I dunno what's with the blame game, it's alone on Mars, something was going to go wrong eventually. If the designers had made an improvement that would alleviate THIS problem, something else would be missing making THAT a problem.
Oh if only someone had thought to turn the radioactive heating units into emergency backup power! (sarcasm) If only someone had thought to install fans to blow the dust off! (previous poster, more sarcasm.)
It is an incredibly well-designed machine; just like with the human body, everything has a cost. Improving one item means less for the rest.
When I toured JPL it was obvious that the people there have an emotional bond with this little animal robot, its gritty determination, it's spirit of exploration.
I wish the poster had done a better job summarizing the situation. Spirit is stuck in the sand and can't rock itself free; because it's not moving, sand and dust is collecting on the solar panels; winter is coming on Mars, making the solar energy that much weaker anyway.
But even as cute little rover sits there spinning, its wheels are doing Science, they dug down to a layer with sulfur. Sulfur indicates hydrothermal vents, and hydro is the greek word for water. Woot!
A miracle could happen; a sandstorm could clean off the solar panels, allowing enough energy for a mighty push that could free the machine.
This may well be the key to resuscitating the integrity of journalistic reporting. With falling revenues comes an inability to pay reporters enough to research stories and verify the claims of sources. By helping reporters to more quickly arrive at the heart of the story, WikiLeaks Local just might turn around the industry!
If it becomes big, it may also become an anonymous source of misinformation. Sad.
> I wonder if the registrant paid for those domains... this should have set him back at least $5k.
Wooooo. Five K. News alert, "Doesn't Seem Unfair To Me" poster. That is DIDDLY SQUAT money for any ocmpamy. Even a small company, even my one-person company, can shoot off five thousand dollars for a one-time expense without blinking.
It's no discouragement, paying $5 per domain, for a company. Only an individual would worry about that amount. "It could buy me a Vespa!"
People have god-given frailties, which scammers EXPLOIT by victimizing people's blind spots or weak points. Your post blaming the target of BlueHippo fraud was insensitive and cloddish. But you will mature over the next few years, and become more aware that humans who are *average* or even *below average* still deserve our respect. You, too, have your blind spots and two Achilles heels.
What is cloud computing? Knowledgeable people interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo last year describe in hilarious terms their understanding of the phrase, making only one thing clear: clouds are nebulous.
I must "out" myself as being another clueless web designer who left exactly this vulnerability in my own "email page to a friend" link, as recently as April 2009. Doh!
See, creative people have no "barrier to entry" and as long as I can write simple perl scripts, I can run them in my CGI bin. Not everyone is a gifted web designer, many of us have had no formal education in programming or security, and of course we are all struggling against spammers with a financial interest in locating exploits.
I feel empathy for those that you smarter people scoff at. Be kind! It wasn't for us dolts you woudn't *be* smart, you'd just be average!
The cats are leashed in the picture, but the statement is that they will be roaming the streets, not that they will be escorted leashed on the streets. The article does nothing to dissuade the notion that the cats will be released to roam freely. If they are, I worry about the safety of these "creepy black cats".
BadAnalogyGuy said, "The problem would be that, like monkeys, Neanderthals are primates and would probably be the focus of animal rights groups seeking ways to stall the progress of science."
This is not a problem; this is a triumph of ethics over curiosity. Just because an experiment can be performed does not mean it should be performed.
(I am a scientist who has worked with mice and rats, mostly humanely. I later learned that I was bleeding far too much from tail veins in search of antibodies, and violating ethical standards, which I regret.)
The definition of species is, we know today, rather fuzzy.
A number of closely related modern species--among fish, fruit flies, squirrels, etc.--can be coerced into breeding fertile offspring in laboratory conditions. However, they do not normally breed in the wild, and are considered distinct species. Their phenotypes are different enough that they don't "look like mates" -- e.g., the coloring of the male fish no longer triggers a mating response in the female fish, even though the offspring would be fertile.
With enough generations separated by "cultural" barriers to breeding, eventually the lack of interbreeding in the wild allows the two genomes to diverge enough that they can no longer can produce fertile offspring even when mated. Therefore, even if the neanderthals were a different species, it is possible that humans could have interbred with them. Possible... but, in fact, not the case:
NY Times article:"An early inference that can be drawn from the new findings (...) is that there is no significant trace of Neanderthal genes in modern humans."
No genetic evidence of iterbreeding between human and neanderthal.
- - -
What the heck is this massive interest in "cloning extinct species"?!! Weird. I guess the science fiction lure. A single animal, or even hundreds of cloned extinct animals, would in any event never reproduce their culture. A long-extinct culture cannot be cloned.
