Actually, it's not the planet we should worry about. If we annihilated ourselves tomorrow in a nuclear war, the planet would shrug it off. If we burned every ounce of oil in two weeks, the planet would shrug it off. In 500 million years time, the Earth would still be there, just without humans.
We aren't trying to protect the planet - we are trying to protect ourselves. Concern about global warming is nothing to do with saving the planet, it has everything to do with saving ourselves.
If our technological and industrial society is to survive, we have to address these issues and make sure we still have a relatively cheap energy source that doesn't (long term) threaten the existence of that society. If, through hubris, we allow this society to collapse, there cannot be another industrial revolution for a few hundred million years - because all of the easy-to-get-at resources have been used up: the low hanging fruit of easy to get coal and oil has gone - you now need a technologically advanced society to actually exploit these. We have one chance at surviving long term, otherwise humanity will be doomed to a Middle Ages style existence until it finally dies out.
The planet on the other hand doesn't need saving. The sun has another 5 billion years of main sequence, and the Earth will shrug anything off. However, our society cannot do the same. _All_ concern at doing things to not pollute the environment is not for the purpose of 'saving the planet', it's for the purpose of 'saving human civilization'!
So package foo depends on package bar, and package bar depends on foo.
All you do is:
rpm -Uvh foo.rpm bar.rpm
Circular dependency solved. The circular dependency 'problem' (it never actually really existed) was more of a problem of lack of good documentation than a problem with the actual 'rpm' program. However, this is a problem that was solved years ago - I haven't used a distro in the last 5 years that hasn't had a system like yum, up2date or apt which does all the dependency resolution for you.
There is a method that does that. http://autopackage.org/ . It is designed explicitly for 3rd party software. RPM + yum or.deb + apt is fine for system packages (i.e. stuff directly supported by the distro), but for everything else, Autopackage is what people want.
From/usr/games/fortune: A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens
A lawyer who looks like a French Nobleman is executed in his place.
The Metamorphosis LITE(tm)
-- by Franz Kafka
A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed.
Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
-- by J.R.R. Tolkien
Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.
Hamlet LITE(tm)
-- by Wm. Shakespeare
A college student on vacation with family problems, a screwy
girl-friend and a mother who won't act her age. % A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens
A man in love with a girl who loves another man who looks just
like him has his head chopped off in France because of a mean
lady who knits.
Crime and Punishment LITE(tm)
-- by Fyodor Dostoevski
A man sends a nasty letter to a pawnbroker, but later
feels guilty and apologizes.
Honda made a motorcycle called the Blackbird. The Suzuki Hayabusa is Suzuki's answer to the Honda Blackbird. A hayabusa is a kind of bird that eats blackbirds - that's why Suzuki chose the name:-)
Please turn your phone off in meetings or while at dinner - and especially while driving! The former are merely being polite, the latter is not killing a motorcyclist because you were distracted by your phone. Incidentally, the latter - using a handheld phone wile driving, carries a £1000 fine here.
AC pointed out the continued existence of the moon, but no. When you get down to subatomic scale, everything is pretty sparse. Secondly, these miniscule black holes are so small that the event horizon is a fraction of the size of a proton.
Just like a 10kg lump of uranium doesn't suddenly turn into a nuclear explosion all by itself, the lack of density of anything else around the micro black hole with its smaller-than-a-proton event horizon means that the chances of even one other particle hitting it before it evaporates (let alone the several solar masses of stuff needed to make it dangerous) are billions to one against.
He would then become an illegal immigrant. While he may incorporate in his home country, he's still doing the work in the United States - so to be legal he would either need to be on an L1 intracompany transferee visa for the new company he incorporates back home, or on another H1-B visa for this new line of work.
The conditions as I understand them on the H1-B is that if you so much as mow a friend's lawn as a favour, you've just become an illegal immigrant. *ANY* work other than as specified by the visa is illegal, paid or not. It's not likely that you'll get busted and deported for mowing a friend's lawn. However, since you have to report your *worldwide* income to the IRS, the fact that you've just reported income for work that wasn't allowed by your H1-B visa will be a dead giveaway you've been working illegally. If you don't report this income, then not only have you worked illegally, you're now also guilty of tax evasion!
The questioner really ought to ask an immigration lawyer. But at the end of the day, unless he gets permission from the INS to do this work, if he wants to remain legal he should stop making money off his website now.
Good grief. Even my ancient VAX (circa 1988-1989) running OpenBSD will get you logged in with the latest version of ssh in a matter of seconds. Your cisco box, I suspect, is from the cretaceous period.
