a) A real cover-up and someone was really honestly making it up.
or b) Did a bunch of scientists work for a few years on this experiment, run there tests, find a result which made them think they found 116 & 118 and announce what they thought they found, then go into the process of re-verifying, maybe this time with outside help of someone who was better in a particular field, and then after 3 more years of testing find that they were wrong and the particle that only appeared for 200ms was really not what they thought it could have been?
...a BloodHound Gang Song? The Ten Coolest Things About NJ????
If you've not listened to that song, its on the Hooray for B00bies CD, and its worth a quick listen, believe me, its short... hehe.... and yes I'm from Jersey, and I'm humored not offended by it...
Well, whether or not he is one I couldn't say, but with the amount of hazardous particles he absorbed, what could you expect? He thinks he might of lost a few years off his life, I'm sure that's not the only thing that will be effected... I wonder if Geiger counters go wild around him...
I really hate responding to things like this but oh well, mod me down if it upsets you.
At my college here, the Admin is very very anal about things, infact, no outbound DNS query can be made from within the school, except from his DNS server. I can not contact the root DNS servers for anything, infact, I think they are outright blockd on all ports, not just DNS. I cant even query other DNS servers external to the school network. So when I wanted to set up my own DNS server, I was hosed.. This ultimatly wastes my time in having my own DNS server.
Sounds like the product licenses I used to get on some M$ and other software where on the jewel case was a sticker saying 'By opening this case and breaking this seal your hereby accept and abide by the terms of the enclosed license.' Where the license was on the inside cover of the jewel case.
Not meaning to be 'anti-GCC' for a moment, but on my Beowulf cluster, I get remarkably better performance with ifc/icc (The Intel Fortran/C/C++ Compilers) than I get with gcc/g77. Dont get me wrong, gcc is still my perfered compiler, and I use it for almost everything, but when it comes down to sheer performance so that my Intel/AMD hetrogenous Beowulf can make similar performance stats to thoes of all Alpha's or SGI's. The Alpha, and SGI have wonderful compilers that optimize the code very well, however, the drawback of this over optimization is that the code becomes very unportable. And that is where GCC is getting better, for alot of code is very portable, since its not optimized for a specific archatecture. But if GCC wants to make good solid inroads in the R&D world, they need to start building some good optimization routines. I know this defetes some of the GNU-ology behind it, but, the poor performance on gcc is what makes all the researchers use the commercial compilers. So say what you want, but the Fluid Dynamics, and Finite Data Analysis guys out there will tell you that they get better/faster results on PGI or Intel, or Compaq Alpha compilers than on GCC, and they spend hours/days/weeks/years optimizing the same code in order to get 1/2 ms faster compile times.
I'm no master of compression theroy, but the only way the could acceive that 100:1 compression ratio they tout would be a data sample looking something like:
Wouldnt it?
So if thats there data they could get, so maybe the got there sample by randomly banging the '1' key 100 times and then ran their compression scheme against it? Well problem solved, case closed and stamp moron on their folder (or press release as it may be)!
Yo do mean that with the yearly support costs of that SGI Octane (or at least I know with ours) that you could buy 10 or 12 of thoes flat panel Mac's right?
I thought that you could only do that if you had a Ph.D! You mean I dont have to spend 8 years of my life and finances to do so!?!?!! Yay!!
Seriously, I've had too many prof's, and co-workers that are exactly that... They seem to think thoes 3 little letters mean they can be the big bully of satan.
Optiplexes are great when they're configured right, but for the love of God, don't let user's spec their own.
We ordered ~ 2 dozen of them last year, 1/2 of them spec'd specially, the others, generic. The generic ones worked semi-decently but still had problems. However the specially spec'd ones brokedown more than they worked! Between the ps/2 rodent port not always being recongnized by the BIOS, to nic and sound probs, to a motherboard that toasted all inserted HW on the PCI bus with a perfictly good and still working PSU. Never again will we get Optiplexes without a fight!
I havent read all the comments, at ~ 150 it gets too long, but what about NFS mounting the httpd doc root RO(Read Only)? Have it exported RO on the machine thats secure behind the FW, and the public webserver that only has port 80 open for inbound connections not originating from within the corp, and thatway, nothing can be defaced, it cant be modified period from the webserver, the content server that holds it all is elsewhere, safe, and accesable to the employees inside, but out of reach of the defacement. And this same logic could still be applied to M$ IIS last time I looked, a simple SMB mount with the right permissions and viola.
