Oh come on, hating cigarette smokers isn't a technical analysis of the problem. One assumes that you also strongly believe that the West should be paying the third world 25% of GDP on account of the CO2 we have emitted in the last couple of hundred years. This story is typical nonsense as a result of political re-education of the masses in order to achieve a goal. (reasonable though the long term goal of eliminating smoking might be) Cigarette smoke is fairly toxic over the long term, so are the combustion products of any organic material. If you live in a city then you are being poisoned by vehicle fumes. I wonder what else gets deposited on the inside of PC's, Legionnaires disease and other bio-hazards come to mind. This overreaction looks like a good opportunity to find out exactly what hazard the contents of air cooled PC's are to repair staff. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't end up with air cooled equipment being banned in the end when some real research is done into the subject.
Of course this will also be one of the ways that the bad guys will be defending themselves with. Soak up all the processing bandwidth in chasing false trails and you can operate with impunity.
One day you wont be able to get a job unless you can prove that no logfile on the internet has ever shown you to be a user of P2P technology. After all if you use any untaxed recreational drug this is more or less true today.
Totally agree. Should sack the lot of them as they have obviously earned there pensions by legalizing ip over power-line whilst screwing the wavelengths for shortwave radio and radio astronomy. Death's too good for these wasters.
For those who do not know David Nutt is an academic who works for the scientific advisory body on illegal drug use in the UK. He has just been sacked for expressing the view that drug harm research was being ignored by politicians and the information being disseminated by the state was being degraded by the choice of the party in power to classify particular drugs for political reasons rather than the research results on the harm that they were causing. It is not unusual for politicians to choose how to run society on the basis of whether they will be re-elected by the influence of various other players in a democracy - in this case the owners of certain media outlets who are believed to have considerable influence on the election of politicians. However this case calls into question why the party in power bothers to employ expensive researchers who they sack if the right answer is not being provided. Why not just tell us how it is based on what they think will get them re-elected. The party in power is a disgusting cesspool of unprincipled scum who will do anything to foist their arbitrary theories of how society should be run on us. They are no better than the generals in Burma or the greedy rulers of Iraq. Shame on them for their lies and incompetence. The three strikes and your out laws are just another thing that they follow because they have zero interest in reality but think that it will spin well to get them re-elected. They are lazy and evil.
I'm not sure what you mean by "you want the internet to be free from interference" because yesterdays internet is disappearing fast. The profitable future for most existing contenders is paid for services like cable television where the provider needs to prevent you accessing other offerings. Net neutrality may be flawed in its implementation but its a good deal better than Disney deciding what IP packets you are allowed to source or receive. And another thing, what moron conflates big government with regulating industries? If there were no regulation you would drown in your own shit because there would be no sewerage ordinances. The argument surely is whether the regulation is appropriate and workable.
Over time yes why not, the fruition of plans, your business succeeds after a long struggle. Happiness is often confused with pleasure so a lack of pleasure is confused with unhappiness, but you might pass your exams after a hard slog. The report is talking about social interaction as the only measure of human happiness and its certainly true that solitary confinement is bad for your mental health. But insisting that the only way to happiness is a certain kind of social life is unrealistic. Humans are pretty adaptable and they can be happy in many stressful situations that aren't on the sociologists approved list. They have found an interesting aspect of how the human animal achieves happiness but its not an ideal goal that must be forced on people like the eighteenth century's drive to "educate the savage". Should I worry if my life doesn't look like the model they have observed as optimum, not at all.
What a load of cobblers this report is. The connections are real but they are not causal. Smokers tend to like other smokers and avoid the ranting anti smoking brigade. These researchers are not worth the food that has been wasted on them. Happiness is not a universal measurement in any case, there are different kinds of happiness.
Thanks, that makes it pretty clear: "Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later operating systems include a stateful host firewall that provides protection for computers against incoming traffic from the Internet or from neighboring network devices on a private network. The impact of a denial of service attack is that a system would become unresponsive due to memory consumption. However, a successful attack requires a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets, and the system will recover once the flood ceases. This makes the severity rating Low for Windows XP. Windows XP is not affected by CVE-2009-1925. Customers running Windows XP are at reduced risk, and Microsoft recommends they use the firewall included with the operating system, or a network firewall, to block access to the affected ports and limit the attack surface from untrusted networks."
