Human beings actually needs a certain level of radioactivity exposure to keep their immune and self-repair systems working and "activated". We evolved in an environment exposed to roughly 0.5 REM per year at sea level, and humans who have spent significant amounts of time in very low radiation environments actually have a bad time of it.
So, yeah, maybe the aliens evolved a few light years from a really angry pulsar or something.
maybe my memory is wrong, but considering that the moon is tidally locked with the earth (i.e., it "rotates" at the exact same speed it orbits the earth), the same side of the moon always faces earth, so WAY more than "2 lunar points" have effecitive 24/7 los to the earth. A whole hempisphere does.
Although, I suppose a hemisphere appears to be point from a far enough distance away.
I still don't understand why we're building a new heavy lifter when we have a heavy lifter we've spent several billion already over the past 6 years. How close was Ares V to being done? was it really THAT mismanaged that it's cheaper and more efficient to start from scratch?
Look, I WANT linux to be the best, I'm rooting for it to be the best, but considering I work a job where I solve other people's computer problems for 8-9 hours a day, I don't want to come home to spend my evening trying to fix my own because update manager pulled down a new version of wine or video driver or something.
Yes yes, I know, OSX is probably what I'm really looking for, and I'd be happy to try it if there wasn't a 100% markup on the hardware involved.
I am fully aware that the OS is in beta, but I seriously doubt that they're going to switch the Nvidia GLX version included with the OS within the next 2 weeks, it's damn close to feature lock, if it isn't there already. It's the version included with the OS that's the problem, and removing the included nvidia blob to use one from their website has been a problem at least back to 8.04 (as far back as I cared to check). 2 more weeks isn't going to fix that issue.
To the best of my knowledge, gstreamer0.10 is the same version that's in 9.10 (don't remember which version I used in 9.04). We're not dealing with cutting-edge stuff there either. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Totem version in 10.04 is only a minor revision over 9.10 as well. I'll be quite happy if an update manager run gets rid of that problem as well, but again I doubt it. more than likely there's still some other package I need to install and I have no idea what it could possibly be.
I don't know what's up with the fstab issue. that one may very well be a bug, but I can't understand how I'm the first person to notice it.
My point was not that "beta os is buggy". my point is "In many (if not most) cases, linux workflows are significantly more difficult, time intensive, and frustrating than similar windows workflowson all but the absolute best case scenarios".
I'm not a fanboy of either operating system. I'm looking for the best fit for me, and both of them have issues I dislike. I'm quite capible of overcoming Linux problems, I just don't see why I should have to spend that much time doing so.
Yesterday I reformatted my HD after installing an Nvidia GTX 470. I put win7 on one partition, and ubuntu 10.04 beta2 on the other.
I spent several hours last night fighting with 10.04 because it didn't like that I had a video card released only a week before the OS. I had to download 1 day old drivers from nvidia's site, and install those from command prompt with X shut down... ok that's a bit of a hassle, but whatever. Of course, OS didn't like that, it refused to let me stop the GDM service half the time, finally forced me to do it fully from command line. upon reboot, the x config file was somehow botched, and I had to recreate it a few times before I got it right. this wouldn't have been so bad if the first update manager run didn't immediately break the drivers -again-, forcing me to redownload it and reinstall it -again-. Windows 7? I went to nvidia's site, hit download. hit run. rebooted. I'm golden.
Additionally, apparently despite documentation otherwise, "Auto" is not the default mount option on fstab mounts for cifs/samba shares, and it took me awhile to figure that out, wondering why mount -a would bring in my windows file server shares, but reboots wouldn't. I thought it must be UID or GID codes put in wrong, or credentials or something like that. Finally figured out it was just them changing defaults to the opposite of what they used to be. Windows 7? I clicked "map network drive", put in the network address, hit ok. That's it.
finally, on top of all that, I don't have sound on movie files using AAC streams, despite the fact that I had such functionality with the same program in my year-old copy of the same OS. I've installed both gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, faac, and faad and still nothing.
I'm hardly about to say that windows 7 is problem free, but linux is quite far from "Just works" for me. I don't -want- to switch back to windows as my "daily driver" OS, but linux isn't exactly making a good case for itself here.
