...Finally the atmosphere may go out of whack way before we run out of any fuel...
Remember when looking at any global warming predicition, these are the same models used to predict your local extended forecast. Considering they can't reliably predict 10 days out, how much credit can you really give a prediction years out?
While the Earth's temperature may be rising, it has done that in the past before man even existed. Are we the cause this time? Noone can truly say for sure, and even *IF* we are, is it a bad thing? Looking at the geological history of the Earth, we are overdue for another ice age.
Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't be looking at alternate energy sources, because we should be. For national security reasons if nothing else. Being dependent on a foreign countries for fuel is not wise, especially when there are many in those countries that would like to see us dead.
...Unless humans learn to take care of what they have, we should not even begin to consider "jumping planets" just 'cause we don't want to fix up Earth...
Assuming that life does not already exist on Mars...Consider that the information and knowledged gained by trying to transform a dead planet could be useful in helping to clean up our planet. Computer models can only go so far, and are far from perfect.
If life does already exist on Mars, and not brought by accident on one of the probes from Earth, then the question gets much harder to answer.
...Just because you can't find it easily doesn't mean that it should be free for the taking...
Of course, if the author wants to keep the copyright, then it's generally in the author's best interest to be easy to find. If someone can't find you to license the work from you, you effectively give up the licensing fees (because it doesn't get licensed).
...However, this does mean that similar HTML, from a web browser, might also be dangerous...
Yes. The flaw isn't in Outlook/OE per se, but in IE, which those two use for rendering html. From the article: "..infects a PC through a known flaw in the Internet Explorer browser..."
...My mom runs Netscape 7 and she still managed to get a virus.
There is no such thing as a secure computer, but that doesn't mean you don't try to put the odds in your/Mom's favor. If someone wants to infect themselves, they will suceed. Mozilla can do a lot more for the user than IE can, but it can't stop a determined parent from shooting themselves in the foot.
That said, which virus? Was an email virus that she saved to disk and ran manually? Had a user last week that did just that. She got emailed a zipped virus (with password, one of the new viruses). Having to save the zip file to disk and type in the password to unzip, then run the executable wasn't enough of hurdle to stop this determined user.
I too have seen memtest fail to find bad memory, but only once so far. (I switched out memory and since then, no problems.) Also keep in mind, that due to the way it works, memtest errors could be power supply, motherboard, or CPU related in addition to memory related.
I've also seen the hd tests fail to spot a hard drive that was bad too. I spent over a week on one of them trying to figure out why it kept having problems. Since it was in my possession, I didn't have to worry out the cleaning crew causing the problem (see this story under neat idea..)
I've come to the conclusion that there is NO test that can say if the hardware is good, only tests that can say its bad. Between memtest and knoppix (and the hd tests), I can USUALLY spot faulty hardware quickly, but every so often..GRRRR
BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but the ultimate boot CD (free!) contains lots of useful tools all on one CD. These include memtest, and the various hd manufacturer's tests.
...there is HUGE difference between "just ok" and "very good" applicants...
I agree wholeheartedly. However, there are enough PHB's out there who have no clue about this little fact. And to make matters harder, it may not be the person who's trying to hire you that can veto you and is the PHB. So judging the interviewer isn't a guarantee.
Remember that before you get download happy with the c't version, it is a special version that does not have all the regular programs (and stability from what I hear; it's a testing version). It being in German rather than English is not the only difference. 3.4 is going to offically be released at Cebit, which is March 18-24 this year (2004). So we've got about a month to wait for the official release.
>Me first. Company second.
Put this on top of every resume you send out.
How delusional is the alternative now?
Ok, you don't say it, but you do think it, and act accordingly. I've seen very few companies that don't think "Company first, screw employees if convienent". Getting into the few exceptions out there is very tough.
...Over all, it pays to get a college degree. According to surveys (see article) the average college graduate makes $17,000 more per year than the average high school graduate.ver all, it pays to get a college degree. According to surveys (see article) the average college graduate makes $17,000 more per year than the average high school graduate...
The numbers appear to show that, but what I've seen (and experienced) make those numbers really questionable. I've got both a B.S. and Master's degree in chemical engineering, but have never been able to find employement in that field. A lot depends on when you graduate. In the chem eng field (I've been told geology is the same), companies only hire 0 years experience straight from college. If you graduate during the wrong time in the economic cycle, your degree is essentially worthless. When I got my B.S., only 6 out of 22 in my graduating class had any job offers. My Master's (I was hoping to hit a better time) wasn't any better.
