FYI the funny thing is... there is a lot of natural radioactivity. Go read that report closely - coal fly ash = your average granite in terms of output. The big deal with coal burning is that you're putting breathable particles into the air...
Coal is somewhere between one and thirteen parts per million Uranium. You can google and check the math but these numbers are not out of line:
We put twenty five *tons* of bomb grade Uranium 235 into the air each year with our current coal consumption. U235 is.72% of naturally occuring Uranium which means we're putting up about 3,500 tons of U238 as well. U238 which gets hit by neutrons from cosmic rays becomes... Plutonium.
Don't tell any tree hugging antinuclear activists, but our most common form of electricity production will *always* produce more radiation than the most horrific nuclear fuel accident. Changes the picture a bit, doesn't it?
Its all cold war BS that we don't have nuke powered space vessels to take advantage of the 1,000X energy density improvement over chemical fuels. I hope this comes to an end soon... I want fast Mars shots before I'm too senile to appreciate them.
If you've got a system plugged in to the public internet and you aren't using something similar to the subject line to update... well... you're probably not running FreeBSD. Silly you.
I'm a bit more forgiving for desktop use - I can type 'yast' on this machine and begin changing things. One day soon, when I take the time to make vmware run on FreeBSD 5.3 I will again experience holy homogenous happiness and life will be perfect.
I have heard of this SP2 of which they speak, but I have no fear, because I am far away from the blasted lands and their filthy start button virus infested machines...
Climb, brothers, climb! Go higher and higher, until no flabby, graphical interface only OS with an incontinent TCP/IP stack can follow. Dwell in the land of headless awareness and be at peace.
Its a simple time and motion study - examine vehicle, enter license plate, wait for result... or a steady flow of this happening automatically as the office drives down the street.
As a Slashdot poster you likely swim in data now, and you'd resent a civil servant for wanting to do the same thing?
I agree its a slippery slope with the lube provided by big brother...
Every car will have an RFID tag and every police cruiser will have a reader. You won't dare drive if you've got a warrant, no insurance, or some other reason for the officer to talk to you. It'll get sold as an efficiency thing and we'll just have to get used to it, warts, mistaken stops, and all.
We're looking at doing this in Nebraska, but its coming from a large dealership wishing to ease customer service - pull in and the service drive guys already know the vehicle's service history.
You still sound a bit like you're posting by the light coming through the planks in the bridge, but this one is a little more fair.
I've used all twelve versions of the FreeBSD 4.x OS. I've tolerated... briefly... the first three releases of the 5.x OS. I now have a 5.3 box in production, which I'd slay this afternoon with a 4.11 install disk if I were just a tad less lazy.
4.x good. 5.x becoming good, but not yet ready for prime time.
What bridge do you live under when you're not posting to Slashdot?
http://www.freshports.org/
12,397 ports available 192 broken 600 others impaired in some sense
So that makes 11,600 of 12,400 or 93.5% ready to roll right out of the box. OK, maybe the stuff on the install CD isn't the most current - use the cvsup app provided on the CD, sync to one of the master sites, and *then* you've got 93.5%. Its a simple process that takes less than five minutes on a high speed connection.
Contrast this with the miserable mess that even the best Linux distros display and you'll see why FreeBSD is the choice for mature operators. Its all there, it all works, and you just don't have to mess with it.
Moving from Windows to Linux reduces perceived OS chaos by a certain amount. I got the same sort of relief when I converted from Redhat 6.2 to FreeBSD 4.0 some years ago.
Global cooling is an effect of global dimming, which is an effect of aerosols that humans put in the atmosphere. If it weren't for this global dimming we'd actually be warming a lot faster.
If your soon to be ex wife is paranoid due to a reaction from the psych meds she is taking you, too, can acquire a protection order, as I did in 2003. My crime was showing up in a timely fashion to see my kids.
There are a few psycho stalkers who need this but my opinion is that it'll get abused in divorce a hundred times for each time it genuinely protects someone.
We have a government that does pretty much what we tell it because we have two guns for every three citizens and a tradition of cleaning house when needed. You can forget that self defense and sporting use stuff you here - its all about keeping the state in line.
Global warming is deadly serious business and anyone with half a brain sees it coming. You're thinking of the Christian right behind Bush - they believe in this thing called 'the end of days' - this Christian prophecy makes it OK for them to ignore long term issues like global warming. We're hoping they're the first to starve when the troubles begin...