From the NY Times articleAn early inference that can be drawn from the new findings, which were announced Thursday in Leipzig, Germany, is that there is no significant trace of Neanderthal genes in modern humans. This confounds the speculation that modern humans could have interbred with Neanderthals, thus benefiting from the genes that adapted the Neanderthals to the cold climate that prevailed in Europe in last ice age, which ended 10,000 years ago. Researchers have not ascertained if human genes entered the Neanderthal population.
Wikipedia was a marketplace of ideas in its youth. Nowadays Wikipedia "enforces" citations which means it is much less dynamic, less a marketplace of ideas, and more error-prone. (!) The people who are able to edit successfully, are those who know the system rather than know the topic. Wikipedia was once great. Now it is less dynamic and more error-prone.
From one who regrets the former days of Wiki glory.
I had some lurid crime photographs on my large website. In order to see these lurid crime photographs, I asked readers to prove they were "an adult by their community's standards." Most simply stated their birthdates or ages. A few sent dog tag numbers. One quipped, "I'm a resident of Washington DC. What community standards?"
Some proved their maturity by describing their life experiences. "I haven't paid off MasterCard in six years, and my car is a beat-up '80 Chevy." "I remember the words to Delta Dawn, and Michael Jackson when he was still black." "Fire hydrants were painted red, white, and blue for the 1976 Bicentennial." "There are five bordeaux grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Malbec."
But some responses were dangerously clueless. A significant subset sent scanned licenses, passports, and photographs. A few even gave me their checking account numbers!
i've really given up on any mod-up here at/. it's such a clannish place; nevertheless, I want to share on this topic. Humans are as predictable as lab rats in some respects. today we have such subtle marketers that the marketing can capitalize on our instincts.
Just because our instincts are being exploited, does not mean we deserve invasions into our privacy. People use their own "best guess" when it comes to privacy, and CORPORATIONS pay other people to make sure the MOST customers are fooled.
No. Just because FaceBook / clients FOOL people, does not mean those people deserve to lose privacy.
Please let's not jump to conclusions.
Snopes has been a *good* site since way back.
Sure they don't have telephone access to their personal phone via whois. Do you? I sure the heck don't; I conceal my personal data. And poor snopes.com... running on Microsoft... my heart goes out to them. They don't know Linux, they're not power users like us. I am sure there is an explanation!!!
"How many times does your computer system go down in a week?" said Jim Currie, a retired Army reserve colonel, military historian and professor at the National Defense University.
Far less than once per week. Linux server? Reboot every six months whether I need it or not, to the consternation of my hot-shot sysadmin. Mac OS-X on my MacBook Pro? Perhaps every three weeks.
Somewhat alarming is the implicit assumtion that computer systems "go down" (and not in the yummy sensual sense" many times per week, per day. That does seem to be the common perception, no doubt rooted in the lamentably widespread useage of Microsofft.
"Boeing's Schoen said that it is designing software so that if soldiers lose their connection, the software will automatically "heal itself," retrieving the information within seconds without rebooting."
OK I read the article, which btw annoyingly requires javascript to view subsequent pages. I run a webserver, I know more than diddly squat about connections, wireless and otherwise. So I say with some authority,
WTF
Lose what connection? Heal itself sounds like medical buzzwords. Retrieve what information from where.
Increasingly it seems that communication with the masses involves comforting phrases, rather than meaningful content.
I don't know why no one has mentioned "Mindless Eating" a book written from experiences in a US "Research Restaurant" exactly like this. Among their findings: Free wine from a bottle labelled "NEW from California!" caused people to eat more, and longer, than the same wine in a bottle labelled "NEW from South Dakota". People ate less when the Superbowl peanuts and popcorn were distributed in small bowls, versus the same quantity distributed in fewer large bowls. We are more satisfied by a small serving on a small plate, than by the same serving on a large plate. Fascinating book!
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno what's with the blame game, it's alone on Mars, something was going to go wrong eventually. If the designers had made an improvement that would alleviate THIS problem, something else would be missing making THAT a problem.
Oh if only someone had thought to turn the radioactive heating units into emergency backup power! (sarcasm) If only someone had thought to install fans to blow the dust off! (previous poster, more sarcasm.)
It is an incredibly well-designed machine; just like with the human body, everything has a cost. Improving one item means less for the rest.
When I toured JPL it was obvious that the people there have an emotional bond with this little animal robot, its gritty determination, it's spirit of exploration.
