Okay, kids, gather round. Today's lesson is on the anatomy of a URL.
So the first thing that tipped me off was a reference to "White science." So I scooted back a few subdirectories to find that this "study" is hosted on a website about a cyber-religion. Interesting. The pages were in German, and I didn't really feel like running it through a translator, but I found a link to an FAQ in English Which you might find interesting. I know the editors here can't thoroughly research every story, but it took me all of three minutes to severely damage the credibility of this "study". Use a bit of common sense and check out the more sensational stories, guys.
I remember reading an article about a study where scientists took samles from the dorm rooms of messy college students and also from homes which were cleaned often with anti-bacterial cleaners. There were more germs in the college dwellings, but the germs found in the houses cleaned with anti-bacterial cleaners were much more dangerous. I don't remember the exact conclusions drawn, but there was definitely a link between the anti-bacterial cleaners and the dangerous germs.
Yeah, and when michael is influencing legislation that governs what medical treatments are available to me, you bet I'll be concerned about his political affiliations... but AFAICT, I didn't elect him, he wasn't appointed by someone I did, and there are other places for me to get my news, so yeah. He can post whatever he damn well pleases.
Seems like the cell phone industry would have a lot of technological catching up to do to make this at all useful. Your average cell phone doesn't have enough memory to store much.
What? you don't feel appreciated by all the attention you receive from users? The whines of "the printers are down" and "my webmail isn't working" do not fall like a glorious symphony on your ears? Ungrateful cur!
I manage to keep up a diet of cheap, homemade gourmet food on an actress/college student/computer lab stooge schedule using the following cooking strategy:
Tuperware.
I cook maybe once or twice a week, and when I do, I make mass quantities of food. Soups work great for this. When I cook, I box up most of the food and leave it in the fridge. The next day, when I have all of 20 minutes between work and class, or class and rehearsal, or whatever, I can heat something up and have a good meal. The following recipe is by far my favorite for this- and is also the one I can take most credit for. Forgive any vagueness, as it's a recipe that needs to be played by ear for the most part.
Quebecquoise Soup d'Ognion
6 or 8 large sweet white onions Beer (at least 2 12 oz bottles) Unibrew (a Montreal micro) makes a beer called Blanche du Chambly that is perfect, but any light, flavorful beer will do fine. Good Balsamic Vinegar. The ammount you use depends on the quality of the vinegar- the better the vinegar, the less you need. White wine vinegar A loaf or two italian bread Olive oil Basil Oregano salt Provolone Cheese
Soup: Slice onions In a very large stock pot, sautee onions in 3 Tbsp olive oil until soft and slightly brown. Add water until the pot is about half full. Now comes the artsy part. Add the beer and vinegar. You'll want to start with at least 12oz of beer and 1/4 cup balsamic and 1/4 cup wine vinegars. From there, adjust until the flavor is right, but a little watery. Simmer for an hour or more with the lid off, check occasionally. Adjust ingredients as needed. The soup should be rather sweet (from the onions) but a bit tart (vinegar).
Croutons: In a large bowl, mix 1 cup olive oil, 2Tsp Basil and 1Tsp oregano. Chop italian bread into crouton-sized cubes. Coat bread with olive oil mixture Spread on a cookie sheet. Cook at 350 until lightly browned and hard.
Assembly: Now you should have a gigantic pot full of onion soup, some freshly homemade croutons, and provolone cheese. For each serving of soup, ladle the soup into a bowl, and top with croutons. Layer sliced cheese on top. Stick the whole concoction in oven at around 350 until the cheese melts. (If you're starting with cold soup, warm it for a bit first before adding croutons and cheese) This can also be done in a microwave, if you're fortunate enough to own one.
What I want to know is why the woman is shown standing demurely, weight on one foot, with her head lowered and turned to the side. Being an american human female- to me this posture communicates subservience. She isn't meeting the eyes of the viewer, and is standing in an unbalanced, and therefore weak, position. Whereas the male figure is standing squarely on two feet and looking directly ahead. Of course, it's entirely possible (likely even) that whatever extraterrestrial intelligence discovers this plaque will have an entirely different system of body language. However, I think it says a lot about the good 'ol boys at NASA that they thought to include cues about the inferiority of women in their most basic, pictoral message to ET...
