And the telephone sanitizers too!
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Lawyers In Space...
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Don't forget that that civilization died out of a plague propagated on unsanitary telephones.
To attempt (why oh why?) to salvage reason from a joke, lawyers are not really the problem. Rather the problem is that they are one profession. Right now, lawyers make the laws, prosecute/defend positions under the laws, and judge under the law. Imagine instead some way to split those into 3 imiscible professions, or at least control hopping back and forth, or backscratching. A similar 3-way nastiness, for comparison purposes is businesslobbyistpolitician.
Yecchh. I've just been framing these thoughts since 9/11, and here's someone publishing in 1992. Oh well, at least I missed 12 years of feeling bad about it.
Makes me wish we really had space travel. There's been the obvious 'eggs out of just one environmental basket' in science fiction, but there have also been a fair amount of 'eggs out of Earth's political basket' stories, too. Really a good solution, assuming the right level of difficulty for the technology. Jihad develops no technology, but rather piggybacks on the civilization it's tearing down, and McWorld is after power only as a means to money, so as long as off-world isn't terribly lucrative, they'll leave it alone. Unfortunately the current level of technological difficulty is just plain too high, period.
I doubt Osama Binladen really wants the oil. I suspect he just doesn't want us to have it.
Personally, I believe ALL of us have underestimated what the War on Terror really is. It has been largely cast as US vs Al Quaeda, et al. But IMHO it's really the concept of Western Civilization vs Tribalism. Unfortunately our side is badly divided. I'd really hate to see the centuries-long mess if Tribalism (especially as currently implemented) were to actually win.
I can't quite believe anyone is that lame. Doesn't SSH report some banner info when you try to connect, like this? I'd sooner believe they're trying to collect info than actually try to crack 'guest'.
Because we're not going to replace our power infrastructure overnight. Unfortunately we're doing very little to move off of fossil fuels at all. But even when we get off the mark, it's going to be a lengthy process, not an overnight conversion. Cleaning up legacy powerplants is a good thing, even if it isn't the final goal.
I wonder how much it would cost to migrate off of fossil fuels. Last year we spend $8.5e9 on the Iraq war, during a relatively slack economy with a huge deficit, and barely batted an eyelash. (and the job/cost isn't done, yet.) I doubt that amount of money would do the job, but it would sure make a dent in it, or at least in moving off of mideast oil and cleaning things up.
This needs to be a National Priority. If not for the cleanup, at least moving enough off of mideast oil to reduce/eliminate our dependence. The other night, NPR/Marketplace had an article on the stability of regional players. Our addiction to fossil fuels (gasoline in particular) has blinded us to the risks of our dependence on mideast sources.
(I saw a link that let my bypass registration, though it informed me that, "I need to register soon.")
I've heard lately about a lot more SSH chatter showing up than normal. There's been some speculation about an exploit turning up, soon. Perhaps this is it.
Or maybe there's Yet More To Come.
Next on the list of infringing devices...
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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
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wireless transmitters LCD projectors DVD players
gotta stop those pirates gotta stop that pirate technology
The Point: What effect might low-energe EM fields have on the folding process of newly-synthesized proteins? IIRC, all proteins are initially a linear strand coded by TRNA at the ribosome, and have to be carefully folded into their final form before they're ready to do their job.
The article talked about 'shaking proteins', though didn't say how they shook them.
Low energy EM fields...
The tinfoil hatters have been going on and on about power lines, cellphone towers, and other sources of low energy EM fields. The business community has been going on and on about how the energy of the EM fields is too low to cause any ionization, the normal culprit in organic damage.
But are the low energy EM fields sufficiently strong to disrupt the initial folding process?
Now you've brought up an interesting point. I'm probably ill-informed, but from what I've heard/read, prion diseases seem to be showing up in herbivores induced into unnatural diets. Domesticated animals get it through feed we give them.
How do deer get it, because I've heard of it there, too.
Why don't scavengers get it? It seems to me that it would be a rather normal cause of death, or at least normal to be found in early stages, at time of death.
