The October 2003 Scientific American has a feature article on all the warming problems the Arctic has been undergoing. This is just one more in the pile...
According to the article, scientists are witholding judgement over whether this is a symptom of global warming: the arctic is such a complex place with so many feedback and self-regulating systems that the case simply isn't clear yet.
> Chief Operating Officer of Symantec, John Schwarz, was quoted as 'calling for laws to make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.'
No more e-mail, folks!
Though I can't say I'll miss it much, after the past few days.
> As I was scanning the comments... Evolution is taught in the schools, but most people don't actually believe it... it is nothing more than glorified conjecture and sophistry revived from the ancient Greek pagan philosophers... God is axiomatic... There is nothing in or of the Earth that contradicts the Bible... Science is worship... There is only one account of creation in the Bible...
Later, when the DEA guys go for a doughnut, I hope you'll make a quick post telling us where you get the stuff you put in your pipe.
For all practical purposes meaningless as well: a "theory" that is compatible with everything has absolutely no explanatory power at all. To the extent that it's offered as an explanation of something, it's meaningless.
> Well, in at least one of the copies I recieved, the virus exe was a big scary looking demon head in my email client (no, not outlook). You'd think someone who spends the time crafting an email like this wouldn't put a demon head icon in the exe, but whatever.
> That's kind of funny, although it seems that this virus requires user interaction in order to spread, so we can't really blame M$ for this one:P
You can blame M$ for designing an e-mail client that executes anonymous attachments at a click.
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Even if the scientists involved could create a 100% "life" form using plasma, the fact that it was done with human intelligence and by procedure automatically discredits their findings which are ultimately suggesting life was based on life from chaos and randomness.
Baloney. Scientists replicate various natural phenomena in the lab all the time. Whether something can be done in a lab, and whether it can or does happen in nature, are independent questions; it's not an either-or situation.
His claims are increasingly becomming the last bastion of evolution deniers. Apparently some creationists think that if a scientist mixes two chemicals in a beaker, the scientists "makes" them react. Intelligence is some sort of supernatural phenomenon that bends a random universe to its will.
> Bill Gates got lucky, he invested 80,000 in buying a hastily put together OS to resell for a higher price.
He also "got lucky" in his choice of rich ancestors.
Something about a grandfather setting him up with a $1,000,000 trust fund when he was still a juvenile, going to a school that cost much more than your college education did.
I'm getting about 20/hour tonight on my doofus account, but none at all on my "professional" account with a less widely distributed e-dress and a guru managing the network.
That's almost 3MB/hour just on the one account. One shudders to think what this must be doing to internet bandwidth right now.
Lucky me set up a client to view a remote mailbox rather than downloading everything like I used to do, so I just select and delete them by the MB.
Anyone got a plot of traffic growth over time for this one? It's gonna be ugly if people don't get it squelched before the weekend.
> But there were some points of tension when the U.S. cruddy intelligence led to the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade,
s/mistaken/purportedly mistaken/
> Meanwhile, the government there is learning that it can divert attention from inconvenient issues (like corruption between the military and industry, lack of an open democratic process) by exploiting nationalistic sentiment (We vs They).
> > A computer virus could wait several weeks before it nuked the hard drive.
> A virus/worm that did this wouldn't make as big of a splash when the payload executes. Anti-virus companies would have updated virus defs out there within a day or two of distribution and a lot of people would become disinfected before the symptoms kicked in. Plus, the more damaging the payload, the wider the news will reach and people without anti-virus software would use free removal tools.
Yeah, and the Worm of the Week Club shows how many thousands or millions of people aren't using/updating their A-V software. I think some of these infections that are bad enough to hit the evening news are still to be found in the wild at a background level months after they hit the news.
A low-profile virus could spread very widely before launching its payload. It's just a matter of time before we see something like that.
Most internet-based viruses/worms grow at an (attempted) exponential rate, and are thus easy to spot in terms of traffic patterns. If someone designed a virus to propagate at a constant rate, the traffic would be lost in the noise of ordinary use.
