I was playing Counterstrike killing terrorists when I heard about this story. So I turned on FOX News to find out what was going on in the world. Apparently, there's a war going on where we're killing terrorists. Now, how am I disconnected from the world?
Didn't RTFA because I'm not giving them a pagehit for "news" like this.
I don't know about the deserve part, but this is one of the reason I don't use password managers. Another one is that when you don't type in passwords, you're more likely to forget them so if the password manager gets corrupted, deleted, infected, etc. then you're SOL.
For most home users, a paper with passwords written on it is safer in the long run. Preferably the paper is not in plain sight or stuck to the monitor.
A person at a library at a learning institution on a "school night" was being asked to leave.
I'm sorry, but I've never seen someone who was being relatively quiet in a library on a "school night" as someone the campus security should investigate. (FBI maybe, but campus security never). Let them read and study. I had a wide variety of friends in college. At 11:30PM on a Tuesday, some would be studying in the library and the other would be drunk and high at a party. I never worried about the library crowd doing anything that would get cops involved.
I was just pointing it out since some people think RAID is a good replacement for backups. Here's some reasons already listed why RAID isn't backup. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=206854&cid =16865466 Plus corruption of the data caused by OS, application, hardware, etc. In these cases, you'll end up with multiple dead drives, multiple copies of corrupted data, or no data at all.
There are backup solutions even for the lazy.:D Over the years, I've learned not to trust hardware or backups.
"When they break" is the correct answer. I replaced a drive because the new drive was getting rave reviews. One year later, the Deathstar died. The drive that had been replaced is still running in a friend's computer.
Remember, RAID with mirroring or parity is just for fault tolerance. RAID is not a backup. In a normal desktop, I would buy a faster drive than spend the money on a RAID.
1. Paintball guns that shoot 1km - sweet! 2. Sentry guns could be shielded or mobile and camoflaged. Probably your best best. 3. Movement 2km out will still let the operator check the alert then fire before you ever reached the gun. Slow moving sniper with thermal and visual camo - still best bet. 4. Very good idea except you have to test if you got the sensors. Filters, etc. could limit what will work. I'm sure if they're deployed, someone wwould want to try this. Of course, I take that into account planning their placement, so someone would be well into the DMZ to try it.
I'm not able to watch the vid right now, but I'm curious how it handles multiple targets and "fallen targets". A line of soldiers marches over the hill(yeah this isn't SOP) it starts to shoot from left to right. Targets that it shot fall(some injured, some dead) and targets it hasn't reached drop to the ground. Does it keep shooting every heat source on the ground? Only moving ones? Only firing ones? How much ammo? How long can it shoot between barrel changes? How well would it handle a forest fire? Saturation of heat sources? How long would it shoot at a human-sized heat source?
I've had 3 job titles in the last 5 years for the same job with the same company. I found out about the changes 6 months to a year after it happened. BTW, they're working on a fourth.
Actually, I have no problem bashing FF either. I'm fair about it.
1. Is it a security hole or a just bug? 2. Likelihood of encountering bug 3. Overall effect of the bug 4. Time it takes to actually patch bug (ie no turn-off workarounds)
If it's just a bug that takes a specially coded web site to just crash my browser, I'm not too worried.
Security flaws or common crashes will get me annoyed.
DST is stupid. The sun rises at ~6:30 now instead of ~7:30. It sets at ~04:45 instead of ~5:45. How does this help anyone? I can't even see how it would help save energy. Getting rid of DST would have little to no impact for most people.
As far as using GMT, I'd have no problem with that either and might as well get everyone on a 24hr clock too while we're at it. This would involve a lot of small changes - business hour signs, clocks, etc. plus take awhile for people to get used to it.
here's a classic for you that everyone should know by now.
The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo by Richard Aronson (aronson@sierratel.com)...In the early seventies, Ed Whitchurch ran "his game," and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson. Eric plays something like a computer. When he games he methodically considers each possibility before choosing his preferred option. If given time, he will invariably pick the optimal solution. It has been known to take weeks. He is otherwise, in all respects, a superior gamer. Eric was playing a Neutral Paladin in Ed's game. He was on some lord's lands when the following exchange occurred:
ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo. ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it? ED: (Pause) It's white, Eric. ERIC: How far away is it? ED: About 50 yards. ERIC: How big is it? ED: (Pause) It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top. ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it. ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it. ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo. ERIC: (Pause) I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way? ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo! ERIC: I shoot it with my bow (roll to hit). What happened? ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it. ERIC: (Pause) Wasn't it wounded? ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT'S A GAZEBO! ERIC: (Whimper) But that was a +3 arrow! ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try. It's a @#$%!! gazebo! ERIC: (Long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.) I run away. ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you. ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.
