What about reducing it to a single problem again by accepting comments only via email? Then you can bring the usual tools to bear - forcing server retries, greylists, whitelists, blacklists, analysis, etc.
Just provide the comment email address at the bottom of the article and a uid in the address would make it post to the proper article/story/whatever. Reply to email addresses would have a different uid as well.
There's a video out as well, so you can make due for a bit if the display goes out. And personally I'd just pull the drive before sending it back - or better yet, encrypt it on the volume and rely on your backups.
I suppose if Crichton has a legitimate test for his hypothesis, you might be a good candidate to help him disprove it. So I think we need a more succinct testable definition of what he is suggesting.
But but but... the article isn't intent on proving global climate change. Existing data already establishes that - heck you can establish causation by creating a closed environment changing the percent CO2 in it and exposing it to sunlight periodically - it's called a greenhouse.
The article's intent seems to be to confirm that the other 150k of data doesn't deviate from the previously assessed dataset.
Is that you Michael? Just read it and I don't agree with your assertion that atheism yields a dogmatic believe in something else as a replacement.
But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form. You can not believe in God, but you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
Such an assertion implies that the following person does not exist: Not religious Not a bigot Not a sexist Not patriotic Either no passions, or passionate about something but not unrealistic or defensive about it.
It is actually possible for someone to have no meaning in their life and be okay with it. Such a person would not show up on the radar though by definition. If they are not predisposed to group-think or following, it is likely they will be alone or conduct their life within a very small circle, such as their immediate family.
But I do have a question about your assertion. Do you feel that if a person becomes addicted to something, that addiction can replace their need for a religion? ie, alcoholism, drugs, Worlds of Warcraft?
I do think it's that simple - it's just that the you cannot use the same processes that got you into an unworkable situation to get you out of it again.
A friend of mine once told me, the way to build an effective emergency system is to cause an emergency and see what people use and what they discard - the parts and processes they still use are the once to build the system out of.
Walkie Talkies, a truck unrolling a spool of fiber down the street, a bunch of bystanders on exercise bikes generating power, and a lot of paper notes being passed around to people with running shoes - if you don't see creative stuff like this it's going to fail eventually.
So now someone can get everyone in Britain arrested by cracking their computers and packing them full of files & calling them in? That's outstanding!
This law ought to be overturned if only for the reason that a computer is connected to systems outside of the person's residence. It leaves a potential of arrest similar to having violent porn on their television or for what someone else says on their phone.
It's not difficult at all. Correlation does not imply causality.
And pornography is only considered lewd because we're required to keep our clothes on to be "decent". If a woman could go jogging naked legally, a picture of her naked would be such a big deal.
I bet that actually owning restraints and a whip are next...
It's the coast guard. Usually when they get engaged, it's your own country being attacked. What's questionable about *actually* defending your own home?
1. Are you an idiot? Just because a vulnerability isn't advertised doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If someone blew the WTC attacks out into the public explaining how it will occur, etc, would you honestly blame the whistle blower if they pulled it off anyway? Oh! Look! He explained how to do it!
Government contractors are riddled with questionable ethical behavior including *suprise* Espionage! I worked at TRW at one point only to have a really nice middle eastern sysadmin escorted out of the premises & deported when they found out he was installing keyloggers on the systems.
2. Yes, you are, in fact. Driving an auto on a road is nothing like running a cutter in the waters off of Alaska!
3. Ever heard of a repeater? Attach one to the boat to grab local signals and throw it further out to see, where line of site is fabulous.
Just because espionage doesn't happen in your own life doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
What's the logic in this rule? The Senators had to look it up at some point too? I mean, they weren't born knowing what cloture is were they? In order to be clear to insult the guy we just couldn't be briefed on what cloture is, then stand in front of a televised program and explain it horrifically wrong to the entire world.
No, no no. You're thinking insurance premiums = health care costs, I'm saying health spending accounts and actual health costs. I.e., self insured with a non-taxable account where you queue up your funds for health related expenditures. You're following the US media for your info - big mistake. When the masses transition from one system to another, the old system loses its economics of scale and the media like to say "ooooh, look! disaster!". Health insurance premiums are increasing because the healthy people are getting out of the pool or generally decreasing in numbers (older population) - I just stopped w/ insurance last year. The media wants to tout the doom and gloom so they follow the "increasing costs of healthcare" by ignoring the self insured who are seeing a *decrease* in costs because they don't have the fatso's as baggage. You didn't forget about your SUV driving stereotypical fat American already, did you? My actual health costs last year cost $274 and added $1094 to my spending account, tax free that would have gone to an insurance company.
