The more I use it, the more I wish it did full page keyword indexing to pull those URLs you visited so long ago you can't remember anything but a word or two.
Smith 12/11/84 5:17 PM Does Big Brother exist? O'Brian 12/11/84 5:17 PM Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party
A repository is a consistent history. If you want to change the history, you need reconstruct it.
I've been working with CVS and SVN for ~a decade and have never needed to delete one revision. The closest I've had to come to this is extracting a new repository from a subset of an old one. "svnadmin dump" let me do this without any trouble.
What's the stop the admin from reading the confidential info just before doing cvs admin, anyways?
I don't see how this is advertising for ignorant people. This direct excerpt below is an explanation of how the prize is calculated. Please elaborate if you are talking about a different part of the page.
I find it amusing that the prize, and how it is awarded is very similar to the Netflix and the Wikipedia compression one. I haven't seen anyone complain that those are advertising for science-ignorant people. In fact, those prizes have further the state of the art in both cases!
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The specific purpose of the Reversal Prize is to encourage people to develop effective late-onset life-extension interventions that will be beneficial to the elderly. We are doing this by giving extra credit to interventions that are initiated late in the lifespan. We do this by calculating a nominal "age" using a very simple formula:
in computing the "age" achieved by a mouse whose treatment started only after some age,
the period before treatment began counts double.
In other words:
Age at which treatment begins: X days Age of death: X+Y days Nominal "age" achieved: 2X + Y days
So, a treatment that starts at birth translates to an "age" equal to the mouse's actual age at death, but a treatment that starts at one year of age translates into a nominal "age" one year greater than the mouse's actual age at death, because that first year counts as two years. The extreme case is a mouse that gets no treatment at all: its "age" for RP purposes is twice its actual age at death.
Thus, for example, if a treatment is begun at 900 days, and the treated animals live to 1500 days on average, the nominal age achieved is 2400 days. If the same age (1500 days) were subsequently achieved with an intervention begun at 1000 days of age, the nominal age achieved would be 2500 days. The winner would thus receive 1/25 of the RP fund.
It is worth noting that a mouse can become the record-holder for the Reversal Prize but be overtaken by another mouse before it dies!
I agree there's a lot of crap out there (I'm personally annoyed by the "anti-aging" skin-care crap I see on TV), but I don't think that a Google search and the fact that anti-aging is hyped and occupied by questionable characters mean that Dr. de Grey's Methuselah foundation is questionable itself.
In fact, from what I've seen of his work, it appears that his foundation is in fact putting its money where its mouth is (versus lip service and lining the pockets of those involved):
So, I would counter that regardless of the fraud, hype and general unpleasantness present in other areas of this field, the Methuselah Foundation is promoting honest research in the area.
I also believe that they have a ways to go to reverse the stagnation in the industry (thanks to the religious right's anti-stem-cell-research beliefs) and the general newness of the field, but you need to start somewhere. Imagine how far we'd be today if the NIH stem cell policy wasn't written by right-wingers:
Half of the process is convincing the world that it's possible to reverse/end aging and get the funding taps opened up, while the other half is building up research on the basic science that needs to occur first.
While I agree with Dr. de Grey's philosophy and idea, I also agree he needs to change his look to be a little more in-line with what most people expect. It makes him look a bit kooky to have that Gandalf-style beard.
So, how exactly are anti-aging researchers supposed to get the science to a more advanced stage without money and research?
You make it sound like a bad thing we've decoded the human genome. Even though there's a great deal more complexity than we thought, it's still a small piece of the puzzle we need to move further.
Is it fraud when the Breast Cancer foundations sponsor a run or the Heart and Stroke foundations sponsor some sort of activity? Would you consider it unethical for Slashdot to point at a Breast Cancer page, knowing that Slashdot users might consider donating?
You log in normally, but evil site now has your credentials.
Note that an evil site could be:
- a fake Wireless Access Point
- a malicious ISP employee
- another site broadcasting fake routing packets
- another site that has poisoned your DNS cache
etc...
This is why you need form-to-backend HTTPS security.