You need to know panty and bra size ( medium & 34B for my favorite soccer mom) to successfully shop. Its a big deal to you but not to the chicks behind the counter - they're there every day and the only thing that gets them going are the guys picking stuff up and holding it up to themselves to see if it will fit:-)
I go to the same Vickie's each time, there is this delicious brunette whom I wish was ten years older who helps me, and we got talking about this sort of thing one time... 95% of the job is simple retail and the other 5% seems to be the best people watching one can get outside of Times Square.
Other work has taken me inside this state's maximum security prison. The environment seems fairly tightly controlled and I suspect the prison sex stuff is very much sensationalized. It happens, but not nearly to the degree that one would think.
The 'kiddy fiddlers' in this state are kept in a separate facility fifty miles from the maximum security lockup. I've not had the pleasure of visiting that one nor have I talked to any of the 'graduates' - they're understandably quiet about such things.
I have to agree with you on this one - I'm a moderator in a security oriented chat room that covers 'both sides', so to speak. Someone felt the need to pass some kiddie porn around a while back. I mirrored the site, called one of the state patrol guys I trained, dropped the disk off for him that evening... and it ended up in the hands of some jackoff with the same first name as the guy I know, who called me up and just assured me he'd be all over my ass if there was a case involving me in the future. Did I mention *zero* interest in the details I'd carefully collected for their investigation?
So you're right re: law enforcement having the 'everyone is guilty' attitude. I've never had any of that stuff besides what I mirrored and promptly turned in for evidence. Now I don't have any of it and I've got a lot of drive partitions with AES encryption - officer knucklehead may show up, claim my gear, but I plan on making him cry before all is said and done.
Actually there is a technical term - "of tender years" - law enforcement takes child endangerment very, very seriously if they're twelve or under. Once they hit thirteen hormones and runaway tendencies change perceptions quite a bit. I got to work on a case where a fifteen year old runaway vanished and it was very, very difficult to get law enforcement interested in the case.
The girl made it back home in one piece but with some unfortunate knowledge she didn't have when she left. The perp made bail then stuck a gun in his mouth a week later.
The cops have a technical term for that sort of behavior - a 'harmless pantysniffer'.
I like feminine underthings myself but I prefer the front end - off to Vickie's with credit card in hand, and I get to dress the aforementioned soccer mom:-)
Molestation is the objectification and probable physical harm of someone nowhere near old enough to willing participate in consensual sex. I say harm because this isn't a sexual act exactly, its more the molester going through some ritual meant to undo some childhood harm they suffered - the fear and suffering of the victim is often the goal.
When I type evil I was thinking of the case described to me by the state patrol guys - a nine year old girl bound, suspended from the ceiling, and penetrated orally, analy, and vaginally.
Take a minute and imagine how that girl is going to feel when she is eighteen and wanting a normal relationship. She'll either be completely unable to interact with a man in any fashion, or she'll have no boundaries at all. She has been robbed of something that can never be replaced and the harm will never, ever be undone.
I find myself looking at teenage girls and getting excited myself, but I'm thinking "babysitter!" and that means a night out with my favorite soccer mom:-)
If you're a nineteen year old slashdot reader eyeballing a fourteen year old and wishing she was sixteen is maybe only a little funny. I'm old enough to *have* a nineteen year old and its definitely not OK:-)
I have compassion for them, too, as it would seem that they're all former molestation victims themselves, but there comes a point in time where former victimization does not excuse one's behavior. This is why I think civil commitment is a good thing - someone argues that this is very 'Soviet', but taking up residence in a civil commitment facility is much more pleasant than remaining in a prison.
I taught a computer forensics class to law enforcement a couple of years ago. Evil is just a four letter word until you listen to a few stories from your local state patrol child endangerment squad.
Child molestation is not something that someone does, it is an indelible part of who they are. They never, ever get better, and the compulsion doesn't go away. Civil commitment after the end of the required prison term is the only way to keep children safe.
I have a customer doing this on about 10k acres with a grain elevator at the center of the network. Forget that stupid cantenna crap and go to http://www.hyperlinktech.com - if you want something that is going to come up and stay up you pay for a proper antenna.
Get decent access points. HINT: Linksys != decent. Build your own with a Soekris NET4511 and a Netgate wi-fi card or buy something from Cisco. The stuff on the shelf at Best Buy is low sensitivity, low power, and definitely meant for indoor use.
You can contact me, darl.mcbride@dumbfuck.org, and I'll help with the design...
