genetic testing allowed me to know that I do indeed have a genetic disorder that causes a lack of an enzyme involved in the processing of l-dopa, causing me to frequently not have enough dopamine in my brain...giving me dopa-responsive dystonia, treated via the same thing Parkinson's suffers use (sinemet).
That being the case...I'm going to genetically discriminate myself, and get a vasectomy. I'd never wish this upon a child...not when we've since figured out that my father's lifetime non-drug-responsive hypertension is because of the same problem, just presenting differently. Do you have a genetic disorder? Unless you're part of the target audience, don't speak for us;)
Troll much? The GPL is the most open of "open source" because the licensing locks the code open for everyone to see and modify.
Funny you say "code" there...you might want to check out why he said what he said, before responding.
It wasn't code licensing that got the OSS annoyed at MySQL and how they were earning a bad rep and pissing off companies who would, and had, otherwise contributed. It was the gpl "protocol" stupidity, where they claimed anything that connected to a mysql database was also subject to the GPL. Plus, they didn't just publish under GPL...they started the dual-licensing bit.
To some, "open source" is a culture which promotes freedom of use, not just availability of source to look at...something mysql absolutely did not do. Feel free to disagree with us, I suppose.
I'm...not sure where you're going with your response. The house still fits the house specs, and is only obsolete if you have all that insane 70's wallpaper and countertops jazz.
coax has 1 core, and a sheath. the core could probably serve well enough, but the sheath? a mesh of metal that wasn't in any way designed to carry (or even ground for) data at 100Mb with little to no data loss? Uhhh....no.
Others have suggested you use the coax to pull the cat5. Unfortunately, I happen to know that if the coax was put in as the walls were going up, it was likely put in the same way the romex (electric) was; staples along studs will prevent you from just pulling it out. Best bet is to just cut it, shove it in the wall, and start over. Hate to be the 50th person to say that, but having a house full of coax doesn't in any way get you any closer to having a cat5 wired house.
All that said, the overwhelming expense - even if you're doing it youself- of putting in cat5 cable is the labor, not the cable. So, you should go for the gusto and put in cat6, if not even cat 7. That way, 10 years from now you won't be looking at your house full of cabling that is as out-dated as coax, and needing to scrap it all and start over.
Years - I mean years - ago I was doing hot patches to Sun boxes that needed to stay up forever no questions.
Enter the mid 00's, when the cloud became useable. Enter the late 90s, when Beowulf made computational clustering with commodity products trivial. MCServiceGuard from...whatever year, etc etc etc.
Point is, anything that someone thinks is so important that they want to never reboot a system...should have 2 systems that cost half as much each running as a high-availability app cluster. Anyone with any sense knows that it is supposed to be a service that is always available, not a server. Patch it and reboot it, ya goofball. Let your load balancers and app clusters take care of the temporary loss of one of your servers. Why is this even a question? What semi-decent app doesn't have HA built in to it these days?
I'm pretty sure he did actually mean to say a million people could do it for every 1 that couldn't, but that the gp just happened to be the 1 that couldn't. Meaning, it was a rebuke to the poster in specific, versus a rebuke to slashdotters in general.
if you're talking about the UNIX variant, sure. When SCO was a UNIX vendor, they were fairly well respected. That's not the same SCO in anything but a name, as the one that was so controversial several years ago.
Every day, I get to work using 10,000 year old technology that the internet hasn't replaced yet - the wheel. I first read about the internet using a 5500 year old invention (paper) that is still in extremely prolific use today.
What? Huh? There are hundreds of thousands of inventions that are in use at that hospital every minute of every day, that didn't get replaced by the internet. Why single out this one? Is it because, like the internet, this too is a series of tubes?"
If the raw data is wrong, then all the data is wrong. The filtered data is less accurate than the raw data - it is filtered not to improve accuracy, but instead to establish trends. If you've established trends using invalid data, then the trends are not accurate.
But the real point is that the CRU says they destroyed the data because they couldn't store it anymore - not because it wasn't accurate. I'm rejecting the notion that they couldn't store it anymore; storage costs go down, not up. Their funding has increased the last 10 years, not decreased.
Economists are people who do statistical analysis. You don't need a degree in meteorology to calculate average temperatures read from various weather stations. And if you have any shred of understanding on the subject, you will know that even if they have a temp reading for 1000 stations in Russia, and the temp is recorded as a float, and is recorded every second for 100 years, into that would be: 4bytes * 7000sites * 100 years * 31536000seconds in a year = 88,300,800,000,000bytes. Woah, a huge number! Wait, that's only 88Terabytes, and you can get 2TB drives for $150. Sorry, I don't buy the CRU excuse that they couldn't store the data and had to clean it off - they didn't even have 10Tb, much less 88. Data storage gets cheaper and cheaper - a disk cluster 20 years ago is a thumb drive today. Not buying it.
