Languages evolve over time. New words are created when necessary and old
words are redefined (which is why Websters can come out with new editions
periodically).
I think about the French who until recently had no native word for email.
So they invented the word courriel.
Hmmm... keep the government out of it? It was the government that helped developed the internet protocol in the first place. If 1960s technology isn't working for them anymore they need to replace it.
We probably won't see widespread civilian use of whatever they come up with for 10 or 20 years.
The description of this is spookily similar to the technology Keanu Reeves invented in the movie Chain Reaction.
In the movie Keanu achieves cold fusion by stabilizing a bubbling glass tank of water to produce hydrogen gas or "sonoluminescence" is they call it in the movie.
Gerta Keller's conclusions are being
strongly refuted by Jan
Smits, one of the researchers that got funding for the core samples used in
the study. He said in this
NPR clip that he is really upset that Keller's research passed peer review
without catching the obvious mistakes.
I heard this question posed to the researcher in a radio interview on NPR. He said that NFL coin tosses are probably more random because the NFL coin is allowed to hit the ground and bounce.
Of course, the penny problem could come into play as well and this wasn't mentioned. That is, if one side of the NFL coin has more material than the other the results would be biased.
There are many ways the instruments on the rovers could be used to detect life, but mostly they are for finding geological evidence that the planet could have or could now support life.
One possibility not yet mentioned (and what to me would be the most exciting news) is if they peeled apart some of the sedimentary layers and found fossilized microbes or evidence of former sea life. That would blow me away.
You think you are being insightful, but really you just didn't RTFA:
"At least it's nothing like the fiasco of 1997 known as "push technology" and incarnate in PointCast, which wrote its death warrant by clogging hard drives and crashing operating systems as it delivered updated information to subscribers.
RSS is more pull than push. Your aggregator retrieves the updated material from the feed-offering Web site at set time intervals."
On the contrary. This medieval torture device has no back support at all, is unstable and caused me to be unable to stand after using it for less than an hour.
I agree. I sunmitted a more worthy item that was rejected. I think I'll post it here for the hell of it. It will make this post more interesting anyway:
The notorious female hacker Gigabyte (19 years old)
was arrested in Belgium under a computer data sabotage law introduced in 2000. If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 100,000
euros (US$127,000). Gigabyte was quoted in a recent
New York Times Magazine
article
discussed on Slashdot. She has been very outspoken about hacker
stereotypes
countering the claim that hackers are, "pizza-addicted,
sex-starved, ugly teens who never get outside." She is widely credited with
writing
the first Microsoft.Net virus. Authorities seized her computers and
shut down her website. It's interesting to note that under Belgian law she could be sued for damages by
any corporation damaged by her work (e.g.,
Microsoft).
You mention that post-war walls are constructed of plasterboard or Sheetrock but failed to mention how pre-war walls were constructed.
Before World War II walls were generally plastered. The plaster was placed on top of wood lath. Lath is thin wood slats that are nailed horizontally across the studs that made up the walls. These slats are placed with less than a 1/4 inch of space between them.
A thick layer of plaster is applied to the lath. The plaster usually has some sort of binder mixed with it such as horse hair or asbestos. The application of plaster was generally thicker than today's Sheetrock. I've torn out old walls where the plaster is an inch thick. It's even thicker in areas where the plaster presses through the lath and hardens.
With a thick ayer of horse hair plaster and sound absorbing wood lath you had a pretty nice sound barrier. It also does a nice job of degrading radio signals.
In older construction you also get a lot of stone and brick walls. Not to mention the solid wood floors an ceilings.
The quote from the article (There is a medium to high probability that within the next year, a successful attack will occur that could compromise the High Value and/or Highest Value data class) is being taken out of context.
The white paper was giving an example of how an assessment is made to justifiy the "IPsec project." It seems pretty clear to me that if MS published this article saying they were vulnerable in this area that the project was approved and completed, thus eliminating the threat risk in this area.