I wish the poster had done a better job summarizing the situation. Spirit is stuck in the sand and can't rock itself free; because it's not moving, sand and dust is collecting on the solar panels; winter is coming on Mars, making the solar energy that much weaker anyway.
But even as cute little rover sits there spinning, its wheels are doing Science, they dug down to a layer with sulfur. Sulfur indicates hydrothermal vents, and hydro is the greek word for water. Woot!
A miracle could happen; a sandstorm could clean off the solar panels, allowing enough energy for a mighty push that could free the machine.
amen
This may well be the key to resuscitating the integrity of journalistic reporting. With falling revenues comes an inability to pay reporters enough to research stories and verify the claims of sources. By helping reporters to more quickly arrive at the heart of the story, WikiLeaks Local just might turn around the industry!
If it becomes big, it may also become an anonymous source of misinformation. Sad.
try this
cat logfile | cut -d " " -f [fill in the field with the IP ] | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
(and if need be, add ' | tail -20')
This will show you whether there are repeat IP addresses in the log.
Webgoddess
> I wonder if the registrant paid for those domains... this should have set him back at least $5k.
Wooooo. Five K. News alert, "Doesn't Seem Unfair To Me" poster. That is DIDDLY SQUAT money for any ocmpamy. Even a small company, even my one-person company, can shoot off five thousand dollars for a one-time expense without blinking.
It's no discouragement, paying $5 per domain, for a company. Only an individual would worry about that amount. "It could buy me a Vespa!"
People have god-given frailties, which scammers EXPLOIT by victimizing people's blind spots or weak points. Your post blaming the target of BlueHippo fraud was insensitive and cloddish. But you will mature over the next few years, and become more aware that humans who are *average* or even *below average* still deserve our respect. You, too, have your blind spots and two Achilles heels.
Wendy / the Darwin Awards
What is cloud computing? Knowledgeable people interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo last year describe in hilarious terms their understanding of the phrase, making only one thing clear: clouds are nebulous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNuQHUiV3Q
--Wendy
I must "out" myself as being another clueless web designer who left exactly this vulnerability in my own "email page to a friend" link, as recently as April 2009. Doh!
See, creative people have no "barrier to entry" and as long as I can write simple perl scripts, I can run them in my CGI bin. Not everyone is a gifted web designer, many of us have had no formal education in programming or security, and of course we are all struggling against spammers with a financial interest in locating exploits.
I feel empathy for those that you smarter people scoff at. Be kind! It wasn't for us dolts you woudn't *be* smart, you'd just be average!
Wendy Northcutt, the Darwin Awards
I did RTFA.
The cats are leashed in the picture, but the statement is that they will be roaming the streets, not that they will be escorted leashed on the streets. The article does nothing to dissuade the notion that the cats will be released to roam freely. If they are, I worry about the safety of these "creepy black cats".
BadAnalogyGuy said, "The problem would be that, like monkeys, Neanderthals are primates and would probably be the focus of animal rights groups seeking ways to stall the progress of science."
This is not a problem; this is a triumph of ethics over curiosity. Just because an experiment can be performed does not mean it should be performed.
(I am a scientist who has worked with mice and rats, mostly humanely. I later learned that I was bleeding far too much from tail veins in search of antibodies, and violating ethical standards, which I regret.)
The definition of species is, we know today, rather fuzzy.
A number of closely related modern species--among fish, fruit flies, squirrels, etc.--can be coerced into breeding fertile offspring in laboratory conditions. However, they do not normally breed in the wild, and are considered distinct species. Their phenotypes are different enough that they don't "look like mates" -- e.g., the coloring of the male fish no longer triggers a mating response in the female fish, even though the offspring would be fertile.
With enough generations separated by "cultural" barriers to breeding, eventually the lack of interbreeding in the wild allows the two genomes to diverge enough that they can no longer can produce fertile offspring even when mated. Therefore, even if the neanderthals were a different species, it is possible that humans could have interbred with them. Possible... but, in fact, not the case:
NY Times article: "An early inference that can be drawn from the new findings (...) is that there is no significant trace of Neanderthal genes in modern humans."
No genetic evidence of iterbreeding between human and neanderthal.
- - -
What the heck is this massive interest in "cloning extinct species"?!! Weird. I guess the science fiction lure. A single animal, or even hundreds of cloned extinct animals, would in any event never reproduce their culture. A long-extinct culture cannot be cloned.
