First, Figure 1. shows that cordless phones have a greater correlation than digital phones for people that talked 1001-2000hrs.
The second interesting thing (at least to me.) is that other studies seem to show a slight positive correlation between meningioma and cell phone use, those same studies show a negative correlation between glioma and cell phone use. (glioma and meningioma are types of brain cancer).
The question that the abstract left me with is, using the same questions and methodology, "What is the correlation between telephone usage and mningioma and glioma?"
He said that he would want to purchase futures options for the coming few years, due to the extreme price fluctuations he expects, followed by regular futures in the longer term.
To translate, buy the 2008's betting on an increase in volatility. (volatility is one of the variables when computing options and futures prices.) An increase in volatility will cause an increase in near term contracts, longer term you expect that things will balance out and you are more worried about the fundamentals, and the pricing models reflect this with the interest rate of US treasury notes being a greater influence in long term pricing. So he gave an answer consistent with his view.
However, he did not say what he is doing. Read into that what you will.
Use Adblock+, not just Adblock--that'll cut down the amount of memory you use. Or, at least, it's working fine for me.
Quite simply, there ISN'T much the browser can do if an extension eats up too much memory. They can starve it and make it crash or refuse to install it, but if you use a memory intensive extension, it's kinda odd to be surprised when it *gasp* uses a lot of memory.
That's a good point, and useful information, but there is no real need for Adblock to take up the memory it does, and if the mozilla project is going to recommend extentions, they should also take bug reports about those extentions. (labeling them as not part of mozilla, is fine, but if someone reports a security flaw in a popular extention the current practice (as far as I can tell) would be to label the bug invalid, even though the only thing wrong about the report is that it is not part of the core build, but may be a concern for most users.
I am just wish that mozilla would take responsability for their recommendations. (qualifying them by accepting bug reports would make me happy.)
You could always close the browser when you're not using it.
And you then get to lose all of your session data. What a wonderful solution. If you are using the internet to research a problem that you are actively working on, a browser that acts like it is the most important process running is a less than ideal solution.
That said the biggest problem seems to be the adblock extention.
Here firefox developers seem to want to have it both ways. They tout the wonders of all of the extentions, but refuse to help with the problems that these extensions cause. The absolute minimum is that they should be doing is hosting bug tracking for all the extentions that you can download from the find extentions feature.
On windows systems with low memory, I use IE instead of firefox (running as a user, not administrator, and using the runas command to have windows protect me from the application.) , I didn't suspect that I had to turn off caching in addition to turning off prefetch.
I'll give firefox another go next time I am on a win32 machine browsing. (speaking of win32 machines does anyone have a download of reactos 0.2.9?)
When laws are written down, the wording is carefully chosen to say something exact.
Nice theory, but in the United States many/most laws are written to give either, the best chance of passage, or the best chance of ones opponents looking bad. For example The Patriot Act was not titled that way for any legal reason. It was titled so that privacy advocates could be called unpatriotic. This is just a visible example, it is the norm in most of American Politics. I am sure it would take a short amount of research to find many laws that worked exactly the opposite way of what they were intended to.
Some words don't mean quite what you think they do. Looking them up in a dictionary (as the original writer would have) doesn't sound too dumb to me.
I would look them up on findlaw instead of in the dictonary.
However I sometimes don't understand why sometimes people are very desperate to re-invent the wheel "just because".
Think of it as the computer equivilent to a kit car. Impractical and done mainly for the benifit of the person doing it. Every once in a while someone creating a one off car comes up with something really innovative, but most of the time it is just a single persons hobby that no one really cares about.
With the nominal distribution and reproduction cost of software however, each creation has a remote chance of being a market leader.
Observers seem get caught up on market share and conservation on talent, when a lot of computer work is the scale of a really impressive hobby. That is not to say that people do not create software for other reasons. That is obviously false, but writing a *n*x clone from scratch when BSD already existed to get to learn about the 80386 was a waste of time if one only looks at efficiency of resources, but that was not the goal. The goal was to learn about the 80386, Linux having a sizable market share was an unintended consequence that did not factor in its origination.
(I hope this is not way to pedantic, but the we shouldn't waste resources statements seem to get passed around as truth with out any discussion.)
Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
If we are having a lack of new drugs and everything is being patented, are patents still constitutional?
At first I was unhappy with the settlement, but then I got to the following section:
I think my CD drive was seriously damaged by the XCP or MediaMax software. Do I have to give up my claims against Sony BMG for this injury?
