I think not. This writing is not very good. Heck, I even found a sentence fragment. Maybe with that unemployed time he can check his grammer more carefully. (Not that I mean to belittle his situation, but let's not go around calling people great writers just because some of us might share his feelings.)
I think you're right, pudge. I also sure hope that Apple spent less than "a few million" what a collosal waste of money that would've been. I like it overall, but it is a wee bit cluttered.
Tangent: I like slashdot overall too--there's just too much damn info sometimes. Somehow, though, I am amazed at slashdot's lack of evolution in terms of design given the graphical talent of some staff members.
Just in case anyone feels that this article hightlights only what crazy Santa Cruz does...
I know that my community library shreds their logs on a daily basis. Internet user sign-ups are discarded within 24 hours. Years of old Interlibrary loan records are now gone.
Librarians are great because they protect our rights. The ALA is a great organization that really protects free speech.
As I see from already posted comments, many Los Alamosans have already put something in on this, but I'd like to offer a more complete explanation.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is quite large--43sq. miles, plus numerous office buildings within the town site. Not everything needs to be secured. A lot of it has never been touched. And the "inside sources" who claim that this technical area is a truly top secret hot spot are full of shit. Everything at the Lab is marked secret. Truly secret things are properly protected.
My father is a nuclear physicist with mostly unclassified projects. There are many security features on the building. You have to have a properly cleared ID card to get in. There are security guards with M-16s. A shoddy picture of an empty gun holster on one guard proves nothing.
The big top secrete facilities such as TA-55 (Plutonium Storage) have some very impressive security. The plutonium building is designed to withstand the impact of a 747 at one end and cars and people at the other with triple-redudandant fences, guard towers, dogs and (so I hear) anti-personnel devices.
Most top-secure locations required a Q clearance (top-level). The number of Q clearances was greatly reduced years ago for security and cost. (It's over $6000 to do that level of background check.) If this guy tried to get into the plutonium facility, the chemistry-metallurgy research building or the criticallity facility he would be in some trouble.
As for his point about old signs: those are left in areas that just aren't used anymore. Well guess what, climb over that fence if you want to, but don't complain if you hit unexploded, unremoved ordnance.
I see from this fellow's other articles that he's generally an idiotic sensationalistic journalist.
I have to agree with Microsoft that if the bad guys have physical access to your computer you have some serious problems. however, let's note this scenario.
1. Important computer. Locked down 2. Bad employee, always has to computer for job. 3. Employee "works late" one night 4. Employee brings in Win2K CD 5. Employee hickjacks data to floppy unlogged 6. Employee blackmails company or other bad thigns
I am just amazed that what was secure in 2000 is less secure in XP.
I must just note, as others have, that there is a reason that peer reviewed, scientific journals exist. When a doctor does study this, get it reviewed and published and the confirmed by other studies (or maybe after extensive meta-analysis) I might begin to believe it.
YESTERDAY: eggs make you live 20 extra years--eat a lot TODAY: eggs will kill you TOMORROW: eggs will make you live 30 extra years--eat a lot.
I'd just like to note how good the response is. The list of vulnerabilities is well stated and very complete. Furthermore, the time line of events is excellent and patching was superb and fast. My OS X box was patched before I even knew about the vulnerability. Thanks to iDEFENSE and zen-parse.
I can't see how this is a valid slashdot story. Well, yes they have some fun old mac stuff (if you really want an old PowerMac handing around), but who's ever heard of them before? Their website generally sucks and they seem to be simply drawing people into their liquidation and audio store.
I haven't had time to fully use this yet, but I am considering purchasing: AppGen MyBooks (www.appgen.com) which has a Windows/OS X/Linux accounting program. Looks nice to me.
Well, since I don't want to allow myself to be termed as irrationaly without defending myself...
Semantics are difficult, and you are correct in stating that the comment should have been "there is absolutely no conclusive evidence" that this is true.
My point, perhaps more clearly, is that I personally do not believe that my street is dangerous. My neighbors have lived here for the entire life of the town and it is only that one group of people who had problems. No one before and no one since (that I am aware) has had problems. This is the evidence *I* see.
People are irrational; isn't that what the Nobel prize in Economics for this year went for? I like to believe I am not. However, I will admit that I do share the defensive reaction to people saying bad things about Los Alamos in the mass media. However, some of us have to do it, or we'd get walked all over.
KMellis: I grew up in Los Alamos on the "brain tumor" street. Someone tried to convince us that our street had a far higher rate of brain tumors than anywhere else in the world. Plain wasn't true. It was just bad luck for a few people in the same place at the same time. There was absolutely no evidence for it.
I have lived in Los Alamos my whole life. I have mountain biked in Bayo Canyon many, many times. It's an absolutely beautiful spot. I wish I could show you a photo or two. The trees don't look funny, the ground isn't hot and I have suffered no poor effects.
