Right, and "handwaving" it shouldn't ever be accepted, not by the journal, not by any readers. If the journal has a limit on the number of pages, then the journal or the paper's author should have another way of obtaining the paper in its entirety, including everything necessary to reproduce the experiment.
That's true. Not to mention the pressure of not to challenge mainstream ideas.
The problem with challenging mainstream ideas is that it makes you an easy target. The larger the audience you seek, the more people will target you.
If you discover that gravity is wrong, you don't write a paper about it and hope it gets printed, you go to your colleague and say "Hey! Check this out!" while you stand on his ceiling. Then the two of you go to the department head and stand on opposite walls. Then stop by the local university and levitate over the Dean's desk while you demonstrate to the Dean how he can do this in a repeatable fashion too.
Then you write a paper and explain how this is done, how its repeated, how these other people have successfully repeated your experiments, and get that published.
As a graduate student, I feel pressure from my advisor to not mention discrepant data or those conclusions/questions which detract from my overall hypotheses.
Don't give into the pressure. Proving an idea wrong is far more useful than showing that an idea might be right. If you can repeatedly demonstrate that any given hypothesis or theory is incorrect, it rids us of junk that would otherwise block our understanding of our universe. You may not end up with a theory named after you, but you'll have done far more than many who tried.
Remember, even if you don't lie, if all your data points line up nice and neat, all you've proven is that you haven't found data against your idea.
3. Make the upgrade with the ability to fix what needs fixed to support the rest of the upgrade.
So what do you do when your bug is in the upgrade tool (in Debian, in case you didn't know, thats what apt IS)? You tell people to update the upgrade tool first. And now we're right back where we're started. Somehow the (broken) upgrade tool needs to know that its broken and needs to replace itself, without any foreknowlege of its brokenness, but telling the user of the problem and how to update the upgrade tool is met with derision.
I'd hate to see software you produce if you consider this a "fix".
I'd love to see your software. Care to share your latest developments in psychic bug-fixing? What magic spells do you use to make bugs in your programs fix themselves without downloading an update?
You should provide some mechanism by which a user can select N hash methods to be used, with perhaps a warning against chosing MD5 or SHA1 alone. Then rather than users having to worry about this or that hash/encryption being broken, they can just switch, with warnings when they use the old algorithms (maintained for backwards compatibility).
I suspect that in the near future, signing will be done using two different hashes to seriously restrict the collision space.
Not one mention of Teflon being used in their pants. Note how in the article, the "backgrounder" provided talked all about how the product meets all current safety laws, etc. But still doesn't mention Teflon, much less the fact that it is known to be absorbed into humans through the skin, and while the toxicity of fumes from burning teflon is well known, less is understood about its unburnt presence in humans, other than the fact that it can remain in the human body for years, while rats somehow flush it out within days.
If we're going to talk about balancing risks versus rewards, companies are going to have to be more forthcoming about those risks, or about the fact that they don't know what those risks are. Until then, we'll have crazy kooks stripping in public in an attempt to force someone to pay attention.
And now my outer walls use hardiplank. In a few decades that'll be proven to be bad and we'll get something else. For now though, I'll just settle with my walls not rotting off my house.
Not an easy task. You'd have to predict which drive letters the drives would be assigned, which would be a nightmare if you try to mix IDE and SATA and SCSI and USB drives (also on the SCSI subsystem) all in the same machine.
Perhaps detecting that you're currently installing on SATA and letting the user know they might want to double-check your drive assignment before rebooting would help, but it would still expect the user to know what the hell was going to happen next time the computer started.
I think this is one of the few times that disklabel would be of any use. (disklabel lets you "label" each partition, and refer to them by label in fstab and I *think* kernel's root= parameter instead of requiring you to know the device name, but there's no easy tools that understand it, and only a few filesystems support it)
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But without whining to congress you couldn't un-license the code granny already licensed.
Interesting that Eddie Bauer neglected to mention whether or not their pants use teflon in their response to the strippers. Simply stating that your product meets all the laws when the laws may not be good enough helps no-one. I guess it's too hard for companies to give out that information so that consumers can make an informed choice on whether they want to risk that or not. Informed consumers are good, then we wouldn't have to deal with naked ugly people.
Like married people whose spouses turn out to be unfaithful.
Just because the majority of people with the disease got it because of their behavior is no reason to continue to tar everyone's reputation. You wouldn't go around calling Blizzard copyright infringers because they use bittorrent for distributing patches, would you?
