There's a fancyschmancy name for what you want, that I forget. Old solutions for this sort of thing can be found in the old "orange book" security levels. Ye old "C1", "C2", "B1", "B2" certified levels.
A proper B1 level (or is it B2 level?) system does not have a single uber-root. It has "role based access".
Sun used to sell a "separate" variant of Solaris, called "trusted solaris", that was out -of-the-box compliant with that sort of thing. It had a huge pile o manuals, and admining it was "a little different".
Nowadays, they've rolled all the features into regular solaris. But it ships in normal solaris mode by default. You have to do a buncha stuffs to de-rootify it. Make sure that you have enough people who have all the appropriate, required "roles" covered.
Unfortunately, I cant seem to google a good guide for setting it up that way. You'd have to go through the online solaris docs to find out specifics. I suspect you arent serious enough about this idea to really pursue it though. Virtually no-one is, once they find out what it involves. they decide, "Eh, we can live with the root account after all". Which is why trusted solaris did not do a huge amount of business:)
Its ironic that the original study was showing effects of "misinformation". Becuase this slashdot article is a piece of "misinformation in itself.
What's important to keep in mind, is the following facts:
1. The study only picked specific areas of news to analyze. it so happened (just by accident. yeah, sure) that the majority of areas they picked, showed a bias of misinformation one way.
2. If you actually dig into the specific areas individually (Never forget the mantra, "Show me the raw data!") you will find areas with the majority of misinformation from the other side. such as :
"Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. "
I was 5'10" and 180 lbs. I could pump out 100+ pushups, 40+ chinups,
that makes you not fit the "profile" to begin with. Generic BMI is only supposed to be used for people with "average" physique. "average" people cant do half of that. Obviously, you have/had way more muscle than the average.
I'd like to see body-fat percentage measurements replace BMI as a standard measurement of obesity
well of course that would be better... but most people dont have an accurate "body fat measurement device". They DO, however, have a scale and a tape measure.
(it's odd, though, that even hospitals dont normally measure body fat%: just "height and weight")
Your post made me look around to see if they now have reasonably priced body fat measurement devices... And they DO! $40 for some at target, etc. I am intrigued.
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There are plenty of motor car manufacturers, and most people don't just drive a Ford (or whatever). So why is the computing market so different ?
because what you do with them is completely different. With a car, you are doing something that is fairly primitive: travelling from one point to another. You are taking yourself. possibly passengers. But the operation is trivial, and it does not need to be repeatable, or recreatable by others.
In contrast, what most people want to do with computers (at least in the business world) MUST be repeatable recreatable by others and sharable with others. and the complexity of what you are sharing, is way, way higher. You arent just moving a handful of words/numbers around. you are moving them around, preserving a particular place on a page, with a particular font, with a particular relationships to other words/numbers. and if you are sharing spreadsheets/etc. then you need to ensure that if some of them are altered, then [this other set of numbers] change, in a guaranteed predictable way.... and so on, and so on.
Both. The "woe" part being, that no replacement for microsoft will succeed, unless it has the same blinding ambition and greed that microsoft had, and the others lacked. This was proven by the fact that the other competitors were "nice", but did not have those qualities, so were dominated.
Everything old, is new again. Sun did this in the sparc 10 &20 line, by enabling an optional NVRAMM SIMM in the primary memory slot. A whopping 4 megabytes of RAM max, I think:) so it was used for caching the "metadata" of things like NFS, rather than direct storage. But putting something directly in memory, and accessing it through the memory bus 'normally' like a basic RAMdisk) sounds a whole lot more efficient than just sucking power from the slot, but looping back around through the SATA bus, so you can then get the data... back into the memory area:-/
I saw it more as an anti-christian satire piece rather than a "christian parable". (ie: "look at all the hypocritical religious people - we writers are so cool, we're l33t and beyond that stuff"). ugh.
sadly i think SGU is going downhill. They're degenerating into "throw in alien of the week" concept. I found the original "internal struggles/mutinies" conflicts, were much more interesting.
And dammit, will they stop pretending to kill chloe's dumb-jock, and REALLY KILL HIM already?!?! Ugh.
I agree with your first premise. ALthough I read it as that he was torn. Doing a "tough love father" thing, but doing it wrong. and the "wrongness" was a deliberate character flaw, not bad writing.