Agreed. I am nearly red-green colorblind. For most things the color is obvious, red firetruck, brown grass, and I can tell that apart. I hate to break it to you, but grass is green.;)
Yeah - I remember when this came out last year. It was a bit more relevant then, as OLPC news was posting some critical stuff that didn't have much merit. I'd chalk it up to the project being in its early stages rather than malice, however.
Today, I'd say that OLPC news is a pretty good news aggregator for a lot of the political OLPC information that you won't see anywhere else. Opening a support forum for OLPC is a great idea, though it should be hosted by OLPC themselves - oh well.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave. Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! - mass hysteria.
I've had lots of USB trouble myself (autosuspend cmd line doesn't help, sadly) with F7. I get hard process lockups on lsusb that are unkillable. It's got something to do with my Dell LCD's hub, but it's easier just not to use it than diagnose it.:) It's possible that it's because my machine is x86_64 and the support is still a little rusty though.
Read the PulseAudio docs on padsp, the PulseAudio/dev/dsp emulation layer. It's designed to transparently intercept all/dev/dsp calls and route them through PulseAudio itself.
PulseAudio is designed to fit into your audio stack all over the place. Since they'd never get any adoption if everything had to be recoded, they took the smart route and added input/output plugins and emulation systems for every system that exists already.
It's a smart move. Once developers realize that PulsaAudio is on *every* modern system, apps will start being coded against the PulseAudio stack instead of using/dev/dsp, ALSA, ESD or some other option.
Slashdot Mirror
Quick tip: "quotes" don't make theories less "crazy".
Get your ass to Mars!
Doesn't that mean it shouldn't return any URLs except those starting with h(ttp)/f(tp)/etc?
The more I use it, the more I wish it did full page keyword indexing to pull those URLs you visited so long ago you can't remember anything but a word or two.
Answer: Yes
Heh.. the chat log even timestamps it as '84:
Smith
12/11/84 5:17 PM
Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brian
12/11/84 5:17 PM
Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party
If all traffic is special, then no traffic is special!
svnadmin dump
(edit dump file)
svnadmin restore
A repository is a consistent history. If you want to change the history, you need reconstruct it.
I've been working with CVS and SVN for ~a decade and have never needed to delete one revision. The closest I've had to come to this is extracting a new repository from a subset of an old one. "svnadmin dump" let me do this without any trouble.
What's the stop the admin from reading the confidential info just before doing cvs admin, anyways?
If you want to teach them a lesson, put this in a hidden iframe on all of your sites:
http://www20.search.rogers.com/options?choice=none
Meh... That's nothing. I remember when we couldn't afford the two U's for uudecoding!
I don't see how this is advertising for ignorant people. This direct excerpt below is an explanation of how the prize is calculated. Please elaborate if you are talking about a different part of the page.
I find it amusing that the prize, and how it is awarded is very similar to the Netflix and the Wikipedia compression one. I haven't seen anyone complain that those are advertising for science-ignorant people. In fact, those prizes have further the state of the art in both cases!
========
The specific purpose of the Reversal Prize is to encourage people to develop effective late-onset life-extension interventions that will be beneficial to the elderly. We are doing this by giving extra credit to interventions that are initiated late in the lifespan. We do this by calculating a nominal "age" using a very simple formula:
in computing the "age" achieved by a mouse whose treatment started only after some age,
the period before treatment began counts double.
In other words:
Age at which treatment begins: X days
Age of death: X+Y days
Nominal "age" achieved: 2X + Y days
So, a treatment that starts at birth translates to an "age" equal to the mouse's actual age at death, but a treatment that starts at one year of age translates into a nominal "age" one year greater than the mouse's actual age at death, because that first year counts as two years. The extreme case is a mouse that gets no treatment at all: its "age" for RP purposes is twice its actual age at death.
Thus, for example, if a treatment is begun at 900 days, and the treated animals live to 1500 days on average, the nominal age achieved is 2400 days. If the same age (1500 days) were subsequently achieved with an intervention begun at 1000 days of age, the nominal age achieved would be 2500 days. The winner would thus receive 1/25 of the RP fund.
It is worth noting that a mouse can become the record-holder for the Reversal Prize but be overtaken by another mouse before it dies!
