The part I can't figure out is why anyone would bother with a Linux software firewall running on a PC if you can get good firewall appliances with web-based configuration for little more than $100.
I hope you're kidding. The reason I bothered is that your 'good' hardware firewall costs me $100, while writing a linux software firewall.rc is FREE. Yeah, I had money to burn when I worked for a dotcom, but just because that company closed and now I don't have $$ doesn't mean that I want to give control of my machines to some punk in Tajikistan.
Among them is IBM Japan, which hired Asimo as a receptionist for an annual contract of 20 million yen
($166,200).
Well, I looked at the exchange rate and now it looks more like $164,000
that's still plenty of loot. If anybody reading this is in the market for a robot receptionist, but doesn't want to cough up 1.5 g's...for only 45,000 USD, I'd happily come to work wearing a bunch of cardboard boxes covered in tinfoil and talk in a funny voice.
I saw your post and wanted to reccomend a package for you (if you don't already know this...)
try rp-pppoe from roaring penguin software. handles SWB / PacBell ADSL logins no sweat, and runs well on slackware 8 with the 2.4 kernel. I don't have the pppoe gui wrapper set up yet, but who cares about a gui to start your DSL if it's always on anyway?
If you could train this ant to kill aphids, get out of sight when the lights go on, and stay out of your food, I think they'd be a great ant to have as a domestic partner to man.
heh. good luck. You can't really "train" ants, they don't have enough neurons. Comparing them to robots is probably the best part of your post- ants in general have relatively simple behavior patterns. have you ever played SimAnt from Maxis? It's a good approximation of how ants work in real life.
You could attempt to subject some ants to directed evolution, the same way you can select bacteria for antibiotic resistance (1.you streak some bacteria on a culture dish with a weak antibiotic, and incubate overnight. 2.pick the biggest colonies, because they are the most successful at circumventing the antibiotic. 3 streak the big colonies on a new plate with slightly higher concentration of antibiotic. 4. lather, rinse, repeat until the desired level of resistance is achieved).
The problem you would face is the time to complete a generation. For typical E. Coli on LB agar plates, individual cells divide approximately every 30 minutes- so in a typical day, you have 48 generations of replication where mutations can take place. Even when subjected to mutagens, it often takes 4 or 5 THOUSAND generations before E. Coli genotypes settle down at a local maximum for successful growth-- which usually involves the modification of just one protein, or at most one biochemical pathway. You could reasonably expect the number of necessary generations to be higher when contemplating the structure of more complex organisms... I'm sure someone has done an analysis of carbon dating rocks on the galapagos vs. the generation time of the finches that have radiated into various niches, but I don't have time to poke around for those papers.
Fruit flies are used for genetic research because they have a life cycle that is representative of metamorphosizing insects, a relatively quick generation time, and a diploid genome that facilitates crossing. Still, with a generation time of about 2 weeks, it would take you about 2 years, or 600X as long as for E.coli, to get through 48 generations. And five thousand generations would take you ~200 years.
Hymenoptera generation times are usually even longer, on the order of months to years. Sure, that ant colony has 1000 ants in it running and digging and getting into your pancake mix, but the queen is the only one that can make more queens. And she doesn't ever ever do that until she's established a successful colony. I admit that I don't have any numbers for how long that takes, but if we use the drosophila generation time as a lower bound, and assume 5000 generations necessary to produce a single significant and stable molecular change, and you're looking at a couple of hundred years and a lot of ant farms.
As for training them to run away when the lights come on, I think it would be neater if they were just clear, because then you couldn't see them even when they were there:-P
Quick before David Lynch thinks of it-- remember the real John Shaft? And remember the second movie, Shaft in Africa? (for those of you who won't click, the tagline was "the brother man in the motherland.")
Now, I know that Godzilla is from Japan. But isn't this just screaming for a Gozilla vs. Shaft movie?
Come on, think about it. Samuel Jackson as John Shaft, PhD paleontologist, Angelina Jolie as the environmentalist leading the local protest. They discover this huge skeleton, and one night, full moon, romantic tension between the leads, and while the lions sleep...the monster comes to life!
I've already got a deal with Burger King to release commemorative plastic cups.
So this is a perfect time to do it! The economy is down, airlines and telcos and auto companies are laying people off left and right. God knows how many people of legal voting age don't have actual jobs right now! You could collect unemployment, and spend all your time reading up on constitutional law.
