From the article: "THE OVERRIDING GOAL is to protect ourselves from cyber-hazards, whether they be deliberate attempts or accidental events," said Guy Copeland of Computer Sciences Corp.
An accidental event?! I can see it now: "Whoa, what was that? Did I just overflow a buffer or something? What the fsck is that root shell doing there????"
Or course, this is rarely sucessfull since most spammers don't disclose recipient lists (I'm assuming they just BCC everyone) so I rarely see the address used to get to me, but it works every now and then.
Postfix has a Delivered-To header that will tell you what mailbox it was delivered to, so even if it's not in the headers, since it was in the envelope you'll know.
traceroute to www.linuxone.net (216.101.248.92), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 adsl-xx-xx-xx-xx.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (xx.xx.xx.xx) 28.458 ms 24.849 ms 32.341 ms
Uh-huh. Your first hop, presumably your router, has a near-30ms latency?
You are a bit without value of droppings of babboon. Your ask the question of Slashdot was the bit of cut-downs the most without value on which I ever laid some eyes. If I meet you ever I will give a kick your donkey. No, draft who, I will rape your donkey. And you will appreciate it. Have a pleasant day.
A normal CD is 70% reflective. A CD-R is 30% reflective. A CD-RW is 5% reflective.
Sony's Dual Discrete optical pickup block has two lasers, one IR and one red. As far as I know, there's absolutely no reason the IR pickup would be capable of picking up CD-RWs but not CD-Rs unless there was some firmware problem/limitation.
You remember how CD-ROM drives a while ago weren't able to read CD-RWs but could read CD-Rs? That's because the firmware didn't know a valid CD could have such a low reflectivity, and assumed there was no disc in the drive (or just plain couldn't read it). However, newer drives will crank up the gain on the photodiode used in the pickup block in order to "see" the very faint reflection from CD-RWs.
I've personally used more than 500 Sony CD-Rs (CDQ-74CN; I buy them by the box of 100 in jewel cases), and they are high quality CD-Rs, but the "XO" moniker is purely marketing hype. Sony CD-Rs are manufactured by Taiyo Yuden and have precisely the same composition of Azo (blue) dye as any other Taiyo Yuden CD-R. (If you don't believe me, get a program that will read the ATIP [absolute time in pregroove] of a CD-R disc, and it will quote the manufacturer as Taiyo Yuden.) Incidentally, Sony CD-RWs are manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical, if I have my facts straight.
GEML ISN'T alone. It has a competitor, another DTD known as CellML, used to define the complex interactions that take place within cells. CellML takes an integrated approach to describing all of the processes within a living cell -- its genes, proteins, enzymes, and chemical reactions, the pathways and connections between each part of the whole. CellML seems well suited to the kinds of work that supercomputers do -- creating simulations of incredibly complex systems -- while GEML only defines the genetics that create the cell.
Doesn't this seem a more apt way of describing a living organism? Sure, it's undoubtedly more complex and expensive (financially and computationally), but if you were to set an E10000 or Cray (or maybe a high-end Sun farm) to work on CellML, wouldn't it do more in less time than having to work everything out manually with GEML?
UPDATE: The California Independent System Operator has downgraded Thursday's Stage Three power emergency to a Stage Two emergency, ending the threat of rolling blackouts across the Bay Area.
Cal ISO spokesman Patrick Dorinson said that the combination of conservation and added power buys during the day has enabled the ISO, which oversees California's power grid, to avoid proceeding from a Stage Three Electrical Emergency issued at 9:30 a.m. today to the more drastic step of a rolling blackout order.
From what I've read, VA is only alleged to have offered less shares than they said they would. Now this is a bad thing, but what Credit Suisse is alleged to have done is much worse! To quote another post here that sums it up nicely:
1. There was something like a 'friends and family' program with the VA Linux IPO, where certain people got shares of VA Linux at the IPO price (this is common in IPOs).
2. VA Linux's underwriter, Credit Suisse ('CS') had a 30-day option to sell even more shares of VA Linux at the IPO price, up to 15% of the number of shares in the original IPO (this is also common in IPOs; the underwriter generally exercises the option and sells the shares if the IPO is a hot one).