I did the environmental work for a while (until the bottom fell out of that market) and during one seminar I attended, the lecturer read off the results of such a salary survey and asked if anyone knew someone making those numbers. No hands went up, but he got plenty of laughs.
Personally, I've always wondered about those college degrees earn more on average statements. I don't think it's necessarily the college degree, but the person. The type of person with the qualities (personality, intelligence, willingness to work hard) needed to get a college degree would probably be more successful on average than a person without those qualities regardless of whether or not he/she got a degree.
...Once you learn more about country X (in this case India), you'll see that you're not that different...
My knowledge (indirect) says yes it is. I remember watching a special (on Discovery Channel I think) called "Come Home Alive". One episode was about a medical student (who looked Indian to me) and his wife (moved from India when was about 6) and how, despite looking the same, were abused at every opportunity.
They had their water and electric cut off for a while, simply because they were Americans. When he was kidnapped, the police helped the kidnappers. Apparently the police in India are paid rather poorly and bribes are done pretty much openly. Indian lawyers hired by his family to help him charged his family American rates, not the local rates.
He (and his family) eventually bribed some people to help him escape, and fled back to the US. He has no desire to ever go back. This is not to say all Indians are bad. His Indian roommate (after his wife had it with the abuse and moved back to the US) did what he could to help him and it was his wife's uncle that was the getaway driver.
There are differences. Americans are not liked in many parts of the world.
Alright, if you really want to get to get technical, here is a link to a book, Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo, chosen at random from project gutenburg. Happy Reading!
...Why should the Scumbags of the entertainment industry go throwing their weight about wherever they like?...
Or better yet, why not make the Scumbags of the entertainment industry who pointed the finger at dvd-jon and made the false claims pay the bill? Both Jon's and the State's.
...I can see how many people would have been suckered into providing their info...
Well, on the bright side, maybe some good will come of this. While I doubt many will wake up and suddenly realize that IE is a bad browser (like most of the/. crowd already knows), perhaps some who are ripped off might come to conclusion (for the wrong reasons, but hey, any port in storm) that the Patriot Act is a bad idea.
I suppose it's good in a way that the above statement isn't true. According to spamhaus, about 90% of all spam is due to just 200 operations. It wouldn't take too many prison cells to hold all of them.
Personally, I feel giving the spammers a year in jail and giving their cell mate a steady supply of v1agra would be a fitting punishment.
...When I read the headers (in a text file, not easily spoofed mail software), almost always the senders domain is not even close to the domain of the spamming machine...
I'll have to double check this next time I get a spam with just a few random words. It's rare though. The fishing for bounces may be accurate after all. Think about. There is no pitch to sell anything in said emails. No links, nothing. Just a few random words. Since spam is commonly defined at unsolicated COMMERCIAL email, the spammer can claim, "I was playing with some software and it just malfunctioned. But it wasn't spam because I wasn't trying to sell anything."
[What I don't understand about this type of spam is that often it doesn't contain any actual advertisement, just three or four lines of random words, and the end of the email right there.] Actually I was viewing the source of the whole email, not the text part.
I too see this sometimes. You're not crazy (at least with regards to this). I've looked at the full source, but still can't figure out what the goal is. My best guess is either they are fishing for bounces (ok, these are bad addresses; the ones that don't bounce may be good addresses), or the spamming software has a problem (bug or is misconfigured).
...As long as captive-ntfs requires ntfs.sys from microsoft, Microsoft would be harming its friends more than its enemies by fighting it.
I don't mean this a troll, but when has M$ ever cared about stabbing a "friend" in the back? They do it every time it becomes convenient. I remember a cellphone company story a while back who partnered with M$ and a last I heard, we suing for stealing technology as just one example.
...What happens when the EULA is
revised is another matter, but this would have to get on the MS radar for
that to happen, which will take at least a year, then another six months or
so until the next update/revision cycle..
Or M$ just uses the next service pack/patch to revise the EULA.
Has anyone else noticed that "dig aol.com txt" returns no spf records? Others, do (such as cavebear.com). Hopefully, the story poster just jumped the gun, and AOL will do this, or perhaps it just hasn't propagated around yet.
...it's assuring to see that the SSL cert is signed by a real organization...