RTF White Paper.
1. The writer says he loaded a modified version of NetBSD. It is quite possible that this version hasn't the necessary components to run certain services. If you read the linked FAQ it also says there are restrictions on the kernel that can be loaded because the firmware expects to see certain partition and file attributes.
2. It is possible that the "special NetBSD installation process" makes it impossible to add additional services such as web and smtp.
Perhaps I should have pointed these things out in my original post, but maybe you could have simply RTFA.
Pardon my ignorance, but is there SMTP server software you can run on top of the NetBSD Mips R5000 server software? How about a web server? That would truly make a nifty little home server appliance.
I am posting this because, believe it or not, there are a lot of/. readers that have no experience with Linux but are curious to try.
I am one if the inexperienced Linux users. I tried several distros and the one that was hands down the easiest to deploy from the noob prospective was Mandrake.
My first try was with release 8.0. I loved the installer and the docs available for learning to setup my machine for dual boot and proper Linux partitions.
The installer is a work of art. It made the installation as easy as *gasp* Windows. It walks you through the proper options to choose so you get the setup you want (in my case I wanted to try workstation, not server). I had no trouble with my systems hardware being compatible.
My plea to anyone who has never tried Linux but is curious is to try Mandrake. It's the most noob friendly distro around.
Slashdot Mirror
I think about the French who until recently had no native word for email. So they invented the word courriel.
The French government took the extra step of forbidden the use of the english word email in government documents to try to increase the use of the new word.
Got to love the French.
"May result in cirrhosis and fatty degeneration of the liver, hardening of the arteries, heart problems, high blood pressure, hemorrhaging kidneys."
I'm not so sure I want too much of that stuff in a human subject.
Hmmm... keep the government out of it? It was the government that helped developed the internet protocol in the first place. If 1960s technology isn't working for them anymore they need to replace it.
We probably won't see widespread civilian use of whatever they come up with for 10 or 20 years.
Windows XP SP2 can be uninstalled. If it f*cks up anything you just go to add/remove programs and get rid of it.
There goes your excuse for missing your midterm paper deadline.
The description of this is spookily similar to the technology Keanu Reeves invented in the movie Chain Reaction.
In the movie Keanu achieves cold fusion by stabilizing a bubbling glass tank of water to produce hydrogen gas or "sonoluminescence" is they call it in the movie.
Weird.
Ohhhh! you said dogstEr. That's very different.
Gerta Keller's conclusions are being strongly refuted by Jan Smits, one of the researchers that got funding for the core samples used in the study. He said in this NPR clip that he is really upset that Keller's research passed peer review without catching the obvious mistakes.
I heard this question posed to the researcher in a radio interview on NPR. He said that NFL coin tosses are probably more random because the NFL coin is allowed to hit the ground and bounce.
Of course, the penny problem could come into play as well and this wasn't mentioned. That is, if one side of the NFL coin has more material than the other the results would be biased.
There are many ways the instruments on the rovers could be used to detect life, but mostly they are for finding geological evidence that the planet could have or could now support life.
One possibility not yet mentioned (and what to me would be the most exciting news) is if they peeled apart some of the sedimentary layers and found fossilized microbes or evidence of former sea life. That would blow me away.
You think you are being insightful, but really you just didn't RTFA:
"At least it's nothing like the fiasco of 1997 known as "push technology" and incarnate in PointCast, which wrote its death warrant by clogging hard drives and crashing operating systems as it delivered updated information to subscribers.
RSS is more pull than push. Your aggregator retrieves the updated material from the feed-offering Web site at set time intervals."
On the contrary. This medieval torture device has no back support at all, is unstable and caused me to be unable to stand after using it for less than an hour.
Mod me a troll but don't say I didn't warn you.
667... the neighbor of the beast.
We have a Moon Unit Zappa right here on Earth.
