For the record: SMB could not possibly have been a "horrible copy of Appletalk", since SMB (windows networking) predates it. The SMB protocol was invented to allow interconnectivity between unix and dos machines. Meanwhile, appletalk over IP from my standpoint as a network analyst is a pain the arse, which is why we are phasing out Appletalk routing soon. Part of the reason is that appletalk is so damned chatty and actually increases load on the router because appletalk expects every client (including the router) to keep track of every device on the network it can see. So while a local client sees only the devices on its subnet (Of course, I won't forget to mention that every appletalk client broadcasts one name for each appletalk service that the client is running - multiple nameservices, file sharing etc.), appletalk routing is dumb in the fact that all addresses are cached.
Furthermore, your ease-of-use argument doesn't make sense, as smb browsing in network neighborhood is just as easy as appletalk browsing via chooser or some other util. On the unix side, netatalk handling is far more complex than smb, with reasons demonstrated above. (Try using nmblkup under netatalk on a reasonably sized appletalk zone).
The Register article seems to mock the Secret Service as being the outfit that only protects high-ranking officials. That is quite untrue. The primary mission of the USSS was originally to suppress counterfeiting operations, and only adopted the protection of the White House staff after the 1901 McKinley assassination. So while the USSS is most famous for protecting the President at all costs(tm), they still play major roles in uncovering counterfeiting rings (if selling The Two Towers "DVD" 1 month before the actual release of the movie isn't counterfeiting, I don't know what is). Sounds like the Brits need to do their homework (e.g. visit http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/index.shtml)
Non-licensed posession of higher than trace amounts of radioactive substances is illegal and subject to criminal penalties under the NRC (nuclear regulatory commission). Radiation detectors are set to detect levels above the background. Actually even non-detectable (via geiger counter technology) radioisotopes is illegal with out a license. I work in a 'hot' lab, whose sole radioisotope is low amounts of tritium. Although tritiated compounds are extremely weak beta emitters (detectable only in a scintillation counter), and although we do not need to wear radiation badges or even lab coats, we have special marked off areas for use, and the lab is inspected monthly. We must keep track of every micro-curie of radiation we use. We are restricted by our license to extremely small amounts of material. To access the material we have to unlock the lab, unlock the cold room, unlock a wall case, and unlock the storage box. There are 4 keys 4 on separate keychains. We take radiation regs more seriously than chemical safety or animal welfare because in addition to losing our license to buy, store, and use tritium, we can go to jail if any of it walks away from the lab. (Note: we don't use pure tritium. The tritium is incorporated into thymidine, a nucleotide involved in DNA synthesis. It is impossible to regenerate pure tritium from this material - in case you are wondering if it could be used in a weapon).
Whereas residual radioactivity from cancer treatment, nuclear medicine, or radiological procedures may be released from a patient after they are released from the hospital, one never knows if he or she is actually carrying a radioisotope, since all we have to go on is a geiger counter.
ambiguous? in what way? They are merely covering their backs because there are cetain technical difficulties in verification, hence, why OGR-24 is not "completed" even though little work is handed out. Because of the branch search method they are using for the calculations, 2 stubs can be scored with different results! Thus, someone has to mathematically verify that one of them is correct. In this case, d.net is claiming they cannot insure that the current OGR is indeed the most optimized if nothing is being returned saying otherwise.
F@H? Come on! At least be supportive and run the United Devices client. F@H has issues, primarily with code stability. Structural chemists do not necesarily make good coders.:)
Most space 'surviving' organisms do just that. They 'survive'. They lie dormant and shield their DNA using spores or some other sort of mechanism. In any event, they don't have high metabolic rates (that would induce the creation of more oxidants and radicals) and don't divide, as DNA polymerase is very picky about structural morphology and damage such as mismatches or crosslinking will cause polymerase to stall, fall off, or skip the section - it is these times where reproduction of bad DNA becomes fatal. Lysogenic phages also react to UV damaged DNA and excise themselves, enter the lytic cycle and further contributes to cell death.
