This sort of thing has an old and "distinguished" history. Not just about modern political correctness.
Scientific American had a neat article couple of years back on the rising and falling tides of American alcohol consumption that included a picture of George Washington toasting other founding fathers.
The updated version during the prohibition had removed the bottle from the table, and the glass from Washington's hand. One couldn't have the father of America *drinking*.
Wasn't a rubber stamp, comparison to photo elsewhere indicates it seems to be a lightening tool to improve visibility of boy. See my comments elsewhere in the thread.
And it is indeed an old photo, of an Israeli tank.
As a matter of fact, it is more and more obvious as I look at it. A lightening tool was used on the tank underside. Notice how the dark continues away from the boy at the edges of the undercarriage.
Notice also his hand, where the lightening tool crossed over it, causing it to become lighter as well.
Stupid crack smoking conspiracy theorist conservatives have nothing better to do than rant about a photo taken last summer, and (in the parent) attempt to remove the element they dislike (the palestinian boy).
Get a life.
This coming from me, who has just spent 10 minutes researching this bit of nonsense.
The photo is widely spread about online. It is by Musa al-Shaer , a fairly credible photographer.
The other copies do have a darker underside. It seems the most likely manipulation was to attempt to improve contrast between the boy and the tank. http://zinjanthropus.home.igc.org/images/pa lestank.jpg
This is *highly* unlikely given that the photos on the MSNBC site are in a series. try changing the last 5 to a 4 or 3...
Seems more likely the freepressinternational site simply snagged the photo and added their own branding to it without even bothering to rename the series.
As for the shadow, it is quite easy to see. Boy's shadow is to the left, the angle making it thinner then one would expect. It matches up nicely though. Even the leg off the ground to the shadow version a little ways to the left.
Anyway, who cares? Boys throw stones at vehicles even in the U.S. - it's a rush.
Don't know why conservatives are frothing about it and digitally manipulating the photo.
"The problem is spam, not open relays. Don't ban guns, or cars, or forks because people may do bad things. Spam will still come, in larger amount than ever, even if all open relays are closed."
The reason open relays are used is because spammers frequently get blocked. I do that myself. I want to have the choice to block spammers. I also *don't* want to have to add Mr. Gilmore to my list of spam servers, since he has legitimate users.
That's why I urge him to close down his relay, or require authentication. I fail to see your point about mail having to go through the large ISPs. My mail goes straight from my machine to whomeever I am trying to deliver it to. Yes, those packets pass through the large ISPs, but then, so do Mr. Gilmore's (and frequently my traffic is encrypted anyway, so good luck to them) If you want privacy, use PGP.
And I fail to see a phone on every corner as helpful. It would force me to unlist my cell and block all public phones so I wouldn't get called 3000 times a day.
I'm all for anonymizers, encryption, and internet privacy, but let's all use a little common sense so I don't have to block the interesting things Mr. Gilmore might have to say due to his offers of penis enlargement.
Re:Fire resistant? Or toxic smoke as it burns?
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Site is short on information, but it appears this is a mineral/polymer composite, and unfortunately, one that isn't transparent.
Don't know what minerals they are using. Wonder if they could use silicates...
For that matter, the transparent columns, any reason the aggregates couldn't be glass? I think glass would even be cheaper to produce in mass quantities.
SCSI doesn't interest me. My one hd is more than I need at the moment.
Dual processors might be nice, and I might get that on my next machine - that should not push the price of the board up more than $100, and and only $200 for the extra processor. No particular desire for it at the moment, no.
DVDRW? No way you will get that in a $3000 dollar machine.
My current monitor is 23inch, and has better resolutions than most LCD displays can attain. Flat screen for home use is an extravagance.
The machine you describe is just that, extravagant. The machine I built/scrounged would've cost a couple of thousand at least.
For $3000, I doubt very much you will find a machine with the stats you listed (especially that DVDRW)
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Don't see it mentioned anywhere in the comments yet, but after reading the article, the first thing that concerned me is that the nice thing about a concrete building is that it will hold together when it catches fire, not melt, puddle, and add to the blaze with choking poisonous smoke.
Hopefully the designer is taking into account other properties besides strength.
Odd, the computer I wanted cost $900 - and that's exactly how much I spent to build it, including the DVD, CDRW, HD, sound, graphics card. Still competitive today, built it a year ago.
