What I have trouble imagining is that you have a high school education. You start several sentences without proper punctuation, you don't know when to use a comma, and you have at least two sentences that don't have a proper antecedent. I don't think someone as barely literate as yourself should comment on what might constitute appropriate legislation. Best for everyone would be for you to return to your burger flipping job and leave thinking for the rest of us.
Huh? What? It's not his network. He's not some kind of hero. Yeah, there are other idiots in the world, but seriously, anyone seeing Childs as some kind of champion of security is sadly, sorely mistaken.
Way to back that up with cold hard reasoning. Oh wait, you didn't. On second look, I can see that you just spewed an emotional appeal meant to make you look righteous and perhaps glean some karma from the deal. Here, let me give a counter-argument with the same level of "insight" (and with exclamation points and the obligatory "Period." ending to boot):
Chids is a champion of security! Anyone who thinks otherwise is sorely mistaken! He was trying to help because of all the idiots he is dealing with. Period.
If this is the level of fuckwittage he had to deal with while in his job I'm not surprised he locked others out.
As you are well aware, bureaucracy is ruled mostly by idiots. They are put into places of power with the bureaucracy for precisely this reason. Their idiocy makes them less threatening. Once arriving there, being idiots, they are suspicious of anyone smarter. They especially do not like their own idiocy shoved in their face with the constant superior intellect of those who may happen to come along. Now these idiots can do stupid things, like enter passwords into public record or fire talented sys admins, but they will not get in trouble. Why? Because its better to do the wrong thing because you are stupid than it is to do the right thing that some idiot made against the rules one time.
Probably. But the lack of evidence of aliens doesn't mean they don't exist. Notice that I said there is a lack of evidence of aliens. Read that again. Now again. Okay now you understand that I am not claiming any evidence of aliens nor that I have any experience with them. Think about that, hard. That's what I said. Now that I've said that, consider that if you were a highly sophisticated life form and could travel interstellar space, you might have a heightened sense of the maxim: don't fuck with the wildlife.
Do we know enough about the atmospheric dynamics of Venus? Is there something similar to a jet stream
Yes, Venus has her Quintessential Upper Electroionosphere Enchanted Fluvial (QUEEF) zone. Most people don't think its air you can breath safely, but that mostly comes from old wive's tail. Some think you would be fortunate just to be in the area of an honest-to-god Venus QUEEF zone.
If you really want to karma-whore, metamoderate at every opportunity. When I do that, I get mod points 15 at a time. As it is, I only use about 30% of the ones I'm alloted, even when I only metamoderate once a month. I have a heck of a lot more fun trying to stir up conversation (without pissing people of in the process). I measure my skill with the number of +5 insightfuls I get. If you practice, you get better at it. Sorry if my skill pisses you off, but it has come at the cost of more than a few -1 trolls, etc., so I believe I've earned it.
Sensory overload. I think I melded that story and the previous with the packaging world record...oh wait, there's something happening on my other monitor, can't talk.
Sorry. The last I checked, the record went to the Bose-Einstein condensate at a few nano-Kelvin. 1.9 K is boiling by comparison.
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Honestly, installing software was one of my biggest beefs with OS X. You have to mount a file as a drive?
These days Safari opens the image file and everything pops up like magic for the user. If the people who designed the program are worth a damn, they have a link to the apps folder in the image and the user basically doesn't have to think about it. Its about as complicated as you describe for synaptic but the search interface is google and not a cryptically hidden program somewhere in the system submenu of the start bar. I think the last time you used OS X was 10.1.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Grandmother thinking to herself: "How the fuck do I know? I'm just a friggin' grandma."
Nice source. A second rate Vegas act featuring a fat loudmouth and a mute. And of course they have no political agenda. Guys like this are the reason mainstream voters are frightened of Ron Paul.
What I would like to see, and perhaps this is already available, is a set of agreed upon application practices, written by distribution maintainers, that developers follow that standardize the interface, the population of the OS menus, the distribution of files, etc, so that it app installs are seamless.
Mega dittos, Rush. I think OSX is gaining a lot of ground because the installation of apps is trivial: drag the thing from the disk-image file to your app folder. Of course its almost as easy in ubuntu, where you select from a pre-defined list. But linux definitely needs a common mechanism. RPMs, apt, and yum simply don't hack it. Though package management seems like a good idea, it quickly locks a user into specific versions that must be compatible with specific libraries. I think the difficulty of installing apps, the difficulty of patching the OS, the lack of standard distribution practices, and the inflexibility of package management systems can make otherwise embracing users a little hostile towards Linux. In fact, I'm starting to feel a little hostile myself and I'm one of those Linux evangelists.
. That is to say, the chance of having marker A might be 1% and the chance of having marker B might be 5%, but the chance of having BOTH might very well be higher (or lower) than.05%.
