I'm sure this will offend pretty much every tree-hugging PC person that reads this, but I don't care. Grow a fucking spine.
Whereas we haven't declared official war, we
*are* at war right now. If profiling is one of the tools that we need to use to prevent the death of more innocent people, then fine. Would you guys be whining right now about racism if it were the israelis profiling arabs that fly into their country looking for palestinians? Do you think it would help if you did? Hell no. The israelis would look at you like you were a madman, and then point out the last 30 or so suicide bombers that have set themselves off in malls or local businesses in the last 6 months. They have a problem over there.
Likewise, we have a problem over here. In my mind, it is our responsibility to treat the problem before it develops into a disease. If certain ethnic groups over here don't like the profiling, then my suggestion is that they lean on the people that they damn well know are involved in terrorist acts against the states and either turn them in, make them stop, or eliminate them.
Now. As a sidenote.
Black man says nigger - it's culture.
White man says nigger - it's racist.
Italian man says wop - it's culture.
Asian man says wop - it's racist.
Indian man says chink - it's racist.
Asian man says chink - it's culture.
So. Where's the racist act? In saying the word, or in differentiating between the speaker?
Hm. A friend of mine and I have been discussing this one for awhile now.
If by this they mean that vacuum is never really empty because there are usually residual E-M fields lying about, then fine.
If by this comment they're referring to zero point fluctuations, then they are just as guilty of doing bad science as the people that are sweeping whatever problems there are with black holes under the rug in the form of multiple universes and other such ideas. Why?
Well, the idea (as I understand it, I take quantum field theory next semester) that there are zero point fluctuations in the vaccum comes from taking a series approximation. This is a math trick. They then take terms of this series and based upon them come up with particles being created and then destroyed in a vacuum state. But it's a just a math trick used to get an answer! It says nothing about the reality of the system in question, it just helps you get a number.
Many scientists point to things like the Lamb Shift and the Casimir effect as being experimental verifications of zpf's. However, the series that they take can be arranged in another form to get radiative reaction, which is a well-understood phenomenon. So, you can arrange it one way to get "something comes from nothing" or the other way which says "it reacts with its own field." To this date, every zpf calculation that I know of has been done with radiation reaction as well.
Okay, I'm off my soapbox.
the rumor is that they're buying redhat, not linux. redhat is just a distribution. the worst thing that could happen would be that they screw the distribution all up and then charge for it. so what? beginners will just use something else.
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I don't know of any company whose machines' well being depend upon installing and running SETI@home. Things like this don't fall under the heading of administrative tasks - this is stealing resources. If this guy had the OK to run the software on machines, fine. But it sounds like he didn't.
There's no difference betweem running SETI@home on machines and running, say, a quake server. What if I, as a sysadmin, decided to install a quake server on ever machine that I worked on? You can bet my bosses would be upset.
I go to school at UA in Huntsville. There's lots of research in propulsion here - from the linear accelerators posted earlier to launching lasers, ion drives, and this stuff. I just want to know when they start playing around with large quantities so that I can move. The last thing I need to live next to is a very large bomb.
Does your contract with @home say unlimited usenet access? If it doesn't, then don't bitch about it. Just go somewhere else.
I don't use a cablemodem, and I left directvdsl because their new usenet policy (200 mb/day on binaries), total lack of tech support, and overzealous sales department. I now use bellsouth, which contracts with a feed that expires binaries after 2 days. Do I feel for those of you that are stuck with 3 gb/3 days? Only in that you guys are the victims of a new policy. I actively follow vcd/warez/porn groups, and there simply isn't 3 gb/ 3 days worth of data posted that is worth downloading. There's incredible amounts of reposts, though. Do you need to download the same thing 12 times?
Be realistic, these guys are cutting all of the losses that they can. Usenet is one - it's a tremendous bandwidth hog, and requires very expensive hardware and maintenance to run right.
You're just the victim of yet another.com.
