The point is that a balance is needed. Slashdotters: find yourself an artsy chick to get down with; one who's pretty smart and asthetically pleasing. Add a little creativity to them logical sperm you've been carrying around.
So you're advocating breeding techniques to produce creative, logical critters?
There seem to be limits to how many good qualities a person can obtain.
Name me one supermodel type hot chick that is artsy and can do mathematics and science? Introduce me and I'll give you anything that you ask for.
For the most part, attractive and above average intelligent people are successful in our society. The only exception appears to be politicians, but even they are better looking than they used to be. Abraham Lincoln simply would not be elected today because of his morbid and awkward appearance.
Yes. Smarts are not a good trait at all. It usually implies that one puts energy in thinking and less in keeping a healthy body. For having good offspring one needs to be fit and show it to the females. Hence, smarts is bad. It's better to be athletic. Chances that you reproduce are greater. While our civilisation builds upon what smart people have come up with, the survival of the species when civilisation collapses will depend on the non-smart but physically able people. Don't kid yourself: civilisation will eventually collapse. The state we are currently in is more an accident of nature. It will eventually settle back to normality where intelligence is a drawback.
I agree and disagree.
Smarts are good, and so is being athletic.
Being athletic is simply an evolutionary leftover from the good ol' hunting and gathering days. Besides sex (and being athletic is not the only variable here, think Ron Jeremy), being athletic does not have any evolutionary value anymore. It does send out health signals which means that you are likely to be a good mate and provide good offspring. I will say that the athletic leftover thing is still very important, even in today's industrialized and information/service societies. Look at the popularity and money invested in sports. If it weren't for sports, most people would not know that college exists.
Now, being smart is good too. Even a dork like Bill Gates was able to eventually score a chick. Being the richest person in the world probably helped.
It is known that there is an inverse relationship between smarts/education and the number of offspring you have (in societies like the US, European, etc).
However, smarter people simply do not need to have that many offspring. They are more likely and able to ensure the success of their few kids. More physical less smart people simply need more kids. 1) the kids are their retirement fund 2) the kids are more likely to die young or even before bearing children (sports and the lower paying physical jobs are more dangerous than thinking) and 3) there is simply more of a need for burger flippers, construction workers, and similar blue collar jobs than things like astrophysicists and chemical engineers. Take a look at the help wanted if you don't believe me.
Plato covered all of this junk over 2,000 years ago, but it seems like books about pigs, unclean sex, turning the other cheek, and strange births and deaths are more popular. Yes, I've studied the Bible too, but find little beyond Genesis very interesting or relevant today. I highly recommend the Garden of Eden story. That like Plato's Cave allegory and the description of society from the physical centered, heart centered, and mind centered people to the philosopher king are very interesting.
Oh, and I'm smart and can score with chicks from time to time:) But I have not yet had any children.
Yes, I use p2p also. No, I don't download (much) unlicensed material. Out of the 5-600 gigs of media that I have, I would say that less than 1% is unlicensed. And, yes, I leave my bittorent open until I have at least a 1:1 ratio of up to down.
What the media goons cannot realize is that times have changed. We simply do not need "media" any more. Broadcast over the air and even pay services like cable and satellite still seem to be viable markets. My cable, internet, and phone bill comes to $157 a month. This is for broadband internet where I seem to be capped at 500KB (byte)/s download. I have a very nice DVR with the package that records stuff so I can skip the commercials all the time for me while I'm at work or asleep or watching or doing something else. I can hardly justify the cost of almost $40/month for a landline phone. The only justification for it is because my work pays for my cell, and I feel bad making personal calls out from it. For around $50/mo I could have my own cell and have features like caller ID, but paying more and having two cellphones in my pocket seems silly for caller ID. I digress.
But look at where "media" is failing. Its failing in the hard media realm. Its still practically illegal to buy an MP3 from one of the big 3 media whores. The best option is iTunes, but try to get all of the content you want, and you'll find yourself wanting more. Now that media encoding is changing very quickly, the distribution and playback mechanisms are not catching up.
SACD is practically dead. DVD-Audio is practically dead. DTS encoded music is practically dead. Standard CD quality music is practically dead. Now look at the video world. We have new high-def video formats coming our way, and its still going to be a couple of years before we can have content to obtain and view, even though the desire and technology are here today.
I'm under the belief that content should be a service like cable, satellite, and phone service, and then come out with more flexible and good hardware to utilize the service. Apple has proven this with iTunes Music Store and the iPod, and still is able to charge the ridiculous price of $1/track for mainstream pop type of music only. The deal here is to flood the content with new and better content just like the porn industry does. They pretty much don't care about piracy, because its easier and better to get all of the fresh and new content from them, and people are willing to pay a premium for this. Typically about 3x the cost of a premium movie channel. And the good material providers have a tough time providing the content because the demand is so high.