I'm just assuming that my previous post is the standard line of thinking of most of these people. if they can't see a big banner saying "you've been rootkitted. your computer's botnet name is '17004-G81', just so you know" on their desktop, then they don't care I guess.
windows and it's virus propensitiy is pretty much the only reason I'm still running linux as my desktop OS at this point. In pure useability, windows 7 wins, much as I hate to say it.
no! I need the newest microsoft patch so that there are not any new security holes in my computer! I'll deal with that huge gaping sucking chasm of a security hole that's already there, created by the rootkit, at some later date.
Why do UFOs always show up in front of some hick in south dakota or kentucky? why don't the aliens ever land on the mall in DC or on top of the Effiel tower? Hell, I'd be convinced if they just landed on a pyramid like in stargate.
I think the closest thing to the above I've ever seen actual footage of was some weird lights above mexico city or something of the sort. Weird lights? I'm sure it was probably just the US and Soviets playing games or something of the sort. I'm not convinced.
I was under the impression that the -vast- majority of compromised passwords were due to either social engineering (Hey, this is "Bill from IT", I need your password to fix that "performance issue" you're having) or sheer neglect on the part of the the user (password on a post-it on the monitor). Am I mistaken?
A 150 MB tv show only takes 1/2 hour over a 1 Mbit/s economy line. I think I can wait that long, rather than pay the Cox/Comcast/Time-Warner company ~$60 each month. - Or I could watch it in realtime through one of the abc.com, nbc.com, et cetera websites.
I'm not saying I'm thrilled at paying comcast $64 a month, but last time I looked into DSL (about a year and a half or two years ago) they didn't have anything like $15 a month. it was more like $35 or $40, for 1/10th the bandwidth I got from cable.
And no, I'm not exagerating. 1. I'm a quality whore, and if I can get it in 720p or 1080p, I will. I stream it to my HDTV via tversity and my ps3. 2. If I'm in the mood to watch a show, I usually grab at -least- an entire season, if not the entire run.
Damn right if I'm grabbing 7 seasons of 24 episodes each in high quality, it can take several hours, and quite often days if there aren't enough seeds (although I submit that in that circumstance, having a faster pipe obviously doesn't help).
Mainly it comes down to impatience. I recognize that you and I consume a similar amount of bandwidth per month, but if I want to watch a given tv show and i go and grab it off of bit-torrent, and get it hours (possibly days) sooner. Then of course, I have to go a day or two (or several days at the end of the month) not grabbing anything of size at all.
I'm lucky that the base package I pay for is so damn high. Because of the bandwidth cap, I'd never pay for any higher. I'm just annoyed that I don't even have the option of getting a higher cap for anything resembling a reasonable price.
Why should my grandma who only needs broadband to get photos that her children send her (they don't know how to resize their 8 megapixel images before sending them), subsidize someone who watches Hulu 30 hours a week, and constantly has bitorrent running in the background?
Because that's the model prescident set by our tax code?
Ok, Ok, let me be fair. If it was -truly- based on our tax code, 47% of the population would get free internet.
That's actually the monster in the closet right there... these companies are happy to sell you larger bandwidth packages, but your monthly cap doesn't go up. Essentially, if you're using your connection to it's fullest, paying more money for a larger bandwidth package just means you get to use your connection less days each month.
I mean, if I really wanted to, I could eat up my entire 250gb comcast cap in 2-3 days, and not have internet for 27 days out of the money (unless I want to shell out more money). Comcast would be happy to sell me a larger bandwidth package that would allow me to hit that bandwidth cap in less than 2 days, at which point I can pay them more money a whole day earlier! what a priviledge!
If your water was sold to you "up to 10,000 gallons a month for only $39.95!" and you sign up for it... then on day #13 someone knocks on your door saying "uh, you've been taking some mighty long showers. we're going to have to charge you extra, even though you havn't come close to your 10,000 gallons yet", you might be pissed.
Now would you like to buy a bigger bandwidth package that we won't let you use? How about switching to FIOS, the best bandwidth in the country outside of a T3... that we still don't want you to use.
Yeah, that's what struck me about this "news" item. anybody who'd bother to use linux as a desktop OS either is technologically inclined enough to change such a simple setting, or is recieving a computer set up but such a person. (here grandma, have a computer).
