Interestingly, I've found that the Boot Camp sound card drivers for Windows actually support mic boost for the "Line-in" jack on the Macbook, making it a kazillion times more useful. Under OSX, you can't use mic boost on that audio port, so if you want to attach a standard headset-mic, you need a USB soundcard with a mic-in port.
Apparently, the hardware supports it, and the Windows driver supports it, but OSX degrades the function of that port for some bizarre reason.
There are many cases of experimenters running dozens of experiments with slightly different conditions before hitting on one that gives them the desired p 0.05.
I hate to break it to you, but this isn't limited to psychology. As a physical chemist working in a largely biologically-oriented lab, I'm appalled at what passes for science in some cases.
I put the fault for this in a couple of places. Firstly, the fact that work in science is now just another job draws people to work in scientific fields who are not particularly well-suited to the constant frustration and failure that comes with testing hypotheses until you get it right. These people are more interested in getting positive results than they are in getting true results.
Secondly, the way that funding is allocated stems largely from a person's track record of getting positive results. While this certainly makes a great deal of sense, it favors people who get the results they are looking for and not necessarily those who do good science.
Bullshit. If you are purchasing a cert from Verisign, Thawte, or any other major player (i.e. not a $30 cert from RapidSSL), they'll demand a physical address
It doesn't matter if the good CAs check if the bad ones don't. The whole process is only as strong as the weakest link. Firefox doesn't distinguish between the two, so they are both just as valid. Therefore, you can only trust the good certs as much as you can trust the bad ones (unless you check every cert to see which CA signed it).
Amazon's S3 has been around for some time now and will likely continue to hang around for a while. I'm using JungleDisk to provide encryption and a nice interface to it. The nice thing about using S3 is that you don't get an allotted amount of disk space or transfer, you just pay for what you use. A second backup of everything that I wouldn't want to lose (updated nightly) costs me about $5/mo. That's for ~40 GB storage and the incremental transfers.
It came in handy after a theft left me with no physical copy of some of my data. That month, after dumping about half of my stored data back to my home, my bill was a whopping $8.
Being that inexpensive, encrypted, and with an automated backup solution, I find that the WAF is really high. It was her computer that was stolen, too, so she's totally sold on the idea of backups now!
Later that year an F-1 hit the St Louis area; I visited a friend in Cahokia that weekend and it was NOTHING like the destruction in my neighborhood. But it took the Amerin corporation a month to get his (very expensive) power back on.
I don't mean to detract from the sentiment that you're trying to convey (that the response varies based on who's doing it?), but Ameren, as a company, is extremely well known for being a worthless fuck-up. I wouldn't be surprised if it took them a month to change a lightbulb.
Yet so many here want to keep their health care in the hands of these same goons who can't even keep your lights on in a storm.
Thankfully, Ameren probably wouldn't be the people running the healthcare system. I doubt that anyone here is suggesting that.
If I walked into a bar in Europe and they were unable to serve me a pint, with no further explanation on my part, I would leave.
I wouldn't ever worry about this being the case, especially in a bar, but the issue comes back to the government mandating what unit of measure drinks are served in. Alcohol has its own system of measure that stays constant and any bartender worth his salt will know how to measure in fingers or jiggers or pints. Why is the government deciding what unit alcohol is served in, though?
Seriously, I think you fooled the mods here too. Tor exit nodes are just computers running Tor that have been set up to also be an exit node. There are hundreds of nodes and they are run by volunteers, not by the Tor project. You can get a list of the exit nodes (here, for example), but Tor Hyams has nothing to do with them.
I'm not a computer programmer, so I don't know what specifically would make a "computer security" path of study different from a "computer science" (or whatever) degree. The OP complained about "...hav[ing] been looking for formal academic training in computing security for quite some time," so I would assume he decided a regularly offered course of study didn't meet his requirements.
Seriously, is there a point to your post or are you just being argumentative? From your attitude toward education, it appears "you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling" yourself.
It's pointless to "study" computer security. By the time you're through, you get told "forget everything, it's outdated".