> Make that random parts of the system, and random *.doc files (and a few other extensions). Nobody would *dare* get rid of it. A bad system file can be replaced, but a bad doc file can be very bad.
> It might teach people about hierarchcical backups, but I doubt it.
Just flip a random bit on the hard drive once per day or so. It could be weeks before it was noticed, and even then it might be interpreted as "another strange Windows bug" rather than "another virus". By the time people figured out what the problem was, it would be impossible to repair the damage, unless they had been running under a very disciplined backup plan.
> Dammit! There I go thinking ZDNet would actually have breaking news. I really should know better. My bad. I withdraw my question and submit myself to the floggings to come forthwith.
Since you have a Slashdot account, we'll assume you'll be flogging yourself.
> When linux comes out with a directx equivelent then they might write for it ( this is ONE set of API's ) . Not opengl doesn't count, that is only graphics.
> You need sound,graphics,networking,AND graphics card writers writing to those drivers. That is what makes windows such a good gaming platform. Linux needs to consolidate and throw away the 4 graphics libraries and the 3 different sound package and the 60 windowing library packages and get down to one standard that EVERYONE uses.
> most gamers don't want to sit around and configure a linux system for gaming, nor do they even know how
My last few Linux installs/upgrades have done a darn good job at detecting hardware, so if licensing issues don't get in the way it might be possible to use Linux as a gaming platform and put the game on bootable Linux media for non-Linuxers to use when they want to play. A sort of reversed dual-boot solution.
> They do not have to show you any evidence -you are taking your chances when you know how volatile Linux is with respect to IP infringement. Right now you should probably be thinking of how much you have participated in the Linux scam.
I hope you didn't take it personal when I called you a fuckwit, Darrell.
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> Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. -Zeuxis, 400 B.C
Heh, I wonder who he was criticizing when he said that. I can almost see him turning up his chin as he said it...
The October 2003 Scientific American has a feature article on all the warming problems the Arctic has been undergoing. This is just one more in the pile...
According to the article, scientists are witholding judgement over whether this is a symptom of global warming: the arctic is such a complex place with so many feedback and self-regulating systems that the case simply isn't clear yet.
> Chief Operating Officer of Symantec, John Schwarz, was quoted as 'calling for laws to make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.'
No more e-mail, folks!
Though I can't say I'll miss it much, after the past few days.
> As I was scanning the comments
Later, when the DEA guys go for a doughnut, I hope you'll make a quick post telling us where you get the stuff you put in your pipe.
> Not meaningless, but certainly unscientific.
For all practical purposes meaningless as well: a "theory" that is compatible with everything has absolutely no explanatory power at all. To the extent that it's offered as an explanation of something, it's meaningless.
Apple presumably thinks the PR value alone merits a huge discount.
> Well, in at least one of the copies I recieved, the virus exe was a big scary looking demon head in my email client (no, not outlook). You'd think someone who spends the time crafting an email like this wouldn't put a demon head icon in the exe, but whatever.
Maybe it was a BSD installation kit.
> That's kind of funny, although it seems that this virus requires user interaction in order to spread, so we can't really blame M$ for this one
You can blame M$ for designing an e-mail client that executes anonymous attachments at a click.
His claims are increasingly becomming the last bastion of evolution deniers. Apparently some creationists think that if a scientist mixes two chemicals in a beaker, the scientists "makes" them react. Intelligence is some sort of supernatural phenomenon that bends a random universe to its will.
> Bill Gates got lucky, he invested 80,000 in buying a hastily put together OS to resell for a higher price.
He also "got lucky" in his choice of rich ancestors.
Something about a grandfather setting him up with a $1,000,000 trust fund when he was still a juvenile, going to a school that cost much more than your college education did.
> The 5 second rule is a social rule, and varies according to how much "ew, that's so icky" factor there is with your crowd.
Also on how clean your floors are and how much melted cheese was on the thing you dropped.
Presumably depends on your marital status, too.
> Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this?
