Astronaut: Houston, we've found a Lost Temple on Titan with a Beckoning Door.
Several Hours Go By
Ok, please note it. We've still got to collect the samples of martian rocks and dust from beneath the cliff-face. If we've got some time after the six-month long dust, rock and other kind of dust collecting mission we'll send a rover by for a closer round of picture taking in november.
His eyes are not a madman's eyes, but they look dilated, nothing but pupils, and when he turns to face you, he stares. In the antebellum courthouse, surrounded by sheriff's deputies, the stare is merely awkward. Imagine, though, those black eyes at night, with him holding a gun.
I dunno, it gets even scarier without the eyes...
His eyes are not a madman's eyes, for you see, they have been plucked out, and when he turns to face you, he can not stare. In the antebellum courthouse, surrounded by sheriff's deputies, the unstare is merely disturbing and macabe. Imagine, though, those black sockets at night, with him holding a gun.
And the worst part is, there is nothing anyone can do, other than to hope against hope that a non-idiot will win in 2008.
Oh tut, there is always the hope that Osama Bin Ladin *isn't* actually working for the current administration after all and will get his act together to bomb his *real* enemy.
Most production Apache servers run on a system that has at most three active accounts. Root, apache and maintenance. To all intents and purposes the separation of apache and root does little more than help prevent the system partion being corrupted, it does not really do much for security since all the data assets of the machine are going to be accessible from the apache account.
If you wanted to actually use the O/S security mechanisms to bear in a meaningful way you would have to configure the Web server to respond to data access requests by spawning off a new process and locking it down with the appropriate system privs each time a privileged access was performed.
You are referring to SELinux, I think...
The neatest thing about a "properly" configures SELinux box is, I could hand you the root password and sit you in front of the console and you'd STILL be unable to hack the machine. Of course, configuring it properly requires an advanced degree in hyperbolic geometry with a minor in "Being God" studies.
"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory. . .." -Stephen Hawking (a.k.a. Your Crippled Scientist)
Bah, then logic dictates that you theorize the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you want to achieve and then disprove it, providing you concrete proof of your true hypothosis.
To be real-world, just as the server (ha!) brings the coffee to your desk, you should say that you changed your mind and want tea and a poppy seed bagel.
And don't forget to be angry that the bagel isn't covered in popcorn, no poppy seeds, which is what you MEANT to say, duh. Stupid engineers.
And who would determine what is porn and what is not? Do breast implant doctors have to be in the.xxx tld if they have client before and after photos?
Why not just let the company pick? If you have a porn company, and you know the only people whp will be useful to you are adults with credit cards, then you'll love.xxx because you know that there will be filters in place to block kids and such, right?
Dude, hate to break it to you, but you are bending way over and shouting "I love it!"... They are sweet talking you into doing work for them, at below the rate that they have already proven willing to pay. You do NOT need these people's approval. Get smart. Charge then $195 and hour and require a $5000 deposit before doing any further work.
You can see from the above that I'm hugely in favor of this law. The World Trade Center bombing:
1) Killed thousands of highly productive people 2) Shut down a section of a major US city for days 3) Destroyed extremely expensive buildings which then required a very expensive clean up effort 4) Shut down a all foreign trade for days 5) Shut down a good chunk of the US transportation system for days 6) Resulted in large permanent increases in US airline ticket prices 7) Resulted in 2 wars 8) Resulted in an increase of oil prices from $20 barrel to about $40-50 9) May have increased cancer rates and other long term health costs for something on the order of 2 million people.
Cars:
1) Kill 40,000 people a year in the USA alone. 2) Reduce the sum GDP by the amount that these peopel contribute to this, over the course of a normal life span... 3) Average person, let's say $30,000 a year. 4) Average working years... 50? 5) $60,000,000,000... a year in lost "potential". Caused because car manufacturers don't make cars that are next to impossible to crash or that can't go faster than X miles per hour (where X is some incredibly safe speed).
If we had enacted "super safe car" laws 30 years ago, we'd have, at minimu, 2 trillion dollars more, as a nation, to spend on whatever.
Basically, the point I'm trying to make is that, using numbers like this to compare things, it's very easy to pick the winner before-hand and make sure you end up that way.
This led to the obvious question: if the engineers are so valuable, why don't we get the huge bonuses and stock options?
The answer is actually a lot simplier than many people think. Have you ever noticed at your company that some/most/all of the top level managers have worked together before? That the investors that they go to meet first are personal freinds that they have worked with before? Or that most of the people on the board of directors are also on other boards of directors and tend to know each other and work together many times over the years? Or that the CEO has been involved with starting up X number of business in teh last ten years, none of which ever actually succeded, but somehow he's found the cash to start again?
Well, here is the dirty little secret... That's because they are all playing a game together. The reason why the CEO (& friends) gets the big bucks is so that, when the company fails (which a signifigant percentage inevitably do), he will have enough solid capital to start up a new business, or, and this is key, invest in a business started up by one of the people who invested in HIS business.
It's a safely net, you see. He fails and helps his buddy start up a business. His bubdy fails and turns around and helps the first guy, ad nauseum.
