While I find the idea of political interference with scientific processes reprehensible, the fact remains that the USGS is an organ of the USG, United States Government, and what you can or can't say is limited just like it would for any other employer. The general public and media doesn't understand that honest and reputable scientists can interperate a given data set in different and opposing ways and it seems that when that happens it's a repudiation of the very basis of science. People want the government to have THE answer, the government looks to science to give it THE answer, but the reality is there is no THE answer, there is only an optimum solution bases on our limited knowlege.
It might be nice to know beforehand so you can call your wife and tell her your going to be late for dinner because somebody at USG just published something and the press is going crazy over it!
I'll be honest not only did I fail to see the degree of novelty and non-obviousness I'd hope that a patent should be expected to rise to, I fail to see the utility for the user; an emotiflag assigned by the sender would quickly be inflated to uselessness. If the USTPO rejects this application then not only does M$ not get the patent, no one does, because it establishes prior art. if M$ does get the patent we'd better get ready for this:
Dear Sir or Madam;
I hope the Email fines you well as a serious matter has come to our attention. As you know Microsoft holds patents rights on the emoti-flag technology that you have licensed, and as per our license agreement, you may only use the "errect penis" emotiflag for Emails that contain both illegal erectile dysfunction medications and "barely legal girls" or "herbal erectile dysfunction medications and "mature women with over-sized sex toys or engaging in interracial intercourse" your site clearly only offer erectile dysfunction medications and mature women with normal sized sex toys which would only rate a 1/4 erect penis emotiflag. Correction of this problem now will avoid future legal problems. sincerely Microsoft legal dept.
That's not what happened or is happening, the deal is M$ will not sue the customers of Novell for infringement of M$ patents in Novell products; M$ isn't even saying that they found patented technologies in Novell product, just that they will not sue. There is also work to insure interoperability of SuSE Linux and M$ products for which Novell is getting paid, considering how well Linux plays with M$ when given half a chance, I'd consider it free money and likely paid more from guilt in hopes it'll be seen as a peace offering
Of course it's better to fix the buffers, that's my job now, before that I used to board up windows to keep the brain eating zombies out; seriously they only have to miss one and you'd be rooted. Defense in depth is the ticket, but I suspect that M$ skips bounds checking to improve performance where the buffer shouldn't be overflowable and see what we get.
My distro goes by the assumption that your the developer, if your software doesn't comply with the standards in the LSB, Linux Standards Base, it's a bug and they submit a bug-report to you and your software stays in unstable until you fix it. The rest of it is meta-data and is in their ballpark; the result is I don't deal with a lot of the problems being discussed. Other than the pain and suffering caused by the change from DevFS back to UDev in the kernel and the habitual problems with php upgrades breaking everything web related; I don't have those problems.
The biggest problem with RPM for Joe Shmoe User is it is real good at reporting unsatisfied dependencies, but doesn't resolve them. I use arch linux and it has pacman, I can tell pacman to install Kdevelop, pacman knows that Kdevelop needs KDE, which needs Xorg so it grinds away and presents me with a laundry list of packages to install and asks install all 857 Mb Y or n [Y]? punch yes and everything installs, at worst it takes two tries to get everything in, then just configure Xorg and your good-to-go; my understanding is that apt-get works just as well or better. With RPM the same installation would have to be done recursively and would probably get to 7 or 9 layers deep, a lot of us could do it but Joe Shmoe couldn't.
I've often gotten the feeling with RPM, that it also promotes distro-lock in in subtle ways, SuSE and Redhat name their libraries differently, so RPM will choke on installing a Fedora RPM on a SuSE distro. In the Debian world, all the debian based distros will install each other's apt's as I understand it, this reduces the work at each distro tremendously, if debian calls it stable, the others don't even have to check it!
It's not that pyscology is Bullshit as much as it has a tendency to aquire fad diagnosis, more so among the para-professionals and non-psycology professionals rather than the psycology professionals. Seems that attention deficit syndroms hit that catagory, the addictions, and bipolar.
