I had to look at a calendar to figure out what the summary meant by "holiday weekend." It's hard to believe Columbus Day is still recognized by anyone after the fourth grade. 1492, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria -- that's it. That's his entire legacy.
Really, the guy was a world-class failure. I mean if he had done his job right, these sentences would be in Italian. Even the guy who came after him managed to get the continents named for himself. Now, all he has is Columbia, and even they speak Spanish!
Not quite. Vaccinations are mandatory in several situations. Some jurisdictions require them for public health workers, police and first responders, etc. And I think almost all schools require them.
Here's a good stupid story about required vaccinations. Last winter I had an academic hold placed on my record because I never bothered to provide evidence of a measles vaccination. Apparently being enrolled in an online-only program, and not being within a thousand miles of the campus in 40 years doesn't mean I'm not a terrible threat.
A bad GUI with no CLI is the worst of both worlds, the author of the article got that right.
And it's screamingly obvious to anyone whose had to administer a Windows system.
What's making it worse is that with the whole no-CLI is the dawning of the age of powershell. Yes, otherwise rational people think that screen-scraping is the technology of the future for automating Windows administration tasks.* They at least recognize the lack of CLI as a crippling handicap, but don't get the whole concept of "screen scraping is about the worst (brittle, least maintainable) approach to interfacing two systems, ever."
Terror is an emotion that someone feels when they believe they are about to lose their life or the life of a loved one due to an external cause over which they have no control. The whole definition is important, not just the "have no control" part. Note that it doesn't exclude non-criminal acts, and does not require the external cause to be anonymous or even a person. You can feel terror hanging over a cliff.
Note that making a router's WAN light blink incessantly would not qualify on several levels.
If a TV figure or politician abuses the word "terror" to mean something as mundane as "an unidentified person broke the law", you can take it as a certainty that they are lying to you about terrorists, they are probably lying about a great many other things, and that they no longer deserve your respect or attention. Yes, this includes every talking head on Fox, over half of Congress, and the past two presidents.
The enrichment plant is the building (or buildings) that contains the centrifuges, and the centrifuges are the devices located in the plant that they use to enrich the uranium. Yes, I seriously think that if stuxnet causes a coordinated series of centrifuges to fail, that the plant where they enrich the uranium will be seriously damaged by the release of uranium hexafluoride and it will be very difficult to contain and clean up.
I know some Iranians, and one used to be in my family. We talked. He certainly wasn't a crazy, and simply wished he could go back home to visit his family. He fled during the revolution (instead of "serving" the aforementioned corrupt and/or crazy people) and could not risk going back, but he certainly stayed in touch.
But nice ad hominem attack -- "if you're not Iranian, you can only be ignorant." When you wrote this, did you have some kind of point, or are you just yet another bigot who doesn't like having his world-view of "crazy Iranians" challenged?
It certainly makes it hard to chant "nuke 'em till they glow!" along with Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck if you realize there are actual normal people living there. At least I hope you have enough humanity that it makes it harder for you.
A catastrophic meltdown benefits nobody. It wouldn't be sufficient to wipe out all of Iran's military capabilities and it would likely cause them to reflexively strike Israel. Not good.
It would destroy their plant, their centrifuges, and their current ability to enrich uranium, and would give them a giant, expensive mess to clean up. They know if their plant were to be destroyed they would be seen internationally as stupid buffoons incapable of safely executing nuclear tasks, when their goal is to be seen as a mature modern nuclear power who should be taken seriously.
A meltdown would likely cost them ten years to recover from, and the current regime may be too fragile to survive it.
Iran is not a completely crazy country. Sure, the leadership is run by corrupt figures who use religious zealotry to organize the poor in order to remain in power, but that's no different than many Western countries. But many Iranians are middle class kinds of people, not the raving lunatics who want to nuke the rest of the world like they portray on TV. It's certainly possible that if the current leaders were to stumble on the national stage that the poor might see them for who they are, and violently remove them from power.
I even clicked on one of their projects, and it seemed ordinary enough.
I'm wondering now if perhaps they completely lifted the content from another site. That'd be one way to not worry about the language differences, and to provide a realistic front.
