His explanation is that soap doesn't just clear away dirt and micro-organisms; it also removes surface skin cells and destroys oils, and this isn't too good for the skin.
Our son used to get skin problems (dry, rashes), we stopped using soap and just went with water and facecloth for shower or bath. Problems gone.
That being said, I work on infection control software and as a result am pretty fussy about washing hands after going to the toilet and before eating meals.
"but giving a grand to folks who will spend it will help prime the economy"
Our grand brought us back from the red into the black after a difficult last few months. Not much will be (immediately) spent in the economy, and I'm sure we're not alone.
Part of it is self-inflicted - we haven't reduced our mortgage payments even though interest rates have come down 2% from their high, but long term gain for short term pain seems worth the price.
Once again I'm sure we're not alone in this approach, it must make things tricky for the federal reserve and government.
"So as their first memorable act they go out to censor the Internet."
Ummm...I'm against this as much as the next free thinking geek, but I believe signing the Kyoto protocol agreement and saying sorry to the Aborigines could be considered memorable acts!
No worries mate, SVN gets a bad rap sometimes and I think the developers have done an awesome job given where they're coming from (a compelling replacement for CVS), so I stick up for it!:)
"No one in their right mind should be even thinking about so-called tools like SVN these days."
Oh yeah, I can just see our non-developers loving the Git command line over TortoiseSVN.
Hint: Version control isn't just for developers.
"The days of big central mainframes which hold the One True Source Code Repo are long gone."
That's hilarious, we have SVN running on a Win2003 server (VM image) with only 384MB of memory, and it runs very well. Our repos are multi-GB jobs, not TB sized like some I've read about, but svn and inparticular svnserve are very efficient. The DC is in Toronto and half the team are on the other side of the world, yet we somehow manage.
Hint: Check out the repositories on apache.org or sf.net.
Sounds like you're a student, my free advice is if you try and force that kind of attitude when you have a job in a company, you will be head-butting brick walls in no time.
Simple fact is SVN is the most versatile, reliable, easiest to use (when you include clients like TortoiseSVN) cross platform open source SCM tool available today.
> Reader: Spend some time looking at each feeds URL and bring them into a desktop feed reader.
It's easier than that: Settings -> Import/Export -> Export
> Calendar: Find a tool (and there are some, I just can't think of the name now) that will allow you to bring Google Calendar data off of the server and into a local app.
I can't back this up with any hard facts, but I was having a similar conversation with my step-dad, who is a geologist, and he said that (in Australia) most of the plastics are made from catalytic conversion using gas rather oil.
Good for you. I think suing medical professionals should only be allowed when there is demonstrated incompetence or failure to follow SOP.
When my partner was delivering our first born, she had to have a late epidural, the anesthesiologist made a mistake administering it and punctured her dura. She also had to have a blood patch 3 days later. Not fun and it caused us a month of hell due to the cascading effect this had on our son as well as my partner.
But we had no intention of suing the guy, he was trying his best under very difficult circumstances (think very pregnant woman screaming in pain and trying to stay still whilst hunched over as a long needle is inserted into her spine), and in the end we never received a bill for his services, partly because I think he was surprised at our attitude and how we reacted. He had also done 10,000+ epidural's and only had 8 or so punctured dura's, so was probably feeling a little guilty.
I would have been more upset if the anesthesiologist said no to the epidural because he was afraid of being sued, rather than saying no because of the risk to the patient.
In Australia, and no doubt many other parts of the world, along with ensuring proper insulation and efficient temperature control, solar water heating is the best way to save on money and greenhouse gas emission for your home. We recently moved into our new (16 year old) home, and one of the (many) reasons I was keen to buy was the house faces north by north east, with the living areas on the northern side, and the roof is perfectly positioned to capture solar energy. That and it's a short ride or walk to work.
Unfortunately, with the increased cost of housing in Australia, it means I have less to spend on home improvements and more on financing our mortgage (currently gobbles up 37.5% of my net wage), so a grid connect solar panel system is still too expensive for our family. We're already on mains natural gas and evaporative cooling, but as soon as the next federal election is done, we're investing in solar water heating, and then putting in rainwater tanks for the garden and veggie patch. Both solar water heating and rainwater capture systems should receive increased subsidies thanks to the drought and increased energy demand. Next on the list after that is a gray-water system for the washing machine and showers.
I really like how our electricity and gas bills now show us the amount of CO2 generated to provide us with energy. I estimate our 3 person household generates around 5 tonnes of CO2 per year, and although we use so-called green energy (combination of carbon offset and partial renewable power generation) I'm keen to try and get that down to less than a half a tonne per person per year. Solar water heating should help a lot.