No. The settlement does not release claims for:
* damage to a computer or network resulting from interactions between the XCP Software or the MediaMax Software and your computer (e.g., damage to your hard drive);
* damage related to your reasonable efforts to remove the XCP Software or the MediaMax Software; or
* copyright, trademark or other claims arising from the development of the MediaMax Software or the XCP Software, or any uninstallers or updates thereto.
You may still sue Sony BMG for any such claims, whether or not you choose to take advantage of the settlement benefits. As part of the settlement process, Sony BMG agreed to waive its unconscionable New York forum selection clause and $5 limit on damages, so you can take them to your local small claims court for your damages. EFF will be developing a web page explaining how to use the small claims process to bring a lawsuit against Sony BMG.
I am not a lawyer, but I would like a small claims slashdotting of sony for this.
Remove the root kit, for someone that got toasted, send them a bill, attach the small claims form to the bill: Imagine the pain of forty thousand small claims actions against them.
So, if my reading is correct, only if the damage is greater than small claims court do you want to opt out. otherwise we can try for the first small claims slashdotting.
Playing the stock market is gambling where you on average get 108 pennies for every dollar you risk.
That's quite an unsupported assertion. How about backing it up. Hint: You won't be able to, because it isn't true.
http://www.finfacts.com/stockperf.htm/ shows a historical average, but the original data is not on public sites. and it shows if you assume a one year hold time a return of 111pennies from every dollar you risk.
Personally I believe that penny stocks and companies oscilitating between public and private reduce the average to closer to my 108 pennies return for every dollar risked.
Playing the stock market is like every other form of gambling: The house always wins. You lose.
Playing the stock market is gambling where you on average get 108 pennies for every dollar you risk. This is why it is prudent to "gamble" on stocks instead of playing the lottery, where you get on average 60 pennies for every dollar you risk.
You mean we people like DaVinci, Mozart, Serat, Bach, and Van Gough would not have done anything without copyright law. Opps, they didn't have any copyright protections.
Your arguement is provable false. We MAY have reduced quanities of new content if we eradicate copyright law, but that is by no means certain.
It is even arguable that the reason we have the Harry Potter books, is not because of copyright law, but because of the British social saftey net.
Real life examples tend to suggest that if you want an increase in the arts and sciences, you should offer free schooling to all and a social saftey net so people can prudently take wild risks pursuing their dreams.
Thee problem is not the parts of windows. The Internet Explorer rendering engine is probably more secure than gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine,
The problem is that microsoft has added things like the activeX security model that is proven to be bad. (check out the spyware on most windows computers.) There is no predefined user that is trusted to plug things in, like cameras, usb devices, floppies, cd's, but not install software.
Windows security is like getting a box of premium carbon fiber safety bars for you car, but they come in a separate box so you can install yourself.
The UNIX security model may be simple and out dated, but at least it is used (excluding Lindows, which I believe they started using the osX model about the same time they changed to linspire IIRC).
Maybe when SeLinux is fully implemented in Debian, Microsoft will copy it. At least then we might have a few less spam bots around.
I read the press realease and things didn't sound like what I remember from a decade ago when I was in school, so I and it turns out that He(4) is superfluid at a higher temeperature than I remembered, 2.3K instead of 2K and He(4) becomes liquid at 4K
The news is that they did this with fermions instead of bosons. A press release from 2004 that seems to be a little more detailed. If this really does turn out to be fermion based super fluidity, It would suggests that one might be able to find a substance that is liquid at close to room temperature, (Iron (Fe) based compoundes are mentioned in the following release)
I do not see any mention of the lamda point being observed, so I guess the people calling this the next wave of cold fusion articles may yet be proven right,
The other thing that makes me leary of their results is that the press release was citing tempratures notably colder than the lamda point of liquid helium.
That said we have a few different teams that seem to be observing a subset of the actions only known to superfluids, so it may be babysteps. Either way the press releases seem more hype than news.
I was suspecting something worthy of quack watch from the botched summary.
A super fluid above two degrees kelvin, might be less dangerous to play with (or not, there are many factors.).
for the uninitiated, the freaky thing about superfluids is that they can, and will flow UP, Makes handeling them a bit on the, um.. , interesting side,
I found liquid He more of a mind trip than using a vacuum to boil ice water. Both look very wrong, and provide partial validation to the saying that sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.
