Get government money out of climate research and you won't have any climate research.
This is not my quote, but it's very relevant: Scientists are like advance scouts sent out in advance of a wagon train - you pay them to check things out, and look ahead to predict what's coming. You don't pay for scouts, you don't learn what's ahead.
Perhaps it's a difference in personal perspective - most of my peers and I up here in Canada think there is no question that global warming is real, and that it's our fault. We hear a lot more media coverage on the issue, where it seems the US is mostly blanketed by negative propaganda. As well, perhaps the warming trend is more visible to us, up in northern Canada it is quite obvious that the world is warmer year by year (permafrost that isn't, ocean ice melting sooner every season, glaciers in the Rocky Mountains melting back further every year, here in Vancouver people were able to skate on the Fraser River in the winter 100 years ago, good ski seasons are further and fewer, and in Ottawa, skating on the Ridea Canal in the city is soon to be a thing of the past. Over in Europe, there have been a number of washout ski seasons in the Alps.
So, consider that there is no big money in reporting on the fact of global warming, and there's lots of oil money in denying and ridiculing global warming.
Perhaps we need a new acronym: Warmers of Mass Denial...(tm)
Nothing scientific about that person's opinion on how to solve overpopulation. What makes you beleive the scientific community agrees with anything that flake says?
Burning ethanol still puts out carbon dioxide, still causes global warming.
Factor in the cost of the environmental disaster that nuclear waste ALREADY IS and nuke plants are not the answer. Some of that radioactive crud needs to be stored in safety for 30,0000 years. That cost is never factored in when someone claims how cheap/clean nuke power is.
Exactly. Why a space shuttle/station/moonbase? Bush wants the military in space before the Chinese get there. A president who thinks pre-emptive nuclear strikes are ok, would have no problem filling the heavens with space weaponry and a shuttle full of cowboys to maintain military supremacy. The manned Mars mission is not likely to ever happen, but it's a great cover story for an overblown moon base. Lets hope the Democrats get a real candidate for the next US president!
Agreed, an independent auditor could be the very one who causes a voting machine to become untrustworthy. Unfortunately Diebold have shown the world that they really can't be trusted either.
Keep It Simple. A paper and pencil voting system is easy to keep clean, and can be checked by a grade one student. A networked PC can't really be trusted for the task at all, even after a room full of expensive guru's have done their best to audit it.
As long as the recorded disks last longer than a CD-ROM (which has an average lifespan of 2 years - making it useless as a long term storage option). And here in Canada, the music piracy fines for that many gig will likely drive the price of blanks thru the roof! Yes, at the moment the "you're guilty without a trial, so pay a fine" tax is gone, but they're working on bringing it back, and expected to more than double the costs of a blank CD-ROM. Just hope they don't try to tax hard disks!
Since when did Microsoft guarantee that their updates don't break anything? They are notorious for breaking running systems with their multitudes of incompatible patches, shared library dependencies etc! Just google "dll hell" and see what you find..
We run CVS for code, and I have TWiki set up (to experiment with collaboration on an internal wikipedia for engineering discussion). I'm thinking the easiest is to install a CVS Apache web interface (there's at least one I've used before) so that the TWiki entries could at least reference the CVS web pages if desired. I agree with other posts that using twiki to directly edit source code doesn't sound like a good idea..
Interesting, Does this they can get in trouble for carrying illegal content?
AFAIK this has been the defence - "we're common carriers, we can't be charged with aiding an abetting child pornographers cause we don't monitor the traffic" or something to that nature?
Yep, Obviously these people didn't read the "Goose that laid the Golden Egg" story.
Too bad this fragmenting seems inevitable. The internet is already too complex for Ma and Pa kettle, this kind of multitiered service and fragmentation will likely make it too difficult for the rest of us to navigate (without a big pocket full of cash).
No, not French, English Canadian actually, but exposed to French:) Thankfully Canada has flat rate internet billing like the US (so far!). If the broadband owners start pushing this new model, we'll certainly be stuck with it too.
One difference is that the billing of internet traffic would likely be fully automatic, (just a router upgrade or two) so the providers would not theoretically spend much tracking your personalized fee.
But you as the consumer would likely NEVER figure out your "IP Traffic Monthly Statement", since it would be a conglomerate of dozens of factors applied to your packets - as long as they didn't get too greedy.
Whups, that popup that snuck in while you were browsing? That came from a trunk that charges $9.00 a second, with a 60 second minimum amount!
That would be a good business model for trojans - your machine racking up thousands in internet charges without you knowing it!
Sorry guys, but your phase theory is absolute rubbish.
There is no circuit in the power supply that keeps track of what phase the power line was in when the power went down (nor would there be any good reason to do so, and doing so would cost money).