If I cared more, I'd google around looking for duplicates.
Oddly enough, xmarks does allow backing up to a custom server. I haven't used their official server in a couple of years, because I don't really want them harvesting my bookmarks, nor do I want them examining all my google search results.
I mean it's a neat concept and all, if you like that whole "sharing with a couple million people" thing. I'm just not that guy.
But they can use the "power outages" excuse to justify the cost, and possibly even fund the effort. Saving birds from extinction has popular appeal but doesn't have a "return on investment" in the classic economic sense, so it takes much more effort to fund it (volunteers, donations, conservation groups, scientific studies, etc.) But presenting it to the executives as "we'll solve your four million dollar snake problem for only a few thousand dollars" is a no-brainer.
And yes, I know this is being done by the U.S. Government, and they love nothing better than spending my money, but if the line item in the budget says "($3,900,000), savings due to spending $100,000 to kill snakes causing $4,000,000 in annual damage" then some senator will no doubt claim wins to both parties: "I'm prudent, I saved $3.9 million dollars" and "I'm green, I helped save six endangered species."
To me it looks pretty much like a lot of legitimate web sites. Vague sales pitches, trying to hook customers to buyers, but nothing was screaming "shady" out loud at me, anyway. And their English is good. How did you discover they are money mules? Did you contact them and that's when you learned what the deal was?
So what you're implying is the ideal system would then have control on a private network, but monitoring on a less secure network that could safely interconnect to the public Internet. Not a bad idea for a limited number of systems.
But then you start talking about "what goes where?" Is VoIP a critical secure system? Well, if the phone rings and a voice says "It's Charlie in fire control, shut down the generators now!" you sure want to be able to trust it's not Victor in Estonia coming in over Skype. But if the phones are only on the secure side, how do you call the FBI to report a problem?
So it sounds like a simple solution, but like with anything in security there are a metric ton of problems with even the simplest of ideas.
It's just diplomatic-standard saber-rattling. Someone's just reminding the other side that "we are not to be ignored." In a few weeks sales will return and businesses will make profits again.
China made their point, and they did it without "testing missiles". I'd say this might turn out to be better than ordinary saber rattling, as only one pawn is getting hurt, and nobody's talking about escalating it further.
Why is it more reasonable? - It has exactly the same amount of evidence going for it as young Earth creationists have for their blind faith. The only reasonable answer to the question is "I don't know".
No, because there's so much scientific evidence that says the young Earth creationists are wrong that they're as ignored as the perpetual motion idiots. It's much harder to say that the big bang was or wasn't divinely directed, because we don't have enough evidence yet to prove that it exploded one way or another, let alone if it followed divine guidance.
The nice thing about a "directed big bang" theory is that the rational people can easily accept that everything else now happens according to natural rules discovered by the scientific method. They aren't wasting their lives pointlessly defending the talking fox from a ancient copy of "Aesop's Fables" as some kind of literal truth, but understand the stories in their book to be allegories.
Rational religious people don't claim that their book was ever perfect (since it was written and transcribed by men) so they can ignore the obviously incorrect literal statements of the stories and focus instead on their meanings.
But the fundamentalists are all afraid because their preachers told them that Jesus personally typeset every single comma between the English words in King James' Bible, and that it's absolute perfect truth. And if someone were to find a misplaced comma, their entire belief system would collapse because Jesus was perfect and couldn't make a mistake (never mind the part where their book says he's human.) So they need to make ever more outrageous claims (Intelligent Design, or Geocentrism, or whatever) to support the previous preachers' lies.
Lies which were originally told because these preachers found control value in the stories about the woman must obey the man, man shall not lie with another man, you should throw rocks at black Arabs with your left hand, or whatever offensive, undefendable, racist piece of bigotry or homophobia they're trying to spew on Sunday mornings.
Because the preachers know that nothing fills more seats with rich old racists than justifying their racism by calling it "the way things used to be" or "the good old days."
If they were to ever stop fighting reality and accept that their foundational creation story is fiction meant to fill a gap in their understanding, then the different preachers would have to admit that many of the other stories were fiction, and they're afraid that would collapse their entire belief structure. "Oops, I guess we lied to you about 17% of this book. Trust me on the other 83%, OK? And send me another million dollars or Jesus will send terrorists to kill me."
