I wish citizendium well, and I hope it's a big success. I'm not enthusiastic about contributing there because having no PhD I would always be a second-class citizen.
In the seventies it was the coming ice age, and we were all going to freeze in the dark as the oil ran out. Reducing pollution, conserving energy, and depending less on fossil fuels was the solution then too.
I think the "Damn The Man" mentality does arise spontaneously, and there is not always reason fueling it. Who else is there to cuss - ourselves? A lot of us are just hecklers, and will damn anyone in authority. Humans seem to have built-in contempt for authority, along with a built-in inclination to obey authority. An ambitious man, demagogue or oligarch, tries to use human nature to get ahead. Stickin' it to the man is better than burning the witch, but politicians will use whoever is handy, witch-burners or hecklers.
Mounting filesystems with these flags set raises the bar a little, but it doesn't stop files from being executed.
What you need is defense in depth. Mounting/tmp noexec,nosuid helps; Keeping everything up-to-date helps; Scanning your log files, following the news,... You get the idea.
And of course, hiring someone competent to do all this is a fine idea;)
How could anyone think that threatened with life in prison by a repressive government, a Chinese "Citizen" would possibly choose to not immediately capitulate to ANY request by the police?
Ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations! Here's another Chinese citizen.
This quote never appears in the article, in spite of your use of quotation marks. You've provided a straw-man to beat on instead of a summary of the argument.
Whenever people argue against a straw-man instead of against the actual position of the other side, I suspect it's because they find it too difficult to address the real argument.
Senator McCarthy was a bad man. It shouldn't be that hard to say why without making stuff up.
In a bit of good economic news that drew only limited attention, the Labor Department said Friday that U.S. employers added a net 169,000 jobs in August, and the nation's unemployment rate declined to a four-year low of 4.9 percent.
but
Although the magnitude of Katrina's blow to the nation's economy -- and labor force -- has yet to come into focus, experts figure it is a near certainty that the U.S. unemployment rate has already climbed back above 4.9 percent.
In fact, the likelihood of a recession has doubled in the aftermath of Katrina, credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said Friday. The likelihood of a recession has increased from less than 12 percent to 25 percent following Katrina, the agency said.
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I wish citizendium well, and I hope it's a big success. I'm not enthusiastic about contributing there because having no PhD I would always be a second-class citizen.
Stable versions would do more than verified credentials.
In the late sixties or early seventies, a local bank for a would pay sixty cents for a roll of fifty pennies. The offer lasted a week or two, I think.
In the seventies it was the coming ice age, and we were all going to freeze in the dark as the oil ran out. Reducing pollution, conserving energy, and depending less on fossil fuels was the solution then too.
Any notable weather event is a consequence of Global Warming.
Yeah, good point. I'm sure lots of new people would be eager to "help."
If Wikipedia ever finds itself with too many editors, this would be a way to get rid of a bunch.
I think the "Damn The Man" mentality does arise spontaneously, and there is not always reason fueling it. Who else is there to cuss - ourselves? A lot of us are just hecklers, and will damn anyone in authority. Humans seem to have built-in contempt for authority, along with a built-in inclination to obey authority. An ambitious man, demagogue or oligarch, tries to use human nature to get ahead. Stickin' it to the man is better than burning the witch, but politicians will use whoever is handy, witch-burners or hecklers.
Or so they would have you believe...
"Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation states that any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror."
Does anybody think this guy will miss any meals because of this?
So where is everybody?
The number of primes found lately, four in just over two years, is higher than previously expected.
I can just imagine the newspaper report: Scientists report more numbers than previously thought.
Per Making /tmp non-executable:
What you need is defense in depth. Mounting /tmp noexec,nosuid helps; Keeping everything up-to-date helps; Scanning your log files, following the news,... You get the idea.
And of course, hiring someone competent to do all this is a fine idea;)
"Roe to hoe" looke like a new entry for the Eggcorn database.
Then in the end you'll turn on each other; happens every time.
How about the Sturgis, a "440-foot-long World War II Liberty ship that the Army converted into a floating 45-megawatt nuclear power plant."
More about Unique Reactors
I wish I had a Mac.
It does make sense if Apple is touting their improved search bar; But for touting to occur, some person has to be the tout.
Although now that I think of it, maybe the gizmo comes with an audio file that plays when you turn it on:
"Good afternoon, Sir! Do you not admire this splendid search bar? It can be yours for a small fee. May I arrange the purchase for you?"
Then it would be touting its search bar. If it played a fanfare as well, it could be touting its own horn.
That suggests some interesting possibilities. How about CTRL+T CTRL+L ls? Or CTRL+T CTRL+L vi?
Windows users have to do wi'tout.
Open a console and type
How could anyone think that threatened with life in prison by a repressive government, a Chinese "Citizen" would possibly choose to not immediately capitulate to ANY request by the police?
Ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations! Here's another Chinese citizen.
here's a time-saving summary
This quote never appears in the article, in spite of your use of quotation marks. You've provided a straw-man to beat on instead of a summary of the argument.
Whenever people argue against a straw-man instead of against the actual position of the other side, I suspect it's because they find it too difficult to address the real argument.
Senator McCarthy was a bad man. It shouldn't be that hard to say why without making stuff up.
So would this be a werehouse?
Jobless rate hits 4-year low
but