Leviathan::[cactus] > traceroute 68.82.150.118 traceroute to 68.82.150.118 (68.82.150.118), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 5.465 ms 3.401 ms 2.448 ms [...] 5 so-6-0-0-0.peer-rtr1.atl81.verizon-gni.net (130.81.17.141) 1535.034 ms 339.902 ms 530.950 ms 6 so-7-0-0-0.gar2.atlanta1.level3.net (4.78.214.1) 294.210 ms 263.122 ms 634.710 ms 7 ae-1-55.bbr1.atlanta1.level3.net (4.68.103.129) 313.020 ms 242.438 ms ae-1-53.bbr1.atlanta1.level3.net (4.68.103.65) 335.332 ms 8 ae-2-0.bbr1.washington1.level3.net (4.68.128.201) 253.289 ms pop2-atm-p0-0.atdn.net (66.185.147.209) 27.804 ms ae-0-0.bbr2.washington1.level3.net (4.68.128.210) 132.514 ms 9 ae-23-56.car3.washington1.level3.net (4.68.121.176) 70.344 ms 4.68.121.144 (4.68.121.144) 57.124 ms 55.881 ms 10 tbr1011301.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.82.210) 47.801 ms att-level3-oc48.washington1.level3.net (209.244.219.142) 57.353 ms level3-gw.wswdc.ip.att.net (192.205.32.41) 67.101 ms 11 tbr2-p011901.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.118) 69.157 ms 65.199 ms tbr2-p013901.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.86) 65.427 ms 12 12.122.10.53 (12.122.10.53) 70.027 ms 67.635 ms 64.713 ms 13 gar7-p390.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.123.3.85) 101.331 ms 1761.990 ms 1846.070 ms 14 12.118.102.14 (12.118.102.14) 1711.764 ms 1610.461 ms 66.628 ms 15 te-8-1-ar01.plainfield.nj.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.211.1) 67.195 ms 67.998 ms 69.016 ms 16 po80-ar01.audubon.nj.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.2) 71.179 ms 95.676 ms 66.200 ms 17 po10-ar01.wallingford.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.26) 63.165 ms 596.573 ms 1535.388 ms 18 po10-ar01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.38) 1840.032 ms 2068.014 ms 52.897 ms 19 po10-ur01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.70) 1480.761 ms 452.259 ms 638.470 ms 20 te-1-1-ur02.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.74) 531.959 ms 583.772 ms 614.550 ms 21 te-1-1-ur01.limstonedr.de.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.78) 2150.631 ms 1861.180 ms 52.647 ms 22 ge-5-1-ur01.uofdelaware.de.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.110) 1990.641 ms 1772.941 ms 497.692 ms 23 * * *
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Europe? Looks like University of Delaware through Comcast to me, but I'm not particularly motivated to dig deeper.
Your originating IP address (which the server must get in order to return information to you) is enough to reveal who your ISP is. Every internet connection that isn't proxied through another host will give that information.
Fair enough, but an article from time to time when (with all due respect) something flares up and frustrates you, really doesn't solve the problem. There's got to be a forum for ongoing conversation in order the get a meaningful dialog going.
Cluetrain made the point that the primary reason that companies don't maintain ongoing public conversations with their customers is that they don't trust them.
While I can understand that many Slashdotters don't behave like adults, I think that by your current practices you're receiving the input of Slashdot's least mature participants and forgoing that of the more restrained and responsible members of the community.
It seems to me that the responses inside the story discussion only happen because there's no other place for the disatisfied to direct their concerns.
Slashdot really needs to have a place where the admins can have an ongoing conversation with the users. This is basic Cluetrain stuff, it's somewhat appalling that Slashdot hasn't "gotten" it.
Hell, even if you guys don't even read it, it would at least provide a place for complaints to go instead of swamping story discussions.
Polaris A is big. Really, really big. You may think that it's a long walk...
Sorry.
But seriously, Polaris A is a supergiant, about 2400 times as bright as the sun, and Polaris Ab is a main sequence star. 22 AUs is really close for a couple of stars that size!
Ironic, considering that what you're complaining about is actually due to the free exercise of civil liberties, by two parties (the school and the student) involved in a private business relationship.
In fact, by wanting the government to protect the student, you're advocating the reduction of civil liberties, by wanting the government to interfere in a private matter between two parties.
No thank you, Comrade, we don't need to get the nanny state involved. Let the adults work it out between themselves.