I can just see it now. Grad students will be forced to sign non-compete documents. Just imagine. Some poor schmuck finishes his thesis after 6 years of slaving away, publishes a paper in his area of expertise, and is sued by university for breach of contract because he collaborated with someone from a competing university.
What's next? Journals filled with nothing but abstracts and hundreds of blank pages because the results of the experiments are copyrighted? Why don't we just ditch the entire peer review process while we're at it - nothing good has ever come of it.
If you're a publically funded university then the results of your research should be public domain, end of story. It's sad to see that universities are becoming more and more all about the money.
Which one you choose is all about who you are, what you have, and what you plan to do with it.
If you are a beginning unix user and have no clue about hardware and software in general, you're probably better off choosing linux. That way you can use a friendly, brainless distribution, and chances are your hardware will be supported no matter how wierd it is.
If you are somewhat clueful, then you're probably better off with freebsd, *assuming* that you have fully supported hardware. This may not have been the case a few years ago when the desktop was still pretty primitive, but these days the desktop is just as good as linux and unlike linux freebsd comes with a ports tree, which is awesome.
ALSO. DID YOU KNOW that russia's next planned advance in their space program was going to be a beanstalk built out of exactly three copies of "War and Peace".
Did you actually read my post before replying to it? I found a solution. The point of the post was that if incoming ssh connections were classified under "vpn" I would be screwed. I guess you didn't read that far before replying...
I'm a grad student. The resources at the university I attend suck (the gta office has 1 computer in it, a 486 with windows 3.1). If I want to do work I have to either go to one of the big labs (big, not quiet, lots of people, can't get stuff done) or use the small physics lab which isn't equipped worth a shit. The solution? My home machine, which is a $400 alpha running linux. I ssh from the physics lab and do whatever programming I need to do, or check my email, or whatever. End result, if you classify ssh in the vpn category and expect me to pay 10x what I pay for connectivity then you are a fool. I don't have any options here - I've tried to get real machines in the gta office, even ONE machine that's worth a crap in there - it's a lost cause.
I freely admit that I download pirated software. But if I get real use out of it, I buy it. I look at it as though it's a reward for a good job.
When emperor of dune came out, I tried out the
pirated version first. I then bought it when it
hit the stores because westwood did a good job and I wanted to support their effort. I bought
return to wolfenstein as well, and q3a.
Think about the return policies that most stores have with regards to software - "It it's opened, we won't take it back." Their reasoning is that you probably copied it. Those of you that played emperor of dune know what kind of resource hog it is. Can you imagine buying it when it first came out, only to discover that your machine was too weak to run it worth a crap and that you couldn't take your software back because it had been opened? Or that you couldn't even ebay it because of the eula? You're stuck with something that you can't run.
Better yet, everyone knows how incredibly unstable windows ME was. Can you imagine actually paying for that piece of crap, only to discover that it required reinstalling 4 times a month and ran things slower than nt does? And you can't take it back, or sell it. You just rewarded someone for writing crappy code.
As I said, I don't reward half-assed jobs.
Since serving in the military is mandatory for israeli citizens, why not put them to work for the military, either in improving the network or attacking enemy resources?
I've taught unix classes for a few years now. If you are teaching from the standpoint that the student isn't going to administrate the machine, then yes, teaching point-and-clic stuff and powerpoint stuff is fine. But if you're teaching someone how to be an actual linux *user*, then you want the course to contain as little point and click as possible. Point and click comes once you get used to how text works. If you teach future admins point and click with no text, then you're wasting your time.
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Isn't that like 10$ US?
I'm sure this will offend pretty much every tree-hugging PC person that reads this, but I don't care. Grow a fucking spine.
