It's kind of ironic, though -- you complain about how the egg source issue will distract everyone from the study, in response to an article not about the egg issue.
This will be used as a strawman for any of the arguments against them. "OMFG, they used their own eggs, that is teh bad, everyone says so!" Whether or not this "international guideline" is reasonable, of course, is moot. Whether they faked it or not will eventually become moot. The "immoral" aspects of using your own eggs will be blown totally out of proportion to its real impact on the process, its validity, and its methods.
Taco, we know you like Japan, we know you like Tokyo, we know you like Anime, can you NOT connect one of the three to every submission?
simple way to avoid, for consumers at least
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Don't be a content junkie. Do we need constant streams of info, on topics as diverse as the people creating podcasts? Do you have time to sit there and listen to something for hours? Don't you work? Don't you have families? Don't you have girlfriends?
To the podcast creators, its a sneaky thing to do, but seriously, since you're just spewing content into the ether, the actual COST to you is low-to-null.
I log into my online banking site. It downloads (perhaps w/o my permission) and ActiveX component that scans my system. It says I'm ok, so I can log in.
Except what if I have ActiveX disabled? What happens if I use a Mac/Linux/BSD? What happens if my native language isn't English? What happens if I'm not running WinXP2000Plus? What happens if I am running IE version 5.5.0123456 with HotFix 7890?
This sounds like a "hey we need money, and our traditional channels aren't making enough, so lets create a ficticious need, and then offer a solution to it!" move.
Will this be the flaw that breaks the patch cycle's back?
Puh-lease. This ridiculous question could be asked of any flaw. How about from the 'its 5pm lets leave early so we accept any sensationalist submission' department?
I can see how the Slashbot must suffer over this - its Google, but its a security vulnerability, but its Microsoft, so its OK, but its still Google, so what do we do? Laugh, cry, sell stock?
At last the rubber hits the road, and the people charged with actually making this guys dream come true announce that they can't, without a massive infusion of support from the government. Since governments are representative of the general population, this basically boils down to: we need a big fat subsidy, which means: all your taxes are belong to us. But hey, who's going to complain, that extra USD on your tax form is for a good cause right? I mean, its for the children. Are you going to be greedy?
Can we have a topic called "Yes its news, but its only flamebait on Utah republicans, so we're not going to post it, because it lacks any technical merit, and even the most ignorant of Slashdot readers could hack around these restrictions within seconds"? C'mon, do we REALLY need to see this on the front page? Is the next article going to be "Sometimes audio CDs have data on them too!" or "Government wishes it could read everyone's email" ? I'd like to see Slashdot rise up to the "technical news that matters to technical people" instead of "Its on Yahoo! News and its about the Intarweb so we post it"
Wireless technology is great.... when you absolutely need it. Take the Conference Room scenario, whats wrong with a high port density switch under the table, accessible via a central panel? You end up with a 'spiderweb' of Cat5 cables, but with wireless, you still end up with all the power cables. Yes, its useful to avoid snaking a cable from your desk to your bed in your dorm room, but is it a necessity? Or have consumers bought into the "I need my data everywhere" ideal promised by the wireless people (Centrino! Get it, you'll be a hipster Blue Man Group Guy) and the constant bombardment of high speed wireless access ads from the phone company (Verizon)? Back in my day, we had vt100 and 9600 baud, and we ran long serial cables or keyboard extension cables if you needed to be able to compute while wandering around your dorm room or a lab. How much real progress has been made with the WWW and 802.11 ?
This could be a cool magazine, although if their definition of "Enterprise" differs from reality, it will backfire. I hope that they don't write up a bunch of articles on how to scan logs with Perl, or install RedHat's commercial Linux on a Dell server. Please, no "IPTables is just as good as a Checkpoint" or "Squid is better than MS-ISA" kinds of articles. Those decisions are already made, settled, done, bought, and paid for. Lets see articles on how to integrate disparate systems, how the Linux version of Oracle runs better per dollar, etc.