Next up, I don't have a boss - I own my own software company. Let's hear it for small business America, Where you can write off the cost of your car maintenance, gas and trips to the UK!
And I'm curious about your logic - you want me to be worried about the deficit in DOLLARS, but the DOLLAR is decreasing in value - So we can buy our way out of the debt with our own dollars once the value is diminished, thereby what? Increasing the value of the dollar because the US deficit just decreased? And then the Americanized-Mexican immigrant population becomes competitive to foreign labour and voila! Isolationism comes back in vogue.
And again with the popularized Media! Moving target William, try to keep up.
Do you really think the US government is "spending" money on Terrorism(r)? Again, the media likes to tout the big numbers. But the big secret is that Haliburton and the other government contractors are a ruse. If a group of people spends gargantuan amounts of money on a hopeless cause by paying themselves, how much money have they lost really? Have you noticed that American defense contractors profits went through the roof!? And those people who work for them turned around and bought iPods(r) for hundreds of dollars from a US corporation that bought the parts for a fraction of that? Only a sliver of the money is actually leaving the country! The media will help on this one - listen to the complaints about money pledged to Iraq and Afghanistan rebuilding that ISN'T GETTING THERE! And with a country like the US that's borderline Fascist, money in the government and money in the corporations is not any different. They just give it back and forth.
Let's tally up the cost again, shall we? One terrorist = $20.000.000.000 in play. A few billion to the Department of Homeland Security to spend on what? American airports, American emergency services & American cities. Several billion goes to Defense contractors for planes, trucks and bombs to invade a country. A few million go back to politicians from the contractors to keep the pump flowin. A few billion go to shore up the insurance companies and airline industry. Ahah! Problem! We need fuel to keep this shell game up! Whew! That was close - turns out we invaded a OIL RICH country and another to secure a pipeline deal - not much of a problem after all. The highest cost to any of these companies is the labor. The predominantly American contractor labor.
Of course it doesn't have anything to do with terrorism. If we were stupid enough to just act directly on the true evils in the world, it would cost us a fortune! And that doesn't bode well for that SUV or my health spending account.
That message board and a Sager rep in Florida got linux running on my system and pinned down a video driver for the embedded video camera. I've replaced a hard disk w/ no hassles and a quick turn around. After seeing the complaints about the Alienware support, my experience is that Sager's support more than breaks even.
Off once more, but I have to say "health tourism" is definately a cheerful way of looking at a permanent side effect to your system. So while health spending accounts and direct negotiating drive prices downward, yours will be entrenched in a permanent government tax-grab.
The little know secret about US healthcare is that if you walk into a US hospital they *will* treat you regardless of whether or not you have money. What's more, if you pay for your own services you can negotiate the price to what you would reasonably expect or settle the larger debts for 50% or below. It just requires a backbone.
And I suppose the national debt would keep me up at night if it were my own, but as the name suggests, it belongs to the nation. Again, another misunderstanding you have - The national debt is a credit line extended to US corporations backed by the rest of the world. The government extends money to companies and keeps consumer taxes low which causes spending towards the corporations. The backers get a healthy return on their money. If the US aggressively paid off the national debt and got it back to zero an excessive amount of potential would be pulled from the world market. For what? not much. Almost immediately re-leveraging would occur to put that energy back in play. So you can either store your money on the shelf in pint sized containers and marvel at your pile or keep it in the system and use it at the expense of your comfort. It's $27000 per person. That's less than the SUV in front of me, so don't let the big numbers scare you so.
And in case anyone has missed the fact that you live in the UK, I'll emphasize that point now and remind you that England is the one who turned over the Palestine territories to Israeli colonists, screwed up the national borders between India and Pakistan and is not even remotely capable of the retaliation and impact the US has had on the region from which the terrorists came.
But as far as UK endeavors go - Whatever happened to that little Mars thing you had there for a bit - The Beagle 2 or something? Did you ever get it to bark?
No I don't. I drive a toyota corolla and ride a mountain bike. Stop listening to stereotypes. I don't suppose you have a subset of your country's population taking advantage of it and being wasteful do you? Squatters on a socialized healthcare system? Excessive and ridiculous taxing? train bombings?
You should have bought a sager. http://sagernotebook.com./ That's all alienware notebooks are, with a paint job. And their customer support is nice and responsive. 1 year warranty, etc.
