I don't believe the nuclear industry is necessarily behind a story like this. Not when they have every politician with a bank account in their back pocket.
Today I was reading Helen Caldicott's book Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. Some of the sentences have these little numbers at the end, and if you look in the back of the book they seem to match up with references to these things called "scientific journals".
There's more to it than radiation sickness. "The situation post-Chernobyl is a medical emergency, unique in the history of pediatrics. Most of those affected have has their thyroids surgically removed, but a person cannot survive without the hormones produced by the thyroid gland, so these children and adults are dependent upon receiving thyroid replacement tablets every day for the rest of their lives. Should a catastrophic situation such as a war impede their drug supply, they will die." She says the cement sarcophagus at Chernobyl is cracking. The accident is not over.
If they want to make money, they should fix spam and privacy. Email should have been designed with end to end encryption from the beginning. And I'm tired of email being seen as just another database resource to be parsed for targeted advertising.
Google filled a void at the right time and took a more subtle approach to what is basically advertising hucksterism. Microsoft at that time was doing what it usually does -- having no clue. Now, since google controls the only usenet search archive, they control microsoft software development to some extent. I can't program windows,.net, without usenet since I have to look up something that's not in the msdn docs, maybe once or twice an hour. I think microsoft based IT shops would be in trouble without google groups. If google wanted to cripple microsoft all they'd have to do is mess with the archive a bit.
For years I felt the linux community was a bunch of soup nazis. But now I consider the microsoft 'community' fractured and becoming almost useless for getting assistance. Asking questions on the ubuntu forums has invariably been an excellent experience --- so I am completely turned around on this issue.
Census forms can request a lot of demographic data, business type and income, number of rooms in house, recent remodeling, etc. I've even had follow up surveys by census employees at my location asking for additional information -- I politely refuse. I have zero interest in Google aggregating this information and making it easier to mine the data, and making it easier for intrusive advertisers, or the local tax assessor.
model M's are about the only old keyboards worth not cutting to bits
I have to agree with this -- I have several of these keyboards, it's all I use. Besides the excellent tactile feel of the IBM keyboard, it has good RF shielding. Compare the M keyboard to a different brand. If you cut it up and repackage you can lose the shielding. Some keyboards are so electrically noisy they mess up nearby radio reception.
My first support! 1. Ok, I just booted my knoppix 4.02 cd. 2. Run kde console. 3. Add Printer/Class. 4. wizard runs. Now begins a series of guesses on my part. 5. I chose the default CUPS for the print system, out of about 5 choices I'm not familiar with. 6. Backend -- local usb, that's where it is. 7. Now I have to chose from 16 usb ports. There is no auto detect of a printer to guide me. 8. I chose the first usb port 9. Now chose office jet g85, ok. 10. Now 5 named variants of this driver are presented in a new dialog. I have no clue as to which to select. I just accepted the one that was already selected (recommended). 11. Now the printer test dialog. Click test. 12. Nothing is sent to the printer, but the popup says it was, and to click ok when finished printing. 13. So it didn't print the test page, now what do I do? There is no button for troubleshooting. 14. Go back and try some of the other usb ports? Try another driver variant? 15. So I can't print. Now begins a possibly difficult research project with no ETA.
I want it to work, the windows gui is so cool looking. But this is my typical linux experience.
This is approximately how I feel, but it's mostly the desktops that get me. Linux as a server is like unix, fine. I started out as a unix programmer. Mac osx is nice since they do a good job of sweeping the gibberish under the rug. My first tests with linux years ago didn't go well. I did one attempt at a linux version upgrade, and it wiped out my file system. And I found that I would need a high end system to run a windowing desktop, because mostly what I saw was thrashing to disk. Run a couple of apps and it was unusable. Recently I have tried knoppix and ubuntu CDs, really nice, if the ntfs support was there, and the whole nonsense with navigating partitions was smoothed out. ntfs may be working now, I don't have time to follow the development. Probably the biggest thing keeping me out of the linux world was the geeky nature of the howtos, etc. (And I had always loved the early unix manuals.) I found most documentation impenetrably obtuse, and I often gave up at the first paragraph. The scattered user forums for support not very helpful. I got the feeling that the gurus wouldn't condescend to help a noob, or everyone was too busy. Your intellegence is measured by how well you can memorize and recall thousands of poorly documented script file settings. The ultimate test for me, and one that I ask people going into linux is: "yeah ok, but just try to print a file." I gave up on this more than once due to time constraints, but I'm sure it can be done.
Suppose you substituted the word 'Microsoft' for the word 'Google' in this topic. Would this change your opinion of how immensely cool this is? I always dreamed of all the worlds books online... but I never considered them being controlled by a private corporation -- I was thinking more of public ownership, like a library. Won't the _scans_ of public domain text and images be copyrighted? This is how it works now I believe -- they don't claim ownership of the source material, but their scans, indexes and digital presentation are company property -- in perpetuity. And sometimes the orignal works are not available to the public, so you can't go in and scan it yourself.
My first impression of WOW was that this technology would evolve into virtual malls useful for real world business operations. Browse and purchase business supplies, that sort of thing. Or visit an Amazon book store. Interact immediately with sales staff etc.
