The best guess of NE's seems to be that the radiation levels and the patters all point to at least one of the contentment vessels having been melted through.
The really interesting part of the linked article is the idea that when you are cooling the uranium that has melted through the steel and is now sitting on concrete is that the uranium can create a shell between it and the water and the uranium can melt the concrete which would then cause an insulation layer to form between the uranium and the water.
The article implies that we should know by the end of May if this has happened or not. This is like watching a car crash with time stop technology, and no way to communicate with the people in the crash. Just awful.
By the way, to recap, an earthquake hit closer to shore than anyone ever expected, so the force of the quake was greater than anticipated, the tsunami was larger than they thought could happen, and things are failing more or less as designed, we are now at about the end what is known, and what happens from here on out is what most plants in the US will need to start planning for, as a worst case scenario, whatever that may be.
The assumption that the author seems to have made is that most phones will be smart phone in three years.
If that holds true, and Nokia holds on to a 20% market share the "study" seems like reasonable speculation.
Of course the assumption has a lot of issues, but it is not really assuming that iOS loses any share in the mobile phone industry, just that the mobile phone industry and smart phone industry will merge. If that happens, and that is a big IF, and Android is at over 40% other Linux phones at 20%, and Windows phone at 20% and iOS having half of the high end at 10% of the over all market seems like not too crazy of speculation. But, I wouldn't call that a win for Microsoft.
They should have written the reactors off as soon as they lost the diesel generators.
They had eight hours of battery life to safely kill the plants. They acted like power was coming back even though primary and backup power supplies were washed out to sea.
Although sometimes the big picture is easier to see if you are not trying to deal with the problem of keeping the thing from blowing up right now. It is sort of easy to understand how the individual actors could have taken too long to start flooding the reactors with boron and sea water. Someone up the chain should have made the obvious call that flooding the reactor was the goal, not saving it, which is what the workers had been in the habit of doing as long as the plant had been in operation.
The issue is "should this be subject of Civil or Criminal proceedings?"
Civil litigation could include tortuous interference on the grounds of directly, or indirectly causing the network owner to incur costs from bandwidth usage or inappropriate network usage.
With small claims court having a $5,000 limit and the much lower standards of proof required for civil litigation vs criminal litigation, it seems likely that you would be more likely to get compensated for a few thousand dollars out of civil litigation than to actually see a dime out of criminal prosecution. Further more, if you factor your increased taxes locking up someone that decrypted a wifi signal, you might actually find out that you lost money by having the person sent to jail.
The moral? Make sure your log files are easy to prepare and annotate for shipment to your attorney or court.
My thoughts were that Obama would be worse than McCain, and Palin would be a whole lot worse than Biden.
As someone with lefty tendencies I would have voted for McCain/Todd-Whitman over Obama/Biden but Palin more or less made the GOP ticket a non-starter for me.
The Plaintiff claimed that there were five false and slanderous statements on the blog and sued.
Four of those statements were made by people other than the blogger, and the judge dismissed the actions based on those four statements.
The jury found, for what ever reason, that the statement that the blogger made, and claims to be true, was unsupported by evidence, and made with malice for the goal of getting the Plaintiff fired.
I am in California, and unlikely to get a copy of the transcript, but from several hundred miles away, it looks like the jury disagreed with the bloggers statement about there being evidence.
The jury found that the statement was unfounded by facts, despite the claims of the blogger to have proof.
The case was fairly good in that the four statements said by other people were struck from the lawsuit, and the blogger was not held accountable for the comments made by others on his blog.
Did the bloggers lawyer fail to present evidence to support the bloggers claim that the statement was based on facts?yes
Is it possible that the blogger hired an incompetent idiot to represent him?yes
Is the moral of this that if you are sued you need to find competent legal help?yes
Windows and Mac OSX have no more guarantee about max price to be spent than Linux does.
You can get one predictable price for windows or Linux, but the price is fairly high, typically about $500 per core per year no matter what the OS. There are variances, and that cost generally does not include software licenses.