From John Ashcroft:
"Sorry, we've been pretty busy lately locking up arabs and then holding them as political prisoners without charging them or providing them legal counsel. We've got almost 600 already! Wait, did I say 'political prisoners?' I meant 'detainees.' What, there's a case against MicroSoft? I'll call Clarence right away and see if we can't get that taken care of *wink* *wink*."
You could also say that the US citizens are worried about penalysing one of the most successful US companies.
You could say that, but you'd sound like an idiot. What Americans are currently worried about is Islamic militants blowing things up
in another public place. People also seem to be pretty worried about getting on a plane.
It is a real stretch for you to suggest that the American people as a whole feel the need to protect Bill's ability to pull down another cool couple of billion dollars by foisting off another crappy product, and then using strongarm tactics to force its adoption.
is of course that they were able to do something useful with the heart afterwards.
I'd like to point out that the average mammalian heart will keep beating of its own accord for several minutes after it has been removed from a living body. The normal heart has a set of electrodes, called the sinoatrial node and the atrial ventricular node, which broadcast electrical impulses to coordinate the simultaneous contraction of the heart muscle. Read all about it here.
I remember this because of a rat vivisection lab in sophomore biology. We opened that sucker up, and cut its heart out while it was still beating, and dropped the heart (it was about the size of a garbanzo bean) into a 100-mL beaker full of saline. The heart functioned like a little underwater jet-ski, pumping itself around the inside of the beaker for a good 5 minutes after it had been removed from its host.
the point is that the heart wants to keep on beating for a while...
...if this bill *does* pass, technology that is affected will not only go over the border to Europe and Canada, but law enforcement officials in the USA will have to deal with it...
You must not have been reading the news for the last week. If you had been, you would have realized that the DoJ is asking congress to enact laws that will make national borders meaningless in US courtrooms.
thanks to memepool for this link to EFF's page:
---NO-FLAME WARNING-- I KNOW THIS HASN'T BEEN PASSED YET-- THIS IS JUST A VISION OF WHERE THINGS ARE HEADED---
SECTION 408. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
Section 1029 of Title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end a new paragraph (g) as follows:
"(g) Any person who, outside the jurisdiction of the United States, engages in any act that, if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States, would constitute an offense under subsections (a) or (b) of this section, shall be subject to the fines, penalties, imprisonment and forfeiture enumerated in this title if-
(1) the offense involves an access device issued, owned, managed, or controlled by a financial institution, account issuer, credit card system member, or other entity within the jurisdiction of the United States; and
(2) the person transports, delivers, conveys, transfers to or through, or otherwise stores, secretes, or holds within the jurisdiction of the United States, any article used to assist in the commission o the offense or the proceeds of such offense or property derived therefrom.".
The way I read this, it doesn't matter where you are. If you're using hardware ("access device") running any kind of software including the BIOS, that has anything to do with a company in the US, they can try to nail you. I can see it now:
D.A.: While you were in Canada, did you have a computer connected to the internet?
defendant: Yes.
D.A.: and were you using government-approved Windows software on that computer?
defendant: er, no....
D.A.: Your honor, the defendant was using an access device running non-approved software to send emails to US Civilians. Clearly this is an act of international Terrorism.
Likewise, there are a lot of evolutionsts who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence for it.
there are a lot of crazy people who don't know anything about anything saying all kinds of stuff-- for a really good example, click on the link listed as my homepage (which unfortunately isn't really mine). That doesn't mean that you or anyone else should give them a serious audience.
that doesn't change the fact that for the last 300 years, people have been poking around the issue, and that the idea of evolution that is taught in credible universities today is the product of much real-world experimentation. You just can't say the same for creationism, becuase the idea of faith simply rules out the possibility of rational discussion.
You can't just say creationists are stupid and get away with it.
how about give them the benefit of the doubt, and call them "ignorant?" That's the word I favor. You can't call someone stupid for not being aware of the alternatives. Now, if you have been presented with a choice of systems of belief, and you have chosen the system that is based on a bunch of stories about imaginary supernatural beings, rather than the system based on empirical scientific data, that's stupid.
and if you persist in your belief, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, well that's not just stupid, that's insanity.
Somebody should have told that to Sherman. You know, William Tecumseh? In the freeking US civil war? What rock have you lived under for the last 150 years? What do you think the holocaust was?
What do you think the DMCA is?
hmmm, now that's really interesting. So it would seem that maybe the indirect approach would work...