Ultimately, the religious people really don't want anything to do with hard evidence. They want their people to have to take it all on faith. That way, God is whatever they believe it is, and nobody can ever prove them wrong.
I recently read that the era of pulse dialing is drawing to a close. Maintaining the circuitry required to detect it for the handful of aging subscribers who still have pulse dial phones is simply not cost effective. I haven't heard anything about if they're planning on maintaining the same level of current required to drive a mechanical bell, or if they'll be cutting that as well.
However, if you want to keep the old phone around, you could buy a Rotatone. It would add * and # to your dial, so you could still use the pulse phone if you hit a touch tone menu. It also provides some speed dial memory as well as last number redial. It'll keep that old WECO gear alive for a long, long time.
I'll only use a self checkout if I don't have to wait behind another customer. Most people are way too technologically incompetent to scan their own merchandise.
Watch the slow ones some time. They don't understand the scanner has to see those little stripes. They'll bounce the product up and down on the scanner as if that's the magic action required to get it to cooperate. Or they'll wave it back and forth and back and forth like it's a mystical ritual. They'll never try anything that might actually help, like locating the barcode, or changing the orientation, or smoothing the wrinkles from the wrapper.
A cashier is almost always faster than a random human.
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To consider him a "world-class failure" is a laughable oversimplification of the facts.
Good, so you laughed. That was the entire frakkin' point.
Poking annoyingly sharp objects in the historians' sides was just a bonus.
I had to look at a calendar to figure out what the summary meant by "holiday weekend." It's hard to believe Columbus Day is still recognized by anyone after the fourth grade. 1492, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria -- that's it. That's his entire legacy.
Really, the guy was a world-class failure. I mean if he had done his job right, these sentences would be in Italian. Even the guy who came after him managed to get the continents named for himself. Now, all he has is Columbia, and even they speak Spanish!
Not quite. Vaccinations are mandatory in several situations. Some jurisdictions require them for public health workers, police and first responders, etc. And I think almost all schools require them.
Here's a good stupid story about required vaccinations. Last winter I had an academic hold placed on my record because I never bothered to provide evidence of a measles vaccination. Apparently being enrolled in an online-only program, and not being within a thousand miles of the campus in 40 years doesn't mean I'm not a terrible threat.
I have a cheaper implementation. Just set the evil bit upon boot up, then clear it once the PC passes a health check. And it's even IPv4 compatible!
A bad GUI with no CLI is the worst of both worlds, the author of the article got that right.
And it's screamingly obvious to anyone whose had to administer a Windows system.
What's making it worse is that with the whole no-CLI is the dawning of the age of powershell. Yes, otherwise rational people think that screen-scraping is the technology of the future for automating Windows administration tasks.* They at least recognize the lack of CLI as a crippling handicap, but don't get the whole concept of "screen scraping is about the worst (brittle, least maintainable) approach to interfacing two systems, ever."
John
*for sufficiently weak definitions of 'rational'
Terror is an emotion that someone feels when they believe they are about to lose their life or the life of a loved one due to an external cause over which they have no control. The whole definition is important, not just the "have no control" part. Note that it doesn't exclude non-criminal acts, and does not require the external cause to be anonymous or even a person. You can feel terror hanging over a cliff.
Note that making a router's WAN light blink incessantly would not qualify on several levels.
If a TV figure or politician abuses the word "terror" to mean something as mundane as "an unidentified person broke the law", you can take it as a certainty that they are lying to you about terrorists, they are probably lying about a great many other things, and that they no longer deserve your respect or attention. Yes, this includes every talking head on Fox, over half of Congress, and the past two presidents.
"Did you know that inflammable and flammable mean the same thing? Boy, that was a painful lesson."
-- Woody, Cheers
I never said "reactor". I said "plant".