Whereas we haven't declared official war, we
*are* at war right now. If profiling is one of the tools that we need to use to prevent the death of more innocent people, then fine. Would you guys be whining right now about racism if it were the israelis profiling arabs that fly into their country looking for palestinians? Do you think it would help if you did? Hell no. The israelis would look at you like you were a madman, and then point out the last 30 or so suicide bombers that have set themselves off in malls or local businesses in the last 6 months. They have a problem over there.
Likewise, we have a problem over here. In my mind, it is our responsibility to treat the problem before it develops into a disease. If certain ethnic groups over here don't like the profiling, then my suggestion is that they lean on the people that they damn well know are involved in terrorist acts against the states and either turn them in, make them stop, or eliminate them.
Now. As a sidenote.
Black man says nigger - it's culture.
White man says nigger - it's racist.
Italian man says wop - it's culture.
Asian man says wop - it's racist.
Indian man says chink - it's racist.
Asian man says chink - it's culture.
So. Where's the racist act? In saying the word, or in differentiating between the speaker?
Just imagine. A free, open wireless network in which you can churn out spam by the crate.
microsoft? they like security through obscurity as well, seems like a good match to me.
then I expect the loading times between new levels to be about 8 months long, just like the series.
Hm. A friend of mine and I have been discussing this one for awhile now.
If by this they mean that vacuum is never really empty because there are usually residual E-M fields lying about, then fine.
If by this comment they're referring to zero point fluctuations, then they are just as guilty of doing bad science as the people that are sweeping whatever problems there are with black holes under the rug in the form of multiple universes and other such ideas. Why?
Well, the idea (as I understand it, I take quantum field theory next semester) that there are zero point fluctuations in the vaccum comes from taking a series approximation. This is a math trick. They then take terms of this series and based upon them come up with particles being created and then destroyed in a vacuum state. But it's a just a math trick used to get an answer! It says nothing about the reality of the system in question, it just helps you get a number.
Many scientists point to things like the Lamb Shift and the Casimir effect as being experimental verifications of zpf's. However, the series that they take can be arranged in another form to get radiative reaction, which is a well-understood phenomenon. So, you can arrange it one way to get "something comes from nothing" or the other way which says "it reacts with its own field." To this date, every zpf calculation that I know of has been done with radiation reaction as well.
Okay, I'm off my soapbox.
the rumor is that they're buying redhat, not linux. redhat is just a distribution. the worst thing that could happen would be that they screw the distribution all up and then charge for it. so what? beginners will just use something else.
I don't know of any company whose machines' well being depend upon installing and running SETI@home. Things like this don't fall under the heading of administrative tasks - this is stealing resources. If this guy had the OK to run the software on machines, fine. But it sounds like he didn't.
There's no difference betweem running SETI@home on machines and running, say, a quake server. What if I, as a sysadmin, decided to install a quake server on ever machine that I worked on? You can bet my bosses would be upset.
Why don't you include some more kooks and kook science for us. I'm sure Ludwig Plutonium is eager for an interview.
I go to school at UA in Huntsville. There's lots of research in propulsion here - from the linear accelerators posted earlier to launching lasers, ion drives, and this stuff. I just want to know when they start playing around with large quantities so that I can move. The last thing I need to live next to is a very large bomb.
Does your contract with @home say unlimited usenet access? If it doesn't, then don't bitch about it. Just go somewhere else. .com.
I don't use a cablemodem, and I left directvdsl because their new usenet policy (200 mb/day on binaries), total lack of tech support, and overzealous sales department. I now use bellsouth, which contracts with a feed that expires binaries after 2 days. Do I feel for those of you that are stuck with 3 gb/3 days? Only in that you guys are the victims of a new policy. I actively follow vcd/warez/porn groups, and there simply isn't 3 gb/ 3 days worth of data posted that is worth downloading. There's incredible amounts of reposts, though. Do you need to download the same thing 12 times?
Be realistic, these guys are cutting all of the losses that they can. Usenet is one - it's a tremendous bandwidth hog, and requires very expensive hardware and maintenance to run right.