Instead of sending hate mail to MS, send emails to potential licensors of Passport authentication and suggest to them that they will be losing your business if they require the Passport login.
As long as you have a choice, that should be good enough. Let the suckers who want to give away their credit card info go ahead and use Passport- let everyone who knows better choose not to do so.
After the first couple of major cracks where CC #'s are lost, maybe people will see the error of MS's ways and look elsewhere.
It seems to me that the consumer would be better served by AMD advertising in plain language why their chips are better than the competition's.
Since when was the purpose of advertizing to help the consumer understand? If you go to advertizing school, what you learn is how to use small words so as not to confuse the morons who will end up buying the product you're selling.
You try to explain pipelines and branch prediction to someone with three screaming kids, a predeliction for Stone Cold Steve Austin, a Paxil habit, and a 8-second attention span. If he walks into CompUSA, and the sales guy tells him he's buying an Athlon 1800, and that other box has a Pentium 4 1650 (MHz), of course he'll go with the Athlon-- the number is higher!.
This is a bid for mindshare in the home user/AOLTW market. Joe 6-pack wants to keep up with the neighbors, and the AMD marketroids are just trying to help him do that without wasting money on a P4. Never mind that blowing $35 on 512 MB of PC133 is probably the answer to all of his problems...
I can hear all of AMD's engineers sobbing into their wheatgrass smoothies, but they're not the ones who decide what to paint on the outside of the chip.
Is this just more insanity from Tom's? Only time will tell. The really informative piece of data that is missing here would be the bios guide he mentions in the article, in the 3rd paragraph...
A new BIOS Writer's Guide prohibits the BIOS from ever displaying the true core frequency of Palomino!
so show us the writer's guide, man. Don't make specious claims and wave your hands at a source. If there's a document, let's have the URL.
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ha ha, can't reach me. And Hal's got my back!
Hal says, "I don' think they have children with me, and fulfill them... would you like some kind of god moved upon the camels and took them, and slew the philistines with a young, hot, submissive stud upon occasion who is looking for a suck job on my new instructor looks like an assmaster diaper to me."
wow, i wish I had a mod point left for this post. Look at FC... you'll see lots of Pets.Com, but Kara's doesn't seem to be there. And I think that Pud would tell all of us about that one as soon as he became aware of it...
Um, Traci Lords? Yeah, everyone knows she used to do dirty stuff, but she *ahem* worked the angles. And now she's doing stuff that's mainstream enough to be called a comedy.
I'm not going to waste any bits trying to help you understand the rest of the ways you're trolling, because there are already many posts modded higher regarding the doctrine of personal denial and its methods of transmission from one generation to another.
All I will say is, there is a huge difference between getting paid to stand there and shoot footage of people fucking, and being the guy who implements the security of the user DB that just happens to make money by accumulating and/or distributing pictures of people fucking.
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person I'd like to send to Mars. Preferably without a return ticket.
The part I can't figure out is why anyone would bother with a Linux software firewall running on a PC if you can get good firewall appliances with web-based configuration for little more than $100.
I hope you're kidding. The reason I bothered is that your 'good' hardware firewall costs me $100, while writing a linux software firewall.rc is FREE. Yeah, I had money to burn when I worked for a dotcom, but just because that company closed and now I don't have $$ doesn't mean that I want to give control of my machines to some punk in Tajikistan.
Well, I looked at the exchange rate and now it looks more like $164,000
that's still plenty of loot. If anybody reading this is in the market for a robot receptionist, but doesn't want to cough up 1.5 g's...for only 45,000 USD, I'd happily come to work wearing a bunch of cardboard boxes covered in tinfoil and talk in a funny voice.
beedeebeedeebeedee!
another good story would be about people willing to starve rather than have their DSL/Cablemodem cut off.
"With all this porn, who has time to eat?"
I saw your post and wanted to reccomend a package for you (if you don't already know this...)
try rp-pppoe from roaring penguin software. handles SWB / PacBell ADSL logins no sweat, and runs well on slackware 8 with the 2.4 kernel. I don't have the pppoe gui wrapper set up yet, but who cares about a gui to start your DSL if it's always on anyway?
heh. good luck. You can't really "train" ants, they don't have enough neurons. Comparing them to robots is probably the best part of your post- ants in general have relatively simple behavior patterns. have you ever played SimAnt from Maxis? It's a good approximation of how ants work in real life.