From the NY Times article An early inference that can be drawn from the new findings, which were announced Thursday in Leipzig, Germany, is that there is no significant trace of Neanderthal genes in modern humans. This confounds the speculation that modern humans could have interbred with Neanderthals, thus benefiting from the genes that adapted the Neanderthals to the cold climate that prevailed in Europe in last ice age, which ended 10,000 years ago. Researchers have not ascertained if human genes entered the Neanderthal population.
Interbreeding between humans and neanderthal? No.
The book is not Hitman, it is Hit Man, available only on the used market: http://www.amazon.com/Hit-Man-Technical-Independent-Contractors/dp/0873642767/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219202282&sr=1-6
Wikipedia was a marketplace of ideas in its youth. Nowadays Wikipedia "enforces" citations which means it is much less dynamic, less a marketplace of ideas, and more error-prone. (!) The people who are able to edit successfully, are those who know the system rather than know the topic. Wikipedia was once great. Now it is less dynamic and more error-prone.
From one who regrets the former days of Wiki glory.
I had some lurid crime photographs on my large website. In order to see these lurid crime photographs, I asked readers to prove they were "an adult by their community's standards." Most simply stated their birthdates or ages. A few sent dog tag numbers. One quipped, "I'm a resident of Washington DC. What community standards?"
Some proved their maturity by describing their life experiences. "I haven't paid off MasterCard in six years, and my car is a beat-up '80 Chevy." "I remember the words to Delta Dawn, and Michael Jackson when he was still black." "Fire hydrants were painted red, white, and blue for the 1976 Bicentennial." "There are five bordeaux grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Malbec."
But some responses were dangerously clueless. A significant subset sent scanned licenses, passports, and photographs. A few even gave me their checking account numbers!
Are people so gullible and unaware? People are.
...that Google's Deep Crawl is already emuating the kidd33z.
The summary says, "Airlines will have to wait 18 more months to get it delivered," but the original article says the total delay is 18 months.
Yes, technically Scrabble has access to the religion of its users. Yes, it could be storing this.
No. Technically. Scrabble does not have access to private information.
Goddess. increasingly irate, at oort dot com.
i've really given up on any mod-up here at /. it's such a clannish place; nevertheless, I want to share on this topic. Humans are as predictable as lab rats in some respects. today we have such subtle marketers that the marketing can capitalize on our instincts.
Just because our instincts are being exploited, does not mean we deserve invasions into our privacy. People use their own "best guess" when it comes to privacy, and CORPORATIONS pay other people to make sure the MOST customers are fooled.
No. Just because FaceBook / clients FOOL people, does not mean those people deserve to lose privacy.
Irate goddess at OORT (.com)
Snopes has been a *good* site since way back.
Sure they don't have telephone access to their personal phone via whois. Do you? I sure the heck don't; I conceal my personal data. And poor snopes.com ... running on Microsoft ... my heart goes out to them. They don't know Linux, they're not power users like us. I am sure there is an explanation!!!
Benefit of a Doubt to Barbara -- voice of Reason
Wendy
"How many times does your computer system go down in a week?" said Jim Currie, a retired Army reserve colonel, military historian and professor at the National Defense University.
Far less than once per week. Linux server? Reboot every six months whether I need it or not, to the consternation of my hot-shot sysadmin. Mac OS-X on my MacBook Pro? Perhaps every three weeks.
Somewhat alarming is the implicit assumtion that computer systems "go down" (and not in the yummy sensual sense" many times per week, per day. That does seem to be the common perception, no doubt rooted in the lamentably widespread useage of Microsofft.
"Boeing's Schoen said that it is designing software so that if soldiers lose their connection, the software will automatically "heal itself," retrieving the information within seconds without rebooting."
OK I read the article, which btw annoyingly requires javascript to view subsequent pages. I run a webserver, I know more than diddly squat about connections, wireless and otherwise. So I say with some authority,
WTF
Lose what connection? Heal itself sounds like medical buzzwords. Retrieve what information from where.
Increasingly it seems that communication with the masses involves comforting phrases, rather than meaningful content.
Wendy the discontent.
I don't know why no one has mentioned "Mindless Eating" a book written from experiences in a US "Research Restaurant" exactly like this. Among their findings: Free wine from a bottle labelled "NEW from California!" caused people to eat more, and longer, than the same wine in a bottle labelled "NEW from South Dakota". People ate less when the Superbowl peanuts and popcorn were distributed in small bowls, versus the same quantity distributed in fewer large bowls. We are more satisfied by a small serving on a small plate, than by the same serving on a large plate. Fascinating book!
http://www.amazon.com/Mindless-Eating-More-Than-Think/dp/0553384481/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197873149&sr=8-1
Since infinite opportunities exist to be arrogant ...
the answer is, no