You would still have to provide security patches to your servers, and be a proactive admin to keep your network secure, but wouldnt this solve the modification/defacement problems?
Hey dude, cant I make a joke without getting flamed now a-days?
I mean, I dont love M$, but at work I'm forced to use it. But can't a guy try to add some humor in his day and maybe to the days of others without getting the natives all riled up?
I haven't read through everyones comments to see if sombody else noticed this yet, but does this scare you?
Linux DA refers to the suite of Linux-based software developed by Empower Technologies Inc., an innovative company based out of Redmond, Washington.
Is it just me, or am I right to be suddenly worried? And whats this thing about innovation from Readmond?;)
..just my 2 cents...
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My knowledge of 802.11b is not as good as some other things, but would it be feasible to setup some kind of DHCP like gateway system for the local free net? And for anyone who wants a server, the local admins give them some static number?
"They eat up huge amounts of funding with little or no promise of anything applicable within several decades. Money that would be much better used in more "mundane" science such as materials and drug research."
Not to be a pain or anything, and this is bordering on being offtopic but, umm.. Materials research, especially in the world of Composites, in the US Gov research environment eats up very large chunks of funding, and is only going to trying to refine tech that has been quite good for years, or its going to funding research projects that have been running for 10+ years. I work in a enviornment where meterials research is the mainstay of the organization, and the promise of somthing applicable within several decades here is slim to none. Sure, its good to do this research, but gov research is ment to take risks out of tech, to make thoes giant leeps that large corps cant afford to take so that the general public and corp's can benifite and successfully produce good tech.
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I keep my computer room at 60F. The 3 SGI's, the 20 node beowulf, and the array of small Sun and Wintel servers are as happy as me to be in there!
or
b) Did a bunch of scientists work for a few years on this experiment, run there tests, find a result which made them think they found 116 & 118 and announce what they thought they found, then go into the process of re-verifying, maybe this time with outside help of someone who was better in a particular field, and then after 3 more years of testing find that they were wrong and the particle that only appeared for 200ms was really not what they thought it could have been?
...a BloodHound Gang Song? The Ten Coolest Things About NJ????
If you've not listened to that song, its on the Hooray for B00bies CD, and its worth a quick listen, believe me, its short... hehe.... and yes I'm from Jersey, and I'm humored not offended by it...
Well, whether or not he is one I couldn't say, but with the amount of hazardous particles he absorbed, what could you expect? He thinks he might of lost a few years off his life, I'm sure that's not the only thing that will be effected... I wonder if Geiger counters go wild around him...
...if they get awarded the patent, do you think I could get a patent for a method for declaring memory addressable conditionals?
ex:
{
int i;
i = 1;
}
If so, I think I see a market! =P
Didnt I read that in the Juno EULA?
I really hate responding to things like this but oh well, mod me down if it upsets you.
At my college here, the Admin is very very anal about things, infact, no outbound DNS query can be made from within the school, except from his DNS server. I can not contact the root DNS servers for anything, infact, I think they are outright blockd on all ports, not just DNS. I cant even query other DNS servers external to the school network. So when I wanted to set up my own DNS server, I was hosed.. This ultimatly wastes my time in having my own DNS server.
I was going to say, it sounds like he's a webdesigner for x10.com...
Also, i'd like to add.
c) Super Restrictive School Firewall that blocks 90% of everything outbound.
Its the only way me and the other 20 guys on my hall can play together.
I mean, who wants discontented prostitutes?
Lonely masochists?
Computer Engineering Students?
Sounds like the product licenses I used to get on some M$ and other software where on the jewel case was a sticker saying 'By opening this case and breaking this seal your hereby accept and abide by the terms of the enclosed license.' Where the license was on the inside cover of the jewel case.
Power a city with some of these attached to the feet of some NY marathon runners!
Yes, the suitcase that rendered the carrier dead within 5 hours due to the amount of leeky radiation!