(Proof: Suppose you have a compression algorithm that always shortens a number, and the corresponding decryption function. (Note we don't assume anything about the nature of the algorithm other than the compression, so it applies to all such algorithms, no matter how fancy the math.) Of the binary numbers 00, 01, 10, 11, each is therefore shortened to 1 bit. But there are only two possibilities for that one bit, and it has to cover 4 numbers. This is not possible for a decompression function by definition of "function". Therefore, contradiction, and there is no such compression algorithm.
Well.... if the ONLY information you wanted to store were 00, 01, 10 or 00 you could do compression on that! basically 0 == 00, 01 == 01, 10 == 10, 1 == 11
Now you can use as little as 1 bit of information half the time. But the catch is, there is "meta" information in the stream. Basically as soon as you want to store two of such numbers you need some way to seperate them...
Now start to get your head around this... what if numbers are just, well, *human* constructs. As hard as that is to get your head around, think how easily that little concept completely changes your view of things.
If numbers are human constructs and nothing "inherant" in the universe, then the patterns that we find are not that unexpected. Humans are pattern hunting machines.
From the vacuum. That's exactly where they come from. In the vacuum of outer space, where the "real" black holes are, that's ALSO where they come from.
Don't forget that the first parameter is a structure with 75 members, the first of which is the size of the structure itself, and you have to zero out the whole structure before using it to avoid accidentally switching on a feature you didn't want.
Oh sure, if you want fancy alpha blitting... I'll take my old-fashioned square sprites, thank you very much... Only 46 members in that structure, and only three of them are undocumented but will lock up the machine if used improperly! DX is awesome!
White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin? White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin? White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin? White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin?
Slashdot Mirror
Astronaut: Houston, we've found a Lost Temple on Titan with a Beckoning Door.
Several Hours Go By
Ok, please note it. We've still got to collect the samples of martian rocks and dust from beneath the cliff-face. If we've got some time after the six-month long dust, rock and other kind of dust collecting mission we'll send a rover by for a closer round of picture taking in november.
but my email keeps bouncing.
His eyes are not a madman's eyes, but they look dilated, nothing but pupils, and when he turns to face you, he stares. In the antebellum courthouse, surrounded by sheriff's deputies, the stare is merely awkward. Imagine, though, those black eyes at night, with him holding a gun.
I dunno, it gets even scarier without the eyes...
His eyes are not a madman's eyes, for you see, they have been plucked out, and when he turns to face you, he can not stare. In the antebellum courthouse, surrounded by sheriff's deputies, the unstare is merely disturbing and macabe. Imagine, though, those black sockets at night, with him holding a gun.
I'd go for the one with the eyes.
And the worst part is, there is nothing anyone can do, other than to hope against hope that a non-idiot will win in 2008.
Oh tut, there is always the hope that Osama Bin Ladin *isn't* actually working for the current administration after all and will get his act together to bomb his *real* enemy.
Most production Apache servers run on a system that has at most three active accounts. Root, apache and maintenance. To all intents and purposes the separation of apache and root does little more than help prevent the system partion being corrupted, it does not really do much for security since all the data assets of the machine are going to be accessible from the apache account.
If you wanted to actually use the O/S security mechanisms to bear in a meaningful way you would have to configure the Web server to respond to data access requests by spawning off a new process and locking it down with the appropriate system privs each time a privileged access was performed.
You are referring to SELinux, I think...
The neatest thing about a "properly" configures SELinux box is, I could hand you the root password and sit you in front of the console and you'd STILL be unable to hack the machine. Of course, configuring it properly requires an advanced degree in hyperbolic geometry with a minor in "Being God" studies.
"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory. . . ."
-Stephen Hawking (a.k.a. Your Crippled Scientist)
Bah, then logic dictates that you theorize the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you want to achieve and then disprove it, providing you concrete proof of your true hypothosis.
Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual Molecules
Technology
Science
Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday April 01, @01:31AM
from the heavy-lifting dept.
Ha ha ha! I get it, I get it.
"nano" machines, "molecules" "Caltech"
You got me AGAIN! Man, CowboyNeal, you sure pulled the wool over my eyes. Ha ha ha. Whew, that was a good one.
How much is nerf per metric ton these days?
To be real-world, just as the server (ha!) brings the coffee to your desk, you should say that you changed your mind and want tea and a poppy seed bagel.
And don't forget to be angry that the bagel isn't covered in popcorn, no poppy seeds, which is what you MEANT to say, duh. Stupid engineers.
Except for the fact that, at least in the US, no one without a plane ticket is allowed to pass through the security gates.
One $50 from Houston to Dallas, coming up. No need to board the plane, actually.
And who would determine what is porn and what is not? Do breast implant doctors have to be in the .xxx tld if they have client before and after photos?
.xxx because you know that there will be filters in place to block kids and such, right?
Why not just let the company pick? If you have a porn company, and you know the only people whp will be useful to you are adults with credit cards, then you'll love
Dude, hate to break it to you, but you are bending way over and shouting "I love it!"... They are sweet talking you into doing work for them, at below the rate that they have already proven willing to pay. You do NOT need these people's approval. Get smart. Charge then $195 and hour and require a $5000 deposit before doing any further work.
