Well, the coral cache doesn't actually seem to be helping at all. I apparently have a good twelve hours before I have the video to be able to make a torrent out of it. I just cancelled it, hoping to free up a little extra bandwidth so somebody else can finish downloading it quicker to make a torrent out of it. This seems like a very good application of the technology, after all...
Am I the only initial detractor who's actually getting used to the name? At first I thought it was awful, but it's sort of growing on me. And now that the press has gotten over the cheap jokes it looks like they're starting to take the device seriously as well. It may not be the best name in history, but now I don't think that the name is bad enough to sink the console, at least.
Now, you aren't the only one. I think it may turn out to have been a brilliant name for Nintendo. They get a *massive* media blitz covering the name, without having to actually do anything. Very shortly, everybody gets bored of the one or two jokes that are possible in the local language, but has still heard the name a lot. So, because they hard the name so much during the initial name-calling, people just get used to the name.
I do think that parents will still feel a bit silly, when they go into the store to ask for a Wii. But, I'm not sure that silly is bad. You get a Wii, feel a bit silly, and then get some game where purple migit puppy aliens dance in tune to your swinging a remote around or something. You feel a bit silly playing the game, just like you did buying the Wii. So much of the industry is so focused on being uber-Hardcore that a little bit of feeling silly in some key markets may be very good for Nintendo.
If they are bothering to go to your external website rather than just looking on Monster.com, etc, then they almost certainly did a Google search for your name... your website is right there in the google cache.
That's fine -- make it so that the page says, "I'm no longer looking. If you found this as a result of a search on google or something, looking for a resume, their information is out of date. Hopefully, it will refresh eventually."
Doesn't help at all if the HR department checks from home though!
But then the people making software will have to support those file systems too. Can you imagine the anger and confusion that will take place when Joe Smith can't get "Sponge Bob SquarePant's Magical Sea Adventure" to work for his son, because his hard drive is the wrong file system? And how are new companies supposed to get a foothold in the market if they already have to make 5 different versions from the start?
Sure, there are occasional quirks, such as if a file system is case insensitive, but the program needs to install "Fun.exe" and "fUN.exe". But, how would this mandate needing multiple versions of the program for each file system. The app just uses fopen() and fread() or whatever equivalents. The only software that would ever touch the disk at a level that it would even be aware of the file system would be disk utilities like defraggers and file system checkers. In UNIX and similar OS's, it's not at all unusual to have half a dozen file systems mounted as part of the same hierarchy. In general, the user never notices if / is ext3 and/storage is XFS on LVM, and/usr is ZFS on a RAID array...
One DHCP pool for VPN from Macintosh computers One DHCP pool for VPN from Windows computers One DHCP pool for trying to get the VPN support in the Cisco router working One DHCP pool for office computers One pool of reserved addresses for the servers One stray reserved address in the middle of a DHCP pool left over from an accident with the backup software One (very small) pool of public IP addresses used to provide the public face for the servers One computer with a single network card and two IP addresses (don't ask)
Well, we have only got a single VPN pool, but this doesn't too radically different from what we have. What do you do in the way of "managing?" That's the part I don't really get. We have a half a dozen or so subnets in the 192.168.96.* to 192.168.135.*. There is a lot of free room in case on of the departments grows radically, so it can get an adjacent block. We don't really need to change very much with any regularity. We have a few dozen devices with static IP's, and that's just because we don't feel like monkeying around with DHCP and DNS so that the printers and whatnot can be accessed by name. Despite having hundreds of machines, we don't have any problems keeping track of our static IP's in a spreadsheet. For what we are doing now, I think we could scale a few thousand machines, with a somewhat larger spreadsheet.
I'm not trying to say that there isn't anything to do that needs management utilities -- I'm genuinely asking, because quite a few people in this thread seem to understand exactly what the poster is asking for. If there is some goodness that makes things better, I'd like to know about it.
You can do both with cmd.exe... check the properties of the window and adjust the buffer sizes to your taste.
Increasing the buffer size still doesn't let you resize the window horizontally, although it does allow you to increase the size vertically. It's a fixed width window, which really stinks.