You should encrypt on the LAN anyway unless there is a really good reason not to - many hacks/information thefts/destruction of data etc. is caused by company insiders. There is no such thing as a trusted network (except perhaps the network in your house). The expectation that a company LAN is secure has got many people burned in the past. Friends don't let friends pass login credentials unencrypted.
While your post is obviously a joke (I note that when there's a story with elements many Slashdotters don't understand, they make corny jokes about it), it's probably worth mentioning what ringing in this context actually is.
"Ringing", in electronics, is small unwanted oscillations in the signal. It is usually caused by stray capacitances and inductances in the circuit. Stray capacitances and inductances are caused not by components in the circuit, but just the innate capacitances etc. of things like tracks on the printed circuit board (two PCB tracks close together naturally form a very small capacitor). A great deal of thought is needed in laying out some printed circuit boards to minimize stray capacitances and inductances.
A quick tip: Bureau + cracy = bureaucracy (remember just to add 'cracy' to bureau whenever you want to spell that word, then you won't wrote 'beaurocracy').
In any case, I think people's expectations are unrealistically high at expecting an almost perfect success record on a machine in an environment we know little about, a couple of AU from Earth. Bureaucracy has little to do with it. A success rate of Mars of over 50% is stunningly successful if you think about what it takes to send hardware that far and have it still working afterwards.
They need to offer more hardware choices like Porsche needs to offer a Geo Metro type car. They aren't in the razor thin margin box shifter market. They would probably make less profit if they did start selling razor thin margin Dell-alikes.
Apple has chosen its market, and I doubt they will ever make 'average joe' desktop machines. The 'average joe' desktop margin is the land of razor thin margins where you have to ship vast number of boxes making little profit on each unit, and it would undoubtedly dilute Apple's brand. It's a bit like how Porsche make expensive and fast sports cars, and don't cater for the Geo Metro market. Apple's business model works for Apple, and I suspect they would be less profitable if they tried to enter 'low end Dell/Gateway box shifter' territory.
I do. It's orders of magnitude better than wireless (I also have wireless, but it's not very useful for anything where you rely on there being no jitter. I use wireless for convenience with the laptop - but if I want to play music to a remote hi-fi, or play video, wired is the *only* way to do it reliably without sound or video stuttering from packet loss).
Wired is simply faster, more reliable and more secure.
My house is also built out of stone (with 3 foot thick walls) so wireless also has the disadvantage that it only really works in the same room as the access point. When I renovated the house, I flood wired with UTP so I have several sockets in each room which can be used for phone, ethernet or audio. (Yes, an audiophile would probably faint at the idea of running audio signals through cat5e, but I can't tell the difference in sound quality).
I think this particular technology is not going to be useful in the 'is he going to blow up a plane' stakes. It doesn't exactly read the patterns in memory and give you a dump, it works more like a lie detector. You can train yourself to give a false result on a lie detector. A plane bomber could easily train themselves to believe with all their being that no, they aren't going to blow up this plane, when actually scanned - then change their intentions once they board.
Short of an actual memory dump, these technologies will always be easily defeated.
OK, if it's 3000v and the inverter is running at sufficient frequency (I somehow doubt it's 50/60Hz - probably more like tens or hundreds of KHz) there is a vague possibility that there could be some capacatative coupling if there's a manufacturing defect.
However, given that these things are tested to be CE marked, I would agree with an other poster to this thread that the house wiring is the first place to look.
Since it's an indie artist publishing their own music, who exactly are the 91 cents of royalties going to (surely, the artist owns all the copyright on their own stuff?) Or is this just another name for a tax?
Huh? It says people on the sex offenders register, not all UK citizens. Believe it or not, only a very small fraction of 1% of UK citizens is on the sex offenders register.
The issue of the feasability of any such proposal is another thing entirely.
I saw a photo of these things. A panel with some LEDs, a bulging "object" and a few wires? Most people are not familiar with this show. When driving by a bridge at 30mph, and noting a device with a bulging object and wires on it which looked awfully bomb-like, what were they supposed to think?
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Actually, it's not the planet we should worry about. If we annihilated ourselves tomorrow in a nuclear war, the planet would shrug it off. If we burned every ounce of oil in two weeks, the planet would shrug it off. In 500 million years time, the Earth would still be there, just without humans.
We aren't trying to protect the planet - we are trying to protect ourselves. Concern about global warming is nothing to do with saving the planet, it has everything to do with saving ourselves.