Although, IE 4 had an almost identical API to Netscape 4 (this was to make it easy for people writing to Netscape's API to dump Navigator for IE)
I suspect that Opera or KHTML would be a near nightmare to use as an IE subsitute for things like ms money, outlook, outlook express, and the rest of microsofts web aware apps. Gecko might be doable, but it I don't recall API stablity being a big factor in the development of Mozilla 1.0. also, microsoft may have (I would be shocked if this was not true) added some microsoftisms to the netscape API after putting Netscape under, although, I can't believe that microsoft would be that sloppy about vender lock in.
It's a BUSINESS. You have to know who you are going to be selling to, and what margin it is.
I worked as stockbroker in the 90's and you would not believe the number of prospectuses that said something along the lines of: We have never sold our product/service and we have no reasonable basis in fact to believe that anyone will ever purchase our goods or services
You can guess how many of those businesses still exist.
A better question is: why do you continue to use PayPal? I've had a deep-seated distrust of them ever since the account-freezing issues. Apparently not too many other people cared about the lack of accountability and customer service.
The main reason people continue to use paypal is that they have no real competition in the micro enteprise market.
If you compare paypal's prices to that of other gateways, you will get the impression that you have two choices, A) Get ripped off by verisign or similar; B) Run the risk of getting ripped off by paypal.
If you are moving low value merchandise, paypal seems to be the economically prudent choice. If you are selling high value merchandise, I doubt one would use paypal, except for inertia.
The root user on Un*x is more properly compared to the LocalSystem account on Windows.
There is no real comparison, because the security models are fundamentally different.
True, but the selinux and the window security models are remarkably similar on paper.
The big problem with windows security is that it has been left as an exercise for the reader, and if you document your secure windows system, you might be able to turn it is for your PhD dissertation. (I am exaggerating, but not by much.)
Selinux is slowly migrating into the linux world, much like PAM did in the nineties. It is still very much a work in progress, but in time uid==0 will be about as useful as the contents of/etc/passwd in most linux systems. We can only hope that Microsoft will start to follow.
Last I checked KHTML (Konqueror's rendering engine, which is also the rendering engine in Safari, which you probably get many more hits from) was the most standards compliant of the four major rendering engines.
So, yes Konqueror has almost no market share, but it's rendering engine is fairly popular, (unless mac users don't vist your site)
The author of the press release has no problem with you copying his or her material. In fact, he or she would prefer it.
And the San Francisco Green Party would have no problem if you said that Nancy Pelosi's donations from Lockheed Martin were kickbacks for supporting the war.
Yes the people that issue press releases count it as a victory when you or your peers are lazy enough to publish our spin without fact checking, but there is a real argument that the reporter should be fired for doing no fact checking.
It was the 1984 Reagan campaign that started the practice in a large scale.
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I also read the ten page PDF.
A couple interesting items.
First, Figure 1. shows that cordless phones have a greater correlation than digital phones for people that talked 1001-2000hrs.
The second interesting thing (at least to me.) is that other studies seem to show a slight positive correlation between meningioma and cell phone use, those same studies show a negative correlation between glioma and cell phone use. (glioma and meningioma are types of brain cancer).
The question that the abstract left me with is, using the same questions and methodology, "What is the correlation between telephone usage and mningioma and glioma?"
An email I received from the FreeBSD security mailing list seems to imply to me that this might be more of a concern for multi user systems.
- security
From: Claus Assmann <freebsd+security@esmtp.org>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:20 -0800
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006, Bigby Findrake wrote:
> Does an attacker need network access to the machine, or does the attacker
Yes.
> merely need to be able to get an SMTP message to the machine?
He needs to control the timeouts (AFAICT).
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To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Taking the settlement explicitly still allows you to sue, and as a bonus removes the maximum damages under New York State law.
From my reading of the settlement (IANAL) you may well have a better case if you take the settlement.
To translate, buy the 2008's betting on an increase in volatility. (volatility is one of the variables when computing options and futures prices.) An increase in volatility will cause an increase in near term contracts, longer term you expect that things will balance out and you are more worried about the fundamentals, and the pricing models reflect this with the interest rate of US treasury notes being a greater influence in long term pricing. So he gave an answer consistent with his view.
However, he did not say what he is doing. Read into that what you will.
