was signed by a cert trusted by the browser.
You don't have to create many rogue certs, all you have to to is create one rogue intermediate CA cert that can sign as many certs as you like, all of which will be accepted with the default browser config. This is what the CCC has done.
Or how about mind-controlled battlefield terminators? Where the soldiers have their minds linked up to robots and fight from a safe, remote location?
Forever Peace, incredible book.
Michal Geist started the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group a few months ago, and it now has almost 40,000 members. Check it out, if you're Canadian and use Facebook.
Dude, go to your Preferences Homepage and decide what YOU want to see instead of whining that the world is not feeding you exactly what you want in some kind of IV drip. Blocking the Politics category makes /. at lot more readable.
Therefore they are not bound by the GPL distribution requirements, they didn't even have to accept the GPL as a license.
Moot point. No one has to "accept" the GPL; there's no button to click. The way it works is that the GPL is what gives you the right to distribute at all, so if you distribute a GPLed app, you are bound by the GPL for that app.
If you don't like it, well, no one is forcing you to distribute it.
That said, I don't believe that pointing to a Sourceforge link counts as "distributing".
The people who need in-house shared calendaring might also look at Open-Exchange. They have both a commercial version and a community version.
We are deploying it at work and it does not suck at all.
You aren't allowed to suggest that linux may not be secure, or that the desktop environments for it are kludgy and half-assed, or anything else. It cannot be sanely and calmly discussed in the "linux community".
And yet here you are, modded to +4 Insightful.
When my 14 year old daughter was asked by a new online "friend" to snail mail a photograph of herself, I asked her how she would feel if she thought that a middle-aged man was masturbating looking at that picture.
If the loud "Eeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!" I heard was any indication, I think I made my point.
abuse.net will test your mail server for you. It tries many ways of relaying and displays a report that you can print out and show your boss how secure your server is :-)
The point I was trying (and obviously failing, probably because I'm so stupid) to make is that I have trouble with the implication that doing any "bad" thing and using the "just doing my job" excuse is just like Nazi atrocities, except not as evil. A comparison of Interent censorship with Nazi gas chambers can't help but strike me as sensationalist.
Even if Google's censorship (or lack thereof) has any effect at all on the Chinese government or the oppression of the Chinese people (which I personally find hard to believe), it is difficult to equate Google's actions with that of the people firing up the gas chambers. You claim that Google is a contributor to the oppression by allowing their search results to be censored. Fine, but I still don't agree that that is the same as taking people out behind the police station and shooting them. The violence is the oppression.
Sweet Zombie Jesus, you might as well compare the guy at the pizza place who won't substitute onions for green peppers because he's "just doing his job" with Nazi extermination camps.