But I thought Alienware has always been repackaged overpriced Sager notebooks? The just slap a coat of paint on, then charge another $400 for their "value added" service.
Sweet Jesus! I'm in the wrong business if I can repaint a notebook and sell it for an additional $1270 bucks!
Okay, lemme hold my excitement and see the specs for the difference: Windows Home edition vs media edition Whoa! The video actually has *less* memory than the Sager! 80G vs 120G hard disk And you're missing a bluetooth adapter that the sager has too!
So you actually get LESS machine for $1270 more! Balancing out the hard disk only makes the Sager $3304, or $75 more expensive.
Okay, I'm in! Anyone interested in buying this notebook, send me your money and I'll sell you a custom airbushed *cough* notebook. Free shipping!
His suggestion that the community sell their souls for a higher user base comes with drawbacks. Higher base = more exploits, more support demands, pandering to a different crowd and taking energy away from the current one.
It won't be but a few more generations before the bridge between the technically savvy and the hip is finished. For crying out loud, the popularity of the personal computer is barely 20 years old. There is no need for it's fans to have to go on a crusade to expand its base. It will happen on its own in its own way.
This is an ironic call to arms from a guy who emphasized the need to scratch an itch when adding to the community. If there isn't a real problem noone's going to bust down the doors to fix it. And being out of the mainstream is not a problem.
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looks like encryption is your only friend on these things then.
What about reducing it to a single problem again by accepting comments only via email? Then you can bring the usual tools to bear - forcing server retries, greylists, whitelists, blacklists, analysis, etc.
Just provide the comment email address at the bottom of the article and a uid in the address would make it post to the proper article/story/whatever. Reply to email addresses would have a different uid as well.
Make the mail server moderate for you.
There's a video out as well, so you can make due for a bit if the display goes out. And personally I'd just pull the drive before sending it back - or better yet, encrypt it on the volume and rely on your backups.
You are keeping backups, aren't you?
I suppose if Crichton has a legitimate test for his hypothesis, you might be a good candidate to help him disprove it. So I think we need a more succinct testable definition of what he is suggesting.
But but but... the article isn't intent on proving global climate change. Existing data already establishes that - heck you can establish causation by creating a closed environment changing the percent CO2 in it and exposing it to sunlight periodically - it's called a greenhouse.
The article's intent seems to be to confirm that the other 150k of data doesn't deviate from the previously assessed dataset.
Is that you Michael? Just read it and I don't agree with your assertion that atheism yields a dogmatic believe in something else as a replacement.
But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form. You can not believe in God, but you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
Such an assertion implies that the following person does not exist:
Not religious
Not a bigot
Not a sexist
Not patriotic
Either no passions, or passionate about something but not unrealistic or defensive about it.
It is actually possible for someone to have no meaning in their life and be okay with it. Such a person would not show up on the radar though by definition. If they are not predisposed to group-think or following, it is likely they will be alone or conduct their life within a very small circle, such as their immediate family.
But I do have a question about your assertion. Do you feel that if a person becomes addicted to something, that addiction can replace their need for a religion? ie, alcoholism, drugs, Worlds of Warcraft?
Do you want me to suffer for my political views?
It appears you already are...
I do think it's that simple - it's just that the you cannot use the same processes that got you into an unworkable situation to get you out of it again.
A friend of mine once told me, the way to build an effective emergency system is to cause an emergency and see what people use and what they discard - the parts and processes they still use are the once to build the system out of.
Walkie Talkies, a truck unrolling a spool of fiber down the street, a bunch of bystanders on exercise bikes generating power, and a lot of paper notes being passed around to people with running shoes - if you don't see creative stuff like this it's going to fail eventually.
So now someone can get everyone in Britain arrested by cracking their computers and packing them full of files & calling them in? That's outstanding!
This law ought to be overturned if only for the reason that a computer is connected to systems outside of the person's residence. It leaves a potential of arrest similar to having violent porn on their television or for what someone else says on their phone.
Good Luck Chaps!
Eric Rudolph claimed the Christian's god told him to kill people. I think we should ban gods.
I'd laugh my ass off if she had a son who was immediately arrested for such possession.
It's not difficult at all. Correlation does not imply causality.
And pornography is only considered lewd because we're required to keep our clothes on to be "decent". If a woman could go jogging naked legally, a picture of her naked would be such a big deal.
I bet that actually owning restraints and a whip are next...