Have you ever seen the extensions made by the TA community?
I would say the terrains, units, and weapons far exceed what Cavedog put into the game.
Heck, entire new games were created off the TA engine. It is what kept me hooked on TA for years.
Since Gas Powered Games, his latest incarnation, promises the same extendability for Dungeon Siege, already fans are planning things like modifying it to recreate old Ultima series games.
Don't underestimate the fan base. I think they put many many more hours into TA then Cavedog ever did.
Granted, it is all thanks to Cavedog for creating such incredible extendible games (well, TA much superior to TA:K...)
There is a difference between intelligence and critical thinking.
Religion is not about critical thinking, it is about faith.
There is nothing wrong with needing/wanting a religious experience in your life, but I would say it is definitely a case of NOMA when compared with school/science/logic.
So yes, one can pray in church, then go think (critically) in school, and still be a reasonably sane, intelligent, individual.
* The determination on choosing to accept a file download from an Internet site should always be based on the trustworthiness of the source and not on the file type. File downloads should never be accepted from an untrusted source, no matter how harmless the type may appear to be.
No, it was a stupid design that allowed quiet execution due to the combination of content-type and file extension checking. When I download a PDF, I should be confident that unless I try running it in some fashion, it should be perfectly safe to download it to my machine.
Or just to make an extreme case, if I download an HTML usenet post, I don't want the browser trying to automatically convert the BASE64 to an executable and running that.
Some common sense on MS' part would've been appreciated.
Yes, I think so. Obviously an irrational number is a poor choice of base. It merely expresses the minima of the function.
Integer steps in the function are the correct choices, just like a soup can probably needs to fit certain machine constraints.
I was taking exception to your claim that chosing the closest integer was meaningless.
In any case, a darn cool article. Well written, clear, and entertaining - so my nitpickiness threshhold has climbed significantly.
Reading the article would've answered your long expression of puzzlement.
Just as there may be practical limitations behind precisely maximising the volume for a soup can, doesn't mean that getting close will not allow you to approach the maxima of the function.
A better question would've been why use his measurement of efficiency, a question the article examines.
Why on earth are you comparing efficiency under the old familiar (for Linux, GTK, Gnome) x86 architecture against SPARC?
I've also experienced massive CPU consumption on a SPARC Ultra 80
Yes, disabling Nautilus helped. As did turning on wireframe window movement, minimization. But it was still slow.
Gnome has nowhere near the same overhead on the x86 Solaris. I am not certain why, but I suspect perhaps the graphics libraries not taking full advantage of the processor.
They do, expensive ones. Polaroid has been on the ropes for a while now. Articles examining this have pinned it on a failure to innovate.
No major changes in their models, and no improvements in prices.
Main moral to gain from this is don't sit back and relax just because you (were) on top...
I have never really run into these problems you report. Have you filed a bug report? Given a build number, platform, steps to reproduce?
Unfortunately I'm under Win2k at the moment so can't test (although I haven't noticed it under the Linux machine at work either) but:
hitting right arrow at the end of a line sends the cursor to the next line. If at the last line, just doesn't move
Down arrow goes to the next line, again does nothing on the last line.
I've never had entire lines of text disappear. Or any problems with highlighting.
And I have only had it crash on me once in a particularly unusual and fairly difficult to reproduce circumstance (although quite reproducible). The bug I reported on that has been faithfully tracked and appended to a dozen times or so.
And this is with me using the latest nightly builds.
Mozilla has better standards compliance then IE (try http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspira l/demo.html), and although it has problems, I find it much more pleasant to use than IE (assuming I'm on a Sparc, or under Windows) or Opera, and it just has more to it than Konqueror.
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This sort of thing has an old and "distinguished" history. Not just about modern political correctness.
Scientific American had a neat article couple of years back on the rising and falling tides of American alcohol consumption that included a picture of George Washington toasting other founding fathers.
The updated version during the prohibition had removed the bottle from the table, and the glass from Washington's hand. One couldn't have the father of America *drinking*.
Wasn't a rubber stamp, comparison to photo elsewhere indicates it seems to be a lightening tool to improve visibility of boy. See my comments elsewhere in the thread.