I would guess that I'm a fairly typical user of a DVR service. I have the hardware and software to do firewire rips of the content off of my box, but I simply don't do it. Its not worth my time (firewire rips take realtime to transfer). I have so much content on my DVR at any given time, that I only watch about 10% of it or so as it is, and they keep playing repeats, so storing it on another disk make no sense to me. Notice that DRM does not even enter this picture. I simply have more content than I can manage on my own, so I don't bother.
My musical tastes are not mainstream, and I'm fortunate enough that almost all of the artists that I'm interested in listening to allow trading of their music without a license. Being that p2p or snailmail or some other means of doing person to person trading of music are the only options, p2p is the easiest, so thats what I do.
5 years ago the exodus began to Linux machines when people realised they were faster than Solaris boxes, 1/5th of the price and could run all the same software.
I work in the science number crunching field as well, and yes, this is the case. Suns have come down in price, but generic x86 and other commodity processors running linux has been superior in terms of cost and portability. As far as performance goes, the most Sun can do now is to sell Opterons with Linux. Kinda reminds you of a generic white box vendor, now doesn't it? Especially when you consider that the first round of Opterons were rebranded, and not Sun engineered.
Fast forward to today linux is losing out to Macs in science, every conference I go to it seems that more and more people have Powerbooks (like > 50% of the audience), especially at NASA. My project just decided to move entirely over to Macs. Solaris isn't even in the mix anymore.
This is true too. OS X on a Mac has become _the_ UNIX workstation of the 00's. Linux was the workstation in the mid to late 90s, and Sun in the 80s and up to mid 90s. Although Apple is working on this, they have not yet too much made a dent into the number crunching world. Yes, I know about the Virginia Tech cluster, but AFAIK, that was a marketing stunt. They installed at a rush $5mil worth of desktop boxes around November 2003, then ripped them out, then reinstalled with Xserve boxes, and announced it was ready for work in January of 2005. I guess I could send an email to the head of the system and ask if its being used or not, but I have a feeling it is very underutilized. Being that they only have 2.7TB of storage for 2200 processors, I would bet my hunch is right.
If Oracle can't fix the problem in 3 months, at least they could inform their own customers so they could take protective measures of their own. That Oracle could do inside of 3 months no matter how complex the bug is to finally fix.
I admin an Oracle database, and I am not a fan (I am also NOT a DBA, its just a small part of my job for bioinformatics research). With the latest worms and whatever security announcements, it seems as a registered and paying metalink member, I should quickly and easily download the latest patches off of their site.
Well, last Friday, I gave up on finding the patches after 20 minutes of searching for them. I sent a problem report asking them what year their calendar said, because mine says 2006. That is ridiculous.
I've always been under the assumption that all databases are insecure, and should be firewalled off and remotely accessed from a trusted machine over a private network. That seems to be the best thing to do.
If these responses are genuine then it's clear to see that MS is taking security more seriously.
Well, they have been taking security "more seriously" for years now. Back in 2001 or 2002 they initiated a "code freeze" and all of their developers went back to school to (re)learn security.
Now Nash says:
The main focus for security in 2006 is nailing the security quality and features for Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server.
To me, most Christians falsely believe in being a passivist with stuff like "turn the other cheek", everything will be worked out in heaven when God who loves everybody so much will condemn those to eternal damnation. Yuck.
As far as I know, knowing Jesus or Christ is knowing oneself. That is it. If you want to be taken advantage of all the time, go ahead, but I live here and now on this planet, and I live life to the fullest.
Are grasping fins not scientifically significant enough to be included in what's important?
Odds are, the grasping fins are to improve the likelihood of a male successfully producing offspring.
Its common for external fertilizers like fish and frogs to have hooks or whatnot to stay above the eggs coming out of the female, and to keep another male from joining in on the fun.
With the actual source and another pair of eyes looking at it, there should be more security fixes and hopefully a more secure OS.
Iff they accept patches. I don't know if their build and release system can handle such a thing right now, this is entirely a different model for them if they adopt it.
Why is it that about 80% of the Microsoft headlines are basically a recital of the Henry Spencer quote -- "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."
If MS is to license their source (but not freely of course) and if they were to take patches back from the community, then they are back to Aug 25th, 1991 20:57:08 GMT when Linus sent out the first mail to usenet announcing Linux.
Hopefully, someone will benefit from this change. We Linux weenies have for years. I'm still upset about the only Linux kernel freeze that I got in 1997. However, Donald Becker fixed the bug he introduced in the 3com 509 driver, and all has been good since then.
Hmm....