Even without the ability to code there are multiple business cases to use opensource software. A) Vendor lock-in. Don't like Redhat's support, call Oracle or one of the centos supporters. B) Business continuity risk. If your linux vendor goes under, you can still get support for your platform, although probably at an increased price, as the previous price point proved unsustainable.
Most of your arguments seem more true of "enterprise" software than open source software. I would argue that this is the big reason that Microsoft was able to push into the server room, despite the higher quality software from IBM, HP, DEC, Sun and others.
Setting up software that is in Debian' s repositories tends to be a trivial app store like experience.
While I'm sure you can find examples to support your theories, your theories don't seem to be highly correlated with what I have seen..
The kernel is a small, but vitial, part of what you need to have a usable desktop.
Andi Kleen got the kernel ported. The paper you link to states that the toolchain GCC and the kernel work, and you can use them to port things to linux on AMD64. That is about a dozen of the 30,000 packages that are in Debians AMD64 distribution.
A lot of user land apps were written with the assumption that they were running on a 32 bit platform, especially graphics and multimedia programs.
Imagine how much less 64bit mode usage there would be if xorg, xfree86, php, perl, python, and java did not run in 64bit mode on AMD64 machines.
It is hard to say whether Debian or Redhat has done more for users of other Linux distributions.
The reason why it is hard is because the big contributions they have made that are not not directly comparable.
While both of them spend time cleaning up software licenses, Debian has spent a lot more time on it, and essentially came up with the working definition of open source/free software.
Debian's clean separation of Free and non-Free software helps the entire community identify what software is a potential issue and may need relicensed/rewritten.
Redhat has done orders of magnitude more work getting linux non x86 architectures. Debian has done orders of magnitude more work getting optional userland programs to actually run on architectures other than x86/AMD64.
RPM is more powerful than dpkg, but that is because a lot of the features of RPM are not needed if you are installing debian policy compliant software on on a debian system.
Debian's policy has resulted in a fair amount of software becoming much easier to upgrade. Mixing data and code is not only bad for websites.
Redhat has pushed SELinux into being usable in certain use cases.
Redhat pays for more development of Open Source Software than anyone else.
Debian has more people testing software in a developer capacity than anyone else.
A panel discussion among people that can collectively identify the marjority of what RHAT and Debian have contributed to the ecosystem would be an interesting event. (at lest to dweebs like myself.)
One could make similar arguments about Oracle America(formerly SUN) and Novel/SuSE. for their contributions to LibreOffice and Gnome. However the Linux desktop seems to have not really reached the tipping point, while Linux is the dominant platform for servers.
When I have implemented Facebook comments, I have allowed anonymous comments.
The big upside is that I don't run captcha's on those sites, and there seems to be almost no comment spam.
On a high traffic website moderating comments is probably no big deal and part of the daily site maintenance .
On a website that has someone checking on it a couple times a day, I probably would use a native comment system, but for the site that gets updated weekly or biweekly, this is a viable solution.
I suspect that debian is going to make FreeBSD a lot better for FreeBSD users.
Debian does a lot of work making sure that all of software works on all the architectures that it supports
Mozilla claims that Firefox runs on Linux, but debian had to jump through hoops to get Firefox to compile, much less run on the MIPS platform.
By making Kfreebsd a first class platform, a lot of fixes for FreeBSD should make it upstream, which should improve the quality of the software in the ports tree.
The big contribution debian makes is debian policy and the QA on all the architectures that it supports.
Some of the billion respins are probably interesting, but the copyright fights, and the code improvements to support cross compiling are things that leak into other distributions. Debian was one of the reasons that AMD64 support is as good as it is under Linux. The Redhat, gentoo, and slackware users that use the 64bit versions are benefiting from Debian getting their distribution to run on 64 bit platforms for years.
Personally, I think the title of the article is true, but that the article provided no evidence about all the contributions that Debian brings to Linux users and just argued "it's the parent" Which if that is the case, BSD386 is the most important OS, as it is in many ways the ancestor of Solaris, OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, The GNU project and all the GNU systems. In other words, everything other than Windows. And Windows has some FTP and telnet code from BSD386 in it, and at one time the windows TCP/IP stack was based on the BSD386 network stack.
Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, Slackware, Canonical and others contribute in ways that help build the Linux ecosystem, but it is hard to overstate Debian's importance to the ecosystem by being an large, neutral, cross platform distribution, that is very transparent. Unfortunately it is possible to completely miss this and ramble on and on about the number of respins that exist.
It depends on the state, but in some states, if you are an attorney and that is the basis of the lawsuit, you are liable for the costs of getting the case thrown out. Which is pretty close to saying that you are not allowed to file a lawsuit with no facts.
Close, I suspect this is about php not fully running on windows.
If you use a WIMP server for enough php you will find that there are a fair number of extensions to php that work in crippled manner, mostly don't work, or simply do not exist for windows.
I suspect this is an attempt to:
Bring php on windows up to par with php on linux.
Add a few windows only media extensions to the default version of php for windows.
There isn't that much in the error message that wouldn't be known just by knowing that they use drupal.
The first thing that one notices is that they do not use a prefix on their drupal database tables.Which, considering that the default in drupal is not to use a database prefix, this would be an attackers first guess.
The second thing that was noticeable is that the max connections is 10000, and they are all in use. Which implies an amazing load, or a poorly configured server. Personally, I suspect the latter.
Ironically, Google does not relate your mail store to the ads they display. They actually proposed legislation banning this, because that is what at least one of their competitors does. What google does is render the page and parse the initial text to find the ads to put on the final output.
Google has enough of a dossier on you that they don't need your email to figure out what ads to show you.
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The best guess of NE's seems to be that the radiation levels and the patters all point to at least one of the contentment vessels having been melted through.
The really interesting part of the linked article is the idea that when you are cooling the uranium that has melted through the steel and is now sitting on concrete is that the uranium can create a shell between it and the water and the uranium can melt the concrete which would then cause an insulation layer to form between the uranium and the water.
The article implies that we should know by the end of May if this has happened or not. This is like watching a car crash with time stop technology, and no way to communicate with the people in the crash. Just awful.
By the way, to recap, an earthquake hit closer to shore than anyone ever expected, so the force of the quake was greater than anticipated, the tsunami was larger than they thought could happen, and things are failing more or less as designed, we are now at about the end what is known, and what happens from here on out is what most plants in the US will need to start planning for, as a worst case scenario, whatever that may be.
The assumption that the author seems to have made is that most phones will be smart phone in three years.
If that holds true, and Nokia holds on to a 20% market share the "study" seems like reasonable speculation.
Of course the assumption has a lot of issues, but it is not really assuming that iOS loses any share in the mobile phone industry, just that the mobile phone industry and smart phone industry will merge. If that happens, and that is a big IF, and Android is at over 40% other Linux phones at 20%, and Windows phone at 20% and iOS having half of the high end at 10% of the over all market seems like not too crazy of speculation. But, I wouldn't call that a win for Microsoft.
They should have written the reactors off as soon as they lost the diesel generators.
They had eight hours of battery life to safely kill the plants. They acted like power was coming back even though primary and backup power supplies were washed out to sea.
Although sometimes the big picture is easier to see if you are not trying to deal with the problem of keeping the thing from blowing up right now. It is sort of easy to understand how the individual actors could have taken too long to start flooding the reactors with boron and sea water. Someone up the chain should have made the obvious call that flooding the reactor was the goal, not saving it, which is what the workers had been in the habit of doing as long as the plant had been in operation.
The problem for a high traffic site is that /dev/random is blocking.
There are solutions for this, but it is possible to run out of entropy.
The issue is "should this be subject of Civil or Criminal proceedings?"
Civil litigation could include tortuous interference on the grounds of directly, or indirectly causing the network owner to incur costs from bandwidth usage or inappropriate network usage.
With small claims court having a $5,000 limit and the much lower standards of proof required for civil litigation vs criminal litigation, it seems likely that you would be more likely to get compensated for a few thousand dollars out of civil litigation than to actually see a dime out of criminal prosecution. Further more, if you factor your increased taxes locking up someone that decrypted a wifi signal, you might actually find out that you lost money by having the person sent to jail.