I occasionally have to touch some dodgy Windows stuff. I have a VMWare win2k virtual machine that I clone - one copy with my accounting stuff (yes, stuck on Windows), one copy with Cisco cert stuff, and perhaps another if there is something untrustworthy I need to inspect. Since its Windows its *all* untrustworthy... just imagine what a real operating system would be like if/etc &/usr/local/etc were jammed into one big, flabby hash structure... frightful!
Slashdot Mirror
We are pretty good, but go tour mainland China.
FYI the funny thing is
Coal is somewhere between one and thirteen parts per million Uranium. You can google and check the math but these numbers are not out of line:
We put twenty five *tons* of bomb grade Uranium 235 into the air each year with our current coal consumption. U235 is
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/factshts/16
Don't tell any tree hugging antinuclear activists, but our most common form of electricity production will *always* produce more radiation than the most horrific nuclear fuel accident. Changes the picture a bit, doesn't it?
Its all cold war BS that we don't have nuke powered space vessels to take advantage of the 1,000X energy density improvement over chemical fuels. I hope this comes to an end soon
If you've got a system plugged in to the public internet and you aren't using something similar to the subject line to update
I'm a bit more forgiving for desktop use - I can type 'yast' on this machine and begin changing things. One day soon, when I take the time to make vmware run on FreeBSD 5.3 I will again experience holy homogenous happiness and life will be perfect.
I have heard of this SP2 of which they speak, but I have no fear, because I am far away from the blasted lands and their filthy start button virus infested machines
Climb, brothers, climb! Go higher and higher, until no flabby, graphical interface only OS with an incontinent TCP/IP stack can follow. Dwell in the land of headless awareness and be at peace.
Namaste.
Its a simple time and motion study - examine vehicle, enter license plate, wait for result
As a Slashdot poster you likely swim in data now, and you'd resent a civil servant for wanting to do the same thing?
I agree its a slippery slope with the lube provided by big brother
Every car will have an RFID tag and every police cruiser will have a reader. You won't dare drive if you've got a warrant, no insurance, or some other reason for the officer to talk to you. It'll get sold as an efficiency thing and we'll just have to get used to it, warts, mistaken stops, and all.
We're looking at doing this in Nebraska, but its coming from a large dealership wishing to ease customer service - pull in and the service drive guys already know the vehicle's service history.
I will suffer much indignity in my next life for this act.
If it was world war II it was probably the B29, B52 dates from the mid 1950s.
When it needs to be up and *stay up* there is no substitute for FreeBSD 4.x
You still sound a bit like you're posting by the light coming through the planks in the bridge, but this one is a little more fair.
I've used all twelve versions of the FreeBSD 4.x OS. I've tolerated
4.x good. 5.x becoming good, but not yet ready for prime time.
What bridge do you live under when you're not posting to Slashdot?
http://www.freshports.org/
12,397 ports available
192 broken
600 others impaired in some sense
So that makes 11,600 of 12,400 or 93.5% ready to roll right out of the box. OK, maybe the stuff on the install CD isn't the most current - use the cvsup app provided on the CD, sync to one of the master sites, and *then* you've got 93.5%. Its a simple process that takes less than five minutes on a high speed connection.
Contrast this with the miserable mess that even the best Linux distros display and you'll see why FreeBSD is the choice for mature operators. Its all there, it all works, and you just don't have to mess with it.
Moving from Windows to Linux reduces perceived OS chaos by a certain amount. I got the same sort of relief when I converted from Redhat 6.2 to FreeBSD 4.0 some years ago.
Sugar Magnolia lyrics sans attribution for your sig? Strange
Global cooling is an effect of global dimming, which is an effect of aerosols that humans put in the atmosphere. If it weren't for this global dimming we'd actually be warming a lot faster.
If your soon to be ex wife is paranoid due to a reaction from the psych meds she is taking you, too, can acquire a protection order, as I did in 2003. My crime was showing up in a timely fashion to see my kids.
There are a few psycho stalkers who need this but my opinion is that it'll get abused in divorce a hundred times for each time it genuinely protects someone.
We have a government that does pretty much what we tell it because we have two guns for every three citizens and a tradition of cleaning house when needed. You can forget that self defense and sporting use stuff you here - its all about keeping the state in line.