So the built in firewall should provide protection.
It is unclear how large a threat this is to the end user. However the fact that XP is being loaded on netbooks suggests that Microsoft has a revenue stream that it should protect by writing a patch if it is serious.
It seems that all of the commentators on the BBC HYS (Have Your Say) website must be Tory voters then. I waded through 14 pages of opposition to this legislation before I came across a post supporting it. Personally I think it is insane bureaucracy that is going to raise 11.3 Million x £64 or about $500M and employ 2000 people. It also ensures that the pool of citizen volunteers who interact with children will disappear leaving only State services - which is obviously just what the loony socialists in the mostly capitalist Labour party must be drooling over - and the these days mostly socialist Tory party voted for by capitalist voters doesn't like.
I just bought the Sony PRS 505 and it is a brilliant book, even does a pretty good job on PDF if you rotate into landscape mode. Yes the page flipping time is slow and on the 1.7Gb of hardcore physics and Astronomy textbooks I have acquired, that can be an issue seeing as they dont have indexes and the reader cannot goto a specific page. (acquired at no cost, I could never afford £8,500 worth of books in addition to the £500 I spend annually in the local book store on this hobby). If you buy what you read there shouldnt be a problem. As for choice of screen type and device capability I am sure that there are many who have been convinced by the mobile phone companies that the mobile phone should be the universal tool for everything (including enemas presumably) but I cant be the only person in the world who is sick of unwanted duplicated features appearing on every portable device so that their battery life is now limited to fractions of a day. So take your putrid marketing inspired ideas about the ideal device and shove them where the sun dont shine. A dedicated e-book reader will flip 1500 pages between charges. A dedicated mobile phone that just does text and phone calls will sit on standby for a month. A pda, phone, video player, internet terminal, book thing piece of crap will last you half a day on one charge.
I learned to touch type in my 20's whilst I was programming test machines in Basic on evening shift in the early 80's. I think the main advantage of any type of touch typing is being able to read what you type without looking at the keyboard so that you have the most bandwith available for the information not the typing process. So I'm not sure that there is any particular advantage to be able to type much faster than hunt and pick typing, its just that you have more time to concentrate on what you want to say.
The intergovernmental panel on climate change made its mind up in 1990. Four reports later and despite lots of useful criticism the conclusion still holds. The fact that there have been questions about the conclusions shows that the reports have been subjected to effective review. After repeated questioning the results are still agreed on by senior scientists from 100 countries. Continued and useful criticism of parts of the report should not be confused with rejection of the overall finding, these zealots who keep claiming that there is no global warming and that it is not because of CO2 because they can quote the questions that keep being raised about individual portions of the story are basically just lying to us.
Its going to be interesting to see whether big business can buy the judge. In some ways because of their sneering superiority, it would be rather satisfying to see the earth go to hell in a handcart so that we can point back to the philosophy of these particularly American capitalists and say that this was the philosophy that destroyed the planet. I think that they are becoming sufficiently objectionable that sooner or later crazy young idealists are going to start killing them. I guess I will just have to restrict my entertainment to reading about it in the newspapers. Even if Global Warming is not caused by C02 emissions the risk that it is, gives sufficient cause to do something about it. If you would prefer to die in your own shit be my guest.
The trailer looked like a good laugh to me. Though I wont be going to see it if it really is a puerile romance like Titanic. I can see "Brief Encounter" or "Shakespeare in love" as adding to the total sum of human happiness, but neither of them were meant to be exciting adventures. Hopefully I wont be vomiting through all of this movie. Please don't tell me that all movies have to include lashings of detail about breeding encounters to be relevant, I can watch soaps if I want to be reminded that it is the principal occupation of humanity. The planet is overpopulated as it is and any real ScFi future is going to be recalling us the age of 'those greedy bastards who just wouldn't stop breeding until the Malthusian population crash nearly wiped out all life on the planet.'