Vent thermophiles are only one kind of extremophile. Some extremophiles (those living in tube worms around vents, as you mention) are benefitting from being down the chain from geothermal energy, but not all are. Take the extremophiles living in Antarctica Subglacial Lakes, for example, and halophiles speculated to exist elsewhere in the solar system. And if you believe that some hydrocarbons are of primordial origin, extremophiles living off of the chemosynthesis of those hydrocarbons aren't living off of solar energy either.
In any case, to avoid straying too far from the point... there is energy available from primordial chemical sources as well as geothermal, nuclear, and solar sources (I s'pose if someone really wanted to nitpick, they could argue that all of the above are either nuclear or gravitational).
You also missed energy from chemosynthesis - extemophiles on Earth (and quite possibly in space) live on that energy, independent of solar, nuclear, and geothermal sources.
Don't be silly. Slashdot survives by the amount of traffic it drives and the amount of face time it gets for that traffic - and thus indirectly by the amount of discussion that readers get involved with. They call it "stickiness" in the web game, to talk about how much time each visitor spends on the site per visit. Discussion and community are primary strategies for achieving stickiness, and trolling is a cheap and easy way to get it.
It's pretty clear that the slashdot editorial staff wish there to be a certain amount of trolling: as long as it's not so much that readers are driven away in droves, it's beneficial to the site. It doesn't matter that the quality of the content on the site consistently goes down, so long as it's still just barely good enough to keep people coming back and getting sucked in by trolls.
Erm, no strawman. You're deliberately ignoring the quality that expert editing adds.
By saying "all things being equal" you're implicitly making the argument that a random person's feedback is going to be as good as an expert's.
That's just silly, all things aren't equal. Random people are just as likely to degrade the quality of an article as increase it, especially on topics where ill-informed people with political or religious axes to grind are likely to want to edit.
Ummm... firstly, a true pedant wouldn't use the ill-defined term "average."
Secondly. If you have a physicist's training then you should certainly know that the mean value theorem (aka the fundamental theorem of Calculus) says that the speeder must have at equalled their median velocity at some point in the interval, even if we don't know what that point is.
So yes, they measure it - they take measurements and then deduce a minimum value for the car's maximum velocity. That's no different from any other measurement that physicists do in the lab using basic deductive tools.
So, to your mind the quality of a source lies not with the accuracy of the information that it provides, but the number of topics it covers?
I'd rather have a smaller reliable source than a huge source where I couldn't rely upon any particular claim it makes. Wikipedia is definitely in the latter category.
Ummm... you do realize that there's nothing that Whedon could do that would have kept Wash alive, don't you? He doesn't own Alan Tudyk and Tudyk wanted to move on.
While I certainly agree with you in general, I think there are exceptions - some philosophy courses are good for pointing out where science ends and the nonsense begins. It's worth speaking about the fundamental limits of science (eg, the "induction problem" - you can draw conclusions about the physical universe while you're measuring but nothing logically prevents the physical universe from changing or being completely different outside the realm of your observations), and that's a topic for philosophy.
ID would make an excellent topic for a "Philosophy of Science" course. Science talks about mechanisms, ID talks about things that simply aren't measurable - and a philosophy of science course would underscore that science makes no comment on things that aren't measurable directly or indirectly.
Stealing focus isn't Safari's fault per se, it's obeying a Javascript command to steal focus. If you experiment around, you'll find that some pages do it and others don't. Amazon's particularly guilty of stealing focus all over the place.
My apartment complex requires all kinds of crap for 18"dishes... (Including something like $500K insurance). and they don't allow them to be mounted. They pretty much made it impossible for residents to have one. (Of about 1000 residents, nobody has one!)
The rule (47 C.F.R. Section 1.4000) has been in effect since October 1996, and it prohibits restrictions that impair the installation, maintenance or use of antennas used to receive video programming. The rule applies to video antennas including direct-to-home satellite dishes that are less than one meter (39.37") in diameter (or of any size in Alaska), TV antennas, and wireless cable antennas. The rule prohibits most restrictions that: (1) unreasonably delay or prevent installation, maintenance or use; (2) unreasonably increase the cost of installation, maintenance or use; or (3) preclude reception of an acceptable quality signal.
Effective January 22, 1999, the Commission amended the rule so that it also applies to rental property where the renter has an exclusive use area, such as a balcony or patio.
Landlords like to ignore the rule, unless challenged. Don't let the bastards get away with it.