There's nothing specific to computer security here. In nearly every field, by the time you graduate what you've learned is outdated. The methods have changed, the accepted views and interpretations have changed, the tools have changed. Education isn't about learning the specifics of particular topics, it's about learning how to intelligently and rationally deal with a specific topic.
A computer security course of study could contain examples, such as browser exploits and conficker, but the focus should be on the more abstract concepts. Ideally, if you understand computer security, you will be able to deal with whatever the current craze is.
That's a pretty well written and informed post, but I can't tell if you're being sarcastic when you question it being a epidemic. Saying that a large portion of US gun violence happens in certain neighborhoods of those four cities wouldn't strike anybody as unusual or unexpected. The violence in Detroit, for example, isn't exactly spreading to other cities, either. 2.97 deaths per 100,000 per year (0.00297%/yr) hardly qualifies as an epidemic.
Typical examples of an epidemic are the Black Plague, AIDS in Africa, or the Spanish Flu pandemic. Hell, even auto related deaths aren't described as epidermic.
Let's do this then. Anyone interested in putting up space for this or helping me develop the site? I'm thinking of stealing your CopTube name (coptube.org?)...
Let's try it again then. Anybody willing to put up space for coptube.org? I'll get to work putting the site together. Any dev help is appreciated, too.
I'll say that the decision to not retry him is reasonable given his age.
I keep hearing this, but I don't see how this can be true in any way, shape, or form. Letting political corruption go unpunished is an extremely dangerous precedent to set, especially on account of age. Exactly how many congressmen well-established enough to be able to wield this kind of corruption would we be able to try? This is essentially a green-light for corruption, as long as you can get away with it long enough.
Besides, who cares if he doesn't get to serve much time before he dies? Just like the powers-that-be are always punishing us little people to set an example for others, he should be an example that corruption is not to be tolerated.
DD-WRT does not support IPv6 out of the box, so to say. See here. It's not a huge deal to get it working, but it's not for your grandma to do and would probably intimidate an embarrassing percentage of Slashdot regulars.
I've been playing around with the Windows 7 beta and whatever IE version it uses does that. "domain.tld" is black and the rest of the address is grayed out. I was actually pretty impressed, though I'm not sure how it works with very long addresses.
Each country or area has a different supply vs. demand curve.
But this isn't true. The supply is global, not local to each country. They're trying to take advantage of a "global economy" on their supply side, but the segmented "local economies" on the demand side.
That's because FuzzyHead and Kucinich's response isn't the correct one. The correct response to a question like that is to laugh and not answer it. Serious, rational people don't get asked whether they've seen a UFO in interviews. That is exclusively the realm of nutters and it is never correct to answer it seriously. You act like the interviewer is making a joke and, if they persist, you act like they're insane. Nobody will ever fault you for not taking a question like that seriously.
Science and Religion are different bodies of knowledge, but not mutually exclusive
So, science may be compatible with going to church, living the ten commandments, or whatever else you like to do, but it's not compatible with belief in a god that has any power in any domain covered by a scientific theory.
This distinction is fine and the original statement is still true. Not all religions make assertions about the observable world, and only those that do (specifically the parts that do) are in conflict with science (which deals exclusively with what we can observe). Discussion of metaphysical concepts is (IMHO) the primary realm of religion and is in no way at odds with science. Belief (or disbelief) in these concepts doesn't clash with rational observation of our surroundings at all. Only the dogmatic aspects of religion conflict with a scientific worldview and these are exclusively the case for religious fundamentalism.
As an aside, I'm a scientist (a chemist) and not religious, but these stupid fights coming from misunderstandings of the "opposing" side are ridiculous and I'm sick of hearing them. Pretending that every religious person is a fundamentalist lunatic is just as counterproductive as pretending that every scientist is a godless Darwinian atheist.
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Ok, therein lies the biggest misconception of a Mac. It doesn't "quickly go obsolete."
You can see this effect by searching ebay or the like for old Macs. They retain a high resale value for quite some time...