Hell, why screw with your hardware? If you've got the drive space, dump your filesystem. If you've got some weird filesystem, create a big-enough file and loopback-mount it and copy everything onto that. Use parted or LVM to shuffle partitions around and make a second partition from your free space and copy onto that.
It just takes a little creativity and know-how, is all.
Thats funny, I just dropped putty.exe on my desktop and it ran. There are plenty of programs for windows that don't require Administrator to install, they're all simple little things that don't require writing to system directories.
So far I've seen one user with problems with TTF fonts, so if you're trying to pack every font possible on your computer, you'll end up getting stuck on "Regenerating font cache" (this particular user was stuck on ttf-bitstream-vera, so it may just be this particular font, or their language setting (french I think?)).
If someone does run into a circular dependency, I'd suggest using dselect to run the upgrade, or simply going into apt's package cache and using dpkg -i to install all the packages in the circle at once.
Upgrading a library that apt is using shouldn't be a problem, since the old library is loaded when apt starts, and will stay in memory while apt is running. Of course, if apt stops early, after it replaces the library and before it replaces itself, then you have a problem, but thats why apt isn't the only tool for the job. Use dpkg.
All of this assumes you know what you're doing, which by and large I've found most debian administrators fit the bill. That doesn't make this any less annoying, nor does it excuse apt's lousy circular dependency checking.
then it will be difficult for the owners to win...
Funny, the RIAA just keeps blaming all their "decreasing sales" on piracy (even when sales are going up, but the RIAA doesn't let little facts like that stand in the way, so why should I?)
At this rate, it makes no difference whether I protest by not listening to their music at all, or just downloading whatever I want to hear. Either way they'll blame the loss on "piracy" and whine to the government.
So now I import all my music... I suppose I'm supporting foreign music cartels, but thats some other country's problem;). But at least I get interesting music that doesn't all sound the same, even if I can't understand a word of German, Latin, Spanish, etc.
Why would AOL come take my books? Lets talk instead about the BSA and how simply by accusing a company of piracy they can literally paralyze it without even so much as a court order. They simply show up one day and demand that everyone stop what they're doing and prove they bought every piece of software in use or be fined. Failure to comply with their (not-legally backed) demand is considered "enough" by the government (how much do large corporations pay them?) to permit them to obtain a court order forcing them to comply, without any proof.
I have yet to hear about the BSA paying back any of the costs of this search for warez when they turn out to be in the wrong.
It seems to me that the answer is not communism, but populism. Returning the power of government back to the people, and forbidding any company or corporation from influencing government or stading above the law.
Like blood transfusions right? You realize that if the government hadn't stepped in to say "hey wait, you might want to check that blood before you go around pumping it into people" we'd still not be testing for diseases, especially with all the blood banks screaming about this or that crisis these days. It's not like the blood tests are free either, and they certainly aren't going to charge people to give blood.
Or hey, saving lives. You give someone CPR, and most of the time, they WILL throw up. Because of the "AIDS epidemic" there are now specially-designed "rescue breathing" mouthpieces to make sure that the people irresponsible enough to save someone's life can do so while coming into contact with any bodily fluids.
Posting AC because anyone who denounces the AIDS brainwashing seems to get modded troll
Gee, wonder why? Maybe because you are a troll, and stupid to boot.
It seems to me that Gartner gets paid to say stuff like this. Someone hands them a stack of studies and some cash, and tells them to "spin this and make us look good."
The question here is whether in this case they were paid by the VoIP and mobile technology providers, to convince everyone that everything is alright and nobody needs to worry, or by the virus writers, to convince everyone that everything is alright and nobody needs to worry...
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harping on the Bush administration for this leaves out the fact that liberals do this kind of thing, too.
Congratulations! The people in power are no better than the other choice!
What has our country come to, when the people we get to choose from all scrape the bottom of the scum barrel?
Right, and "handwaving" it shouldn't ever be accepted, not by the journal, not by any readers. If the journal has a limit on the number of pages, then the journal or the paper's author should have another way of obtaining the paper in its entirety, including everything necessary to reproduce the experiment.
That's true. Not to mention the pressure of not to challenge mainstream ideas.
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The problem with challenging mainstream ideas is that it makes you an easy target. The larger the audience you seek, the more people will target you.
