GM foods: They are specifically engineerd so that you can only use them once.
Wrong, wrong wrong they do not produce fertile seed because they are Hybrids, not because they are geneticaly engineered. Hybrids are the result of a cross breeding between two seperate species, the prodgeny of this are either sterile, or will not breed true. Hybrids are generaly stronger, more vigorous, and more productive; that make them highly cost effective for large scale commercial farming like what happens in the US and Canada. Hybrids are less apropriate for small-scale commercial farms, and in-apropriate for subsitence farming where it is necessary for feed grain and seed grain to be interchangable.
If you are trying to farm twenty acres to feed a village with Hybrid seeds, eventually, you are going to starve. An American/Canadian farmer can afford to lose a 50 acres out of 250 once in a while; he has 50 acres field corn, 50 acres soy, 75 acres alfalfa, 25 acers for cattle grazing and 45 acres lying fallow and a 5 acre family garden; he's not going to starve, he has a factory job in the city!
Concidering that 1 forrestry companies plant, two to three trees for everyone harvested, 2 the trees that they plant are specialy bred to be more effiecent at producing the type of wood desired, unlike existing trees which furhter reduces the consumption of existing wild forrests
Of course not all GMO's are safe, not all of anything is safe. If I were to shoot you, unless some Real Scientist could prove you were safe, you'd be shot. As for TMI, I suspect that each coal-fired power plant, releases more radioactive material into the enviroment than TMI did. Each smoke detector will eventualy release more radioactive, fissile products into your local land fill than will ever be released in an accident transporting spent fuel rods to a waste repository or reprocessing plant.
You wouldn't believe the amount of training, proceedures and paper-work required to transport to transport one M8A1 chemical alarm because it contains the americium 241, the same stuff in your household smoke detector, and in less quantity.than your department store shelf.
Constantly upgrading is pure consumerist crap. Lighten up, some people Hot-Rod cars, some People Hot-Rod computers; niether is realy practical, but both are a lot of fun. I have some old software that came bundled on my 8MHz 286, which on a whim I loaded onto a Pentium 75, those old window managers, and word processors are wicked fast on a pentium.
If everybody still played DOOM II, you'd be saying Hell I used to develop games for a living..., enough people write their own levels to keep the game interesting for quite a while.
I've found that the fringe applications usualy compile better on a volunteer distro; I've had good luck compiling esteric programs on arch linux, I'd guess that something like gentoo would work well also.
The mainline commercial's make their money selling installation support, so they limit the ability to upgrade. On the other hand the commercials, because they have to support the installation, make the instalation trivial so they'll never have to actualy provide the support
The bad biz is more likely to be those clueless businesses and marketingdroids who insist on trying to measure the unmeasurable with misleading metrics, generated by semi-literate statiticians, to support the goals of some advertising company that is usualy hired as an consultant.
In this situation it's difficult to jsutify competition for a non-scarce resource. The resource is artificialy rationed because if the market was reduced to commodity levels, the provisioners would be unable to recoup the initital investment, probably go bankrupt and posible withholding the resource from the consumers; a bad thing. Of course there is tons of unlit fiber all over both from presently going concerns, and from bankrupt companies during the dot-bust era. Most of the evil-monopolies grew out of government subsities or protective regulations, so I don't think that prohibiting municipalities the right to compete in their own areas is a good think.
I don't begrudge any company a reasonable ROI of a large investment; however I don't think that higher early-adopter pricing should be the basis for outragious profit in perpetuity either.
1 a server feeding 345 Kbs into the internet to my Comcast 10Mbs subnet feeding my 4Mbs house connection gives me 345Kbs connection; 2 a server feeding 345 Kbs into the internet to my Comcast 10Mbs subnet feeding my 1000Mbs house connection still gives me 345Kbs connection;
Once connection speeds saturate the server it doesn't make any difference what the theoretical capacity of the connection is.
there is no reason at all why a company can't just package up everything it needs in one big self-contained lump, eliminating the need for dependencies Of course your right, it should not be a big problem for the package manager that complains about a missing dependency, to go ahead with permission and install the dependency. Most distro stick things in/usr/lib, or/opt which leaves/usr/local/lib for non-distro stuff, install there and the distro ususly doesn't over-right it. One problem that will arrise is frequently a big lib like glib is depended on by SO many other programs, that updating it usualy isn't feasable practicaly, it is practicaly a whole new install so it's better to upgrade the whole system.