EXACTLY my point. I'm glad you brought this up too. If you have an app that needs these sorts of response characteristics, you WONT GET THEM FROM AN OS THAT DOESN'T DO THINGS THIS WAY. No amount of CPU power on a different type of system will give you the responsiveness you need.
Leaving abstractions aside, of course the choice of Windows or *nix matters. Because of Windows' layout and the way that certain applications are built into it (IE, Windows Help, etc) there are reliability issues that cause many more maintenance-related reboots than on Unix. When was the last time you rebooted a Linux machine because the Help system in KDE needed updating?
Also, there are certain OS-specific things which usually cannot be solved in hardware (assuming you're running on the best you can afford). Need an FS that handles massive sparse files correctly? Maybe that means you need Reiser on Linux, or ZFS on Sun... (I have no idea if this is true). Maybe Windows just CANT do this well, regardless of CPU power. Do you need to hot-swap NICs, CPUs, and add/remove memory and CPU power on the fly? You probably have to go to AIX then. Didn't we just read an article about how Windows takes 5x the number of CPU cycles to start a process?
If you consider the OS tightly coupled to the app, or the app requires specific capabilities from its OS, then app concerns will dictate the OS.
Hackers are likely to release more than 6000 keylogging programs this year.
They're also likely to release more than 6,000,000 keylogging programs this year. They're also likely to release more than 1 keylogging program this year.
What a stupid statement. oh wait, its from a vaporous, dot-bombish, DC-metro "computer security" company looking for page hits, blogs, and "press release" publicity on Yahoo! Finance.
Since you're going to make a fairly large paradigm shift anyway, why not go all the way and centrally host it? Running it over your favorite remote protocol might work fine, it wont bloat or slow down the clients, you can insta-upgrade people to new versions, and the roaming profile requirement evaporates. If people save to some network share, and their PCs can access that, then there's no problem. Map some printers back to local clients (depends on how you do the remote session, might be LPD, share, or LPT redirect), and people might not ever know they're NOT on the local machine.
If it is assumed that the UN is to govern the Internet, then Mr Khan does indeed have a significant job, and the committee that he chairs has significant decisions to make. If it is NOT assumed that the UN must govern the Internet, then Mr Khan's opinion matters as much as the next AC.
Re:look at past pandemics though
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Let me get this straight. You're plotting a curve on three data points, and not prefacing your remarks as idle speculation.
Um, if you're at a "well-known university in the US", then I'm sure your campus IT and Admin departments have some interesting setups. Try getting log data from the on-line registration system, during the register/add/drop period at the beginning of a semester - plenty of traffic and data moving around.
+0, Obvious?
Christ, what do they teach in schools these days?
look at past pandemics though
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From wikipedia:
* 1918-20 - Spanish Flu, 500 million ill, 50 to 100 million died (pandemic)
* 1957-58 - Asian Flu, 1 to 1.5 million died (epidemic)
* 1969-69 - Hong Kong Flu, 3/4 to 1 million died (epidemic)
If you do the math, its almost a purely exponential decay. Why? Either random,mutant flus are getting weaker, or medicing is getting better. Yes, its a tragedy when people die from this. Yes, its a tragedy, most of all, if I die from this. Will it sweep the planet, leaving Randall Flagg owning the world? No. (Yes, I know the 2 later flus were not pandemics, but the point illustrates medicine's ability to react to the virus)
s/overseas tourism/foreign investment/g s/wetland destruction/creation of arable land/g s/corporate 'Livestock Revolution'/selective breeding/g s/Third World urbanization/Save The Children/g
Interesting how the article has a totally different meaning if a few select substitutions are made. Where's the article on the billions of people who have NOT died in places like Bangladesh due to the above?
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It's kind of ironic, though -- you complain about how the egg source issue will distract everyone from the study, in response to an article not about the egg issue.
You read the article?!??