If you discover that gravity is wrong, you don't write a paper about it and hope it gets printed, you go to your colleague and say "Hey! Check this out!" while you stand on his ceiling. Then the two of you go to the department head and stand on opposite walls. Then stop by the local university and levitate over the Dean's desk while you demonstrate to the Dean how he can do this in a repeatable fashion too.
Then you write a paper and explain how this is done, how its repeated, how these other people have successfully repeated your experiments, and get that published.
Or you build us hover cars and get rich
As a graduate student, I feel pressure from my advisor to not mention discrepant data or those conclusions/questions which detract from my overall hypotheses.
Don't give into the pressure. Proving an idea wrong is far more useful than showing that an idea might be right. If you can repeatedly demonstrate that any given hypothesis or theory is incorrect, it rids us of junk that would otherwise block our understanding of our universe. You may not end up with a theory named after you, but you'll have done far more than many who tried.
Remember, even if you don't lie, if all your data points line up nice and neat, all you've proven is that you haven't found data against your idea.
3. Make the upgrade with the ability to fix what needs fixed to support the rest of the upgrade.
So what do you do when your bug is in the upgrade tool (in Debian, in case you didn't know, thats what apt IS)? You tell people to update the upgrade tool first. And now we're right back where we're started. Somehow the (broken) upgrade tool needs to know that its broken and needs to replace itself, without any foreknowlege of its brokenness, but telling the user of the problem and how to update the upgrade tool is met with derision.
I'd hate to see software you produce if you consider this a "fix".
I'd love to see your software. Care to share your latest developments in psychic bug-fixing? What magic spells do you use to make bugs in your programs fix themselves without downloading an update?
You should provide some mechanism by which a user can select N hash methods to be used, with perhaps a warning against chosing MD5 or SHA1 alone. Then rather than users having to worry about this or that hash/encryption being broken, they can just switch, with warnings when they use the old algorithms (maintained for backwards compatibility).
I suspect that in the near future, signing will be done using two different hashes to seriously restrict the collision space.
Everything has risks --- the question is, what risks are we better-off taking?
While I agree that the crazies who strip are just crazies, there is more to this issue. Take a look at Eddie Bauer's description of their product:
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Not one mention of Teflon being used in their pants. Note how in the article, the "backgrounder" provided talked all about how the product meets all current safety laws, etc. But still doesn't mention Teflon, much less the fact that it is known to be absorbed into humans through the skin, and while the toxicity of fumes from burning teflon is well known, less is understood about its unburnt presence in humans, other than the fact that it can remain in the human body for years, while rats somehow flush it out within days.
If we're going to talk about balancing risks versus rewards, companies are going to have to be more forthcoming about those risks, or about the fact that they don't know what those risks are. Until then, we'll have crazy kooks stripping in public in an attempt to force someone to pay attention.
And now my outer walls use hardiplank. In a few decades that'll be proven to be bad and we'll get something else. For now though, I'll just settle with my walls not rotting off my house.
Unless you're Deep Throat and tell the truth about a president, then everyone starts shouting treason.
Not an easy task. You'd have to predict which drive letters the drives would be assigned, which would be a nightmare if you try to mix IDE and SATA and SCSI and USB drives (also on the SCSI subsystem) all in the same machine.
Perhaps detecting that you're currently installing on SATA and letting the user know they might want to double-check your drive assignment before rebooting would help, but it would still expect the user to know what the hell was going to happen next time the computer started.
I think this is one of the few times that disklabel would be of any use. (disklabel lets you "label" each partition, and refer to them by label in fstab and I *think* kernel's root= parameter instead of requiring you to know the device name, but there's no easy tools that understand it, and only a few filesystems support it)
But without whining to congress you couldn't un-license the code granny already licensed.
I mean, come on, there were 10,000 pairs of eyes looking at the source code and fixing bugs before it was released, right?
Right. And they fixed the bug, and told everyone that apt was broken and to upgrade to the fixed apt before attempting to upgrade to sarge.
And nobody listened.
Interesting that Eddie Bauer neglected to mention whether or not their pants use teflon in their response to the strippers. Simply stating that your product meets all the laws when the laws may not be good enough helps no-one. I guess it's too hard for companies to give out that information so that consumers can make an informed choice on whether they want to risk that or not. Informed consumers are good, then we wouldn't have to deal with naked ugly people.
fucked someone they shouldn't have.
