If you find it inspiring enough, kindly contact back at georgatos _at_ ewb-luxembourg _dot_ org;
I play as the secretary of the board, at EWB Luxembourg organization (other mundane roles included).
Well, this makes for an interesting observation:
* If someone knows in advance the herd immunity of a specific ethnic group and happen to be able to calculate differentiated susceptibility rates, then that would count well as deliberate act, regardless even if the calculations were correct or not.
It would still be genocide if an alternative ethnic group was hit hard, as a result of deliberate attempt.
And even if it is not genocide, it is still a criminal act by needlessly exposing members of the public at risk, in a way which is totally avoidable.
Live from the field: Octopus just barely escaped being in our menu today, while ordering seafood in a right-next-to-the-sea tavern, outside of Nafplion, Greece.
Well, fact is, octopus IS really admirable animal, among other reasons for passing the mirror test. For the record, dogs typically do not pass the mirror test, ie. cannot consistently recognise themselves in a mirror. Octopus is surprisingly intelligent for an animal that is apparently primitive!
That being said, it's very tasty, too. I'll spare you the details of the great ways to cook it and prepare delicious dishes in the greek cuisine; for one, I have been catching octopuses, even before I was a teenager, in a traditional millenium-old underwater manner using just a harpoon. Big thrill for any young child.
However, there IS a problem with how we catch octopus and much other marine life: it is seriously important to avoid catching/capturing the young animals and only collect the individuals of some age, after having passed from breeding cycle. This is an increasing concern with many fishes, also, and we should all frown upon the practice of catching really really young fish, which is considered a delicacy in some places (Yes, I'm looking at you, South Italy). The sea needs to be respected and cultivated with more seriousness than it is currently done. Human population and technical know-how for fishing have increased in a way that is unsustainable: the sooner we understand it, the better. The sea could and would provide, yet not for the greedy...
Having been an avid bash user for almost as long as the bug existed, and written countless shell scripts in it for that matter, I cannot avoid agreeing with parent. Fact is, shell language definition is nowhere near high-quality BNF-defined syntactical structure, therefor it is unknown how many more fancy bugs are hidden in the parser. What worries me even more are the famous bashisms, of which we all fall victims sooner or later: *users* and subsequent sysadmins of our produced software may fall victims of such code, suffering from unneeded compatibility issues. Shell scripting is certainly a very kludgy area of modern unix systems and it takes great effort to keep things tidy and maintainable.
RedHat is far more economical than Windows, when you need a big population of nodes, because you can use fi. free Scientific Linux
on your many compute nodes and just keep one or two for validation of bugs and formal support. Best of all, it is all legal as long as you don't misrepresent the facts!
...I suspect Confluence together with plugin CYO Create-Your-Own would do the job.
As an extra bonus, it might, just might, allow your office documents to be reasonably integrated within the wiki (fi. search box).
Although, I try to stray away of not open source software, I had overall good experience with Confluence a couple years ago.
Also, Apache Software Foundation has also been relying on it for years (after all, that's how they got hacked;-).
Let us know how it would or would not fit your bill.
calrification: they rather should pick the 1st letter from each word of the poem/song they already remember; example:
"I'm gonna swing from the chandelier" -> "I'mgsftc" #pick 1st word letter -> "2I'mgsftc" # added 2 as salt -> "2I'mg5ftc" # replaced s for 5
password is now possible to memorize by a child and seriously secure
btw. one more point of attention: this exercise should rather be done together with parents, for both pedagogical and technical reasons:
* the child has a fall-back when it forgets the password
* parents will ensure that the *habbit* of doing it right gets passed on; in fact, that's the only one true think the child should memorise
If all the services they use are *online*, then using lastpass as password manager is a very sensible choice:
* no cost
* good security
* good integration within online activity (browsers etc)
* the only one to come within 24hrs of heartbleed giving a tool checking sites' vulnerability
You still need to remember one password though; what I would with children is the following: ask them to say a poem/song they remember; pick a line of the lyrics that they are likely to recall clearly; tweak slightly the letters with *them* driving the process (e->3, o->0 etc); add a little salt in the beginning (one or two characters); use that for the password manager. Proposed solution is not of exotic entropy, yet will do the job with flying colours, for most children.