This will be used as a strawman for any of the arguments against them. "OMFG, they used their own eggs, that is teh bad, everyone says so!" Whether or not this "international guideline" is reasonable, of course, is moot. Whether they faked it or not will eventually become moot. The "immoral" aspects of using your own eggs will be blown totally out of proportion to its real impact on the process, its validity, and its methods.
Taco, we know you like Japan, we know you like Tokyo, we know you like Anime, can you NOT connect one of the three to every submission?
Don't be a content junkie. Do we need constant streams of info, on topics as diverse as the people creating podcasts? Do you have time to sit there and listen to something for hours? Don't you work? Don't you have families? Don't you have girlfriends?
To the podcast creators, its a sneaky thing to do, but seriously, since you're just spewing content into the ether, the actual COST to you is low-to-null.
So lets get this straight:
I log into my online banking site.
It downloads (perhaps w/o my permission) and ActiveX component that scans my system.
It says I'm ok, so I can log in.
Except what if I have ActiveX disabled?
What happens if I use a Mac/Linux/BSD?
What happens if my native language isn't English?
What happens if I'm not running WinXP2000Plus?
What happens if I am running IE version 5.5.0123456 with HotFix 7890?
This sounds like a "hey we need money, and our traditional channels aren't making enough, so lets create a ficticious need, and then offer a solution to it!" move.
You cheese-eating surrender monkey!
Will this be the flaw that breaks the patch cycle's back?
Puh-lease. This ridiculous question could be asked of any flaw. How about from the 'its 5pm lets leave early so we accept any sensationalist submission' department?
I can see how the Slashbot must suffer over this - its Google, but its a security vulnerability, but its Microsoft, so its OK, but its still Google, so what do we do? Laugh, cry, sell stock?
I live in the US, so I refer to money as USD. Sue me, troll.
With all their wizardry, maybe they could use it to find posts like this one from 2 days ago!
At last the rubber hits the road, and the people charged with actually making this guys dream come true announce that they can't, without a massive infusion of support from the government. Since governments are representative of the general population, this basically boils down to: we need a big fat subsidy, which means: all your taxes are belong to us.
But hey, who's going to complain, that extra USD on your tax form is for a good cause right? I mean, its for the children. Are you going to be greedy?
Can we have a topic called "Yes its news, but its only flamebait on Utah republicans, so we're not going to post it, because it lacks any technical merit, and even the most ignorant of Slashdot readers could hack around these restrictions within seconds"?
C'mon, do we REALLY need to see this on the front page? Is the next article going to be "Sometimes audio CDs have data on them too!" or "Government wishes it could read everyone's email" ?
I'd like to see Slashdot rise up to the "technical news that matters to technical people" instead of "Its on Yahoo! News and its about the Intarweb so we post it"
Wireless technology is great.... when you absolutely need it. Take the Conference Room scenario, whats wrong with a high port density switch under the table, accessible via a central panel? You end up with a 'spiderweb' of Cat5 cables, but with wireless, you still end up with all the power cables.
Yes, its useful to avoid snaking a cable from your desk to your bed in your dorm room, but is it a necessity?
Or have consumers bought into the "I need my data everywhere" ideal promised by the wireless people (Centrino! Get it, you'll be a hipster Blue Man Group Guy) and the constant bombardment of high speed wireless access ads from the phone company (Verizon)?
Back in my day, we had vt100 and 9600 baud, and we ran long serial cables or keyboard extension cables if you needed to be able to compute while wandering around your dorm room or a lab. How much real progress has been made with the WWW and 802.11 ?
Come on folks, I'm only getting 2K/sec download.
This could be a cool magazine, although if their definition of "Enterprise" differs from reality, it will backfire. I hope that they don't write up a bunch of articles on how to scan logs with Perl, or install RedHat's commercial Linux on a Dell server. Please, no "IPTables is just as good as a Checkpoint" or "Squid is better than MS-ISA" kinds of articles. Those decisions are already made, settled, done, bought, and paid for.