If our consciousness could ever be uploaded into a machine perhaps these virtual worlds are the beginnings of the vessel for this.
The article brought up an idea that never occurred to me before. WOW characters could join in marriage or civil unions. Opposite sex partners could have children.
I advanced a WOW character to level 60 just to see how the game worked, then cancelled the game subscription. There is no way I can put that much more time into a game.
The game has been sold out in my area for weeks and I have heard that Blizzard may be holding back further shipments since their game servers are at full capacity. Anyone know more about this?
Driving around town to the various stores looking for the game is a strange real world counterpart to a quest in the game. You mission is go search for this box and bring it back to the computer. I've met other people at the stores also looking for WoW, usually staring at an empty slot on the shelf, "yeah, it's supposed to be right here".
I wonder what a sociologist would have to say about a game where probably 99 percent of players are young males, but half the characters in the game seem to be female.
Thanks for posting the link for using it as a desktop. Using the info on the site I was finally able to get my OfficeJet all-in-one scanner to work on w2k3! I thought it was impossible.
Is there any other blog software out there with the template flexibility of MT? My main index template and other templates for MT2.661 are actually aspx pages, with aspx extensions. I use MT for the blogging and maintenance of the static pages. But the page templates can be anything you like, in my case they are part of an asp.net website. One big appeal of MT is that you can use it as a defacto CMS system for your entire site.
After years, I have finally found an entry I would like to moderate way up. But my modding window is not currently open. You should be able to save up your modding points, sort of like vacation days.
This in effect happens to me sometimes, but I don't think its intentional (usually) on the part of the website. It may be the blocking of 3rd party cookies from the ad image url may be interfering with the page. Pages don't always load completely or at all, depending on the advertising content of the page. But I've been blocking ad images/banners for at least 5 years with AtGuard -- and I can live with this very well -- usually I don't care about a page that won't load. If I have to see a page, I can turn off the filter with a click, and then refresh it. I almost never see ads, maybe one a week at most, usually its just the flash ads that get through. Enough flash ads, and flash gets blocked too! AtGuard was sold to Symantec several years ago, and became part of Norton Internet Security, and now perhaps part of the antivirus product. This issue of ad blocking killing the internet is as old as ad blocking software, and the internet is still going strong. I think 99.9% of people don't know they can block ads, and probably don't care.
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I don't believe the nuclear industry is necessarily behind a story like this. Not when they have every politician with a bank account in their back pocket.
Today I was reading Helen Caldicott's book Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. Some of the sentences have these little numbers at the end, and if you look in the back of the book they seem to match up with references to these things called "scientific journals".
There's more to it than radiation sickness. "The situation post-Chernobyl is a medical emergency, unique in the history of pediatrics. Most of those affected have has their thyroids surgically removed, but a person cannot survive without the hormones produced by the thyroid gland, so these children and adults are dependent upon receiving thyroid replacement tablets every day for the rest of their lives. Should a catastrophic situation such as a war impede their drug supply, they will die." She says the cement sarcophagus at Chernobyl is cracking. The accident is not over.
If they want to make money, they should fix spam and privacy.
Email should have been designed with end to end encryption from the beginning.
And I'm tired of email being seen as just another database resource to be parsed for targeted advertising.
Google filled a void at the right time and took a more subtle approach to what is basically advertising hucksterism. Microsoft at that time was doing what it usually does -- having no clue. .net, without usenet since I have to look up something that's not in the msdn docs, maybe once or twice an hour. I think microsoft based IT shops would be in trouble without google groups. If google wanted to cripple microsoft all they'd have to do is mess with the archive a bit.
Now, since google controls the only usenet search archive, they control microsoft software development to some extent. I can't program windows,
For years I felt the linux community was a bunch of soup nazis. But now I consider the microsoft 'community' fractured and becoming almost useless for getting assistance. Asking questions on the ubuntu forums has invariably been an excellent experience --- so I am completely turned around on this issue.
Census forms can request a lot of demographic data, business type and income, number of rooms in house, recent remodeling, etc. I've even had follow up surveys by census employees at my location asking for additional information -- I politely refuse. I have zero interest in Google aggregating this information and making it easier to mine the data, and making it easier for intrusive advertisers, or the local tax assessor.
model M's are about the only old keyboards worth not cutting to bits
I have to agree with this -- I have several of these keyboards, it's all I use. Besides the excellent tactile feel of the IBM keyboard, it has good RF shielding. Compare the M keyboard to a different brand. If you cut it up and repackage you can lose the shielding. Some keyboards are so electrically noisy they mess up nearby radio reception.
Decouple health insurance from employment.
My first support!
1. Ok, I just booted my knoppix 4.02 cd.
2. Run kde console.
3. Add Printer/Class.
4. wizard runs. Now begins a series of guesses on my part.
5. I chose the default CUPS for the print system, out of about 5 choices I'm not familiar with.
6. Backend -- local usb, that's where it is.
7. Now I have to chose from 16 usb ports. There is no auto detect of a printer to guide me.
8. I chose the first usb port
9. Now chose office jet g85, ok.
10. Now 5 named variants of this driver are presented in a new dialog. I have no clue as to which to select. I just accepted the one that was already selected (recommended).
