I got pissed off with the rattling of my ssh doorknob years ago and moved it off of port 22. It's not that hard. The only downside is having to remember (and type) the port number.
Now my logs are nice a quiet and I'm the only username who ever even tries to connect. Not the solution for Enterprise, but it works at home.
Hydrogen is very, very, small (in terms of it's molecular radius). It escapes through cracks that other gases don't. Storage vessels tend to develop leaks quite easily.
It seems that bats, for some reason, are flying so close to the blades that the get caught in a vortex and suffer explosive decompression in their lungs. Yikes.
Even worse - bats tend to fly more frequently at low wind speeds. Note that this invention allows wind turbines to operate more efficiently at low wind speeds. Unfortunate combination.
I'm not saying that wind energy is bad - far from it. But regardless of what we do (i.e. seek 'clean' energy sources), there's going to be complications and a big, steep learning curve.
People line up in queues everywhere, and do it without even thinking.
Not really "everywhere". It's largely cultural. You can see a great deal of variation from place to place.
Not much queuing in say, France, but you can get lynched for jumping a queue in Britain. In Sweden, you see what appears to be a group of people randomly milling about, but really they all know who arrived before them and after them and they each go in turn without discussion (and again, lynch anyone who tries to jump the 'queue').
Every time you "fix a broken desktop", you're saving the company the cost of a brand new desktop, minus the price of parts + your labour. If you like, throw in a day of lost productivity for the user who has to configure and acclimatize to the new system.
It's a gross underestimate of the real value, but even a PHB should accept it.
If you need to counter the argument, "well, if you could fix it then so could the user," keep a list of the problems you've fixed and how frequently each one occurred (i.e. diverse problems with low frequency). That's where your expertise is most valuable.
MMP and PR condemn us to permanent minority governments, with most parliamentary effort going into backroom deals to stay in power instead of governing.
Actually, just having more than two parties is condemning us to minority governments. When the Bloc and the NDP can take as many seats as they have been, it becomes increasingly harder for the Liberals or Conservatives to get 155 for a majority.
Three back-to-back minorities with first-past-the-post...no MMP required.
with MMP or PR, since every party will get some share of the vote, the only determinant of whether Olivia Chow gets a cushy job with a $155,000 salary is if she keeps the NDP party bosses happy.
I agree with you that back-room politics is distasteful. However, MMP allows some seats defined by the party, while the rest are still riding-based (i.e. the people of Trinity-Spadina still control the fate of their representative in Parliament). That's the "mixed" part.
It's already up to the party bosses to determine if Ms. Chow is allowed to run for the T-S seat, or if they will nominate another candidate for the riding.
I'm not against STV as an alternate to MMP - it's certainly easier to explain to people.
Back in highschool, I had a job that involved creating a database for a local cemetery's burial records. For 120 years, these records had been kept in a set of handwritten journals with a semi-alphabetical index. Given the time span, there had been many generations of people making these handwritten entries...and the differences in penmanship were outstanding.
Some time around the 1940's or 1950's, the job passed from a fountain-pen user to a fan of the ballpoint. Wow, what a difference. Early ballpoint pens were crap! Lots of lumpy smudges all over the place.
Ink quality aside, the shift to the ballpoint heralded the end of readable writing. Really, everything before it had been a beauty to look upon, and everything after was chicken scratches.
Mind you, this is all greatly anecdotal...it's just the handwriting of a half dozen people over a century. But I really believe that the 'convenience' of the ballpoint lead to people taking less care. Fountain pens required more care and skill, ballpoints lowered the bar.
Hmmm...I'll finish with some/. relevant content: I set up the database on an 80's era Macintosh 128K, working in my parent's basement.
I'm going to assume that you didn't RTFA, so I'll fill in some details about which you speculate:
A variety of features were analyzed, ranging from viability, growth, and longevity to numerous other biochemical and molecular features.
The authors admit:
"An important caveat, however, is that no matter how detailed our analyses, our ability to test for a particular characteristic in mice is limited. All we know is that, in the time frame examined, there were no detectable changes in the specific features that we studied."
Now, this work, performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was published in Nature. [subscription required] It's hardly balderdash.
There's plenty of rational explanations for the presence of Junk DNA. For one example, retrotransposons commonly insert themselves and then are silenced by the host genome...it's an easier way to deal with them than deletion. But they remain. Sometimes (rarely) they can lead to new beneficial genes, but by and large they are just junk.
I'm still in agreement that just because we don't know what it does, we shouldn't assume that it does nothing. I really don't understand what you're trying to say about John Wayne Gacy, but it sounds like a bit of a Reductio ad Hitlerum.