Global warming is deadly serious business and anyone with half a brain sees it coming. You're thinking of the Christian right behind Bush - they believe in this thing called 'the end of days' - this Christian prophecy makes it OK for them to ignore long term issues like global warming. We're hoping they're the first to starve when the troubles begin
You need to know panty and bra size ( medium & 34B for my favorite soccer mom) to successfully shop. Its a big deal to you but not to the chicks behind the counter - they're there every day and the only thing that gets them going are the guys picking stuff up and holding it up to themselves to see if it will fit
I go to the same Vickie's each time, there is this delicious brunette whom I wish was ten years older who helps me, and we got talking about this sort of thing one time
Other work has taken me inside this state's maximum security prison. The environment seems fairly tightly controlled and I suspect the prison sex stuff is very much sensationalized. It happens, but not nearly to the degree that one would think.
The 'kiddy fiddlers' in this state are kept in a separate facility fifty miles from the maximum security lockup. I've not had the pleasure of visiting that one nor have I talked to any of the 'graduates' - they're understandably quiet about such things.
I have to agree with you on this one - I'm a moderator in a security oriented chat room that covers 'both sides', so to speak. Someone felt the need to pass some kiddie porn around a while back. I mirrored the site, called one of the state patrol guys I trained, dropped the disk off for him that evening
So you're right re: law enforcement having the 'everyone is guilty' attitude. I've never had any of that stuff besides what I mirrored and promptly turned in for evidence. Now I don't have any of it and I've got a lot of drive partitions with AES encryption - officer knucklehead may show up, claim my gear, but I plan on making him cry before all is said and done.
Actually there is a technical term - "of tender years" - law enforcement takes child endangerment very, very seriously if they're twelve or under. Once they hit thirteen hormones and runaway tendencies change perceptions quite a bit. I got to work on a case where a fifteen year old runaway vanished and it was very, very difficult to get law enforcement interested in the case.
The girl made it back home in one piece but with some unfortunate knowledge she didn't have when she left. The perp made bail then stuck a gun in his mouth a week later.
The cops have a technical term for that sort of behavior - a 'harmless pantysniffer'.
I like feminine underthings myself but I prefer the front end - off to Vickie's with credit card in hand, and I get to dress the aforementioned soccer mom
Molestation is the objectification and probable physical harm of someone nowhere near old enough to willing participate in consensual sex. I say harm because this isn't a sexual act exactly, its more the molester going through some ritual meant to undo some childhood harm they suffered - the fear and suffering of the victim is often the goal.
When I type evil I was thinking of the case described to me by the state patrol guys - a nine year old girl bound, suspended from the ceiling, and penetrated orally, analy, and vaginally.
Take a minute and imagine how that girl is going to feel when she is eighteen and wanting a normal relationship. She'll either be completely unable to interact with a man in any fashion, or she'll have no boundaries at all. She has been robbed of something that can never be replaced and the harm will never, ever be undone.
I find myself looking at teenage girls and getting excited myself, but I'm thinking "babysitter!" and that means a night out with my favorite soccer mom
If you're a nineteen year old slashdot reader eyeballing a fourteen year old and wishing she was sixteen is maybe only a little funny. I'm old enough to *have* a nineteen year old and its definitely not OK
I have compassion for them, too, as it would seem that they're all former molestation victims themselves, but there comes a point in time where former victimization does not excuse one's behavior. This is why I think civil commitment is a good thing - someone argues that this is very 'Soviet', but taking up residence in a civil commitment facility is much more pleasant than remaining in a prison.
I taught a computer forensics class to law enforcement a couple of years ago. Evil is just a four letter word until you listen to a few stories from your local state patrol child endangerment squad.
Child molestation is not something that someone does, it is an indelible part of who they are. They never, ever get better, and the compulsion doesn't go away. Civil commitment after the end of the required prison term is the only way to keep children safe.
I have a customer doing this on about 10k acres with a grain elevator at the center of the network. Forget that stupid cantenna crap and go to http://www.hyperlinktech.com - if you want something that is going to come up and stay up you pay for a proper antenna.
Get decent access points. HINT: Linksys != decent. Build your own with a Soekris NET4511 and a Netgate wi-fi card or buy something from Cisco. The stuff on the shelf at Best Buy is low sensitivity, low power, and definitely meant for indoor use.
You can contact me, darl.mcbride@dumbfuck.org, and I'll help with the design
I occasionally have to touch some dodgy Windows stuff. I have a VMWare win2k virtual machine that I clone - one copy with my accounting stuff (yes, stuck on Windows), one copy with Cisco cert stuff, and perhaps another if there is something untrustworthy I need to inspect. Since its Windows its *all* untrustworthy