It's the coast guard. Usually when they get engaged, it's your own country being attacked. What's questionable about *actually* defending your own home?
yes, and wouldn't it suck if you're riding around in that and your comms systems shut down? Seems like a legitimate requirement to me.
1. Are you an idiot? Just because a vulnerability isn't advertised doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If someone blew the WTC attacks out into the public explaining how it will occur, etc, would you honestly blame the whistle blower if they pulled it off anyway? Oh! Look! He explained how to do it!
Government contractors are riddled with questionable ethical behavior including *suprise* Espionage! I worked at TRW at one point only to have a really nice middle eastern sysadmin escorted out of the premises & deported when they found out he was installing keyloggers on the systems.
2. Yes, you are, in fact. Driving an auto on a road is nothing like running a cutter in the waters off of Alaska!
3. Ever heard of a repeater? Attach one to the boat to grab local signals and throw it further out to see, where line of site is fabulous.
Just because espionage doesn't happen in your own life doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Hey look! They have a snazzy web form for emailing complaints directly to the contacts!
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http://www.teamdeepwater.com/contacts/email/?send
It's a little hokey - change the number at the end of the url to change the contact you're emailing. This are linked from the contacts page.
Here's the official take on the project:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/sh
I'm sure it would be a shock to the project if a mob of people started calling in to complain:
http://www.icgsdeepwater.com/contacts/
CPO Jeff Murphy
Integrated Deepwater System
Deepwater Public Affairs
Office: 202-267-2649
Facsimile: 202-267-4020
Margaret Mitchell-Jones
Communications Director
Integrated Coast Guard Systems
Office: 571-218-3352
Facsimile: 571-218-3342
Jim McIngvale
Director, Sector Communications
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Office: 228-935-3971
Facsimile: 228-935-5766
Kenneth B. Ross
Senior Manager, Strategic Communication
Maritime Systems & Sensors, Lockheed Martin
Office: 856-722-6941
Facsimile: 856-273-5744
What's the logic in this rule? The Senators had to look it up at some point too? I mean, they weren't born knowing what cloture is were they? In order to be clear to insult the guy we just couldn't be briefed on what cloture is, then stand in front of a televised program and explain it horrifically wrong to the entire world.
No, no no. You're thinking insurance premiums = health care costs, I'm saying health spending accounts and actual health costs. I.e., self insured with a non-taxable account where you queue up your funds for health related expenditures. You're following the US media for your info - big mistake. When the masses transition from one system to another, the old system loses its economics of scale and the media like to say "ooooh, look! disaster!". Health insurance premiums are increasing because the healthy people are getting out of the pool or generally decreasing in numbers (older population) - I just stopped w/ insurance last year. The media wants to tout the doom and gloom so they follow the "increasing costs of healthcare" by ignoring the self insured who are seeing a *decrease* in costs because they don't have the fatso's as baggage. You didn't forget about your SUV driving stereotypical fat American already, did you? My actual health costs last year cost $274 and added $1094 to my spending account, tax free that would have gone to an insurance company.
Next up, I don't have a boss - I own my own software company. Let's hear it for small business America, Where you can write off the cost of your car maintenance, gas and trips to the UK!
And I'm curious about your logic - you want me to be worried about the deficit in DOLLARS, but the DOLLAR is decreasing in value - So we can buy our way out of the debt with our own dollars once the value is diminished, thereby what? Increasing the value of the dollar because the US deficit just decreased? And then the Americanized-Mexican immigrant population becomes competitive to foreign labour and voila! Isolationism comes back in vogue.
And again with the popularized Media! Moving target William, try to keep up.
Do you really think the US government is "spending" money on Terrorism(r)? Again, the media likes to tout the big numbers. But the big secret is that Haliburton and the other government contractors are a ruse. If a group of people spends gargantuan amounts of money on a hopeless cause by paying themselves, how much money have they lost really? Have you noticed that American defense contractors profits went through the roof!? And those people who work for them turned around and bought iPods(r) for hundreds of dollars from a US corporation that bought the parts for a fraction of that? Only a sliver of the money is actually leaving the country! The media will help on this one - listen to the complaints about money pledged to Iraq and Afghanistan rebuilding that ISN'T GETTING THERE! And with a country like the US that's borderline Fascist, money in the government and money in the corporations is not any different. They just give it back and forth.