Something unusual is happening to the poor chap, but it has absolutely nothing to do with power line phase.
So, if you unplug the power at a random time relative to the power's sin wave phase, and then plug it back in to the same outlet some random time later relative to same sin wave, you end up back on some arbitrary phase relationship to what you were before.
Moving to an outlet on the other phase doesn't change anything, you have just as much chance plugging back in to the outlet "at the same phase angle" as it was relative to the original outlet. If there is a relationship between phase and the problems this guys' having, you can bet that it is not the absolute phase angle of the power line when he plugs in the PC.
Tapping screwdrivers across electronics you don't understand just makes you a candidate for the Darwin awards!
Ok, you've got a point, I am making a leap here, but it seems like a logical assumption to me:
1. Historically, Microsoft's security features are anything but. (Proven over and over again)
2. Consider Windows admin priveledges scheme, secure or not? I set the family computer up (one of several reformat and reinstall sessions ago) and only gave the kids user accounts in an attempt to keep trouble out. It didn't work, machine got infected while kids were using it (I don't personally use the machine, just Reformat and Reinstall. Was it a rootkit? Don't know.
A quick google check does seem to indicate that this Rootkit can only get installed via an admin account. Consider me shot down. I think I'll fall off my chair in shock.
You'd think this would qualify as a threat to national security..
Hello CTU, we have solid evidence of a foreign entity purposely infecting thousands of military and intelligence computers, blowing the doors off the airtight security systems in place (cough) and leaving us vunerable to cyberterrorists..
Why on earth do you believe Microsoft's admin privileges scheme actually works? By the massive number of viruses/trojans/rootkits that came before, there is no evidence that Windows is secure. This latest Sony DRM rootkit is more proof.
If there is any fusion going on: The water based version may be nothing more than a research tool, but perhaps this will lead to an understanding of how to induce fusion in other more practical power generating systems.
"There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China."
Bullshit.
"There is economic growth in China, and it is not trickling down"
Bullshit.
I've only been to China twice, and I met lots of happy people.
Yes, the world should strongly pressure China to shape up on civil rights, and many things are seriously bad over there BUT there is no reason to outright lie about conditions over there. You end up hurting your cause when people find out you were lying to make your claim sound better.
Funny how many people forget the US fired on it's own students in the 1960's.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" (1990s)
"You should be fired for using Microsoft.." (Present virus infected atmosphere)
Microsoft's security hype is not solving the problem with real corporate down time due to the latest virus/worm/trojan. I think nobody seriously beleives Microsoft can solve their security issues, but so far they've managed to convince customers that this is the way computers are, that there are no better options.
Um.. 1.5 billion for new consumer electronics hardware (specifically televisions and/or set top boxes). Does anyone think this cash will be spent on US manufacturing?
Dear Mr. RIAA, I have an excellent idea for you: Borrow Sony's DRM trojanware, (the trojan-net is already up and running) have it illegally download songs on selected people's computers, then fly in with a juicy lawsuit! I'm sure a few scripts could even mail out the summons automatically, with a quick link to a Paypal account in case they would prefer to settle out of court!
"Outlook 2003's junkmail handling and security is very good IMO; "
Several security experts have recommended that people stop using Outlook for a reason. Go to cert.org, search for Outlook, read thru hundreds of links on Outlook issues.
Outlook's filtering rules don't even run half the time (intermittently), and a good portion of Windows viruses/trojans get in thru Outlook.
Oh yeah, if you go in and turn off javascript/java in Outlook you end up disabling internet explorer scripts at the same time (since they don't have their own settings).
IMHO Outlook seems to be by far the Most insecure mail client ever produced.
Doh! I've never visited iTunes, so I'm guilty of ignorance here. I too prefer to purchase uncompressed music, but do then rip the CD to mp3 to put on my media server for "background noise" listening.
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Lets see: Ebay plain 128 MB USB drive sells for $15 - $20 US
Average BNL cd sells for $14 to $15 US on amazon, shipping extra..
So, it's not an absurd price.
Oh, and a few details from the amazon page:
# 128mg Flash Memory USB drive (2.0 technology, also maintains compatibility with USB 1.1) # Contains nearly 30 tracks of music (in MP3 file format), PLUS in-studio video snippets, live concert excerpts and more # Reusable drive can be used for any and all file types (limited to capacity of flash drive) # MP3 files included are completely DRM-free
Also, it's 29 songs, cost you $29.00 on itunes for the works.
It's not out of line, an interesting way to attract attention!
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Get government money out of climate research and you won't have any climate research.