You can see from the above that I'm hugely in favor of this law. The World Trade Center bombing:
... a year in lost "potential". Caused because car manufacturers don't make cars that are next to impossible to crash or that can't go faster than X miles per hour (where X is some incredibly safe speed).
1) Killed thousands of highly productive people
2) Shut down a section of a major US city for days
3) Destroyed extremely expensive buildings which then required a very expensive clean up effort
4) Shut down a all foreign trade for days
5) Shut down a good chunk of the US transportation system for days
6) Resulted in large permanent increases in US airline ticket prices
7) Resulted in 2 wars
8) Resulted in an increase of oil prices from $20 barrel to about $40-50
9) May have increased cancer rates and other long term health costs for something on the order of 2 million people.
Cars:
1) Kill 40,000 people a year in the USA alone.
2) Reduce the sum GDP by the amount that these peopel contribute to this, over the course of a normal life span...
3) Average person, let's say $30,000 a year.
4) Average working years... 50?
5) $60,000,000,000
If we had enacted "super safe car" laws 30 years ago, we'd have, at minimu, 2 trillion dollars more, as a nation, to spend on whatever.
Basically, the point I'm trying to make is that, using numbers like this to compare things, it's very easy to pick the winner before-hand and make sure you end up that way.
This led to the obvious question: if the engineers are so valuable, why don't we get the huge bonuses and stock options?
The answer is actually a lot simplier than many people think. Have you ever noticed at your company that some/most/all of the top level managers have worked together before? That the investors that they go to meet first are personal freinds that they have worked with before? Or that most of the people on the board of directors are also on other boards of directors and tend to know each other and work together many times over the years? Or that the CEO has been involved with starting up X number of business in teh last ten years, none of which ever actually succeded, but somehow he's found the cash to start again?
Well, here is the dirty little secret... That's because they are all playing a game together. The reason why the CEO (& friends) gets the big bucks is so that, when the company fails (which a signifigant percentage inevitably do), he will have enough solid capital to start up a new business, or, and this is key, invest in a business started up by one of the people who invested in HIS business.
It's a safely net, you see. He fails and helps his buddy start up a business. His bubdy fails and turns around and helps the first guy, ad nauseum.
However, I stick everything into the application layer, so MySQL lacking these features doesn't bother me a bit.
Thank goodness that the only application capable of touching that database was written by you and no other program will ever be used... Whew!
It'll be released on Feburary 31st?
(Proof: Suppose you have a compression algorithm that always shortens a number, and the corresponding decryption function. (Note we don't assume anything about the nature of the algorithm other than the compression, so it applies to all such algorithms, no matter how fancy the math.) Of the binary numbers 00, 01, 10, 11, each is therefore shortened to 1 bit. But there are only two possibilities for that one bit, and it has to cover 4 numbers. This is not possible for a decompression function by definition of "function". Therefore, contradiction, and there is no such compression algorithm.
Well.... if the ONLY information you wanted to store were 00, 01, 10 or 00 you could do compression on that! basically
0 == 00,
01 == 01,
10 == 10,
1 == 11
Now you can use as little as 1 bit of information half the time. But the catch is, there is "meta" information in the stream. Basically as soon as you want to store two of such numbers you need some way to seperate them...
Now start to get your head around this... what if numbers are just, well, *human* constructs. As hard as that is to get your head around, think how easily that little concept completely changes your view of things.
If numbers are human constructs and nothing "inherant" in the universe, then the patterns that we find are not that unexpected. Humans are pattern hunting machines.
and from where is the pair made in the vacuum?
From the vacuum. That's exactly where they come from. In the vacuum of outer space, where the "real" black holes are, that's ALSO where they come from.
Don't forget that the first parameter is a structure with 75 members, the first of which is the size of the structure itself, and you have to zero out the whole structure before using it to avoid accidentally switching on a feature you didn't want.
Oh sure, if you want fancy alpha blitting... I'll take my old-fashioned square sprites, thank you very much... Only 46 members in that structure, and only three of them are undocumented but will lock up the machine if used improperly! DX is awesome!
So, what you are actually saying is...
... appropriate ... sentance.
It's an
The real question is, what horrible abortion am I going to not watch next?
I think you answered your own question... Live Reality TV ABORTIONS!
Roshita Go is similar to Go, but done in the Roshita Style:
Both players have a supply of "stones" which are actually compressed sugar. One of them is posioned.
Each player takes turn placing pieces on the intersections on the board.
Any player may "capture" an opponents piece by eating it.
There is no draw. Each player must place pieces on the board, anwhere on the board, when it's thier turn, even if all the spaces are filled up.
The first player to die loses.
Death does not have to be by posioning.
Not QUITE that scale...
Two by two chess:
White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin?
White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin?
White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin?
White: Checkmate in 0, would you like to play agin?
Our email server blocks up to 2000 (sometimes more) of the above extentions.
Ok mr sparty pants "admin"... Why block two thousand of them when you could just block everything by default and only ALLOW a few dozen?