Brainstorm. How about people sending the patches under an incompatible license to MS. What would they do then?
However, I can't help but worry about a service that "finds or picks" my news for me using algorithms. Isn't anyone worried that someone could be tweaking the search criteria to control what is displayed?
Wow. "News" is not really news anymore. It often has other agendas. See my.sig for an example.
The US is in some nebulous "war on terror", which has pretty much reached joke status for 25% of its population. When Bush was trying to get reelected last time, remember when he randomly bumped up the "Terror Threat Level", and that in turn raised his popularity in the polls, so he dropped it down again. Recently, there were headlines floating around how an audiotape of bin Laden was threatening to attack the US. The CIA verifies it, the FBI doesn't (or vice versa), but the official "terror threat level" does not change.
I find it interesting that I cannot find a copy of the tape. I did find a transcript here http://www.nbc4.com/news/6251748/detail.html Although, I don't too much trust that either. I would assume that the tape is not in English, so at best this is a translation. The final paragraph is the clincher:
Finally, I say that war will go either in our favor or yours. If it is the former, it means your loss and your shame forever, and it is headed in this course. If it is the latter, read history! We are people who do not stand for injustice and we will seek revenge all our lives. The nights and days will not pass without us taking vengeance like on Sept. 11, God permitting. Your minds will be troubled and your lives embittered. As for us, we have nothing to lose. A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain. You have occupied our lands, offended our honor and dignity and let out our blood and stolen our money and destroyed our houses and played with our security and we will give you the same treatment.
Again, I don't know if this is real or not, but basically it says, "Hey, stop killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even a majority of the US population is over the destruction there. But hey, like it or not, we are revengeful people, and if you keep it up, well...."
Regardless of who is right or wrong, look at the data. 9/11/2001 was weird, but its over. Less than 3k people died. Compare that to flu, local murder, car accidents, and add a little time, it simply does not have the same effect as seeing the planes fly over and over again into the towers, and then seeing them fall. Since that date, we have killed on order of 30k Iraqis and Afghanis. About 2k of our own soldiers, and we have yet to have an official explanation for the beginning of the war. WMDs? Nope. Saddam == Laden. Nope. Terror? Maybe, but the actions of the US are not ones that would reduce terror in any way possible. I have received mail on two occasions from the "Homeland Security" office, and I was terrified. To me, it should be the other way around.
Well, hey, you get +1 insightful for saying you don't like google, and I get flamebate for saying I like google. Hmm.
I recently read Joel Bakan's The Corporation, which argues that due to their defining characteristic of only being beholden to profit and money, corporations are, in human terms, irredeemably psychotic. Google is an interesting case study, as it's set itself a higher moral standard, and has much further to fall. Google News was the beginning of that inevitable fall.
Yeah, I saw the film. The deal is that collections of people are the same as one person. Corporations, nations, states, sub-culture groups, etc all have "personalities", and collectively, they behave like an individual would behave.
The problem with many corps, is that they are selfish, self-centered, and greedy, just like the individuals that own and/or run them. There are exceptions. To this date, I believe Google is still an exception there. The concerns I have with them, is how much control will they be able to maintain now that the company is publicly traded and their stock is very overvalued.
The two cofounders of Google are worth between 7-11billion a piece, yet few even know their names, and they are still bluejean wearing casual guys, that do not own 20,000 square foot mansions or a boat that costs $300,000 to fill the gas tank (look it up).
At this time Google has a strong commitment to their users (read not customers, ie advertisers). This is something that people seem to miss. Sure Google takes cash from the advertisers, but that is not their focus. Their focus is to be the best, most accurate, and fastest searching thingy in the world.
Officially it means: "Private Branch Exchange (private telephone switchboard)" In reality it is a switchboard placed inside your house or office commonly. You know, "press 1 for an outbound line" sort of thing! It's like a router with a NAT... Only for telephones not the internet...
A side note about being "behind" a PBX, is that the lines are not regular phones anymore. Typically, they are digital and not analog, which can be a pain if you need an analog phone line for things like a modem or fax machine.
Google is a marketing and advertising company. First, foremost, and mostly only. The don't be evil thing is superb marketing that gained them a groundswell of grassroots support, good for them.
Bullshit. Google is a bunch of the smartest people on the planet that use disposable commodity hardware and open source, freely available software to index all off the freely available information in the world and organizes it for people so they can find what they are looking for. If you cannot find for free what is freely available, you can pay a nominal fee and ask http://answers.google.com/answers/, and then they will give you the answer.
They don't even need marketing. They have the best real estate in the world on the internet, and people throw money at them left and right for advertising space because of their popularity and effectiveness at doing what they do.