Then, had you actually read the article, you would have seen this: "One the final page, there is a chart that shows that CRU's selective use of 25% of the data created 0.64C more warming than simply using all of the raw data would have done."
Using all the raw data is precisely what the number crunchers are saying they did. Do you really think a bunch of PhD's in math care whether the data is temps, or stock prices? They do analytics on *numbers*. Don't worry, they're happy to leave the meteorology to the weatherman...that's not what is being studied here, though.
That's because in terms of landlines, India is light years behind the US.
Fail. Fail fail fail fail holy blood hell fail. Landlines? Landlines? Not to steal from the guy above, but "saying that the US has great landline service is like bragging that we have the best typewriter availability around so it's acceptable that we can't get good computers."
Many people I know - in fact, close to half my circle of peers and friends - don't even have a landline anymore. What year do you think this is? I don't care if India has bad landlines.
Wait, scratch that...their cell service is good because their landlines are bad? So if our landlines get wrecked our cell service will magically get 20x cheaper? Is that supposed to somehow make sense?
We invented the farking landlines, cellphones, AND the internet. You'd think that somewhere along the lines in all that, we could figure out how the hell to have decent service. And ya wanna know why we don't? Because we're not really a capitalist society - we've allowed government-protected oligarchies in every major industry. How the hell much do you think they pay for textbooks in India, for example? Were I a libertarian, I'd beg for socialism around here - it would be closer to a free market than what we have now, at least.
No malware? I think the claim is that Linux doesn't have the threat from viruses that Windows does - actually, it has little threat from them at all.
loose security configurations and mindless execution of unverified downloads - so, the sort of thing no admin with any brains, regardless the OS they were using, would do? The difference is, you can fairly much lock up Linux very fast, with little a non-privileged person can do, while not really limiting what services the machine will offer. With Windows on the other hand, it takes more effort to lock it down, and things become far more burdensome to deal with once you do. Let me tell you how much I loved having errors all over the policy editor in windows because of some basic security settings...which meant that doing normal, everyday windows admin tasks you would be confronted with errors left and right because of the policy settings. Doing normal, everyday UNIX admin tasks on a locked down box though...no issues.
Why do people take the argument so damn personally, anyway? The OSes are meant for different things. That one is better at some things than the other should make sense - they have entirely different methodologies.
PS - it took you a *week* to write something that could exploit "loose security configurations?" Give me 5 minutes and I'll write something. Go ahead and publish whatever you wrote, I'm sure several of us could use the laugh.
would you trust those same people with your bank account password? Because that's what he mentioned.
Further, and forgive me for having used unspoken assumptions, but I would imagine that if someone is going to the trouble of setting up a password manager then they might actually end up using those passwords for more than just websites. The anecdotal "it works fine for me" is nearly meaningless; he could have 1 password for all the sites, and have it be something like his street address or such, and guess what? He'd still have a pretty good chance no one would ever break in to his accounts. Chances are, he'd get away with it. You've gotten away with what you're doing - whether or not that is secure enough is irrelevant to whether or not you, sample size 1, have succeeded with that method.
yeah well, guess I should start carrying around a purse then, so I can get a palm pilot for no other use than just to have my passwords, plus however many other devices I should carry around for whatever else because hey - they're still useful, and use batteries I can buy where-ever. Yeah?
Much the same that some men won't carry around a wallet, I'd think a decent percentage of people would probably prefer to limit the number of handhelds they carry around with them on a regular basis...?
Yeah, my reply is heavy with tha sarcasm sauce, but surely you can see what I'm saying anyway?
yeah well, lots of insightful people here don't understand that concept. So hush, you!
then there's the one above that says put them all on a slip but don't say which is which...oh yeah, ok, now I only have to try 10 things or so...which with most default configs means I have a 100% chance of getting the right one eventually, since all I have to do is try twice, wait an hour, try to others, wait an hour...etc.
Hey people, how about suggesting things he's actually asking for? Pieces of paper get wet often enough, after all - and an awful lot of people (such as myself) don't carry a wallet. He is clearly asking for a solution from the 21st century, not the 19th...
Great that they extrapolate to the global population a trend that may or may not have been seen in one specific, exact, location over the course of 50 years.