Right now I'm running dual-boot Arch-linux 0.7 and SuSE Linux 8.1; the SuSE is terribly outdated and it's almost impossible to compile anything on it, too many unresolved dependcies, the Arch however will compile anything, it just short of bleeding edge.
so I balled up my fist and gave it a good hard whack on the top, proper nomencalture is important, that should read "Field Expedient Manual Fine Tuning" on the invoice
If your talking about Pacific Root, yes they were in fact the original dot BIZ registar, and did host their own alternative DNS servers. I personaly have used them before the ICANN inclusion of the.BIZ into their gTLD system.
I don't think there is anything to stop AOL from resolving keyword.aol.net to their keyword system either.
My wife just doesn't get tabbed browsing, watching her on the web just makes me insane. It's almost painful for me to browse w/o tabbed browser, so I've tried to explain it to her, show her how I do it, sometimes quietly and patiently, sometime emphaticaly but she just don't get it. There is probably a lot of people who aren't psycologicaly suited for a particular user interface.
Just remember today college kid eating ramem noodle, Dinty More beef stew and Hormel chilli; becomes tomorrows Purchasing Manager, IT director, or CEO.
wipes the disk about a clean as is possible, this commands writes a series of hex values to the block device i.e. the whole disk drive, that even with the various encodeing schemes ensures that every byte is flipped on the disk surface at least once and repeats the process 25 times. If anybody wants the data bad enough to read through all of that, it would be easier for them to have you picked up by the black helicopters and tortured untill you gave them everything anyways!
I've often thought that it would be interesting to grab a couple of the iron-nickel astoroids and use them for hull. hold them im a magnetic suspention, a little solar heating and blow 'em up like a glass-blower would. Nice robust-solid hull, not like that flimsey shit we use becuase they are easy to lift.
whether a nuclear bomb would ignite the atmosphere it does, they called nitrous oxide emmisions, hell even your regular bombs do it, even your car does it.
I thought that would have been SG1; but anyways when they manage to put a pentium4 with centrino wireless technology on a DNA strand we'll be seriously screwed.
Most medical and dental offices don't have anybody even resoanably astute in computers, not to mention computer security! I spend a lot of time chasing commet curser of the billing clerk machine
he means system as in the custom software, OS, server, all the clients, the network including hardware and wiring, etc. Of course you can by the componants yourself, from the approved list cheaper, but the instalation fees soak up the difference anyways so why bother?
The problem programs, from the looks to me are programs that depend on windows being completely clueless on security. Right now the move from completely clueless to moderately clueless is causing much gnashing of teeth. If microsoft ever "gets it" on security, almost every program the windozers use will have to be rewritten to work. Imagine not allowing a computer program to just automaticaly answering any ol' incoming connection! Right now all of the common "ET phone home" programs mean that the wife's 3 GHz windowsXP machine takes as long to go from user login to a usable desktop as my 700MHz linux machine takes to load KDE to a useable desktop.
using a known good dns resolver. That's the crux of the matter, any DNS server that excepts a CNAME for example.com, on a name server at evilhax04.com, when its looking up the name gottcha.evilhax04.com is never going to be known good; and at best be possibly good but probably not.
considering that Around 22:30 GMT on March 3, 2005 the SANS Internet Storm Center began receiving reports... and one of the sites affected webmd.com (online medical advice) also processes tons of federaly protected (HIPPA) medical and dental claims, and that there are also
involved it might have been nice if/. posted something arround the 5th of march instead of a month later. Cmdr Taco might not care if everbody knows about his Herpes med and Viagra addiction, but other people might.
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GM foods:
They are specifically engineerd so that you can only use them once.