There are two things I'd like to see happen to get everything thinking and acting about energy efficiency:
1. Link a portion of vehicle registration costs with their fuel efficiency. i.e. People who drive larger more polluting vehicles should pay more than those who drive smaller more efficient vehicles. Any extra money generated should be used for R&D in improving transport efficiency.
2. Link a portion of council rates to the amount energy consumption used by a household. i.e. People who consume more energy and water, and generate more pollution should pay more than those who use less. Any extra money generated should be used for R&D in improving home efficiency.
You could say that the free market will take care of this, as energy costs rise people will be forced into efficiency, but there are people who can afford it regardless, and why should we wait until later when we know the problem exists now?
I picked up an ASUS USB WiFi for a cheap price, works a treat in BackTrack 2, was able to crack our companies wi-fi network in less than 5 minutes of data capture using Kismet and 1 second of cracking with aircrack-ng.
> guy talking on phone, guy driving in rain with lights off, guy running a red light, or guy walking IN THE ROAD when it is raining and visibility is reduced?
I was crossing at the intersection in the designated pedestrian area. I had seen the guy coming but didn't expect him to run the red light so blatantly.
Despite all the available evidence to the contrary, it's sad you think it's okay to use a cell phone whilst driving. In the example I used, if he hadn't have been on the phone, then he may not have run the red light, and I would have had the chance to let him know his lights were off. Nothing bad came from the incident, but the risk was certainly increased by his talking on the phone (amongst other things).
Anyway, I really hope your not one of the (unlucky?) cell phone using drivers who end up killing or maming innocent people.
> If you are going to let me vote & drive in the first place, don't you sort of kind of think I can be trusted to NOT do something suicidally stupid?
You would think so wouldn't you?
Yet last night on my walk home from work (it was raining so I didn't ride) I almost got run over by a guy in a black V8 with his headlights off running a red light whilst talking on his mobile phone.
As a cyclist I hate anyone using a mobile phone whilst driving, and will tell them so if given the chance.
To quote a local government add: "Good drivers just drive"
I don't use MySpace, but I do use Facebook and noted that their login page was http. After reading their privacy blurb which said all sensitive info was encrypted, I sent an email to them and inquired about it.
I got a very friendly and quick response back saying that login is encrypted, it's just that it happens very quickly. Of course I didn't believe them, so I fired up Wireshark, and sure enough, login was via https://login.facebook.com./
I searched through the normal http conversation from the packet dump and found no reference to my password or username.
Personally I'd prefer that they don't hide their use of SSL, but i'm sure they have their reasons, beuller?
If you know the direction in which you want to transmit, go with a yagi or grid, otherwise go omni.
I'm looking at shelling for a 15dbi omni antenna as I've just moved into a ADSL blackspot and figure there's bound to be a few open networks closer to my telephone exchange:)
Actually, he is making money, I know because I got our boss to fork out for the enterprise version of TestDriven.NET.
We were using the free version (in VS 2005) and although I prefer FOSS tools where possible (we also use NUnit, NAnt, NCover, NCoverExplorer, CCNet, SVN & TSVN) TestDriven.NET is worth the price.
Likewise. I used to ride 10 or so k's to work (about 6 miles), but have recently moved house and jobs and now have a 3 minute down-hill ride (cut through the back of a university and hospital) to work...heaps cool!
The only down-side is the 15 minute uphill ride home:)
Agreed, but this was before web-history was launched, and it really depends on your perspective.
Obviously, from Google's point of view they want the data as it's valuable to them. As to whether or not its useful from a customers point of view depends on what that customer wants from search engine.
Some folks (such as you and I) would rather not have our history recorded, others, as shown in different threads on this article, don't seem to mind.
I'd guess the ideal solution is Google asking the question when you create your account.
Actually, I can't see my search history because I've "paused" all of the collection of my web searches. All the search results in web history come up empty, it's even got a "resume" button waiting for me to click.
So unless google is lying and is secretly stashing my search history somewhere else, it is voluntary.
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His explanation is that soap doesn't just clear away dirt and micro-organisms; it also removes surface skin cells and destroys oils, and this isn't too good for the skin.
Our son used to get skin problems (dry, rashes), we stopped using soap and just went with water and facecloth for shower or bath. Problems gone.
That being said, I work on infection control software and as a result am pretty fussy about washing hands after going to the toilet and before eating meals.
Even if he is a filthy South Australian.
That's filthy *hot* South Australian to you mate!
"but giving a grand to folks who will spend it will help prime the economy"
Our grand brought us back from the red into the black after a difficult last few months. Not much will be (immediately) spent in the economy, and I'm sure we're not alone.