The lab (LANL) has fenced off a few areas, but I do trust that the canyon is generally safe. I bet spokesman Jim Rickman is basically telling the facts straight, too. He's a good man.
Moral of the story: this isn't really news. Look at how small the story on the local TV station is. This is less news than the time the garbage dump radiation detectors got set off (by the poop of a cat undergoing anti-cancer radiation treatments, not by the lab).
Oh, and the high tritium levels in the water must make it taste so clean and fresh.
When I was in elementary school I did my science fair project on the Leidenfrost phenomenon. I believe it can also be known as the Sessile Effect. With the help of my physicist father, I ruined a number of Mom's frying pans by heating them up far too hot while experimenting. For the age I think was pretty good and I got to the state science fair.
The best part was just watching those little droplets of water dance around. Nature is just so cool.
The worst part was not having a real thermocouple and having to fashion one out of an old oven themometer dial.
I had WAY more problems with SpamBouncer than with Spam Assassin -- that is far more false positives, which I found very annoying. The scoring system of SpamAssassin (with Razor) is greater in many ways than the simple you-hit-and-die SpamBouncer approach
When I was in high school (about 2-6 years ago), we did this. For all four years we had LAN nights now and then. I really enjoyed it, despite not playing many games. Good fund and, as the sysadmin, I got play doom on the SGI O2. The best part, was perhaps killing other peoples games from the admin office.
The big rule we had was, once you were in (at 4:00) you couldn't leave and come back again (this prevents drunken kids, etc.)
It's not that it's waiting for a lifeform (any of the millions on Earth), but that it could also have potentially harmful effects. The point is that we just don't know what the effects might be. The question is: is it worth risking?
Why is this dumb? Why don't they believe it? It seems perfectly plausible to me. Look at how European explorers spread diseases around our world. Why couldn't there be pathogenic bacteria on Mars?
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"writer of some repute"
I think not. This writing is not very good. Heck, I even found a sentence fragment. Maybe with that unemployed time he can check his grammer more carefully. (Not that I mean to belittle his situation, but let's not go around calling people great writers just because some of us might share his feelings.)
Works fine on my original rev iPod. No notes still, of course, but everything works just like it used to.
I think you're right, pudge. I also sure hope that Apple spent less than "a few million" what a collosal waste of money that would've been. I like it overall, but it is a wee bit cluttered.
Tangent: I like slashdot overall too--there's just too much damn info sometimes. Somehow, though, I am amazed at slashdot's lack of evolution in terms of design given the graphical talent of some staff members.
Just in case anyone feels that this article hightlights only what crazy Santa Cruz does ...
I know that my community library shreds their logs on a daily basis. Internet user sign-ups are discarded within 24 hours. Years of old Interlibrary loan records are now gone.
Librarians are great because they protect our rights. The ALA is a great organization that really protects free speech.
Thank your local librarian!
As I see from already posted comments, many Los Alamosans have already put something in on this, but I'd like to offer a more complete explanation.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is quite large--43sq. miles, plus numerous office buildings within the town site. Not everything needs to be secured. A lot of it has never been touched. And the "inside sources" who claim that this technical area is a truly top secret hot spot are full of shit. Everything at the Lab is marked secret. Truly secret things are properly protected.
My father is a nuclear physicist with mostly unclassified projects. There are many security features on the building. You have to have a properly cleared ID card to get in. There are security guards with M-16s. A shoddy picture of an empty gun holster on one guard proves nothing.
The big top secrete facilities such as TA-55 (Plutonium Storage) have some very impressive security. The plutonium building is designed to withstand the impact of a 747 at one end and cars and people at the other with triple-redudandant fences, guard towers, dogs and (so I hear) anti-personnel devices.
Most top-secure locations required a Q clearance (top-level). The number of Q clearances was greatly reduced years ago for security and cost. (It's over $6000 to do that level of background check.) If this guy tried to get into the plutonium facility, the chemistry-metallurgy research building or the criticallity facility he would be in some trouble.
As for his point about old signs: those are left in areas that just aren't used anymore. Well guess what, climb over that fence if you want to, but don't complain if you hit unexploded, unremoved ordnance.
I see from this fellow's other articles that he's generally an idiotic sensationalistic journalist.
Wired should stick to technology issues.
I have to agree with Microsoft that if the bad guys have physical access to your computer you have some serious problems. however, let's note this scenario.
1. Important computer. Locked down
2. Bad employee, always has to computer for job.
3. Employee "works late" one night
4. Employee brings in Win2K CD
5. Employee hickjacks data to floppy unlogged
6. Employee blackmails company or other bad thigns
I am just amazed that what was secure in 2000 is less secure in XP.
Good ol', silly Microsoft.
amen. once again crap makes slashdot the home page look ridiculous.