That's a good point, and useful information, but there is no real need for Adblock to take up the memory it does, and if the mozilla project is going to recommend extentions, they should also take bug reports about those extentions. (labeling them as not part of mozilla, is fine, but if someone reports a security flaw in a popular extention the current practice (as far as I can tell) would be to label the bug invalid, even though the only thing wrong about the report is that it is not part of the core build, but may be a concern for most users.
I am just wish that mozilla would take responsability for their recommendations. (qualifying them by accepting bug reports would make me happy.)
And you then get to lose all of your session data. What a wonderful solution. If you are using the internet to research a problem that you are actively working on, a browser that acts like it is the most important process running is a less than ideal solution.
That said the biggest problem seems to be the adblock extention.
Here firefox developers seem to want to have it both ways. They tout the wonders of all of the extentions, but refuse to help with the problems that these extensions cause. The absolute minimum is that they should be doing is hosting bug tracking for all the extentions that you can download from the find extentions feature.
On windows systems with low memory, I use IE instead of firefox (running as a user, not administrator, and using the runas command to have windows protect me from the application.) , I didn't suspect that I had to turn off caching in addition to turning off prefetch.
I'll give firefox another go next time I am on a win32 machine browsing. (speaking of win32 machines does anyone have a download of reactos 0.2.9?)
XFS and JFS should both work fine. I also would suspect hardware problems as a possible issue.
Stacking drives and not adequately cooling them is another possible cause of your IO errors with XFS.
Another possibility is checking your hard disks with the manufacturers drive test utility.
Nice theory, but in the United States many/most laws are written to give either, the best chance of passage, or the best chance of ones opponents looking bad. For example The Patriot Act was not titled that way for any legal reason. It was titled so that privacy advocates could be called unpatriotic. This is just a visible example, it is the norm in most of American Politics. I am sure it would take a short amount of research to find many laws that worked exactly the opposite way of what they were intended to.
I would look them up on findlaw instead of in the dictonary.
Think of it as the computer equivilent to a kit car. Impractical and done mainly for the benifit of the person doing it. Every once in a while someone creating a one off car comes up with something really innovative, but most of the time it is just a single persons hobby that no one really cares about.
With the nominal distribution and reproduction cost of software however, each creation has a remote chance of being a market leader.
Observers seem get caught up on market share and conservation on talent, when a lot of computer work is the scale of a really impressive hobby. That is not to say that people do not create software for other reasons. That is obviously false, but writing a *n*x clone from scratch when BSD already existed to get to learn about the 80386 was a waste of time if one only looks at efficiency of resources, but that was not the goal. The goal was to learn about the 80386, Linux having a sizable market share was an unintended consequence that did not factor in its origination.
(I hope this is not way to pedantic, but the we shouldn't waste resources statements seem to get passed around as truth with out any discussion.)
Read some of Richard Feynman's tales.
(probably the only member of the Manhattan Project to be commissioned to do a painting by a massage parlor.)
If we are having a lack of new drugs and everything is being patented, are patents still constitutional?
At first I was unhappy with the settlement, but then I got to the following section:
I am not a lawyer, but I would like a small claims slashdotting of sony for this.
Remove the root kit, for someone that got toasted, send them a bill, attach the small claims form to the bill: Imagine the pain of forty thousand small claims actions against them.
So, if my reading is correct, only if the damage is greater than small claims court do you want to opt out. otherwise we can try for the first small claims slashdotting.
http://www.finfacts.com/stockperf.htm/ shows a historical average, but the original data is not on public sites. and it shows if you assume a one year hold time a return of 111pennies from every dollar you risk.
Duke http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/ba350/histor
Personally I believe that penny stocks and companies oscilitating between public and private reduce the average to closer to my 108 pennies return for every dollar risked.
but I have not run the numbers myself, but http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/crsp/products
Playing the stock market is gambling where you on average get 108 pennies for every dollar you risk. This is why it is prudent to "gamble" on stocks instead of playing the lottery, where you get on average 60 pennies for every dollar you risk.
You mean we people like DaVinci, Mozart, Serat, Bach, and Van Gough would not have done anything without copyright law. Opps, they didn't have any copyright protections.
Your arguement is provable false. We MAY have reduced quanities of new content if we eradicate copyright law, but that is by no means certain.
It is even arguable that the reason we have the Harry Potter books, is not because of copyright law, but because of the British social saftey net.
Real life examples tend to suggest that if you want an increase in the arts and sciences, you should offer free schooling to all and a social saftey net so people can prudently take wild risks pursuing their dreams.
I know it's redundant, but the answer is none.