You could attempt to subject some ants to directed evolution, the same way you can select bacteria for antibiotic resistance (1.you streak some bacteria on a culture dish with a weak antibiotic, and incubate overnight. 2.pick the biggest colonies, because they are the most successful at circumventing the antibiotic. 3 streak the big colonies on a new plate with slightly higher concentration of antibiotic. 4. lather, rinse, repeat until the desired level of resistance is achieved).
The problem you would face is the time to complete a generation. For typical E. Coli on LB agar plates, individual cells divide approximately every 30 minutes- so in a typical day, you have 48 generations of replication where mutations can take place. Even when subjected to mutagens, it often takes 4 or 5 THOUSAND generations before E. Coli genotypes settle down at a local maximum for successful growth-- which usually involves the modification of just one protein, or at most one biochemical pathway. You could reasonably expect the number of necessary generations to be higher when contemplating the structure of more complex organisms... I'm sure someone has done an analysis of carbon dating rocks on the galapagos vs. the generation time of the finches that have radiated into various niches, but I don't have time to poke around for those papers.
Fruit flies are used for genetic research because they have a life cycle that is representative of metamorphosizing insects, a relatively quick generation time, and a diploid genome that facilitates crossing. Still, with a generation time of about 2 weeks, it would take you about 2 years, or 600X as long as for E.coli, to get through 48 generations. And five thousand generations would take you ~200 years.
Hymenoptera generation times are usually even longer, on the order of months to years. Sure, that ant colony has 1000 ants in it running and digging and getting into your pancake mix, but the queen is the only one that can make more queens. And she doesn't ever ever do that until she's established a successful colony. I admit that I don't have any numbers for how long that takes, but if we use the drosophila generation time as a lower bound, and assume 5000 generations necessary to produce a single significant and stable molecular change, and you're looking at a couple of hundred years and a lot of ant farms.
As for training them to run away when the lights come on, I think it would be neater if they were just clear, because then you couldn't see them even when they were there
Quick before David Lynch thinks of it-- remember the real John Shaft? And remember the second movie, Shaft in Africa? (for those of you who won't click, the tagline was "the brother man in the motherland.")
Now, I know that Godzilla is from Japan. But isn't this just screaming for a Gozilla vs. Shaft movie?
Come on, think about it. Samuel Jackson as John Shaft, PhD paleontologist, Angelina Jolie as the environmentalist leading the local protest. They discover this huge skeleton, and one night, full moon, romantic tension between the leads, and while the lions sleep...the monster comes to life!
I've already got a deal with Burger King to release commemorative plastic cups.
So this is a perfect time to do it! The economy is down, airlines and telcos and auto companies are laying people off left and right. God knows how many people of legal voting age don't have actual jobs right now! You could collect unemployment, and spend all your time reading up on constitutional law.
just think of the ad campaign: unemployed? VOTE!
From John Ashcroft:
"Sorry, we've been pretty busy lately locking up arabs and then holding them as political prisoners without charging them or providing them legal counsel. We've got almost 600 already! Wait, did I say 'political prisoners?' I meant 'detainees.' What, there's a case against MicroSoft? I'll call Clarence right away and see if we can't get that taken care of *wink* *wink*."
You could say that, but you'd sound like an idiot. What Americans are currently worried about is Islamic militants blowing things up
in another public place. People also seem to be pretty worried about getting on a plane.
It is a real stretch for you to suggest that the American people as a whole feel the need to protect Bill's ability to pull down another cool couple of billion dollars by foisting off another crappy product, and then using strongarm tactics to force its adoption.
is of course that they were able to do something useful with the heart afterwards.
I'd like to point out that the average mammalian heart will keep beating of its own accord for several minutes after it has been removed from a living body. The normal heart has a set of electrodes, called the sinoatrial node and the atrial ventricular node, which broadcast electrical impulses to coordinate the simultaneous contraction of the heart muscle. Read all about it here.
I remember this because of a rat vivisection lab in sophomore biology. We opened that sucker up, and cut its heart out while it was still beating, and dropped the heart (it was about the size of a garbanzo bean) into a 100-mL beaker full of saline. The heart functioned like a little underwater jet-ski, pumping itself around the inside of the beaker for a good 5 minutes after it had been removed from its host.
the point is that the heart wants to keep on beating for a while...