One unusual gotcha with MDB2 is when it returns a query result as an associate array, it converts the field name indexes to lower case. I think this is because MySQL isn't case-sensitive for field names, just table name, but at any rate it isn't documented and is unexpected as most other oo db interfaces at least fake case sensitivity in field names! If you know how to get the last inserted Id I'd appreciate a shout
I was wondering how the editors let such a transparent attempt on to the front page and then I saw this thread and realized it was just to set the mood.
If your a software eng at company X, your endorsement of the products you produce of course carry more weight the the opinion of one of your sales weenies, personally I'd find the lack of endorsement more troubling. I know that I like to use the products I make as much as possible, so that I can give more realistic evaluations to clients, and when I do speak to people I don't find it difficult to let them know my professional relationships. I know a bunch of engineers and even assembly line workers who work for Daimler-Chrysler, GM and Ford; they are all proud of their products and will brag about them and they are proud to be employees and will let you know that as well.
GGP said "indeed. That's why I use Minix as my operating system, vi as my word processor, and links as my web browser. Come and get me, you bastards!!!" and I didn't even know there was a text browser named links until I whatis'ed it seconds ago and assumed he meant lynx
we have an electric insta-hot which heats the water to 190 degrees under the sink and its plumbed into the gas heated hot water line so it really is a hot water heater neener neener neener
I know that an attorney has a responsibility to their client to present the evidence in the most favorable light, but the difference between what the AOL letter actually said, and the way the the attorney's representing RIAA represented it, is so different I'd consider letting the attorney do some community service on weekends for contempt. The AOL letter said that the IP was accessed by an account with a name, I'm not sure AOL even cares if the credit card name is the same as the account name or if it does whether there is any other form of confirmation of Identity, and unless it's redacted no caller ID on the phone line to associate the account to a physical location; then the RIAA turns around and not only implies the identity is certain, but that AOL has done some kind of traffic analysis on the connections! I think they are going beyond what honest honorable men in an adversarial system should and need to be reined in.
The other thing I noticed is the connection times are all over the place, most people are more habitual, so my Hockey-meter is reading high here and saying the account is hacked! My wife knows what times her internet buddies come on and go off line. Maybe you should ask AOL if they allow two logins on the same account and if they don't if keep track of failed login attempts.
I've been an NBC NCO so I've spent a fair amount of time wearing a gasmask in a room filled with teargas, and this has happened to me, so I know what being burned feels like, but still the mental image of some protester type chaining himself to a pole wearing a leaky gasmask full of terargas while half-drowning in the snot and phelum, then franticaly searching for the key while being blasted by a "pain-ray", just cracked me up.
I agree it seems that way, but the reality is that unless you've had to protect a KKK rally from anti-Klan protesters you probably don't see it from the governments point of view which is mainly they have to protect the rights of groups that they personally wouldn't piss in their mouths if there teeth were on fire. We do need to know when group of dirtbag a is going to need protecting from group of dirtbag b so we can allocate appropriate resources; and of course if you make the dirtbags pull permits, you got to make everybody.
This thing is not going to make your eyes pop or burn your corneas;
Eye damage is identified as the biggest concern, but the military claims this has been thoroughly studied. Lab testing found subjects reflexively blink or turn away within a quarter of a second of exposure, long before the sensitive cornea can be damaged. Tests on monkeys showed that corneal damage heals within 24 hours, the reports claim.
"A speculum was needed to hold the eyes open to produce this type of injury because even under anesthesia, the monkeys blinked, protecting the cornea," the report says.
but I guarantee that if I spray some micro-pulverised CS-2 into your eyes from the riot-dispersers we have in inventory now there is going to be some eye damage. Of course we can't use CS teargas in Iraq because it's a chemical weapon so the choices are, mm waves or machine-gun bullets; which would you consider more humane?
While the article is quite light on details, much work has been done in this area, by groups such as ElarmS in California, if your interested in the methodology take a look at Allen's paper "Rapid magnitude determination for earthquake early warning (a 7 pg. PDF) which is reasonable understandable by lay persons if you skip through the math, yet still informative for people in the field.