Nice to hear the opinion of someone who has actually been to the event. I haven't but I took the blog post at face value and dont see anyone posting anything that contradicts what they say. Given that the laws they have to operate under are not of their choosing I cant understand the fuss that people are making.
faustian bargain - bullshit. All the rescued businesses will be sold back into private ownership as soon as we can get rid of the failing rubbish that the tax payer has just wasted billions on rescuing from the recent failure of capitalism. Im hoping it wont be my pension fund buying these crap companies either. As for Government broadband money, I doubt anyone wants it because they cant think of any way to screw any money out of anyone who isnt already on the net. Who wants a load of farmers and low wage workers on their books? As everybody knows that American farmers are paid by the government because food is cheaper from anywhere else in the world - and the government has just doubled the national debt and is about to chop the farm subsidies. Even if I am wrong there are about a thousand other good reasons apart from temporary state support whilst the banking world rips off their customers to refill the coffers with spare cash to blow on their obscene bonuses. You know Hitler killed the wrong people,he should have killed all the bankers, not just the jewish ones. I work for a broadband supplier and the reality of the situation is that the government stimulus money just hasnt been spent yet, expect it next year, thats bureaucracy for you and its been the same since the Roman empire so I'm not surprised. Its a pity that politics and business hasnt been subjected to Moore's law in the last half centuary, sadly it hasnt and its still terribly inefficient and almost entirely useless still. Nothing to do with what side of the political divide is running things, just the natural consequence of rubbish people running a rubbish system.
au contrair. Describing an unpleasant truth by the means of humor is a valuable civic function.
So I am led to consider how after decades of strict regulation of radio frequency emissions we suddenly have broadband noise being radiated by consumers without any restrictions at all. Could it be that a powerful lobby has overridden the entire philosophy of control of the spectrum? In the UK you still cant use a mobile phone in a hospital because of the risk that it might interfere with the operation of some piece of medical equipment. Parents attend local protest meetings insisting that weedy mobile phone towers will murder their children if placed by a school. So whats with this crappy ip over power line rubbish being sold to us? Shouldn't I be starting a scare story claiming that it causes cancer of the reproductive organs or something? I just dont get it. Either we are managing the spectrum so that its users can co-exist or its a free for all.
Time I got myself a two kilowatt burner and a big twig for my CB radio methinks, after all no one is going to give a fig about my demodulated speechifying through their cheap Chinese stereos are they?
Well said, I think you have encapsulated the problem succinctly. The only thing I can add is that the reason that the new interface has been added is that Micro$oft are engaged in social engineering. The ribbon interface is just about usable, but its prime purpose is to differentiate MS products from the past. Anyone new to computing can use the new interface whilst the existing users get pissed off by having to learn a new interface. So now we have the young lovers verses the old haters - perfect, its not cool to be old so the new interface must be better. Frankly as a marketing ploy it rates up there with Pol Pots year zero - kill everybody over the age of thirty, especially anyone with secondary or better education, doctors for example. I'm not surprised that Gates quit the company, his replacements are disgusting shits who deserve to die of swine flu.
I think you are very likely to be correct. Seeing as we are talking of a self selected constituency of inquiring minds who are not predisposed to swallow the crude and blatant nonsense that our society spouts in place of information about the effect of various chemicals on body and mind. Even if they are not current consumers of recreational chemicals I very much doubt that many have not at one time or another tried them.
The meme of transparent Aluminum is actually far more important than the science. Society is ruled by morons and and we need their tax dollars to fund civilization. Trust me, facts are important in science, hairstyles are important in society. All your bio-system cares about is if you can breed, civilization is an unnecessary parasite that your generation is about to discover. What do I care, I'm to old to give a toss about your demise.
long rambling reply. I work for an american business. I have just taken their ethics training course. I have just been treated like a piece of shit by the company. I realty think that american civilization deserves to be replaced by something else. news items like this tend to confirm my personal evaluation.
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This is healthy. Science can only progress if we accept that thinking outside the box is admissable. If the idea works ehen it will be testable.
