I've also heard a religous fanatic theory that attempts to disprove evolution because the probability for change is so incredibly small that the likelihood of going from amoeba to Man in just 3.5 billion years (I believe that's when the first signs of single-celled organisms first creep up) is equally small. An adaptive change being really, really rare, and the sudden environmental changes that would needed for accelerated adaptation (to cram what should be (for the sake of argument) 50 billion years of evolution into 3.5) also being quite rare.
These probability assessments likely have some merit, but I think they demand closer inspection of all variables involved. For instance, without an entire mapping of the evolutionary tree, we cannot see the emergence off a predatory species that suddenly kills of most of another species, of which the survivors attribute their good fortune to evolution.
Actually, traditional Republicans do favor cession of many of the roles that Washington has taken on today to either private companies or the states. Since the eighties and especially 9/11, both parties have generally agreed to increase government, while the Democrats favor social programs, and the Republicans favor defense and security. Same bullshit, different rhetoric.
I haven't seen it in any of the posts in this discussion so far, but I have heard John McCain referred to as John McCain, ( R, Media ) because of how his so-called "Campaign Finance Reform" would empower those who speak about politics on TV due to its Unconstitutional prohibition of paid political ads during certain periods before our elections.
Bullshit. He stood alone fighting agaist a unified congress trying to pass an act that would expand the media giants monopolies in every American locality during the Clinton administration. Though he lost, he clearly took a firm stance against the giant media cartels and any legislature that would expand their control over television/radio/film.
I'm sure a few 12-year old crackheads that love to find obscure posts to mod down and giggle will find this and censor me accordingly, but I recommend "Catch Me if you Can," since the story of Frank Abignail is really one of the greatest true stories of the century. Other than that, there's not much on unless you're a Star Trek or a Harry Potter fan (I'm neither).
Since the betas and RC are now going to be exposed to the world for longer, are the security holes going to be disclosed so that we can take some action to secure our systems that are running these pre-release builds?
I'm not going to karma whore and give you links to the holes themselves, but this is a good place to start. They disclose holes as they happen; it's open source. Systems that choose to run thes pre-release builds accept such risks anyways.
Since class-action suits were used to push de-facto legislation in the sixties, it became precedent to require that all class-action cases require signatures from ALL constituents that will be affected. This might just be here in Texas (I know there was trouble with school busing issues), but if it is at the national level, then signatures from all users who have been deceived would be required.
I don't necessarily disagree with you; my post wasn't a statement of my opinion, merely an assessment of why this is nows that matters. I believe there is a bit too much FUD about it; I believe that this article is a huge FUD mountain-from-molehill. But the original parent didn't appear to know why it was here (he later responded that he did in fact know what was going on).
You know, I'm going to admit this because it makes me stupider than if I didn't: I read the article and missed it. Skimming too fast I guess. If I didn't read the article, I'd come off as a jerk-off, but this really seals my stupidity.
By weight, less than 3% of the final polymer is sugar, so the material is more or less the same. But bacteria such as Pseudomonas and Bacillus break open the chains when they chomp on these sugary snacks, kicking off decay.
It doesn't tell us which kind of sugar; i.e. whether it is a mono- or disaccharide. Does anyone know if the mentioned bacteria eat specific kinds of sugar (Bacillus is a very common one I think) or that they eat all sorts (gluctose, galactose, lactose, fructose, etc.)?
Developers will switch to.NET, since lusers won't have to download it, and installing Java is too much to ask, especially when competitors are offering something that works now.
The controversy is that there are those who believe that Microsoft will use it's market share to kill off Java, and gain control over, and be the central conduit of, all interactive web-based activity. They tried to do this a few years ago with their "embrace and extend" campaign.
You may agree or disagree that Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to do this, but if you care at all about either platforms, this is important.
...developers continue using the Java platform. It is really a neat language, and the Java API makes it a great remote client environment.
On the other hand,.NET builds upon the success of C and its derivatives, particularly C#, and allows developers to seamlessly integrate the Internet with their services. Truly a godsend.
Here at work (a consulting firm), I co-admin about 30 NT boxes, and we're looking into both platforms for our new finance services, but right now.NET looks more appealing, as cross-platform support is more of a burden than a feature; we can afford to cut off a small minority in favor of delivering seamless, facilitated content to the bulk of our client base.
I'll give +50 karma to any Eurotrash faggot who gets a fucking clue about Americans. Almost everyone I know here understands that the UK is America's number one ally (up there with Canada) and bears no ill will towards Europeans (most respect Europe and would love to visit; though we have this thing against paying high taxes for a collectively higher standard of living. I know I do). I happened to live in Switzerland for a year, and it tended to be the young Europeans that had the ignorant viewpoint... "oh you Americans think you own the world and are so stupid and brainwashed" was a statement often uttered, though never backed up.
