It's rare that I see a post of blatant fear mongering lies such as this one.
Tell me, is your tin foil hat working today? Good, because TIN has been off the market in foil form for YEARS in trade for aluminum. You better check what metal it really is! It might not be protecting you the way you think!
Ack the panic!
I only have time to punch a few holes in your nonsensical arguments, so I'll
focus on big ones.
Some 6600
people have contracted SARS worldwide, and that _is_ an epidemic
Yes, however SARS takes down otherwise healthy adults, does not seem to have
a normal low frequency background infection rate, and is fairly new to modern
medicine. It's an epidemic for that reason.
For the paragraph below, I leave it as is with the lies in bold;
AIDS is the best. Its an untreatable/uncurable disease that is supposedly
spread by contact with fluids such as blood or sex goo. We've all been told that
"AIDS does not discriminate", but it does! In the US, its
mostly black gay men (and some IV drug users) that get it, whereas in Africa its
black heterosexual women that get it. After 20 years and I'm guessing millions
if not billions of dollars in research have not even provided any kind of explanation
of AIDS nor has the virus even been isolated.
"untreatable" There are many drugs and treatments available on
the market. Ask your doctor! Remember AZT? Maybe interferon
boosters? Try going to Google and searching on "aids treatment" for once eh?
"supposedly" AIDS is spread by and present in many fluids; blood,
plasma, tears, saliva, seminal fluids, vaginal fluids, feces. All forms of
transfer require fluid or moist environments very similar to transmission of
sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, the HIV virus is spread through close contact. There's no "supposedly" about it, it's a medical fact.
"AIDS does not discriminate" is absolutely true. Once exposed
every human has a more or less equal chance once the exposure type and frequency
has been accounted for. YES there are various types of populations that
one can define that have different infection rates. YES gay men got it
more frequently because they were a) trading semen b) doing so anally (causing bleeding
during/after sex). The hertrosexual women in Africa are getting it because
they have OTHER STDs (many are prostitutes full time or engage in prostitution) that cause open sores in their sexual
organs... so when exposed to a male that has it they are much more likely to get
an AIDS infection. Same for the IV drug users, trading needles is trading
blood. By your reasoning, there would be no relation to your mom walking
down the street licking DOG FECES to her getting stomach and intestinal
bacterial infections all the time.
"explanation of AIDS". All I have to say is this, there are TENS
OF THOUSANDS medical studies that closely or directly link the HIV virus with
the collection if symptoms collectively known as "AIDS".
Furthermore, AIDS (so far) is one of the few diseases that could potentially be completely stopped with the combination of not taking stupid risks (inprotected sex, IV needle sharing, turning tricks, etc.) and relatively easy upgrades in the health care processes that would make tissue sharing done only on known AIDS free blood/organs.
If you are worried about the number of black people getting the disease (which your post implies) maybe the black people should wise the fuck up and start heeding the warnings.
You sir, are a paranoid, FUD spreading cunt. What is the address of your "earth is
flat" web site? Or are you this
guy? Also, whomever modded you as insightful is a MORON.
1 - 1 NAT for a network with non-routable IPs allows me to switch the WAN IP address block by simply reconfiguring the NAT device and a simple find/replace on DNS.
Total migration effort; about 2 hours.
If the public addresses were all on the machines, migration would be a freaking nightmare; some static, some DHCP, (and some users just assigning static IPs to computers in the DHCP block), Printers with IP addresses (that are a pain to configure if there is even documentation or somebody that knows how.... all the while listening to bitching about XYZ not working or "I can't get my email" etc.
True, my ISP has some rules about how long I have to move and what warning I get, but the setup doesn't hurt anything over the long run, and could save me TONS of time and pain in butt. So far two different ISPs have forced me to move two networks twice. (Two moves total, one on each ISP and network.)
Both times that system worked out well.
So it's not totally dumb... just a different method for doing things.
Well it could have nothing to do with the habits of the average worker.
Check out the book "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond.
Even if you dont agree with everything he says in the book, it basically shows that WHOMEVER it was that ended up on the North American continent was going to have an easy time of it and probably end up the most powerful society in the world.
It's got nothing to do with the people, and a whole lot to do with the natural resources, size of the landmass, weather, and biology already on North America.
The fact that the Native Americans weren't the ones invading Europe instead of the other way around was more or less dumb bad luck.
4GB would be plenty for a business-use workstation
My advice to you is whatever you are running, don't switch to XP.
Just a base, patched install of Windows XP runs just over 2 Gig, then when you try to put SP2 on it (dont bother) it'll need just under 4 for the install process.
But like I said, after fooling around with it, I have found no reason to bother with SP2.