Wrong, wrong wrong they do not produce fertile seed because they are Hybrids, not because they are geneticaly engineered. Hybrids are the result of a cross breeding between two seperate species, the prodgeny of this are either sterile, or will not breed true. Hybrids are generaly stronger, more vigorous, and more productive; that make them highly cost effective for large scale commercial farming like what happens in the US and Canada. Hybrids are less apropriate for small-scale commercial farms, and in-apropriate for subsitence farming where it is necessary for feed grain and seed grain to be interchangable.
If you are trying to farm twenty acres to feed a village with Hybrid seeds, eventually, you are going to starve. An American/Canadian farmer can afford to lose a 50 acres out of 250 once in a while; he has 50 acres field corn, 50 acres soy, 75 acres alfalfa, 25 acers for cattle grazing and 45 acres lying fallow and a 5 acre family garden; he's not going to starve, he has a factory job in the city!
Concidering that
1 forrestry companies plant, two to three trees for everyone harvested,
2 the trees that they plant are specialy bred to be more effiecent at producing the type of wood desired, unlike existing trees which furhter reduces the consumption of existing wild forrests
that recycling paper would actualy be a bad thing
Of course not all GMO's are safe, not all of anything is safe. If I were to shoot you, unless some Real Scientist could prove you were safe, you'd be shot. As for TMI, I suspect that each coal-fired power plant, releases more radioactive material into the enviroment than TMI did. Each smoke detector will eventualy release more radioactive, fissile products into your local land fill than will ever be released in an accident transporting spent fuel rods to a waste repository or reprocessing plant.
.than your department store shelf.
You wouldn't believe the amount of training, proceedures and paper-work required to transport to transport one M8A1 chemical alarm because it contains the americium 241, the same stuff in your household smoke detector, and in less quantity
blender, and video encoding is pretty slow on my 700 MHz athlon, but everything else runs OK
Constantly upgrading is pure consumerist crap.
Lighten up, some people Hot-Rod cars, some People Hot-Rod computers; niether is realy practical, but both are a lot of fun. I have some old software that came bundled on my 8MHz 286, which on a whim I loaded onto a Pentium 75, those old window managers, and word processors are wicked fast on a pentium.
If everybody still played DOOM II, you'd be saying Hell I used to develop games for a living..., enough people write their own levels to keep the game interesting for quite a while.
my ed session only uses 16KB!
I've found that the fringe applications usualy compile better on a volunteer distro; I've had good luck compiling esteric programs on arch linux, I'd guess that something like gentoo would work well also.
The mainline commercial's make their money selling installation support, so they limit the ability to upgrade. On the other hand the commercials, because they have to support the installation, make the instalation trivial so they'll never have to actualy provide the support
The bad biz is more likely to be those clueless businesses and marketingdroids who insist on trying to measure the unmeasurable with misleading metrics, generated by semi-literate statiticians, to support the goals of some advertising company that is usualy hired as an consultant.
In this situation it's difficult to jsutify competition for a non-scarce resource.
The resource is artificialy rationed because if the market was reduced to commodity levels, the provisioners would be unable to recoup the initital investment, probably go bankrupt and posible withholding the resource from the consumers; a bad thing. Of course there is tons of unlit fiber all over both from presently going concerns, and from bankrupt companies during the dot-bust era. Most of the evil-monopolies grew out of government subsities or protective regulations, so I don't think that prohibiting municipalities the right to compete in their own areas is a good think.
I don't begrudge any company a reasonable ROI of a large investment; however I don't think that higher early-adopter pricing should be the basis for outragious profit in perpetuity either.
1 a server feeding 345 Kbs into the internet to my Comcast 10Mbs subnet feeding my 4Mbs house connection gives me 345Kbs connection;
2 a server feeding 345 Kbs into the internet to my Comcast 10Mbs subnet feeding my 1000Mbs house connection still gives me 345Kbs connection;
Once connection speeds saturate the server it doesn't make any difference what the theoretical capacity of the connection is.
there is no reason at all why a company can't just package up everything it needs in one big self-contained lump, eliminating the need for dependencies /usr/lib, or /opt which leaves /usr/local/lib for non-distro stuff, install there and the distro ususly doesn't over-right it. One problem that will arrise is frequently a big lib like glib is depended on by SO many other programs, that updating it usualy isn't feasable practicaly, it is practicaly a whole new install so it's better to upgrade the whole system.