IANAFG (I am not a forensic geneticist) but the co-segregation of genetic markers is such a fundamental and well understood process that I would have a hard time believing that they wouldn't know and correct for the rates of their chosen set when calculating the probabilities of a matched set.
Of course the statistics they calculate are probably based on estimates of pairwise segregation. Some higher-order effects may be at work that change the statistics relative to a basic model like independent pairwise segregation.
For example, allele A of gene 1 and allele B of gene 2 may not segregate according to a previously measured pairwise stastistic in the presence of allele C of gene 3. Such higher-order effects may have a significant impact on the statistics but would require a *lot* of data to reveal.
A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.
Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies. At a little noticed press conference in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, he discussed his investigation of a computer patch that was applied to Diebold Election Systems voting machines in Georgia right before that state's November 2002 election.
Spoonamore is one of the most prominent cyber-security experts in the country. He has appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs and ABC's World News Tonight, and has security clearances from his work with the intelligence community and other government agencies, as well as the Department of Defense, and is one of the worldâ(TM)s leading authorities on hacking and cyber-espionage.
In 1995, Spoonamore received a civilian citation for his work with the Department of Defense. He was again recognized for his contributions in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. Spoonamore is also a registered Republican and until recently was advising the McCain campaign.
Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgiaâ(TM)s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with RAW STORY, the whistleblower -- who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation -- said that he became suspicious of Diebold's actions in Georgia for two reasons. The first red flag went up when the computer patch was installed in person by Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich, who flew in from Texas and applied it in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds. The source states that Cox was not privy to these changes until after the election and that she became particularly concerned over the patch being installed in just those two counties.
The whistleblower said another flag went up when it became apparent that the patch installed by Urosevich had failed to fix a problem with the computer clock, which employees from Diebold and the Georgia Secretary of Stateâ(TM)s office had been told the patch was designed specifically to address.
Some critics of electronic voting raised questions about the 2002 Georgia race even at the time. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who was five percentage points ahead of Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss in polls taken a week before the vote, lost 53% to 46%. Incumbent Democratic Governor Roy Barnes, who led challenger Sonny Perdue in the polls by eleven points, lost 51% to 46%. However, because the Diebold machines used throughout the state provided no paper trail, it was impossible to ask for a recount in either case.
Concerned by the electoral outcome, the whistleblower approached Spoonamore because of his qualifications and asked him to examine the Diebold patch.
McCain adviser reported patch to Justice Department
The Ohio press conference was organized by Cliff Arnebeck and three other attorneys, who had filed a challenge to the results of that the 2004 presidential election in Ohio in December, 2004. That challenge was withdrawn, but in August 2006 Arnebeck filed a new case, King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell, alleging civil rights violations in the 2004 voting. The case was stayed in 2007. On Thursday, Arnebeck filed a motion to remove the stay and allow fresh investigation.
Individuals close to Arnebeck's office said Spoonamore confirmed that the patch included nothing to repair a clock problem. Instead, he identified two parallel programs, both having the full software code and even the same audio instructions for the deaf. Spoonamore said he could not understand the need for a second copy of the exact same pr
The problem with your logic here is that "white" people don't have barriers to entry and advancement in the fields you're talking about.
Except for competition with the rest of the world. Have you done a post-doc in the sciences? Probably not. In my department we have one faculty member with five post-docs straight off the boat from China and no Americans. I'm the only post-doc in my lab from the USA that wasn't a grad-student from the same lab. The trend to hire from the rest of the world makes the competition un-fucking-believable. It doesn't matter what your race. And the internationals are all getting payed with taxpayer money courtesy of the NIH. I'm not complaining or saying that its wrong, but that's how it is. So unless you do some real science beyond tech-ing, don't claim that white people have it so easy. Everybody has it rough. This isn't the '70s any more, toto.
In the sciences? Most people from minority races who are intelligent enough for the sciences opt for law and medicine these days. I'm afraid that if minorities want to see more of themselves in science, they are going to have to push in that direction themselves.
Of course, there ought to be a clear definition of actually threatening someone, an offhand comment probably ought not qualify.
And singing a song that's been played on a radio also doesn't even qualify as an off-hand comment, no matter how much someone wants Bush to be dictator for life.
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You have an anger problem.
Then why the fuck didn't you fucking mention something about the trespassing you fucktwit?
This is "breaking the law" too in america, am I right?
To fucktwits like the GP, "don't break the fucking law" only applies to those laws that said fucktwits like.
Don't break the fucking law.
Look dickweed, I fuck when I want, whether or not there is a law.
now imagine someone driving that way.
What I have trouble imagining is that you have a high school education. You start several sentences without proper punctuation, you don't know when to use a comma, and you have at least two sentences that don't have a proper antecedent. I don't think someone as barely literate as yourself should comment on what might constitute appropriate legislation. Best for everyone would be for you to return to your burger flipping job and leave thinking for the rest of us.
