This is significant, because they discovered a species of hominin that branched off before Neanderthal but may have co-existed. This can provide some more insight to our own development. How many other hominins branched off but co-existed with our ancestors? Why did they die out while our ancestors survived? Did we fight them, hunt them, cooperate with them, merge with them, out-compete with them, or some combination of the above? Does it have a major effect on normal people's lives? Probably not, but it is a pretty big discovery for science and genetics.
Also, there is no such thing as "the missing link". Evolution is always happening, all fossils are is a snapshot of that species at the time of it's death. Since not everything leaves a fossil when it dies, all of the gaps will never be truly filled. However, the gaps continue to shrink as more and more evidence is found, and that is the best we can hope for, to keep expanding on our knowledge.
Unlike most open source projects, Wikipedia accepts anonymous contributions and then immediately publishes them without review or verification. That seems like a very strong difference to me.
You do know that calling it snake oil is referring to it being a scam, right? As in, they are throwing some bullshit out there to get some investments and will quickly disappear after receiving said funding. Note that their claim not only requires a new injection system, and likely ignition systems as well, but it requires the gas to be treated as well. Granted, there is not enough to say without a doubt that this is a scam, but there is mounting evidence against it. I'll take this with an enormous grain of salt.
The SYSTEM account has no privileges to the network, so shared pages or a shared installation of Apache is invisible to the service. If you intend to use any network resources, the following steps should help:
Select Apache from the Control Panel's Service dialog and click Startup.
Verify that the service account is correct. You may wish to create an account for your Apache services.
Retype the password and password confirmation.
Go to User Manager for Domains.
Click on Policies from the title bar menu, and select User Rights.
Select the option for Advanced User Rights.
In the drop-down list, verify that the following rights have been granted to the selected account:
Act as part of the operating system
Back up files and directories
Log on as a service
Restore files and directories
Confirm that the selected account is a member of the Users group.
Confirm the selected account has access to all document and script directories (minimally read and browse access).
Confirm the selected account has read/write/delete access to the Apache logs directory!
Now, as far as I understand, the main IIS service runs as Local System. But, for IIS 6+, worker processes run as the user logged into the website (or a set anonymous user, if not authenticated). This seems like it could still harbor some privilege escalation exploits, but seems more secure than Apache on Windows. I guess my point is, if you run Apache for a production server, make sure it is *nix and that it is not running as root.
Apache does not run as Administrator on Windows. I'm afraid it is worse than that, it runs as LocalSystem, which is more analogous to root than Administrator is. Even if you configure the service to run as a different account, it requires the "Log on as a service" and "Act as part of the operating system" privileges. Might as well use LocalSystem.
The parent post has nothing to do with the article. The law being discussed would make owners of open Wi-Fi networks responsible for any copyright infringement done by users of their networks, unless can identify the user responsible. The parent is blathering about whether or not unauthorized access to unsecured Wi-Fi access should be called "stealing". By the way, it's "Unauthorized access", we have different words for different things for a reason. You could also call it "trespassing" or perhaps "theft of service". I'll stop now before I ran too much on this.
I'm also seeing a lot of analogies floating around, such as giving away free food, etc. This seems more analogous to letting people use your phone and they make prank calls to an emergency line or phone in bomb threats. Should you be held responsible for this? I don't believe you should, but it is a lot less cut-and-dry than being persecuted for feeding some folks for free.
Putting a universal decryption key into escrow to be released upon deactivation of the servers would probably be better. Not much different than your proposal, I understand, but far less costly than indefinitely guaranteeing the availability of the authentication servers. They could even include it in the EULA, it might even hold the record for the first pro-consumer clause in a EULA, ever.
Each of the distros has the freedom to set their own price, support, and update policies. Choose the one that has the policy that meets your needs. Here are a couple examples:
Red Hat Linux has a 7 year lifecycle and you pay for it. If you want free but no tech support, get CentOS or another distro built from Red Hat sources.
Ubuntu Linux has the following lifecycle and the releases are all free:
Ubuntu Server Edition has a dual release cycle. Every 6 months a version is released that contains the latest packages and updates. This is maintained for 18 months from release with an upgrade path to the next 6 month release version. For greater robustness and easier planning, every two years an LTS version is released that is maintained for 5 years.
I could not find a quote, but I believe the Desktop version has 18 months of updates for regular versions and 3 years of updates on LTS versions.