Of course your right, it should not be a big problem for the package manager that complains about a missing dependency, to go ahead with permission and install the dependency. Most distro stick things in
Right now I'm running dual-boot Arch-linux 0.7 and SuSE Linux 8.1; the SuSE is terribly outdated and it's almost impossible to compile anything on it, too many unresolved dependcies, the Arch however will compile anything, it just short of bleeding edge.
so I balled up my fist and gave it a good hard whack on the top, proper nomencalture is important, that should read "Field Expedient Manual Fine Tuning" on the invoice
If your talking about Pacific Root, yes they were in fact the original dot BIZ registar, and did host their own alternative DNS servers. I personaly have used them before the ICANN inclusion of the .BIZ into their gTLD system.
I don't think there is anything to stop AOL from resolving keyword.aol.net to their keyword system either.
My wife just doesn't get tabbed browsing, watching her on the web just makes me insane. It's almost painful for me to browse w/o tabbed browser, so I've tried to explain it to her, show her how I do it, sometimes quietly and patiently, sometime emphaticaly but she just don't get it. There is probably a lot of people who aren't psycologicaly suited for a particular user interface.
Just remember today college kid eating ramem noodle, Dinty More beef stew and Hormel chilli; becomes tomorrows Purchasing Manager, IT director, or CEO.
I've often thought that it would be interesting to grab a couple of the iron-nickel astoroids and use them for hull. hold them im a magnetic suspention, a little solar heating and blow 'em up like a glass-blower would. Nice robust-solid hull, not like that flimsey shit we use becuase they are easy to lift.
whether a nuclear bomb would ignite the atmosphere
it does, they called nitrous oxide emmisions, hell even your regular bombs do it, even your car does it.
I thought that would have been SG1; but anyways when they manage to put a pentium4 with centrino wireless technology on a DNA strand we'll be seriously screwed.
Most medical and dental offices don't have anybody even resoanably astute in computers, not to mention computer security! I spend a lot of time chasing commet curser of the billing clerk machine
he means system as in the custom software, OS, server, all the clients, the network including hardware and wiring, etc. Of course you can by the componants yourself, from the approved list cheaper, but the instalation fees soak up the difference anyways so why bother?
The problem programs, from the looks to me are programs that depend on windows being completely clueless on security. Right now the move from completely clueless to moderately clueless is causing much gnashing of teeth. If microsoft ever "gets it" on security, almost every program the windozers use will have to be rewritten to work. Imagine not allowing a computer program to just automaticaly answering any ol' incoming connection!
Right now all of the common "ET phone home" programs mean that the wife's 3 GHz windowsXP machine takes as long to go from user login to a usable desktop as my 700MHz linux machine takes to load KDE to a useable desktop.
using a known good dns resolver.
That's the crux of the matter, any DNS server that excepts a CNAME for example.com, on a name server at evilhax04.com, when its looking up the name gottcha.evilhax04.com is never going to be known good; and at best be possibly good but probably not.
Red smoke means Medical Emergency or Emergency, Red star-burst or flare at night is the same.
considering that Around 22:30 GMT on March 3, 2005 the SANS Internet Storm Center began
/. posted something arround the 5th of march instead of a month later. Cmdr Taco might not care if everbody knows about his Herpes med and Viagra addiction, but other people might.
receiving reports... and one of the sites affected webmd.com (online medical advice) also processes tons of federaly protected (HIPPA) medical and dental claims, and that there are also
Financial Services
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americanexpress.com (credit cards)
citicards.com (credit cards)
billpay.quickbooks.com (financial software/services)
adp.com (data processing)
hrblockemail.com (financial services)
involved it might have been nice if