It certainly isn't what it should be... But, if you go to properties, and go to the layout tab, then change *both* the horizontal buffer size and the the horizontal window size, it works fine. It's just buried on the third tab of the not-very-obvious properties window -- don't confuse it with the buffer size setting on the first tab, as this is unrelated.
Now, why in the name of god they don't just let you resize it with the mouse like every other Windows window, and every other terminal emulator like kterm/gterm... I have no god damned idea. But, it is there, pointlessly buried. Third tab of the non-obvious properties window, where you have to change two different settings by hand. People keep asking me why I don't prefer Windows. They keep insisting, "Isn't Windows easier to use?" Egad.
Are all Linux distros based on the GNU userspace? Are there any based on, for example, the BSD userspace instead?
A lot of the embedded Linux devices don't have the GNU userspace. Think of something like a Tivo, or fancy Photocopier. These sorts of things may have no use for deploying with the usual userspace command line tools, just the kernel, needed libraries, and the end-user interface (web server software/GUI/whatever)
Yeah, but when is the last time you saw ANY software that actually echoed passwords to the screen? Basic security says that this should never occur. Unless you're really good at reading keystrokes, that isn't a real concern.
I see it under two circumstances: a: They are in the username field, and type their password without noticing right away b: Some command line utility, where they are passing the password as a command line argument, rather than being prompted for it, i.e.: ncftp -u ueberleetmastersteve -p fluffybunny7 secretftpserver.dyndns.com
People sometimes do stupid things. Even I do, rarely.
Ah, it's the old "tunnelling over a PPP connection on a Ouija board" trick.
It doesn't work very reliably. All those people who advocated death penalty for script kiddies are coming to realise it was a bad idea. Whenever I try to chat with hot babes with my Ouija board, I just get a flood of SYN SYN SYN. No matter where you go, IRC (Internet Rigor-mortis Chat) is always subject to a DDOS. (Dead Denial Of Service Attack)
Personally, I feel AMD has been a bit more reasonable with sockets. Pentium 4's have at least 423, 478, 775, and Pentium M has 478 and 480. Socket A lasted a long time, overlapping with Socket 370, IIRC. Since then, we've had 754, 939, and now AM2. (I'm ignoring 940, but also ignoring the Xeon sockets...) Since AM2 isn't actually out yet, that's two sockets that have been released in the same time frame that Intel released five.
As a consumer, I already know what I want, that's why I transformed my living room some time ago. I'm in no rush for Intel's (or Microsoft's, or Sony's) vision of home entertainment. They'll get it all wrong anyway, because they'll make a bunch of assumptions that they will attempt to force on their customers.
Huzzah! I am in the process of getting everything the way I want. Currently, I just have a laptop plugged into the TV, but it'll be migrating to a PC witha remote. All my TV lives on my server. I can watch it from any machine in the house, and I can start torrents downloading just by copying them to the proper directory. My server is constantly running a bit torrent client set to monitor my torrents directory.
A few years ago, if I'd talked about having a server in my home, people would have just boggled, and thought me uncool. Now, when they come over, and see how nifty and easy it is to have access to whatever I want to watch, some of them are asking if I can build similar setups for them.
It's standard procedure to design the site for lowest common resolution and then test it at higher resolutions. You have to shoot for _some_ resolution and if you use 800x600 right now it will also satisfy 1024x768, and that will make 90%+ of the world happy.
Right now about 50% of the world is cruising at 800x600, 40% are at 1024x768, and 10% are "other" (like 640x480 and 1280x1024).
When I first started doing web sites the target was 640x480. Today it is 800x600 because hardly anybody uses 640x480 anymore. A few years from now it will be 1024x768, if 800x600 falls below 10% of installations. Win XP installs at 800x600 by default and that caused the shift in the base level layout. I wonder what the default install of Vista will be?
There really shouldn't be a "target" resolution for your website. If you code nice standard HTML, it should be functional on PDA's and 21" high resolution setups. It should adapt to the user changing font sizes and whatnot without any problems at all.
You proclaim you can make a more resilient setup with centralized, network-accessible services, but you were unable to find (and permanently fix) a one-PC bandwidth problem in two months?