Like married people whose spouses turn out to be unfaithful.
Just because the majority of people with the disease got it because of their behavior is no reason to continue to tar everyone's reputation. You wouldn't go around calling Blizzard copyright infringers because they use bittorrent for distributing patches, would you?
Hell, why screw with your hardware? If you've got the drive space, dump your filesystem. If you've got some weird filesystem, create a big-enough file and loopback-mount it and copy everything onto that. Use parted or LVM to shuffle partitions around and make a second partition from your free space and copy onto that.
It just takes a little creativity and know-how, is all.
He's using SATA and the newer linux kernels moved SATA from IDE to the SCSI subsystem.
/dev/hd* and his lilo root=/dev/hd* lines became wrong.
So all his fstab entries using
SATA changed from IDE subsystem in 2.2 and early 2.4 to libata (and therefore part of the SCSI system) in 2.4 and 2.6
Thats funny, I just dropped putty.exe on my desktop and it ran. There are plenty of programs for windows that don't require Administrator to install, they're all simple little things that don't require writing to system directories.
So far I've seen one user with problems with TTF fonts, so if you're trying to pack every font possible on your computer, you'll end up getting stuck on "Regenerating font cache" (this particular user was stuck on ttf-bitstream-vera, so it may just be this particular font, or their language setting (french I think?)).
If someone does run into a circular dependency, I'd suggest using dselect to run the upgrade, or simply going into apt's package cache and using dpkg -i to install all the packages in the circle at once.
Upgrading a library that apt is using shouldn't be a problem, since the old library is loaded when apt starts, and will stay in memory while apt is running. Of course, if apt stops early, after it replaces the library and before it replaces itself, then you have a problem, but thats why apt isn't the only tool for the job. Use dpkg.
All of this assumes you know what you're doing, which by and large I've found most debian administrators fit the bill. That doesn't make this any less annoying, nor does it excuse apt's lousy circular dependency checking.
then it will be difficult for the owners to win...
;). But at least I get interesting music that doesn't all sound the same, even if I can't understand a word of German, Latin, Spanish, etc.
Funny, the RIAA just keeps blaming all their "decreasing sales" on piracy (even when sales are going up, but the RIAA doesn't let little facts like that stand in the way, so why should I?)
At this rate, it makes no difference whether I protest by not listening to their music at all, or just downloading whatever I want to hear. Either way they'll blame the loss on "piracy" and whine to the government.
So now I import all my music... I suppose I'm supporting foreign music cartels, but thats some other country's problem
Why would AOL come take my books? Lets talk instead about the BSA and how simply by accusing a company of piracy they can literally paralyze it without even so much as a court order. They simply show up one day and demand that everyone stop what they're doing and prove they bought every piece of software in use or be fined. Failure to comply with their (not-legally backed) demand is considered "enough" by the government (how much do large corporations pay them?) to permit them to obtain a court order forcing them to comply, without any proof.
I have yet to hear about the BSA paying back any of the costs of this search for warez when they turn out to be in the wrong.
It seems to me that the answer is not communism, but populism. Returning the power of government back to the people, and forbidding any company or corporation from influencing government or stading above the law.
irresponsible behavior?
Like blood transfusions right? You realize that if the government hadn't stepped in to say "hey wait, you might want to check that blood before you go around pumping it into people" we'd still not be testing for diseases, especially with all the blood banks screaming about this or that crisis these days. It's not like the blood tests are free either, and they certainly aren't going to charge people to give blood.
Or hey, saving lives. You give someone CPR, and most of the time, they WILL throw up. Because of the "AIDS epidemic" there are now specially-designed "rescue breathing" mouthpieces to make sure that the people irresponsible enough to save someone's life can do so while coming into contact with any bodily fluids.
Posting AC because anyone who denounces the AIDS brainwashing seems to get modded troll
Gee, wonder why? Maybe because you are a troll, and stupid to boot.
It seems to me that Gartner gets paid to say stuff like this. Someone hands them a stack of studies and some cash, and tells them to "spin this and make us look good."
The question here is whether in this case they were paid by the VoIP and mobile technology providers, to convince everyone that everything is alright and nobody needs to worry, or by the virus writers, to convince everyone that everything is alright and nobody needs to worry...
Pork barrel legislation doesn't get passed on its own. Pork barrel legislation is ALWAYS attached to legislation that looks too good to kill.