However, low dose UV mutagenesis is used quite often, because interesting things happen when bacteria are exposed to UV. Bacteria do have sets of genes that repair UV damaged DNA, in addition to the so-called SOS response. Most UV damage occurs is not directly detrimental - just the formation of pyrimadine dimers which kinks the DNA and either prevents transcription or replication. The uvr (UV Repair) genes along with umu (UV Immutable) genes can do nifty things like replace the beta subunits in polymerase to accomodate structural defects, meanwhile. Prokaryotes even have phr (Photo Repair) systems to fix this stuff using longer wavelength light. Where large sections of DNA are skipped during replication, recombination can be used as a repair mechanism. At least these can keep the cell alive, but incur lots of mutations, which is useful when you are not sure what kind of mutation you are looking for and you don't know the locus so that chemical mutagens are ruled out in addition to site-directed mutagenesis.
However, astronomers have shown that dust particles near UV radiation (e.g. near a star) can form organic monomers from diatomic molecules, such as raw carbon, H2, and O2, because intense UV forms radicals that quickly react with the native species to form such compounds as glycine and acetate.
Furthermore, the Urey-Miller experiments have been recently underplayed because it has been determined that the early Earth atmosphere did not contain high concentrations of methane and some other compounds that Urey-Miller used as the assumptions for that experiment.
Abiogenesis seems to be more logically sound than panspermia because as you say, we have no proof of life elsewhere in the universe, so panspermia ultimately still begs the question of 'who was first'. However, abiogenesis has its own issues with inflation (saying that impossible odds can be overcome by postulating an undefined but presumably infinitely large population - if the chance for a reaction involving 2 species is 1E-24, then we postulate that there were more than 2E24 particles in the same volume and that the 2 particular species were close enough to react. It is not merely the inflation of numbers, but inflation of the probability that the two particles are in the same vicinity).
That seems interesting. Because prions are just protein, they ought to denature in an autoclave, just like you would boil a bit of meat.
And that quote was from ST:III: The Search For Spock where the new Excelsior was sent to stop Kirk after he stole the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet in order to rescue Spock.
I have a Fujitsu 6gb laptop drive that has been running great since 1998. I also have a Fujitsu 3.5" 20gb that has been running equally well since 2000. My brand spankin new WD-800BB 80GB Western digital drive failed in 5 months after purchase (and the only reason i got it was because of their $75 rebate on a drive that was almost $200 in Feburary 2002).
And after you throw out your used mobo/computer/monitors, where do they end up? Most of it gets shipped to developing nations especially closest to the booming tech countries - southeast asia. There are entire villages in southern China and Thailand where poor families and their children spend 12 hour days meltiing down chips and boards for gold as well as raw materials to be recycled. The problem is, there is about as much gold in pcb etchings and chips as there is mercury, lead, and cadmium, not to mention melting plastic over an oven is not a very good idea.
This finding was published in Harper's Magazine a few months ago.
How does this help wanna-be DBDs?
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Sure, this book will help you learn SQL syntax (maybe they ought to have named it "SQL-Primer Plus") and elucidate the schemas found in your favorite LAMP (linux, apache, mysql, perl/php/python) guides, but how will this help teach people the fundamentals of good database design? Sounds like this book will just churn out even more people who can just add "I know SQL and how to build databases" to their resume even though they will give you a blank stare when you ask about normalization. Like how using MySQL for 'learning' purposes leads to bad habits, I fear that this book might also promote loose discipline in web-based-database-applications. If I am contracting someone to build me an ecommerce site and know they have read this book, they won't be hired.
Talk to CmdrTaco about that. It's gotta be a bug in the slashcode, no? (The submission form lets you put in an email address and if you aren't logged in, then you are posting as anonymous coward, but because the display for the first page does a mailto: on the poster's name.)
The mice died because it appears that sleep deprivation screws up thyroid-pituitary-pineal gland communication, causing loss of body temperature control. As warm blooded animals, mice and humans have issues surviving with a body temp. more than +/- 20 or so degrees away from normal. In that experiment, they found out that the body temp of some mice dropped so low, they essentially "froze" to death; other mice spiked fevers that killed them.