At this point, the increasingly amused fellow party members restored a modicum of order by explaining to Eric what a gazebo is. Thus ends the tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo. It could have been worse; at least the gazebo wasn't on a grassy gnoll.
Actually, he's probably partly referring to the routers flooding their wireless connection which happens with Zyxel routers too. http://www.tomsnetworking.com/lans_routers/charts/ index.html?chart=124 You set up a p2p like bittorrent that is willing to use a lot of simulataneous connections and it floods your router and your connection drops. Of course, it does sound like a lot of routers(1 a month?) to go through so if he's returning a lot of dead routers, a possible power problem in the home is possible.
I wondered about RISUG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISUG. There were concerns that caused human testing to be stopped in 2002, but I guess that has been cleared up and testing has started again this year.
This would definitely be a man's birth control if it works out. One shot = 10 year birth control
"And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.
While studying is all fine and good, you really need to code. The GPLed project is good for few reasons.
1. It forces you to read other people's code and possibly interact with other coders. Depending on the project, your input might be restricted by other parts of the project or you'll spend time revising someone else's code. Common things in the workplace.
2. Hopefully, you're adding value to a good GPLed project instead of a half-finished project that no one else will see. There's already plenty of those.
3. If you really don't like where the project is going, you can always fork it.:)
People tend to forget that America is the 3rd largest country in area with the 3rd largest population. This means that there's a wide variety of different areas to live within the country. Sure, not everything is different, but there are huge cities and small towns, a vast countryside, jerks, nice people, places with no sales tax and some with really high sales tax. You can pay over $2K a month for a one room studio or under $10K to own a house(I have a coworker who bought a couple of them). There's lots of variety.
Most people don't move because they've never lived in another country(or even another state) for a year or more to see if they like it or because of family ties. Sure I could move to another country, but everyone I ever knew won't be in that country that includes parents, siblings, nieces and nephews. Hell, whole families never move out of certain parts of a city because that's where the family is.
http://www.wordorigins.org/Words/LetterL/lockandlo ad.html Lock and Load This imperative phrase originally referred to the operation of the M1 Garand Rifle, the standard U.S. Army rifle of WWII. Its meaning is more general now, referring to preparation for any imminent event.
To load a Garand, the bolt would be locked to the rear and a clip of ammunition loaded into the receiver. The command lock and load was immortalized by John Wayne in the 1949 movie The Sands of Iwo Jima: "Lock and load, boy, lock and load." There are earlier uses of the command reversed, load and lock. This command, primarily used on firing ranges, referred to the loading of a single round into the Garand (or into another weapon). In this case, the lock referred to striking the bolt handle with the heel of the hand to ensure it was fully closed and locked into place.
And you want to mess with something the Duke said? Shame on you.:)
That's why it's easier to call them arthropods, duh. I suppose you're one of those people that call Daddy Long Legs, spiders(or insects) when they're really in the Order Opiliones.
Disasters come in all forms. EMPs could wipe all computer chips then your machines that build computer chips or other machines would be useless. Nuclear blasts could irradiate all major industrial areas. World flooding could drive the population to high ground leaving the industrial areas under hundreds of feet of ocean.
Hardcopies or OLPC could bring this info to areas of the world that are not up to current technology levels. This would might help them improve life even if their technology level remains 50-100 years behind the First World countries.
It's not a fix for all problems, but it is a tool that could be helpful.
The project would just be on the internet for contributing to the project then distribution to the whole world. Under an open license, the project could be printed out by yourself or publishers for hard copies that would be more disaster resistant.
Not everyone could be taught how to build or do everything in the project, but it would be a reference. How many people would be able to make a metal fork from scratch right now? (Most everyone would be using chopsticks or carved wooden forks) I can make a mold and cast, but would have no idea on how to find the ore.
How much do they learn by it? A lot more than most people do now since they'd be starting from nothing and building an industrial base within their lifetime. They also might have knowledge of every step of building an item like a radio from ore to the finished project.
I do think people would improve on it. You'd follow instructions and make then be like "why didn't they do it this way instead"
It is pointing them in a certain direction. What's your preference - building a metal bicycle from scratch in 20-30 years or 2000 years or more to come up with some equivalent idea(assuming the group doesn't die off in the first few years)
Slashdot Mirror
....but almost half the people in the world are below average intelligence. Is that really fair?
We're a bad copy of God trying to make a bad copy of ourselves.
I was playing Counterstrike killing terrorists when I heard about this story. So I turned on FOX News to find out what was going on in the world. Apparently, there's a war going on where we're killing terrorists. Now, how am I disconnected from the world?