Unless you are willing to believe that someone broke into the data store and modified the raw work unit.
The same unit went through several (arbitrarily assigned) computers, ALL of them flagged it as something interesting.
Re-verification of the unit was done and it came back even MORE interesting than the first one.
I know for sure that the first instance of the work unit that flagged SHGb02+14a as being interesting was not tampered with......it was my computer. And I tell you I didn't dick with it.
So here I am sitting around wondering when this will hit Slashdot, so I send the link to my buddies and stuff and go "damn, site's offline" and curse the script kiddies and go on with my day.
But it was you guys all along! [StrongBad tear]
Seriously. To your credit, I first found out about SETI@Home on Slashdot and ran it for years on spare computers.
Now I have made SHGb02+14a my beeyotch.
Then you guys Slashdotted the article before my mom could see it.:)
Each spam message is like the additional crystal of sugar in the coffee cup. Sure, each one makes only a shred of difference in how it tastes, or even NO difference in how it tastes.
Put a few hundred of them together and it makes an impact. (Seriously, I help run a mail server hosting 23k email accounts, five times in the last two years the hardware had to be upgraded because of SPAM. Fully 85% or more of the connection attempts is spam. Sure each one makes little difference, but them together costs YOU money.)
I really don't understand how someone could be so short-sighted to not understand that.
The big difference between spam and snail mail, is the pain the sender has to go through (money/time) raises linearly with the number of messages, causing an automatic filter on how much I eventually get. Spam has no such restrictions, the impact on me and my equipment goes up linearly, but the spammer effort only goes up a tiny bit.
Comparing spam to snail-mail is foolish. They are only in name both "mail", otherwise it's a totally different transmission system with different economies of scale and costs.
In Bin Laden's OWN WORDS he specifically states he wants the USA out of Saudi Arabia. He got really really pissed when the Saudi government said "thanks, but no thanks" to his offer to bring the armies that fought in Afganistan over to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. This is WELL after the time frame of Soviet pull out of Afganistan.
That got just about everybody in the Western world on his shit-list, along with certain aspects of his own country.
This makes the Bush administration's idea that Iraq was on the verge of allying with him all that much more rediculous. Bin Laden would have been a huge PIA in the back of Saddam. He might be a meglomaniac... but he's not THAT stupid.
Yeah. I was going to add that part:) but figured I couldn't resist bitching about them charging high prices to run a stupid web server penetration script and charging $2k for the priviledge of spreading FUD amongst my web customers.
It couldnt have been DNS, TTLs would ensure that some functionality would remain for a while... they must have been talking about being able to disable big routers all over or something similar.
Someone already took out 11 of the 13 Root servers a while back, Joe User didn't even notice.
Well deflection on a curve like that is got to be from a magnetic field not a collision event.
Particles will curve as they move based on;
a) their energy
b) their charge
c) the intensity of the magnetic field they are traveling through
d) the polarity of the charge they are traveling through (which way magnetic North is)
I see it entirely possible that the lighter particle be deflected less or more... but I don't know the charge or the strength of the field or the particles themselves... so that's still reasonable to me.
Of course, medals are made by art majors, not physics majors... so it could also be a mistake.
Maybe if you are going to act like a 15 year-old snot, you should check your fucking facts first... or people like me dig up your mistakes so they can stuff your ass with them.
If you realize that heat energy always flows from warmer matter to cooler matter naturally... so transfer of energy only occurs where there is close contact and delta Tempature.
The thermodynamic loop used to be:
- cold water out
- treatment for drinking (heat added from atmosphere, treatment machines, etc.)
- piped to houses (heat added from surrounding ground)
- in houses energy used (or not) in the house and people makes sewage some average tempature (I am guessing that will pretty warm especially after accounting for bio activity in the sewage)
- OR some water returns to groundwater through yard watering, etc. (heat added through soil, but this can't matter because it does not end up back in the lake
- sewage treated (water cools to normal treated sewage tempature, heat released to atmosphere)
- returned to lake at post-treatment tempature
This sequence has been going on for DECADES.
Now the new thermal cycle:
- cold water out
- new system of heat exchangers (heat added, origin is from the buildings being cooled)
- treatment for drinking (LESS heat added from atmosphere, treatment machines, etc. Less because the delta T is less.)