I agree there's a lot of crap out there (I'm personally annoyed by the "anti-aging" skin-care crap I see on TV), but I don't think that a Google search and the fact that anti-aging is hyped and occupied by questionable characters mean that Dr. de Grey's Methuselah foundation is questionable itself.
In fact, from what I've seen of his work, it appears that his foundation is in fact putting its money where its mouth is (versus lip service and lining the pockets of those involved):
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=mp_structure
From a cursory review of the site, it appears that the prize has been running since at least 2004 and has awarded monetary prizes:
http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=reversal
So, I would counter that regardless of the fraud, hype and general unpleasantness present in other areas of this field, the Methuselah Foundation is promoting honest research in the area.
I also believe that they have a ways to go to reverse the stagnation in the industry (thanks to the religious right's anti-stem-cell-research beliefs) and the general newness of the field, but you need to start somewhere. Imagine how far we'd be today if the NIH stem cell policy wasn't written by right-wingers:
http://stemcells.nih.gov/
http://stemcells.nih.gov/policy/
Half of the process is convincing the world that it's possible to reverse/end aging and get the funding taps opened up, while the other half is building up research on the basic science that needs to occur first.
While I agree with Dr. de Grey's philosophy and idea, I also agree he needs to change his look to be a little more in-line with what most people expect. It makes him look a bit kooky to have that Gandalf-style beard.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/AubreyDeGrey.JPG
Seeing as how he's only 45 (according to WP), he'd probably look pretty healthy and young without it, making him a more effective advocate.
So, how exactly are anti-aging researchers supposed to get the science to a more advanced stage without money and research?
You make it sound like a bad thing we've decoded the human genome. Even though there's a great deal more complexity than we thought, it's still a small piece of the puzzle we need to move further.
Is it fraud when the Breast Cancer foundations sponsor a run or the Heart and Stroke foundations sponsor some sort of activity? Would you consider it unethical for Slashdot to point at a Breast Cancer page, knowing that Slashdot users might consider donating?
Here's a hint of how it can fail:
Man in the middle intercepts http://wachovia.com/ inserts a JS script in the head of the document that takes each keystroke and posts it to http://evilsite.com./
You log in normally, but evil site now has your credentials.
Note that an evil site could be:
- a fake Wireless Access Point
- a malicious ISP employee
- another site broadcasting fake routing packets
- another site that has poisoned your DNS cache
etc...
This is why you need form-to-backend HTTPS security.
alt.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack
Yup - two dead Microsoft mice in just over a year for me. I'm giving Logitech a chance to win back my business now.
Unfortunately, there was sin tax error on line 1.
While core Java doesn't have a good native interface, the JNA project basically solves that:
https://jna.dev.java.net/
Yeah - I remember when this came out last year. It was a bit more relevant then, as OLPC news was posting some critical stuff that didn't have much merit. I'd chalk it up to the project being in its early stages rather than malice, however.
Today, I'd say that OLPC news is a pretty good news aggregator for a lot of the political OLPC information that you won't see anywhere else. Opening a support forum for OLPC is a great idea, though it should be hosted by OLPC themselves - oh well.
ObGhostbusters
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! - mass hysteria.
I've had lots of USB trouble myself (autosuspend cmd line doesn't help, sadly) with F7. I get hard process lockups on lsusb that are unkillable. It's got something to do with my Dell LCD's hub, but it's easier just not to use it than diagnose it. :) It's possible that it's because my machine is x86_64 and the support is still a little rusty though.
Read the PulseAudio docs on padsp, the PulseAudio /dev/dsp emulation layer. It's designed to transparently intercept all /dev/dsp calls and route them through PulseAudio itself.
You're supposed to configure the ALSA plugin for PulseAudio so that ALSA apps get PulseAudio automagically:
/dev/dsp, ALSA, ESD or some other option.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
PulseAudio is designed to fit into your audio stack all over the place. Since they'd never get any adoption if everything had to be recoded, they took the smart route and added input/output plugins and emulation systems for every system that exists already.
It's a smart move. Once developers realize that PulsaAudio is on *every* modern system, apps will start being coded against the PulseAudio stack instead of using