If our technological and industrial society is to survive, we have to address these issues and make sure we still have a relatively cheap energy source that doesn't (long term) threaten the existence of that society. If, through hubris, we allow this society to collapse, there cannot be another industrial revolution for a few hundred million years - because all of the easy-to-get-at resources have been used up: the low hanging fruit of easy to get coal and oil has gone - you now need a technologically advanced society to actually exploit these. We have one chance at surviving long term, otherwise humanity will be doomed to a Middle Ages style existence until it finally dies out.
The planet on the other hand doesn't need saving. The sun has another 5 billion years of main sequence, and the Earth will shrug anything off. However, our society cannot do the same. _All_ concern at doing things to not pollute the environment is not for the purpose of 'saving the planet', it's for the purpose of 'saving human civilization'!
Circular dependency hell?
So package foo depends on package bar, and package bar depends on foo.
All you do is:
rpm -Uvh foo.rpm bar.rpm
Circular dependency solved. The circular dependency 'problem' (it never actually really existed) was more of a problem of lack of good documentation than a problem with the actual 'rpm' program. However, this is a problem that was solved years ago - I haven't used a distro in the last 5 years that hasn't had a system like yum, up2date or apt which does all the dependency resolution for you.
There is a method that does that. http://autopackage.org/ . It is designed explicitly for 3rd party software. RPM + yum or .deb + apt is fine for system packages (i.e. stuff directly supported by the distro), but for everything else, Autopackage is what people want.
From /usr/games/fortune:
A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens
A lawyer who looks like a French Nobleman is executed in his place.
The Metamorphosis LITE(tm)
-- by Franz Kafka
A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed.
Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
-- by J.R.R. Tolkien
Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.
Hamlet LITE(tm)
-- by Wm. Shakespeare
A college student on vacation with family problems, a screwy
girl-friend and a mother who won't act her age.
%
A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens
A man in love with a girl who loves another man who looks just
like him has his head chopped off in France because of a mean
lady who knits.
Crime and Punishment LITE(tm)
-- by Fyodor Dostoevski
A man sends a nasty letter to a pawnbroker, but later
feels guilty and apologizes.
Try "The Battle for Wesnoth" http://www.wesnoth.org/ . It's GPL Free software too.
I hope your relay contraption will at least have some nixie tubes involved :-)
This guy should go for an encore - and make water gates with tri-state outputs so you can have a water bus!
No, not at all.
:-)
Honda made a motorcycle called the Blackbird.
The Suzuki Hayabusa is Suzuki's answer to the Honda Blackbird. A hayabusa is a kind of bird that eats blackbirds - that's why Suzuki chose the name
Please turn your phone off in meetings or while at dinner - and especially while driving! The former are merely being polite, the latter is not killing a motorcyclist because you were distracted by your phone. Incidentally, the latter - using a handheld phone wile driving, carries a £1000 fine here.
AC pointed out the continued existence of the moon, but no. When you get down to subatomic scale, everything is pretty sparse. Secondly, these miniscule black holes are so small that the event horizon is a fraction of the size of a proton.
Just like a 10kg lump of uranium doesn't suddenly turn into a nuclear explosion all by itself, the lack of density of anything else around the micro black hole with its smaller-than-a-proton event horizon means that the chances of even one other particle hitting it before it evaporates (let alone the several solar masses of stuff needed to make it dangerous) are billions to one against.
He would then become an illegal immigrant. While he may incorporate in his home country, he's still doing the work in the United States - so to be legal he would either need to be on an L1 intracompany transferee visa for the new company he incorporates back home, or on another H1-B visa for this new line of work.
The conditions as I understand them on the H1-B is that if you so much as mow a friend's lawn as a favour, you've just become an illegal immigrant. *ANY* work other than as specified by the visa is illegal, paid or not. It's not likely that you'll get busted and deported for mowing a friend's lawn. However, since you have to report your *worldwide* income to the IRS, the fact that you've just reported income for work that wasn't allowed by your H1-B visa will be a dead giveaway you've been working illegally. If you don't report this income, then not only have you worked illegally, you're now also guilty of tax evasion!
The questioner really ought to ask an immigration lawyer. But at the end of the day, unless he gets permission from the INS to do this work, if he wants to remain legal he should stop making money off his website now.
Bird viruses? Linux is a frickin' PENGUIN!