Aaah, but we don't have 'a bunch of providers,' or at least not a bunch of providers in competition. We pretty much have a bunch of providers who have Balkanized the country into non-competitive fiefdoms. There is some competition between cable and DSL, in some areas, but that's about it. I guess CLECs haven't been completely driven out of business, but just give the FCC and ILECs a few more years.
Before coming up with some sort of DBFS, some extra thoughts on security are needed.
So far the biggest reason to crack a system is to get access to its network resource, as a spam relay, a springboard/anonymizer, or a bigger pen1s. (bragging rights) Back to spam for a moment, about the only data harvested so far on those cracked systems is the address book. That's because the address book is the easiest to find - the most integrated.
Enter DBFS. Now ALL of your data becomes easy to find, *and mine*. I presume/hope there will be encryption of sensitive data, but there will always be weak passwords, weak encryption, etc. It's easy to imagine your own system cracking away all night trying to break into your own data, on behalf of someone else.
DBFS makes it easier. Granted it's currently possible to scan normal places for Quicken or MS Money, and see if any account numbers or such are there. But it's the *integration* that's the fear, because you can start doing *more* with DBFS and integrated applications. But those 'nice' features increase your vulnerability.
Not that we shouldn't do such a thing, but security needs to be a fundamental part of the architecture, not a bolt-on afterward.
The sockets diverged back in the days of Slot1. Intel didn't want to compete on the socket level, like back in the Socket7 days, so they tied things up in patents and such. That's what drove AMD to the SlotA, which they got from Alpha. Theoretically you could have motherboards into which you could put either a K7 or an Alpha, by changing the BIOS.
Actually, that same trick seems to be what Intel is trying to pull, here. But what seems and what is may be two different things. With today's market positioning, Xeon and Itanium are sold into different markets, and those markets would drive radically different types of boards.
So we have four possibilities: 1: Intel is trying to enable Itanium to creep downward into the Xeon market. 2: Intel is trying to enable Xeon to creep upward into the Itanium market. 3: Intel is confused, and trying to hedge their bets. 4: Beancounter have gained some ascendancy over the marketdroids, and have gotten fed up with the costs of 'socket differentiation.'
Regardless of party policies, the Republicans are *effective* and implementing them, and the Democrats generally less so.
Most of the time, we don't need *effective* government. (Perhaps right now we do, for the War on Terror, but we're getting War in Iraq, instead. Perhaps War on Terror is even the wrong metaphor, at that.) But in general, a less effective government also gets in our way, and in our bedrooms, less.
I don't mean to denigrate science as a goal in the slightest, but it simply isn't the ONLY goal.
But to dilute his assertion from a scientific perspective, for a moment...
One could argue that Columbus, Magellan, etc were wastes from a scientific perspective. But let's just look at one simple exploration that descended from their "adventures" - the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos were the extreme examples that prodded Darwin into writing Origin of Species - clearly a work of science. Would we have figured out evolution without exploring the Galapagos? Probably, but it would have taken much longer.
Science is largely a method, a careful method that consists of theories and experiments to prove those theories. But remember that science attempts to explain observations, and nothing forces science to move like new observations that don't fit the accepted models.
So for the moment ignoring "adventure" as a value proposition, space science by robot probe is largely (though not excusively) like designing experiments and confirming results. Space science by man is more likely to 'peek the other way' and see something that turns current models on their head. The Mars rovers are an interesting case, because they're a sort of telepresence, and allow us to exercise our own curiousity. They're also a special case, because they're out at (or slightly past?) the limit of that kind of activity.
Go right ahead and explore the oceans. I won't stop you. So please don't stop me from exploring space.
But really, that's not what this is about. I don't explore space, and chances are you don't explore the oceans. So we're really arguing over tax dollars for our proxies. So I'll grant you tax dollars for your proxy if you grant me tax dollars for mine.
Perhaps part of my problem is not knowing my way around the Gentoo web site well enough. I'd swear that there are several places that I've seen that I can't get to from the home page. I'm not sure if this is one of them, but recently I've been delving into Kerberos, SASL, and LDAP, and references to those seem to be present, but tough to locate.