Do they advertise on TV with a goofball singing "Yaaahoooooo!"? No. Do they do that on the radio? No. Do they market at all? I haven't noticed it yet.
Google does no evil, because what is evil to begin with with giving away an index of all of that freely available information?
Just because you're selfish and evil, does not project into Google. They do what they do. They are excellent at it, and they just might be bad at keeping log files./dev/null is very big.
I disagree. Still, most science is funded by the government and run by universities and government labs. Corporations typically only spend at most 10-20% of their budget on RND, which includes science.
The exception is bioengineering, bioinformatics, and similar. Mostly because they are trendy and they can get startup money just like the pre-dotbomb era of the internet.
I currently work with oceanographers, physicists, chemists, and bioinformatics people. The only privately owned area of research is the bioinformatics crew, and even they are partially funded with government funds (they were pretty slick about this).
Funding is a little scarce because we are spending so much money in Iraq now.
Personally, I believe that with the exception of biology science, that science has been dead since 1969 when we went to the moon. What else is it that we really don't know?
We know absolute zero. We have explored many of the planets in our solar system with little gain for us here on earth. We know the speed of light. We can see things down to the electron cloud level of an atom. We can look into the past millions of years with telescopes.
Sure, there are refinements of existing information that are achieved through the scientific method like material science, faster computers, more efficient motors, etc. Computing is the only area where significant gains happen on a regular basis, and even that is slowing down. Although the total emissions are going down from cars, gas milage has not significantly increased in 20 years. A diesel Volkswagon rabbit from the mid 80s could get about 50mpg on the highway. Yes, it did release more sulfur, soot, and other junk than today's cars, but nothing besides hybrids today can touch that gas mileage. http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/gasmileage/
I've read and believe that the end of science is evident with the rise in more "tribal" kinds of behavior in younger people today. Tattoos, body piercing, porn, and postmodern beliefs are common, and their rise in popularity is undeniable.
As far as corporate science goes, there is basically only medical research. And that research is a collusion between the FDA, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies.
Or 4) They have little time and make human mistakes.
Yes, I agree that trupes are awful enough to warrant some negative feedback, but let's remain realistic here.
Screw up once its a mistake. (forgivable)
Screw up twice, you forgot or your a dumbass or a moron (forgivable)
Screw up three times, its a pattern.
Screw up on the same article 3x on at least 3 different occasions. Its a habit.
This goes with any simple human behavior. After 3 to 4x dumb stuff, a girl goes from a girlfriend to either an ex or if they are good, someone I just wanna have sex with, but my time is too important to keep repeating and suffering through the same crap over and over again.
I come to slashdot to comment and others comments. 99% of the work is already done by the readers. Having the other 1% at least rarely error prone is not expecting too much, being that they are paid to do the job, and we directly and/or indirectly pay them.
Well, they might be bad, but you would never really know where they were and where they are going:)
I got my first and last virus in 1994 from a roommate in college who brought me the "Monkey" virus from a computer lab on a floppy disk. I also have not used Microsoft based operating systems that much since that date.
Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...
Now that does not seem that effective because this is only the 3rd or 4th trupe that I have seen here on slashdot, and I'm more than a regular, closer to obsessive-compulsive.
Everytime it happens, I post a link like this where I can find the other articles in less than 10 seconds, and I don't even work as an "editor" for slashdot.
My conclusions have been 1) they do not care 2) they like the negative attention 3) they have not read my posts, nor have they learned how to write a working search engine or use a working one called Google.
I mean, the attached search is a cut and paste of the headline "First Impressions Count in Website Design" preppended with site:slashdot.org to it, then hit return.
So, which is it guys?
Oh, I realized. The 10 seconds is 200x greater than 50ms. That is probably the reason I forgot, the editors have a low attention span like the 3 articles say.
Linux assumes that half of the send/receive buffer is used for internal kernel structures; thus the sysctls are twice what can be observed on the wire.
The article could have better explained that in context. For the most part it's automatic though, so don't worry about it.
Thanks, that is the answer. Hopefully others will see it.
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The point is that a balance is needed. Slashdotters: find yourself an artsy chick to get down with; one who's pretty smart and asthetically pleasing. Add a little creativity to them logical sperm you've been carrying around.
So you're advocating breeding techniques to produce creative, logical critters?
There seem to be limits to how many good qualities a person can obtain.
Name me one supermodel type hot chick that is artsy and can do mathematics and science? Introduce me and I'll give you anything that you ask for.
For the most part, attractive and above average intelligent people are successful in our society. The only exception appears to be politicians, but even they are better looking than they used to be. Abraham Lincoln simply would not be elected today because of his morbid and awkward appearance.