3. The complaint basically says that these 'friends and family' shares and option shares were sold by CS to certain people in ways that gave CS extra benefits, hurting investors who could not buy these shares at the IPO price from CS.
4. This has been a sore topic for the SEC lately, where certain people get shares at the IPO price, and then can turn around and tell them immediately after the IPO, turning a very large profit, quickly.
5. It really has nothing to do with VA Linux itself, other than the mechanics of VA Linux's IPO.
This begs the question of why Credit Suisse isn't under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and on the receiving end of this lawsuit as well, but I've heard nothing of the sort (so far)...
Here's how you update this AMAZING pinball table. (It's amazing because there's a CRT underneath the playfield so you can squirt new backgrounds into it whenever you want, among other things.)
It is widely expected that Corel, which received a critical $135 million infusion in cash from Microsoft (stock: MSFT) in October, will dump its Linux line of products, such as its WordPerfect suite for Linux, to focus on Microsoft's.Net initiative.
When I first heard this in the news a while back, I exhaled deeply and thought:
Fsck, this doesn't help Linux...
Wow, Corel must be pretty desperate!
I hope Corel can get back in the black soon.
Then I thought some more, and I realized it was Microsoft's idea all along to walk up to Corel and say "You're hurting, and we can help you... if you help us."
This indeed doesn't help Linux's penetration of the desktop market, but many people (myself included) feel that Linux isn't ready for the desktop of Joe Average User anyway.
So where am I going with all this? Well, Microsoft has only set back Linux on the desktop... not in the server room. That's where all the money goes (in licensing and whatnot), and their $150-million expenditure has done absolutely nothing to halt the adoption of Linux in the server room, which is where it really counts, IMO...
Many observers consider Linux 2.4, which was released late last week, to be a much-improved operating system kernel that can compete more aggressively against Windows 2000 and Unix in the enterprise market.
There's a reason Amazon and Ebay don't run Windows NT/2000 on the backend, and it's because NT/2000 virtually never crash if spoonfed properly... and that isn't good enough! Datacenter and mission-critical backends need something that NEVER crashes, PERIOD!
That's why Linux/*NIX are the thorns in Microsoft's side, and will continue to be until Microsoft cleans up the shoestring and Scotch® tape that holds together its operating systems.
Turns out they intended this to mean 2**3021377 - 1, which they claim is the largest prime found at the time this was written.
Christ, I stared at it for a while and still couldn't figure it out. Good work!
This seems unnecessarily confusing for some poor alien trying to figure it out. In one step, they introduce a new symbol (without any context), indicating substraction, a method of denoting exponents (without introducing exponents), all to describe a number that provides someone trying to decode it no clue as to what the new symbol and new denotation mean.
Excellent point. I think they should have just kept going with the primes until they filled the page with them.
Leave it to two Canadian scientists to want to show off the size of their prime...
My bad: these two images are two halves of one image (indicated by the alignment marks on the right-hand side of 19 and the left-hand side of 20) and depict Earth's continents in today's layout, but with an East-Up layout that confused me at first.
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Translation: "I work for Intel [probably in the Marketing dept.], and the 815EM is just soooo cool <schoolgirl giggle> that you simply must buy it."
/. before, ever.
I have never heard this much marketing drivel on
Next time, at least reword the press release before you paste it.... *sigh*
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From the article: "THE OVERRIDING GOAL is to protect ourselves from cyber-hazards, whether they be deliberate attempts or accidental events," said Guy Copeland of Computer Sciences Corp.
An accidental event?! I can see it now: "Whoa, what was that? Did I just overflow a buffer or something? What the fsck is that root shell doing there????"
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a hell-hole Canadian version of those big box stores
You wouldn't happen to be referring to Future Shop, would you?
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Or course, this is rarely sucessfull since most spammers don't disclose recipient lists (I'm assuming they just BCC everyone) so I rarely see the address used to get to me, but it works every now and then.