I'd love to see the results of removing Junk DNA from a human's genome, and then pump it into an egg and grow it up all normal like and see what kind of walking cancer emerges.
Would you be satisfied if it was done in a mouse instead? Because that's already been done. These researchers removed 2.3 million bases from the 2.7 billion-bp genome, and could find no defects in the resulting mice.
I totally agree that "we don't know what it does" != "it has no function". But some of it, clearly, really is just junk.
--jjj.
I don't understand, what is this post about? It looks like random mindless babbling, not really a structured conspiracy theory or criticism or anything.
Did you miss the part where it's "partially funded by Gates & Co."? Sheesh, you must be new here.
There's an online database, and much of the data is publicly available. (follow the "Published Projects" link to log in anonymously).
They also provide a taxonomy browser which is a bit more fun to play with (there are pictures).
Fish in fish markets is but the tip of the iceberg: customs officials can use this to halt the import/export of endangered and/or invasive species, it can lead to the discovery of new species, and help us to quantify biodiversity on the planet (and how quickly we're fscking it away)....
And the PV outputs electric current, not just biomass to burn inefficiently.
Ahh, but plants store sunlight as chemical potential energy (biomass to be burned inefficiently when it's needed), not just electricity (which can only be used during daylight hours).
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I, for one, welcome our new Perl virus writing overlords.
I got pissed off with the rattling of my ssh doorknob years ago and moved it off of port 22. It's not that hard. The only downside is having to remember (and type) the port number.
Now my logs are nice a quiet and I'm the only username who ever even tries to connect. Not the solution for Enterprise, but it works at home.
Hydrogen is very, very, small (in terms of it's molecular radius). It escapes through cracks that other gases don't. Storage vessels tend to develop leaks quite easily.
How about asking them:
"Why are you willing to work for the same salary I'm going to pay the 23 year old?"
we are all going to have to get over seeing them as ugly or migratory-bird killers ...
A lot has been done to make wind turbines safer for birds. Bats, on the other hand:
"...wildlife fatalities at wind turbines are now a bat issue, not a bird issue."
It seems that bats, for some reason, are flying so close to the blades that the get caught in a vortex and suffer explosive decompression in their lungs. Yikes.
Even worse - bats tend to fly more frequently at low wind speeds. Note that this invention allows wind turbines to operate more efficiently at low wind speeds. Unfortunate combination.
I'm not saying that wind energy is bad - far from it. But regardless of what we do (i.e. seek 'clean' energy sources), there's going to be complications and a big, steep learning curve.
Here's a radio interview with one of the bat researchers
People line up in queues everywhere, and do it without even thinking.
Not really "everywhere". It's largely cultural. You can see a great deal of variation from place to place.
Not much queuing in say, France, but you can get lynched for jumping a queue in Britain. In Sweden, you see what appears to be a group of people randomly milling about, but really they all know who arrived before them and after them and they each go in turn without discussion (and again, lynch anyone who tries to jump the 'queue').
Every time you "fix a broken desktop", you're saving the company the cost of a brand new desktop, minus the price of parts + your labour. If you like, throw in a day of lost productivity for the user who has to configure and acclimatize to the new system.
It's a gross underestimate of the real value, but even a PHB should accept it.
If you need to counter the argument, "well, if you could fix it then so could the user," keep a list of the problems you've fixed and how frequently each one occurred (i.e. diverse problems with low frequency). That's where your expertise is most valuable.
Excellent - I've been doing (in bash):
...I suspect that it'll be a while before I can break that habit.
cd $OLDPWD
MMP and PR condemn us to permanent minority governments, with most parliamentary effort going into backroom deals to stay in power instead of governing.
Actually, just having more than two parties is condemning us to minority governments. When the Bloc and the NDP can take as many seats as they have been, it becomes increasingly harder for the Liberals or Conservatives to get 155 for a majority.
Three back-to-back minorities with first-past-the-post...no MMP required.
with MMP or PR, since every party will get some share of the vote, the only determinant of whether Olivia Chow gets a cushy job with a $155,000 salary is if she keeps the NDP party bosses happy.
I agree with you that back-room politics is distasteful. However, MMP allows some seats defined by the party, while the rest are still riding-based (i.e. the people of Trinity-Spadina still control the fate of their representative in Parliament). That's the "mixed" part.
It's already up to the party bosses to determine if Ms. Chow is allowed to run for the T-S seat, or if they will nominate another candidate for the riding.
I'm not against STV as an alternate to MMP - it's certainly easier to explain to people.
...er, isn't Zimbra really just Yahoo? And isn't Yahoo owned by Google?!?
That said, I'm a student at a small-ish university in Canada that recently switched to Zimbra...and so far it rocks!
The sheer number of people involved changes what is possible.
This is impressive indeed. I'm curious to know how many people are actively involved.
This article quotes "nearly 1000 developers". Does anyone have a better answer?
...thank you, that was a pleasant distraction. For anyone curious:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes
Back in highschool, I had a job that involved creating a database for a local cemetery's burial records. For 120 years, these records had been kept in a set of handwritten journals with a semi-alphabetical index. Given the time span, there had been many generations of people making these handwritten entries...and the differences in penmanship were outstanding.
Some time around the 1940's or 1950's, the job passed from a fountain-pen user to a fan of the ballpoint. Wow, what a difference. Early ballpoint pens were crap! Lots of lumpy smudges all over the place.
Ink quality aside, the shift to the ballpoint heralded the end of readable writing. Really, everything before it had been a beauty to look upon, and everything after was chicken scratches.
Mind you, this is all greatly anecdotal...it's just the handwriting of a half dozen people over a century. But I really believe that the 'convenience' of the ballpoint lead to people taking less care. Fountain pens required more care and skill, ballpoints lowered the bar.
Hmmm...I'll finish with some /. relevant content: I set up the database on an 80's era Macintosh 128K, working in my parent's basement.
...so, you are one quick shell script (run as a cron job) away from making the problem go away!
I run a mailserver off my DSL connection. Certainly, the network uptime is only ~90%, but I compensate for this with backup MX from DynDNS
Works well enough for my needs. If I were starting from scratch today, I'd just use Google Apps (sorry to be redundant).
It would be if you'd upgraded your machine.
...what?! But that would reset his uptime!
At least, not if you are considering the difference between one server with 6 cores versus two servers....
I.E. the only relevant performance/wattage ratio includes the wattage of the entire box, not just the processor.
I'm going to assume that you didn't RTFA, so I'll fill in some details about which you speculate:
A variety of features were analyzed, ranging from viability, growth, and longevity to numerous other biochemical and molecular features.
The authors admit:
"An important caveat, however, is that no matter how detailed our analyses, our ability to test for a particular characteristic in mice is limited. All we know is that, in the time frame examined, there were no detectable changes in the specific features that we studied."
Now, this work, performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was published in Nature. [subscription required] It's hardly balderdash.
There's plenty of rational explanations for the presence of Junk DNA. For one example, retrotransposons commonly insert themselves and then are silenced by the host genome...it's an easier way to deal with them than deletion. But they remain. Sometimes (rarely) they can lead to new beneficial genes, but by and large they are just junk.
I'm still in agreement that just because we don't know what it does, we shouldn't assume that it does nothing. I really don't understand what you're trying to say about John Wayne Gacy, but it sounds like a bit of a Reductio ad Hitlerum.
I'd love to see the results of removing Junk DNA from a human's genome, and then pump it into an egg and grow it up all normal like and see what kind of walking cancer emerges.
Would you be satisfied if it was done in a mouse instead? Because that's already been done. These researchers removed 2.3 million bases from the 2.7 billion-bp genome, and could find no defects in the resulting mice. I totally agree that "we don't know what it does" != "it has no function". But some of it, clearly, really is just junk. --jjj.
I don't understand, what is this post about? It looks like random mindless babbling, not really a structured conspiracy theory or criticism or anything.
Did you miss the part where it's "partially funded by Gates & Co."? Sheesh, you must be new here.
Actually, this work was based on a really cool research project - to catalog all the species on the planet via a short, standardized region of their DNA.
There's an online database, and much of the data is publicly available. (follow the "Published Projects" link to log in anonymously).
They also provide a taxonomy browser which is a bit more fun to play with (there are pictures).
Fish in fish markets is but the tip of the iceberg: customs officials can use this to halt the import/export of endangered and/or invasive species, it can lead to the discovery of new species, and help us to quantify biodiversity on the planet (and how quickly we're fscking it away)....
--jjj
So, is that how the Inertial dampers on the Enterprise worked?
(cheap...couldn't resist)
And the PV outputs electric current, not just biomass to burn inefficiently.
Ahh, but plants store sunlight as chemical potential energy (biomass to be burned inefficiently when it's needed), not just electricity (which can only be used during daylight hours).
Perhaps both systems in parallel might be useful?
Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
--robocop.
Clearly correct, as highlighted by Apple's own advertising:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mac_vs_PC
--jjj