Red Hat includes tech support as well as maintenance upgrades(phone or web support depends on the package you buy). Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu) sells support contracts for tech support, while updates and community support are free. Microsoft charges a hefty sum per support call, although OEMs often support the Windows install included with the product for whatever the warranty period.
When was the last time you used Ubuntu? You don't need to go into the command line at all even to install it. You boot from the Live CD to a working version of the OS and launch the installer. It is completely graphical and has no CLI elements. Even with XP you spend the first half of the install in a DOS-like menu. You can also use WUBI to install Ubuntu while remaining in Windows.
Granted, doing some obtuse things after the install may require some CLI commands, but most of the things a standard user would need will be in the GUI. You can even install proprietary drivers for video cards using the GUI now. If you run into problems, you may need to run commands, but similar problems in Windows will require that as well. For example, there is no graphical way to run "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" through a GUI on windows when your network stack gets hosed up again.
The word is "Apple", which is the name of a common fruit. The "well known brand" is mainly a record company that doesn't seem to have done much since the mid-seventies.
The Apple Corps logo is a pretty realistic depiction of an apple, versus an iconified representation of an apple with a section missing:
The only thing it has in common is that it is some sort of depiction of an apple. Not a copy in my mind.
The only thing that should have gone in favor of Apple Corps is a trademark on the word in relation to distribution of music. In creating the iTunes store, Apple Inc did violate that, but apparently the courts disagreed.
This particular Gentoo joke annoys me much, because it was rendered obsolete by modern hardware & the modern Linux 2.6.xx kernel (outstanding low latency), oh, 5-8 years ago, at least for desktops.
I'll admit, the last time I used Gentoo was about 2 years ago and the hardware was not top-of-line by any standards. But OpenOffice still would take at least 6 hours to compile. And of course everything else is still usable while compiling. Its not like windows where an update will at the least require a reboot, if not the disabling of some processes while running.
I'll relax when idiotic posts like the GP are modded down or just ignored instead of modded funny/insightful. How many jokes about other distros *routinely* get the same kind of insightful/funny treatment?
Its not just Gentoo. A big +Funny repeat joke is "Ubuntu: An African word meaning 'Can't configure Debian'." Jokes about the Debian OpenSSL cockup are rampant, along with jokes about how out-of-date the stable repositories are. Can't think of any common SUSE, Fedora, or Red Hat jokes off the top of my head, though. So grow some thicker skin for when people make a prod at your favorite OS or distro, it isn't the end of the world.
After launching iTunes, Apple Inc. (the computer company) was sued by Apple Corps (the record company) for breach of contract. Apple Corps lost the case, and Apple Inc. They later settled the trademark dispute with a settlement which handed over all trademarks and the Apple Corps logo over to Apple Inc. However, the agreement also gives Apple Corps a licensing agreement to continue using those trademarks.
Long story short, Apple Records got their ass handed to them in court later on and no longer owns any Apple trademarks.
The speculation was that TomTom had notified Microsoft that it was infringing their map software patents, and Microsoft's response was to sue for infringing the FAT patent. I wasn't able to find any citations to prove that speculation
Do you have any sources to prove it? I couldn't find any so for the time being, I will assume Microsoft was the aggressor.
Actually, Gentoo is a fabulous habit to get yourself to walk away from your computer for a while and do something else.
"Well, OpenOffice is compiling, time to shower, shave, get a job, get married, and have a few kids. Hopefully it will be done by the time I get back."
Note to any offended by this or the parent post: Fucking relax for a minute and stop taking your favorite distribution so seriously. Throwing a hissy-fit over it won't help improve its perception.
You would need a more powerful battery to run the lawnmower for as long as the laptop, but that is not what the rating means. Watt-hours compares the capacity of the batteries at even footing irrespective of the voltage or draw of the device. A 10 Volt, 100 Amp-hour battery has the same Watt-hour rating as a 100 Volt, 10 Amp-hour battery.
The lawnmower battery in the article has nearly 2 times the capacity of the laptop battery and costs 60 british pounds less. The only reasonable explanation for the vast cost difference that I can think of would be the size. Obviously a lawnmower battery can be far larger and heavier than one for a laptop.
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I'm not an anthropologist, but I'll take a swing.
This is significant, because they discovered a species of hominin that branched off before Neanderthal but may have co-existed. This can provide some more insight to our own development. How many other hominins branched off but co-existed with our ancestors? Why did they die out while our ancestors survived? Did we fight them, hunt them, cooperate with them, merge with them, out-compete with them, or some combination of the above? Does it have a major effect on normal people's lives? Probably not, but it is a pretty big discovery for science and genetics.