Now, I'm all for centralized services when it makes sense, but you haven't sold me in this case;-)
Nothing personal, that one just jumped out at me. Maybe it was the idea of watching baby birds hatching live...
Well, the OP did say he uninstalled the RealPlayer repeatedly, so I don't think he had a problem finding the one PC. Unfortunately, in some organisations, IT has no teeth. Sometimes we just aren't allowed to really lay down an appropriate level of smack. It sounds like the OP was in such a situation, where he did exactly as much as he had the authority to do.
Also, if you have some legacy apps, you may need to let users run as administrator. We still have about a dozen users that I *really* wish I could easily make non-administrators on their machines, but everything we have done to lock down some of the machines makes some of the crazy flaky apps we need to use to report to the state go nuts. Since it's a state system, we don't have any choice in the app that we use. I've been liking the idea of making a few specialty machines that *only* run that app, with the routers configured to only allow those machines to communicate with the state. Then, they can be standard users on their PC's, and admins on the specialty machines. But, the specialty machines couldn't be used to check email/browse the web, etc., making it less likely they would abuse the admin privileges.
Unfortunately, I have no authority to do it. I have no authority to do most of the locking down that I want to. Admittedly, I'm not as well versed in Windows as I'd like to be, but the issues we have on our network aren't *just* because I'm incompetent.:)
What would be much more entertaining would be to run in like a football game. With a dozen camera operators around the level, and a production studio switching cameras, runing replays, and poping up stats windows. Then get some sports announcers to comment on the progress, and fill them up with trivia knowledge on the players, clans, levels, and games.
-Rick
Also, they need to show schematic views of the levels. G4/TechTV used to have a video game show, but they would jump right into some game or level I'd never played. So, I had no idea where people were, etc. If there was a schematic view of the level, showing me that UeberCypher1234 was near the red team's flag, that's a lot more interesting than just seeing that he is in some sort of non-descript hallway, with the commentator pointing out that he is by the bioreactor unit. Something like a mini-map in an RTS, but with a full screen explanation and commentary on the map before the game starts.
From the article: "Further, your IT department now has to support two operating systems, which -- given that the majority of IT pros aren't Mac people -- means hiring or training. But let's say you're blessed with a staff that already knows both. You're still faced with two OSs, two sets of problems, and double the headache. Oh, joy..."
Just so we are clear, my IT departmnent supports whatever the fuck I say it supports. Apple releasing some new software doesn't mean I "now have to" support it.
Not that this is a big deal... I have provided at least limited support for things like logging into our Windows Terminal Server for Linux, Irix, Mac OS X, Windows. We also have Novell servers. Seriously, are there "IT Pros" who really only know and deal with a single platform? They probably make more money than me, too.:(
I've been thinking about all the great actors I personally know (I love SOME local theatre) and how they could record some of their skits as mini-TV-shows to broadcast freely online. I've also thought that we could get a few different groups throughout the country to work on similar vignettes, creating interest not just in my local Chicago area.
This would work great for improv performers, I think. Since Chicago is so known for improv, I think that it may be a good place for you to start. With improv, you can always guarantee that next week's show will be completely different. You can also guarantee that you will have material to post online next week.
Even better, improv is more interactive than traditional theater. You can't offer a suggestion when you are watching the recorded version, but you can if you come in and buy a ticket.
Improv troupes are also usually only known locally. I was in Chicago last week, and I saw a few shows at the iO theater. All were a hoot. But, I hadn't ever actually heard of them while living in Denver. Likewise, almost nobody outside of Denver has heard of the improv troupe in which I am a member. Few would really shun the publicity of moving to being a nationaly known group.
But seriously... why, after comparing the two planets, do people focus on Mars? I'm asking an honest question. From my perspective, Mars has so little to work with. Venus has plenty -- too much in fact. But think about it. Humans have proven themselves pretty good at destroying atmospheres. They're not so good at creating them. And in the case of Mars, you need to create an atmosphere. But in the case of Venus, you need to destroy it. Doesn't this make Venus a more natural candidate for human endeavours?