I met your Olympic boxing coach and your boxers at Atlanta 96 and they earned a lot of my respect; don't hate your country, it's been through more than most could endure several times over. Things will get better.
I'd hope the these guys actually broke into a machine in the DMZ serving data over the internet and used a shell on that one to penetrate deeper into the network.
Everything seemed to work for me using firefox 2 on Linux, expected it to crash and burn but it work good, better than googlemaps in fact. I found it just plain weird from Mircosoft, of course its still beta, still time to insert the bugs LOL
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While I find the idea of political interference with scientific processes reprehensible, the fact remains that the USGS is an organ of the USG, United States Government, and what you can or can't say is limited just like it would for any other employer. The general public and media doesn't understand that honest and reputable scientists can interperate a given data set in different and opposing ways and it seems that when that happens it's a repudiation of the very basis of science. People want the government to have THE answer, the government looks to science to give it THE answer, but the reality is there is no THE answer, there is only an optimum solution bases on our limited knowlege.
It might be nice to know beforehand so you can call your wife and tell her your going to be late for dinner because somebody at USG just published something and the press is going crazy over it!
That's not what happened or is happening, the deal is M$ will not sue the customers of Novell for infringement of M$ patents in Novell products; M$ isn't even saying that they found patented technologies in Novell product, just that they will not sue. There is also work to insure interoperability of SuSE Linux and M$ products for which Novell is getting paid, considering how well Linux plays with M$ when given half a chance, I'd consider it free money and likely paid more from guilt in hopes it'll be seen as a peace offering
Of course it's better to fix the buffers, that's my job now, before that I used to board up windows to keep the brain eating zombies out; seriously they only have to miss one and you'd be rooted. Defense in depth is the ticket, but I suspect that M$ skips bounds checking to improve performance where the buffer shouldn't be overflowable and see what we get.
My distro goes by the assumption that your the developer, if your software doesn't comply with the standards in the LSB, Linux Standards Base, it's a bug and they submit a bug-report to you and your software stays in unstable until you fix it. The rest of it is meta-data and is in their ballpark; the result is I don't deal with a lot of the problems being discussed. Other than the pain and suffering caused by the change from DevFS back to UDev in the kernel and the habitual problems with php upgrades breaking everything web related; I don't have those problems.
The biggest problem with RPM for Joe Shmoe User is it is real good at reporting unsatisfied dependencies, but doesn't resolve them. I use arch linux and it has pacman, I can tell pacman to install Kdevelop, pacman knows that Kdevelop needs KDE, which needs Xorg so it grinds away and presents me with a laundry list of packages to install and asks install all 857 Mb Y or n [Y]? punch yes and everything installs, at worst it takes two tries to get everything in, then just configure Xorg and your good-to-go; my understanding is that apt-get works just as well or better.
With RPM the same installation would have to be done recursively and would probably get to 7 or 9 layers deep, a lot of us could do it but Joe Shmoe couldn't.
I've often gotten the feeling with RPM, that it also promotes distro-lock in in subtle ways, SuSE and Redhat name their libraries differently, so RPM will choke on installing a Fedora RPM on a SuSE distro. In the Debian world, all the debian based distros will install each other's apt's as I understand it, this reduces the work at each distro tremendously, if debian calls it stable, the others don't even have to check it!
It's not that pyscology is Bullshit as much as it has a tendency to aquire fad diagnosis, more so among the para-professionals and non-psycology professionals rather than the psycology professionals. Seems that attention deficit syndroms hit that catagory, the addictions, and bipolar.
One unusual gotcha with MDB2 is when it returns a query result as an associate array, it converts the field name indexes to lower case. I think this is because MySQL isn't case-sensitive for field names, just table name, but at any rate it isn't documented and is unexpected as most other oo db interfaces at least fake case sensitivity in field names! If you know how to get the last inserted Id I'd appreciate a shout
I was wondering how the editors let such a transparent attempt on to the front page and then I saw this thread and realized it was just to set the mood.