Older folks, when they had a problem with American foreign policy, actually made a distinction between bombing a small country, and the citizens not being politically conscious, since we are. Every American I talk to knows the stakes at bombing Iraq; every American I know realizes it's a sovereign nation, but 'progressive' politics aren't the only viewpoint. It seems you young'n'dumb folks confuse our foreign policy with our citizenry. Shame on you; foreign policy can be criticized, but such critizisms cannot be willed upon an opinion of the masses in any meaninful way.
"Hey man, I'm really clever. I pointed out that Americans are stupid."
From the troll that brought you the *BSD is DYING posts (all 5,425 of them) I'm sure. Okay, I'll bite.
Really though, CERT advisories are inadequate tools for measuring vulnerability. Assuming Linux+apache+ssh, etc., all had equal number of bugs, the number of CERT advisories would be dramatically higher for Linux as opposed to Windows, since Microsoft forces people to hush up when a hole is found, and in the case of Linux, the bugs get reported several times, and the same hole in several distros likely becomes different bugs.
Hence, the article draws a similar conclusion to something like "Our army suffered more casualties than our opponent's army; hence, our opponent is the victor."
We have a couple users who think that they know more than the IT department and therefore insist that they maintain WinXP boxes on their desks.
Users who think they know more than the IT department, who run a Mac network, insisting that they maintain Windows boxes? I keep reading that sentence over and over and alternating between laughing my ass off and getting mildly furious.
You: "MacOSX is built on UNIX technology, and is more stable, sports a superior IP stack, and new users will find it much easier to use, thanks to the greatest GUI ever designed"
Them: "No thanks, I use a real computer, and that starts with a PC running Windows."
Ok, how 'bout I threaten you. I will come to your house and kill you tonight. You don't really take it seriously, do you? You shouldn't, because I won't. We can rattle sabers all day against the giants, but ultimately we can't effectively fight them here (using my example about KaZaA; there are plenty of instances where the "little guy" threatens and wins). Within this context of defining something as "theft" and collecting damages, however, I just don't see it happening.
This may set a precedent for allowing big companies to define something as "stealing" and then send a bill. Consider a bill coming from mail.com for blocking their pop-up ads, or from the Cable TV company for not watching commercials (they DO know when you change channels and for how long).
How 'bout I send a bill to Kazaa for 'stealing' information about me that is used to provide ads that bother the shit about me? Oh wait, I can't threaten them with legal action like they can.
I'm so getting killed for this (and don't even think about modding me up simply because I admitted that this is silly and offtopic).
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these 2. Nab the first post 3. Flame Linux users 4. Consult Netcraft 5. Report health status of *BSD 6. Write seemingly intelligent post 7. Throw in a yahoo.com redirected link to goatse.cx 8. Write 1, 2, 3, Profit! joke 9. Bitch about the BSOD 10. ??? 11. Pro^H^H^HWake up a virgin at 36 in your parents basement and commit suicide.
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These probability assessments likely have some merit, but I think they demand closer inspection of all variables involved. For instance, without an entire mapping of the evolutionary tree, we cannot see the emergence off a predatory species that suddenly kills of most of another species, of which the survivors attribute their good fortune to evolution.
Actually, traditional Republicans do favor cession of many of the roles that Washington has taken on today to either private companies or the states. Since the eighties and especially 9/11, both parties have generally agreed to increase government, while the Democrats favor social programs, and the Republicans favor defense and security. Same bullshit, different rhetoric.
Bullshit. He stood alone fighting agaist a unified congress trying to pass an act that would expand the media giants monopolies in every American locality during the Clinton administration. Though he lost, he clearly took a firm stance against the giant media cartels and any legislature that would expand their control over television/radio/film.
I'm sure a few 12-year old crackheads that love to find obscure posts to mod down and giggle will find this and censor me accordingly, but I recommend "Catch Me if you Can," since the story of Frank Abignail is really one of the greatest true stories of the century. Other than that, there's not much on unless you're a Star Trek or a Harry Potter fan (I'm neither).
Those daggummed Matrix sequels. How long has it been since those teasers started popping up?
I don't have much personal experience with SpamAssassin, but from what I heard it does a fine job already.
Honestly though, I can't imagine every 40 GB hard drive being unusable for XP. My dad has XP and I'm pretty sure it's a 40 GB disk.
I've had the same symptom (back when I used Windows; 98 I think). Maybe the partition wasn't set as "active" or "bootable" in fdisk or something.