In fact, they would be in good enough shape to start teaching the adults around how to do the job:-P
nope; that's wrong; 50 tonne pieces are known to be possible to carry around, in fact it was a regular service in antiquity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Given that Egyptians were providing for "negative incentives" on their population, as opposed to "positive incentives", it was a pretty cheap theater overall, too...
Carrying 1500 tons would not be out of reach with means of the time, if techniques were adequately developed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
If you are into sailing, you can well understand that flotation, ballast, ropes, levers and forces of nature can do really much for you!
Oops, I hadn't realized before where OpenRC fits in the ecosystem, thanks for that comment!
People need to check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... -> Features
In fact, what is fundamentally incomplete (broken?) in the current init mechanism is the inability to handle startup dependencies gracefully (hey computer scientists, we call that stuff DAGs: Directed Acyclic Graphs) and it is a prerequisite if we really want to see fast startup times in complex systems with complex services - service startup should be a like a tree, not like a chain.
Now, that being said, systemd seems to bring on top of the previous the ability to dynamically reconfigure the system upon changing hardware. That is indeed a feature that some people may have, yet not necessarily all. Forcing the baggage of that upon the whole linux population, is the major point of contention, IMHO.
Before anyone accuses me of jumping ship, let me make it clear that I'm old-style Linux pro (20+ yrs), probably on the conservative side which favors the widely tested init processes. However, being given choice would be appropriate and, at least allowing for DAG process startup is well desired.
I think this requires a bit more of explanation, since it may be possible or, it may be not;
If you are located in a place that has an advance warning for potential natural disaster or adverse weather,
it is very wise to take yourself out of the affected pool of people, in ordered and non-panic mode,
since that releases relief resources for others who perhaps may end up in a major need.
I happen to come from an island in Greece, whereby a 7+ Richter scale EQ may occur twice per century;
jumping out of the island is not always an option, however, the same argument still applies:
- make sure you don't drain relief resources from the people that may be in higher need
Sometimes people don't grasp fully that action or non-action _can_ influence other citizen lives.
Finally, in a recent quake episode in Kefalonia, cars proved to be a good emergency handling measure,
for both transport and sleep needs:
keep the family together => reduce movements => increase safety
http://www.noonsite.com/Countr...
This proved to be crucial during a period of the year that tents were made very unfavorable
due to weather patterns and quickly ended up abandoned, after many days of aftershocks.
Conclusion? if you have a car keep some emergency stock in it - in worst case you'll help somebody else!
bah. Engineering is about being able to tell somebody that, say, a bridge can be built in X days, bearing Y load of such and such type, endure for Z years at a cost $$$ AND be able to explain that we actually don't have analytical equations for all the physics that relate to it. Engineering is about taking responsibility in delivering the collected knowledge about technical systems of the past, for addressing current and future needs. As an engineer, it is nowhere written that you grasp the whole physics about a technical system, although you are still held accountable for its performance - as a minimum, to explain observed behavior.
True: ancient tombs have been looted and re-looted, long before the concept of archaeology really took off. There is a good probability this tomb will be like taking a 2000-year-old 3D photo, all along with connecting it with historical figures & events. It's pretty much on track to be a spectacular finding, of the type that re-writes history books (or at bare minimum, amend them).
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Hi,
;
Perhaps you are the man; please, please, have a look at this talk by Hans Rosling: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_...
If you find it inspiring enough, kindly contact back at georgatos _at_ ewb-luxembourg _dot_ org
I play as the secretary of the board, at EWB Luxembourg organization (other mundane roles included).
no NSA project here, unless Digital Pine is a subsidiary? small world, isn't it?
... only hypothetically, via Pine Digital's business which prominently displays in wikileaks: https://www.wikileaks.org/spyf...
