I'll get hate for pointing this out but then again common sense seems to be poison to the politically correct, but if most of your troubles are coming from one group, how about keeping more of the group from coming over and keeping a closer eye on the ones you got, how about that?
You do realize that the majority of mass killings and other terrorist incidents in the U.S. have been the result of the actions of right-wing white male Christians, right?
Yes. Even if plane design and manufacture was a 100% monopoly they would still do it.
Well, yes, but not on the same timescale. In the absence of competition, they'd have just continued pumping out A340's for a couple more decades while making mild investments in research and advancement of the tech until coming out with a replacement two decades later and with half the innovation (the other half would eventually be made... in a couple more decades).
Then you say they "clamped down" on the name bit...
No, you misread. They didn't "clamp down" on the name. You appear to have missed an "if" that was written above. They probably would have clamped down on the name if he had refused to make it clear that donations to him are not donations to Debian. But it never got that far. All they did do was "ask him to stop soliciting donations in a way that made it look like he was doing it for Debian proper." They made a request, that's all they did, and this was how he responded to the request.
Fixing a security problem is a great idea. Doing so by adding bogus entries to your/etc/hosts file (as OP suggested) is a monumentally stupid idea.
The right way to handle this automatically (assuming you don't object to the idea of it being handled automatically) would be to simply comment out the offending line in the sources.
Unfortunately, megatons as used in the summery is a unit of weight.
Actually, no, as used in the summary, it's a unit measuring explosive force. The author assumes the reader is a competent speaker of the English language, where many words have multiple meanings that are distinguished from one another by the context in which they are used. Alas, on the internets, you find a great many people do not speak or understand English competently... including many for whom it's their native language. Go figure...
so if something goes down on the weekend you just leave it down until work time and screw the customers?
i'm sure they won't mind their paid services being down until lunch time on Monday
If something goes down at any time, the employees working at the time fix it. If a company is offering 24-hour service without employing people 24-hours to provide it, they should be convicted of fraud. Calling employees during their off-time to do some work in order to cover fraud should not be standard operating procedure.
Linux: Only two possible pronunciations, both easy.
There are a lot more than two possible pronunciations, although there are two that come to mind to most English-speakers readily, neither of which is "correct" (in the sense of how the creator said it).
Most likely none. When galaxies "collide", they merge gravitationally, but stars don't run into one another. Thing of how small a star is compared to the vast space between them. The odds of two stars colliding are so small, even when you have literally billions of them heading towards one another, the odds of a collision are extremely remote.
You'd be amazed how many Americans are Canadian.;)
(Most Americans are amazed to find out how many famous "Americans" they know are actually Canadians...)
In any case, it's NASA. They hire from around the world. It would be surprising to find any working group in the agency that was 100% American. It would be silly to assume someone's nationality based on the fact that they work for, with, or in NASA.
...choosing rather to go down the bad science "it's denser so it must magically suck harder because that's how gravity really works" route.
Could you quote the passage in question? I read the article and didn't see anything saying that. They did say, "Any planetary system that was once in orbit around the star will be severely disrupted during the red giant phase...", which while less explicit is more or less what you said the article "mentions none of".
Well a synchrotron can fuck you up. But thats more then neutrinos. =) The reasoning I had about neutrinos being harmful is that over time they would damage the heavy metal shielding used on the reactors. The reactors I suppose are shielded more to keep machinery in good order than the people around them. A short burst would probably do no harm.
I guarantee you that a lifetime of constant exposure to neutrinos has little ill-effect. The Van Allen belts, the atmosphere, even the planet itself do nothing to shield you from them (that's why be build neutrino detectors underground -- that shields out all the other radiation, leaving just the neutrinos to look at). If anyone ever invents a substance capable of shielding neutrinos (other than literally light-year thick lead walls), I suppose it's possible they'd damage the shielding over time, but the heavy metal shielding used by reactors today are not damaged by the neutrinos, for pretty much the same reason that they don't stop them, either. The neutrinos simple don't interact with them. How do the detectors even see them, you ask? Because there are so many of them passing by that occasionally one does hit something. That's right, as we speak, you are currently being bombarded by a ridiculously huge flow of neutrinos. Trust me, it's mostly harmless...
Sadly, self-disqualification is exercising rational thought; something I think you'd want lots of in a mission like this.
This is not necessarily the case. You seem to be confusing rationality with instinct. The desire to continue to live in an instinctive one, and can in some circumstances be a quite irrational one. At most times, though, I would not call it "irrational", but it is at most times arational.