I remember seeing that there was no need to reinstall. I just forgot where I saw the magic formula. I need to learn portage better, but I've still got too much rpm stuck in my head. Thanks.
There are some configuration-type things that don't get updated by an 'emerge -uD world'. Sure, all of your packages are kept up to date, but for instance, Gentoo has moved from XFree86 to X.org. That change won't be made until you move from 1.4 to 2004.x. I once saw directions on how to make the switch, but lost track before I could do anything about it. So for the moment, I'm '-uD world' like you.
I trusted (actually, still do) the guy, as well as others of the same era.
Some of that trust has been retained, potentially inappropriately, in today's news anchors. Actually, these days I don't get much news off of TV. I rely more on NPR and the BBC.
But for news purposes, unless it's some sort of specialized news, I don't trust the web at all. Even with specialized news I tend to take things with a grain of salt.
So as the sideline to my disagreement with your statement, how do we develop trustworthiness for the web as a source of news?
No they don't. If they did, the Browser Wars would be largely irrelevant, and people could pick what they liked instead of being forced by 'this site best view with...' requirements. Spoofing the user agent never would have needed to be invented.
Much as I enjoyed the Dean candidacy, I do not feel that he would have made a good President.
Principally, he ran Vermont in a rather autocratic fashion. While I admire the fact that he left Vermont as one of three states in the black after the dot-bust, he did so by brow-beating the legislature into some sort of fiscal restraint. I fear running Vermont did not require that he develop the political machine skills necessary for running the Nation. I suspect he would have had a presidency similar to that of Carter, in many respects, for that reason.
Second, his campaign spending profile was all wrong, and it showed in how things unravelled after The Shout. These two things were independent, but coincidentally occurred about the same time.
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Don't forget that that civilization died out of a plague propagated on unsanitary telephones.
To attempt (why oh why?) to salvage reason from a joke, lawyers are not really the problem. Rather the problem is that they are one profession. Right now, lawyers make the laws, prosecute/defend positions under the laws, and judge under the law. Imagine instead some way to split those into 3 imiscible professions, or at least control hopping back and forth, or backscratching. A similar 3-way nastiness, for comparison purposes is businesslobbyistpolitician.
Yecchh. I've just been framing these thoughts since 9/11, and here's someone publishing in 1992. Oh well, at least I missed 12 years of feeling bad about it.
Makes me wish we really had space travel. There's been the obvious 'eggs out of just one environmental basket' in science fiction, but there have also been a fair amount of 'eggs out of Earth's political basket' stories, too. Really a good solution, assuming the right level of difficulty for the technology. Jihad develops no technology, but rather piggybacks on the civilization it's tearing down, and McWorld is after power only as a means to money, so as long as off-world isn't terribly lucrative, they'll leave it alone. Unfortunately the current level of technological difficulty is just plain too high, period.
I doubt Osama Binladen really wants the oil. I suspect he just doesn't want us to have it.
Personally, I believe ALL of us have underestimated what the War on Terror really is. It has been largely cast as US vs Al Quaeda, et al. But IMHO it's really the concept of Western Civilization vs Tribalism. Unfortunately our side is badly divided. I'd really hate to see the centuries-long mess if Tribalism (especially as currently implemented) were to actually win.
I can't quite believe anyone is that lame. Doesn't SSH report some banner info when you try to connect, like this? I'd sooner believe they're trying to collect info than actually try to crack 'guest'.
Because we're not going to replace our power infrastructure overnight. Unfortunately we're doing very little to move off of fossil fuels at all. But even when we get off the mark, it's going to be a lengthy process, not an overnight conversion. Cleaning up legacy powerplants is a good thing, even if it isn't the final goal.
I wonder how much it would cost to migrate off of fossil fuels. Last year we spend $8.5e9 on the Iraq war, during a relatively slack economy with a huge deficit, and barely batted an eyelash. (and the job/cost isn't done, yet.) I doubt that amount of money would do the job, but it would sure make a dent in it, or at least in moving off of mideast oil and cleaning things up.