Very true. For those of you who think vaccum tubes are old school, go see an orchestra concert, or better yet, an opera! Larynx, sinuses and the mouth: now that is an old school amplifier.
SETI is not a conclusive method for disproving the existence of intelligent life in the scanned areas. If SETI doesn't find anything, all that really means is that nobody is sending out radio signals into space.
And on another note (probably should be a separate post, but this discussion is so damned long already...) The same brand of faulty logic is used in the article. Here's my question for these pollsters:
How is belief in the supernatural contrary to belief in the sciences?
Most of these things, like ESP or alien abduction have not been conclusively disproven. and as for the big bang- religious leaders aren't the only ones to reject this idea- many legit scientists don't believe it either!
Verifying the identity of the customer would be absolutly key here.
(from the article) "It takes about one minute to enroll," Kapioski said.
I somehow doubt that these people are carefuly examining multiple forms of identification in less than a minute. Also:
"Employees underwent 15 or 20 minutes of training in the system this week."
The system itself might be secure, but identity theft the issue that it seems to be today, I would be most worried about these "18 year old clerks" that can't be trusted with cash taking a 15 minute training course and being put in charge of registration.
http://www.isp800.com Is working wonderfuly for me. I travel a lot, and I'm based in a very rural area in California where the phone company charges for local calls! I did a ton a research, and although most ISP that offer 800 numbers charge pretty hefty surcharges, ISP800 is fifteen bucks a month, unlimited access, and no surcharges whatsoever. It works great for me. Some hotels will charge extra for 800 calls, but other than that, it's wonderful. Shadowsong (Geek chicks- WE DO EXIST!)
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, kids, gather round. Today's lesson is on the anatomy of a URL.
So the first thing that tipped me off was a reference to "White science." So I scooted back a few subdirectories to find that this "study" is hosted on a website about a cyber-religion. Interesting. The pages were in German, and I didn't really feel like running it through a translator, but I found a link to an FAQ in English Which you might find interesting. I know the editors here can't thoroughly research every story, but it took me all of three minutes to severely damage the credibility of this "study". Use a bit of common sense and check out the more sensational stories, guys.
Is this a serious story submission, or just an excuse to try and slashdot IAB? :-)
I remember reading an article about a study where scientists took samles from the dorm rooms of messy college students and also from homes which were cleaned often with anti-bacterial cleaners. There were more germs in the college dwellings, but the germs found in the houses cleaned with anti-bacterial cleaners were much more dangerous. I don't remember the exact conclusions drawn, but there was definitely a link between the anti-bacterial cleaners and the dangerous germs.
"I then gave the NSA workforce a challenge: We were going to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again."
This could be interpreted a number of ways, but it seems as though he realizes the biggest threat to civil liberties comes from scared citizens.
Yeah, and when michael is influencing legislation that governs what medical treatments are available to me, you bet I'll be concerned about his political affiliations... but AFAICT, I didn't elect him, he wasn't appointed by someone I did, and there are other places for me to get my news, so yeah. He can post whatever he damn well pleases.
(but then, we didn't elect Bush either...)
Seems like the cell phone industry would have a lot of technological catching up to do to make this at all useful. Your average cell phone doesn't have enough memory to store much.
could be either the salvation of electronic commerce or the bane of consumers, who view the Internet as their digital information playground.
*emphasis mine
I think the implicit meaning here is that consumers think the internet is theirs. when in fact it is not.
What will happen when corporate america convinces the world that it owns the internet?
What? you don't feel appreciated by all the attention you receive from users? The whines of "the printers are down" and "my webmail isn't working" do not fall like a glorious symphony on your ears? Ungrateful cur!
I manage to keep up a diet of cheap, homemade gourmet food on an actress/college student/computer lab stooge schedule using the following cooking strategy:
Tuperware.
I cook maybe once or twice a week, and when I do, I make mass quantities of food. Soups work great for this. When I cook, I box up most of the food and leave it in the fridge. The next day, when I have all of 20 minutes between work and class, or class and rehearsal, or whatever, I can heat something up and have a good meal. The following recipe is by far my favorite for this- and is also the one I can take most credit for. Forgive any vagueness, as it's a recipe that needs to be played by ear for the most part.