Well, humans are "destroying" their atmosphere by... Adding lots of C02 and other stuff to it. We aren't making our atmosphere disappear. So, we have no useful experience with what would be needed. Second, it's impossible to install any machinery on the surface of Venus to try to make carbon rocks out of the atmosphere, or otherwise store it away. So, you'd need to have giant floating "gas mines" which launch the atmosphere of Venus into space. 90 of Earth's atmosphere's worth. Think of a plan to launch the entirety of Earth atmosphere somplace else. Without touching the ground. 90 Times! IF you can't think of a good plan, don't worry -- nobody else has managed to either.
As for Mars, it has a shitload of C02 and water frozen at the poles. If we can heat the planet up enough, that will all go into the atmosphere, doing most of the work for us. Also, lots of carbon stored in rock on mars which could outgas once the poles are in the atmosphere, which would do most of the remaining work fo us. So, Mars really just needs a good kick start. The lower gravity also makes it easier to have a space faring civilisation there, and you have easy access to the asteroids.
Also, I'm not sure how hot Venus would be with 1 atmosphere of pressure. Quite a bit hotter than earth. You'd probably need to make it mostly 02, with a lower total pressure than one atmosphere, in order to be breathable, and at a livable temperature. Depending on how much O2 you would have to be both livably cool, and breathable for humans, you may run into problems growing plants, and whatnot.
This is the first mention of noscript I've run across in this discussion. IMHO, it is the very first thing that needs to be installed. It will block plugins, like flash automatically, and disable javascript by default. Then, if you actually want to use you can turn it on temporarily for the session, or whitelist the particular site permanently. It should certainly be moved into the core ASAP.
Even my dad can work it. It was easy to explain. "If a site looks really funny, you probably need to tell the computer to trust that site. Click 'temporarily allow...' and the site will probably work fine then. Only do it if you think the site isn't working fully, and you are sure you trust it." I haven't had to clean up any spyware on my dad's computer, I haven't heard him complaining about popups, or annoying flash ads, or anything since I installed it. It's great!
Most important firefox extension ever. Everybody who uses the internet owes the author a beer!
Boy, was it great to see our result presented on Thursday. Though I'm a little disappointed that the story here didn't link to, say, our press release or even to the Fermilab or MINOS experiment home pages. I joined the experiment in 1995 soon after the collaboration came together and created the proposal. In that time I've written simulation ("Monte Carlo"), reconstruction and framework code for the experiment. It's been a pretty exciting 10 years. The push to get everything together this last month has been exhausting. But after presenting the results on Thursday do we physicists take a well deserved break and party like 1999? Well, noooo. We spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday IN MEETINGS! Today (Saturday) we were there from 8:30am to 7:00pm discussing how further to proceed. We've got 50% more data "in the can" that we didn't yet present (cross checks to perform, fits to perform). Plus plans for more data taking after the accelerator comes up again in June. Plus other physics results we're still trying to extract. Plus more improved simulations to do in order to yield improved limits. Such is the life of a physicist.
Is there anything for a very interested layperson to see at FermiLab? I am in Chicago this week visiting family, but from what I remember of my visits years ago, a lot of what was publicly available was pretty basic there. Do they still do the movie nights? That was always a hoot. It's been years since I was back in this region, so I'd love to poke my head in, if there is anything to see.
I'd love to learn more about the Monte Carlo reconstruction code, etc. But all the exibits I ever see at places like that tend to "teach" that the atom is made up of three types of little styrofoam balls. The electrons orbit the nucleus in perfect circles, etc...
So, any slashdotter exclusive inside tours, or anything?
I think I have slashdot set to display my email address.
"It allows free-of-charge access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Novell SuSE Linux and other open source operating systems like Debian, FreeBSD and OpenVMS."
Last I checked, you could run OpenVMS for free under a hobbyist license, but it wasn't anywhere close to being open source. Did I miss something?
The only thing you missed is the strange brain fever that apparently effects the submitter and "editors."
I'd certainly be concerned if I sent a machine out into the wild, a 3rd party took a look at it, and now it may not be functioning properly. Diebold may be a little over the top here, but their concern is certainly warranted.
Now... This is $40,000 just to see if the machines are still under warranty. Think about that. Now, I don't deny that it doesn't make sense to have a doublecheck after an unsupervised audit. But, isn't that part of the point of the warranty?