Good grief. Even my ancient VAX (circa 1988-1989) running OpenBSD will get you logged in with the latest version of ssh in a matter of seconds. Your cisco box, I suspect, is from the cretaceous period.
You should encrypt on the LAN anyway unless there is a really good reason not to - many hacks/information thefts/destruction of data etc. is caused by company insiders. There is no such thing as a trusted network (except perhaps the network in your house). The expectation that a company LAN is secure has got many people burned in the past. Friends don't let friends pass login credentials unencrypted.
While your post is obviously a joke (I note that when there's a story with elements many Slashdotters don't understand, they make corny jokes about it), it's probably worth mentioning what ringing in this context actually is.
"Ringing", in electronics, is small unwanted oscillations in the signal. It is usually caused by stray capacitances and inductances in the circuit. Stray capacitances and inductances are caused not by components in the circuit, but just the innate capacitances etc. of things like tracks on the printed circuit board (two PCB tracks close together naturally form a very small capacitor). A great deal of thought is needed in laying out some printed circuit boards to minimize stray capacitances and inductances.
A quick tip: Bureau + cracy = bureaucracy (remember just to add 'cracy' to bureau whenever you want to spell that word, then you won't wrote 'beaurocracy').
In any case, I think people's expectations are unrealistically high at expecting an almost perfect success record on a machine in an environment we know little about, a couple of AU from Earth. Bureaucracy has little to do with it. A success rate of Mars of over 50% is stunningly successful if you think about what it takes to send hardware that far and have it still working afterwards.
They need to offer more hardware choices like Porsche needs to offer a Geo Metro type car. They aren't in the razor thin margin box shifter market. They would probably make less profit if they did start selling razor thin margin Dell-alikes.
Apple has chosen its market, and I doubt they will ever make 'average joe' desktop machines. The 'average joe' desktop margin is the land of razor thin margins where you have to ship vast number of boxes making little profit on each unit, and it would undoubtedly dilute Apple's brand. It's a bit like how Porsche make expensive and fast sports cars, and don't cater for the Geo Metro market. Apple's business model works for Apple, and I suspect they would be less profitable if they tried to enter 'low end Dell/Gateway box shifter' territory.
I do. It's orders of magnitude better than wireless (I also have wireless, but it's not very useful for anything where you rely on there being no jitter. I use wireless for convenience with the laptop - but if I want to play music to a remote hi-fi, or play video, wired is the *only* way to do it reliably without sound or video stuttering from packet loss).
Wired is simply faster, more reliable and more secure.
My house is also built out of stone (with 3 foot thick walls) so wireless also has the disadvantage that it only really works in the same room as the access point. When I renovated the house, I flood wired with UTP so I have several sockets in each room which can be used for phone, ethernet or audio. (Yes, an audiophile would probably faint at the idea of running audio signals through cat5e, but I can't tell the difference in sound quality).
Companies do that already - just not for consumer desktops. We buy most of our HP machines sans OS.
I think this particular technology is not going to be useful in the 'is he going to blow up a plane' stakes. It doesn't exactly read the patterns in memory and give you a dump, it works more like a lie detector. You can train yourself to give a false result on a lie detector. A plane bomber could easily train themselves to believe with all their being that no, they aren't going to blow up this plane, when actually scanned - then change their intentions once they board.
Short of an actual memory dump, these technologies will always be easily defeated.
OK, if it's 3000v and the inverter is running at sufficient frequency (I somehow doubt it's 50/60Hz - probably more like tens or hundreds of KHz) there is a vague possibility that there could be some capacatative coupling if there's a manufacturing defect.
However, given that these things are tested to be CE marked, I would agree with an other poster to this thread that the house wiring is the first place to look.
Well, actually the laptop will have an AC supply. The laptop will have an inverter in it for the EL backlight, producing on the order of 150 volts AC.
The LCD backlight - typically runs somewhere in the region of 150V ac. There will be an inverter in the laptop to produce this voltage.
Since it's an indie artist publishing their own music, who exactly are the 91 cents of royalties going to (surely, the artist owns all the copyright on their own stuff?) Or is this just another name for a tax?
Huh? It says people on the sex offenders register, not all UK citizens. Believe it or not, only a very small fraction of 1% of UK citizens is on the sex offenders register.
The issue of the feasability of any such proposal is another thing entirely.
I saw a photo of these things. A panel with some LEDs, a bulging "object" and a few wires? Most people are not familiar with this show. When driving by a bridge at 30mph, and noting a device with a bulging object and wires on it which looked awfully bomb-like, what were they supposed to think?