I guess it's a slow day? Let me know when they fix the new osx-esque window max/min/close config so that if I switch it back over to the right where it should be, the graphics aren't corrupted.
1. Define "improperly"? Were these photos taken using police equipment, or were they taken on the police officer's cell phones?
2. So what? That's the internet. This isn't something new, the internet in it's current incarnation has been around since 1994 or 1995. I'm pretty sure we know how it works by now. Haven't you ever seen the picture of the dude in the stupid outfit with the caption "the internet, once it's out there, it's out there for good"? It surprises you that a grisly image released on the net gets to groups that like that sort of thing?
3. How is that the fault of the people who release the photos? Wouldn't it be the fault of the people who showed the photos to the class? Why are they showing pictures like this to a class of schoolkids anyway? Personal responsibility still exists. As someone else posted, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for what you do with any given tool, not the person who sold/gave you the tool.
4. Yes you do. As long as it's public, which these images were. She didn't crash into a toll booth in her basement or bedroom, or on a test track on private property in Switzerland, or even on some government facility in the mountains. No she did it in public, and neither she nor her family can have any expectation that such things can be kept private.
I fail to see how this is any different from the thousands of people who rubberneck and gawk as they pass an accident on our nation's highways.
If you go out and kill yourself in public, chances are very good people are going to see your dead body. That's what "public" means.
I guess the "problem" here is that it was the police that distributed the photos instead of some hapless bystander who happened to have a cell phone or digital camera? I can understand if they're compromising some homicide investigation... damn right they need to get in deep trouble for that, but if all signs are that you managed to kill yourself in darwinistic fashion (as this appears to be), then your death SHOULD serve as a lesson to the rest of humanity.
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Human beings actually needs a certain level of radioactivity exposure to keep their immune and self-repair systems working and "activated". We evolved in an environment exposed to roughly 0.5 REM per year at sea level, and humans who have spent significant amounts of time in very low radiation environments actually have a bad time of it.
So, yeah, maybe the aliens evolved a few light years from a really angry pulsar or something.
maybe my memory is wrong, but considering that the moon is tidally locked with the earth (i.e., it "rotates" at the exact same speed it orbits the earth), the same side of the moon always faces earth, so WAY more than "2 lunar points" have effecitive 24/7 los to the earth. A whole hempisphere does.
Although, I suppose a hemisphere appears to be point from a far enough distance away.
I still don't understand why we're building a new heavy lifter when we have a heavy lifter we've spent several billion already over the past 6 years. How close was Ares V to being done? was it really THAT mismanaged that it's cheaper and more efficient to start from scratch?
Look, I WANT linux to be the best, I'm rooting for it to be the best, but considering I work a job where I solve other people's computer problems for 8-9 hours a day, I don't want to come home to spend my evening trying to fix my own because update manager pulled down a new version of wine or video driver or something.
Yes yes, I know, OSX is probably what I'm really looking for, and I'd be happy to try it if there wasn't a 100% markup on the hardware involved.
I am fully aware that the OS is in beta, but I seriously doubt that they're going to switch the Nvidia GLX version included with the OS within the next 2 weeks, it's damn close to feature lock, if it isn't there already. It's the version included with the OS that's the problem, and removing the included nvidia blob to use one from their website has been a problem at least back to 8.04 (as far back as I cared to check). 2 more weeks isn't going to fix that issue.
To the best of my knowledge, gstreamer0.10 is the same version that's in 9.10 (don't remember which version I used in 9.04). We're not dealing with cutting-edge stuff there either. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Totem version in 10.04 is only a minor revision over 9.10 as well. I'll be quite happy if an update manager run gets rid of that problem as well, but again I doubt it. more than likely there's still some other package I need to install and I have no idea what it could possibly be.
I don't know what's up with the fstab issue. that one may very well be a bug, but I can't understand how I'm the first person to notice it.
My point was not that "beta os is buggy". my point is "In many (if not most) cases, linux workflows are significantly more difficult, time intensive, and frustrating than similar windows workflowson all but the absolute best case scenarios".