Yes. Smarts are not a good trait at all. It usually implies that one puts energy in thinking and less in keeping a healthy body. For having good offspring one needs to be fit and show it to the females. Hence, smarts is bad. It's better to be athletic. Chances that you reproduce are greater.
:) But I have not yet had any children.
While our civilisation builds upon what smart people have come up with, the survival of the species when civilisation collapses will depend on the non-smart but physically able people. Don't kid yourself: civilisation will eventually collapse. The state we are currently in is more an accident of nature. It will eventually settle back to normality where intelligence is a drawback.
I agree and disagree.
Smarts are good, and so is being athletic.
Being athletic is simply an evolutionary leftover from the good ol' hunting and gathering days. Besides sex (and being athletic is not the only variable here, think Ron Jeremy), being athletic does not have any evolutionary value anymore. It does send out health signals which means that you are likely to be a good mate and provide good offspring. I will say that the athletic leftover thing is still very important, even in today's industrialized and information/service societies. Look at the popularity and money invested in sports. If it weren't for sports, most people would not know that college exists.
Now, being smart is good too. Even a dork like Bill Gates was able to eventually score a chick. Being the richest person in the world probably helped.
It is known that there is an inverse relationship between smarts/education and the number of offspring you have (in societies like the US, European, etc).
However, smarter people simply do not need to have that many offspring. They are more likely and able to ensure the success of their few kids. More physical less smart people simply need more kids. 1) the kids are their retirement fund 2) the kids are more likely to die young or even before bearing children (sports and the lower paying physical jobs are more dangerous than thinking) and 3) there is simply more of a need for burger flippers, construction workers, and similar blue collar jobs than things like astrophysicists and chemical engineers. Take a look at the help wanted if you don't believe me.
Plato covered all of this junk over 2,000 years ago, but it seems like books about pigs, unclean sex, turning the other cheek, and strange births and deaths are more popular. Yes, I've studied the Bible too, but find little beyond Genesis very interesting or relevant today. I highly recommend the Garden of Eden story. That like Plato's Cave allegory and the description of society from the physical centered, heart centered, and mind centered people to the philosopher king are very interesting.
Oh, and I'm smart and can score with chicks from time to time
Yes, I use p2p also. No, I don't download (much) unlicensed material. Out of the 5-600 gigs of media that I have, I would say that less than 1% is unlicensed. And, yes, I leave my bittorent open until I have at least a 1:1 ratio of up to down.
What the media goons cannot realize is that times have changed. We simply do not need "media" any more. Broadcast over the air and even pay services like cable and satellite still seem to be viable markets. My cable, internet, and phone bill comes to $157 a month. This is for broadband internet where I seem to be capped at 500KB (byte)/s download. I have a very nice DVR with the package that records stuff so I can skip the commercials all the time for me while I'm at work or asleep or watching or doing something else. I can hardly justify the cost of almost $40/month for a landline phone. The only justification for it is because my work pays for my cell, and I feel bad making personal calls out from it. For around $50/mo I could have my own cell and have features like caller ID, but paying more and having two cellphones in my pocket seems silly for caller ID. I digress.
But look at where "media" is failing. Its failing in the hard media realm. Its still practically illegal to buy an MP3 from one of the big 3 media whores. The best option is iTunes, but try to get all of the content you want, and you'll find yourself wanting more. Now that media encoding is changing very quickly, the distribution and playback mechanisms are not catching up.
SACD is practically dead. DVD-Audio is practically dead. DTS encoded music is practically dead. Standard CD quality music is practically dead. Now look at the video world. We have new high-def video formats coming our way, and its still going to be a couple of years before we can have content to obtain and view, even though the desire and technology are here today.
I'm under the belief that content should be a service like cable, satellite, and phone service, and then come out with more flexible and good hardware to utilize the service. Apple has proven this with iTunes Music Store and the iPod, and still is able to charge the ridiculous price of $1/track for mainstream pop type of music only. The deal here is to flood the content with new and better content just like the porn industry does. They pretty much don't care about piracy, because its easier and better to get all of the fresh and new content from them, and people are willing to pay a premium for this. Typically about 3x the cost of a premium movie channel. And the good material providers have a tough time providing the content because the demand is so high.
I would guess that I'm a fairly typical user of a DVR service. I have the hardware and software to do firewire rips of the content off of my box, but I simply don't do it. Its not worth my time (firewire rips take realtime to transfer). I have so much content on my DVR at any given time, that I only watch about 10% of it or so as it is, and they keep playing repeats, so storing it on another disk make no sense to me. Notice that DRM does not even enter this picture. I simply have more content than I can manage on my own, so I don't bother.