Also, there is no such thing as "the missing link". Evolution is always happening, all fossils are is a snapshot of that species at the time of it's death. Since not everything leaves a fossil when it dies, all of the gaps will never be truly filled. However, the gaps continue to shrink as more and more evidence is found, and that is the best we can hope for, to keep expanding on our knowledge.
Don't forget:
Unlike most open source projects, Wikipedia accepts anonymous contributions and then immediately publishes them without review or verification. That seems like a very strong difference to me.
You do know that calling it snake oil is referring to it being a scam, right? As in, they are throwing some bullshit out there to get some investments and will quickly disappear after receiving said funding. Note that their claim not only requires a new injection system, and likely ignition systems as well, but it requires the gas to be treated as well. Granted, there is not enough to say without a doubt that this is a scam, but there is mounting evidence against it. I'll take this with an enormous grain of salt.
Seriously, it is that bad.
The SYSTEM account has no privileges to the network, so shared pages or a shared installation of Apache is invisible to the service. If you intend to use any network resources, the following steps should help:
Now, as far as I understand, the main IIS service runs as Local System. But, for IIS 6+, worker processes run as the user logged into the website (or a set anonymous user, if not authenticated). This seems like it could still harbor some privilege escalation exploits, but seems more secure than Apache on Windows. I guess my point is, if you run Apache for a production server, make sure it is *nix and that it is not running as root.
Apache does not run as Administrator on Windows. I'm afraid it is worse than that, it runs as LocalSystem, which is more analogous to root than Administrator is. Even if you configure the service to run as a different account, it requires the "Log on as a service" and "Act as part of the operating system" privileges. Might as well use LocalSystem.
More like "Offtopic".
The parent post has nothing to do with the article. The law being discussed would make owners of open Wi-Fi networks responsible for any copyright infringement done by users of their networks, unless can identify the user responsible. The parent is blathering about whether or not unauthorized access to unsecured Wi-Fi access should be called "stealing". By the way, it's "Unauthorized access", we have different words for different things for a reason. You could also call it "trespassing" or perhaps "theft of service". I'll stop now before I ran too much on this.
I'm also seeing a lot of analogies floating around, such as giving away free food, etc. This seems more analogous to letting people use your phone and they make prank calls to an emergency line or phone in bomb threats. Should you be held responsible for this? I don't believe you should, but it is a lot less cut-and-dry than being persecuted for feeding some folks for free.
As long as Oracle is not selling Linux, Oracle has no legal obligation under 508 to make Linux accessible.
Oracle is not selling Linux? Maybe someone should tell them.
As a married man myself, I can tell you that I am always right.
What? No, my wife does not read Slashdot, why do you ask?
Putting a universal decryption key into escrow to be released upon deactivation of the servers would probably be better. Not much different than your proposal, I understand, but far less costly than indefinitely guaranteeing the availability of the authentication servers. They could even include it in the EULA, it might even hold the record for the first pro-consumer clause in a EULA, ever.
She couldn't lead Tiger Woods to a free weekend at a whorehouse!
She tried, but he ended up driving his car into a tree.
You missed some zeroes or something. I got 7.6 TB using 4K sectors, and 931 GB using 512 byte sectors. My guess is that it is using 512 byte sectors.
Each of the distros has the freedom to set their own price, support, and update policies. Choose the one that has the policy that meets your needs. Here are a couple examples:
Red Hat Linux has a 7 year lifecycle and you pay for it. If you want free but no tech support, get CentOS or another distro built from Red Hat sources.
Ubuntu Linux has the following lifecycle and the releases are all free:
Ubuntu Server Edition has a dual release cycle. Every 6 months a version is released that contains the latest packages and updates. This is maintained for 18 months from release with an upgrade path to the next 6 month release version. For greater robustness and easier planning, every two years an LTS version is released that is maintained for 5 years.
I could not find a quote, but I believe the Desktop version has 18 months of updates for regular versions and 3 years of updates on LTS versions.
Red Hat includes tech support as well as maintenance upgrades(phone or web support depends on the package you buy). Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu) sells support contracts for tech support, while updates and community support are free. Microsoft charges a hefty sum per support call, although OEMs often support the Windows install included with the product for whatever the warranty period.