And, as for Witch Doctors and Jinxes... No, the article didn't use those terms. But, Diebold clearly takes the stance that only they are qualified to work with the voodoo in the machines. Anybody else would just break it. If unsupervised access to the voting machines is so bad, why should Diebold get it? IMHO, it should be illegal for the voting machine repair guys to work for the same company as the voting machine salesmen. The salesmen should have to open up the specs so that the government can have whoever they trust double check the machines, rather than relying on the fact that "Only Diebold Is Qualified To Make Unsupervised (Changes | Audits To The Voting Machines."
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Why thank you, I've always prideifieded myself on my worditude.
Well, the coral cache doesn't actually seem to be helping at all. I apparently have a good twelve hours before I have the video to be able to make a torrent out of it. I just cancelled it, hoping to free up a little extra bandwidth so somebody else can finish downloading it quicker to make a torrent out of it. This seems like a very good application of the technology, after all...
Now, you aren't the only one. I think it may turn out to have been a brilliant name for Nintendo. They get a *massive* media blitz covering the name, without having to actually do anything. Very shortly, everybody gets bored of the one or two jokes that are possible in the local language, but has still heard the name a lot. So, because they hard the name so much during the initial name-calling, people just get used to the name.
I do think that parents will still feel a bit silly, when they go into the store to ask for a Wii. But, I'm not sure that silly is bad. You get a Wii, feel a bit silly, and then get some game where purple migit puppy aliens dance in tune to your swinging a remote around or something. You feel a bit silly playing the game, just like you did buying the Wii. So much of the industry is so focused on being uber-Hardcore that a little bit of feeling silly in some key markets may be very good for Nintendo.
That's fine -- make it so that the page says, "I'm no longer looking. If you found this as a result of a search on google or something, looking for a resume, their information is out of date. Hopefully, it will refresh eventually."
Doesn't help at all if the HR department checks from home though!
rm -rf *
Well, you won't have any more problems with the music collection, and you can also be 100% sure that you don't have anything unlicensed!
Actually, my first reaction was iiw.
Sure, there are occasional quirks, such as if a file system is case insensitive, but the program needs to install "Fun.exe" and "fUN.exe". But, how would this mandate needing multiple versions of the program for each file system. The app just uses fopen() and fread() or whatever equivalents. The only software that would ever touch the disk at a level that it would even be aware of the file system would be disk utilities like defraggers and file system checkers. In UNIX and similar OS's, it's not at all unusual to have half a dozen file systems mounted as part of the same hierarchy. In general, the user never notices if / is ext3 and
Well, we have only got a single VPN pool, but this doesn't too radically different from what we have. What do you do in the way of "managing?" That's the part I don't really get. We have a half a dozen or so subnets in the 192.168.96.* to 192.168.135.*. There is a lot of free room in case on of the departments grows radically, so it can get an adjacent block. We don't really need to change very much with any regularity. We have a few dozen devices with static IP's, and that's just because we don't feel like monkeying around with DHCP and DNS so that the printers and whatnot can be accessed by name. Despite having hundreds of machines, we don't have any problems keeping track of our static IP's in a spreadsheet. For what we are doing now, I think we could scale a few thousand machines, with a somewhat larger spreadsheet.
I'm not trying to say that there isn't anything to do that needs management utilities -- I'm genuinely asking, because quite a few people in this thread seem to understand exactly what the poster is asking for. If there is some goodness that makes things better, I'd like to know about it.
It certainly isn't what it should be... But, if you go to properties, and go to the layout tab, then change *both* the horizontal buffer size and the the horizontal window size, it works fine. It's just buried on the third tab of the not-very-obvious properties window -- don't confuse it with the buffer size setting on the first tab, as this is unrelated.
Now, why in the name of god they don't just let you resize it with the mouse like every other Windows window, and every other terminal emulator like kterm/gterm... I have no god damned idea. But, it is there, pointlessly buried. Third tab of the non-obvious properties window, where you have to change two different settings by hand. People keep asking me why I don't prefer Windows. They keep insisting, "Isn't Windows easier to use?" Egad.