The moral? Make sure your log files are easy to prepare and annotate for shipment to your attorney or court.
My thoughts were that Obama would be worse than McCain, and Palin would be a whole lot worse than Biden.
As someone with lefty tendencies I would have voted for McCain/Todd-Whitman over Obama/Biden but Palin more or less made the GOP ticket a non-starter for me.
Most banks had near record profits in 2010.
The Plaintiff claimed that there were five false and slanderous statements on the blog and sued.
Four of those statements were made by people other than the blogger, and the judge dismissed the actions based on those four statements.
The jury found, for what ever reason, that the statement that the blogger made, and claims to be true, was unsupported by evidence, and made with malice for the goal of getting the Plaintiff fired.
I am in California, and unlikely to get a copy of the transcript, but from several hundred miles away, it looks like the jury disagreed with the bloggers statement about there being evidence.
The case was fairly good in that the four statements said by other people were struck from the lawsuit, and the blogger was not held accountable for the comments made by others on his blog.
Did the bloggers lawyer fail to present evidence to support the bloggers claim that the statement was based on facts? yes
Is it possible that the blogger hired an incompetent idiot to represent him? yes
Is the moral of this that if you are sued you need to find competent legal help? yes
Four of them were not made by the blogger and hence those four statements were struck from the civil action.
Windows and Mac OSX have no more guarantee about max price to be spent than Linux does.
You can get one predictable price for windows or Linux, but the price is fairly high, typically about $500 per core per year no matter what the OS. There are variances, and that cost generally does not include software licenses.
Even without the ability to code there are multiple business cases to use opensource software. A) Vendor lock-in. Don't like Redhat's support, call Oracle or one of the centos supporters. B) Business continuity risk. If your linux vendor goes under, you can still get support for your platform, although probably at an increased price, as the previous price point proved unsustainable.
Most of your arguments seem more true of "enterprise" software than open source software. I would argue that this is the big reason that Microsoft was able to push into the server room, despite the higher quality software from IBM, HP, DEC, Sun and others.
Setting up software that is in Debian' s repositories tends to be a trivial app store like experience.
While I'm sure you can find examples to support your theories, your theories don't seem to be highly correlated with what I have seen..
Actually, you may be increasing your attack surface, as only one of the four has to be vulnerable in order for you to get compromised.
It also depends on if you isolate each browser to certain websites, or all the sites you visit get each of the browsers with less frequency.
The idea that it is harder for attackers if no browser has 10% market share, is defeated if you use all 50 browsers to visit their website.
He sued the spammer and won.
The spammer wrote a bad check to him as payment.
I said "one of the reasons"
The kernel is a small, but vitial, part of what you need to have a usable desktop.
Andi Kleen got the kernel ported. The paper you link to states that the toolchain GCC and the kernel work, and you can use them to port things to linux on AMD64. That is about a dozen of the 30,000 packages that are in Debians AMD64 distribution.
A lot of user land apps were written with the assumption that they were running on a 32 bit platform, especially graphics and multimedia programs.
Imagine how much less 64bit mode usage there would be if xorg, xfree86, php, perl, python, and java did not run in 64bit mode on AMD64 machines.
It is hard to say whether Debian or Redhat has done more for users of other Linux distributions.
The reason why it is hard is because the big contributions they have made that are not not directly comparable.
While both of them spend time cleaning up software licenses, Debian has spent a lot more time on it, and essentially came up with the working definition of open source/free software.
Debian's clean separation of Free and non-Free software helps the entire community identify what software is a potential issue and may need relicensed/rewritten.
Redhat has done orders of magnitude more work getting linux non x86 architectures. Debian has done orders of magnitude more work getting optional userland programs to actually run on architectures other than x86/AMD64.
RPM is more powerful than dpkg, but that is because a lot of the features of RPM are not needed if you are installing debian policy compliant software on on a debian system.
Debian's policy has resulted in a fair amount of software becoming much easier to upgrade. Mixing data and code is not only bad for websites.
Redhat has pushed SELinux into being usable in certain use cases.