Didn't RTFA because I'm not giving them a pagehit for "news" like this.
I don't know about the deserve part, but this is one of the reason I don't use password managers. Another one is that when you don't type in passwords, you're more likely to forget them so if the password manager gets corrupted, deleted, infected, etc. then you're SOL.
For most home users, a paper with passwords written on it is safer in the long run. Preferably the paper is not in plain sight or stuck to the monitor.
I think everyone is looking past the real issue.
A person at a library at a learning institution on a "school night" was being asked to leave.
I'm sorry, but I've never seen someone who was being relatively quiet in a library on a "school night" as someone the campus security should investigate. (FBI maybe, but campus security never). Let them read and study. I had a wide variety of friends in college. At 11:30PM on a Tuesday, some would be studying in the library and the other would be drunk and high at a party. I never worried about the library crowd doing anything that would get cops involved.
I was just pointing it out since some people think RAID is a good replacement for backups. Here's some reasons already listed why RAID isn't backup. http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=206854&cid =16865466
:D Over the years, I've learned not to trust hardware or backups.
Plus corruption of the data caused by OS, application, hardware, etc. In these cases, you'll end up with multiple dead drives, multiple copies of corrupted data, or no data at all.
There are backup solutions even for the lazy.
"When they break" is the correct answer.
I replaced a drive because the new drive was getting rave reviews. One year later, the Deathstar died. The drive that had been replaced is still running in a friend's computer.
Remember, RAID with mirroring or parity is just for fault tolerance. RAID is not a backup. In a normal desktop, I would buy a faster drive than spend the money on a RAID.
Assume night invasion
1. Paintball guns that shoot 1km - sweet!
2. Sentry guns could be shielded or mobile and camoflaged. Probably your best best.
3. Movement 2km out will still let the operator check the alert then fire before you ever reached the gun. Slow moving sniper with thermal and visual camo - still best bet.
4. Very good idea except you have to test if you got the sensors. Filters, etc. could limit what will work. I'm sure if they're deployed, someone wwould want to try this. Of course, I take that into account planning their placement, so someone would be well into the DMZ to try it.
I'm not able to watch the vid right now, but I'm curious how it handles multiple targets and "fallen targets". A line of soldiers marches over the hill(yeah this isn't SOP) it starts to shoot from left to right. Targets that it shot fall(some injured, some dead) and targets it hasn't reached drop to the ground. Does it keep shooting every heat source on the ground? Only moving ones? Only firing ones? How much ammo? How long can it shoot between barrel changes? How well would it handle a forest fire? Saturation of heat sources? How long would it shoot at a human-sized heat source?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/scotus.property/
I think you forgot the Supreme Court doesn't care about the property owners.
He never said that the computer would be connected to the internet. You don't have to lie, you just have to know what to say.
I've had 3 job titles in the last 5 years for the same job with the same company. I found out about the changes 6 months to a year after it happened. BTW, they're working on a fourth.
Actually, I have no problem bashing FF either. I'm fair about it.
1. Is it a security hole or a just bug?
2. Likelihood of encountering bug
3. Overall effect of the bug
4. Time it takes to actually patch bug (ie no turn-off workarounds)
If it's just a bug that takes a specially coded web site to just crash my browser, I'm not too worried.
Security flaws or common crashes will get me annoyed.
DST is stupid. The sun rises at ~6:30 now instead of ~7:30. It sets at ~04:45 instead of ~5:45. How does this help anyone? I can't even see how it would help save energy.
Getting rid of DST would have little to no impact for most people.
As far as using GMT, I'd have no problem with that either and might as well get everyone on a 24hr clock too while we're at it.
This would involve a lot of small changes - business hour signs, clocks, etc. plus take awhile for people to get used to it.
here's a classic for you that everyone should know by now.
...In the early seventies, Ed Whitchurch ran "his game," and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson. Eric plays something like a computer. When he games he methodically considers each possibility before choosing his preferred option. If given time, he will invariably pick the optimal solution. It has been known to take weeks. He is otherwise, in all respects, a superior gamer.
The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo
by Richard Aronson (aronson@sierratel.com)
Eric was playing a Neutral Paladin in Ed's game. He was on some lord's lands when the following exchange occurred:
ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you
see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: (Pause) It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: (Pause) It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: (Pause) I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it
respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow (roll to hit). What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
ERIC: (Pause) Wasn't it wounded?
ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT'S A GAZEBO!
ERIC: (Whimper) But that was a +3 arrow!
ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to
destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you
could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try.