Interestingly, I've found that the Boot Camp sound card drivers for Windows actually support mic boost for the "Line-in" jack on the Macbook, making it a kazillion times more useful. Under OSX, you can't use mic boost on that audio port, so if you want to attach a standard headset-mic, you need a USB soundcard with a mic-in port.
Apparently, the hardware supports it, and the Windows driver supports it, but OSX degrades the function of that port for some bizarre reason.
There are many cases of experimenters running dozens of experiments with slightly different conditions before hitting on one that gives them the desired p 0.05.
I hate to break it to you, but this isn't limited to psychology. As a physical chemist working in a largely biologically-oriented lab, I'm appalled at what passes for science in some cases.
I put the fault for this in a couple of places. Firstly, the fact that work in science is now just another job draws people to work in scientific fields who are not particularly well-suited to the constant frustration and failure that comes with testing hypotheses until you get it right. These people are more interested in getting positive results than they are in getting true results.
Secondly, the way that funding is allocated stems largely from a person's track record of getting positive results. While this certainly makes a great deal of sense, it favors people who get the results they are looking for and not necessarily those who do good science.
Bullshit. If you are purchasing a cert from Verisign, Thawte, or any other major player (i.e. not a $30 cert from RapidSSL), they'll demand a physical address
It doesn't matter if the good CAs check if the bad ones don't. The whole process is only as strong as the weakest link. Firefox doesn't distinguish between the two, so they are both just as valid. Therefore, you can only trust the good certs as much as you can trust the bad ones (unless you check every cert to see which CA signed it).
Amazon's S3 has been around for some time now and will likely continue to hang around for a while. I'm using JungleDisk to provide encryption and a nice interface to it. The nice thing about using S3 is that you don't get an allotted amount of disk space or transfer, you just pay for what you use. A second backup of everything that I wouldn't want to lose (updated nightly) costs me about $5/mo. That's for ~40 GB storage and the incremental transfers.
It came in handy after a theft left me with no physical copy of some of my data. That month, after dumping about half of my stored data back to my home, my bill was a whopping $8.
Being that inexpensive, encrypted, and with an automated backup solution, I find that the WAF is really high. It was her computer that was stolen, too, so she's totally sold on the idea of backups now!
If Obama appoints anyone even remotely associated with the insurance industry to be in charge of health care, we're fucked.
You know he will, too. After all, they are experts in the field, right?
Later that year an F-1 hit the St Louis area; I visited a friend in Cahokia that weekend and it was NOTHING like the destruction in my neighborhood. But it took the Amerin corporation a month to get his (very expensive) power back on.
I don't mean to detract from the sentiment that you're trying to convey (that the response varies based on who's doing it?), but Ameren, as a company, is extremely well known for being a worthless fuck-up. I wouldn't be surprised if it took them a month to change a lightbulb.
Yet so many here want to keep their health care in the hands of these same goons who can't even keep your lights on in a storm.
Thankfully, Ameren probably wouldn't be the people running the healthcare system. I doubt that anyone here is suggesting that.
my wifi transmitter is still more than capable of blinding someone with a good Pringles can.
Say what? That's no legal wifi transmitter. You need to tone down the bullshit yourself.
If I walked into a bar in Europe and they were unable to serve me a pint, with no further explanation on my part, I would leave.
I wouldn't ever worry about this being the case, especially in a bar, but the issue comes back to the government mandating what unit of measure drinks are served in. Alcohol has its own system of measure that stays constant and any bartender worth his salt will know how to measure in fingers or jiggers or pints. Why is the government deciding what unit alcohol is served in, though?
Seriously, I think you fooled the mods here too. Tor exit nodes are just computers running Tor that have been set up to also be an exit node. There are hundreds of nodes and they are run by volunteers, not by the Tor project. You can get a list of the exit nodes (here, for example), but Tor Hyams has nothing to do with them.
I'm not a computer programmer, so I don't know what specifically would make a "computer security" path of study different from a "computer science" (or whatever) degree. The OP complained about "...hav[ing] been looking for formal academic training in computing security for quite some time," so I would assume he decided a regularly offered course of study didn't meet his requirements.