And it is indeed an old photo, of an Israeli tank.
As a matter of fact, it is more and more obvious as I look at it. A lightening tool was used on the tank underside.
Notice how the dark continues away from the boy at the edges of the undercarriage.
Notice also his hand, where the lightening tool crossed over it, causing it to become lighter as well.
Stupid crack smoking conspiracy theorist conservatives have nothing better to do than rant about a photo taken last summer, and (in the parent) attempt to remove the element they dislike (the palestinian boy).
Get a life.
This coming from me, who has just spent 10 minutes researching this bit of nonsense.
The photo is widely spread about online.
a lestank .jpg
It is by Musa al-Shaer , a fairly credible photographer.
The other copies do have a darker underside. It seems the most likely manipulation was to attempt to improve contrast between the boy and the tank.
http://zinjanthropus.home.igc.org/images/p
In any case, this whole arguement is silly.
This is *highly* unlikely given that the photos on the MSNBC site are in a series. try changing the last 5 to a 4 or 3...
Seems more likely the freepressinternational site simply snagged the photo and added their own branding to it without even bothering to rename the series.
As for the shadow, it is quite easy to see. Boy's shadow is to the left, the angle making it thinner then one would expect. It matches up nicely though. Even the leg off the ground to the shadow version a little ways to the left.
Anyway, who cares?
Boys throw stones at vehicles even in the U.S. - it's a rush.
Don't know why conservatives are frothing about it and digitally manipulating the photo.
and yes, that semi-colon was supposed to be a '
Should proof-read.
The only children's author to win the Whitbread award ever? And for the last book in the reviewed series?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/
I loved the series as well, and don't think the praise is at all overdone.
Seriously, a little investigation before lashing out.
"The problem is spam, not open relays. Don't ban guns, or cars, or forks because people may do bad things. Spam will still come, in larger amount than ever, even if all open relays are closed."
The reason open relays are used is because spammers frequently get blocked. I do that myself. I want to have the choice to block spammers. I also *don't* want to have to add Mr. Gilmore to my list of spam servers, since he has legitimate users.
That's why I urge him to close down his relay, or require authentication.
I fail to see your point about mail having to go through the large ISPs. My mail goes straight from my machine to whomeever I am trying to deliver it to. Yes, those packets pass through the large ISPs, but then, so do Mr. Gilmore's (and frequently my traffic is encrypted anyway, so good luck to them)
If you want privacy, use PGP.
And I fail to see a phone on every corner as helpful. It would force me to unlist my cell and block all public phones so I wouldn't get called 3000 times a day.
I'm all for anonymizers, encryption, and internet privacy, but let's all use a little common sense so I don't have to block the interesting things Mr. Gilmore might have to say due to his offers of penis enlargement.
GOTOs?
:-)
Site is short on information, but it appears this is a mineral/polymer composite, and unfortunately, one that isn't transparent.
Don't know what minerals they are using. Wonder if they could use silicates...
For that matter, the transparent columns, any reason the aggregates couldn't be glass? I think glass would even be cheaper to produce in mass quantities.
SCSI doesn't interest me. My one hd is more than I need at the moment.
Dual processors might be nice, and I might get that on my next machine - that should not push the price of the board up more than $100, and and only $200 for the extra processor. No particular desire for it at the moment, no.
DVDRW? No way you will get that in a $3000 dollar machine.
My current monitor is 23inch, and has better resolutions than most LCD displays can attain. Flat screen for home use is an extravagance.
The machine you describe is just that, extravagant. The machine I built/scrounged would've cost a couple of thousand at least.
For $3000, I doubt very much you will find a machine with the stats you listed (especially that DVDRW)
Don't see it mentioned anywhere in the comments yet, but after reading the article, the first thing that concerned me is that the nice thing about a concrete building is that it will hold together when it catches fire, not melt, puddle, and add to the blaze with choking poisonous smoke.
Hopefully the designer is taking into account other properties besides strength.
Odd, the computer I wanted cost $900 - and that's exactly how much I spent to build it, including the DVD, CDRW, HD, sound, graphics card. Still competitive today, built it a year ago.
Granted, Macs might be another matter.
In all fairness, General Relativity is a refinement of Newtonian gravity.
So, since it is based on the same underlying theory, I don't see why the article isn't technically correct, if a little vague.