This is not my quote, but it's very relevant:
Scientists are like advance scouts sent out in advance of a wagon train - you pay them to check things out, and look ahead to predict what's coming. You don't pay for scouts, you don't learn what's ahead.
Perhaps it's a difference in personal perspective - most of my peers and I up here in Canada think there is no question that global warming is real, and that it's our fault. We hear a lot more media coverage on the issue, where it seems the US is mostly blanketed by negative propaganda. As well, perhaps the warming trend is more visible to us, up in northern Canada it is quite obvious that the world is warmer year by year (permafrost that isn't, ocean ice melting sooner every season,
glaciers in the Rocky Mountains melting back further every year, here in Vancouver people were able to skate on the Fraser River in the winter 100 years ago, good ski seasons are further and fewer, and in Ottawa, skating on the Ridea Canal in the city is soon to be a thing of the past. Over in Europe, there have been a number of washout ski seasons in the Alps.
So, consider that there is no big money in reporting on the fact of global warming, and there's lots of oil money in denying and ridiculing global warming.
Perhaps we need a new acronym: Warmers of Mass Denial...(tm)
Nothing scientific about that person's opinion on how to solve overpopulation. What makes you beleive the scientific community agrees with anything that flake says?
Burning ethanol still puts out carbon dioxide, still causes global warming.
Factor in the cost of the environmental disaster that nuclear waste ALREADY IS and nuke plants are not the answer.
Some of that radioactive crud needs to be stored in safety for 30,0000 years. That cost is never factored in when someone claims how cheap/clean nuke power is.
Exactly. Why a space shuttle/station/moonbase? Bush wants the military in space before the Chinese get there. A president who thinks pre-emptive nuclear strikes are ok, would have no problem filling the heavens with space weaponry and a shuttle full of cowboys to maintain military supremacy.
The manned Mars mission is not likely to ever happen, but it's a great cover story for an overblown moon base.
Lets hope the Democrats get a real candidate for the next US president!
Agreed, an independent auditor could be the very one who causes a voting machine to become untrustworthy. Unfortunately Diebold have shown the world that they really can't be trusted either.
Keep It Simple. A paper and pencil voting system is easy to keep clean, and can be checked by a grade one student. A networked PC can't really be trusted for the task at all, even after a room full of expensive guru's have done their best to audit it.
As long as the recorded disks last longer than a CD-ROM (which has an average lifespan of 2 years - making it useless as a long term storage option).
And here in Canada, the music piracy fines for that many gig will likely drive the price of blanks thru the roof! Yes, at the moment the "you're guilty without a trial, so pay a fine" tax is gone, but they're working on bringing it back, and expected to more than double the costs of a blank CD-ROM. Just hope they don't try to tax hard disks!
Since when did Microsoft guarantee that their updates don't break anything? They are notorious for breaking running systems with their multitudes of incompatible patches, shared library dependencies etc!
Just google "dll hell" and see what you find..
That would more likely be a "google desktop" function to replace the horribly slow windows search tool.
We run CVS for code, and I have TWiki set up (to experiment with collaboration on an internal wikipedia for engineering discussion). I'm thinking the easiest is to install a CVS Apache web interface (there's at least one I've used before) so that the TWiki entries could at least reference the CVS web pages if desired.
I agree with other posts that using twiki to directly edit source code doesn't sound like a good idea..
Interesting,
Does this they can get in trouble for carrying illegal content?
AFAIK this has been the defence - "we're common carriers, we can't be charged with aiding an abetting child pornographers cause we don't monitor the traffic" or something to that nature?
Yep, Obviously these people didn't read the "Goose that laid the Golden Egg" story.
Too bad this fragmenting seems inevitable. The internet is already too complex for Ma and Pa kettle,
this kind of multitiered service and fragmentation will likely make it too difficult for the rest of us to navigate (without a big pocket full of cash).
No, not French, English Canadian actually, but exposed to French :)
Thankfully Canada has flat rate internet billing like the US (so far!).
If the broadband owners start pushing this new model, we'll certainly be stuck with it too.
One difference is that the billing of internet traffic would likely be fully automatic, (just a router upgrade or two) so the providers would not theoretically spend much tracking your personalized fee.
But you as the consumer would likely NEVER figure out your "IP Traffic Monthly Statement", since it would be a conglomerate of dozens of factors applied to your packets - as long as they didn't get too greedy.
Whups, that popup that snuck in while you were browsing? That came from a trunk that charges $9.00 a second, with a 60 second minimum amount!
That would be a good business model for trojans - your machine racking up thousands in internet charges without you knowing it!
Sorry guys, but your phase theory is absolute rubbish.
There is no circuit in the power supply that keeps track of what phase the power line was in when the power went down (nor would there be any good reason to do so, and doing so would cost money).