...the impact of this would be profound in energy distribution since it can potentially decouple real-time supply-demand constraints.
...for the rest of us who can only afford a 200$ project to hear the beeping sounds from all that craft above 30.000 feet!
http://satnogs.org/
Well, this makes for an interesting observation:
* If someone knows in advance the herd immunity of a specific ethnic group and happen to be able to calculate differentiated susceptibility rates, then that would count well as deliberate act, regardless even if the calculations were correct or not.
It would still be genocide if an alternative ethnic group was hit hard, as a result of deliberate attempt.
And even if it is not genocide, it is still a criminal act by needlessly exposing members of the public at risk, in a way which is totally avoidable.
And if so, what would stop people doing the same?
Live from the field: Octopus just barely escaped being in our menu today, while ordering seafood in a right-next-to-the-sea tavern, outside of Nafplion, Greece.
Well, fact is, octopus IS really admirable animal, among other reasons for passing the mirror test. For the record, dogs typically do not pass the mirror test, ie. cannot consistently recognise themselves in a mirror. Octopus is surprisingly intelligent for an animal that is apparently primitive!
That being said, it's very tasty, too. I'll spare you the details of the great ways to cook it and prepare delicious dishes in the greek cuisine; for one, I have been catching octopuses, even before I was a teenager, in a traditional millenium-old underwater manner using just a harpoon. Big thrill for any young child.
However, there IS a problem with how we catch octopus and much other marine life: it is seriously important to avoid catching/capturing the young animals and only collect the individuals of some age, after having passed from breeding cycle. This is an increasing concern with many fishes, also, and we should all frown upon the practice of catching really really young fish, which is considered a delicacy in some places (Yes, I'm looking at you, South Italy). The sea needs to be respected and cultivated with more seriousness than it is currently done. Human population and technical know-how for fishing have increased in a way that is unsustainable: the sooner we understand it, the better. The sea could and would provide, yet not for the greedy...
+1
Having been an avid bash user for almost as long as the bug existed, and written countless shell scripts in it for that matter, I cannot avoid agreeing with parent. Fact is, shell language definition is nowhere near high-quality BNF-defined syntactical structure, therefor it is unknown how many more fancy bugs are hidden in the parser. What worries me even more are the famous bashisms, of which we all fall victims sooner or later: *users* and subsequent sysadmins of our produced software may fall victims of such code, suffering from unneeded compatibility issues. Shell scripting is certainly a very kludgy area of modern unix systems and it takes great effort to keep things tidy and maintainable.
RedHat is far more economical than Windows, when you need a big population of nodes, because you can use fi. free Scientific Linux on your many compute nodes and just keep one or two for validation of bugs and formal support. Best of all, it is all legal as long as you don't misrepresent the facts!
...I suspect Confluence together with plugin CYO Create-Your-Own would do the job.
;-).
As an extra bonus, it might, just might, allow your office documents to be reasonably integrated within the wiki (fi. search box).
Although, I try to stray away of not open source software, I had overall good experience with Confluence a couple years ago.
Also, Apache Software Foundation has also been relying on it for years (after all, that's how they got hacked
Let us know how it would or would not fit your bill.
...imagine if all hackerspaces built on the cheap one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... # SatNOGS is for satellite tracking & communication
calrification: they rather should pick the 1st letter from each word of the poem/song they already remember; example:
"I'm gonna swing from the chandelier" -> "I'mgsftc" #pick 1st word letter -> "2I'mgsftc" # added 2 as salt -> "2I'mg5ftc" # replaced s for 5
password is now possible to memorize by a child and seriously secure
btw. one more point of attention: this exercise should rather be done together with parents, for both pedagogical and technical reasons:
* the child has a fall-back when it forgets the password
* parents will ensure that the *habbit* of doing it right gets passed on; in fact, that's the only one true think the child should memorise
You still need to remember one password though; what I would with children is the following: ask them to say a poem/song they remember; pick a line of the lyrics that they are likely to recall clearly; tweak slightly the letters with *them* driving the process (e->3, o->0 etc); add a little salt in the beginning (one or two characters); use that for the password manager. Proposed solution is not of exotic entropy, yet will do the job with flying colours, for most children.