If your cited article interests you, the "expanded" article (which contains the explanation above) can be found in Sleep, vol 27. from Scientific American Libraries. (unfortunately amazon says it's out of print. get it from a library or ebay/half). It's really interesting reading, discusses what sort of sleep questions scientists have been trying to answer from evolutionary origins (how did sleep evolve) to subconciousness (what is the brain really doing) and disorders.
time to convert for a/v companies and broadcasters
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I used to work for a certain A/V company and regularly used betamax for raw footage and portability. Some masters were also on beta. At the time, we used 5 formats: 1" (reeled) for editing, 3/4" for mastering, beta for aforementioned reasons, 8mm for footage (some cameras used 8mm), and of course 1/2" (VHS) for end-user products.
I guess they'll have to convert all the remaining betamax over now. It would really suck if in the process, the machine broke due to the increase in useage...:) Fortunately, as I last heard, most things were done digitally, so hopefully they can avoid the generational degradation associated with magnetic media.
This mustve been added after Christianity had a arrived, since clearly the Pharisees really had issues with Jesus healing people on the Sabbath. Corrections to this inference are appreciated. On a separate note, personally, if I was a devout Jew (as I am not Jewish) I might choose to uphold the law (and die) since the whole concept is that the material life means little compared to obeying God's law since it is the afterlife that is glorious and so on... (This still does not excuse suicide bombers and such, since the law/God condemns suicide and murder)
thing is, it's an animal, and not a human. The opponents of stem cell research are those who are against the source of the tissue (aborted human fetuses or a human embryo whose development is halted). The pro abortion people usually have issues with animal rights and the anti abortion people usually have no issues with animal rights, so go figure:)
When we look at tissue grafting and associated histocompatibility issues, we usually think of proteins. That is, after all, how the histocompatibility genes were discovered first in mice then humans, and the modern field of immunogenetics was founded. However, the article points to sugars and how their absence can so lessen acute xenograft rejection. The role of sugars in cell recognition can be found in the January 1993 issue of Scientific American.
uh. that was because Frethem is the newest virus to hit the net according to SARC. (it is also a stupid worm that carries no payload except for spreading itself).
You mean this is why most of us have migrated to FreeBSD in the second place:) FBSD has both concurrent stable and experimental development. The stable configuration includes kernel and userland source and is very suitable for production environments when non-security related change is almost never desired.
Well yeah. Statistically, OpenSSH has had 2x more serious security related bugs since it forked from commercial SSH. Apparently in their zest to fix what isn't necessarily broken, OpenSSH has ended up with more holes than it started with. This might be a legitimate explanation as to why they are going to separate privileges: when a month-old freenix weenie is given commit access to openssh and writes a patch but forgets to make sure he is using dynamic buffers, everyone who likes being on the bleeding edge doesn't get rooted after they upgrade.
At one institution I am aware of, the new administration policy has been to convert from openssh over to commercial ssh because of paranoia. Furthermore, when core server software is written such that you must upgrade every few months due to vulnerabilities in the latest-and-greatest, it hinders deployment of autonomous and/or embedded systems that rely on software such as SSH. Basically, if I wanted to build either an autonomous server or embedded system today, and decided to use OpenSSH 3.1.2 - which is supposedly stable, and a remotely exploitable vulnerability is found next month, the box is pretty much screwed, especially if no one is there to administer that machine and to appropriately upgrade it.
Where do you get the notion that "Unless a holder chooses a personalized card, his or her identity is unknown" means a previously anonymized system is being converted to a personally trackable system? You are invoking a well known logical fallacy by assuming that because an unknown representative sample has chosen to allow tracking, that somehow the system as a whole has no anonymity? I didn't see you link to anything that gave me numbers which suggest that anonymity is being lost in great amounts. Therefore, I'd have to conclude that you are spreading FUD.