Part of it is self-inflicted - we haven't reduced our mortgage payments even though interest rates have come down 2% from their high, but long term gain for short term pain seems worth the price.
Once again I'm sure we're not alone in this approach, it must make things tricky for the federal reserve and government.
"So as their first memorable act they go out to censor the Internet."
Ummm...I'm against this as much as the next free thinking geek, but I believe signing the Kyoto protocol agreement and saying sorry to the Aborigines could be considered memorable acts!
No worries mate, SVN gets a bad rap sometimes and I think the developers have done an awesome job given where they're coming from (a compelling replacement for CVS), so I stick up for it! :)
"No one in their right mind should be even thinking about so-called tools like SVN these days."
Oh yeah, I can just see our non-developers loving the Git command line over TortoiseSVN.
Hint: Version control isn't just for developers.
"The days of big central mainframes which hold the One True Source Code Repo are long gone."
That's hilarious, we have SVN running on a Win2003 server (VM image) with only 384MB of memory, and it runs very well. Our repos are multi-GB jobs, not TB sized like some I've read about, but svn and inparticular svnserve are very efficient. The DC is in Toronto and half the team are on the other side of the world, yet we somehow manage.
Hint: Check out the repositories on apache.org or sf.net.
Sounds like you're a student, my free advice is if you try and force that kind of attitude when you have a job in a company, you will be head-butting brick walls in no time.
Simple fact is SVN is the most versatile, reliable, easiest to use (when you include clients like TortoiseSVN) cross platform open source SCM tool available today.
Well said Anthony!
> Reader: Spend some time looking at each feeds URL and bring them into a desktop feed reader.
It's easier than that:
Settings -> Import/Export -> Export
> Calendar: Find a tool (and there are some, I just can't think of the name now) that will allow you to bring Google Calendar data off of the server and into a local app.
I use this and it works great with Outlook:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en-nz&answer=89955
", there are showers, and if you're young and energetic you can hook up with another geek."
I had to read that twice...thought for a while that Google was even more liberal than I first thought ;-)
Thanks for the incite though.
I can't back this up with any hard facts, but I was having a similar conversation with my step-dad, who is a geologist, and he said that (in Australia) most of the plastics are made from catalytic conversion using gas rather oil.
Me to. I'm keenly awaiting XP SP3 as my dev box is becoming a dog again and needs a free install.
I'm also eager to get my hands on Backtrack 3 (beta 1 is out), it's probably my favorite Linux distribution and well worth checking out.
Good for you. I think suing medical professionals should only be allowed when there is demonstrated incompetence or failure to follow SOP.
When my partner was delivering our first born, she had to have a late epidural, the anesthesiologist made a mistake administering it and punctured her dura. She also had to have a blood patch 3 days later. Not fun and it caused us a month of hell due to the cascading effect this had on our son as well as my partner.
But we had no intention of suing the guy, he was trying his best under very difficult circumstances (think very pregnant woman screaming in pain and trying to stay still whilst hunched over as a long needle is inserted into her spine), and in the end we never received a bill for his services, partly because I think he was surprised at our attitude and how we reacted. He had also done 10,000+ epidural's and only had 8 or so punctured dura's, so was probably feeling a little guilty.
I would have been more upset if the anesthesiologist said no to the epidural because he was afraid of being sued, rather than saying no because of the risk to the patient.
Good point, regardless, I'm sure kids will find a way to circumvent it...find a box to stand on, wear sunglasses, etc.
Absolutely.
In Australia, and no doubt many other parts of the world, along with ensuring proper insulation and efficient temperature control, solar water heating is the best way to save on money and greenhouse gas emission for your home. We recently moved into our new (16 year old) home, and one of the (many) reasons I was keen to buy was the house faces north by north east, with the living areas on the northern side, and the roof is perfectly positioned to capture solar energy. That and it's a short ride or walk to work.
Unfortunately, with the increased cost of housing in Australia, it means I have less to spend on home improvements and more on financing our mortgage (currently gobbles up 37.5% of my net wage), so a grid connect solar panel system is still too expensive for our family. We're already on mains natural gas and evaporative cooling, but as soon as the next federal election is done, we're investing in solar water heating, and then putting in rainwater tanks for the garden and veggie patch. Both solar water heating and rainwater capture systems should receive increased subsidies thanks to the drought and increased energy demand. Next on the list after that is a gray-water system for the washing machine and showers.