Lets see articles on how to integrate disparate systems, how the Linux version of Oracle runs better per dollar, etc.
Why troll? Announcing something as sarcasm doesn't make it NOT sarcastic.
EXACTLY my point. I'm glad you brought this up too. If you have an app that needs these sorts of response characteristics, you WONT GET THEM FROM AN OS THAT DOESN'T DO THINGS THIS WAY. No amount of CPU power on a different type of system will give you the responsiveness you need.
Leaving abstractions aside, of course the choice of Windows or *nix matters. Because of Windows' layout and the way that certain applications are built into it (IE, Windows Help, etc) there are reliability issues that cause many more maintenance-related reboots than on Unix. When was the last time you rebooted a Linux machine because the Help system in KDE needed updating?
Also, there are certain OS-specific things which usually cannot be solved in hardware (assuming you're running on the best you can afford). Need an FS that handles massive sparse files correctly? Maybe that means you need Reiser on Linux, or ZFS on Sun... (I have no idea if this is true). Maybe Windows just CANT do this well, regardless of CPU power. Do you need to hot-swap NICs, CPUs, and add/remove memory and CPU power on the fly? You probably have to go to AIX then. Didn't we just read an article about how Windows takes 5x the number of CPU cycles to start a process?
If you consider the OS tightly coupled to the app, or the app requires specific capabilities from its OS, then app concerns will dictate the OS.
Hackers are likely to release more than 6000 keylogging programs this year.
They're also likely to release more than 6,000,000 keylogging programs this year. They're also likely to release more than 1 keylogging program this year.
What a stupid statement. oh wait, its from a vaporous, dot-bombish, DC-metro "computer security" company looking for page hits, blogs, and "press release" publicity on Yahoo! Finance.
Since you're going to make a fairly large paradigm shift anyway, why not go all the way and centrally host it? Running it over your favorite remote protocol might work fine, it wont bloat or slow down the clients, you can insta-upgrade people to new versions, and the roaming profile requirement evaporates.
If people save to some network share, and their PCs can access that, then there's no problem. Map some printers back to local clients (depends on how you do the remote session, might be LPD, share, or LPT redirect), and people might not ever know they're NOT on the local machine.
was this so hard?
If it is assumed that the UN is to govern the Internet, then Mr Khan does indeed have a significant job, and the committee that he chairs has significant decisions to make.
If it is NOT assumed that the UN must govern the Internet, then Mr Khan's opinion matters as much as the next AC.
Let me get this straight. You're plotting a curve on three data points, and not prefacing your remarks as idle speculation.
You must be new here.
Um, if you're at a "well-known university in the US", then I'm sure your campus IT and Admin departments have some interesting setups. Try getting log data from the on-line registration system, during the register/add/drop period at the beginning of a semester - plenty of traffic and data moving around.
+0, Obvious?
Christ, what do they teach in schools these days?
From wikipedia:
* 1918-20 - Spanish Flu, 500 million ill, 50 to 100 million died (pandemic)
* 1957-58 - Asian Flu, 1 to 1.5 million died (epidemic)
* 1969-69 - Hong Kong Flu, 3/4 to 1 million died (epidemic)
If you do the math, its almost a purely exponential decay. Why? Either random,mutant flus are getting weaker, or medicing is getting better. Yes, its a tragedy when people die from this. Yes, its a tragedy, most of all, if I die from this. Will it sweep the planet, leaving Randall Flagg owning the world? No.
(Yes, I know the 2 later flus were not pandemics, but the point illustrates medicine's ability to react to the virus)
s/overseas tourism/foreign investment/g
s/wetland destruction/creation of arable land/g
s/corporate 'Livestock Revolution'/selective breeding/g
s/Third World urbanization/Save The Children/g
Interesting how the article has a totally different meaning if a few select substitutions are made. Where's the article on the billions of people who have NOT died in places like Bangladesh due to the above?