I must just note, as others have, that there is a reason that peer reviewed, scientific journals exist. When a doctor does study this, get it reviewed and published and the confirmed by other studies (or maybe after extensive meta-analysis) I might begin to believe it.
YESTERDAY: eggs make you live 20 extra years--eat a lot
TODAY: eggs will kill you
TOMORROW: eggs will make you live 30 extra years--eat a lot.
Ha. Medical science.
I'd just like to note how good the response is. The list of vulnerabilities is well stated and very complete. Furthermore, the time line of events is excellent and patching was superb and fast. My OS X box was patched before I even knew about the vulnerability. Thanks to iDEFENSE and zen-parse.
Something wrong with T2 with tits? Ha.
Why can't ye slashdot editors scroll down the homepage like the rest of us and see that this is a duplicate from just HOURS ago?
I have to admit, I haven't been a Mac user that long: I am switcher. However, I still don't think this story merits posting :)
I can't see how this is a valid slashdot story. Well, yes they have some fun old mac stuff (if you really want an old PowerMac handing around), but who's ever heard of them before? Their website generally sucks and they seem to be simply drawing people into their liquidation and audio store.
I haven't had time to fully use this yet, but I am considering purchasing: AppGen MyBooks (www.appgen.com) which has a Windows/OS X/Linux accounting program. Looks nice to me.
Well, since I don't want to allow myself to be termed as irrationaly without defending myself ...
Semantics are difficult, and you are correct in stating that the comment should have been "there is absolutely no conclusive evidence" that this is true.
My point, perhaps more clearly, is that I personally do not believe that my street is dangerous. My neighbors have lived here for the entire life of the town and it is only that one group of people who had problems. No one before and no one since (that I am aware) has had problems. This is the evidence *I* see.
People are irrational; isn't that what the Nobel prize in Economics for this year went for? I like to believe I am not. However, I will admit that I do share the defensive reaction to people saying bad things about Los Alamos in the mass media. However, some of us have to do it, or we'd get walked all over.
And, just for the record, I would like to say that I know these guys and they're very nice, too. They work in my Dad's building. Nifty. Go T-Division!
My good friend Dan speaks well.
KMellis: I grew up in Los Alamos on the "brain tumor" street. Someone tried to convince us that our street had a far higher rate of brain tumors than anywhere else in the world. Plain wasn't true. It was just bad luck for a few people in the same place at the same time. There was absolutely no evidence for it.
I love nuclear power and I love LANL.
I have lived in Los Alamos my whole life. I have mountain biked in Bayo Canyon many, many times. It's an absolutely beautiful spot. I wish I could show you a photo or two. The trees don't look funny, the ground isn't hot and I have suffered no poor effects.
The lab (LANL) has fenced off a few areas, but I do trust that the canyon is generally safe. I bet spokesman Jim Rickman is basically telling the facts straight, too. He's a good man.
Moral of the story: this isn't really news. Look at how small the story on the local TV station is. This is less news than the time the garbage dump radiation detectors got set off (by the poop of a cat undergoing anti-cancer radiation treatments, not by the lab).
Oh, and the high tritium levels in the water must make it taste so clean and fresh.
When I was in elementary school I did my science fair project on the Leidenfrost phenomenon. I believe it can also be known as the Sessile Effect. With the help of my physicist father, I ruined a number of Mom's frying pans by heating them up far too hot while experimenting. For the age I think was pretty good and I got to the state science fair.
The best part was just watching those little droplets of water dance around. Nature is just so cool.
The worst part was not having a real thermocouple and having to fashion one out of an old oven themometer dial.
I had WAY more problems with SpamBouncer than with Spam Assassin -- that is far more false positives, which I found very annoying. The scoring system of SpamAssassin (with Razor) is greater in many ways than the simple you-hit-and-die SpamBouncer approach
When I was in high school (about 2-6 years ago), we did this. For all four years we had LAN nights now and then. I really enjoyed it, despite not playing many games. Good fund and, as the sysadmin, I got play doom on the SGI O2. The best part, was perhaps killing other peoples games from the admin office.
The big rule we had was, once you were in (at 4:00) you couldn't leave and come back again (this prevents drunken kids, etc.)
No problems were ever to be had.
Mark me as redundant, but DAMN STRAIGHT!
Building sites on Mozilla isn't a pain. If you're doing what you should be, they work!
I've been in Australia for a few months now and haven't seen that, but it sure as hell sounds fantastic!
It's not that it's waiting for a lifeform (any of the millions on Earth), but that it could also have potentially harmful effects. The point is that we just don't know what the effects might be. The question is: is it worth risking?
Why is this dumb? Why don't they believe it? It seems perfectly plausible to me. Look at how European explorers spread diseases around our world. Why couldn't there be pathogenic bacteria on Mars?