My musical tastes are not mainstream, and I'm fortunate enough that almost all of the artists that I'm interested in listening to allow trading of their music without a license. Being that p2p or snailmail or some other means of doing person to person trading of music are the only options, p2p is the easiest, so thats what I do.
5 years ago the exodus began to Linux machines when people realised they were faster than Solaris boxes, 1/5th of the price and could run all the same software.
I work in the science number crunching field as well, and yes, this is the case. Suns have come down in price, but generic x86 and other commodity processors running linux has been superior in terms of cost and portability. As far as performance goes, the most Sun can do now is to sell Opterons with Linux. Kinda reminds you of a generic white box vendor, now doesn't it? Especially when you consider that the first round of Opterons were rebranded, and not Sun engineered.
Fast forward to today linux is losing out to Macs in science, every conference I go to it seems that more and more people have Powerbooks (like > 50% of the audience), especially at NASA. My project just decided to move entirely over to Macs. Solaris isn't even in the mix anymore.
This is true too. OS X on a Mac has become _the_ UNIX workstation of the 00's. Linux was the workstation in the mid to late 90s, and Sun in the 80s and up to mid 90s. Although Apple is working on this, they have not yet too much made a dent into the number crunching world. Yes, I know about the Virginia Tech cluster, but AFAIK, that was a marketing stunt. They installed at a rush $5mil worth of desktop boxes around November 2003, then ripped them out, then reinstalled with Xserve boxes, and announced it was ready for work in January of 2005. I guess I could send an email to the head of the system and ask if its being used or not, but I have a feeling it is very underutilized. Being that they only have 2.7TB of storage for 2200 processors, I would bet my hunch is right.
I haven't even been able to find a street-monkey who will sell to me in over two years. And it's seriously pissing me off.
:) I guess you don't know him?
Yeah, sometimes its hard to get into a good circle. Currently, I get packages from Snoop Dog
EVERYONE in the whole chain right to the end person who's getting off on it are in violation of the laws!
Yeah, that's what Homeland Security told me when I was smoking a joint and funding terrorism.
From a secular, liberal Arabic point of view Al Jazeera kicks much ass.
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You're right. Thanks for the link. I can't find any real news that is published in the US. Also, the readers are smarter than americans too. Look at this poll: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/890500CB-E
Specifically the question "Is it acceptable to curb civil rights in the name of fighting terror?"
CNN had until 2000 played host to members of Psyops who helped in the presentation of news for the U.S. Public.
Oh, I'm glad they stopped. But what about all of these "headlines"?
If Oracle can't fix the problem in 3 months, at least they could inform their own customers so they could take protective measures of their own. That Oracle could do inside of 3 months no matter how complex the bug is to finally fix.
I admin an Oracle database, and I am not a fan (I am also NOT a DBA, its just a small part of my job for bioinformatics research). With the latest worms and whatever security announcements, it seems as a registered and paying metalink member, I should quickly and easily download the latest patches off of their site.
Well, last Friday, I gave up on finding the patches after 20 minutes of searching for them. I sent a problem report asking them what year their calendar said, because mine says 2006. That is ridiculous.
I've always been under the assumption that all databases are insecure, and should be firewalled off and remotely accessed from a trusted machine over a private network. That seems to be the best thing to do.
If these responses are genuine then it's clear to see that MS is taking security more seriously.
Well, they have been taking security "more seriously" for years now. Back in 2001 or 2002 they initiated a "code freeze" and all of their developers went back to school to (re)learn security.
Now Nash says:
The main focus for security in 2006 is nailing the security quality and features for Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server.
My question for Nash can be read here.
Which was modded from Interesting, Informative, and eventually squashed to Flamebait.
I believe that insecurity is a "feature" of Microsoft operating systems. It has become a multi-billion dollar industry.
That is all good and well, but remember that Jesus could kick some ass too.
http://bible.cc/matthew/21-12.htm
To me, most Christians falsely believe in being a passivist with stuff like "turn the other cheek", everything will be worked out in heaven when God who loves everybody so much will condemn those to eternal damnation. Yuck.
As far as I know, knowing Jesus or Christ is knowing oneself. That is it. If you want to be taken advantage of all the time, go ahead, but I live here and now on this planet, and I live life to the fullest.
Are grasping fins not scientifically significant enough to be included in what's important?
Odds are, the grasping fins are to improve the likelihood of a male successfully producing offspring.
Its common for external fertilizers like fish and frogs to have hooks or whatnot to stay above the eggs coming out of the female, and to keep another male from joining in on the fun.
A futile response that just makes the patcher look like an unsocialized nerd who can't play nice with others. ....
I doubt that the license MS is giving you to the source would allow you to distribute this patch in any way.
Hmm, who is the unsocialized nerd here?