Redhat pays for more development of Open Source Software than anyone else.
Debian has more people testing software in a developer capacity than anyone else.
A panel discussion among people that can collectively identify the marjority of what RHAT and Debian have contributed to the ecosystem would be an interesting event. (at lest to dweebs like myself.)
One could make similar arguments about Oracle America(formerly SUN) and Novel/SuSE. for their contributions to LibreOffice and Gnome. However the Linux desktop seems to have not really reached the tipping point, while Linux is the dominant platform for servers.
When I have implemented Facebook comments, I have allowed anonymous comments.
The big upside is that I don't run captcha's on those sites, and there seems to be almost no comment spam.
On a high traffic website moderating comments is probably no big deal and part of the daily site maintenance .
On a website that has someone checking on it a couple times a day, I probably would use a native comment system, but for the site that gets updated weekly or biweekly, this is a viable solution.
I suspect that debian is going to make FreeBSD a lot better for FreeBSD users.
Debian does a lot of work making sure that all of software works on all the architectures that it supports
Mozilla claims that Firefox runs on Linux, but debian had to jump through hoops to get Firefox to compile, much less run on the MIPS platform.
By making Kfreebsd a first class platform, a lot of fixes for FreeBSD should make it upstream, which should improve the quality of the software in the ports tree.
The big contribution debian makes is debian policy and the QA on all the architectures that it supports.
Some of the billion respins are probably interesting, but the copyright fights, and the code improvements to support cross compiling are things that leak into other distributions. Debian was one of the reasons that AMD64 support is as good as it is under Linux. The Redhat, gentoo, and slackware users that use the 64bit versions are benefiting from Debian getting their distribution to run on 64 bit platforms for years.
Personally, I think the title of the article is true, but that the article provided no evidence about all the contributions that Debian brings to Linux users and just argued "it's the parent" Which if that is the case, BSD386 is the most important OS, as it is in many ways the ancestor of Solaris, OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, The GNU project and all the GNU systems. In other words, everything other than Windows. And Windows has some FTP and telnet code from BSD386 in it, and at one time the windows TCP/IP stack was based on the BSD386 network stack.
Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, Slackware, Canonical and others contribute in ways that help build the Linux ecosystem, but it is hard to overstate Debian's importance to the ecosystem by being an large, neutral, cross platform distribution, that is very transparent. Unfortunately it is possible to completely miss this and ramble on and on about the number of respins that exist.
It's harder to explain a thumbdrive full of random data than a hard drive. Overwriting hard drives is relatively common.
It's a bad drive?
It depends on the state, but in some states, if you are an attorney and that is the basis of the lawsuit, you are liable for the costs of getting the case thrown out. Which is pretty close to saying that you are not allowed to file a lawsuit with no facts.
Close, I suspect this is about php not fully running on windows.
If you use a WIMP server for enough php you will find that there are a fair number of extensions to php that work in crippled manner, mostly don't work, or simply do not exist for windows.
I suspect this is an attempt to:
There isn't that much in the error message that wouldn't be known just by knowing that they use drupal.
The first thing that one notices is that they do not use a prefix on their drupal database tables.Which, considering that the default in drupal is not to use a database prefix, this would be an attackers first guess.
The second thing that was noticeable is that the max connections is 10000, and they are all in use. Which implies an amazing load, or a poorly configured server. Personally, I suspect the latter.
Ironically, Google does not relate your mail store to the ads they display. They actually proposed legislation banning this, because that is what at least one of their competitors does. What google does is render the page and parse the initial text to find the ads to put on the final output.
Google has enough of a dossier on you that they don't need your email to figure out what ads to show you.
I have found that either you use an automated system to delete old emails, or it is too much of a hassle.
Gmail makes finding old emails fairly trivial.
I generally use a desktop email client, but when looking for an email I always use a web browser.
Never heard the term before today. I guess you have to be in certain circles to enjoy creating disgusting terms to shout down political debate.
Those would be the professional political circles, where the goal is to run unopposed.
As far as can tell comcast only gives out static IP addresses. So that is not an issue.