Huh? What? It's not his network. He's not some kind of hero. Yeah, there are other idiots in the world, but seriously, anyone seeing Childs as some kind of champion of security is sadly, sorely mistaken.
Way to back that up with cold hard reasoning. Oh wait, you didn't. On second look, I can see that you just spewed an emotional appeal meant to make you look righteous and perhaps glean some karma from the deal. Here, let me give a counter-argument with the same level of "insight" (and with exclamation points and the obligatory "Period." ending to boot):
Chids is a champion of security! Anyone who thinks otherwise is sorely mistaken! He was trying to help because of all the idiots he is dealing with. Period.
If this is the level of fuckwittage he had to deal with while in his job I'm not surprised he locked others out.
As you are well aware, bureaucracy is ruled mostly by idiots. They are put into places of power with the bureaucracy for precisely this reason. Their idiocy makes them less threatening. Once arriving there, being idiots, they are suspicious of anyone smarter. They especially do not like their own idiocy shoved in their face with the constant superior intellect of those who may happen to come along. Now these idiots can do stupid things, like enter passwords into public record or fire talented sys admins, but they will not get in trouble. Why? Because its better to do the wrong thing because you are stupid than it is to do the right thing that some idiot made against the rules one time.
I think he just had a case of the senility.
Probably. But the lack of evidence of aliens doesn't mean they don't exist. Notice that I said there is a lack of evidence of aliens. Read that again. Now again. Okay now you understand that I am not claiming any evidence of aliens nor that I have any experience with them. Think about that, hard. That's what I said. Now that I've said that, consider that if you were a highly sophisticated life form and could travel interstellar space, you might have a heightened sense of the maxim: don't fuck with the wildlife.
Do we know enough about the atmospheric dynamics of Venus? Is there something similar to a jet stream
Yes, Venus has her Quintessential Upper Electroionosphere Enchanted Fluvial (QUEEF) zone. Most people don't think its air you can breath safely, but that mostly comes from old wive's tail. Some think you would be fortunate just to be in the area of an honest-to-god Venus QUEEF zone.
Bullshit.
If you really want to karma-whore, metamoderate at every opportunity. When I do that, I get mod points 15 at a time. As it is, I only use about 30% of the ones I'm alloted, even when I only metamoderate once a month. I have a heck of a lot more fun trying to stir up conversation (without pissing people of in the process). I measure my skill with the number of +5 insightfuls I get. If you practice, you get better at it. Sorry if my skill pisses you off, but it has come at the cost of more than a few -1 trolls, etc., so I believe I've earned it.
So what's a "first rate" Vegas act? Don Rickles and Debbie Reynolds?
They are about as close as it gets. The fact of the matter, however, is that Vegas has no first rate acts.
so what the fuck?
Sensory overload. I think I melded that story and the previous with the packaging world record...oh wait, there's something happening on my other monitor, can't talk.
Sorry. The last I checked, the record went to the Bose-Einstein condensate at a few nano-Kelvin. 1.9 K is boiling by comparison.
Honestly, installing software was one of my biggest beefs with OS X. You have to mount a file as a drive?
These days Safari opens the image file and everything pops up like magic for the user. If the people who designed the program are worth a damn, they have a link to the apps folder in the image and the user basically doesn't have to think about it. Its about as complicated as you describe for synaptic but the search interface is google and not a cryptically hidden program somewhere in the system submenu of the start bar. I think the last time you used OS X was 10.1.
I see no inflexibility in apt
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
[clip]
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Grandmother thinking to herself: "How the fuck do I know? I'm just a friggin' grandma."
Penn & Teller: Bullshit
Nice source. A second rate Vegas act featuring a fat loudmouth and a mute. And of course they have no political agenda. Guys like this are the reason mainstream voters are frightened of Ron Paul.
What I would like to see, and perhaps this is already available, is a set of agreed upon application practices, written by distribution maintainers, that developers follow that standardize the interface, the population of the OS menus, the distribution of files, etc, so that it app installs are seamless.
Mega dittos, Rush. I think OSX is gaining a lot of ground because the installation of apps is trivial: drag the thing from the disk-image file to your app folder. Of course its almost as easy in ubuntu, where you select from a pre-defined list. But linux definitely needs a common mechanism. RPMs, apt, and yum simply don't hack it. Though package management seems like a good idea, it quickly locks a user into specific versions that must be compatible with specific libraries. I think the difficulty of installing apps, the difficulty of patching the OS, the lack of standard distribution practices, and the inflexibility of package management systems can make otherwise embracing users a little hostile towards Linux. In fact, I'm starting to feel a little hostile myself and I'm one of those Linux evangelists.
. That is to say, the chance of having marker A might be 1% and the chance of having marker B might be 5%, but the chance of having BOTH might very well be higher (or lower) than .05%.
