Nice to know your professional opinion about how useless this study is.
Re-read my comment: I didn't say it was a useless study, just the the approach (GWAS) has not surprisingly failed to identify the majority of the inherited variability in height.
That these studies regularly fail to do this is hardly a secret or controversial, and is well known in the field: it simply just isn't news.
To be brutally honest, it's not surprising that yet another genome-wide association study has failed to explain even half of the heritability of a trait / disease / condition.
There's plenty of literature out there arguing whether these studies are a waste of money or not:
I know what you mean in regards to developing muscle memory. Rocksmith 2014 seems to have improved in this way - after a few plays it seems to be more stable in terms of song difficulty. In other ways, Rocksmith 2014 is all around a big improvement from the perspective of someone who could already play bass (not particularly well, but ok), but not guitar. I suspect it's probably better for the absolute beginner as well, but seeing as I didn't choose that option when setting up my profile, I have no idea how it eases you into playing.
I really do wish that there was a way to show proper score instead of the 'tab' though. Another wish would be "half-master mode" where instead of hiding the tab completely, you just get lyrics + chords to work around (for bass).
Still, I'd strongly suggest buying a decent second-hand guitar or bass and a copy of Rocksmith rather than a probably quite poor quality guitar with flashy LEDs.
You should read Alistair Reynolds then - it's probably the best (and sadly, probably nearly the only) new hard science fiction there. It's really very good.
If you're not sure, try reading Galactic North - it's a collection of short stories, most of which are set in the Revelation Space 'universe'. It's interesting in that there is no travel faster than c, and people are the usual - grubby and self-serving - no Captain Picards.
Easy solution to stop others reverse engineering the client and writing an open-source one or vice-versa: use asymmetric crypto. It's not really nice, but perfectly technically possible. Particularly, if you're selling one part then you can use a group-based approach, so if somebody reverse engineers one, then you know who did it.
This is a classic example of why the GPL is a bad idea - it's incredibly vague. Besides, if you actually cared about freedom you'd use a BSD or similar license. I only use the GPL if I want to dramatically restrict others' rights, not grant them.
I think that typically new, fancy gases are used. I've seen FM200 (http://www2.dupont.com/FE/en_US/products/FM200.html) used. For example, Internode apparently uses both FM200 (triggered by smoke) and water (triggered by heat). There's a slideshow with some info buried somewhere inside about it here: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/306254/inside_internode_data_centre
I believe that it's pretty expensive though, and that Internode facility is a very small DC compared to some of the ones discussed in the article above, so I'm not sure what they'd use.
Yes, seriously, do what the rest of us do when we need to do tissue culture - use a lab book, and prepare your experimental plan carefully ahead of time. Write out the quantities of stuff you need (remembering this was always hardest for me). Unless it's something like splitting cells you should be writing the experiment down for legal reasons anyway.
You'll probably need to bring things in/out of the hood occasionally in almost any experiment, so just make use of that opportunity to look over your notes again! You're going to need to spray your gloves down with ethanol to go back in, so another 15sec won't hurt.
Depends on experience, but 80-100k for a leader of a small team as the senior programmer would about right. (Disclaimer: I'm not currently working in IT, although I was last year). IT jobs are pretty easy to come by in Brisbane if you have a small amount of clue. The starting salary may not be fantastic, but I've always found that after 6 months, the raises start coming.
Just beware, the cost of living here is high compared to the US - I can't believe how cheap your clothes and books are (in LA, at least). $7 a paperback? Crazy - they're $25 here.
Oh and watch out for the drop bears. Crazy bastards, they'll claw your eyes out.;)
Actually, I'm pretty sure it is a crime in Queensland, Australia. (IANAL but I lived with two law students who I can remember studying this). You need to take it to the police station and hand it in, where, if it is unclaimed for a certain amount of time and it's not shown to be linked to a crime (e.g. proceeds of a bank robbery), you will get to keep it.
For what it's worth, this study only includes men from Boston. From their abstract:
Results: We observe a substantial age-independent decline in T that does not appear to be attributable to observed changes in explanatory factors, including health and lifestyle characteristics such as smoking and obesity. The estimated population-level declines are greater in magnitude than the cross-sectional declines in T typically associated with age.
Conclusions: These results indicate that recent years have seen a substantial, and as yet unrecognized, age-independent population-level decrease in T in American men, potentially due to birth cohort differences or to health or environmental effects not captured in observed data.