Framingham appears to be a suburb of Boston. I've only passed through Boston. They have baked beans there, or something. I've lived all across the country, and I do know that body shape averages do actually seem to change. For example here in SoCal, there seem to be 2 basic social classes, and those within the upper class tend to be pretty thin - especially compared to what I've seen elsewhere. And to boot, lots of these attractive thin tall women are becoming milfs.
Lots of talk about "Idiocracy" without considering that it's always been this way, since we started living in communal caves. And also without considering the fact that there's only 300mil people here in the US, and the planet has 7bill; don't pretend that some cultural phenomena here holds true in the other global cultures, including those cultures that are both dramatically different than ours, and have populations that extremely outnumber ours. We're becoming a global society, transportation is trivial, we move things across the planet now. What are people going to look like in 10 generations? Asian, probably. And I personally don't see what the fuss is about or why anyone would care; we're ok with giving the children 10 generations from now a heaping pile of trash and a burned out planet, but we're worried about how tall and fat they'll be?
roads aren't a career. They aren't a place where some should excel at the expense of others. Since you are sharing the road with others, if your behavior isn't predictable then it is bad behavior. Say for example a champion race-car driver decided that, to prove how great a driver he was, he would drive on the wrong side of a freeway. Would that not be "bad driving?" I don't care how good your skill at steering and breaking might be, driving is a social contract to act within an established set of norms. A surgeon can have extreme skill at controlling how deeply they cut, and otherwise have perfect hand-eye coordination, but if that perfection is applied to cutting out part of your liver when you're supposed to be having a brain tumor removed, then completely independent of any amount of hand-eye coordination and grace - that person is a bad surgeon.
Same as a driver. If you aren't driving in a way that is predictable, and aren't driving the way you should be, then you are a bad driver. I don't care if you can do a controlled 360 on the road in front of your house - if you actually do it, then you are a bad driver. period.
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genetic testing allowed me to know that I do indeed have a genetic disorder that causes a lack of an enzyme involved in the processing of l-dopa, causing me to frequently not have enough dopamine in my brain...giving me dopa-responsive dystonia, treated via the same thing Parkinson's suffers use (sinemet).
That being the case...I'm going to genetically discriminate myself, and get a vasectomy. I'd never wish this upon a child...not when we've since figured out that my father's lifetime non-drug-responsive hypertension is because of the same problem, just presenting differently. Do you have a genetic disorder? Unless you're part of the target audience, don't speak for us ;)
lol @ sig, seconded.
Troll much? The GPL is the most open of "open source" because the licensing locks the code open for everyone to see and modify.
Funny you say "code" there...you might want to check out why he said what he said, before responding.
It wasn't code licensing that got the OSS annoyed at MySQL and how they were earning a bad rep and pissing off companies who would, and had, otherwise contributed. It was the gpl "protocol" stupidity, where they claimed anything that connected to a mysql database was also subject to the GPL. Plus, they didn't just publish under GPL...they started the dual-licensing bit.
To some, "open source" is a culture which promotes freedom of use, not just availability of source to look at...something mysql absolutely did not do. Feel free to disagree with us, I suppose.
full of cabling that is as out-dated as coax
I'm...not sure where you're going with your response. The house still fits the house specs, and is only obsolete if you have all that insane 70's wallpaper and countertops jazz.
coax has 1 core, and a sheath. the core could probably serve well enough, but the sheath? a mesh of metal that wasn't in any way designed to carry (or even ground for) data at 100Mb with little to no data loss? Uhhh....no.
Others have suggested you use the coax to pull the cat5. Unfortunately, I happen to know that if the coax was put in as the walls were going up, it was likely put in the same way the romex (electric) was; staples along studs will prevent you from just pulling it out. Best bet is to just cut it, shove it in the wall, and start over. Hate to be the 50th person to say that, but having a house full of coax doesn't in any way get you any closer to having a cat5 wired house.
All that said, the overwhelming expense - even if you're doing it youself- of putting in cat5 cable is the labor, not the cable. So, you should go for the gusto and put in cat6, if not even cat 7. That way, 10 years from now you won't be looking at your house full of cabling that is as out-dated as coax, and needing to scrap it all and start over.
Years - I mean years - ago I was doing hot patches to Sun boxes that needed to stay up forever no questions.
Enter the mid 00's, when the cloud became useable. Enter the late 90s, when Beowulf made computational clustering with commodity products trivial. MCServiceGuard from...whatever year, etc etc etc.