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For the record: SMB could not possibly have been a "horrible copy of Appletalk", since SMB (windows networking) predates it. The SMB protocol was invented to allow interconnectivity between unix and dos machines. Meanwhile, appletalk over IP from my standpoint as a network analyst is a pain the arse, which is why we are phasing out Appletalk routing soon. Part of the reason is that appletalk is so damned chatty and actually increases load on the router because appletalk expects every client (including the router) to keep track of every device on the network it can see. So while a local client sees only the devices on its subnet (Of course, I won't forget to mention that every appletalk client broadcasts one name for each appletalk service that the client is running - multiple nameservices, file sharing etc.), appletalk routing is dumb in the fact that all addresses are cached.
Furthermore, your ease-of-use argument doesn't make sense, as smb browsing in network neighborhood is just as easy as appletalk browsing via chooser or some other util. On the unix side, netatalk handling is far more complex than smb, with reasons demonstrated above. (Try using nmblkup under netatalk on a reasonably sized appletalk zone).
The Register article seems to mock the Secret Service as being the outfit that only protects high-ranking officials. That is quite untrue. The primary mission of the USSS was originally to suppress counterfeiting operations, and only adopted the protection of the White House staff after the 1901 McKinley assassination. So while the USSS is most famous for protecting the President at all costs(tm), they still play major roles in uncovering counterfeiting rings (if selling The Two Towers "DVD" 1 month before the actual release of the movie isn't counterfeiting, I don't know what is). Sounds like the Brits need to do their homework (e.g. visit http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/index.shtml)
Non-licensed posession of higher than trace amounts of radioactive substances is illegal and subject to criminal penalties under the NRC (nuclear regulatory commission). Radiation detectors are set to detect levels above the background. Actually even non-detectable (via geiger counter technology) radioisotopes is illegal with out a license. I work in a 'hot' lab, whose sole radioisotope is low amounts of tritium. Although tritiated compounds are extremely weak beta emitters (detectable only in a scintillation counter), and although we do not need to wear radiation badges or even lab coats, we have special marked off areas for use, and the lab is inspected monthly. We must keep track of every micro-curie of radiation we use. We are restricted by our license to extremely small amounts of material. To access the material we have to unlock the lab, unlock the cold room, unlock a wall case, and unlock the storage box. There are 4 keys 4 on separate keychains. We take radiation regs more seriously than chemical safety or animal welfare because in addition to losing our license to buy, store, and use tritium, we can go to jail if any of it walks away from the lab. (Note: we don't use pure tritium. The tritium is incorporated into thymidine, a nucleotide involved in DNA synthesis. It is impossible to regenerate pure tritium from this material - in case you are wondering if it could be used in a weapon).
Whereas residual radioactivity from cancer treatment, nuclear medicine, or radiological procedures may be released from a patient after they are released from the hospital, one never knows if he or she is actually carrying a radioisotope, since all we have to go on is a geiger counter.
ambiguous? in what way? They are merely covering their backs because there are cetain technical difficulties in verification, hence, why OGR-24 is not "completed" even though little work is handed out. Because of the branch search method they are using for the calculations, 2 stubs can be scored with different results! Thus, someone has to mathematically verify that one of them is correct. In this case, d.net is claiming they cannot insure that the current OGR is indeed the most optimized if nothing is being returned saying otherwise.
F@H? Come on! At least be supportive and run the United Devices client. F@H has issues, primarily with code stability. Structural chemists do not necesarily make good coders. :)
What are you saying? Andromeda Strain was turned into a bad B movie! :)
Most space 'surviving' organisms do just that. They 'survive'. They lie dormant and shield their DNA using spores or some other sort of mechanism. In any event, they don't have high metabolic rates (that would induce the creation of more oxidants and radicals) and don't divide, as DNA polymerase is very picky about structural morphology and damage such as mismatches or crosslinking will cause polymerase to stall, fall off, or skip the section - it is these times where reproduction of bad DNA becomes fatal. Lysogenic phages also react to UV damaged DNA and excise themselves, enter the lytic cycle and further contributes to cell death.