While it is aimed at residential colleges, it offers functionality for billing, events/functions, room allocations and a bit more. Having been involved in a company which uses it, it's ok, except that users need local administrative privileges.
This would have to be the worst piece of writing I have ever seen on the Internet outside of MySpace. While I understand and spelling and grammar are optional for Slashdot editors, this is disgraceful Zonk.
Perhaps it's time that the Slashdot crew thought about why there are so many comments of late that are derogatory of the editors - I certainly never thought I'd make one. (Mainly through laziness, but hey...)
From what I can tell after deciphering the article, it's about some MMORPG where you can buy items - like WoW except it's above-board and there's no subscription fees. Isn't this kinda the same as Project Entropia anyway?
The ill-conceived mistake that we call the Onion 'redesign' is absolutely appalling. They lost a reader in me too. It seems to be a very typical mistake: cramming loads of useless crap onto a single page, and making the site look like a clone of a 1920's newspaper. That said, the article pages are only moderately bad - like say, about as well designed as a high school student would do. All they need is a few blink tags to top it off.
What is it with these idiot designers? The web isn't a newspaper, adding extra pages to your site COSTS NOTHING.
(And apparently there are ads on The Onion? *plugs AdBlock*)
You American guys get seriously screwed over then. The standard here in Australia (at my university anyway) is about $25AUD/hr for an IT summer internship - that's over $19USD.
For those of you saying, pah, that's a University, those pinko scum believe in keeping their employees above the poverty line, I should point out that I get paid more than that as a student doing my part time work (Sysadmin/programmer/dog's body).
I am led to believe, however, that the amount that you're paid if you're an engineering intern can vary wildly - lots in mining, down to very little for some chem eng jobs.
I use evolution to do my calendaring and to-do lists. It's really quite good. I also prefer it as a mail client to thunderbird, which kinda irritates me for some reason (I still use thunderbird for reading usenet though).
But this isn't much use if you can't read your calendar when you need to, so I use some of the scripts from gtkPod to sync my calendar, contacts and todo with my iPod. It works quite well, and since I carry the iPod around fairly often I can always get to the information.
I have vague memories of gnome's time/date widget thingy also showing me my appointments for each day, but it doesn't seem to do that anymore - I think after I upgraded evolution. (I'm running debian unstable).
From a quick Google (I'm an undergrad genetics major, with two minor subjects left to go), the Journal of Biosocial Science has an impact factor of only 0.449 - generally, people don't read it, and serious research doesn't appear to go into it.
Compared to some other journal impact factors:
NATURE - 27.955 SCIENCE - 23.32 GENOME RESEARCH - 9.863
and
ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA - 1.554 (I assume this is a Scandinavian psychiatric journal - hardly *THAT* common)
Btw, impact factors are just a rough guide of the number of citations - they show what journals you'd like your research to go into in order for it to be cited lots - effectively scientific currency. Some good research could go into poor journals...
The Debian package of Firefox 1.0.4, with the extension tabbrowser preferences installed isn't, for example. As a result of this extension, the frame isn't injected into the frameset that is being targetted, and is opened in a new tab instead.
It is surprising, though, that a security vulnerability like this goes unnoticed for so long. On the other hand, I very much doubt that anybody has actually used this to exploit users.
But is it really that hard to write code that is portable?
Well, that's an interesting question. My current work is probably pure evil in the eyes of most slashdotters - I'm currently porting a compiler/interpreter/virtual machine of a special variant of prolog from unix->win32 native code.
While writing c/c++ that's portable seems relatively straight-forward, there's lot of gotchas. Different compilers support standards differently, and GCC is one of the worse in some ways - it supports many, many extensions to the standards - what we'd normally bash Microsoft for 'embracing-and-extending'. As a consequence, code that heavily relies on these features can be somewhat involved to port to another compiler/OS. For example, GCC supports zero length arrays, which are currently causing headaches for me as I attempt to fix a garbage collector.:-/
Also, should you wish to interact with the operating system (ie: write any program more complex than hello_world.c), there is no choice - you must use the relevant api. If you look at the article, you'll see tables, with things like GetCurrentProcess() mapping to getpid() under unix. You don't have a choice which one to use under what OS unless you write a compatibility layer of your own.
And that's the whole thing really - code has to be dependant upon specific libraries if you value your time and/or don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thankfully, it appears that cross-platform libraries are starting to become a bit trendier (eg: QT, GTK, etc). Hopefully this will help here a little.
Should you choose a language like Java, however, these issues are supposed to just go away - a nice ideal... ("Write once, test everywhere", I believe;-P )
(I would just like to add that I'd rather code C/C++ under unix with GCC any day - I'd just rather eat.)
In Australia, colleges are closer to halls of residence - they don't offer any courses of study at all. They do offer tutorials and other assistance for courses offered at university, however.
The college that you linked to is located within the University of Sydney, and I'd be somewhat surprised if they didn't offer a range of engineering degrees, although the other big university in Sydney, UNSW used to be USyd's engineering faculty.
In any case, the University of Queensland (where I go - I used to live in Emmanuel College here) has a Womens College too - it may be a sister college, I don't know.
(Good luck with the college links, I think that the server room is currently running off a generator.)
In any case, within Australia, the public vs private university question is kind of moot, since all of our big universities are public, and our one big private university (Bond) doesn't offer most degrees - such as science or engineering.
$6.4 million probably isn't all that much in the scale of things. You can't sue IBM and expect to get off cheaply.
I wonder, is the main impetus behind this decision coming from the lawyers or SCO? If it's the lawyers, are they scared of not being paid and having their costs balloon out - the risk being too high?
I can't really see SCO being the main push behind this. If they lose, they're going to lose all anyway, aren't they? Destroyed reputation, enormous legal bills - not a company success story really.
So this means they were wearing either army fatigues or a shirt with glasses. I fail to see how that's related specifically to CS, unless they went around screaming out "fire in the hole" and "it's gonna blow!".
Even assuming that they became unhinged from playing too much CS, doesn't mean that we should ban it. People did go crazy and kill people before computer games existed...
(This is still tragic, however, and I don't intend to lessen the tragedy.)
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Sorry, but this is why the US isn't a true democracy as such. With the President having the ability to create executive orders without requiring the consultation and consent of a proportionally and democratically elected parliament, his position can be best described as a "limited term dictatorship".
Obviously there are balances and checks, and I'm not criticising the system, but it's not really a true democracy by your own criteria. I tend to find it most like a more democratic Rome - policitians democratically elected, with a limited term dictatorship in charge. (Except in Rome originally, it was only supposed to happen in grave situations, until people like Sulla started abusing it).
FWIW, I'm a student running FC2 on a college LAN in Australia. In addition to the default install, I've whacked on a more complex firewall and also installed portsentry (mainly because IT services believes that running nessus with all of the options checked against the university LAN is a good idea).
In any case, just recently I've noticed far more attempts to log into SSHd. The number of port scans detected by portsentry is about the same as always - 2 to 5 a day. From yesterday's logwatch, for example, there were attempted logins as admin, guest, root, test and user. According to logwatch they're always tried with no password, then a password.
eg:
Illegal users from these:
admin/none from 203.227.204.32: 2 Time(s)
admin/password from 203.227.204.32: 2 Time(s)
I've definitely noticed a major increase in these attempts over the last while. Personally, it doesn't bother me - I just make sure that my passwords are up to date, and that remote root logins are disabled.
Heh, talking of disassembly instructions, I was on the phone with Dell about two hours ago.
I went to dock my inspiron 8100 and noticed that there was a piece of metal blocking the 2" metal clip that slides inside the laptop. Anyway, I ring Dell, and tell them this, and they seem to have a bit of trouble understanding english, but the guy does try. Eventually, I emailled him a photo, and this is pretty much a transcript:
Dell> Well, to fix that, you'll need to pull your laptop apart, find the piece and remove it, however it's fastened. Me> You're telling me to disassemble my laptop? Dell> Yes.
Anyway, I did and managed to find the little piece (screwed into the hinge cover) and remove it. Fairly good design for ease of pulling apart. I can't knock their support for trying - just for a lack of English...
(FYI, I'm in Australia, so I'd imagine we have a different call centre?)
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Re-read my comment: I didn't say it was a useless study, just the the approach (GWAS) has not surprisingly failed to identify the majority of the inherited variability in height.
That these studies regularly fail to do this is hardly a secret or controversial, and is well known in the field: it simply just isn't news.
To be brutally honest, it's not surprising that yet another genome-wide association study has failed to explain even half of the heritability of a trait / disease / condition.
There's plenty of literature out there arguing whether these studies are a waste of money or not:
* http://blog.goldenhelix.com/?p...
* http://scienceblogs.com/geneti...
* http://gettinggeneticsdone.blo...
I would have been surprised if this study did find the majority of inherited variability in height.
I know what you mean in regards to developing muscle memory. Rocksmith 2014 seems to have improved in this way - after a few plays it seems to be more stable in terms of song difficulty. In other ways, Rocksmith 2014 is all around a big improvement from the perspective of someone who could already play bass (not particularly well, but ok), but not guitar. I suspect it's probably better for the absolute beginner as well, but seeing as I didn't choose that option when setting up my profile, I have no idea how it eases you into playing.
I really do wish that there was a way to show proper score instead of the 'tab' though. Another wish would be "half-master mode" where instead of hiding the tab completely, you just get lyrics + chords to work around (for bass).
Still, I'd strongly suggest buying a decent second-hand guitar or bass and a copy of Rocksmith rather than a probably quite poor quality guitar with flashy LEDs.
You should read Alistair Reynolds then - it's probably the best (and sadly, probably nearly the only) new hard science fiction there. It's really very good.
If you're not sure, try reading Galactic North - it's a collection of short stories, most of which are set in the Revelation Space 'universe'. It's interesting in that there is no travel faster than c, and people are the usual - grubby and self-serving - no Captain Picards.
Easy solution to stop others reverse engineering the client and writing an open-source one or vice-versa: use asymmetric crypto. It's not really nice, but perfectly technically possible. Particularly, if you're selling one part then you can use a group-based approach, so if somebody reverse engineers one, then you know who did it.
This is a classic example of why the GPL is a bad idea - it's incredibly vague. Besides, if you actually cared about freedom you'd use a BSD or similar license. I only use the GPL if I want to dramatically restrict others' rights, not grant them.
I think that typically new, fancy gases are used. I've seen FM200 (http://www2.dupont.com/FE/en_US/products/FM200.html) used. For example, Internode apparently uses both FM200 (triggered by smoke) and water (triggered by heat). There's a slideshow with some info buried somewhere inside about it here: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/306254/inside_internode_data_centre
I believe that it's pretty expensive though, and that Internode facility is a very small DC compared to some of the ones discussed in the article above, so I'm not sure what they'd use.
Yes, seriously, do what the rest of us do when we need to do tissue culture - use a lab book, and prepare your experimental plan carefully ahead of time. Write out the quantities of stuff you need (remembering this was always hardest for me). Unless it's something like splitting cells you should be writing the experiment down for legal reasons anyway.
You'll probably need to bring things in/out of the hood occasionally in almost any experiment, so just make use of that opportunity to look over your notes again! You're going to need to spray your gloves down with ethanol to go back in, so another 15sec won't hurt.
Depends on experience, but 80-100k for a leader of a small team as the senior programmer would about right. (Disclaimer: I'm not currently working in IT, although I was last year). IT jobs are pretty easy to come by in Brisbane if you have a small amount of clue. The starting salary may not be fantastic, but I've always found that after 6 months, the raises start coming.
Just beware, the cost of living here is high compared to the US - I can't believe how cheap your clothes and books are (in LA, at least). $7 a paperback? Crazy - they're $25 here.
Oh and watch out for the drop bears. Crazy bastards, they'll claw your eyes out. ;)
Actually, I'm pretty sure it is a crime in Queensland, Australia. (IANAL but I lived with two law students who I can remember studying this). You need to take it to the police station and hand it in, where, if it is unclaimed for a certain amount of time and it's not shown to be linked to a crime (e.g. proceeds of a bank robbery), you will get to keep it.
The article can be found at: doi:10.1210/jc.2006-1375.
= retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=17062768&dopt=Abstrac t
It can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
For what it's worth, this study only includes men from Boston. From their abstract:
Results: We observe a substantial age-independent decline in T that does not appear to be attributable to observed changes in explanatory factors, including health and lifestyle characteristics such as smoking and obesity. The estimated population-level declines are greater in magnitude than the cross-sectional declines in T typically associated with age.
Conclusions: These results indicate that recent years have seen a substantial, and as yet unrecognized, age-independent population-level decrease in T in American men, potentially due to birth cohort differences or to health or environmental effects not captured in observed data.
While it is aimed at residential colleges, it offers functionality for billing, events/functions, room allocations and a bit more. Having been involved in a company which uses it, it's ok, except that users need local administrative privileges.
Check it out here: www.starnetsystems.com.au
Be warned, it's fairly expensive, but probably not prohibitively so.
This would have to be the worst piece of writing I have ever seen on the Internet outside of MySpace. While I understand and spelling and grammar are optional for Slashdot editors, this is disgraceful Zonk.
Perhaps it's time that the Slashdot crew thought about why there are so many comments of late that are derogatory of the editors - I certainly never thought I'd make one. (Mainly through laziness, but hey...)
From what I can tell after deciphering the article, it's about some MMORPG where you can buy items - like WoW except it's above-board and there's no subscription fees. Isn't this kinda the same as Project Entropia anyway?
The ill-conceived mistake that we call the Onion 'redesign' is absolutely appalling. They lost a reader in me too. It seems to be a very typical mistake: cramming loads of useless crap onto a single page, and making the site look like a clone of a 1920's newspaper. That said, the article pages are only moderately bad - like say, about as well designed as a high school student would do. All they need is a few blink tags to top it off.
What is it with these idiot designers? The web isn't a newspaper, adding extra pages to your site COSTS NOTHING.
(And apparently there are ads on The Onion? *plugs AdBlock*)
You American guys get seriously screwed over then. The standard here in Australia (at my university anyway) is about $25AUD/hr for an IT summer internship - that's over $19USD.
For those of you saying, pah, that's a University, those pinko scum believe in keeping their employees above the poverty line, I should point out that I get paid more than that as a student doing my part time work (Sysadmin/programmer/dog's body).
I am led to believe, however, that the amount that you're paid if you're an engineering intern can vary wildly - lots in mining, down to very little for some chem eng jobs.
I use evolution to do my calendaring and to-do lists. It's really quite good. I also prefer it as a mail client to thunderbird, which kinda irritates me for some reason (I still use thunderbird for reading usenet though).
But this isn't much use if you can't read your calendar when you need to, so I use some of the scripts from gtkPod to sync my calendar, contacts and todo with my iPod. It works quite well, and since I carry the iPod around fairly often I can always get to the information.
I have vague memories of gnome's time/date widget thingy also showing me my appointments for each day, but it doesn't seem to do that anymore - I think after I upgraded evolution. (I'm running debian unstable).
From a quick Google (I'm an undergrad genetics major, with two minor subjects left to go), the Journal of Biosocial Science has an impact factor of only 0.449 - generally, people don't read it, and serious research doesn't appear to go into it.
Compared to some other journal impact factors:
NATURE - 27.955
SCIENCE - 23.32
GENOME RESEARCH - 9.863
and
ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA - 1.554
(I assume this is a Scandinavian psychiatric journal - hardly *THAT* common)
Btw, impact factors are just a rough guide of the number of citations - they show what journals you'd like your research to go into in order for it to be cited lots - effectively scientific currency. Some good research could go into poor journals...
The Debian package of Firefox 1.0.4, with the extension tabbrowser preferences installed isn't, for example. As a result of this extension, the frame isn't injected into the frameset that is being targetted, and is opened in a new tab instead.
It is surprising, though, that a security vulnerability like this goes unnoticed for so long. On the other hand, I very much doubt that anybody has actually used this to exploit users.
But is it really that hard to write code that is portable?
:-/
;-P )
Well, that's an interesting question. My current work is probably pure evil in the eyes of most slashdotters - I'm currently porting a compiler/interpreter/virtual machine of a special variant of prolog from unix->win32 native code.
While writing c/c++ that's portable seems relatively straight-forward, there's lot of gotchas. Different compilers support standards differently, and GCC is one of the worse in some ways - it supports many, many extensions to the standards - what we'd normally bash Microsoft for 'embracing-and-extending'. As a consequence, code that heavily relies on these features can be somewhat involved to port to another compiler/OS. For example, GCC supports zero length arrays, which are currently causing headaches for me as I attempt to fix a garbage collector.
Also, should you wish to interact with the operating system (ie: write any program more complex than hello_world.c), there is no choice - you must use the relevant api. If you look at the article, you'll see tables, with things like GetCurrentProcess() mapping to getpid() under unix. You don't have a choice which one to use under what OS unless you write a compatibility layer of your own.
And that's the whole thing really - code has to be dependant upon specific libraries if you value your time and/or don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thankfully, it appears that cross-platform libraries are starting to become a bit trendier (eg: QT, GTK, etc). Hopefully this will help here a little.
Should you choose a language like Java, however, these issues are supposed to just go away - a nice ideal... ("Write once, test everywhere", I believe
(I would just like to add that I'd rather code C/C++ under unix with GCC any day - I'd just rather eat.)
In Australia, colleges are closer to halls of residence - they don't offer any courses of study at all. They do offer tutorials and other assistance for courses offered at university, however.
The college that you linked to is located within the University of Sydney, and I'd be somewhat surprised if they didn't offer a range of engineering degrees, although the other big university in Sydney, UNSW used to be USyd's engineering faculty.
In any case, the University of Queensland (where I go - I used to live in Emmanuel College here) has a Womens College too - it may be a sister college, I don't know.
(Good luck with the college links, I think that the server room is currently running off a generator.)
In any case, within Australia, the public vs private university question is kind of moot, since all of our big universities are public, and our one big private university (Bond) doesn't offer most degrees - such as science or engineering.
$6.4 million probably isn't all that much in the scale of things. You can't sue IBM and expect to get off cheaply.
I wonder, is the main impetus behind this decision coming from the lawyers or SCO? If it's the lawyers, are they scared of not being paid and having their costs balloon out - the risk being too high?
I can't really see SCO being the main push behind this. If they lose, they're going to lose all anyway, aren't they? Destroyed reputation, enormous legal bills - not a company success story really.
So this means they were wearing either army fatigues or a shirt with glasses. I fail to see how that's related specifically to CS, unless they went around screaming out "fire in the hole" and "it's gonna blow!".
Even assuming that they became unhinged from playing too much CS, doesn't mean that we should ban it. People did go crazy and kill people before computer games existed...
(This is still tragic, however, and I don't intend to lessen the tragedy.)
Yet another solution:
Right click on the image of the page, select "Add image to addblock list" (You are using adblock, I hope!), then view background image.
You don't need javascript switched off either - I just have most of the functions disabled (like disabling the right-click menu).
With so many different workarounds found in such a short time, surely this isn't going to work in any way at all.
Hopefully Google doesn't switch to using some 'fancy' plugin though - making life more difficult for everybody...
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Sorry, but this is why the US isn't a true democracy as such. With the President having the ability to create executive orders without requiring the consultation and consent of a proportionally and democratically elected parliament, his position can be best described as a "limited term dictatorship".
Obviously there are balances and checks, and I'm not criticising the system, but it's not really a true democracy by your own criteria. I tend to find it most like a more democratic Rome - policitians democratically elected, with a limited term dictatorship in charge. (Except in Rome originally, it was only supposed to happen in grave situations, until people like Sulla started abusing it).
FWIW, I'm a student running FC2 on a college LAN in Australia. In addition to the default install, I've whacked on a more complex firewall and also installed portsentry (mainly because IT services believes that running nessus with all of the options checked against the university LAN is a good idea).
In any case, just recently I've noticed far more attempts to log into SSHd. The number of port scans detected by portsentry is about the same as always - 2 to 5 a day. From yesterday's logwatch, for example, there were attempted logins as admin, guest, root, test and user. According to logwatch they're always tried with no password, then a password.
eg:
Illegal users from these:
admin/none from 203.227.204.32: 2 Time(s)
admin/password from 203.227.204.32: 2 Time(s)
I've definitely noticed a major increase in these attempts over the last while. Personally, it doesn't bother me - I just make sure that my passwords are up to date, and that remote root logins are disabled.
(Edited the snippet above for lameness filter)
Heh, talking of disassembly instructions, I was on the phone with Dell about two hours ago.
I went to dock my inspiron 8100 and noticed that there was a piece of metal blocking the 2" metal clip that slides inside the laptop. Anyway, I ring Dell, and tell them this, and they seem to have a bit of trouble understanding english, but the guy does try. Eventually, I emailled him a photo, and this is pretty much a transcript:
Dell> Well, to fix that, you'll need to pull your laptop apart, find the piece and remove it, however it's fastened.
Me> You're telling me to disassemble my laptop?
Dell> Yes.
Anyway, I did and managed to find the little piece (screwed into the hinge cover) and remove it. Fairly good design for ease of pulling apart. I can't knock their support for trying - just for a lack of English...
(FYI, I'm in Australia, so I'd imagine we have a different call centre?)