If your a software eng at company X, your endorsement of the products you produce of course carry more weight the the opinion of one of your sales weenies, personally I'd find the lack of endorsement more troubling. I know that I like to use the products I make as much as possible, so that I can give more realistic evaluations to clients, and when I do speak to people I don't find it difficult to let them know my professional relationships. I know a bunch of engineers and even assembly line workers who work for Daimler-Chrysler, GM and Ford; they are all proud of their products and will brag about them and they are proud to be employees and will let you know that as well.
I enjoyed using the system, well except for the resources it used, my old dinosaur just couldn't pull all that javascript
GGP said "indeed. That's why I use Minix as my operating system, vi as my word processor, and links as my web browser. Come and get me, you bastards!!!" and I didn't even know there was a text browser named links until I whatis'ed it seconds ago and assumed he meant lynx
Actually it's quite useful for making tea, instant coffee or soups ect. and the energy leaked goes into living space so it's not totally wasted.
Lynx is a text mode web browser, so it is unlikely to be affected by an overflow in a graphics library.
you sir are a savage, civilized people use Linux, Vim and w3m!
we have an electric insta-hot which heats the water to 190 degrees under the sink and its plumbed into the gas heated hot water line so it really is a hot water heater neener neener neener
I know that an attorney has a responsibility to their client to present the evidence in the most favorable light, but the difference between what the AOL letter actually said, and the way the the attorney's representing RIAA represented it, is so different I'd consider letting the attorney do some community service on weekends for contempt. The AOL letter said that the IP was accessed by an account with a name, I'm not sure AOL even cares if the credit card name is the same as the account name or if it does whether there is any other form of confirmation of Identity, and unless it's redacted no caller ID on the phone line to associate the account to a physical location; then the RIAA turns around and not only implies the identity is certain, but that AOL has done some kind of traffic analysis on the connections! I think they are going beyond what honest honorable men in an adversarial system should and need to be reined in.
The other thing I noticed is the connection times are all over the place, most people are more habitual, so my Hockey-meter is reading high here and saying the account is hacked! My wife knows what times her internet buddies come on and go off line. Maybe you should ask AOL if they allow two logins on the same account and if they don't if keep track of failed login attempts.
I've been an NBC NCO so I've spent a fair amount of time wearing a gasmask in a room filled with teargas, and this has happened to me, so I know what being burned feels like, but still the mental image of some protester type chaining himself to a pole wearing a leaky gasmask full of terargas while half-drowning in the snot and phelum, then franticaly searching for the key while being blasted by a "pain-ray", just cracked me up.
I agree it seems that way, but the reality is that unless you've had to protect a KKK rally from anti-Klan protesters you probably don't see it from the governments point of view which is mainly they have to protect the rights of groups that they personally wouldn't piss in their mouths if there teeth were on fire. We do need to know when group of dirtbag a is going to need protecting from group of dirtbag b so we can allocate appropriate resources; and of course if you make the dirtbags pull permits, you got to make everybody.
but I guarantee that if I spray some micro-pulverised CS-2 into your eyes from the riot-dispersers we have in inventory now there is going to be some eye damage. Of course we can't use CS teargas in Iraq because it's a chemical weapon so the choices are, mm waves or machine-gun bullets; which would you consider more humane?
While the article is quite light on details, much work has been done in this area, by groups such as ElarmS in California, if your interested in the methodology take a look at Allen's paper "Rapid magnitude determination for earthquake early warning (a 7 pg. PDF) which is reasonable understandable by lay persons if you skip through the math, yet still informative for people in the field.
A psycho with a funny mustache named Hitler, killed them
I met your Olympic boxing coach and your boxers at Atlanta 96 and they earned a lot of my respect; don't hate your country, it's been through more than most could endure several times over. Things will get better.
I'd hope the these guys actually broke into a machine in the DMZ serving data over the internet and used a shell on that one to penetrate deeper into the network.
Everything seemed to work for me using firefox 2 on Linux, expected it to crash and burn but it work good, better than googlemaps in fact. I found it just plain weird from Mircosoft, of course its still beta, still time to insert the bugs LOL