11. Now the printer test dialog. Click test.
12. Nothing is sent to the printer, but the popup says it was, and to click ok when finished printing.
13. So it didn't print the test page, now what do I do? There is no button for troubleshooting.
14. Go back and try some of the other usb ports? Try another driver variant?
15. So I can't print. Now begins a possibly difficult research project with no ETA.
I want it to work, the windows gui is so cool looking. But this is my typical linux experience.
This is approximately how I feel, but it's mostly the desktops that get me. Linux as a server is like unix, fine. I started out as a unix programmer.
Mac osx is nice since they do a good job of sweeping the gibberish under the rug.
My first tests with linux years ago didn't go well. I did one attempt at a linux version upgrade, and it wiped out my file system. And I found that I would need a high end system to run a windowing desktop, because mostly what I saw was thrashing to disk. Run a couple of apps and it was unusable. Recently I have tried knoppix and ubuntu CDs, really nice, if the ntfs support was there, and the whole nonsense with navigating partitions was smoothed out. ntfs may be working now, I don't have time to follow the development.
Probably the biggest thing keeping me out of the linux world was the geeky nature of the howtos, etc. (And I had always loved the early unix manuals.) I found most documentation impenetrably obtuse, and I often gave up at the first paragraph. The scattered user forums for support not very helpful. I got the feeling that the gurus wouldn't condescend to help a noob, or everyone was too busy. Your intellegence is measured by how well you can memorize and recall thousands of poorly documented script file settings.
The ultimate test for me, and one that I ask people going into linux is: "yeah ok, but just try to print a file." I gave up on this more than once due to time constraints, but I'm sure it can be done.
Suppose you substituted the word 'Microsoft' for the word 'Google' in this topic. Would this change your opinion of how immensely cool this is? I always dreamed of all the worlds books online... but I never considered them being controlled by a private corporation -- I was thinking more of public ownership, like a library. Won't the _scans_ of public domain text and images be copyrighted? This is how it works now I believe -- they don't claim ownership of the source material, but their scans, indexes and digital presentation are company property -- in perpetuity. And sometimes the orignal works are not available to the public, so you can't go in and scan it yourself.
My first impression of WOW was that this technology would evolve into virtual malls useful for real world business operations. Browse and purchase business supplies, that sort of thing. Or visit an Amazon book store. Interact immediately with sales staff etc.
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If our consciousness could ever be uploaded into a machine perhaps these virtual worlds are the beginnings of the vessel for this.
The article brought up an idea that never occurred to me before. WOW characters could join in marriage or civil unions. Opposite sex partners could have children.
I advanced a WOW character to level 60 just to see how the game worked, then cancelled the game subscription. There is no way I can put that much more time into a game.
There was another story on WOW I saw recently that made some good points about the culture:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/7/162558/754
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The Coming Death of Cheap VoIP
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1812887,00.a
was pretty interesting. Dvorak is saying that the 911 problem is being exploited by the telcos who want to own voip. 911 is the thin end of the wedge.
The game has been sold out in my area for weeks and I have heard that Blizzard may be holding back further shipments since their game servers are at full capacity. Anyone know more about this?
Driving around town to the various stores looking for the game is a strange real world counterpart to a quest in the game. You mission is go search for this box and bring it back to the computer. I've met other people at the stores also looking for WoW, usually staring at an empty slot on the shelf, "yeah, it's supposed to be right here".
I wonder what a sociologist would have to say about a game where probably 99 percent of players are young males, but half the characters in the game seem to be female.
Thanks for posting the link for using it as a desktop. Using the info on the site I was finally able to get my OfficeJet all-in-one scanner to work on w2k3! I thought it was impossible.
Is there any other blog software out there with the template flexibility of MT? My main index template and other templates for MT2.661 are actually aspx pages, with aspx extensions. I use MT for the blogging and maintenance of the static pages. But the page templates can be anything you like, in my case they are part of an asp.net website. One big appeal of MT is that you can use it as a defacto CMS system for your entire site.
After years, I have finally found an entry I would like to moderate way up. But my modding window is not currently open. You should be able to save up your modding points, sort of like vacation days.
This in effect happens to me sometimes, but I don't think its intentional (usually) on the part of the website. It may be the blocking of 3rd party cookies from the ad image url may be interfering with the page. Pages don't always load completely or at all, depending on the advertising content of the page. But I've been blocking ad images/banners for at least 5 years with AtGuard -- and I can live with this very well -- usually I don't care about a page that won't load. If I have to see a page, I can turn off the filter with a click, and then refresh it. I almost never see ads, maybe one a week at most, usually its just the flash ads that get through. Enough flash ads, and flash gets blocked too! AtGuard was sold to Symantec several years ago, and became part of Norton Internet Security, and now perhaps part of the antivirus product. This issue of ad blocking killing the internet is as old as ad blocking software, and the internet is still going strong. I think 99.9% of people don't know they can block ads, and probably don't care.