Microsoft is so selfish and full of themselves that they won't even allow their users to help them produce a better product.
With the actual source and another pair of eyes looking at it, there should be more security fixes and hopefully a more secure OS.
Iff they accept patches. I don't know if their build and release system can handle such a thing right now, this is entirely a different model for them if they adopt it.
Why is it that about 80% of the Microsoft headlines are basically a recital of the Henry Spencer quote -- "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."
If MS is to license their source (but not freely of course) and if they were to take patches back from the community, then they are back to Aug 25th, 1991 20:57:08 GMT when Linus sent out the first mail to usenet announcing Linux.
Hopefully, someone will benefit from this change. We Linux weenies have for years. I'm still upset about the only Linux kernel freeze that I got in 1997. However, Donald Becker fixed the bug he introduced in the 3com 509 driver, and all has been good since then.
Hmm....
Brainstorm. How about people sending the patches under an incompatible license to MS. What would they do then?
Ah, the power of Google. But to your original claim, sir, I must call foul.
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http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0804
This article says $250k to fill it up. I originally heard $300, and that was a few years ago before oil prices went up.
Wow. "News" is not really news anymore. It often has other agendas. See my
The US is in some nebulous "war on terror", which has pretty much reached joke status for 25% of its population. When Bush was trying to get reelected last time, remember when he randomly bumped up the "Terror Threat Level", and that in turn raised his popularity in the polls, so he dropped it down again. Recently, there were headlines floating around how an audiotape of bin Laden was threatening to attack the US. The CIA verifies it, the FBI doesn't (or vice versa), but the official "terror threat level" does not change.
I find it interesting that I cannot find a copy of the tape. I did find a transcript here http://www.nbc4.com/news/6251748/detail.html Although, I don't too much trust that either. I would assume that the tape is not in English, so at best this is a translation. The final paragraph is the clincher: Again, I don't know if this is real or not, but basically it says, "Hey, stop killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even a majority of the US population is over the destruction there. But hey, like it or not, we are revengeful people, and if you keep it up, well...."
Regardless of who is right or wrong, look at the data. 9/11/2001 was weird, but its over. Less than 3k people died. Compare that to flu, local murder, car accidents, and add a little time, it simply does not have the same effect as seeing the planes fly over and over again into the towers, and then seeing them fall. Since that date, we have killed on order of 30k Iraqis and Afghanis. About 2k of our own soldiers, and we have yet to have an official explanation for the beginning of the war. WMDs? Nope. Saddam == Laden. Nope. Terror? Maybe, but the actions of the US are not ones that would reduce terror in any way possible. I have received mail on two occasions from the "Homeland Security" office, and I was terrified. To me, it should be the other way around.
I'm not sure I like Google anymore.
Well, hey, you get +1 insightful for saying you don't like google, and I get flamebate for saying I like google. Hmm.
I recently read Joel Bakan's The Corporation, which argues that due to their defining characteristic of only being beholden to profit and money, corporations are, in human terms, irredeemably psychotic. Google is an interesting case study, as it's set itself a higher moral standard, and has much further to fall. Google News was the beginning of that inevitable fall.
Yeah, I saw the film. The deal is that collections of people are the same as one person. Corporations, nations, states, sub-culture groups, etc all have "personalities", and collectively, they behave like an individual would behave.
The problem with many corps, is that they are selfish, self-centered, and greedy, just like the individuals that own and/or run them. There are exceptions. To this date, I believe Google is still an exception there. The concerns I have with them, is how much control will they be able to maintain now that the company is publicly traded and their stock is very overvalued.
The two cofounders of Google are worth between 7-11billion a piece, yet few even know their names, and they are still bluejean wearing casual guys, that do not own 20,000 square foot mansions or a boat that costs $300,000 to fill the gas tank (look it up).
At this time Google has a strong commitment to their users (read not customers, ie advertisers). This is something that people seem to miss. Sure Google takes cash from the advertisers, but that is not their focus. Their focus is to be the best, most accurate, and fastest searching thingy in the world.
I think Google will be alright for a while.
Officially it means: "Private Branch Exchange (private telephone switchboard)" In reality it is a switchboard placed inside your house or office commonly. You know, "press 1 for an outbound line" sort of thing!
It's like a router with a NAT... Only for telephones not the internet...
A side note about being "behind" a PBX, is that the lines are not regular phones anymore. Typically, they are digital and not analog, which can be a pain if you need an analog phone line for things like a modem or fax machine.
Does anyone know if asterisk supports faxes?
Google is a marketing and advertising company. First, foremost, and mostly only. The don't be evil thing is superb marketing that gained them a groundswell of grassroots support, good for them.
/dev/null is very big.