:-P
In fact, they would be in good enough shape to start teaching the adults around how to do the job
... ha ha, still LOL about it!
nope; that's wrong; 50 tonne pieces are known to be possible to carry around, in fact it was a regular service in antiquity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Given that Egyptians were providing for "negative incentives" on their population, as opposed to "positive incentives", it was a pretty cheap theater overall, too...
Carrying 1500 tons would not be out of reach with means of the time, if techniques were adequately developed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
If you are into sailing, you can well understand that flotation, ballast, ropes, levers and forces of nature can do really much for you!
Oops, I hadn't realized before where OpenRC fits in the ecosystem, thanks for that comment!
People need to check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... -> Features
In fact, what is fundamentally incomplete (broken?) in the current init mechanism is the inability to handle startup dependencies gracefully (hey computer scientists, we call that stuff DAGs: Directed Acyclic Graphs) and it is a prerequisite if we really want to see fast startup times in complex systems with complex services - service startup should be a like a tree, not like a chain.
Now, that being said, systemd seems to bring on top of the previous the ability to dynamically reconfigure the system upon changing hardware. That is indeed a feature that some people may have, yet not necessarily all. Forcing the baggage of that upon the whole linux population, is the major point of contention, IMHO.
Before anyone accuses me of jumping ship, let me make it clear that I'm old-style Linux pro (20+ yrs), probably on the conservative side which favors the widely tested init processes. However, being given choice would be appropriate and, at least allowing for DAG process startup is well desired.
Knowing the skills of the people around you is indeed a very smart and correct strategy. For you and for others.
> 1. Don't be there.
I think this requires a bit more of explanation, since it may be possible or, it may be not;
If you are located in a place that has an advance warning for potential natural disaster or adverse weather, it is very wise to take yourself out of the affected pool of people, in ordered and non-panic mode, since that releases relief resources for others who perhaps may end up in a major need.
I happen to come from an island in Greece, whereby a 7+ Richter scale EQ may occur twice per century; jumping out of the island is not always an option, however, the same argument still applies: - make sure you don't drain relief resources from the people that may be in higher need
Sometimes people don't grasp fully that action or non-action _can_ influence other citizen lives.
Finally, in a recent quake episode in Kefalonia, cars proved to be a good emergency handling measure, for both transport and sleep needs:
keep the family together => reduce movements => increase safety
http://www.noonsite.com/Countr...
This proved to be crucial during a period of the year that tents were made very unfavorable due to weather patterns and quickly ended up abandoned, after many days of aftershocks.
Conclusion? if you have a car keep some emergency stock in it - in worst case you'll help somebody else!
bah. Engineering is about being able to tell somebody that, say, a bridge can be built in X days, bearing Y load of such and such type, endure for Z years at a cost $$$ AND be able to explain that we actually don't have analytical equations for all the physics that relate to it. Engineering is about taking responsibility in delivering the collected knowledge about technical systems of the past, for addressing current and future needs. As an engineer, it is nowhere written that you grasp the whole physics about a technical system, although you are still held accountable for its performance - as a minimum, to explain observed behavior.
eleven years in hex? is that marriageable age over there?!
True: ancient tombs have been looted and re-looted, long before the concept of archaeology really took off. There is a good probability this tomb will be like taking a 2000-year-old 3D photo, all along with connecting it with historical figures & events. It's pretty much on track to be a spectacular finding, of the type that re-writes history books (or at bare minimum, amend them).
he he... great answer! let's go figure the dozen definitions of a mile now!
the real news are that the site is now protected by police 24/7, and the tomb will be opened anytime within this month.
... the eternal source of truth!
... comments threads after 24 hours, on slashdot? Now we know which keyword turns off the slashdot crowd! :-P