The enrichment plant is the building (or buildings) that contains the centrifuges, and the centrifuges are the devices located in the plant that they use to enrich the uranium. Yes, I seriously think that if stuxnet causes a coordinated series of centrifuges to fail, that the plant where they enrich the uranium will be seriously damaged by the release of uranium hexafluoride and it will be very difficult to contain and clean up.
I know some Iranians, and one used to be in my family. We talked. He certainly wasn't a crazy, and simply wished he could go back home to visit his family. He fled during the revolution (instead of "serving" the aforementioned corrupt and/or crazy people) and could not risk going back, but he certainly stayed in touch.
But nice ad hominem attack -- "if you're not Iranian, you can only be ignorant." When you wrote this, did you have some kind of point, or are you just yet another bigot who doesn't like having his world-view of "crazy Iranians" challenged?
It certainly makes it hard to chant "nuke 'em till they glow!" along with Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck if you realize there are actual normal people living there. At least I hope you have enough humanity that it makes it harder for you.
A catastrophic meltdown benefits nobody. It wouldn't be sufficient to wipe out all of Iran's military capabilities and it would likely cause them to reflexively strike Israel. Not good.
It would destroy their plant, their centrifuges, and their current ability to enrich uranium, and would give them a giant, expensive mess to clean up. They know if their plant were to be destroyed they would be seen internationally as stupid buffoons incapable of safely executing nuclear tasks, when their goal is to be seen as a mature modern nuclear power who should be taken seriously.
A meltdown would likely cost them ten years to recover from, and the current regime may be too fragile to survive it.
Iran is not a completely crazy country. Sure, the leadership is run by corrupt figures who use religious zealotry to organize the poor in order to remain in power, but that's no different than many Western countries. But many Iranians are middle class kinds of people, not the raving lunatics who want to nuke the rest of the world like they portray on TV. It's certainly possible that if the current leaders were to stumble on the national stage that the poor might see them for who they are, and violently remove them from power.
I even clicked on one of their projects, and it seemed ordinary enough.
I'm wondering now if perhaps they completely lifted the content from another site. That'd be one way to not worry about the language differences, and to provide a realistic front.
If I cared more, I'd google around looking for duplicates.
IANAL, but I'd guess that's a pretty good indication that they're trying to lure in money mules.
Oddly enough, xmarks does allow backing up to a custom server. I haven't used their official server in a couple of years, because I don't really want them harvesting my bookmarks, nor do I want them examining all my google search results.
I mean it's a neat concept and all, if you like that whole "sharing with a couple million people" thing. I'm just not that guy.
But they can use the "power outages" excuse to justify the cost, and possibly even fund the effort. Saving birds from extinction has popular appeal but doesn't have a "return on investment" in the classic economic sense, so it takes much more effort to fund it (volunteers, donations, conservation groups, scientific studies, etc.) But presenting it to the executives as "we'll solve your four million dollar snake problem for only a few thousand dollars" is a no-brainer.
And yes, I know this is being done by the U.S. Government, and they love nothing better than spending my money, but if the line item in the budget says "($3,900,000), savings due to spending $100,000 to kill snakes causing $4,000,000 in annual damage" then some senator will no doubt claim wins to both parties: "I'm prudent, I saved $3.9 million dollars" and "I'm green, I helped save six endangered species."
To me it looks pretty much like a lot of legitimate web sites. Vague sales pitches, trying to hook customers to buyers, but nothing was screaming "shady" out loud at me, anyway. And their English is good. How did you discover they are money mules? Did you contact them and that's when you learned what the deal was?
Read the whole article - the "solution" is to put in a small forest of very thick umbrellas! No joke, they are not touching the windows at all!
Well, this certainly isn't the first time someone has tried to fix architectural flaws in windows with a patch that's nothing more than a coverup.
, high fructose corn syrup causes etc),
Hey, I'm suffering from stage 4 etc, you insensitive clod!
So what you're implying is the ideal system would then have control on a private network, but monitoring on a less secure network that could safely interconnect to the public Internet. Not a bad idea for a limited number of systems.
But then you start talking about "what goes where?" Is VoIP a critical secure system? Well, if the phone rings and a voice says "It's Charlie in fire control, shut down the generators now!" you sure want to be able to trust it's not Victor in Estonia coming in over Skype. But if the phones are only on the secure side, how do you call the FBI to report a problem?