Such as one who has been slapped down for sending out deceptive renewal notices (see here). <scarasm>Well, that certainly makes me feel secure.</sarcasm>
...but after a glorious performance recovering files from a horked Windows box, I make sure I always have a Knoppix CD around. Whenever Windows threatens to waste my time, its Knoppix to the rescue...
I've had similar experiences. I also use Knoppix to help nail down problems. For instance, on one system the sound wouldn't work in Windows. Had the correct drivers, Windows said everything was working, but try to play a wav file and nothing. It is software or hardware? Knoppix to the rescue. Boot up Knoppix, sound works great. That means it's software. Knoppix is very useful for eliminating hardware issues.
As a post note, the problem was the manufacturer's install program didn't get everything right. Had to go through device manager and manually "update" the drivers from the same place they were installed from in the first place.
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Remember when looking at any global warming predicition, these are the same models used to predict your local extended forecast. Considering they can't reliably predict 10 days out, how much credit can you really give a prediction years out?
While the Earth's temperature may be rising, it has done that in the past before man even existed. Are we the cause this time? Noone can truly say for sure, and even *IF* we are, is it a bad thing? Looking at the geological history of the Earth, we are overdue for another ice age.
Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't be looking at alternate energy sources, because we should be. For national security reasons if nothing else. Being dependent on a foreign countries for fuel is not wise, especially when there are many in those countries that would like to see us dead.
Assuming that life does not already exist on Mars...Consider that the information and knowledged gained by trying to transform a dead planet could be useful in helping to clean up our planet. Computer models can only go so far, and are far from perfect.
If life does already exist on Mars, and not brought by accident on one of the probes from Earth, then the question gets much harder to answer.
Of course, if the author wants to keep the copyright, then it's generally in the author's best interest to be easy to find. If someone can't find you to license the work from you, you effectively give up the licensing fees (because it doesn't get licensed).
Yes. The flaw isn't in Outlook/OE per se, but in IE, which those two use for rendering html. From the article: "..infects a PC through a known flaw in the Internet Explorer browser..."
There is no such thing as a secure computer, but that doesn't mean you don't try to put the odds in your/Mom's favor. If someone wants to infect themselves, they will suceed. Mozilla can do a lot more for the user than IE can, but it can't stop a determined parent from shooting themselves in the foot.
That said, which virus? Was an email virus that she saved to disk and ran manually? Had a user last week that did just that. She got emailed a zipped virus (with password, one of the new viruses). Having to save the zip file to disk and type in the password to unzip, then run the executable wasn't enough of hurdle to stop this determined user.
Assuming that:
Hey, I'd love to (really!). Why can I get a list? Oh, the list is blank?? :( Oh well, nice thought.
I too have seen memtest fail to find bad memory, but only once so far. (I switched out memory and since then, no problems.) Also keep in mind, that due to the way it works, memtest errors could be power supply, motherboard, or CPU related in addition to memory related.
I've also seen the hd tests fail to spot a hard drive that was bad too. I spent over a week on one of them trying to figure out why it kept having problems. Since it was in my possession, I didn't have to worry out the cleaning crew causing the problem (see this story under neat idea..)
I've come to the conclusion that there is NO test that can say if the hardware is good, only tests that can say its bad. Between memtest and knoppix (and the hd tests), I can USUALLY spot faulty hardware quickly, but every so often..GRRRR
BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but the ultimate boot CD (free!) contains lots of useful tools all on one CD. These include memtest, and the various hd manufacturer's tests.
I agree wholeheartedly. However, there are enough PHB's out there who have no clue about this little fact. And to make matters harder, it may not be the person who's trying to hire you that can veto you and is the PHB. So judging the interviewer isn't a guarantee.
Remember that before you get download happy with the c't version, it is a special version that does not have all the regular programs (and stability from what I hear; it's a testing version). It being in German rather than English is not the only difference. 3.4 is going to offically be released at Cebit, which is March 18-24 this year (2004). So we've got about a month to wait for the official release.
>Me first. Company second. Put this on top of every resume you send out. How delusional is the alternative now?
Ok, you don't say it, but you do think it, and act accordingly. I've seen very few companies that don't think "Company first, screw employees if convienent". Getting into the few exceptions out there is very tough.
The numbers appear to show that, but what I've seen (and experienced) make those numbers really questionable. I've got both a B.S. and Master's degree in chemical engineering, but have never been able to find employement in that field. A lot depends on when you graduate. In the chem eng field (I've been told geology is the same), companies only hire 0 years experience straight from college. If you graduate during the wrong time in the economic cycle, your degree is essentially worthless. When I got my B.S., only 6 out of 22 in my graduating class had any job offers. My Master's (I was hoping to hit a better time) wasn't any better.