That's simply not true for technological products.
The first to market is usually not the victor. From PDAs to OSes to MP3 players, it's easy to see that in the consumer technology market, the "first mover advantage" is mythical. It usually takes a second company to come along and learn from the mistakes of the first in order for a new technology segment to take off.
No shit, Delta's for real... That's not what the GGP was making up. He was pulling the idea that the end of the hurricane season had passed out of his ass.
I live in Florida. I carefully watch both NOAA's sites and the blogs of climatologists like Jeff Masters.
And by the way, according to him there are two more potential areas to watch right now, "in the mid-Atlantic just west of Delta's current position," and "The region just north of Panama may get active, as wind shear levels are expected to be low the next five days."
I think this is actually an excellent idea. It makes a lot of sense for elements that aren't finished to be immediately recognizable as such by the end user.
Ok, now a lot of people are complaining, and asking why a remake is necessary (necessary? What TV is necessary?).
Christ, people. At worst, it'll suck. Big deal, so does most of everything on TV. It certainly couldn't be worse than yet more Eastenders, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo, or any of the other crap that's been spewed by the BBC over the years.
On the other hand, The Prisoner touched on a lot of interesting themes, first among which was the tension between individual liberties and the demands of society. This is an interesting topic, and I welcome any TV that tries to comment on it - at worst, it just won't be worth watching.
If the (extremely excellent, don't get me wrong) Patrick McGoohan Prisoner is so holy to you, go buy the goddamned DVDs. They'll still be there long after the remake has aired, no matter how good or bad the remake is.
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Europe? Looks like University of Delaware through Comcast to me, but I'm not particularly motivated to dig deeper.
ISP, yes.
Your originating IP address (which the server must get in order to return information to you) is enough to reveal who your ISP is. Every internet connection that isn't proxied through another host will give that information.
Unless you're hiking in the arctic or antarctic during winter (ok, or Seattle), why not just cary a solar battery charger?
Does this mean that the Pro desktops will be named MacMacs?
Fair enough, but an article from time to time when (with all due respect) something flares up and frustrates you, really doesn't solve the problem. There's got to be a forum for ongoing conversation in order the get a meaningful dialog going.
Cluetrain made the point that the primary reason that companies don't maintain ongoing public conversations with their customers is that they don't trust them.
While I can understand that many Slashdotters don't behave like adults, I think that by your current practices you're receiving the input of Slashdot's least mature participants and forgoing that of the more restrained and responsible members of the community.
It seems to me that the responses inside the story discussion only happen because there's no other place for the disatisfied to direct their concerns.
Slashdot really needs to have a place where the admins can have an ongoing conversation with the users. This is basic Cluetrain stuff, it's somewhat appalling that Slashdot hasn't "gotten" it.
Hell, even if you guys don't even read it, it would at least provide a place for complaints to go instead of swamping story discussions.
Polaris A is big. Really, really big. You may think that it's a long walk...
Sorry.
But seriously, Polaris A is a supergiant, about 2400 times as bright as the sun, and Polaris Ab is a main sequence star. 22 AUs is really close for a couple of stars that size!
Erm, right.
So what you're saying is that this big bad university snuck up and mugged a random, poor unsuspecting student?
Ironic, considering that what you're complaining about is actually due to the free exercise of civil liberties, by two parties (the school and the student) involved in a private business relationship.
In fact, by wanting the government to protect the student, you're advocating the reduction of civil liberties, by wanting the government to interfere in a private matter between two parties.
No thank you, Comrade, we don't need to get the nanny state involved. Let the adults work it out between themselves.
I didn't miss it at all.
Vent thermophiles are only one kind of extremophile. Some extremophiles (those living in tube worms around vents, as you mention) are benefitting from being down the chain from geothermal energy, but not all are. Take the extremophiles living in Antarctica Subglacial Lakes, for example, and halophiles speculated to exist elsewhere in the solar system. And if you believe that some hydrocarbons are of primordial origin, extremophiles living off of the chemosynthesis of those hydrocarbons aren't living off of solar energy either.
In any case, to avoid straying too far from the point... there is energy available from primordial chemical sources as well as geothermal, nuclear, and solar sources (I s'pose if someone really wanted to nitpick, they could argue that all of the above are either nuclear or gravitational).
You also missed energy from chemosynthesis - extemophiles on Earth (and quite possibly in space) live on that energy, independent of solar, nuclear, and geothermal sources.