Oh come on, hating cigarette smokers isn't a technical analysis of the problem. One assumes that you also strongly believe that the West should be paying the third world 25% of GDP on account of the CO2 we have emitted in the last couple of hundred years. This story is typical nonsense as a result of political re-education of the masses in order to achieve a goal. (reasonable though the long term goal of eliminating smoking might be) Cigarette smoke is fairly toxic over the long term, so are the combustion products of any organic material. If you live in a city then you are being poisoned by vehicle fumes. I wonder what else gets deposited on the inside of PC's, Legionnaires disease and other bio-hazards come to mind. This overreaction looks like a good opportunity to find out exactly what hazard the contents of air cooled PC's are to repair staff. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't end up with air cooled equipment being banned in the end when some real research is done into the subject.
Of course this will also be one of the ways that the bad guys will be defending themselves with. Soak up all the processing bandwidth in chasing false trails and you can operate with impunity.
One day you wont be able to get a job unless you can prove that no logfile on the internet has ever shown you to be a user of P2P technology. After all if you use any untaxed recreational drug this is more or less true today.
Mod poster up, strong doses of Python keep the forum honest..
Totally agree. Should sack the lot of them as they have obviously earned there pensions by legalizing ip over power-line whilst screwing the wavelengths for shortwave radio and radio astronomy. Death's too good for these wasters.
For those who do not know David Nutt is an academic who works for the scientific advisory body on illegal drug use in the UK. He has just been sacked for expressing the view that drug harm research was being ignored by politicians and the information being disseminated by the state was being degraded by the choice of the party in power to classify particular drugs for political reasons rather than the research results on the harm that they were causing. It is not unusual for politicians to choose how to run society on the basis of whether they will be re-elected by the influence of various other players in a democracy - in this case the owners of certain media outlets who are believed to have considerable influence on the election of politicians. However this case calls into question why the party in power bothers to employ expensive researchers who they sack if the right answer is not being provided. Why not just tell us how it is based on what they think will get them re-elected. The party in power is a disgusting cesspool of unprincipled scum who will do anything to foist their arbitrary theories of how society should be run on us. They are no better than the generals in Burma or the greedy rulers of Iraq. Shame on them for their lies and incompetence. The three strikes and your out laws are just another thing that they follow because they have zero interest in reality but think that it will spin well to get them re-elected. They are lazy and evil.
I'm not sure what you mean by "you want the internet to be free from interference" because yesterdays internet is disappearing fast. The profitable future for most existing contenders is paid for services like cable television where the provider needs to prevent you accessing other offerings. Net neutrality may be flawed in its implementation but its a good deal better than Disney deciding what IP packets you are allowed to source or receive. And another thing, what moron conflates big government with regulating industries? If there were no regulation you would drown in your own shit because there would be no sewerage ordinances. The argument surely is whether the regulation is appropriate and workable.
Over time yes why not, the fruition of plans, your business succeeds after a long struggle. Happiness is often confused with pleasure so a lack of pleasure is confused with unhappiness, but you might pass your exams after a hard slog. The report is talking about social interaction as the only measure of human happiness and its certainly true that solitary confinement is bad for your mental health. But insisting that the only way to happiness is a certain kind of social life is unrealistic. Humans are pretty adaptable and they can be happy in many stressful situations that aren't on the sociologists approved list. They have found an interesting aspect of how the human animal achieves happiness but its not an ideal goal that must be forced on people like the eighteenth century's drive to "educate the savage". Should I worry if my life doesn't look like the model they have observed as optimum, not at all.
What a load of cobblers this report is. The connections are real but they are not causal. Smokers tend to like other smokers and avoid the ranting anti smoking brigade. These researchers are not worth the food that has been wasted on them. Happiness is not a universal measurement in any case, there are different kinds of happiness.
Thanks, that makes it pretty clear:
"Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later operating systems include a stateful host firewall that provides protection for computers against incoming traffic from the Internet or from neighboring network devices on a private network. The impact of a denial of service attack is that a system would become unresponsive due to memory consumption. However, a successful attack requires a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets, and the system will recover once the flood ceases. This makes the severity rating Low for Windows XP. Windows XP is not affected by CVE-2009-1925. Customers running Windows XP are at reduced risk, and Microsoft recommends they use the firewall included with the operating system, or a network firewall, to block access to the affected ports and limit the attack surface from untrusted networks."