When was the last time you used Ubuntu? You don't need to go into the command line at all even to install it. You boot from the Live CD to a working version of the OS and launch the installer. It is completely graphical and has no CLI elements. Even with XP you spend the first half of the install in a DOS-like menu. You can also use WUBI to install Ubuntu while remaining in Windows.
Granted, doing some obtuse things after the install may require some CLI commands, but most of the things a standard user would need will be in the GUI. You can even install proprietary drivers for video cards using the GUI now. If you run into problems, you may need to run commands, but similar problems in Windows will require that as well. For example, there is no graphical way to run "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" through a GUI on windows when your network stack gets hosed up again.
I know that when rating SATA bandwidth, it uses 10 bits per byte, but I thought that was due to it using 8b/10b encoding.
The most informative "whoosh" post I've seen, bravo!
The word is "Apple", which is the name of a common fruit. The "well known brand" is mainly a record company that doesn't seem to have done much since the mid-seventies.
The Apple Corps logo is a pretty realistic depiction of an apple, versus an iconified representation of an apple with a section missing:
http://www.tech2.com/media/images/img_3833_apple-vs-apple_450x360.jpg
The only thing it has in common is that it is some sort of depiction of an apple. Not a copy in my mind.
The only thing that should have gone in favor of Apple Corps is a trademark on the word in relation to distribution of music. In creating the iTunes store, Apple Inc did violate that, but apparently the courts disagreed.
This particular Gentoo joke annoys me much, because it was rendered obsolete by modern hardware & the modern Linux 2.6.xx kernel (outstanding low latency), oh, 5-8 years ago, at least for desktops.
I'll admit, the last time I used Gentoo was about 2 years ago and the hardware was not top-of-line by any standards. But OpenOffice still would take at least 6 hours to compile. And of course everything else is still usable while compiling. Its not like windows where an update will at the least require a reboot, if not the disabling of some processes while running.
I'll relax when idiotic posts like the GP are modded down or just ignored instead of modded funny/insightful. How many jokes about other distros *routinely* get the same kind of insightful/funny treatment?
Its not just Gentoo. A big +Funny repeat joke is "Ubuntu: An African word meaning 'Can't configure Debian'." Jokes about the Debian OpenSSL cockup are rampant, along with jokes about how out-of-date the stable repositories are. Can't think of any common SUSE, Fedora, or Red Hat jokes off the top of my head, though. So grow some thicker skin for when people make a prod at your favorite OS or distro, it isn't the end of the world.
Did you read the link in the post you replied to?
After launching iTunes, Apple Inc. (the computer company) was sued by Apple Corps (the record company) for breach of contract. Apple Corps lost the case, and Apple Inc. They later settled the trademark dispute with a settlement which handed over all trademarks and the Apple Corps logo over to Apple Inc. However, the agreement also gives Apple Corps a licensing agreement to continue using those trademarks.
Long story short, Apple Records got their ass handed to them in court later on and no longer owns any Apple trademarks.
I had already said this:
The speculation was that TomTom had notified Microsoft that it was infringing their map software patents, and Microsoft's response was to sue for infringing the FAT patent. I wasn't able to find any citations to prove that speculation
Do you have any sources to prove it? I couldn't find any so for the time being, I will assume Microsoft was the aggressor.
Actually, Gentoo is a fabulous habit to get yourself to walk away from your computer for a while and do something else.
"Well, OpenOffice is compiling, time to shower, shave, get a job, get married, and have a few kids. Hopefully it will be done by the time I get back."
Note to any offended by this or the parent post: Fucking relax for a minute and stop taking your favorite distribution so seriously. Throwing a hissy-fit over it won't help improve its perception.
Remember kids, always drink your coffee before posting, your karma is at stake!
D'oh! Make that "compounds containing carbon that are considered organic, and not compounds containing carbon that are considered inorganic"
You would need a more powerful battery to run the lawnmower for as long as the laptop, but that is not what the rating means. Watt-hours compares the capacity of the batteries at even footing irrespective of the voltage or draw of the device. A 10 Volt, 100 Amp-hour battery has the same Watt-hour rating as a 100 Volt, 10 Amp-hour battery.
The lawnmower battery in the article has nearly 2 times the capacity of the laptop battery and costs 60 british pounds less. The only reasonable explanation for the vast cost difference that I can think of would be the size. Obviously a lawnmower battery can be far larger and heavier than one for a laptop.
I think they refer to organic as in compounds containing carbon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound