I have no problem with General aviation and I am a big fan. But a private 767 is a but much while pushing for people to be more "green". I lived in Vero Beach and a lot of my friends parents lost their jobs and they had to drop out of school because of the general aviation bust. Fuel is expensive and litigation was the big killer. People lost a case involving the failure of an airplane made in 1947 to survive crashing into a mini van after the pilot made an illegal landing in a field and the owner of said field blocked his take off with a mini van! The court ruled that just because the plane was certified in 1947 that should meet modern safety standards! Good grief. To those that grip about private planes. Get back to me after you get ride of all the private boats.
No it isn't. All fights that are IFR must be filed with the FAA. Those fights are also tracked. It has only been that way since around the 1940s. If you fly VFR then you don't have to register the flight. Many VFR pilots do anyway for safety. If the records are still around you can track the history of just about any aircraft that is flown IFR down to each take off and landing.
You really do want every flight to be tracked. You want to know where each plane is so no two planes try to occupy the same point in space time.
I think it is the hypocrisy more than anything that people don't like. First of all a private 767 is just a little excessive. A Gulfstream can fly just as far and is very nice and burns a lot less fuel. Frankly when you burn more fuel than the average person does in 20 years on a trip to see an Eclipse you pretty much don't get to tell people that they need to not buy that SUV or are terrible if you drive to the corner store for milk instead of walking. It comes down to sheer hypocrisy more than anything. Kind of like when a star takes a private jet to a Climate change fundraiser. They feel good about themselves because they are setting a good example for the "little people". I love planes with a passion but if I had that kind of money I would probably be happy with "just" a high end Gulfstream. But then I wouldn't try and make a big deal about the need to be green.
Interesting question then. Should Programing be considered in the same category as Chemistry, Biology, and Physics? Where some basics are expected before you even reach College? Seems a shame because in so many ways I think High Schools have been moving from programing to using them as tools.
Funny but that does make me wonder. How fast could you make a C64 with today's tech. Since it only had 64k of address space I would think that you could put the entire system on a single die with lots of room to spare. You could probably even put in a ram expander as well on the same die. So how fast would a 3.5Ghz C64 be? Roughly 4000x the speed of a c64? Which would still be slow by today's standards.
I work for a smaller company. I know everything that was going on with the webserver so that was not an issue. This was someone probing and trying passowords so it was a none issue. Funny but I am almost tempted to make a user called admin on each server. If anyone attempts a log in to that user name you just block them instantly.
It is simple Slashdot editors don't like Unity so any benchmark no matter how bad that shows Unity in a bad light will be posted. Just like any article about Windows no matter how bad the facts if it shows Windows in a bad light will get published.
Too bad that it only runs at 4Mhz. I was dreaming of a configureable super computer. And yes I understand that for it to even work at 4Mhz is pretty freaking cool. Where is the buy now button?
Every once in a while some one will do something. After checking my logs I found one day I found some attacks coming from a university in the UK. Sent that section of the log to the admin of the school. I got a nice email back thanking me for email because it allowed him to find and fix the machine that was compromised. Another option would be to write a script that would detect any attempt at admin access that fails more than three times and block the IP for a week or so.
True as I said I really found your post informative. I am a more did well in Physics and Chemistry but never really enjoyed biology. Could just be a personality thing. I don't like taking apart anything I can not put back together and make work. Of course on a good note the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute is rumored to have a Vaccine for AIDS near ready to test. While I do think that big Pharma corps are greedy I don't think they are evil. If nothing else a researcher at one would love to get a Nobel for a cure for Cancer, AIDs, Diabetes, and or Strokes. (Yea I know it would be more of a good preventative or treatment for Stroke". If you are a professorial biologist all I can say is good work so far.
Great so unless you want to pay to give away your software the OS will warn you that it is mal-ware. Yea this will only hurt small developers, FOSS developers, and the average consumer that will be scared to download good free software. So why would anyone not love this plan.
Really folks I know that Linux right now is the big users but there are BSD and Solaris users out there as well. Not to mention the tech unicorn HURD. Gnome is GPL so it could still be ported but I think just requireing a Unix Like OS should be good enough. Anyone know how xfce is doing these days?
Well if they can manage De-De fusion then it may not be much of a problem. Or even better if they manage to develop direct conversion or zero-point energy sources then leaving their sun might become a really good idea if not necessary. Yes Zero-point and direct conversion are well in the realm of science fiction but then so is moving a planet or even getting to a free floating world. If you where exploiting enough energy you could have a problem with dumping the waste heat. Moving to a free floating planet would help keep the planet from cooking in it's own waste heat. Or you could have people living on a large moon orbiting around a Jovian type super planet. They do tend to give of heat and you could have an Io type planet with lots of geothermal heating caused by tidal events. Of course all of this is in the realm of cool science fiction reading.
That is no moon! Wow talk about just not a good idea. I do not think I want to find a civilization that can build planet sized space craft. Hey at least they are slow. Maybe they are Outsiders?
No some people do have bad luck and some are poor. But if you are "poor" and are paying $100 for cable TV you are not poor. If you have a smartphone and home internet you are not poor. Poor doesn't mean not having everything you want. At $30,000 a year with no kids depending on where you live odds are that one is not poor. Yes you may have a roommate and you eat at home a lot and don't spend money on the console games and read books from the library and get movies from there as well. But you should not be poor. If that is the best posible job you can get then you should also think about increasing your education level. Like I said some people really do just have bad luck but when someone complains about being poor and they are paying taxes on 30,000 a year I can tell you that they do not have kids to support. And then when they say "Yes I have a lot of cheap electronic crap but it is all used". Well they have money to spend on luxuries. And that equals not poor or frankly poor by choice.
Actually so far it has not been. biological agents are not that deadly compared to say a nuclear weapons and chemical weapons. The Chinese tried to use them during WWII and they where not all that effective at all. Small Pox while very nasty it still only kills 30-35% of those that catch it. Nerve toxins and nuclear weapons are actually a lot worse.
That is why those devils the British don't have it! Man the level of shear paranoia is just to the point of disgusting. Please run away to a place where none can find you and you are free of from evil cell towers, wifi, Aluminum in your deodorant and Autism causing vacines. First it is at the CDC and not at the Military bio warfare center. The US has long given up biological weapons because they frankly suck from a military point of view. They take too long to act, and hard to control, and are not very easy to deploy. Plus they are just too nasty. Nuclear weapons are so much easier to stockpile and deal with. Man the crazies are all over this from summary with the 'countermeasures' crap. Yes they are keeping it around so they can cure it and make vaccines you bunch of fruit loops! Man this is just making me ticked off. How is Slashdot like box of Granola? It is full of nuts and flakes!
Yes you are a complete paranoid nut job and really should seek professional help. It is simple as that. We need a new moderation level. "Seek help now"
What a load of crap. The US unilaterally got stopped developing biological weapons. The US is keeping this so it can develop vaccines if needed no other reason. The all the tin foil hated NUT CASES are just too stupid to figure out is that if the US really was going to keep Smallpox virus as a weapon they would simply LIE and tell everyone that they did destroy it. Really are people just so stupid that they can not even understand that it would be more likely that if the US was going to weaponise this they would just LIE? Really that would be the best strategy possible because then they would deniability!
Not only are the paranoids on Slashdot annoying they are not even good enough at it to be entertaining!
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I have no problem with General aviation and I am a big fan. But a private 767 is a but much while pushing for people to be more "green". I lived in Vero Beach and a lot of my friends parents lost their jobs and they had to drop out of school because of the general aviation bust.
Fuel is expensive and litigation was the big killer. People lost a case involving the failure of an airplane made in 1947 to survive crashing into a mini van after the pilot made an illegal landing in a field and the owner of said field blocked his take off with a mini van!
The court ruled that just because the plane was certified in 1947 that should meet modern safety standards!
Good grief.
To those that grip about private planes. Get back to me after you get ride of all the private boats.
No it isn't. All fights that are IFR must be filed with the FAA. Those fights are also tracked. It has only been that way since around the 1940s. If you fly VFR then you don't have to register the flight. Many VFR pilots do anyway for safety. If the records are still around you can track the history of just about any aircraft that is flown IFR down to each take off and landing.
You really do want every flight to be tracked. You want to know where each plane is so no two planes try to occupy the same point in space time.
I think it is the hypocrisy more than anything that people don't like. First of all a private 767 is just a little excessive. A Gulfstream can fly just as far and is very nice and burns a lot less fuel. Frankly when you burn more fuel than the average person does in 20 years on a trip to see an Eclipse you pretty much don't get to tell people that they need to not buy that SUV or are terrible if you drive to the corner store for milk instead of walking.
It comes down to sheer hypocrisy more than anything. Kind of like when a star takes a private jet to a Climate change fundraiser. They feel good about themselves because they are setting a good example for the "little people".
I love planes with a passion but if I had that kind of money I would probably be happy with "just" a high end Gulfstream. But then I wouldn't try and make a big deal about the need to be green.
Interesting question then. Should Programing be considered in the same category as Chemistry, Biology, and Physics? Where some basics are expected before you even reach College? Seems a shame because in so many ways I think High Schools have been moving from programing to using them as tools.
So my smartphone is more powerful than a Cray XMP.
Funny but that does make me wonder. How fast could you make a C64 with today's tech. Since it only had 64k of address space I would think that you could put the entire system on a single die with lots of room to spare. You could probably even put in a ram expander as well on the same die. So how fast would a 3.5Ghz C64 be?
Roughly 4000x the speed of a c64? Which would still be slow by today's standards.
I work for a smaller company. I know everything that was going on with the webserver so that was not an issue. This was someone probing and trying passowords so it was a none issue.
Funny but I am almost tempted to make a user called admin on each server. If anyone attempts a log in to that user name you just block them instantly.
It is simple Slashdot editors don't like Unity so any benchmark no matter how bad that shows Unity in a bad light will be posted. Just like any article about Windows no matter how bad the facts if it shows Windows in a bad light will get published.
Yea I read the article and you freaking have to install the software! This is a User IQ error. I would never get infected by it.
Here is a link to the Hardware as well. http://www.cadence.com/products/sd/palladium_xp/Pages/default.aspx
Too bad that it only runs at 4Mhz. I was dreaming of a configureable super computer. And yes I understand that for it to even work at 4Mhz is pretty freaking cool. Where is the buy now button?
Every once in a while some one will do something. After checking my logs I found one day I found some attacks coming from a university in the UK. Sent that section of the log to the admin of the school. I got a nice email back thanking me for email because it allowed him to find and fix the machine that was compromised.
Another option would be to write a script that would detect any attempt at admin access that fails more than three times and block the IP for a week or so.
True as I said I really found your post informative. I am a more did well in Physics and Chemistry but never really enjoyed biology. Could just be a personality thing. I don't like taking apart anything I can not put back together and make work. Of course on a good note the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute is rumored to have a Vaccine for AIDS near ready to test. While I do think that big Pharma corps are greedy I don't think they are evil. If nothing else a researcher at one would love to get a Nobel for a cure for Cancer, AIDs, Diabetes, and or Strokes. (Yea I know it would be more of a good preventative or treatment for Stroke".
If you are a professorial biologist all I can say is good work so far.
I have used it in the past but it wasn't as usful as GNOME for me. I liked GNOME but the new Gnome and the Ubuntu split makes me not want to upgrade.
Great so unless you want to pay to give away your software the OS will warn you that it is mal-ware. Yea this will only hurt small developers, FOSS developers, and the average consumer that will be scared to download good free software. So why would anyone not love this plan.