Not meaning to be 'anti-GCC' for a moment, but on my Beowulf cluster, I get remarkably better performance with ifc/icc (The Intel Fortran/C/C++ Compilers) than I get with gcc/g77. Dont get me wrong, gcc is still my perfered compiler, and I use it for almost everything, but when it comes down to sheer performance so that my Intel/AMD hetrogenous Beowulf can make similar performance stats to thoes of all Alpha's or SGI's. The Alpha, and SGI have wonderful compilers that optimize the code very well, however, the drawback of this over optimization is that the code becomes very unportable. And that is where GCC is getting better, for alot of code is very portable, since its not optimized for a specific archatecture. But if GCC wants to make good solid inroads in the R&D world, they need to start building some good optimization routines. I know this defetes some of the GNU-ology behind it, but, the poor performance on gcc is what makes all the researchers use the commercial compilers. So say what you want, but the Fluid Dynamics, and Finite Data Analysis guys out there will tell you that they get better/faster results on PGI or Intel, or Compaq Alpha compilers than on GCC, and they spend hours/days/weeks/years optimizing the same code in order to get 1/2 ms faster compile times.
Just my 2 Cents.
I'm no master of compression theroy, but the only way the could acceive that 100:1 compression ratio they tout would be a data sample looking something like:
1111111111111111111111111111111111111
1111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111
Wouldnt it?
So if thats there data they could get, so maybe the got there sample by randomly banging the '1' key 100 times and then ran their compression scheme against it? Well problem solved, case closed and stamp moron on their folder (or press release as it may be)!
Yo do mean that with the yearly support costs of that SGI Octane (or at least I know with ours) that you could buy 10 or 12 of thoes flat panel Mac's right?
I thought that you could only do that if you had a Ph.D! You mean I dont have to spend 8 years of my life and finances to do so!?!?!! Yay!!
Seriously, I've had too many prof's, and co-workers that are exactly that... They seem to think thoes 3 little letters mean they can be the big bully of satan.
We ordered ~ 2 dozen of them last year, 1/2 of them spec'd specially, the others, generic. The generic ones worked semi-decently but still had problems. However the specially spec'd ones brokedown more than they worked! Between the ps/2 rodent port not always being recongnized by the BIOS, to nic and sound probs, to a motherboard that toasted all inserted HW on the PCI bus with a perfictly good and still working PSU. Never again will we get Optiplexes without a fight!
I havent read all the comments, at ~ 150 it gets too long, but what about NFS mounting the httpd doc root RO(Read Only)? Have it exported RO on the machine thats secure behind the FW, and the public webserver that only has port 80 open for inbound connections not originating from within the corp, and thatway, nothing can be defaced, it cant be modified period from the webserver, the content server that holds it all is elsewhere, safe, and accesable to the employees inside, but out of reach of the defacement. And this same logic could still be applied to M$ IIS last time I looked, a simple SMB mount with the right permissions and viola.
You would still have to provide security patches to your servers, and be a proactive admin to keep your network secure, but wouldnt this solve the modification/defacement problems?
Hey dude, cant I make a joke without getting flamed now a-days?
I mean, I dont love M$, but at work I'm forced to use it. But can't a guy try to add some humor in his day and maybe to the days of others without getting the natives all riled up?
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The query Evil Empire puts MS only in the 8th return... *grin*
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I haven't read through everyones comments to see if sombody else noticed this yet, but does this scare you?
;)
..just my 2 cents...
Linux DA refers to the suite of Linux-based software developed by Empower Technologies Inc., an innovative company based out of Redmond, Washington.
Is it just me, or am I right to be suddenly worried? And whats this thing about innovation from Readmond?
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My knowledge of 802.11b is not as good as some other things, but would it be feasible to setup some kind of DHCP like gateway system for the local free net? And for anyone who wants a server, the local admins give them some static number?
Just a thought...
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"They eat up huge amounts of funding with little or no promise of anything applicable within several decades. Money that would be much better used in more "mundane" science such as materials and drug research."
Not to be a pain or anything, and this is bordering on being offtopic but, umm.. Materials research, especially in the world of Composites, in the US Gov research environment eats up very large chunks of funding, and is only going to trying to refine tech that has been quite good for years, or its going to funding research projects that have been running for 10+ years. I work in a enviornment where meterials research is the mainstay of the organization, and the promise of somthing applicable within several decades here is slim to none. Sure, its good to do this research, but gov research is ment to take risks out of tech, to make thoes giant leeps that large corps cant afford to take so that the general public and corp's can benifite and successfully produce good tech.
Just my two cents..
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So what wrongs must Sam Beckett make right in the 23rd Century?
Must he stop the kligons from invading *drum roll* (wait for it...) Uranis?
=p
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