Something unusual is happening to the poor chap, but it has absolutely nothing to do with power line phase.
So, if you unplug the power at a random time relative to the power's sin wave phase, and then plug it back in to the same outlet some random time later relative to same sin wave, you end up back on some arbitrary phase relationship to what you were before.
Moving to an outlet on the other phase doesn't change anything, you have just as much chance plugging back in to the outlet "at the same phase angle" as it was relative to the original outlet.
If there is a relationship between phase and the problems this guys' having, you can bet that it is not the absolute phase angle of the power line when he plugs in the PC.
Tapping screwdrivers across electronics you don't understand just makes you a candidate for the Darwin awards!
Ok, you've got a point, I am making a leap here, but it seems like a logical assumption to me:
1. Historically, Microsoft's security features are anything but. (Proven over and over again)
2. Consider Windows admin priveledges scheme, secure or not? I set the family computer up (one of several reformat and reinstall sessions ago) and only gave the kids user accounts in an attempt to keep trouble out. It didn't work, machine got infected while kids were using it (I don't personally use the machine, just Reformat and Reinstall. Was it a rootkit? Don't know.
A quick google check does seem to indicate that this Rootkit can only get installed via an admin account. Consider me shot down. I think I'll fall off my chair in shock.
You'd think this would qualify as a threat to national security..
Hello CTU, we have solid evidence of a foreign entity purposely infecting thousands of military and intelligence computers, blowing the doors off the airtight security systems in place (cough) and leaving us vunerable to cyberterrorists..
Send Jack Bauer over to kick some butt!
If that's next years plot, I want royalties!
Why on earth do you believe Microsoft's admin privileges scheme actually works? By the massive number of viruses/trojans/rootkits that came before, there is no evidence that Windows is secure.
This latest Sony DRM rootkit is more proof.
If there is any fusion going on: The water based version may be nothing more than a research tool, but perhaps this will lead to an understanding of how to induce fusion in other more practical power generating systems.
"There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China."
Bullshit.
"There is economic growth in China, and it is not trickling down"
Bullshit.
I've only been to China twice, and I met lots of happy people.
Yes, the world should strongly pressure China to shape up on civil rights, and many things are seriously bad over there BUT there is no reason to outright lie about conditions over there. You end up hurting your cause when people find out you were lying to make your claim sound better.
Funny how many people forget the US fired on it's own students in the 1960's.
Microsoft's security hype is not solving the problem with real corporate down time due to the latest virus/worm/trojan. I think nobody seriously beleives Microsoft can solve their security issues, but so far they've managed to convince customers that this is the way computers are, that there are no better options.
Um.. 1.5 billion for new consumer electronics hardware (specifically televisions and/or set top boxes).
Does anyone think this cash will be spent on US manufacturing?
Dear Mr. RIAA,
I have an excellent idea for you: Borrow Sony's DRM trojanware, (the trojan-net is already up and running) have it illegally download songs on selected people's computers, then fly in with a juicy lawsuit!
I'm sure a few scripts could even mail out the summons automatically, with a quick link to a Paypal account in case they would prefer to settle out of court!
"Outlook 2003's junkmail handling and security is very good IMO; "
Several security experts have recommended that people stop using Outlook for a reason.
Go to cert.org, search for Outlook, read thru hundreds of links on Outlook issues.
Outlook's filtering rules don't even run half the time (intermittently), and a good portion of Windows viruses/trojans get in thru Outlook.
Oh yeah, if you go in and turn off javascript/java in Outlook you end up disabling internet explorer scripts at the same time (since they don't have their own settings).
IMHO Outlook seems to be by far the Most insecure mail client ever produced.
Haven't cell phones been "free" with an nnn year contract since before the XBOX?
Also, ink jet printers, very likely sold at a loss..
Doh!
I've never visited iTunes, so I'm guilty of ignorance here.
I too prefer to purchase uncompressed music, but do then rip the CD to mp3
to put on my media server for "background noise" listening.
Lets see:
Ebay plain 128 MB USB drive sells for $15 - $20 US
Average BNL cd sells for $14 to $15 US on amazon, shipping extra..
So, it's not an absurd price.
Oh, and a few details from the amazon page:
# 128mg Flash Memory USB drive (2.0 technology, also maintains compatibility with USB 1.1)
# Contains nearly 30 tracks of music (in MP3 file format), PLUS in-studio video snippets, live concert excerpts and more
# Reusable drive can be used for any and all file types (limited to capacity of flash drive)
# MP3 files included are completely DRM-free
Also, it's 29 songs, cost you $29.00 on itunes for the works.
It's not out of line, an interesting way to attract attention!