IANAFG (I am not a forensic geneticist) but the co-segregation of genetic markers is such a fundamental and well understood process that I would have a hard time believing that they wouldn't know and correct for the rates of their chosen set when calculating the probabilities of a matched set.
Of course the statistics they calculate are probably based on estimates of pairwise segregation. Some higher-order effects may be at work that change the statistics relative to a basic model like independent pairwise segregation.
For example, allele A of gene 1 and allele B of gene 2 may not segregate according to a previously measured pairwise stastistic in the presence of allele C of gene 3. Such higher-order effects may have a significant impact on the statistics but would require a *lot* of data to reveal.
Oh, look the story is gone
Not from my squid cache, bro.
A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.
Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies. At a little noticed press conference in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, he discussed his investigation of a computer patch that was applied to Diebold Election Systems voting machines in Georgia right before that state's November 2002 election.
Spoonamore is one of the most prominent cyber-security experts in the country. He has appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs and ABC's World News Tonight, and has security clearances from his work with the intelligence community and other government agencies, as well as the Department of Defense, and is one of the worldâ(TM)s leading authorities on hacking and cyber-espionage.
In 1995, Spoonamore received a civilian citation for his work with the Department of Defense. He was again recognized for his contributions in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. Spoonamore is also a registered Republican and until recently was advising the McCain campaign.
Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgiaâ(TM)s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with RAW STORY, the whistleblower -- who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation -- said that he became suspicious of Diebold's actions in Georgia for two reasons. The first red flag went up when the computer patch was installed in person by Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich, who flew in from Texas and applied it in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds. The source states that Cox was not privy to these changes until after the election and that she became particularly concerned over the patch being installed in just those two counties.
The whistleblower said another flag went up when it became apparent that the patch installed by Urosevich had failed to fix a problem with the computer clock, which employees from Diebold and the Georgia Secretary of Stateâ(TM)s office had been told the patch was designed specifically to address.
Some critics of electronic voting raised questions about the 2002 Georgia race even at the time. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who was five percentage points ahead of Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss in polls taken a week before the vote, lost 53% to 46%. Incumbent Democratic Governor Roy Barnes, who led challenger Sonny Perdue in the polls by eleven points, lost 51% to 46%. However, because the Diebold machines used throughout the state provided no paper trail, it was impossible to ask for a recount in either case.
Concerned by the electoral outcome, the whistleblower approached Spoonamore because of his qualifications and asked him to examine the Diebold patch. McCain adviser reported patch to Justice Department
The Ohio press conference was organized by Cliff Arnebeck and three other attorneys, who had filed a challenge to the results of that the 2004 presidential election in Ohio in December, 2004. That challenge was withdrawn, but in August 2006 Arnebeck filed a new case, King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell, alleging civil rights violations in the 2004 voting. The case was stayed in 2007. On Thursday, Arnebeck filed a motion to remove the stay and allow fresh investigation.
Individuals close to Arnebeck's office said Spoonamore confirmed that the patch included nothing to repair a clock problem. Instead, he identified two parallel programs, both having the full software code and even the same audio instructions for the deaf. Spoonamore said he could not understand the need for a second copy of the exact same pr
A passport costs $100.
I got one a year ago. It was about $80.00, but that was for 10 years, not one.
So you may defend yourself against a 'street thug' but not continue to beat him (to the point of e.g punishment or to 'teach him a leasson'.)
Best is to beat them until they are incapable of moving and causing you further danger. Then you should stop.
The problem with your logic here is that "white" people don't have barriers to entry and advancement in the fields you're talking about.
Except for competition with the rest of the world. Have you done a post-doc in the sciences? Probably not. In my department we have one faculty member with five post-docs straight off the boat from China and no Americans. I'm the only post-doc in my lab from the USA that wasn't a grad-student from the same lab. The trend to hire from the rest of the world makes the competition un-fucking-believable. It doesn't matter what your race. And the internationals are all getting payed with taxpayer money courtesy of the NIH. I'm not complaining or saying that its wrong, but that's how it is. So unless you do some real science beyond tech-ing, don't claim that white people have it so easy. Everybody has it rough. This isn't the '70s any more, toto.
What about racial equality?
In the sciences? Most people from minority races who are intelligent enough for the sciences opt for law and medicine these days. I'm afraid that if minorities want to see more of themselves in science, they are going to have to push in that direction themselves.
I am a Republican. Reagan was a Republican. GWB is no such thing. Neither is McCain. What would you name them?
I usually do it with a lowercase "r". But I like "Repubnican" so much better, I can't stand it. Its kind of like "Democratic" party.
Of course, there ought to be a clear definition of actually threatening someone, an offhand comment probably ought not qualify.
And singing a song that's been played on a radio also doesn't even qualify as an off-hand comment, no matter how much someone wants Bush to be dictator for life.