I really like how our electricity and gas bills now show us the amount of CO2 generated to provide us with energy. I estimate our 3 person household generates around 5 tonnes of CO2 per year, and although we use so-called green energy (combination of carbon offset and partial renewable power generation) I'm keen to try and get that down to less than a half a tonne per person per year. Solar water heating should help a lot.
There are two things I'd like to see happen to get everything thinking and acting about energy efficiency:
1. Link a portion of vehicle registration costs with their fuel efficiency. i.e. People who drive larger more polluting vehicles should pay more than those who drive smaller more efficient vehicles. Any extra money generated should be used for R&D in improving transport efficiency.
2. Link a portion of council rates to the amount energy consumption used by a household. i.e. People who consume more energy and water, and generate more pollution should pay more than those who use less. Any extra money generated should be used for R&D in improving home efficiency.
You could say that the free market will take care of this, as energy costs rise people will be forced into efficiency, but there are people who can afford it regardless, and why should we wait until later when we know the problem exists now?
I picked up an ASUS USB WiFi for a cheap price, works a treat in BackTrack 2, was able to crack our companies wi-fi network in less than 5 minutes of data capture using Kismet and 1 second of cracking with aircrack-ng.
> guy talking on phone, guy driving in rain with lights off, guy running a red light, or guy walking IN THE ROAD when it is raining and visibility is reduced?
I was crossing at the intersection in the designated pedestrian area. I had seen the guy coming but didn't expect him to run the red light so blatantly.
Despite all the available evidence to the contrary, it's sad you think it's okay to use a cell phone whilst driving. In the example I used, if he hadn't have been on the phone, then he may not have run the red light, and I would have had the chance to let him know his lights were off. Nothing bad came from the incident, but the risk was certainly increased by his talking on the phone (amongst other things).
Anyway, I really hope your not one of the (unlucky?) cell phone using drivers who end up killing or maming innocent people.
> If you are going to let me vote & drive in the first place, don't you sort of kind of think I can be trusted to NOT do something suicidally stupid?
You would think so wouldn't you?
Yet last night on my walk home from work (it was raining so I didn't ride) I almost got run over by a guy in a black V8 with his headlights off running a red light whilst talking on his mobile phone.
As a cyclist I hate anyone using a mobile phone whilst driving, and will tell them so if given the chance.
To quote a local government add: "Good drivers just drive"
> All Microsoft is doing is going after the fringe Linux distros that have no real user base.
:)
SuSE is a fringe distro?
Can I have some of what you're smoking please?
Are you sure about that?
I don't use MySpace, but I do use Facebook and noted that their login page was http. After reading their privacy blurb which said all sensitive info was encrypted, I sent an email to them and inquired about it.
I got a very friendly and quick response back saying that login is encrypted, it's just that it happens very quickly. Of course I didn't believe them, so I fired up Wireshark, and sure enough, login was via https://login.facebook.com./
I searched through the normal http conversation from the packet dump and found no reference to my password or username.
Personally I'd prefer that they don't hide their use of SSL, but i'm sure they have their reasons, beuller?
You mean boost your signal strength? Have a look around http://wifi-link.com/
:)
If you know the direction in which you want to transmit, go with a yagi or grid, otherwise go omni.
I'm looking at shelling for a 15dbi omni antenna as I've just moved into a ADSL blackspot and figure there's bound to be a few open networks closer to my telephone exchange
Lucky Gnu?
(fwiw, LG == Lucky Goldstar)
Actually, he is making money, I know because I got our boss to fork out for the enterprise version of TestDriven.NET.
We were using the free version (in VS 2005) and although I prefer FOSS tools where possible (we also use NUnit, NAnt, NCover, NCoverExplorer, CCNet, SVN & TSVN) TestDriven.NET is worth the price.
Likewise. I used to ride 10 or so k's to work (about 6 miles), but have recently moved house and jobs and now have a 3 minute down-hill ride (cut through the back of a university and hospital) to work...heaps cool!
:)
The only down-side is the 15 minute uphill ride home
We have a slow-warmup CFL in our en-suite. I find the 30 second warm-up highly desirable first thing in the morning :)
Agreed, but this was before web-history was launched, and it really depends on your perspective.
Obviously, from Google's point of view they want the data as it's valuable to them.
As to whether or not its useful from a customers point of view depends on what that customer wants from search engine.
Some folks (such as you and I) would rather not have our history recorded, others, as shown in different threads on this article, don't seem to mind.
I'd guess the ideal solution is Google asking the question when you create your account.
Actually, I can't see my search history because I've "paused" all of the collection of my web searches. All the search results in web history come up empty, it's even got a "resume" button waiting for me to click.
So unless google is lying and is secretly stashing my search history somewhere else, it is voluntary.