The notorious female hacker Gigabyte (19 years old) was arrested in Belgium under a computer data sabotage law introduced in 2000. If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and fines of up to 100,000 euros (US$127,000). Gigabyte was quoted in a recent New York Times Magazine article discussed on Slashdot. She has been very outspoken about hacker stereotypes countering the claim that hackers are, "pizza-addicted, sex-starved, ugly teens who never get outside." She is widely credited with writing the first Microsoft .Net virus. Authorities seized her computers and
shut down her website. It's interesting to note that under Belgian law she could be sued for damages by
any corporation damaged by her work (e.g.,
Microsoft).
Deep scratches are tough. Sand and finish can sometimes do the trick unless the gash is too deep.
Another trick my dad taught me is to pull out some floor boards from a closet or other inconspicuous place and swap them with the damaged boards.
You mention that post-war walls are constructed of plasterboard or Sheetrock but failed to mention how pre-war walls were constructed.
Before World War II walls were generally plastered. The plaster was placed on top of wood lath. Lath is thin wood slats that are nailed horizontally across the studs that made up the walls. These slats are placed with less than a 1/4 inch of space between them.
A thick layer of plaster is applied to the lath. The plaster usually has some sort of binder mixed with it such as horse hair or asbestos. The application of plaster was generally thicker than today's Sheetrock. I've torn out old walls where the plaster is an inch thick. It's even thicker in areas where the plaster presses through the lath and hardens.
With a thick ayer of horse hair plaster and sound absorbing wood lath you had a pretty nice sound barrier. It also does a nice job of degrading radio signals.
In older construction you also get a lot of stone and brick walls. Not to mention the solid wood floors an ceilings.
I am not going to fall for your lame attempt at start an Urban Myth.
Jack Black's mom did not help design the Hubble Space Telescope.
This is nothing new. How about Old Frothenslosh? "The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom."
Most of you will have no idea what I am talking about. But you beer can collectors will know!
This means Red Hat will sit alongside Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM's AIX
Red Hat will also sit along side Windows 2000 which also has the Common Criteria certification. See the press release:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/oct0 2/10-29CommonCriteriaPR.asp
The quote from the article (There is a medium to high probability that within the next year, a successful attack will occur that could compromise the High Value and/or Highest Value data class) is being taken out of context. The white paper was giving an example of how an assessment is made to justifiy the "IPsec project." It seems pretty clear to me that if MS published this article saying they were vulnerable in this area that the project was approved and completed, thus eliminating the threat risk in this area. RTF White Paper.
There are two wildcards here:
1. The writer says he loaded a modified version of NetBSD. It is quite possible that this version hasn't the necessary components to run certain services. If you read the linked FAQ it also says there are restrictions on the kernel that can be loaded because the firmware expects to see certain partition and file attributes.
2. It is possible that the "special NetBSD installation process" makes it impossible to add additional services such as web and smtp.
Perhaps I should have pointed these things out in my original post, but maybe you could have simply RTFA.
Pardon my ignorance, but is there SMTP server software you can run on top of the NetBSD Mips R5000 server software? How about a web server? That would truly make a nifty little home server appliance.
I am posting this because, believe it or not, there are a lot of /. readers that have no experience with Linux but are curious to try.
I am one if the inexperienced Linux users. I tried several distros and the one that was hands down the easiest to deploy from the noob prospective was Mandrake.
My first try was with release 8.0. I loved the installer and the docs available for learning to setup my machine for dual boot and proper Linux partitions.
The installer is a work of art. It made the installation as easy as *gasp* Windows. It walks you through the proper options to choose so you get the setup you want (in my case I wanted to try workstation, not server). I had no trouble with my systems hardware being compatible.
My plea to anyone who has never tried Linux but is curious is to try Mandrake. It's the most noob friendly distro around.
The Captain's log.
It seems Tony Collen had the original scoop on this story. It is more informative than the Register link.
If you scroll down his original web log on this topic you will see Google's first official acknowledgment of their IRC activity.