Let's tally up the cost again, shall we? One terrorist = $20.000.000.000 in play. A few billion to the Department of Homeland Security to spend on what? American airports, American emergency services & American cities. Several billion goes to Defense contractors for planes, trucks and bombs to invade a country. A few million go back to politicians from the contractors to keep the pump flowin. A few billion go to shore up the insurance companies and airline industry. Ahah! Problem! We need fuel to keep this shell game up! Whew! That was close - turns out we invaded a OIL RICH country and another to secure a pipeline deal - not much of a problem after all. The highest cost to any of these companies is the labor. The predominantly American contractor labor.
Of course it doesn't have anything to do with terrorism. If we were stupid enough to just act directly on the true evils in the world, it would cost us a fortune! And that doesn't bode well for that SUV or my health spending account.
So, how'd we do? Are you caught up yet?
Overpriced underperformance my ass.
That message board and a Sager rep in Florida got linux running on my system and pinned down a video driver for the embedded video camera. I've replaced a hard disk w/ no hassles and a quick turn around. After seeing the complaints about the Alienware support, my experience is that Sager's support more than breaks even.
Off once more, but I have to say "health tourism" is definately a cheerful way of looking at a permanent side effect to your system. So while health spending accounts and direct negotiating drive prices downward, yours will be entrenched in a permanent government tax-grab.
The little know secret about US healthcare is that if you walk into a US hospital they *will* treat you regardless of whether or not you have money. What's more, if you pay for your own services you can negotiate the price to what you would reasonably expect or settle the larger debts for 50% or below. It just requires a backbone.
And I suppose the national debt would keep me up at night if it were my own, but as the name suggests, it belongs to the nation. Again, another misunderstanding you have - The national debt is a credit line extended to US corporations backed by the rest of the world. The government extends money to companies and keeps consumer taxes low which causes spending towards the corporations. The backers get a healthy return on their money. If the US aggressively paid off the national debt and got it back to zero an excessive amount of potential would be pulled from the world market. For what? not much. Almost immediately re-leveraging would occur to put that energy back in play. So you can either store your money on the shelf in pint sized containers and marvel at your pile or keep it in the system and use it at the expense of your comfort. It's $27000 per person. That's less than the SUV in front of me, so don't let the big numbers scare you so.
And in case anyone has missed the fact that you live in the UK, I'll emphasize that point now and remind you that England is the one who turned over the Palestine territories to Israeli colonists, screwed up the national borders between India and Pakistan and is not even remotely capable of the retaliation and impact the US has had on the region from which the terrorists came.
But as far as UK endeavors go - Whatever happened to that little Mars thing you had there for a bit - The Beagle 2 or something? Did you ever get it to bark?
No I don't. I drive a toyota corolla and ride a mountain bike. Stop listening to stereotypes. I don't suppose you have a subset of your country's population taking advantage of it and being wasteful do you? Squatters on a socialized healthcare system? Excessive and ridiculous taxing? train bombings?
I'll take getting stuck behind an SUV any day.
You should have bought a sager. http://sagernotebook.com./ That's all alienware notebooks are, with a paint job. And their customer support is nice and responsive. 1 year warranty, etc.
But I thought Alienware has always been repackaged overpriced Sager notebooks? The just slap a coat of paint on, then charge another $400 for their "value added" service.
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For example: http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/AMD_systems.ht
This system is $3,229.00 before customization
The equivalent Alienware notebook w/ a different paint scheme:
$4,499.00
Sweet Jesus! I'm in the wrong business if I can repaint a notebook and sell it for an additional $1270 bucks!
Okay, lemme hold my excitement and see the specs for the difference:
Windows Home edition vs media edition
Whoa! The video actually has *less* memory than the Sager!
80G vs 120G hard disk
And you're missing a bluetooth adapter that the sager has too!
So you actually get LESS machine for $1270 more! Balancing out the hard disk only makes the Sager $3304, or $75 more expensive.
Okay, I'm in! Anyone interested in buying this notebook, send me your money and I'll sell you a custom airbushed *cough* notebook. Free shipping!
His suggestion that the community sell their souls for a higher user base comes with drawbacks. Higher base = more exploits, more support demands, pandering to a different crowd and taking energy away from the current one.
It won't be but a few more generations before the bridge between the technically savvy and the hip is finished. For crying out loud, the popularity of the personal computer is barely 20 years old. There is no need for it's fans to have to go on a crusade to expand its base. It will happen on its own in its own way.
This is an ironic call to arms from a guy who emphasized the need to scratch an itch when adding to the community. If there isn't a real problem noone's going to bust down the doors to fix it. And being out of the mainstream is not a problem.
Retorted by the man with karma to burn.