Bullshit. Google is a bunch of the smartest people on the planet that use disposable commodity hardware and open source, freely available software to index all off the freely available information in the world and organizes it for people so they can find what they are looking for. If you cannot find for free what is freely available, you can pay a nominal fee and ask http://answers.google.com/answers/, and then they will give you the answer.
They don't even need marketing. They have the best real estate in the world on the internet, and people throw money at them left and right for advertising space because of their popularity and effectiveness at doing what they do.
Do they advertise on TV with a goofball singing "Yaaahoooooo!"? No. Do they do that on the radio? No. Do they market at all? I haven't noticed it yet.
Google does no evil, because what is evil to begin with with giving away an index of all of that freely available information?
Just because you're selfish and evil, does not project into Google. They do what they do. They are excellent at it, and they just might be bad at keeping log files.
Science is run by corporations now.
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I disagree. Still, most science is funded by the government and run by universities and government labs. Corporations typically only spend at most 10-20% of their budget on RND, which includes science.
The exception is bioengineering, bioinformatics, and similar. Mostly because they are trendy and they can get startup money just like the pre-dotbomb era of the internet.
I currently work with oceanographers, physicists, chemists, and bioinformatics people. The only privately owned area of research is the bioinformatics crew, and even they are partially funded with government funds (they were pretty slick about this).
Funding is a little scarce because we are spending so much money in Iraq now.
Personally, I believe that with the exception of biology science, that science has been dead since 1969 when we went to the moon. What else is it that we really don't know?
We know absolute zero. We have explored many of the planets in our solar system with little gain for us here on earth. We know the speed of light. We can see things down to the electron cloud level of an atom. We can look into the past millions of years with telescopes.
Sure, there are refinements of existing information that are achieved through the scientific method like material science, faster computers, more efficient motors, etc. Computing is the only area where significant gains happen on a regular basis, and even that is slowing down. Although the total emissions are going down from cars, gas milage has not significantly increased in 20 years. A diesel Volkswagon rabbit from the mid 80s could get about 50mpg on the highway. Yes, it did release more sulfur, soot, and other junk than today's cars, but nothing besides hybrids today can touch that gas mileage. http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/gasmileage
I've read and believe that the end of science is evident with the rise in more "tribal" kinds of behavior in younger people today. Tattoos, body piercing, porn, and postmodern beliefs are common, and their rise in popularity is undeniable.
As far as corporate science goes, there is basically only medical research. And that research is a collusion between the FDA, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies.
You must be new here if this is the first or second or third or 20th instance of at least a dupe or a trupe.
I'm not talking about this particular instance, the pattern of the dupes and recently trupes over the years.
Or 4) They have little time and make human mistakes.
Yes, I agree that trupes are awful enough to warrant some negative feedback, but let's remain realistic here.
Screw up once its a mistake. (forgivable)
Screw up twice, you forgot or your a dumbass or a moron (forgivable)
Screw up three times, its a pattern.
Screw up on the same article 3x on at least 3 different occasions. Its a habit.
This goes with any simple human behavior. After 3 to 4x dumb stuff, a girl goes from a girlfriend to either an ex or if they are good, someone I just wanna have sex with, but my time is too important to keep repeating and suffering through the same crap over and over again.
I come to slashdot to comment and others comments. 99% of the work is already done by the readers. Having the other 1% at least rarely error prone is not expecting too much, being that they are paid to do the job, and we directly and/or indirectly pay them.
.... how Quantum Viruses would be.
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Well, they might be bad, but you would never really know where they were and where they are going
I got my first and last virus in 1994 from a roommate in college who brought me the "Monkey" virus from a computer lab on a floppy disk. I also have not used Microsoft based operating systems that much since that date.
I guess I'm lucky.
Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...
Now that does not seem that effective because this is only the 3rd or 4th trupe that I have seen here on slashdot, and I'm more than a regular, closer to obsessive-compulsive.
Everytime it happens, I post a link like this where I can find the other articles in less than 10 seconds, and I don't even work as an "editor" for slashdot.
My conclusions have been 1) they do not care 2) they like the negative attention 3) they have not read my posts, nor have they learned how to write a working search engine or use a working one called Google.
I mean, the attached search is a cut and paste of the headline "First Impressions Count in Website Design" preppended with site:slashdot.org to it, then hit return.
So, which is it guys?
Oh, I realized. The 10 seconds is 200x greater than 50ms. That is probably the reason I forgot, the editors have a low attention span like the 3 articles say.
Linux assumes that half of the send/receive buffer is used for internal kernel structures; thus the sysctls are twice what can be observed on the wire.
The article could have better explained that in context. For the most part it's automatic though, so don't worry about it.
Thanks, that is the answer. Hopefully others will see it.