It's a @#$%!! gazebo!
ERIC: (Long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.) I run away.
ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo.
It catches you and eats you.
ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so
I can avenge my Paladin.
At this point, the increasingly amused fellow party members restored a modicum of order by explaining to Eric what a gazebo is. Thus ends the tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo. It could have been worse; at least the gazebo wasn't on a grassy gnoll.
Actually, he's probably partly referring to the routers flooding their wireless connection which happens with Zyxel routers too./ index.html?chart=124
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/lans_routers/charts
You set up a p2p like bittorrent that is willing to use a lot of simulataneous connections and it floods your router and your connection drops.
Of course, it does sound like a lot of routers(1 a month?) to go through so if he's returning a lot of dead routers, a possible power problem in the home is possible.
I wondered about RISUG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISUG. There were concerns that caused human testing to be stopped in 2002, but I guess that has been cleared up and testing has started again this year.
This would definitely be a man's birth control if it works out.
One shot = 10 year birth control
"And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.
While studying is all fine and good, you really need to code. The GPLed project is good for few reasons.
:)
1. It forces you to read other people's code and possibly interact with other coders. Depending on the project, your input might be restricted by other parts of the project or you'll spend time revising someone else's code. Common things in the workplace.
2. Hopefully, you're adding value to a good GPLed project instead of a half-finished project that no one else will see. There's already plenty of those.
3. If you really don't like where the project is going, you can always fork it.
It's really simple, you just have to write
The Beginning. The Middle. The End.
and there you've got the whole story.
I was surprised that some of those stories are really good.
People tend to forget that America is the 3rd largest country in area with the 3rd largest population. This means that there's a wide variety of different areas to live within the country. Sure, not everything is different, but there are huge cities and small towns, a vast countryside, jerks, nice people, places with no sales tax and some with really high sales tax. You can pay over $2K a month for a one room studio or under $10K to own a house(I have a coworker who bought a couple of them). There's lots of variety.
Most people don't move because they've never lived in another country(or even another state) for a year or more to see if they like it or because of family ties. Sure I could move to another country, but everyone I ever knew won't be in that country that includes parents, siblings, nieces and nephews. Hell, whole families never move out of certain parts of a city because that's where the family is.
-1 Redundant
That's what I get for trying to work and post to Slashdot.
http://www.wordorigins.org/Words/LetterL/lockandlo ad.html
:)
Lock and Load
This imperative phrase originally referred to the operation of the M1 Garand Rifle, the standard U.S. Army rifle of WWII. Its meaning is more general now, referring to preparation for any imminent event.
To load a Garand, the bolt would be locked to the rear and a clip of ammunition loaded into the receiver. The command lock and load was immortalized by John Wayne in the 1949 movie The Sands of Iwo Jima: "Lock and load, boy, lock and load."
There are earlier uses of the command reversed, load and lock. This command, primarily used on firing ranges, referred to the loading of a single round into the Garand (or into another weapon). In this case, the lock referred to striking the bolt handle with the heel of the hand to ensure it was fully closed and locked into place.
And you want to mess with something the Duke said? Shame on you.
That's why it's easier to call them arthropods, duh. I suppose you're one of those people that call Daddy Long Legs, spiders(or insects) when they're really in the Order Opiliones.
Now, what the hell was the OP about again?
Disasters come in all forms. EMPs could wipe all computer chips then your machines that build computer chips or other machines would be useless. Nuclear blasts could irradiate all major industrial areas. World flooding could drive the population to high ground leaving the industrial areas under hundreds of feet of ocean.
Hardcopies or OLPC could bring this info to areas of the world that are not up to current technology levels. This would might help them improve life even if their technology level remains 50-100 years behind the First World countries.
It's not a fix for all problems, but it is a tool that could be helpful.
The project would just be on the internet for contributing to the project then distribution to the whole world. Under an open license, the project could be printed out by yourself or publishers for hard copies that would be more disaster resistant.
Not everyone could be taught how to build or do everything in the project, but it would be a reference. How many people would be able to make a metal fork from scratch right now? (Most everyone would be using chopsticks or carved wooden forks) I can make a mold and cast, but would have no idea on how to find the ore.
How much do they learn by it? A lot more than most people do now since they'd be starting from nothing and building an industrial base within their lifetime. They also might have knowledge of every step of building an item like a radio from ore to the finished project.
I do think people would improve on it. You'd follow instructions and make then be like "why didn't they do it this way instead"
It is pointing them in a certain direction. What's your preference - building a metal bicycle from scratch in 20-30 years or 2000 years or more to come up with some equivalent idea(assuming the group doesn't die off in the first few years)