Really folks I know that Linux right now is the big users but there are BSD and Solaris users out there as well. Not to mention the tech unicorn HURD. Gnome is GPL so it could still be ported but I think just requireing a Unix Like OS should be good enough.
Anyone know how xfce is doing these days?
Well if they can manage De-De fusion then it may not be much of a problem. Or even better if they manage to develop direct conversion or zero-point energy sources then leaving their sun might become a really good idea if not necessary.
Yes Zero-point and direct conversion are well in the realm of science fiction but then so is moving a planet or even getting to a free floating world.
If you where exploiting enough energy you could have a problem with dumping the waste heat. Moving to a free floating planet would help keep the planet from cooking in it's own waste heat.
Or you could have people living on a large moon orbiting around a Jovian type super planet. They do tend to give of heat and you could have an Io type planet with lots of geothermal heating caused by tidal events.
Of course all of this is in the realm of cool science fiction reading.
That is no moon!
Wow talk about just not a good idea. I do not think I want to find a civilization that can build planet sized space craft. Hey at least they are slow. Maybe they are Outsiders?
Great post but I fear it was a wasted effort.
Logic and knowledge can not overcome crazy.
Sell the games too cheap to make used a good deal. Or make games that people never want to sell.
Really it is just too bad.
No some people do have bad luck and some are poor. But if you are "poor" and are paying $100 for cable TV you are not poor. If you have a smartphone and home internet you are not poor.
Poor doesn't mean not having everything you want. At $30,000 a year with no kids depending on where you live odds are that one is not poor.
Yes you may have a roommate and you eat at home a lot and don't spend money on the console games and read books from the library and get movies from there as well. But you should not be poor.
If that is the best posible job you can get then you should also think about increasing your education level.
Like I said some people really do just have bad luck but when someone complains about being poor and they are paying taxes on 30,000 a year I can tell you that they do not have kids to support. And then when they say "Yes I have a lot of cheap electronic crap but it is all used". Well they have money to spend on luxuries.
And that equals not poor or frankly poor by choice.
Actually so far it has not been. biological agents are not that deadly compared to say a nuclear weapons and chemical weapons. The Chinese tried to use them during WWII and they where not all that effective at all. Small Pox while very nasty it still only kills 30-35% of those that catch it. Nerve toxins and nuclear weapons are actually a lot worse.
That is why those devils the British don't have it!
Man the level of shear paranoia is just to the point of disgusting. Please run away to a place where none can find you and you are free of from evil cell towers, wifi, Aluminum in your deodorant and Autism causing vacines.
First it is at the CDC and not at the Military bio warfare center. The US has long given up biological weapons because they frankly suck from a military point of view. They take too long to act, and hard to control, and are not very easy to deploy. Plus they are just too nasty. Nuclear weapons are so much easier to stockpile and deal with.
Man the crazies are all over this from summary with the 'countermeasures' crap. Yes they are keeping it around so they can cure it and make vaccines you bunch of fruit loops!
Man this is just making me ticked off.
How is Slashdot like box of Granola? It is full of nuts and flakes!
Yes you are a complete paranoid nut job and really should seek professional help.
It is simple as that. We need a new moderation level. "Seek help now"
What a load of crap. The US unilaterally got stopped developing biological weapons. The US is keeping this so it can develop vaccines if needed no other reason. The all the tin foil hated NUT CASES are just too stupid to figure out is that if the US really was going to keep Smallpox virus as a weapon they would simply LIE and tell everyone that they did destroy it. Really are people just so stupid that they can not even understand that it would be more likely that if the US was going to weaponise this they would just LIE? Really that would be the best strategy possible because then they would deniability!
Not only are the paranoids on Slashdot annoying they are not even good enough at it to be entertaining!
A. I did not lie. It was a joke.
B. Yea it should be a +5 Funny but I just wrote it I didn't mod it.