Point is, anything that someone thinks is so important that they want to never reboot a system...should have 2 systems that cost half as much each running as a high-availability app cluster. Anyone with any sense knows that it is supposed to be a service that is always available, not a server. Patch it and reboot it, ya goofball. Let your load balancers and app clusters take care of the temporary loss of one of your servers. Why is this even a question? What semi-decent app doesn't have HA built in to it these days?
I'm pretty sure he did actually mean to say a million people could do it for every 1 that couldn't, but that the gp just happened to be the 1 that couldn't. Meaning, it was a rebuke to the poster in specific, versus a rebuke to slashdotters in general.
and wowarmory is for characters, not accounts, as well. Your point?
I've got an idea then - just make 5 buttons. With the various permutations possible, that will be more than enough.
if you're talking about the UNIX variant, sure. When SCO was a UNIX vendor, they were fairly well respected. That's not the same SCO in anything but a name, as the one that was so controversial several years ago.
SCO != MS, and SCO != angelic. I prefer to think of EVIL as an array, with MS being merely an element in it.
Every day, I get to work using 10,000 year old technology that the internet hasn't replaced yet - the wheel. I first read about the internet using a 5500 year old invention (paper) that is still in extremely prolific use today.
What? Huh? There are hundreds of thousands of inventions that are in use at that hospital every minute of every day, that didn't get replaced by the internet. Why single out this one? Is it because, like the internet, this too is a series of tubes?"
If the raw data is wrong, then all the data is wrong. The filtered data is less accurate than the raw data - it is filtered not to improve accuracy, but instead to establish trends. If you've established trends using invalid data, then the trends are not accurate.
But the real point is that the CRU says they destroyed the data because they couldn't store it anymore - not because it wasn't accurate. I'm rejecting the notion that they couldn't store it anymore; storage costs go down, not up. Their funding has increased the last 10 years, not decreased.
Unless the IEA produces data it claims is 100% raw uncut, this story is below the threshold of credibility.
Can we, um, ask the same of the CRU?
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
Economists are people who do statistical analysis. You don't need a degree in meteorology to calculate average temperatures read from various weather stations. And if you have any shred of understanding on the subject, you will know that even if they have a temp reading for 1000 stations in Russia, and the temp is recorded as a float, and is recorded every second for 100 years, into that would be:
4bytes * 7000sites * 100 years * 31536000seconds in a year = 88,300,800,000,000bytes. Woah, a huge number! Wait, that's only 88Terabytes, and you can get 2TB drives for $150. Sorry, I don't buy the CRU excuse that they couldn't store the data and had to clean it off - they didn't even have 10Tb, much less 88. Data storage gets cheaper and cheaper - a disk cluster 20 years ago is a thumb drive today. Not buying it.
Then, had you actually read the article, you would have seen this: "One the final page, there is a chart that shows that CRU's selective use of 25% of the data created 0.64C more warming than simply using all of the raw data would have done."
Using all the raw data is precisely what the number crunchers are saying they did. Do you really think a bunch of PhD's in math care whether the data is temps, or stock prices? They do analytics on *numbers*. Don't worry, they're happy to leave the meteorology to the weatherman...that's not what is being studied here, though.
That's because in terms of landlines, India is light years behind the US.
Fail. Fail fail fail fail holy blood hell fail. Landlines? Landlines? Not to steal from the guy above, but "saying that the US has great landline service is like bragging that we have the best typewriter availability around so it's acceptable that we can't get good computers."
Many people I know - in fact, close to half my circle of peers and friends - don't even have a landline anymore. What year do you think this is? I don't care if India has bad landlines.
Wait, scratch that...their cell service is good because their landlines are bad? So if our landlines get wrecked our cell service will magically get 20x cheaper? Is that supposed to somehow make sense?
We invented the farking landlines, cellphones, AND the internet. You'd think that somewhere along the lines in all that, we could figure out how the hell to have decent service. And ya wanna know why we don't? Because we're not really a capitalist society - we've allowed government-protected oligarchies in every major industry. How the hell much do you think they pay for textbooks in India, for example? Were I a libertarian, I'd beg for socialism around here - it would be closer to a free market than what we have now, at least.
so when you get to that part of the kernel config, don't enable it.
ostensibly, they're not wanting to check your work - they're wanting to trace back where you got the child porn, so they can prosecute those people.
But yeah - no one does this. Like I want to lose my computer, and a substantial portion of my life, just because someone bundled X with Y.