A lot of the embedded Linux devices don't have the GNU userspace. Think of something like a Tivo, or fancy Photocopier. These sorts of things may have no use for deploying with the usual userspace command line tools, just the kernel, needed libraries, and the end-user interface (web server software/GUI/whatever)
I see it under two circumstances:
a: They are in the username field, and type their password without noticing right away
b: Some command line utility, where they are passing the password as a command line argument, rather than being prompted for it, i.e.:
ncftp -u ueberleetmastersteve -p fluffybunny7 secretftpserver.dyndns.com
People sometimes do stupid things. Even I do, rarely.
It doesn't work very reliably. All those people who advocated death penalty for script kiddies are coming to realise it was a bad idea. Whenever I try to chat with hot babes with my Ouija board, I just get a flood of SYN SYN SYN. No matter where you go, IRC (Internet Rigor-mortis Chat) is always subject to a DDOS. (Dead Denial Of Service Attack)
Poor Jesus... He died for their SYN floods.
Personally, I feel AMD has been a bit more reasonable with sockets. Pentium 4's have at least 423, 478, 775, and Pentium M has 478 and 480. Socket A lasted a long time, overlapping with Socket 370, IIRC. Since then, we've had 754, 939, and now AM2. (I'm ignoring 940, but also ignoring the Xeon sockets...) Since AM2 isn't actually out yet, that's two sockets that have been released in the same time frame that Intel released five.
Huzzah! I am in the process of getting everything the way I want. Currently, I just have a laptop plugged into the TV, but it'll be migrating to a PC witha remote. All my TV lives on my server. I can watch it from any machine in the house, and I can start torrents downloading just by copying them to the proper directory. My server is constantly running a bit torrent client set to monitor my torrents directory.
A few years ago, if I'd talked about having a server in my home, people would have just boggled, and thought me uncool. Now, when they come over, and see how nifty and easy it is to have access to whatever I want to watch, some of them are asking if I can build similar setups for them.
There really shouldn't be a "target" resolution for your website. If you code nice standard HTML, it should be functional on PDA's and 21" high resolution setups. It should adapt to the user changing font sizes and whatnot without any problems at all.
Well, the OP did say he uninstalled the RealPlayer repeatedly, so I don't think he had a problem finding the one PC. Unfortunately, in some organisations, IT has no teeth. Sometimes we just aren't allowed to really lay down an appropriate level of smack. It sounds like the OP was in such a situation, where he did exactly as much as he had the authority to do.
Also, if you have some legacy apps, you may need to let users run as administrator. We still have about a dozen users that I *really* wish I could easily make non-administrators on their machines, but everything we have done to lock down some of the machines makes some of the crazy flaky apps we need to use to report to the state go nuts. Since it's a state system, we don't have any choice in the app that we use. I've been liking the idea of making a few specialty machines that *only* run that app, with the routers configured to only allow those machines to communicate with the state. Then, they can be standard users on their PC's, and admins on the specialty machines. But, the specialty machines couldn't be used to check email/browse the web, etc., making it less likely they would abuse the admin privileges.
Unfortunately, I have no authority to do it. I have no authority to do most of the locking down that I want to. Admittedly, I'm not as well versed in Windows as I'd like to be, but the issues we have on our network aren't *just* because I'm incompetent.
Also, they need to show schematic views of the levels. G4/TechTV used to have a video game show, but they would jump right into some game or level I'd never played. So, I had no idea where people were, etc. If there was a schematic view of the level, showing me that UeberCypher1234 was near the red team's flag, that's a lot more interesting than just seeing that he is in some sort of non-descript hallway, with the commentator pointing out that he is by the bioreactor unit. Something like a mini-map in an RTS, but with a full screen explanation and commentary on the map before the game starts.
Just so we are clear, my IT departmnent supports whatever the fuck I say it supports. Apple releasing some new software doesn't mean I "now have to" support it.
Not that this is a big deal... I have provided at least limited support for things like logging into our Windows Terminal Server for Linux, Irix, Mac OS X, Windows. We also have Novell servers. Seriously, are there "IT Pros" who really only know and deal with a single platform? They probably make more money than me, too.
This would work great for improv performers, I think. Since Chicago is so known for improv, I think that it may be a good place for you to start. With improv, you can always guarantee that next week's show will be completely different. You can also guarantee that you will have material to post online next week.