This needs to be a National Priority. If not for the cleanup, at least moving enough off of mideast oil to reduce/eliminate our dependence. The other night, NPR/Marketplace had an article on the stability of regional players. Our addiction to fossil fuels (gasoline in particular) has blinded us to the risks of our dependence on mideast sources.
(I saw a link that let my bypass registration, though it informed me that, "I need to register soon.")
I wondered if they were building an inventory of vulnerable servers, which could also imply vulnerable clients.
I've heard lately about a lot more SSH chatter showing up than normal. There's been some speculation about an exploit turning up, soon. Perhaps this is it.
Or maybe there's Yet More To Come.
wireless transmitters
LCD projectors
DVD players
gotta stop those pirates
gotta stop that pirate technology
If gun control were pursued the way the INDUCE act goes after copyright violation:
Fishing sinkers would be illegal because they *might* be melted down and recast into bullets.
The Point: What effect might low-energe EM fields have on the folding process of newly-synthesized proteins? IIRC, all proteins are initially a linear strand coded by TRNA at the ribosome, and have to be carefully folded into their final form before they're ready to do their job.
The article talked about 'shaking proteins', though didn't say how they shook them.
Low energy EM fields...
The tinfoil hatters have been going on and on about power lines, cellphone towers, and other sources of low energy EM fields. The business community has been going on and on about how the energy of the EM fields is too low to cause any ionization, the normal culprit in organic damage.
But are the low energy EM fields sufficiently strong to disrupt the initial folding process?
Now you've brought up an interesting point. I'm probably ill-informed, but from what I've heard/read, prion diseases seem to be showing up in herbivores induced into unnatural diets. Domesticated animals get it through feed we give them.
How do deer get it, because I've heard of it there, too.
Why don't scavengers get it? It seems to me that it would be a rather normal cause of death, or at least normal to be found in early stages, at time of death.
Aaah, but we don't have 'a bunch of providers,' or at least not a bunch of providers in competition. We pretty much have a bunch of providers who have Balkanized the country into non-competitive fiefdoms. There is some competition between cable and DSL, in some areas, but that's about it. I guess CLECs haven't been completely driven out of business, but just give the FCC and ILECs a few more years.
Before coming up with some sort of DBFS, some extra thoughts on security are needed.
So far the biggest reason to crack a system is to get access to its network resource, as a spam relay, a springboard/anonymizer, or a bigger pen1s. (bragging rights) Back to spam for a moment, about the only data harvested so far on those cracked systems is the address book. That's because the address book is the easiest to find - the most integrated.
Enter DBFS. Now ALL of your data becomes easy to find, *and mine*. I presume/hope there will be encryption of sensitive data, but there will always be weak passwords, weak encryption, etc. It's easy to imagine your own system cracking away all night trying to break into your own data, on behalf of someone else.
DBFS makes it easier. Granted it's currently possible to scan normal places for Quicken or MS Money, and see if any account numbers or such are there. But it's the *integration* that's the fear, because you can start doing *more* with DBFS and integrated applications. But those 'nice' features increase your vulnerability.
Not that we shouldn't do such a thing, but security needs to be a fundamental part of the architecture, not a bolt-on afterward.
>an upgrade to the new processor
Upgrade?
(sorry to add a serious comment to a joke)
The sockets diverged back in the days of Slot1. Intel didn't want to compete on the socket level, like back in the Socket7 days, so they tied things up in patents and such. That's what drove AMD to the SlotA, which they got from Alpha. Theoretically you could have motherboards into which you could put either a K7 or an Alpha, by changing the BIOS.
Actually, that same trick seems to be what Intel is trying to pull, here. But what seems and what is may be two different things. With today's market positioning, Xeon and Itanium are sold into different markets, and those markets would drive radically different types of boards.
So we have four possibilities:
1: Intel is trying to enable Itanium to creep downward into the Xeon market.
2: Intel is trying to enable Xeon to creep upward into the Itanium market.
3: Intel is confused, and trying to hedge their bets.