Thee problem is not the parts of windows. The Internet Explorer rendering engine is probably more secure than gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine,
The problem is that microsoft has added things like the activeX security model that is proven to be bad. (check out the spyware on most windows computers.) There is no predefined user that is trusted to plug things in, like cameras, usb devices, floppies, cd's, but not install software.
Windows security is like getting a box of premium carbon fiber safety bars for you car, but they come in a separate box so you can install yourself.
The UNIX security model may be simple and out dated, but at least it is used (excluding Lindows, which I believe they started using the osX model about the same time they changed to linspire IIRC).
Maybe when SeLinux is fully implemented in Debian, Microsoft will copy it. At least then we might have a few less spam bots around.
I read the press realease and things didn't sound like what I remember from a decade ago when I was in school, so I and it turns out that He(4) is superfluid at a higher temeperature than I remembered, 2.3K instead of 2K and He(4) becomes liquid at 4K
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http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/212_fall2003.web.dir/
The news is that they did this with fermions instead of bosons. A press release from 2004 that seems to be a little more detailed. If this really does turn out to be fermion based super fluidity, It would suggests that one might be able to find a substance that is liquid at close to room temperature, (Iron (Fe) based compoundes are mentioned in the following release)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/0404
I do not see any mention of the lamda point being observed, so I guess the people calling this the next wave of cold fusion articles may yet be proven right,
The other thing that makes me leary of their results is that the press release was citing tempratures notably colder than the lamda point of liquid helium.
That said we have a few different teams that seem to be observing a subset of the actions only known to superfluids, so it may be babysteps. Either way the press releases seem more hype than news.
Thanks for making me have to read the article. :-)
.. , interesting side,
I was suspecting something worthy of quack watch from the botched summary.
A super fluid above two degrees kelvin, might be less dangerous to play with (or not, there are many factors.).
for the uninitiated, the freaky thing about superfluids is that they can, and will flow UP, Makes handeling them a bit on the, um
I found liquid He more of a mind trip than using a vacuum to boil ice water. Both look very wrong, and provide partial validation to the saying that sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.
Although, IE 4 had an almost identical API to Netscape 4 (this was to make it easy for people writing to Netscape's API to dump Navigator for IE)
I suspect that Opera or KHTML would be a near nightmare to use as an IE subsitute for things like ms money, outlook, outlook express, and the rest of microsofts web aware apps. Gecko might be doable, but it I don't recall API stablity being a big factor in the development of Mozilla 1.0. also, microsoft may have (I would be shocked if this was not true) added some microsoftisms to the netscape API after putting Netscape under, although, I can't believe that microsoft would be that sloppy about vender lock in.
It's a BUSINESS. You have to know who you are going to be selling to, and what margin it is.
I worked as stockbroker in the 90's and you would not believe the number of prospectuses that said something along the lines of: We have never sold our product/service and we have no reasonable basis in fact to believe that anyone will ever purchase our goods or services
You can guess how many of those businesses still exist.
The main reason people continue to use paypal is that they have no real competition in the micro enteprise market.
If you compare paypal's prices to that of other gateways, you will get the impression that you have two choices, A) Get ripped off by verisign or similar; B) Run the risk of getting ripped off by paypal.
If you are moving low value merchandise, paypal seems to be the economically prudent choice. If you are selling high value merchandise, I doubt one would use paypal, except for inertia.
True, but the selinux and the window security models are remarkably similar on paper.
The big problem with windows security is that it has been left as an exercise for the reader, and if you document your secure windows system, you might be able to turn it is for your PhD dissertation. (I am exaggerating, but not by much.)
Selinux is slowly migrating into the linux world, much like PAM did in the nineties. It is still very much a work in progress, but in time uid==0 will be about as useful as the contents of
Last I checked KHTML (Konqueror's rendering engine, which is also the rendering engine in Safari, which you probably get many more hits from) was the most standards compliant of the four major rendering engines.
So, yes Konqueror has almost no market share, but it's rendering engine is fairly popular, (unless mac users don't vist your site)
And the San Francisco Green Party would have no problem if you said that Nancy Pelosi's donations from Lockheed Martin were kickbacks for supporting the war.
Yes the people that issue press releases count it as a victory when you or your peers are lazy enough to publish our spin without fact checking, but there is a real argument that the reporter should be fired for doing no fact checking.
It was the 1984 Reagan campaign that started the practice in a large scale.