However, low dose UV mutagenesis is used quite often, because interesting things happen when bacteria are exposed to UV. Bacteria do have sets of genes that repair UV damaged DNA, in addition to the so-called SOS response. Most UV damage occurs is not directly detrimental - just the formation of pyrimadine dimers which kinks the DNA and either prevents transcription or replication. The uvr (UV Repair) genes along with umu (UV Immutable) genes can do nifty things like replace the beta subunits in polymerase to accomodate structural defects, meanwhile. Prokaryotes even have phr (Photo Repair) systems to fix this stuff using longer wavelength light. Where large sections of DNA are skipped during replication, recombination can be used as a repair mechanism. At least these can keep the cell alive, but incur lots of mutations, which is useful when you are not sure what kind of mutation you are looking for and you don't know the locus so that chemical mutagens are ruled out in addition to site-directed mutagenesis.
However, astronomers have shown that dust particles near UV radiation (e.g. near a star) can form organic monomers from diatomic molecules, such as raw carbon, H2, and O2, because intense UV forms radicals that quickly react with the native species to form such compounds as glycine and acetate.
Furthermore, the Urey-Miller experiments have been recently underplayed because it has been determined that the early Earth atmosphere did not contain high concentrations of methane and some other compounds that Urey-Miller used as the assumptions for that experiment.
Abiogenesis seems to be more logically sound than panspermia because as you say, we have no proof of life elsewhere in the universe, so panspermia ultimately still begs the question of 'who was first'. However, abiogenesis has its own issues with inflation (saying that impossible odds can be overcome by postulating an undefined but presumably infinitely large population - if the chance for a reaction involving 2 species is 1E-24, then we postulate that there were more than 2E24 particles in the same volume and that the 2 particular species were close enough to react. It is not merely the inflation of numbers, but inflation of the probability that the two particles are in the same vicinity).
That seems interesting. Because prions are just protein, they ought to denature in an autoclave, just like you would boil a bit of meat.
And that quote was from ST:III: The Search For Spock where the new Excelsior was sent to stop Kirk after he stole the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet in order to rescue Spock.
I have a Fujitsu 6gb laptop drive that has been running great since 1998. I also have a Fujitsu 3.5" 20gb that has been running equally well since 2000. My brand spankin new WD-800BB 80GB Western digital drive failed in 5 months after purchase (and the only reason i got it was because of their $75 rebate on a drive that was almost $200 in Feburary 2002).
And after you throw out your used mobo/computer/monitors, where do they end up? Most of it gets shipped to developing nations especially closest to the booming tech countries - southeast asia. There are entire villages in southern China and Thailand where poor families and their children spend 12 hour days meltiing down chips and boards for gold as well as raw materials to be recycled. The problem is, there is about as much gold in pcb etchings and chips as there is mercury, lead, and cadmium, not to mention melting plastic over an oven is not a very good idea.
This finding was published in Harper's Magazine a few months ago.
Sure, this book will help you learn SQL syntax (maybe they ought to have named it "SQL-Primer Plus") and elucidate the schemas found in your favorite LAMP (linux, apache, mysql, perl/php/python) guides, but how will this help teach people the fundamentals of good database design? Sounds like this book will just churn out even more people who can just add "I know SQL and how to build databases" to their resume even though they will give you a blank stare when you ask about normalization. Like how using MySQL for 'learning' purposes leads to bad habits, I fear that this book might also promote loose discipline in web-based-database-applications. If I am contracting someone to build me an ecommerce site and know they have read this book, they won't be hired.
Talk to CmdrTaco about that. It's gotta be a bug in the slashcode, no? (The submission form lets you put in an email address and if you aren't logged in, then you are posting as anonymous coward, but because the display for the first page does a mailto: on the poster's name.)
The mice died because it appears that sleep deprivation screws up thyroid-pituitary-pineal gland communication, causing loss of body temperature control. As warm blooded animals, mice and humans have issues surviving with a body temp. more than +/- 20 or so degrees away from normal. In that experiment, they found out that the body temp of some mice dropped so low, they essentially "froze" to death; other mice spiked fevers that killed them.