- piped to houses (LESS heat added from surrounding ground, less because the delta T is less)
- in houses energy used (or not) in the house and people makes sewage some average tempature, again LESS heat added from delta T (I am guessing that will pretty warm especially after accounting for bio activity in the sewage)
- OR some water returns to groundwater through yard watering, etc. (heat added through soil, but this can't matter because it does not end up back in the lake
- sewage treated (water cools to normal treated sewage tempature, heat released to atmosphere)
- returned to lake at post-treatment temperature
In the end, the water returned is the SAME TEMPERATURE as it was before the new system. The in the heat loop, the difference is the heat at the pre-treatment for drinking is higher, and the heat through the pipes in transit to houses is higher, and then heat in the houses is higher.
There is no difference in the thermal input and output on the lake part of the loop. Heat is only transfered from buildings to the ground.
BUT, the ground temperature around the pipes is probably already artificially low! The ground will be closer to the natural tempature it would have without the pipes as the artificial cooling effect from the cool lake water flowing through them is reduced.
I see no heat related drawbacks on the environment with this plan... in fact it's making a correction for human activity and causing a reduction in electricity use at the same time.
True, the situation where that type of thing occurs is rare... but this seems to be one.
"because the amount of effort to duplicate decreases, it's scarcity and therefore _PRICE_ decreases"
I just have this thing about being specific about "value" verses "price" in economic discussion as they are different concepts.
It looks like you meant price... but typed value. If everybody had a free copy of the book, it would still be very valuable to someone who wanted to secure their PC. The price would just be zero.
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Didn't Gertrude get eaten by the bad guy before they were trying to get out?
Wow, I'd love to have a link for that, might explain some of the folks infatuation with modern political figures too. Please post it if you have it.
Unless you get one of these.
Then it is a tech-gadget.
BASEE Jumping;
B.uilding
A.ntenna
S.pan
E.arth
And now:
E.levator
Unpasturized yogurt.
You need the little buggies in there.
Also good for keeping yeast infections to a minimum because the biological niche is then filled with bugs that DONT cause itching and burning.
Holy cow.
It's rare that I see a post of blatant fear mongering lies such as this one.
Tell me, is your tin foil hat working today? Good, because TIN has been off the market in foil form for YEARS in trade for aluminum. You better check what metal it really is! It might not be protecting you the way you think!
Ack the panic!
I only have time to punch a few holes in your nonsensical arguments, so I'll focus on big ones.
Some 6600 people have contracted SARS worldwide, and that _is_ an epidemic
Yes, however SARS takes down otherwise healthy adults, does not seem to have a normal low frequency background infection rate, and is fairly new to modern medicine. It's an epidemic for that reason.
For the paragraph below, I leave it as is with the lies in bold;
AIDS is the best. Its an untreatable/uncurable disease that is supposedly spread by contact with fluids such as blood or sex goo. We've all been told that "AIDS does not discriminate", but it does! In the US, its mostly black gay men (and some IV drug users) that get it, whereas in Africa its black heterosexual women that get it. After 20 years and I'm guessing millions if not billions of dollars in research have not even provided any kind of explanation of AIDS nor has the virus even been isolated.
"untreatable" There are many drugs and treatments available on the market. Ask your doctor! Remember AZT? Maybe interferon boosters? Try going to Google and searching on "aids treatment" for once eh?
"supposedly" AIDS is spread by and present in many fluids; blood, plasma, tears, saliva, seminal fluids, vaginal fluids, feces. All forms of transfer require fluid or moist environments very similar to transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, the HIV virus is spread through close contact. There's no "supposedly" about it, it's a medical fact.
"AIDS does not discriminate" is absolutely true. Once exposed every human has a more or less equal chance once the exposure type and frequency has been accounted for. YES there are various types of populations that one can define that have different infection rates. YES gay men got it more frequently because they were a) trading semen b) doing so anally (causing bleeding during/after sex). The hertrosexual women in Africa are getting it because they have OTHER STDs (many are prostitutes full time or engage in prostitution) that cause open sores in their sexual organs... so when exposed to a male that has it they are much more likely to get an AIDS infection. Same for the IV drug users, trading needles is trading blood. By your reasoning, there would be no relation to your mom walking down the street licking DOG FECES to her getting stomach and intestinal bacterial infections all the time.
"explanation of AIDS". All I have to say is this, there are TENS OF THOUSANDS medical studies that closely or directly link the HIV virus with the collection if symptoms collectively known as "AIDS".
Furthermore, AIDS (so far) is one of the few diseases that could potentially be completely stopped with the combination of not taking stupid risks (inprotected sex, IV needle sharing, turning tricks, etc.) and relatively easy upgrades in the health care processes that would make tissue sharing done only on known AIDS free blood/organs.
If you are worried about the number of black people getting the disease (which your post implies) maybe the black people should wise the fuck up and start heeding the warnings.