4: Beancounter have gained some ascendancy over the marketdroids, and have gotten fed up with the costs of 'socket differentiation.'
I beg to differ.
Regardless of party policies, the Republicans are *effective* and implementing them, and the Democrats generally less so.
Most of the time, we don't need *effective* government. (Perhaps right now we do, for the War on Terror, but we're getting War in Iraq, instead. Perhaps War on Terror is even the wrong metaphor, at that.) But in general, a less effective government also gets in our way, and in our bedrooms, less.
then he is, of course right.
I don't mean to denigrate science as a goal in the slightest, but it simply isn't the ONLY goal.
But to dilute his assertion from a scientific perspective, for a moment...
One could argue that Columbus, Magellan, etc were wastes from a scientific perspective. But let's just look at one simple exploration that descended from their "adventures" - the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos were the extreme examples that prodded Darwin into writing Origin of Species - clearly a work of science. Would we have figured out evolution without exploring the Galapagos? Probably, but it would have taken much longer.
Science is largely a method, a careful method that consists of theories and experiments to prove those theories. But remember that science attempts to explain observations, and nothing forces science to move like new observations that don't fit the accepted models.
So for the moment ignoring "adventure" as a value proposition, space science by robot probe is largely (though not excusively) like designing experiments and confirming results. Space science by man is more likely to 'peek the other way' and see something that turns current models on their head. The Mars rovers are an interesting case, because they're a sort of telepresence, and allow us to exercise our own curiousity. They're also a special case, because they're out at (or slightly past?) the limit of that kind of activity.
No, we're not.
Go right ahead and explore the oceans. I won't stop you. So please don't stop me from exploring space.
But really, that's not what this is about. I don't explore space, and chances are you don't explore the oceans. So we're really arguing over tax dollars for our proxies. So I'll grant you tax dollars for your proxy if you grant me tax dollars for mine.
Good thing it hasn't developed into a flare yet, otherwise this post wouldn't quite make it to the se
Perhaps part of my problem is not knowing my way around the Gentoo web site well enough. I'd swear that there are several places that I've seen that I can't get to from the home page. I'm not sure if this is one of them, but recently I've been delving into Kerberos, SASL, and LDAP, and references to those seem to be present, but tough to locate.
Thanks
I remember seeing that there was no need to reinstall. I just forgot where I saw the magic formula. I need to learn portage better, but I've still got too much rpm stuck in my head. Thanks.
There are some configuration-type things that don't get updated by an 'emerge -uD world'. Sure, all of your packages are kept up to date, but for instance, Gentoo has moved from XFree86 to X.org. That change won't be made until you move from 1.4 to 2004.x. I once saw directions on how to make the switch, but lost track before I could do anything about it. So for the moment, I'm '-uD world' like you.
The real issue is Walter Cronkite, and his ilk.
I trusted (actually, still do) the guy, as well as others of the same era.
Some of that trust has been retained, potentially inappropriately, in today's news anchors. Actually, these days I don't get much news off of TV. I rely more on NPR and the BBC.
But for news purposes, unless it's some sort of specialized news, I don't trust the web at all. Even with specialized news I tend to take things with a grain of salt.
So as the sideline to my disagreement with your statement, how do we develop trustworthiness for the web as a source of news?
No they don't. If they did, the Browser Wars would be largely irrelevant, and people could pick what they liked instead of being forced by 'this site best view with...' requirements. Spoofing the user agent never would have needed to be invented.
As a 26+ year Vermont resident...
Much as I enjoyed the Dean candidacy, I do not feel that he would have made a good President.
Principally, he ran Vermont in a rather autocratic fashion. While I admire the fact that he left Vermont as one of three states in the black after the dot-bust, he did so by brow-beating the legislature into some sort of fiscal restraint. I fear running Vermont did not require that he develop the political machine skills necessary for running the Nation. I suspect he would have had a presidency similar to that of Carter, in many respects, for that reason.
Second, his campaign spending profile was all wrong, and it showed in how things unravelled after The Shout. These two things were independent, but coincidentally occurred about the same time.
That said, I'm not excited about Kerry.