So the built in firewall should provide protection.
It is unclear how large a threat this is to the end user. However the fact that XP is being loaded on netbooks suggests that Microsoft has a revenue stream that it should protect by writing a patch if it is serious.
It seems that all of the commentators on the BBC HYS (Have Your Say) website must be Tory voters then. I waded through 14 pages of opposition to this legislation before I came across a post supporting it. Personally I think it is insane bureaucracy that is going to raise 11.3 Million x £64 or about $500M and employ 2000 people. It also ensures that the pool of citizen volunteers who interact with children will disappear leaving only State services - which is obviously just what the loony socialists in the mostly capitalist Labour party must be drooling over - and the these days mostly socialist Tory party voted for by capitalist voters doesn't like.
I just bought the Sony PRS 505 and it is a brilliant book, even does a pretty good job on PDF if you rotate into landscape mode. Yes the page flipping time is slow and on the 1.7Gb of hardcore physics and Astronomy textbooks I have acquired, that can be an issue seeing as they dont have indexes and the reader cannot goto a specific page. (acquired at no cost, I could never afford £8,500 worth of books in addition to the £500 I spend annually in the local book store on this hobby). If you buy what you read there shouldnt be a problem. As for choice of screen type and device capability I am sure that there are many who have been convinced by the mobile phone companies that the mobile phone should be the universal tool for everything (including enemas presumably) but I cant be the only person in the world who is sick of unwanted duplicated features appearing on every portable device so that their battery life is now limited to fractions of a day. So take your putrid marketing inspired ideas about the ideal device and shove them where the sun dont shine. A dedicated e-book reader will flip 1500 pages between charges. A dedicated mobile phone that just does text and phone calls will sit on standby for a month. A pda, phone, video player, internet terminal, book thing piece of crap will last you half a day on one charge.
I learned to touch type in my 20's whilst I was programming test machines in Basic on evening shift in the early 80's. I think the main advantage of any type of touch typing is being able to read what you type without looking at the keyboard so that you have the most bandwith available for the information not the typing process. So I'm not sure that there is any particular advantage to be able to type much faster than hunt and pick typing, its just that you have more time to concentrate on what you want to say.
The intergovernmental panel on climate change made its mind up in 1990. Four reports later and despite lots of useful criticism the conclusion still holds. The fact that there have been questions about the conclusions shows that the reports have been subjected to effective review. After repeated questioning the results are still agreed on by senior scientists from 100 countries. Continued and useful criticism of parts of the report should not be confused with rejection of the overall finding, these zealots who keep claiming that there is no global warming and that it is not because of CO2 because they can quote the questions that keep being raised about individual portions of the story are basically just lying to us.
Its going to be interesting to see whether big business can buy the judge. In some ways because of their sneering superiority, it would be rather satisfying to see the earth go to hell in a handcart so that we can point back to the philosophy of these particularly American capitalists and say that this was the philosophy that destroyed the planet. I think that they are becoming sufficiently objectionable that sooner or later crazy young idealists are going to start killing them. I guess I will just have to restrict my entertainment to reading about it in the newspapers. Even if Global Warming is not caused by C02 emissions the risk that it is, gives sufficient cause to do something about it. If you would prefer to die in your own shit be my guest.
The trailer looked like a good laugh to me. Though I wont be going to see it if it really is a puerile romance like Titanic. I can see "Brief Encounter" or "Shakespeare in love" as adding to the total sum of human happiness, but neither of them were meant to be exciting adventures. Hopefully I wont be vomiting through all of this movie. Please don't tell me that all movies have to include lashings of detail about breeding encounters to be relevant, I can watch soaps if I want to be reminded that it is the principal occupation of humanity. The planet is overpopulated as it is and any real ScFi future is going to be recalling us the age of 'those greedy bastards who just wouldn't stop breeding until the Malthusian population crash nearly wiped out all life on the planet.'