You sir, are a paranoid, FUD spreading cunt. What is the address of your "earth is flat" web site? Or are you this guy? Also, whomever modded you as insightful is a MORON.
Well.... it's non standard but not dumb.
I do exactly the same thing, here's the reason:
1 - 1 NAT for a network with non-routable IPs allows me to switch the WAN IP address block by simply reconfiguring the NAT device and a simple find/replace on DNS.
Total migration effort; about 2 hours.
If the public addresses were all on the machines, migration would be a freaking nightmare; some static, some DHCP, (and some users just assigning static IPs to computers in the DHCP block), Printers with IP addresses (that are a pain to configure if there is even documentation or somebody that knows how.... all the while listening to bitching about XYZ not working or "I can't get my email" etc.
True, my ISP has some rules about how long I have to move and what warning I get, but the setup doesn't hurt anything over the long run, and could save me TONS of time and pain in butt. So far two different ISPs have forced me to move two networks twice. (Two moves total, one on each ISP and network.)
Both times that system worked out well.
So it's not totally dumb... just a different method for doing things.
Even being familiar with DNS, SPF, Spam Filters of all kinds I don't get what's different about Microsoft's plan and the general SPF plan.
Someone want to clear that up?
That article Microsoft has is just SPF with a different name on it as far as I can tell.
(Or did they invent SPF in the first place...)
Well it could have nothing to do with the habits of the average worker.
Check out the book "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond.
Even if you dont agree with everything he says in the book, it basically shows that WHOMEVER it was that ended up on the North American continent was going to have an easy time of it and probably end up the most powerful society in the world.
It's got nothing to do with the people, and a whole lot to do with the natural resources, size of the landmass, weather, and biology already on North America.
The fact that the Native Americans weren't the ones invading Europe instead of the other way around was more or less dumb bad luck.
Check it out, it's a good read.
4GB would be plenty for a business-use workstation
My advice to you is whatever you are running, don't switch to XP.
Just a base, patched install of Windows XP runs just over 2 Gig, then when you try to put SP2 on it (dont bother) it'll need just under 4 for the install process.
But like I said, after fooling around with it, I have found no reason to bother with SP2.
Well I doubt hacking had anything to do with it.
...it was my computer. And I tell you I didn't dick with it.
Unless you are willing to believe that someone broke into the data store and modified the raw work unit.
The same unit went through several (arbitrarily assigned) computers, ALL of them flagged it as something interesting.
Re-verification of the unit was done and it came back even MORE interesting than the first one.
I know for sure that the first instance of the work unit that flagged SHGb02+14a as being interesting was not tampered with...
Ok. So I am excited and forgot to say it clearly enough.
One of my computers found that signal. (magenbrot did too, but I dont know if he/she is aware of it yet)
I have the feeling it was my wife's computer, as it was doing the most crunching at the time of the original hit. (She uses it, I built it.)
So here I am sitting around wondering when this will hit Slashdot, so I send the link to my buddies and stuff and go "damn, site's offline" and curse the script kiddies and go on with my day.
:)
But it was you guys all along! [StrongBad tear]
Seriously. To your credit, I first found out about SETI@Home on Slashdot and ran it for years on spare computers.
Now I have made SHGb02+14a my beeyotch.
Then you guys Slashdotted the article before my mom could see it.
Well, it really doesnt cost money.
Each spam message is like the additional crystal of sugar in the coffee cup. Sure, each one makes only a shred of difference in how it tastes, or even NO difference in how it tastes.
Put a few hundred of them together and it makes an impact. (Seriously, I help run a mail server hosting 23k email accounts, five times in the last two years the hardware had to be upgraded because of SPAM. Fully 85% or more of the connection attempts is spam. Sure each one makes little difference, but them together costs YOU money.)
I really don't understand how someone could be so short-sighted to not understand that.
The big difference between spam and snail mail, is the pain the sender has to go through (money/time) raises linearly with the number of messages, causing an automatic filter on how much I eventually get. Spam has no such restrictions, the impact on me and my equipment goes up linearly, but the spammer effort only goes up a tiny bit.
Comparing spam to snail-mail is foolish. They are only in name both "mail", otherwise it's a totally different transmission system with different economies of scale and costs.
No.
In Bin Laden's OWN WORDS he specifically states he wants the USA out of Saudi Arabia. He got really really pissed when the Saudi government said "thanks, but no thanks" to his offer to bring the armies that fought in Afganistan over to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. This is WELL after the time frame of Soviet pull out of Afganistan.
That got just about everybody in the Western world on his shit-list, along with certain aspects of his own country.
This makes the Bush administration's idea that Iraq was on the verge of allying with him all that much more rediculous. Bin Laden would have been a huge PIA in the back of Saddam. He might be a meglomaniac... but he's not THAT stupid.