You must not have been reading the news for the last week. If you had been, you would have realized that the DoJ is asking congress to enact laws that will make national borders meaningless in US courtrooms.
thanks to memepool for this link to EFF's page:
---NO-FLAME WARNING-- I KNOW THIS HASN'T BEEN PASSED YET-- THIS IS JUST A VISION OF WHERE THINGS ARE HEADED---
The way I read this, it doesn't matter where you are. If you're using hardware ("access device") running any kind of software including the BIOS, that has anything to do with a company in the US, they can try to nail you. I can see it now:
D.A.
defendant: Yes.
D.A.
defendant: er, no....
D.A.
Jury
Likewise, there are a lot of evolutionsts who don't know anything about science saying there's a lot of evidence for it.
there are a lot of crazy people who don't know anything about anything saying all kinds of stuff-- for a really good example, click on the link listed as my homepage (which unfortunately isn't really mine). That doesn't mean that you or anyone else should give them a serious audience.
that doesn't change the fact that for the last 300 years, people have been poking around the issue, and that the idea of evolution that is taught in credible universities today is the product of much real-world experimentation. You just can't say the same for creationism, becuase the idea of faith simply rules out the possibility of rational discussion.
You can't just say creationists are stupid and get away with it.
how about give them the benefit of the doubt, and call them "ignorant?" That's the word I favor. You can't call someone stupid for not being aware of the alternatives. Now, if you have been presented with a choice of systems of belief, and you have chosen the system that is based on a bunch of stories about imaginary supernatural beings, rather than the system based on empirical scientific data, that's stupid.
and if you persist in your belief, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, well that's not just stupid, that's insanity.
Somebody should have told that to Sherman. You know, William Tecumseh? In the freeking US civil war? What rock have you lived under for the last 150 years? What do you think the holocaust was?
What do you think the DMCA is?
EVERYBODY attacks civilians. They're in the way.
hmmm, now that's really interesting. So it would seem that maybe the indirect approach would work...
Instead of sending hate mail to MS, send emails to potential licensors of Passport authentication and suggest to them that they will be losing your business if they require the Passport login.
As long as you have a choice, that should be good enough. Let the suckers who want to give away their credit card info go ahead and use Passport- let everyone who knows better choose not to do so.
After the first couple of major cracks where CC #'s are lost, maybe people will see the error of MS's ways and look elsewhere.
See what President Georege W. Bush has to say about this!
ok, so I'm lying. At least it't not goat related.
if you want quickies, do what i do-- go to memepool.
Since when was the purpose of advertizing to help the consumer understand? If you go to advertizing school, what you learn is how to use small words so as not to confuse the morons who will end up buying the product you're selling.
You try to explain pipelines and branch prediction to someone with three screaming kids, a predeliction for Stone Cold Steve Austin, a Paxil habit, and a 8-second attention span. If he walks into CompUSA, and the sales guy tells him he's buying an Athlon 1800, and that other box has a Pentium 4 1650 (MHz), of course he'll go with the Athlon-- the number is higher!.
This is a bid for mindshare in the home user/AOLTW market. Joe 6-pack wants to keep up with the neighbors, and the AMD marketroids are just trying to help him do that without wasting money on a P4. Never mind that blowing $35 on 512 MB of PC133 is probably the answer to all of his problems...
I can hear all of AMD's engineers sobbing into their wheatgrass smoothies, but they're not the ones who decide what to paint on the outside of the chip.
so show us the writer's guide, man. Don't make specious claims and wave your hands at a source. If there's a document, let's have the URL.
ha ha, can't reach me. And Hal's got my back! Hal says, "I don' think they have children with me, and fulfill them... would you like some kind of god moved upon the camels and took them, and slew the philistines with a young, hot, submissive stud upon occasion who is looking for a suck job on my new instructor looks like an assmaster diaper to me."
wow, i wish I had a mod point left for this post. Look at FC... you'll see lots of Pets.Com, but Kara's doesn't seem to be there. And I think that Pud would tell all of us about that one as soon as he became aware of it...
Um, Traci Lords? Yeah, everyone knows she used to do dirty stuff, but she *ahem* worked the angles. And now she's doing stuff that's mainstream enough to be called a comedy.
I'm not going to waste any bits trying to help you understand the rest of the ways you're trolling, because there are already many posts modded higher regarding the doctrine of personal denial and its methods of transmission from one generation to another.
All I will say is, there is a huge difference between getting paid to stand there and shoot footage of people fucking, and being the guy who implements the security of the user DB that just happens to make money by accumulating and/or distributing pictures of people fucking.
um, they just did, in case you maybe didn't notice.