Quebecquoise Soup d'Ognion
6 or 8 large sweet white onions
Beer (at least 2 12 oz bottles) Unibrew (a Montreal micro) makes a beer called Blanche du Chambly that is perfect, but any light, flavorful beer will do fine.
Good Balsamic Vinegar. The ammount you use depends on the quality of the vinegar- the better the vinegar, the less you need.
White wine vinegar
A loaf or two italian bread
Olive oil
Basil
Oregano
salt
Provolone Cheese
Soup:
Slice onions
In a very large stock pot, sautee onions in 3 Tbsp olive oil until soft and slightly brown.
Add water until the pot is about half full.
Now comes the artsy part.
Add the beer and vinegar. You'll want to start with at least 12oz of beer and 1/4 cup balsamic and 1/4 cup wine vinegars. From there, adjust until the flavor is right, but a little watery.
Simmer for an hour or more with the lid off, check occasionally. Adjust ingredients as needed. The soup should be rather sweet (from the onions) but a bit tart (vinegar).
Croutons:
In a large bowl, mix 1 cup olive oil, 2Tsp Basil and 1Tsp oregano.
Chop italian bread into crouton-sized cubes.
Coat bread with olive oil mixture
Spread on a cookie sheet.
Cook at 350 until lightly browned and hard.
Assembly:
Now you should have a gigantic pot full of onion soup, some freshly homemade croutons, and provolone cheese. For each serving of soup, ladle the soup into a bowl, and top with croutons. Layer sliced cheese on top. Stick the whole concoction in oven at around 350 until the cheese melts. (If you're starting with cold soup, warm it for a bit first before adding croutons and cheese) This can also be done in a microwave, if you're fortunate enough to own one.
What I want to know is why the woman is shown standing demurely, weight on one foot, with her head lowered and turned to the side. Being an american human female- to me this posture communicates subservience. She isn't meeting the eyes of the viewer, and is standing in an unbalanced, and therefore weak, position. Whereas the male figure is standing squarely on two feet and looking directly ahead. Of course, it's entirely possible (likely even) that whatever extraterrestrial intelligence discovers this plaque will have an entirely different system of body language. However, I think it says a lot about the good 'ol boys at NASA that they thought to include cues about the inferiority of women in their most basic, pictoral message to ET...
"space-saving"
So, you mean it's saving some of the space taken up by the bulky trackballs that currently come standard on all cell phones? what an innovation!
Very true. For those of you who think vaccum tubes are old school, go see an orchestra concert, or better yet, an opera! Larynx, sinuses and the mouth: now that is an old school amplifier.
I'm with you on #2-8 however...
SETI is not a conclusive method for disproving the existence of intelligent life in the scanned areas. If SETI doesn't find anything, all that really means is that nobody is sending out radio signals into space.
And on another note (probably should be a separate post, but this discussion is so damned long already...) The same brand of faulty logic is used in the article. Here's my question for these pollsters:
How is belief in the supernatural contrary to belief in the sciences?
Most of these things, like ESP or alien abduction have not been conclusively disproven. and as for the big bang- religious leaders aren't the only ones to reject this idea- many legit scientists don't believe it either!
Verifying the identity of the customer would be absolutly key here.
(from the article)
"It takes about one minute to enroll," Kapioski said.
I somehow doubt that these people are carefuly examining multiple forms of identification in less than a minute. Also:
"Employees underwent 15 or 20 minutes of training in the system this week."
The system itself might be secure, but identity theft the issue that it seems to be today, I would be most worried about these "18 year old clerks" that can't be trusted with cash taking a 15 minute training course and being put in charge of registration.
http://www.isp800.com Is working wonderfuly for me. I travel a lot, and I'm based in a very rural area in California where the phone company charges for local calls! I did a ton a research, and although most ISP that offer 800 numbers charge pretty hefty surcharges, ISP800 is fifteen bucks a month, unlimited access, and no surcharges whatsoever. It works great for me. Some hotels will charge extra for 800 calls, but other than that, it's wonderful. Shadowsong (Geek chicks- WE DO EXIST!)