Yeah. I was going to add that part :) but figured I couldn't resist bitching about them charging high prices to run a stupid web server penetration script and charging $2k for the priviledge of spreading FUD amongst my web customers.
It couldnt have been DNS, TTLs would ensure that some functionality would remain for a while... they must have been talking about being able to disable big routers all over or something similar.
Someone already took out 11 of the 13 Root servers a while back, Joe User didn't even notice.
The photos are not a hoax.
The fact that she drove through on a motorcycle at high speed is the hoax.
It was a guided tour, she took a helmet and took pictures of it. (Never see the bike in actual situ.)
Well deflection on a curve like that is got to be from a magnetic field not a collision event.
Particles will curve as they move based on;
a) their energy
b) their charge
c) the intensity of the magnetic field they are traveling through
d) the polarity of the charge they are traveling through (which way magnetic North is)
I see it entirely possible that the lighter particle be deflected less or more... but I don't know the charge or the strength of the field or the particles themselves... so that's still reasonable to me.
Of course, medals are made by art majors, not physics majors... so it could also be a mistake.
You mean... like the VERY FIRST RESULT in your Stanford link SPECIFICALLY STATES in paragraph "1."?
Your link: similar Google search on Stanford in the US.
And the very first link in the search results: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy
Maybe if you are going to act like a 15 year-old snot, you should check your fucking facts first... or people like me dig up your mistakes so they can stuff your ass with them.
Oh, and it's Google, not google.
My wife had a plant safety class where they learned CPR from a paramedic who specializes in training.
My curiosity is burning... so where does one apply CPR to a plant?
I haven't seen a Poleroid camera in use other than their lame commercials in over 15 years.
Great market position that.
The same amount of cold water is drawn either way.
Before the system; cold water for drinking and so on.
After the system; cold water for drinking and so on that's HEATED before put into the water system.
(Heated by the energy arriving from the air-conditioned buildings.)
Net change in water volume removed from the lake; zero.
Net change in energy added back to the lake; zero.
Actually, probably not.
If you realize that heat energy always flows from warmer matter to cooler matter naturally... so transfer of energy only occurs where there is close contact and delta Tempature.
The thermodynamic loop used to be:
- cold water out
- treatment for drinking (heat added from atmosphere, treatment machines, etc.)
- piped to houses (heat added from surrounding ground)
- in houses energy used (or not) in the house and people makes sewage some average tempature (I am guessing that will pretty warm especially after accounting for bio activity in the sewage)
- OR some water returns to groundwater through yard watering, etc. (heat added through soil, but this can't matter because it does not end up back in the lake
- sewage treated (water cools to normal treated sewage tempature, heat released to atmosphere)
- returned to lake at post-treatment tempature
This sequence has been going on for DECADES.
Now the new thermal cycle:
- cold water out
- new system of heat exchangers (heat added, origin is from the buildings being cooled)
- treatment for drinking (LESS heat added from atmosphere, treatment machines, etc. Less because the delta T is less.)
- piped to houses (LESS heat added from surrounding ground, less because the delta T is less)
- in houses energy used (or not) in the house and people makes sewage some average tempature, again LESS heat added from delta T (I am guessing that will pretty warm especially after accounting for bio activity in the sewage)
- OR some water returns to groundwater through yard watering, etc. (heat added through soil, but this can't matter because it does not end up back in the lake
- sewage treated (water cools to normal treated sewage tempature, heat released to atmosphere)
- returned to lake at post-treatment temperature
In the end, the water returned is the SAME TEMPERATURE as it was before the new system. The in the heat loop, the difference is the heat at the pre-treatment for drinking is higher, and the heat through the pipes in transit to houses is higher, and then heat in the houses is higher.
There is no difference in the thermal input and output on the lake part of the loop. Heat is only transfered from buildings to the ground.
BUT, the ground temperature around the pipes is probably already artificially low! The ground will be closer to the natural tempature it would have without the pipes as the artificial cooling effect from the cool lake water flowing through them is reduced.
I see no heat related drawbacks on the environment with this plan... in fact it's making a correction for human activity and causing a reduction in electricity use at the same time.
True, the situation where that type of thing occurs is rare... but this seems to be one.
You may want to word it as:
"because the amount of effort to duplicate decreases, it's scarcity and therefore _PRICE_ decreases"
I just have this thing about being specific about "value" verses "price" in economic discussion as they are different concepts.
It looks like you meant price... but typed value. If everybody had a free copy of the book, it would still be very valuable to someone who wanted to secure their PC. The price would just be zero.