Seriously, is there a point to your post or are you just being argumentative? From your attitude toward education, it appears "you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling" yourself.
It's pointless to "study" computer security. By the time you're through, you get told "forget everything, it's outdated".
There's nothing specific to computer security here. In nearly every field, by the time you graduate what you've learned is outdated. The methods have changed, the accepted views and interpretations have changed, the tools have changed. Education isn't about learning the specifics of particular topics, it's about learning how to intelligently and rationally deal with a specific topic.
A computer security course of study could contain examples, such as browser exploits and conficker, but the focus should be on the more abstract concepts. Ideally, if you understand computer security, you will be able to deal with whatever the current craze is.
Typical examples of an epidemic are the Black Plague, AIDS in Africa, or the Spanish Flu pandemic. Hell, even auto related deaths aren't described as epidermic.
Let's do this then. Anyone interested in putting up space for this or helping me develop the site? I'm thinking of stealing your CopTube name (coptube.org?)...
Let's try it again then. Anybody willing to put up space for coptube.org? I'll get to work putting the site together. Any dev help is appreciated, too.
Watt = Volt * Ampere
For DC, yes. It gets more complicated in a real AC device. See: power factor
Who here can say they enjoyed Reloaded or Revolutions more than The Matrix?
What are you talking about? There weren't any sequels to The Matrix.
I'll say that the decision to not retry him is reasonable given his age.
I keep hearing this, but I don't see how this can be true in any way, shape, or form. Letting political corruption go unpunished is an extremely dangerous precedent to set, especially on account of age. Exactly how many congressmen well-established enough to be able to wield this kind of corruption would we be able to try? This is essentially a green-light for corruption, as long as you can get away with it long enough.
Besides, who cares if he doesn't get to serve much time before he dies? Just like the powers-that-be are always punishing us little people to set an example for others, he should be an example that corruption is not to be tolerated.
DD-WRT does not support IPv6 out of the box, so to say. See here. It's not a huge deal to get it working, but it's not for your grandma to do and would probably intimidate an embarrassing percentage of Slashdot regulars.
Good. Why make it any easier for them by letting them find those things willingly? They're already trying to audit you; there is no happy ending.
I guess he decided to leave after all.
I've been playing around with the Windows 7 beta and whatever IE version it uses does that. "domain.tld" is black and the rest of the address is grayed out. I was actually pretty impressed, though I'm not sure how it works with very long addresses.
Each country or area has a different supply vs. demand curve.
But this isn't true. The supply is global, not local to each country. They're trying to take advantage of a "global economy" on their supply side, but the segmented "local economies" on the demand side.
That's because FuzzyHead and Kucinich's response isn't the correct one. The correct response to a question like that is to laugh and not answer it. Serious, rational people don't get asked whether they've seen a UFO in interviews. That is exclusively the realm of nutters and it is never correct to answer it seriously. You act like the interviewer is making a joke and, if they persist, you act like they're insane. Nobody will ever fault you for not taking a question like that seriously.
Science and Religion are different bodies of knowledge, but not mutually exclusive
So, science may be compatible with going to church, living the ten commandments, or whatever else you like to do, but it's not compatible with belief in a god that has any power in any domain covered by a scientific theory.
This distinction is fine and the original statement is still true. Not all religions make assertions about the observable world, and only those that do (specifically the parts that do) are in conflict with science (which deals exclusively with what we can observe). Discussion of metaphysical concepts is (IMHO) the primary realm of religion and is in no way at odds with science. Belief (or disbelief) in these concepts doesn't clash with rational observation of our surroundings at all. Only the dogmatic aspects of religion conflict with a scientific worldview and these are exclusively the case for religious fundamentalism.
As an aside, I'm a scientist (a chemist) and not religious, but these stupid fights coming from misunderstandings of the "opposing" side are ridiculous and I'm sick of hearing them. Pretending that every religious person is a fundamentalist lunatic is just as counterproductive as pretending that every scientist is a godless Darwinian atheist.