It's clearly bogus, since it doesn't recognize that cookies stay safe longer than vegetables do.
> Tonight 3 of these arrived here.
I'm getting about 20/hour tonight on my doofus account, but none at all on my "professional" account with a less widely distributed e-dress and a guru managing the network.
That's almost 3MB/hour just on the one account. One shudders to think what this must be doing to internet bandwidth right now.
Lucky me set up a client to view a remote mailbox rather than downloading everything like I used to do, so I just select and delete them by the MB.
Anyone got a plot of traffic growth over time for this one? It's gonna be ugly if people don't get it squelched before the weekend.
> But there were some points of tension when the U.S. cruddy intelligence led to the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade,
s/mistaken/purportedly mistaken/
> Meanwhile, the government there is learning that it can divert attention from inconvenient issues (like corruption between the military and industry, lack of an open democratic process) by exploiting nationalistic sentiment (We vs They).
Where is "there"?
> > A computer virus could wait several weeks before it nuked the hard drive.
> A virus/worm that did this wouldn't make as big of a splash when the payload executes. Anti-virus companies would have updated virus defs out there within a day or two of distribution and a lot of people would become disinfected before the symptoms kicked in. Plus, the more damaging the payload, the wider the news will reach and people without anti-virus software would use free removal tools.
Yeah, and the Worm of the Week Club shows how many thousands or millions of people aren't using/updating their A-V software. I think some of these infections that are bad enough to hit the evening news are still to be found in the wild at a background level months after they hit the news.
A low-profile virus could spread very widely before launching its payload. It's just a matter of time before we see something like that.
> How exactly do you think viruses/worms spread?
Most internet-based viruses/worms grow at an (attempted) exponential rate, and are thus easy to spot in terms of traffic patterns. If someone designed a virus to propagate at a constant rate, the traffic would be lost in the noise of ordinary use.
> Make that random parts of the system, and random *.doc files (and a few other extensions). Nobody would *dare* get rid of it. A bad system file can be replaced, but a bad doc file can be very bad.
> It might teach people about hierarchcical backups, but I doubt it.
Just flip a random bit on the hard drive once per day or so. It could be weeks before it was noticed, and even then it might be interpreted as "another strange Windows bug" rather than "another virus". By the time people figured out what the problem was, it would be impossible to repair the damage, unless they had been running under a very disciplined backup plan.
> Dammit! There I go thinking ZDNet would actually have breaking news. I really should know better. My bad. I withdraw my question and submit myself to the floggings to come forthwith.
Since you have a Slashdot account, we'll assume you'll be flogging yourself.
> So now there will be:
> A pre-worm article
> A current worm article
> And a post-worm article?
What we need is a self-propagating article.
> Its a shame the only people who read these articles are the ones who aren't affected in the first place.
Nope, the rest of us will have our network service will be degraded due to all the worm traffic.
> When linux comes out with a directx equivelent then they might write for it ( this is ONE set of API's ) . Not opengl doesn't count, that is only graphics.
> You need sound,graphics,networking,AND graphics card writers writing to those drivers. That is what makes windows such a good gaming platform. Linux needs to consolidate and throw away the 4 graphics libraries and the 3 different sound package and the 60 windowing library packages and get down to one standard that EVERYONE uses.
Sounds like a recipe for SDL.
> most gamers don't want to sit around and configure a linux system for gaming, nor do they even know how
My last few Linux installs/upgrades have done a darn good job at detecting hardware, so if licensing issues don't get in the way it might be possible to use Linux as a gaming platform and put the game on bootable Linux media for non-Linuxers to use when they want to play. A sort of reversed dual-boot solution.
> > I swear it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.
> What was your dog doing in the pound?
Getting his ashes hauled, if he was lucky.
> Less time wasted on video games, more time for programming.
Now that is just sick.
> They do not have to show you any evidence -you are taking your chances when you know how volatile Linux is with respect to IP infringement. Right now you should probably be thinking of how much you have participated in the Linux scam.
I hope you didn't take it personal when I called you a fuckwit, Darrell.