I'm not a fanboy of either operating system. I'm looking for the best fit for me, and both of them have issues I dislike. I'm quite capible of overcoming Linux problems, I just don't see why I should have to spend that much time doing so.
Yesterday I reformatted my HD after installing an Nvidia GTX 470. I put win7 on one partition, and ubuntu 10.04 beta2 on the other.
I spent several hours last night fighting with 10.04 because it didn't like that I had a video card released only a week before the OS. I had to download 1 day old drivers from nvidia's site, and install those from command prompt with X shut down... ok that's a bit of a hassle, but whatever. Of course, OS didn't like that, it refused to let me stop the GDM service half the time, finally forced me to do it fully from command line. upon reboot, the x config file was somehow botched, and I had to recreate it a few times before I got it right. this wouldn't have been so bad if the first update manager run didn't immediately break the drivers -again-, forcing me to redownload it and reinstall it -again-. Windows 7? I went to nvidia's site, hit download. hit run. rebooted. I'm golden.
Additionally, apparently despite documentation otherwise, "Auto" is not the default mount option on fstab mounts for cifs/samba shares, and it took me awhile to figure that out, wondering why mount -a would bring in my windows file server shares, but reboots wouldn't. I thought it must be UID or GID codes put in wrong, or credentials or something like that. Finally figured out it was just them changing defaults to the opposite of what they used to be. Windows 7? I clicked "map network drive", put in the network address, hit ok. That's it.
finally, on top of all that, I don't have sound on movie files using AAC streams, despite the fact that I had such functionality with the same program in my year-old copy of the same OS. I've installed both gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, faac, and faad and still nothing.
I'm hardly about to say that windows 7 is problem free, but linux is quite far from "Just works" for me. I don't -want- to switch back to windows as my "daily driver" OS, but linux isn't exactly making a good case for itself here.
I'm just assuming that my previous post is the standard line of thinking of most of these people. if they can't see a big banner saying "you've been rootkitted. your computer's botnet name is '17004-G81', just so you know" on their desktop, then they don't care I guess.
patching 9 year old operating systems that they've "obsoleted" twice now, is "profitable"? really?
windows and it's virus propensitiy is pretty much the only reason I'm still running linux as my desktop OS at this point. In pure useability, windows 7 wins, much as I hate to say it.
no! I need the newest microsoft patch so that there are not any new security holes in my computer! I'll deal with that huge gaping sucking chasm of a security hole that's already there, created by the rootkit, at some later date.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_technology
Why do UFOs always show up in front of some hick in south dakota or kentucky? why don't the aliens ever land on the mall in DC or on top of the Effiel tower? Hell, I'd be convinced if they just landed on a pyramid like in stargate.
I think the closest thing to the above I've ever seen actual footage of was some weird lights above mexico city or something of the sort. Weird lights? I'm sure it was probably just the US and Soviets playing games or something of the sort. I'm not convinced.
Passwords that expire every 15 minutes, your IT people are idiots and don't care or understand security.
SSID?
I was under the impression that the -vast- majority of compromised passwords were due to either social engineering (Hey, this is "Bill from IT", I need your password to fix that "performance issue" you're having) or sheer neglect on the part of the the user (password on a post-it on the monitor). Am I mistaken?
>>>get it hours (possibly days) sooner
"Exaggerate much?" - Buffy
A 150 MB tv show only takes 1/2 hour over a 1 Mbit/s economy line. I think I can wait that long, rather than pay the Cox/Comcast/Time-Warner company ~$60 each month. - Or I could watch it in realtime through one of the abc.com, nbc.com, et cetera websites.
I'm not saying I'm thrilled at paying comcast $64 a month, but last time I looked into DSL (about a year and a half or two years ago) they didn't have anything like $15 a month. it was more like $35 or $40, for 1/10th the bandwidth I got from cable.
And no, I'm not exagerating.
1. I'm a quality whore, and if I can get it in 720p or 1080p, I will. I stream it to my HDTV via tversity and my ps3.
2. If I'm in the mood to watch a show, I usually grab at -least- an entire season, if not the entire run.
Damn right if I'm grabbing 7 seasons of 24 episodes each in high quality, it can take several hours, and quite often days if there aren't enough seeds (although I submit that in that circumstance, having a faster pipe obviously doesn't help).