The really sad thing, is that they mixed "really adult, high-brow" stuff, with "twilight" level stuff. So you have pandering to teenieboppers on half of it, but trying to cater to a "hard sci-fi" crowd in the other half. Bad mix - you alienate both your audiences that way.
If you split it into two separate shows, one or both of them might have really caught on.
here's a thought.. if you want someone resembling that mythical character, an "honest politician".. Dont vote for someone whose job is being A PROFESSIONAL LIAR!
I would have thought that would be just common sense. Apparently not so common. SHeeesh.
I think part of it is they are unclear on what they are supposed to be doing.
I disagree, I think they are VERY clear on what they are supposed to be doing, and doing it well: putting together an experience that forcibly maximizes length of real-world time required, to maximize subscription revenue.
Oh, what was that? they're supposed to be making an ENJOYABLE game, you say? Hmm, I guess someone forgot to tell them that:-}
if you dont know what you need to search for exactly. If you have a conceptual target, but you arent sure what are the best keywords to use, its Really, Really good. I found a few things I was looking for, that I probably wouldnt have been able to find otherwise.
If on the other hand, you already know what you are looking for, and know reasonable keywords to get it, then its a waste of time.
One of the more irritating things about this topic in general, is that some liberal-leaning people getting all up in arms about
[The religious fundie anti-science idiots blocking research into stem cells].
This is particularly ironic, given that it shows the complainer's complete lack of scientific education themselves.
"Stem Cell research" continues. Great things continue to be done, in the realm of stem cell research. It's only "Embryonic" stem cell research that is affected by this. A rational, scientific person should then be asking the question, SO WHAT? !
Most of the interesting stem cell discoveries, have happened outside of embryonic research. There has been almost nothing of interest discovered in that subset of the field, either inside, or outside of, america.
type1 diabetes cure, from REGULAR stem cells: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1637528.ece
And there's also stuff like this: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1826-ultimate-stem-cell-discovered.html
"The work is very exciting," says Ihor Lemischka of Princeton University. "They can differentiate into pretty much everything that an embryonic stem cell can differentiate into."
Similarly, in 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2007-11-20-stem-cells-skin-cells_N.htm
These days, embryonic stem cell research is really only of critical, "must have it" interest to those groups that wish to pursue cloning and other nasty things. (eg: liberals wishing to bash non-atheists about something, and abortion clinics getting worried about their funding)
Waiting for her to hear a few cases so we can see what she really thinks.
oh come on now, she's given plenty of examples of displaying "how she really thinks".
She's a classic, way-left liberal, with all the expected stances thereof on abortion, gay rights, and the rest of them. Even if she had not given plenty of examples to support that (which for "some reason", typical mainstream media does not seem to have mentioned), there's this to consider: If she werent, Obama would never have nominated her.
If the Constitution is so clear, we'd only ever have unanimous decisions.
It IS clear, but the problem is we have lawyers telling us what it means.
Example of the problem of lawyers: When a lawyer can give the finger to common sense by arguing about "what the definition of is, is".. and then the rest of the lawyers commend him on his amazing legalese daring... this should be an indication that lawyers and politics need to be kept far, far apart. And damn straight a bunch of 9 lawyers, should not be deciding the political issues of this country!
naw, old school gets dropped simply because it's "old" (ie: not trendy/buzzword compliant). Many times, the "old school" way is EASIER than the newfangled way.
Example: the 100-200 line perl scripts that can be done in 10 lines of regular oldfashion shell.
Yet, but they dont want to "compete", because that would mean lower margins for them. So they are trying to either eliminate the competition entirely, or doing a "Buy me too! me tooo!!" play to Oracle.
complained they couldn't scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages
but... but.. I read stuff on "iKindle" on my iPhone, and I can easily highlight passages, and put notes in it... how is it that a "real" kindle makes it more difficult to do these things?!?!?
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There's a fancyschmancy name for what you want, that I forget. Old solutions for this sort of thing can be found in the old "orange book" security levels.
Ye old "C1", "C2", "B1", "B2" certified levels.
A proper B1 level (or is it B2 level?) system does not have a single uber-root. It has "role based access".
Sun used to sell a "separate" variant of Solaris, called "trusted solaris", that was out -of-the-box compliant with that sort of thing.
It had a huge pile o manuals, and admining it was "a little different".
Nowadays, they've rolled all the features into regular solaris. But it ships in normal solaris mode by default. You have to do a buncha stuffs to de-rootify it. Make sure that you have enough people who have all the appropriate, required "roles" covered.