That's actually a good analogy. Driving can be fun from time to time, but it can also be quite boring and tedious much of the time. It would be nice to do it when you want but have an autopilot to engage when you don't. A well prepared gourmet meal can be a real treat and wonderful experience, but often eating is just tedious, too. One would not want to be denied the opportunity, but at the same time, if you could just take a pill or something while you're doing something else actually useful or enjoyable, that would be a nice option much of the time.
Ethical schmethical... I just want to be able to get into my car, state my destination, and then pull out a book to read until the car tells me we're there. There are so many better uses for my time than watching the damned road...
The Hubble's got 486 processors in it, for example - which they could have easily replaced during service mission 3 or 4B, but NASA couldn't permit it.
What would be the point? Any 486 around today can run exactly the same software it ran when it was new exactly as well as it always did. Processors only become "obsolete" when newer software comes along that cannot be run well (or at all). A satellite doesn't need to run the latest release from Redmond. It doesn't, in fact, need to run any software that isn't already installed. Upgrading its processor would be worse than pointless -- at best, it would have no effect, and the possibilities go downhill from there...
That might be at least partly intentional. Too effective targeting of ads ends up wasting money "preaching to the choir", essentially. You want ads to bring in new customers, and if you're too effective at targeting, it's mostly presenting views to existing ones, or only targeting your competition's customers, pulling from a static base when you could be expanding the base. Some people don't know they want something until they're presented with the option...
You should check them out these days, since you obviously haven't looked at them in a couple years. There's a full screen option, and many videos (most? Most that I view anyhow...) are available at 1080p.
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I'll get hate for pointing this out but then again common sense seems to be poison to the politically correct, but if most of your troubles are coming from one group, how about keeping more of the group from coming over and keeping a closer eye on the ones you got, how about that?
You do realize that the majority of mass killings and other terrorist incidents in the U.S. have been the result of the actions of right-wing white male Christians, right?
Apparently, it's sexist when hired female sales staff ("booth babes") wear T-shirts, makeup, and big hair. But apparently it is OK to use your feminine wiles if you declare yourself a feminist and a female technologist (and apparently, you don't actually need to know much about technology to do so). Can someone who is well versed in the intricacies of sexism and political correctness please explain who is allowed to wear revealing clothes under what circumstances, and who is not?
Anyone is allowed to if they want to. It's a problem when your boss tells you to and makes it a job requirement.
Microsoft's little rape joke and the fact that this ever even saw the light of day shows a lot about gaming culture...
Yes. Even if plane design and manufacture was a 100% monopoly they would still do it.
Well, yes, but not on the same timescale. In the absence of competition, they'd have just continued pumping out A340's for a couple more decades while making mild investments in research and advancement of the tech until coming out with a replacement two decades later and with half the innovation (the other half would eventually be made... in a couple more decades).
Then you say they "clamped down" on the name bit...
No, you misread. They didn't "clamp down" on the name. You appear to have missed an "if" that was written above. They probably would have clamped down on the name if he had refused to make it clear that donations to him are not donations to Debian. But it never got that far. All they did do was "ask him to stop soliciting donations in a way that made it look like he was doing it for Debian proper." They made a request, that's all they did, and this was how he responded to the request.
Fixing a security problem is a great idea. Doing so by adding bogus entries to your /etc/hosts file (as OP suggested) is a monumentally stupid idea.
The right way to handle this automatically (assuming you don't object to the idea of it being handled automatically) would be to simply comment out the offending line in the sources.
Unfortunately, megatons as used in the summery is a unit of weight.
Actually, no, as used in the summary, it's a unit measuring explosive force. The author assumes the reader is a competent speaker of the English language, where many words have multiple meanings that are distinguished from one another by the context in which they are used. Alas, on the internets, you find a great many people do not speak or understand English competently... including many for whom it's their native language. Go figure...
Nerds should not attack other nerds. :P
Um... you haven't actually played EVE Online, have you? xD
If by "sick" you mean still the healthiest, fattest cow in the field, several times stronger than the next biggest cow, then yeah, you're right.
Your "dupe" has no information about the conditions of his burial, which is the main point of this May 25th article.
so if something goes down on the weekend you just leave it down until work time and screw the customers? i'm sure they won't mind their paid services being down until lunch time on Monday
If something goes down at any time, the employees working at the time fix it. If a company is offering 24-hour service without employing people 24-hours to provide it, they should be convicted of fraud. Calling employees during their off-time to do some work in order to cover fraud should not be standard operating procedure.