I'm not going to karma whore and give you links to the holes themselves, but this is a good place to start. They disclose holes as they happen; it's open source. Systems that choose to run thes pre-release builds accept such risks anyways.
Dude, I was joking ;)
Since class-action suits were used to push de-facto legislation in the sixties, it became precedent to require that all class-action cases require signatures from ALL constituents that will be affected. This might just be here in Texas (I know there was trouble with school busing issues), but if it is at the national level, then signatures from all users who have been deceived would be required.
I don't necessarily disagree with you; my post wasn't a statement of my opinion, merely an assessment of why this is nows that matters. I believe there is a bit too much FUD about it; I believe that this article is a huge FUD mountain-from-molehill. But the original parent didn't appear to know why it was here (he later responded that he did in fact know what was going on).
You know, I'm going to admit this because it makes me stupider than if I didn't: I read the article and missed it. Skimming too fast I guess. If I didn't read the article, I'd come off as a jerk-off, but this really seals my stupidity.
Developers will switch to .NET, since lusers won't have to download it, and installing Java is too much to ask, especially when competitors are offering something that works now.
The controversy is that there are those who believe that Microsoft will use it's market share to kill off Java, and gain control over, and be the central conduit of, all interactive web-based activity. They tried to do this a few years ago with their "embrace and extend" campaign.
You may agree or disagree that Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to do this, but if you care at all about either platforms, this is important.
On the other hand, .NET builds upon the success of C and its derivatives, particularly C#, and allows developers to seamlessly integrate the Internet with their services. Truly a godsend.
Here at work (a consulting firm), I co-admin about 30 NT boxes, and we're looking into both platforms for our new finance services, but right now .NET looks more appealing, as cross-platform support is more of a burden than a feature; we can afford to cut off a small minority in favor of delivering seamless, facilitated content to the bulk of our client base.
Oh I didn't say the snide comments we make about the French were a bad thing :)
Older folks, when they had a problem with American foreign policy, actually made a distinction between bombing a small country, and the citizens not being politically conscious, since we are. Every American I talk to knows the stakes at bombing Iraq; every American I know realizes it's a sovereign nation, but 'progressive' politics aren't the only viewpoint. It seems you young'n'dumb folks confuse our foreign policy with our citizenry. Shame on you; foreign policy can be criticized, but such critizisms cannot be willed upon an opinion of the masses in any meaninful way.
"Hey man, I'm really clever. I pointed out that Americans are stupid."
IHBT. I know.
Really though, CERT advisories are inadequate tools for measuring vulnerability. Assuming Linux+apache+ssh, etc., all had equal number of bugs, the number of CERT advisories would be dramatically higher for Linux as opposed to Windows, since Microsoft forces people to hush up when a hole is found, and in the case of Linux, the bugs get reported several times, and the same hole in several distros likely becomes different bugs.
Hence, the article draws a similar conclusion to something like "Our army suffered more casualties than our opponent's army; hence, our opponent is the victor."
Users who think they know more than the IT department, who run a Mac network, insisting that they maintain Windows boxes? I keep reading that sentence over and over and alternating between laughing my ass off and getting mildly furious.
You: "MacOSX is built on UNIX technology, and is more stable, sports a superior IP stack, and new users will find it much easier to use, thanks to the greatest GUI ever designed"
Them: "No thanks, I use a real computer, and that starts with a PC running Windows."
I feel for you man...
Ok, how 'bout I threaten you. I will come to your house and kill you tonight. You don't really take it seriously, do you? You shouldn't, because I won't. We can rattle sabers all day against the giants, but ultimately we can't effectively fight them here (using my example about KaZaA; there are plenty of instances where the "little guy" threatens and wins). Within this context of defining something as "theft" and collecting damages, however, I just don't see it happening.
How 'bout I send a bill to Kazaa for 'stealing' information about me that is used to provide ads that bother the shit about me? Oh wait, I can't threaten them with legal action like they can.
I'm so getting killed for this (and don't even think about modding me up simply because I admitted that this is silly and offtopic).
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these
2. Nab the first post
3. Flame Linux users
4. Consult Netcraft
5. Report health status of *BSD
6. Write seemingly intelligent post
7. Throw in a yahoo.com redirected link to goatse.cx
8. Write 1, 2, 3, Profit! joke
9. Bitch about the BSOD
10. ???
11. Pro^H^H^HWake up a virgin at 36 in your parents basement and commit suicide.
If you get good enough karma, all posts start at 2 unless you specifically tell it not to include the +1 bonus, like this one.
These articles are classic Slashdot trolls, and my post here was a parody.