I did the environmental work for a while (until the bottom fell out of that market) and during one seminar I attended, the lecturer read off the results of such a salary survey and asked if anyone knew someone making those numbers. No hands went up, but he got plenty of laughs.
Personally, I've always wondered about those college degrees earn more on average statements. I don't think it's necessarily the college degree, but the person. The type of person with the qualities (personality, intelligence, willingness to work hard) needed to get a college degree would probably be more successful on average than a person without those qualities regardless of whether or not he/she got a degree.
My knowledge (indirect) says yes it is. I remember watching a special (on Discovery Channel I think) called "Come Home Alive". One episode was about a medical student (who looked Indian to me) and his wife (moved from India when was about 6) and how, despite looking the same, were abused at every opportunity.
They had their water and electric cut off for a while, simply because they were Americans. When he was kidnapped, the police helped the kidnappers. Apparently the police in India are paid rather poorly and bribes are done pretty much openly. Indian lawyers hired by his family to help him charged his family American rates, not the local rates.
He (and his family) eventually bribed some people to help him escape, and fled back to the US. He has no desire to ever go back. This is not to say all Indians are bad. His Indian roommate (after his wife had it with the abuse and moved back to the US) did what he could to help him and it was his wife's uncle that was the getaway driver.
There are differences. Americans are not liked in many parts of the world.
Ah! But there is a google toolbar for Moz. Happy switching.
looks like a link to a website about books to me.
Alright, if you really want to get to get technical, here is a link to a book, Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo, chosen at random from project gutenburg. Happy Reading!
Or better yet, why not make the Scumbags of the entertainment industry who pointed the finger at dvd-jon and made the false claims pay the bill? Both Jon's and the State's.
Well, on the bright side, maybe some good will come of this. While I doubt many will wake up and suddenly realize that IE is a bad browser (like most of the /. crowd already knows), perhaps some who are ripped off might come to conclusion (for the wrong reasons, but hey, any port in storm) that the Patriot Act is a bad idea.
I suppose it's good in a way that the above statement isn't true. According to spamhaus, about 90% of all spam is due to just 200 operations. It wouldn't take too many prison cells to hold all of them.
Personally, I feel giving the spammers a year in jail and giving their cell mate a steady supply of v1agra would be a fitting punishment.
I'll have to double check this next time I get a spam with just a few random words. It's rare though. The fishing for bounces may be accurate after all. Think about. There is no pitch to sell anything in said emails. No links, nothing. Just a few random words. Since spam is commonly defined at unsolicated COMMERCIAL email, the spammer can claim, "I was playing with some software and it just malfunctioned. But it wasn't spam because I wasn't trying to sell anything."
[What I don't understand about this type of spam is that often it doesn't contain any actual advertisement, just three or four lines of random words, and the end of the email right there.] Actually I was viewing the source of the whole email, not the text part.
I too see this sometimes. You're not crazy (at least with regards to this). I've looked at the full source, but still can't figure out what the goal is. My best guess is either they are fishing for bounces (ok, these are bad addresses; the ones that don't bounce may be good addresses), or the spamming software has a problem (bug or is misconfigured).
I don't mean this a troll, but when has M$ ever cared about stabbing a "friend" in the back? They do it every time it becomes convenient. I remember a cellphone company story a while back who partnered with M$ and a last I heard, we suing for stealing technology as just one example.
Or M$ just uses the next service pack/patch to revise the EULA.
Has anyone else noticed that "dig aol.com txt" returns no spf records? Others, do (such as cavebear.com). Hopefully, the story poster just jumped the gun, and AOL will do this, or perhaps it just hasn't propagated around yet.
Such as one who has been slapped down for sending out deceptive renewal notices (see here). <scarasm>Well, that certainly makes me feel secure.</sarcasm>
I've had similar experiences. I also use Knoppix to help nail down problems. For instance, on one system the sound wouldn't work in Windows. Had the correct drivers, Windows said everything was working, but try to play a wav file and nothing. It is software or hardware? Knoppix to the rescue. Boot up Knoppix, sound works great. That means it's software. Knoppix is very useful for eliminating hardware issues.
As a post note, the problem was the manufacturer's install program didn't get everything right. Had to go through device manager and manually "update" the drivers from the same place they were installed from in the first place.