Mainly it comes down to impatience. I recognize that you and I consume a similar amount of bandwidth per month, but if I want to watch a given tv show and i go and grab it off of bit-torrent, and get it hours (possibly days) sooner. Then of course, I have to go a day or two (or several days at the end of the month) not grabbing anything of size at all.
I'm lucky that the base package I pay for is so damn high. Because of the bandwidth cap, I'd never pay for any higher. I'm just annoyed that I don't even have the option of getting a higher cap for anything resembling a reasonable price.
Why should my grandma who only needs broadband to get photos that her children send her (they don't know how to resize their 8 megapixel images before sending them), subsidize someone who watches Hulu 30 hours a week, and constantly has bitorrent running in the background?
Because that's the model prescident set by our tax code?
Ok, Ok, let me be fair. If it was -truly- based on our tax code, 47% of the population would get free internet.
That's actually the monster in the closet right there... these companies are happy to sell you larger bandwidth packages, but your monthly cap doesn't go up. Essentially, if you're using your connection to it's fullest, paying more money for a larger bandwidth package just means you get to use your connection less days each month.
I mean, if I really wanted to, I could eat up my entire 250gb comcast cap in 2-3 days, and not have internet for 27 days out of the money (unless I want to shell out more money). Comcast would be happy to sell me a larger bandwidth package that would allow me to hit that bandwidth cap in less than 2 days, at which point I can pay them more money a whole day earlier! what a priviledge!
I dont' think I could ever do DSL. It's so 1998.
I can get 233gigabytes in a bit less than 2 days if I bittorrented 24/7... of course Comcast would call me up and complain once I hit 250.
Because that's not how it was sold to people.
If your water was sold to you "up to 10,000 gallons a month for only $39.95!" and you sign up for it... then on day #13 someone knocks on your door saying "uh, you've been taking some mighty long showers. we're going to have to charge you extra, even though you havn't come close to your 10,000 gallons yet", you might be pissed.
That is unacceptable!!
Now would you like to buy a bigger bandwidth package that we won't let you use? How about switching to FIOS, the best bandwidth in the country outside of a T3... that we still don't want you to use.
Yeah, that's what struck me about this "news" item. anybody who'd bother to use linux as a desktop OS either is technologically inclined enough to change such a simple setting, or is recieving a computer set up but such a person. (here grandma, have a computer).
I guess it's a slow day? Let me know when they fix the new osx-esque window max/min/close config so that if I switch it back over to the right where it should be, the graphics aren't corrupted.
Seriously, I'm curious here. Don't they already have like a dozen modules for doing experiments that they hardly use?
What exactly are they doing up there that they'll need these new cubes for?
1. Define "improperly"? Were these photos taken using police equipment, or were they taken on the police officer's cell phones?
2. So what? That's the internet. This isn't something new, the internet in it's current incarnation has been around since 1994 or 1995. I'm pretty sure we know how it works by now. Haven't you ever seen the picture of the dude in the stupid outfit with the caption "the internet, once it's out there, it's out there for good"? It surprises you that a grisly image released on the net gets to groups that like that sort of thing?
3. How is that the fault of the people who release the photos? Wouldn't it be the fault of the people who showed the photos to the class? Why are they showing pictures like this to a class of schoolkids anyway? Personal responsibility still exists. As someone else posted, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for what you do with any given tool, not the person who sold/gave you the tool.
4. Yes you do. As long as it's public, which these images were. She didn't crash into a toll booth in her basement or bedroom, or on a test track on private property in Switzerland, or even on some government facility in the mountains. No she did it in public, and neither she nor her family can have any expectation that such things can be kept private.
I fail to see how this is any different from the thousands of people who rubberneck and gawk as they pass an accident on our nation's highways.
If you go out and kill yourself in public, chances are very good people are going to see your dead body. That's what "public" means.
I guess the "problem" here is that it was the police that distributed the photos instead of some hapless bystander who happened to have a cell phone or digital camera? I can understand if they're compromising some homicide investigation... damn right they need to get in deep trouble for that, but if all signs are that you managed to kill yourself in darwinistic fashion (as this appears to be), then your death SHOULD serve as a lesson to the rest of humanity.