You're just the victim of yet another
I can just see it now. Grad students will be forced to sign non-compete documents. Just imagine. Some poor schmuck finishes his thesis after 6 years of slaving away, publishes a paper in his area of expertise, and is sued by university for breach of contract because he collaborated with someone from a competing university.
What's next? Journals filled with nothing but abstracts and hundreds of blank pages because the results of the experiments are copyrighted? Why don't we just ditch the entire peer review process while we're at it - nothing good has ever come of it.
If you're a publically funded university then the results of your research should be public domain, end of story. It's sad to see that universities are becoming more and more all about the money.
Wasn't mc hammer in the first one?
Which one you choose is all about who you are, what you have, and what you plan to do with it.
If you are a beginning unix user and have no clue about hardware and software in general, you're probably better off choosing linux. That way you can use a friendly, brainless distribution, and chances are your hardware will be supported no matter how wierd it is.
If you are somewhat clueful, then you're probably better off with freebsd, *assuming* that you have fully supported hardware. This may not have been the case a few years ago when the desktop was still pretty primitive, but these days the desktop is just as good as linux and unlike linux freebsd comes with a ports tree, which is awesome.
Herbivore?
Crime and Punishment II: Mars needs Lenin.
ALSO. DID YOU KNOW that russia's next planned advance in their space program was going to be a beanstalk built out of exactly three copies of "War and Peace".
very nice. and you can install the gimp printing stuff as per FAQ to get ppd files for your printer.
How to Good-Bye Depression : If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
Remote root exploits. I find this to be an extremely important feature in choosing a platform for a firewall product.
Did you actually read my post before replying to it? I found a solution. The point of the post was that if incoming ssh connections were classified under "vpn" I would be screwed. I guess you didn't read that far before replying...
I'm a grad student. The resources at the university I attend suck (the gta office has 1 computer in it, a 486 with windows 3.1). If I want to do work I have to either go to one of the big labs (big, not quiet, lots of people, can't get stuff done) or use the small physics lab which isn't equipped worth a shit. The solution? My home machine, which is a $400 alpha running linux. I ssh from the physics lab and do whatever programming I need to do, or check my email, or whatever. End result, if you classify ssh in the vpn category and expect me to pay 10x what I pay for connectivity then you are a fool. I don't have any options here - I've tried to get real machines in the gta office, even ONE machine that's worth a crap in there - it's a lost cause.
MEOW.
I freely admit that I download pirated software. But if I get real use out of it, I buy it. I look at it as though it's a reward for a good job.
When emperor of dune came out, I tried out the
pirated version first. I then bought it when it
hit the stores because westwood did a good job and I wanted to support their effort. I bought
return to wolfenstein as well, and q3a.
Think about the return policies that most stores have with regards to software - "It it's opened, we won't take it back." Their reasoning is that you probably copied it. Those of you that played emperor of dune know what kind of resource hog it is. Can you imagine buying it when it first came out, only to discover that your machine was too weak to run it worth a crap and that you couldn't take your software back because it had been opened? Or that you couldn't even ebay it because of the eula? You're stuck with something that you can't run.
Better yet, everyone knows how incredibly unstable windows ME was. Can you imagine actually paying for that piece of crap, only to discover that it required reinstalling 4 times a month and ran things slower than nt does? And you can't take it back, or sell it. You just rewarded someone for writing crappy code.
As I said, I don't reward half-assed jobs.
Since serving in the military is mandatory for israeli citizens, why not put them to work for the military, either in improving the network or attacking enemy resources?
That depends upon what you are teaching.
I've taught unix classes for a few years now. If you are teaching from the standpoint that the student isn't going to administrate the machine, then yes, teaching point-and-clic stuff and powerpoint stuff is fine. But if you're teaching someone how to be an actual linux *user*, then you want the course to contain as little point and click as possible. Point and click comes once you get used to how text works. If you teach future admins point and click with no text, then you're wasting your time.