Ah yes, the "war" is over. If the majority believes a falsehood, it becomes the truth...
Linux: Only two possible pronunciations, both easy.
There are a lot more than two possible pronunciations, although there are two that come to mind to most English-speakers readily, neither of which is "correct" (in the sense of how the creator said it).
Most likely none. When galaxies "collide", they merge gravitationally, but stars don't run into one another. Thing of how small a star is compared to the vast space between them. The odds of two stars colliding are so small, even when you have literally billions of them heading towards one another, the odds of a collision are extremely remote.
You'd be amazed how many Americans are Canadian. ;)
(Most Americans are amazed to find out how many famous "Americans" they know are actually Canadians...)
In any case, it's NASA. They hire from around the world. It would be surprising to find any working group in the agency that was 100% American. It would be silly to assume someone's nationality based on the fact that they work for, with, or in NASA.
You just made my point.
So by "you can't use a wrench", you meant, "you can use a wrench if you have something to hold onto." Gotcha...
...choosing rather to go down the bad science "it's denser so it must magically suck harder because that's how gravity really works" route.
Could you quote the passage in question? I read the article and didn't see anything saying that. They did say, "Any planetary system that was once in orbit around the star will be severely disrupted during the red giant phase...", which while less explicit is more or less what you said the article "mentions none of".
Well a synchrotron can fuck you up. But thats more then neutrinos. =) The reasoning I had about neutrinos being harmful is that over time they would damage the heavy metal shielding used on the reactors. The reactors I suppose are shielded more to keep machinery in good order than the people around them. A short burst would probably do no harm.
I guarantee you that a lifetime of constant exposure to neutrinos has little ill-effect. The Van Allen belts, the atmosphere, even the planet itself do nothing to shield you from them (that's why be build neutrino detectors underground -- that shields out all the other radiation, leaving just the neutrinos to look at). If anyone ever invents a substance capable of shielding neutrinos (other than literally light-year thick lead walls), I suppose it's possible they'd damage the shielding over time, but the heavy metal shielding used by reactors today are not damaged by the neutrinos, for pretty much the same reason that they don't stop them, either. The neutrinos simple don't interact with them. How do the detectors even see them, you ask? Because there are so many of them passing by that occasionally one does hit something. That's right, as we speak, you are currently being bombarded by a ridiculously huge flow of neutrinos. Trust me, it's mostly harmless...
Sadly, self-disqualification is exercising rational thought; something I think you'd want lots of in a mission like this.
This is not necessarily the case. You seem to be confusing rationality with instinct. The desire to continue to live in an instinctive one, and can in some circumstances be a quite irrational one. At most times, though, I would not call it "irrational", but it is at most times arational.
What do *you* do when you're driving and there is direct sunlight in your eyes, or you encounter rain/fog?
If it's a route they drive often, the typical human answer to this is "use the force"...
That's actually a good analogy. Driving can be fun from time to time, but it can also be quite boring and tedious much of the time. It would be nice to do it when you want but have an autopilot to engage when you don't. A well prepared gourmet meal can be a real treat and wonderful experience, but often eating is just tedious, too. One would not want to be denied the opportunity, but at the same time, if you could just take a pill or something while you're doing something else actually useful or enjoyable, that would be a nice option much of the time.
Ethical schmethical... I just want to be able to get into my car, state my destination, and then pull out a book to read until the car tells me we're there. There are so many better uses for my time than watching the damned road...
The Hubble's got 486 processors in it, for example - which they could have easily replaced during service mission 3 or 4B, but NASA couldn't permit it.
What would be the point? Any 486 around today can run exactly the same software it ran when it was new exactly as well as it always did. Processors only become "obsolete" when newer software comes along that cannot be run well (or at all). A satellite doesn't need to run the latest release from Redmond. It doesn't, in fact, need to run any software that isn't already installed. Upgrading its processor would be worse than pointless -- at best, it would have no effect, and the possibilities go downhill from there...
That might be at least partly intentional. Too effective targeting of ads ends up wasting money "preaching to the choir", essentially. You want ads to bring in new customers, and if you're too effective at targeting, it's mostly presenting views to existing ones, or only targeting your competition's customers, pulling from a static base when you could be expanding the base. Some people don't know they want something until they're presented with the option...
What do they have in that crappy little window...
You should check them out these days, since you obviously haven't looked at them in a couple years. There's a full screen option, and many videos (most? Most that I view anyhow...) are available at 1080p.