Even better, improv is more interactive than traditional theater. You can't offer a suggestion when you are watching the recorded version, but you can if you come in and buy a ticket.
Improv troupes are also usually only known locally. I was in Chicago last week, and I saw a few shows at the iO theater. All were a hoot. But, I hadn't ever actually heard of them while living in Denver. Likewise, almost nobody outside of Denver has heard of the improv troupe in which I am a member. Few would really shun the publicity of moving to being a nationaly known group.
Well, humans are "destroying" their atmosphere by... Adding lots of C02 and other stuff to it. We aren't making our atmosphere disappear. So, we have no useful experience with what would be needed. Second, it's impossible to install any machinery on the surface of Venus to try to make carbon rocks out of the atmosphere, or otherwise store it away. So, you'd need to have giant floating "gas mines" which launch the atmosphere of Venus into space. 90 of Earth's atmosphere's worth. Think of a plan to launch the entirety of Earth atmosphere somplace else. Without touching the ground. 90 Times! IF you can't think of a good plan, don't worry -- nobody else has managed to either.
As for Mars, it has a shitload of C02 and water frozen at the poles. If we can heat the planet up enough, that will all go into the atmosphere, doing most of the work for us. Also, lots of carbon stored in rock on mars which could outgas once the poles are in the atmosphere, which would do most of the remaining work fo us. So, Mars really just needs a good kick start. The lower gravity also makes it easier to have a space faring civilisation there, and you have easy access to the asteroids.
Also, I'm not sure how hot Venus would be with 1 atmosphere of pressure. Quite a bit hotter than earth. You'd probably need to make it mostly 02, with a lower total pressure than one atmosphere, in order to be breathable, and at a livable temperature. Depending on how much O2 you would have to be both livably cool, and breathable for humans, you may run into problems growing plants, and whatnot.
This is the first mention of noscript I've run across in this discussion. IMHO, it is the very first thing that needs to be installed. It will block plugins, like flash automatically, and disable javascript by default. Then, if you actually want to use you can turn it on temporarily for the session, or whitelist the particular site permanently. It should certainly be moved into the core ASAP.
Even my dad can work it. It was easy to explain. "If a site looks really funny, you probably need to tell the computer to trust that site. Click 'temporarily allow...' and the site will probably work fine then. Only do it if you think the site isn't working fully, and you are sure you trust it." I haven't had to clean up any spyware on my dad's computer, I haven't heard him complaining about popups, or annoying flash ads, or anything since I installed it. It's great!
Most important firefox extension ever. Everybody who uses the internet owes the author a beer!
That's why it's so secure! You just set the Cat.5 next to the iPod, and *nothing* malicious will get through!
Is there anything for a very interested layperson to see at FermiLab? I am in Chicago this week visiting family, but from what I remember of my visits years ago, a lot of what was publicly available was pretty basic there. Do they still do the movie nights? That was always a hoot. It's been years since I was back in this region, so I'd love to poke my head in, if there is anything to see.
I'd love to learn more about the Monte Carlo reconstruction code, etc. But all the exibits I ever see at places like that tend to "teach" that the atom is made up of three types of little styrofoam balls. The electrons orbit the nucleus in perfect circles, etc...
So, any slashdotter exclusive inside tours, or anything?
I think I have slashdot set to display my email address.
The only thing you missed is the strange brain fever that apparently effects the submitter and "editors."
Now... This is $40,000 just to see if the machines are still under warranty. Think about that. Now, I don't deny that it doesn't make sense to have a doublecheck after an unsupervised audit. But, isn't that part of the point of the warranty?
And, as for Witch Doctors and Jinxes... No, the article didn't use those terms. But, Diebold clearly takes the stance that only they are qualified to work with the voodoo in the machines. Anybody else would just break it. If unsupervised access to the voting machines is so bad, why should Diebold get it? IMHO, it should be illegal for the voting machine repair guys to work for the same company as the voting machine salesmen. The salesmen should have to open up the specs so that the government can have whoever they trust double check the machines, rather than relying on the fact that "Only Diebold Is Qualified To Make Unsupervised (Changes | Audits To The Voting Machines."