So it sounds like a simple solution, but like with anything in security there are a metric ton of problems with even the simplest of ideas.
To be fair, the fishing boat rammed the Japanese military boat.
Are you sure you aren't confusing them with the Sea Shepherds? :-)
It's just diplomatic-standard saber-rattling. Someone's just reminding the other side that "we are not to be ignored." In a few weeks sales will return and businesses will make profits again.
China made their point, and they did it without "testing missiles". I'd say this might turn out to be better than ordinary saber rattling, as only one pawn is getting hurt, and nobody's talking about escalating it further.
Why is it more reasonable? - It has exactly the same amount of evidence going for it as young Earth creationists have for their blind faith. The only reasonable answer to the question is "I don't know".
No, because there's so much scientific evidence that says the young Earth creationists are wrong that they're as ignored as the perpetual motion idiots. It's much harder to say that the big bang was or wasn't divinely directed, because we don't have enough evidence yet to prove that it exploded one way or another, let alone if it followed divine guidance.
The nice thing about a "directed big bang" theory is that the rational people can easily accept that everything else now happens according to natural rules discovered by the scientific method. They aren't wasting their lives pointlessly defending the talking fox from a ancient copy of "Aesop's Fables" as some kind of literal truth, but understand the stories in their book to be allegories.
Rational religious people don't claim that their book was ever perfect (since it was written and transcribed by men) so they can ignore the obviously incorrect literal statements of the stories and focus instead on their meanings.
But the fundamentalists are all afraid because their preachers told them that Jesus personally typeset every single comma between the English words in King James' Bible, and that it's absolute perfect truth. And if someone were to find a misplaced comma, their entire belief system would collapse because Jesus was perfect and couldn't make a mistake (never mind the part where their book says he's human.) So they need to make ever more outrageous claims (Intelligent Design, or Geocentrism, or whatever) to support the previous preachers' lies.
Lies which were originally told because these preachers found control value in the stories about the woman must obey the man, man shall not lie with another man, you should throw rocks at black Arabs with your left hand, or whatever offensive, undefendable, racist piece of bigotry or homophobia they're trying to spew on Sunday mornings.
Because the preachers know that nothing fills more seats with rich old racists than justifying their racism by calling it "the way things used to be" or "the good old days."
If they were to ever stop fighting reality and accept that their foundational creation story is fiction meant to fill a gap in their understanding, then the different preachers would have to admit that many of the other stories were fiction, and they're afraid that would collapse their entire belief structure. "Oops, I guess we lied to you about 17% of this book. Trust me on the other 83%, OK? And send me another million dollars or Jesus will send terrorists to kill me."
Ultimately, the religious people really don't want anything to do with hard evidence. They want their people to have to take it all on faith. That way, God is whatever they believe it is, and nobody can ever prove them wrong.
And heavy watering.
Fry: No thanks, I only read slashdot stories with the title of "World's Blankiest Blank."
Network guy: How about "World's Horniest Dinosaur?"
Fry: That'll do.
I recently read that the era of pulse dialing is drawing to a close. Maintaining the circuitry required to detect it for the handful of aging subscribers who still have pulse dial phones is simply not cost effective. I haven't heard anything about if they're planning on maintaining the same level of current required to drive a mechanical bell, or if they'll be cutting that as well.
However, if you want to keep the old phone around, you could buy a Rotatone. It would add * and # to your dial, so you could still use the pulse phone if you hit a touch tone menu. It also provides some speed dial memory as well as last number redial. It'll keep that old WECO gear alive for a long, long time.
I'll only use a self checkout if I don't have to wait behind another customer. Most people are way too technologically incompetent to scan their own merchandise.
Watch the slow ones some time. They don't understand the scanner has to see those little stripes. They'll bounce the product up and down on the scanner as if that's the magic action required to get it to cooperate. Or they'll wave it back and forth and back and forth like it's a mystical ritual. They'll never try anything that might actually help, like locating the barcode, or changing the orientation, or smoothing the wrinkles from the wrapper.
A cashier is almost always faster than a random human.