No malware? I think the claim is that Linux doesn't have the threat from viruses that Windows does - actually, it has little threat from them at all.
loose security configurations and mindless execution of unverified downloads - so, the sort of thing no admin with any brains, regardless the OS they were using, would do? The difference is, you can fairly much lock up Linux very fast, with little a non-privileged person can do, while not really limiting what services the machine will offer. With Windows on the other hand, it takes more effort to lock it down, and things become far more burdensome to deal with once you do. Let me tell you how much I loved having errors all over the policy editor in windows because of some basic security settings...which meant that doing normal, everyday windows admin tasks you would be confronted with errors left and right because of the policy settings. Doing normal, everyday UNIX admin tasks on a locked down box though...no issues.
Why do people take the argument so damn personally, anyway? The OSes are meant for different things. That one is better at some things than the other should make sense - they have entirely different methodologies.
PS - it took you a *week* to write something that could exploit "loose security configurations?" Give me 5 minutes and I'll write something. Go ahead and publish whatever you wrote, I'm sure several of us could use the laugh.
would you trust those same people with your bank account password? Because that's what he mentioned.
Further, and forgive me for having used unspoken assumptions, but I would imagine that if someone is going to the trouble of setting up a password manager then they might actually end up using those passwords for more than just websites. The anecdotal "it works fine for me" is nearly meaningless; he could have 1 password for all the sites, and have it be something like his street address or such, and guess what? He'd still have a pretty good chance no one would ever break in to his accounts. Chances are, he'd get away with it. You've gotten away with what you're doing - whether or not that is secure enough is irrelevant to whether or not you, sample size 1, have succeeded with that method.
yeah well, guess I should start carrying around a purse then, so I can get a palm pilot for no other use than just to have my passwords, plus however many other devices I should carry around for whatever else because hey - they're still useful, and use batteries I can buy where-ever. Yeah?
Much the same that some men won't carry around a wallet, I'd think a decent percentage of people would probably prefer to limit the number of handhelds they carry around with them on a regular basis...?
Yeah, my reply is heavy with tha sarcasm sauce, but surely you can see what I'm saying anyway?
yeah well, lots of insightful people here don't understand that concept. So hush, you!
then there's the one above that says put them all on a slip but don't say which is which...oh yeah, ok, now I only have to try 10 things or so...which with most default configs means I have a 100% chance of getting the right one eventually, since all I have to do is try twice, wait an hour, try to others, wait an hour...etc.
Hey people, how about suggesting things he's actually asking for? Pieces of paper get wet often enough, after all - and an awful lot of people (such as myself) don't carry a wallet. He is clearly asking for a solution from the 21st century, not the 19th...
electric nuts....charged screws...
holy cow! EEs are prostitutes!
Great that they extrapolate to the global population a trend that may or may not have been seen in one specific, exact, location over the course of 50 years.
Framingham appears to be a suburb of Boston. I've only passed through Boston. They have baked beans there, or something. I've lived all across the country, and I do know that body shape averages do actually seem to change. For example here in SoCal, there seem to be 2 basic social classes, and those within the upper class tend to be pretty thin - especially compared to what I've seen elsewhere. And to boot, lots of these attractive thin tall women are becoming milfs.
Lots of talk about "Idiocracy" without considering that it's always been this way, since we started living in communal caves. And also without considering the fact that there's only 300mil people here in the US, and the planet has 7bill; don't pretend that some cultural phenomena here holds true in the other global cultures, including those cultures that are both dramatically different than ours, and have populations that extremely outnumber ours. We're becoming a global society, transportation is trivial, we move things across the planet now. What are people going to look like in 10 generations? Asian, probably. And I personally don't see what the fuss is about or why anyone would care; we're ok with giving the children 10 generations from now a heaping pile of trash and a burned out planet, but we're worried about how tall and fat they'll be?
roads aren't a career. They aren't a place where some should excel at the expense of others. Since you are sharing the road with others, if your behavior isn't predictable then it is bad behavior. Say for example a champion race-car driver decided that, to prove how great a driver he was, he would drive on the wrong side of a freeway. Would that not be "bad driving?" I don't care how good your skill at steering and breaking might be, driving is a social contract to act within an established set of norms. A surgeon can have extreme skill at controlling how deeply they cut, and otherwise have perfect hand-eye coordination, but if that perfection is applied to cutting out part of your liver when you're supposed to be having a brain tumor removed, then completely independent of any amount of hand-eye coordination and grace - that person is a bad surgeon.
Same as a driver. If you aren't driving in a way that is predictable, and aren't driving the way you should be, then you are a bad driver. I don't care if you can do a controlled 360 on the road in front of your house - if you actually do it, then you are a bad driver. period.
more than 2 or 3 have been killed for it. Want to re-think your plan?