Postfix has a Delivered-To header that will tell you what mailbox it was delivered to, so even if it's not in the headers, since it was in the envelope you'll know.
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traceroute to www.linuxone.net (216.101.248.92), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 adsl-xx-xx-xx-xx.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (xx.xx.xx.xx) 28.458 ms 24.849 ms 32.341 ms
Uh-huh. Your first hop, presumably your router, has a near-30ms latency?
Riiiiiiight.
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You are a bit without value of droppings of babboon. Your ask the question of Slashdot was the bit of cut-downs the most without value on which I ever laid some eyes. If I meet you ever I will give a kick your donkey. No, draft who, I will rape your donkey. And you will appreciate it. Have a pleasant day.
s/donkey/ass
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Typo: IR lasers are 780nm, not 735.
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Adam, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. CD uses infrared (735nm) lasers, and DVD uses red (635-650nm) lasers.
Pressed CDs are 70% reflective, CD-Rs are 35% reflective, CD-RWs are 5% reflective.
Yes, Sony has a "Dual Discrete optical pickup", which is two pickup blocks in one (two lasers, two lenses, two photodiodes). One is IR, one is red.
Blue lasers cannot currently be mass-produced.
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A normal CD is 70% reflective. A CD-R is 30% reflective. A CD-RW is 5% reflective.
Sony's Dual Discrete optical pickup block has two lasers, one IR and one red. As far as I know, there's absolutely no reason the IR pickup would be capable of picking up CD-RWs but not CD-Rs unless there was some firmware problem/limitation.
You remember how CD-ROM drives a while ago weren't able to read CD-RWs but could read CD-Rs? That's because the firmware didn't know a valid CD could have such a low reflectivity, and assumed there was no disc in the drive (or just plain couldn't read it). However, newer drives will crank up the gain on the photodiode used in the pickup block in order to "see" the very faint reflection from CD-RWs.
I've personally used more than 500 Sony CD-Rs (CDQ-74CN; I buy them by the box of 100 in jewel cases), and they are high quality CD-Rs, but the "XO" moniker is purely marketing hype. Sony CD-Rs are manufactured by Taiyo Yuden and have precisely the same composition of Azo (blue) dye as any other Taiyo Yuden CD-R. (If you don't believe me, get a program that will read the ATIP [absolute time in pregroove] of a CD-R disc, and it will quote the manufacturer as Taiyo Yuden.) Incidentally, Sony CD-RWs are manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical, if I have my facts straight.
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IMHO, "slashdot.dot" is pretty high up in the ranks of "PIN number", "LCD display", et. al.
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Oh no, baby... are you trying to tell me that all along you've been fembots? But that's just not groovy, baby!
(Translation: Click the link, Hemos. Or even just hold your mouse over it to see where it goes.)
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Here is an interesting article on BrainBuzz about Corel dropping Linux.
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From the Feed article:
GEML ISN'T alone. It has a competitor, another DTD known as CellML, used to define the complex interactions that take place within cells. CellML takes an integrated approach to describing all of the processes within a living cell -- its genes, proteins, enzymes, and chemical reactions, the pathways and connections between each part of the whole. CellML seems well suited to the kinds of work that supercomputers do -- creating simulations of incredibly complex systems -- while GEML only defines the genetics that create the cell.
Doesn't this seem a more apt way of describing a living organism? Sure, it's undoubtedly more complex and expensive (financially and computationally), but if you were to set an E10000 or Cray (or maybe a high-end Sun farm) to work on CellML, wouldn't it do more in less time than having to work everything out manually with GEML?
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In the linked article:
UPDATE: The California Independent System Operator has downgraded Thursday's Stage Three power emergency to a Stage Two emergency, ending the threat of rolling blackouts across the Bay Area.
Cal ISO spokesman Patrick Dorinson said that the combination of conservation and added power buys during the day has enabled the ISO, which oversees California's power grid, to avoid proceeding from a Stage Three Electrical Emergency issued at 9:30 a.m. today to the more drastic step of a rolling blackout order.