Don't be silly. Slashdot survives by the amount of traffic it drives and the amount of face time it gets for that traffic - and thus indirectly by the amount of discussion that readers get involved with. They call it "stickiness" in the web game, to talk about how much time each visitor spends on the site per visit. Discussion and community are primary strategies for achieving stickiness, and trolling is a cheap and easy way to get it.
It's pretty clear that the slashdot editorial staff wish there to be a certain amount of trolling: as long as it's not so much that readers are driven away in droves, it's beneficial to the site. It doesn't matter that the quality of the content on the site consistently goes down, so long as it's still just barely good enough to keep people coming back and getting sucked in by trolls.
Erm, no strawman. You're deliberately ignoring the quality that expert editing adds.
By saying "all things being equal" you're implicitly making the argument that a random person's feedback is going to be as good as an expert's.
That's just silly, all things aren't equal. Random people are just as likely to degrade the quality of an article as increase it, especially on topics where ill-informed people with political or religious axes to grind are likely to want to edit.
Ummm... firstly, a true pedant wouldn't use the ill-defined term "average."
Secondly. If you have a physicist's training then you should certainly know that the mean value theorem (aka the fundamental theorem of Calculus) says that the speeder must have at equalled their median velocity at some point in the interval, even if we don't know what that point is.
So yes, they measure it - they take measurements and then deduce a minimum value for the car's maximum velocity. That's no different from any other measurement that physicists do in the lab using basic deductive tools.
So, to your mind the quality of a source lies not with the accuracy of the information that it provides, but the number of topics it covers?
I'd rather have a smaller reliable source than a huge source where I couldn't rely upon any particular claim it makes. Wikipedia is definitely in the latter category.
Ummm... you do realize that there's nothing that Whedon could do that would have kept Wash alive, don't you? He doesn't own Alan Tudyk and Tudyk wanted to move on.
While I certainly agree with you in general, I think there are exceptions - some philosophy courses are good for pointing out where science ends and the nonsense begins. It's worth speaking about the fundamental limits of science (eg, the "induction problem" - you can draw conclusions about the physical universe while you're measuring but nothing logically prevents the physical universe from changing or being completely different outside the realm of your observations), and that's a topic for philosophy.
ID would make an excellent topic for a "Philosophy of Science" course. Science talks about mechanisms, ID talks about things that simply aren't measurable - and a philosophy of science course would underscore that science makes no comment on things that aren't measurable directly or indirectly.
Too bad Sony already said so, when Sony President Kunitake Ando announced on stage with Steve Jobs that this would be the "Year of High Definition."
Stealing focus isn't Safari's fault per se, it's obeying a Javascript command to steal focus. If you experiment around, you'll find that some pages do it and others don't. Amazon's particularly guilty of stealing focus all over the place.
That's simply not true for technological products.
The first to market is usually not the victor. From PDAs to OSes to MP3 players, it's easy to see that in the consumer technology market, the "first mover advantage" is mythical. It usually takes a second company to come along and learn from the mistakes of the first in order for a new technology segment to take off.
(Rolls Eyes)
No shit, Delta's for real... That's not what the GGP was making up. He was pulling the idea that the end of the hurricane season had passed out of his ass.
I live in Florida. I carefully watch both NOAA's sites and the blogs of climatologists like Jeff Masters.
And by the way, according to him there are two more potential areas to watch right now, "in the mid-Atlantic just west of Delta's current position," and "The region just north of Panama may get active, as wind shear levels are expected to be low the next five days."
The hurricane season officially ends November 30th.
I think this is actually an excellent idea. It makes a lot of sense for elements that aren't finished to be immediately recognizable as such by the end user.
Ok, now a lot of people are complaining, and asking why a remake is necessary (necessary? What TV is necessary? ).
Christ, people. At worst, it'll suck. Big deal, so does most of everything on TV. It certainly couldn't be worse than yet more Eastenders, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo, or any of the other crap that's been spewed by the BBC over the years.
On the other hand, The Prisoner touched on a lot of interesting themes, first among which was the tension between individual liberties and the demands of society. This is an interesting topic, and I welcome any TV that tries to comment on it - at worst, it just won't be worth watching.
If the (extremely excellent, don't get me wrong) Patrick McGoohan Prisoner is so holy to you, go buy the goddamned DVDs. They'll still be there long after the remake has aired, no matter how good or bad the remake is.