Unfortunately, I cant seem to google a good guide for setting it up that way. You'd have to go through the online solaris docs to find out specifics. I suspect you arent serious enough about this idea to really pursue it though. Virtually no-one is, once they find out what it involves. they decide, "Eh, we can live with the root account after all". Which is why trusted solaris did not do a huge amount of business :)
Its ironic that the original study was showing effects of "misinformation". Becuase this slashdot article is a piece of "misinformation in itself.
What's important to keep in mind, is the following facts:
1. The study only picked specific areas of news to analyze.
it so happened (just by accident. yeah, sure) that the majority of areas they picked, showed a bias of misinformation one way.
2. If you actually dig into the specific areas individually (Never forget the mantra, "Show me the raw data!")
you will find areas with the majority of misinformation from the other side. such as :
"Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. "
here's another reference on the research.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/671.php?nid&id&pnt=671&lb
oddly, the top article at slashdot references a DIFFERENT article on worldpublicopinion, about the same study.
Oooooddddddd....
I was 5'10" and 180 lbs. I could pump out 100+ pushups, 40+ chinups,
that makes you not fit the "profile" to begin with. Generic BMI is only supposed to be used for people with "average" physique. "average" people cant do half of that.
Obviously, you have/had way more muscle than the average.
I'd like to see body-fat percentage measurements replace BMI as a standard measurement of obesity
well of course that would be better... but most people dont have an accurate "body fat measurement device".
They DO, however, have a scale and a tape measure.
(it's odd, though, that even hospitals dont normally measure body fat%: just "height and weight")
Your post made me look around to see if they now have reasonably priced body fat measurement devices...
And they DO! $40 for some at target, etc. I am intrigued.
https://supporthtml.oracle.com/
Good news for you:
https://supporthtml.oracle.com/
no joke. Under-advertised, but actually works.
There are plenty of motor car manufacturers, and most people don't just drive a Ford (or whatever). So why is the computing market so different ?
because what you do with them is completely different.
With a car, you are doing something that is fairly primitive: travelling from one point to another.
You are taking yourself. possibly passengers.
But the operation is trivial, and it does not need to be repeatable, or recreatable by others.
In contrast, what most people want to do with computers (at least in the business world) MUST be
repeatable
recreatable by others
and sharable with others.
and the complexity of what you are sharing, is way, way higher.
You arent just moving a handful of words/numbers around. you are moving them around, preserving a particular place on a page, with a particular font, with a particular relationships to other words/numbers. and if you are sharing spreadsheets/etc. then you need to ensure that if some of them are altered, then [this other set of numbers] change, in a guaranteed predictable way.... and so on, and so on.
Both.
The "woe" part being, that no replacement for microsoft will succeed, unless it has the same blinding ambition and greed that microsoft had, and the others lacked. This was proven by the fact that the other competitors were "nice", but did not have those qualities, so were dominated.
Everything old, is new again. :) so it was used for caching the "metadata" of things like NFS, rather than direct storage. :-/
Sun did this in the sparc 10 &20 line, by enabling an optional NVRAMM SIMM in the primary memory slot.
A whopping 4 megabytes of RAM max, I think
But putting something directly in memory, and accessing it through the memory bus 'normally' like a basic RAMdisk) sounds a whole lot more efficient than just sucking power from the slot, but looping back around through the SATA bus, so you can then get the data... back into the memory area
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-5670/6i9dnsnct?l=en&a=view
Pluto has less mass than many planetary satellites (ex. Moon, Ganymede, Titan, Triton).
Mercury has less mass than Ganymede too. So.... it's just a "really big comet, in a very tight solar orbit"? :-)
I saw it more as an anti-christian satire piece rather than a "christian parable".
(ie: "look at all the hypocritical religious people - we writers are so cool, we're l33t and beyond that stuff").
ugh.
sadly i think SGU is going downhill. They're degenerating into "throw in alien of the week" concept.
I found the original "internal struggles/mutinies" conflicts, were much more interesting.
And dammit, will they stop pretending to kill chloe's dumb-jock, and REALLY KILL HIM already?!?!
Ugh.
I agree with your first premise. ALthough I read it as that he was torn. Doing a "tough love father" thing, but doing it wrong. and the "wrongness" was a deliberate character flaw, not bad writing.
The really sad thing, is that they mixed "really adult, high-brow" stuff, with "twilight" level stuff.