If your cited article interests you, the "expanded" article (which contains the explanation above) can be found in Sleep, vol 27. from Scientific American Libraries. (unfortunately amazon says it's out of print. get it from a library or ebay/half). It's really interesting reading, discusses what sort of sleep questions scientists have been trying to answer from evolutionary origins (how did sleep evolve) to subconciousness (what is the brain really doing) and disorders.
I used to work for a certain A/V company and regularly used betamax for raw footage and portability. Some masters were also on beta. At the time, we used 5 formats: 1" (reeled) for editing, 3/4" for mastering, beta for aforementioned reasons, 8mm for footage (some cameras used 8mm), and of course 1/2" (VHS) for end-user products.
:) Fortunately, as I last heard, most things were done digitally, so hopefully they can avoid the generational degradation associated with magnetic media.
I guess they'll have to convert all the remaining betamax over now. It would really suck if in the process, the machine broke due to the increase in useage...
This comparison had been completed in 1989.
This mustve been added after Christianity had a arrived, since clearly the Pharisees really had issues with Jesus healing people on the Sabbath. Corrections to this inference are appreciated.
On a separate note, personally, if I was a devout Jew (as I am not Jewish) I might choose to uphold the law (and die) since the whole concept is that the material life means little compared to obeying God's law since it is the afterlife that is glorious and so on... (This still does not excuse suicide bombers and such, since the law/God condemns suicide and murder)
thing is, it's an animal, and not a human. :)
The opponents of stem cell research are those who are against the source of the tissue (aborted human fetuses or a human embryo whose development is halted). The pro abortion people usually have issues with animal rights and the anti abortion people usually have no issues with animal rights, so go figure
When we look at tissue grafting and associated histocompatibility issues, we usually think of proteins. That is, after all, how the histocompatibility genes were discovered first in mice then humans, and the modern field of immunogenetics was founded. However, the article points to sugars and how their absence can so lessen acute xenograft rejection. The role of sugars in cell recognition can be found in the January 1993 issue of Scientific American.
uh. that was because Frethem is the newest virus to hit the net according to SARC. (it is also a stupid worm that carries no payload except for spreading itself).
You mean this is why most of us have migrated to FreeBSD in the second place :)
FBSD has both concurrent stable and experimental development. The stable configuration includes kernel and userland source and is very suitable for production environments when non-security related change is almost never desired.
Well yeah. Statistically, OpenSSH has had 2x more serious security related bugs since it forked from commercial SSH. Apparently in their zest to fix what isn't necessarily broken, OpenSSH has ended up with more holes than it started with. This might be a legitimate explanation as to why they are going to separate privileges: when a month-old freenix weenie is given commit access to openssh and writes a patch but forgets to make sure he is using dynamic buffers, everyone who likes being on the bleeding edge doesn't get rooted after they upgrade.
At one institution I am aware of, the new administration policy has been to convert from openssh over to commercial ssh because of paranoia. Furthermore, when core server software is written such that you must upgrade every few months due to vulnerabilities in the latest-and-greatest, it hinders deployment of autonomous and/or embedded systems that rely on software such as SSH. Basically, if I wanted to build either an autonomous server or embedded system today, and decided to use OpenSSH 3.1.2 - which is supposedly stable, and a remotely exploitable vulnerability is found next month, the box is pretty much screwed, especially if no one is there to administer that machine and to appropriately upgrade it.
this is very old. I discovered this story last year, apparently from a couple of links from some other /. article...
of course. It's pure profit to you. I'd be more worried about the *employer* being able to sleep at night.
Where do you get the notion that "Unless a holder chooses a personalized card, his or her identity is unknown" means a previously anonymized system is being converted to a personally trackable system? You are invoking a well known logical fallacy by assuming that because an unknown representative sample has chosen to allow tracking, that somehow the system as a whole has no anonymity? I didn't see you link to anything that gave me numbers which suggest that anonymity is being lost in great amounts. Therefore, I'd have to conclude that you are spreading FUD.