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Really? I must have misread it. My bad.
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- 1. There was something like a 'friends and family' program with the VA Linux IPO, where certain people got shares of VA Linux at the IPO price (this is common in IPOs).
- 2. VA Linux's underwriter, Credit Suisse ('CS') had a 30-day option to sell even more shares of VA Linux at the IPO price, up to 15% of the number of shares in the original IPO (this is also common in IPOs; the underwriter generally exercises the option and sells the shares if the IPO is a hot one).
- 3. The complaint basically says that these 'friends and family' shares and option shares were sold by CS to certain people in ways that gave CS extra benefits, hurting investors who could not buy these shares at the IPO price from CS.
- 4. This has been a sore topic for the SEC lately, where certain people get shares at the IPO price, and then can turn around and tell them immediately after the IPO, turning a very large profit, quickly.
- 5. It really has nothing to do with VA Linux itself, other than the mechanics of VA Linux's IPO.
This begs the question of why Credit Suisse isn't under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and on the receiving end of this lawsuit as well, but I've heard nothing of the sort (so far)...--
Here's how you update this AMAZING pinball table. (It's amazing because there's a CRT underneath the playfield so you can squirt new backgrounds into it whenever you want, among other things.)
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When I first heard this in the news a while back, I exhaled deeply and thought:
- Fsck, this doesn't help Linux...
- Wow, Corel must be pretty desperate!
- I hope Corel can get back in the black soon.
Then I thought some more, and I realized it was Microsoft's idea all along to walk up to Corel and say "You're hurting, and we can help you... if you help us."This indeed doesn't help Linux's penetration of the desktop market, but many people (myself included) feel that Linux isn't ready for the desktop of Joe Average User anyway.
So where am I going with all this? Well, Microsoft has only set back Linux on the desktop... not in the server room. That's where all the money goes (in licensing and whatnot), and their $150-million expenditure has done absolutely nothing to halt the adoption of Linux in the server room, which is where it really counts, IMO...
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Many observers consider Linux 2.4, which was released late last week, to be a much-improved operating system kernel that can compete more aggressively against Windows 2000 and Unix in the enterprise market.
There's a reason Amazon and Ebay don't run Windows NT/2000 on the backend, and it's because NT/2000 virtually never crash if spoonfed properly... and that isn't good enough! Datacenter and mission-critical backends need something that NEVER crashes, PERIOD!
That's why Linux/*NIX are the thorns in Microsoft's side, and will continue to be until Microsoft cleans up the shoestring and Scotch® tape that holds together its operating systems.
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"I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you're trying to take from them," Ballmer said.
What the fsck is that supposed to mean??
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Apparently I got my correction posted after you loaded the comments page and before you posted yours. :)
You're absolutely right -- it was just the East-Up orientation that prevented me from realizing precisely what I was looking at.
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Turns out they intended this to mean 2**3021377 - 1, which they claim is the largest prime found at the time this was written.
:)
Christ, I stared at it for a while and still couldn't figure it out. Good work!
This seems unnecessarily confusing for some poor alien trying to figure it out. In one step, they introduce a new symbol (without any context), indicating substraction, a method of denoting exponents (without introducing exponents), all to describe a number that provides someone trying to decode it no clue as to what the new symbol and new denotation mean.
Excellent point. I think they should have just kept going with the primes until they filled the page with them.
Leave it to two Canadian scientists to want to show off the size of their prime...
(Sorry, couldn't resist.
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My bad: these two images are two halves of one image (indicated by the alignment marks on the right-hand side of 19 and the left-hand side of 20) and depict Earth's continents in today's layout, but with an East-Up layout that confused me at first.
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- Mathematical concepts including Pi and the Pythagorean Theorem
- Our solar system, and our place in it
- Typical Earth geography
- Molecules
- Cells and DNA
- Pangaea
- Partially-split continents
- Communications
A lot of thought obviously went into the preparation of the complete message. My hat's off to the team that came up with it!--
The linked page is the first of 23 such images that made up the complete transmitted image. Here's a list of all of them.
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