Nice to hear the opinion of someone who has actually been to the event. I haven't but I took the blog post at face value and dont see anyone posting anything that contradicts what they say. Given that the laws they have to operate under are not of their choosing I cant understand the fuss that people are making.
faustian bargain - bullshit. All the rescued businesses will be sold back into private ownership as soon as we can get rid of the failing rubbish that the tax payer has just wasted billions on rescuing from the recent failure of capitalism. Im hoping it wont be my pension fund buying these crap companies either. As for Government broadband money, I doubt anyone wants it because they cant think of any way to screw any money out of anyone who isnt already on the net. Who wants a load of farmers and low wage workers on their books? As everybody knows that American farmers are paid by the government because food is cheaper from anywhere else in the world - and the government has just doubled the national debt and is about to chop the farm subsidies. Even if I am wrong there are about a thousand other good reasons apart from temporary state support whilst the banking world rips off their customers to refill the coffers with spare cash to blow on their obscene bonuses. You know Hitler killed the wrong people,he should have killed all the bankers, not just the jewish ones. I work for a broadband supplier and the reality of the situation is that the government stimulus money just hasnt been spent yet, expect it next year, thats bureaucracy for you and its been the same since the Roman empire so I'm not surprised. Its a pity that politics and business hasnt been subjected to Moore's law in the last half centuary, sadly it hasnt and its still terribly inefficient and almost entirely useless still. Nothing to do with what side of the political divide is running things, just the natural consequence of rubbish people running a rubbish system.
au contrair. Describing an unpleasant truth by the means of humor is a valuable civic function.
So I am led to consider how after decades of strict regulation of radio frequency emissions we suddenly have broadband noise being radiated by consumers without any restrictions at all. Could it be that a powerful lobby has overridden the entire philosophy of control of the spectrum? In the UK you still cant use a mobile phone in a hospital because of the risk that it might interfere with the operation of some piece of medical equipment. Parents attend local protest meetings insisting that weedy mobile phone towers will murder their children if placed by a school. So whats with this crappy ip over power line rubbish being sold to us? Shouldn't I be starting a scare story claiming that it causes cancer of the reproductive organs or something? I just dont get it. Either we are managing the spectrum so that its users can co-exist or its a free for all.
Time I got myself a two kilowatt burner and a big twig for my CB radio methinks, after all no one is going to give a fig about my demodulated speechifying through their cheap Chinese stereos are they?
Well said, I think you have encapsulated the problem succinctly. The only thing I can add is that the reason that the new interface has been added is that Micro$oft are engaged in social engineering. The ribbon interface is just about usable, but its prime purpose is to differentiate MS products from the past. Anyone new to computing can use the new interface whilst the existing users get pissed off by having to learn a new interface. So now we have the young lovers verses the old haters - perfect, its not cool to be old so the new interface must be better. Frankly as a marketing ploy it rates up there with Pol Pots year zero - kill everybody over the age of thirty, especially anyone with secondary or better education, doctors for example. I'm not surprised that Gates quit the company, his replacements are disgusting shits who deserve to die of swine flu.
Thats the end of open office. can someone give me the url of something else that isnt as braindead?
I think you are very likely to be correct. Seeing as we are talking of a self selected constituency of inquiring minds who are not predisposed to swallow the crude and blatant nonsense that our society spouts in place of information about the effect of various chemicals on body and mind. Even if they are not current consumers of recreational chemicals I very much doubt that many have not at one time or another tried them.
The meme of transparent Aluminum is actually far more important than the science. Society is ruled by morons and and we need their tax dollars to fund civilization. Trust me, facts are important in science, hairstyles are important in society. All your bio-system cares about is if you can breed, civilization is an unnecessary parasite that your generation is about to discover. What do I care, I'm to old to give a toss about your demise.
long rambling reply. I work for an american business. I have just taken their ethics training course. I have just been treated like a piece of shit by the company. I realty think that american civilization deserves to be replaced by something else. news items like this tend to confirm my personal evaluation.