So you have pandering to teenieboppers on half of it, but trying to cater to a "hard sci-fi" crowd in the other half.
Bad mix - you alienate both your audiences that way.
If you split it into two separate shows, one or both of them might have really caught on.
Expensive?
SciFi.. sorry "SyFy" channel, is free for me, with whatever fairly minimal bundle I have with timewarner cable
What criteria would you suggest?
I would start with:
Rule #1: NO MORE LAWYERS OR ACTORS. EVER.
here's a thought.. if you want someone resembling that mythical character, an "honest politician".. Dont vote for someone whose job is being A PROFESSIONAL LIAR!
I would have thought that would be just common sense. Apparently not so common. SHeeesh.
I think part of it is they are unclear on what they are supposed to be doing.
I disagree, I think they are VERY clear on what they are supposed to be doing, and doing it well:
putting together an experience that forcibly maximizes length of real-world time required, to maximize subscription revenue.
Oh, what was that? they're supposed to be making an ENJOYABLE game, you say? :-}
Hmm, I guess someone forgot to tell them that
Go play valkyria chronicles.
In a way, even better than ff tactics.
if you dont know what you need to search for exactly.
If you have a conceptual target, but you arent sure what are the best keywords to use, its Really, Really good. I found a few things I was looking for, that I probably wouldnt have been able to find otherwise.
If on the other hand, you already know what you are looking for, and know reasonable keywords to get it, then its a waste of time.
'We find a strong association between male CEOs being young and their withdrawal rate of initiated mergers and acquisition,..."
It's only a problem with the young CEOs. because as you get older and wiser, you finally realize that the withdrawal method does not work.
This project could be technically perfect, but it will still fail, due to one thing alone:
Really, Really dumb choice of name.
One of the more irritating things about this topic in general, is that some liberal-leaning people getting all up in arms about
[The religious fundie anti-science idiots blocking research into stem cells].
This is particularly ironic, given that it shows the complainer's complete lack of scientific education themselves.
"Stem Cell research" continues. Great things continue to be done, in the realm of stem cell research.
It's only "Embryonic" stem cell research that is affected by this.
A rational, scientific person should then be asking the question, SO WHAT? !
Most of the interesting stem cell discoveries, have happened outside of embryonic research. There has been almost nothing of interest discovered in that subset of the field, either inside, or outside of, america.
type1 diabetes cure, from REGULAR stem cells:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1637528.ece
And there's also stuff like this:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1826-ultimate-stem-cell-discovered.html
"The work is very exciting," says Ihor Lemischka of Princeton University. "They can differentiate into pretty much everything that an embryonic stem cell can differentiate into."
Similarly, in 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2007-11-20-stem-cells-skin-cells_N.htm
These days, embryonic stem cell research is really only of critical, "must have it" interest to those groups that wish to pursue cloning and other nasty things.
(eg: liberals wishing to bash non-atheists about something, and abortion clinics getting worried about their funding)
Waiting for her to hear a few cases so we can see what she really thinks.
oh come on now, she's given plenty of examples of displaying "how she really thinks".
She's a classic, way-left liberal, with all the expected stances thereof on abortion, gay rights, and the rest of them. Even if she had not given plenty of examples to support that (which for "some reason", typical mainstream media does not seem to have mentioned), there's this to consider:
If she werent, Obama would never have nominated her.
If the Constitution is so clear, we'd only ever have unanimous decisions.
It IS clear, but the problem is we have lawyers telling us what it means.
Example of the problem of lawyers: When a lawyer can give the finger to common sense by arguing about "what the definition of is, is".. and then the rest of the lawyers commend him on his amazing legalese daring... this should be an indication that lawyers and politics need to be kept far, far apart.
And damn straight a bunch of 9 lawyers, should not be deciding the political issues of this country!
Power to the PEOPLE, not the lawyers!
naw, old school gets dropped simply because it's "old" (ie: not trendy/buzzword compliant).
Many times, the "old school" way is EASIER than the newfangled way.
Example: the 100-200 line perl scripts that can be done in 10 lines of regular oldfashion shell.
Yet, but they dont want to "compete", because that would mean lower margins for them. So they are trying to either eliminate the competition entirely, or doing a "Buy me too! me tooo!!" play to Oracle.
complained they couldn't scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages
but... but.. I read stuff on "iKindle" on my iPhone, and I can easily highlight passages, and put notes in it... how is it that a "real" kindle makes it more difficult to do these things?!?!?