Have you ever seen the extensions made by the TA community?
I would say the terrains, units, and weapons far exceed what Cavedog put into the game.
Heck, entire new games were created off the TA engine. It is what kept me hooked on TA for years.
Since Gas Powered Games, his latest incarnation, promises the same extendability for Dungeon Siege, already fans are planning things like modifying it to recreate old Ultima series games.
Don't underestimate the fan base. I think they put many many more hours into TA then Cavedog ever did.
Granted, it is all thanks to Cavedog for creating such incredible extendible games (well, TA much superior to TA:K...)
Don't forget gravity.
The earth isn't just sitting there, it is also actively attracting them to some extent.
There is a difference between intelligence and critical thinking.
Religion is not about critical thinking, it is about faith.
There is nothing wrong with needing/wanting a religious experience in your life, but I would say it is definitely a case of NOMA when compared with school/science/logic.
So yes, one can pray in church, then go think (critically) in school, and still be a reasonably sane, intelligent, individual.
File Name Spoofing Vulnerability:
* The determination on choosing to accept a file download from an Internet site should always be based on the trustworthiness of the source and not on the file type. File downloads should never be accepted from an untrusted source, no matter how harmless the type may appear to be.
No, it was a stupid design that allowed quiet execution due to the combination of content-type and file extension checking. When I download a PDF, I should be confident that unless I try running it in some fashion, it should be perfectly safe to download it to my machine.
Or just to make an extreme case, if I download an HTML usenet post, I don't want the browser trying to automatically convert the BASE64 to an executable and running that.
Some common sense on MS' part would've been appreciated.
Yes, I think so. Obviously an irrational number is a poor choice of base. It merely expresses the minima of the function.
Integer steps in the function are the correct choices, just like a soup can probably needs to fit certain machine constraints.
I was taking exception to your claim that chosing the closest integer was meaningless.
In any case, a darn cool article. Well written, clear, and entertaining - so my nitpickiness threshhold has climbed significantly.
Reading the article would've answered your long expression of puzzlement.
Just as there may be practical limitations behind precisely maximising the volume for a soup can, doesn't mean that getting close will not allow you to approach the maxima of the function.
A better question would've been why use his measurement of efficiency, a question the article examines.
What morons would ever check their e-mail on someone else's computer at a "hacker" convention?
/flag.txt be -rw------- 1 root root
1:9 there is a keystroke logger in place.
Granted, you were asking for it by not having
Oh, wait. Was that a C: ? };->
Why on earth are you comparing efficiency under the old familiar (for Linux, GTK, Gnome) x86 architecture against SPARC?
I've also experienced massive CPU consumption on a SPARC Ultra 80
Yes, disabling Nautilus helped. As did turning on wireframe window movement, minimization. But it was still slow.
Gnome has nowhere near the same overhead on the x86 Solaris. I am not certain why, but I suspect perhaps the graphics libraries not taking full advantage of the processor.
They do, expensive ones. Polaroid has been on the ropes for a while now. Articles examining this have pinned it on a failure to innovate.
No major changes in their models, and no improvements in prices.
Main moral to gain from this is don't sit back and relax just because you (were) on top...
"particularly unusual and fairly difficult to reproduce circumstance (although quite reproducible)"
Erm. I meant that it is difficult to do accidently, but can be done each time once you know how.
Time to take a nap, I think...
I have never really run into these problems you report. Have you filed a bug report? Given a build number, platform, steps to reproduce?
a l/demo.html), and although it has problems, I find it much more pleasant to use than IE (assuming I'm on a Sparc, or under Windows) or Opera, and it just has more to it than Konqueror.
Unfortunately I'm under Win2k at the moment so can't test (although I haven't noticed it under the Linux machine at work either) but:
hitting right arrow at the end of a line sends the cursor to the next line. If at the last line, just doesn't move
Down arrow goes to the next line, again does nothing on the last line.
I've never had entire lines of text disappear. Or any problems with highlighting.
And I have only had it crash on me once in a particularly unusual and fairly difficult to reproduce circumstance (although quite reproducible). The bug I reported on that has been faithfully tracked and appended to a dozen times or so.
And this is with me using the latest nightly builds.
Mozilla has better standards compliance then IE (try http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspir