I believe that there is a fairly good chance there wont be much left in George's will for relatives. Most will be left to "good causes" (e.g. The Soros foundation...). This is also true of most self made [m|b]illonaires. In fact, Bill Gates - the devil himself - is on record as stating that only $200 million of his will is going to be inherited by relatives. The Bill & Maria Gates foundation overtook the Wellcome Trust as the largest charitable organisation in the world not so long back.
And that is perfectly fair. We know that capital begits capital. If you are rich - and have good intentions - the best thing you can do is be greedy whilst alive. Then give away your money when you die. It will be a substantially larger contribution to good causes.
How close is the backup power generator to your room? I think this could be the problem - due to EM inteference. A similar problem occurs if you have e.g. a large bass-box and you place the monitor next to it, which I hope you are no doing!
In fact, I have experienced exactly this where I work. There is a fscking great big generator right next door to me. My original monitor flickered like hell when I moved in to my new office. No matter what I did - where i put the monitor, whatever the settings, the flickering was completely unbearable.
The only way round the problem I have found is using a flat-screen. LCD doesnt suffer the same EM inteference problems as cathode ray. Hence no flickering.
Luckily I was able to find someone kind enough to swap monitors with, saving me some expense (my old CRT monitor was pretty darn huge and cool, though). Other than forking out for some new flat screen monitors, I dont know what to suggest!
sorry if Palestine isn't going to sit back and let the Israelis kill them one at a time like they been trying to do for almost 50 years now.
oh, and who mentioned holocaust? not me. the Israelis are doing _ORGANIZED EXTERMINATION_ though, if you payed any attention to even your extremely bias media you would understand this
all this took about an hour to create--the very first time I ever used the program.
This is all very good (and quite typical of Apple.) However, ease-of-use almost allways requires a sacrifice of power and complexity. I can imagine that iMovie contains all the snappy, whiz-bang cool stuff that you might want to use first time you use it. But dig a little deeper.... (This is quite typical of Apple.)
Is this program feature poor? How does it compare to other programs?
The various Windows systems I've seen were just too complex.... ...my iMovie is by no means professional
Which answers my question. I guess it depends what you want really - professional quality Vs ameteur and easy.
Aaah - Indymedia. I just posted with a link to suck people in a bit. Indymedia seemed the most suitable silly news organisation to link it to!
Being honest, indymedia can be ok. It is one of the most bias news organisations I know of (contrary to their mission statement), but it is quite nice in the way the bias is opposite to most conventional news agencies. It does have the occasional really insightful news story, that gets completely ignored by Western media. The "open system" of news reporting means that quality varies considerably, but it is pretty idealistic.
Incedently, it is a sister site for protest.org
Go there if you wanna check out some angry young rebels!
And about the anti-semitism: That is fairly recent. A little matter in Israel/Palestine I do believe. The anti-semitism is quite understandable. It does look like the Israelis are going to start building ovens soon.....
A renegade iceberg - nine times the size of singapore - has defected from the antarctic republic. The iceberg, believed to hold communist sympathies, is heading directly for washington D.C at a speed of 0.1 knots. Although the motives of the iceberg are not clear, it may be seeking retaliation for President GW Bush's dismissal of the Kyoto agreement. Other sources believe the Iceberg may have recieved funding from Iraq and may be in association with Al Queida. Reports that Ossama bin Laden - having escaped Afghanistan - is Captaining the Iceberg have proved unfounded.
Although no public statement has been offered by the Whitehouse, inside sources believe that Bush is preparing a full readying of America's nuclear resources in preparation for the incident.
ALthought the consequences of the Iceberg reaching Washington are difficult to predict, it is thought that it could lead to a major destabalisation of the global Ice Cream market, eventually resulting in huge economic turmoil for Ben & jerry's ice cream.
Well, a site slashdotted yet again, so I cant stay on topic.
Why dont slashdot set up a temporary mirror system? When a site looks like it wont hold up to the slashdot effect, the editors (with permission, of course) stick up a copy of the relevant pages on the slashdot servers.
To offset costs, they could make this part of the subscription service. I would be quite happy to pay for this. It would count as one of your "page impressions" instead of having adverts removed.
Nowa days every one has a cd burnner and CDRs are dirt cheap. Besides when was the last time you could find a blank floppy in less then 10 minutes?
I agree. I use LNX-BBC, which fits on a credit card sized CD. Meaning you can carry it round in your wallet or whatever, and have it at hand for all occasions. It has an X window system, which even includes some games (to play when you are waiting for that fscking fsck!), and a full browser.
What is really useful, beyond the usual suite of maintanance/repair tools, is the comprehensive network tools. This is why it can be quite useful to carry around. It means you can put it into a windows box (e.g. on a windows only network) and use it for debugging a network problems. Or l337 activities.......
if you analyzed people's ICQ, Hotmail, Slashdot, computer, domain, etc passwords you would find some pretty common correlations
There is some good advice to get round this problem: Have 2 or 3 passwords.
The 1st password is something weak and easy to remember. Use this for slashdot, websites logins etc. Most people really arent that bothered if their/. account gets cracked.
Use a more secure password for ICQ/hotmail etc.
Have an "uncrackable" password for your computer login. I dont have a problem with writing down passwords, as long as you store it in a safe!
This method means that if someon cracks your more simple passwords, they dont have access to more important stuff.
Yeah. The same people who keep their car keys above their sunguard have the password on a post-it under the keyboard. Someone in my office even has theirs posted on the monitor! And if they dont have to write down the password, it must be easy to remember.
Saying that, if you have access to the desk, their is probably easier ways to access their filesystem than guessing passwords. Like a boot disk or whatever. Kind of makes the whole article a bit irrelevent really....
As a side note, i recently had a nice incident which illustrated most people's attitude to passwords.
A good friend told me he allways used his dog's name for a password. I told him he was dumb and should choose something more cryptic.
"But who would want to hack me?" He said.
A couple of weeks later, his girlfriend was suspicous of him having an affair. She guessed his email password first time, and read his email. She is a bit of a dumb bitch, and seeing all the "Britney spears naked" spam, decided that her boyfriend was some kind of pervert. They nearly broke up over it....
McDonalds took Yu Kwan Yuen, a chinese retaurant owner to court for naming his restaurant "McChina". The judge was quite correct in ruling that McDonalds could not monopolise the prefix "Mc". It means "son of" in scottish, and Yuen had been living in scotland for some time and adopted "McChina" to indicate "Son of China".
But would he have named his restaurant McChina if McDonalds didnt exist?
This is a similar case to the Lindows situation. Although they are deriving their name from a generic source, they are (to some extent) stepping on somebody else's turf. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but certainly in the McChina case I think it wsa the correct outcome.
Novartis was one of the companies which successfully lobbied for the European convention allowing companies to patent genes
New global trade rules have also allowed big corporations to patent crop varieties and, in effect, the genes of plants, animals and human beings.
Even without going into ethical debates, gene patenting is notoriously dubious. The standards that these companies apply to patenting genes is very poor at best. My patent law is not up to scratch, so i would be happy if someone could point me in the right direction on this. However, my genetic knowledge is rather good;-)
Essentially, companies (such as novartis) cast a very wide net when patenting genes. Alot of the time, they dont actually do anything particularly pro-active when attempting to discover them. They essentially take a pool of all genes expressed in a certain tissue ("mRNA") and randomly sequence these genes. And then slap a patent on them. This is quite clearly discovery. Furthermore, it is cheap, non-directional, quick and easy.
Originally, companies like novartis argued that cloning genes would take a strategy of e.g. specifically identifying genes causing a disease. This takes alot more effort and money, and is more likely to have medical significance. Therefore it is easier to argue that patenting is to some degree fair.
However, the first strategy is quite clearly against patenting law (even the stretched definition for gene patenting). For example, I often see "patents" for DNA sequences of the gene MYB (which I know quite well;-), despite the fact that it was originally identified in 1986. If this isnt prior art, I do not know what is.
This is a result of the essentially random, "wide-net" strategy the companies are utilising. Even worse, it is trivial to check (using a homology search) whether there is "prior art" on a gene or not. But the companies do not do this.
BUT I COULD. And may well do. I have been thinking about comparing the database of patented DNA sequences against those in the public domain (It will take some time to set up, which i dont have right now, and significant computer resources, which i dont have right now - help anyone? reply to this as above email wrong;-) . It will show huge proportion of "patented" sequences have prior art.
But who would I go to with these results? Could the companies be held responsible? If, so what would be the result?
I often see this in/. in threads related to computer security:
use OpenBSD.... 4 years with no remote exploits on a default installation
I have never used OpenBSD and do not know what "a default instillation" consists of. But can you actually do anything useful with a default instillation?
For instance, if i installed linux but turned off all services (unlike most default instillations), i reckon I could go 4 years without a being rooted [yes, I know there have been privelege elevation exploits found in kernel fairly recently etc, but you get the point]. But I wouldnt actaully be able to do much with it other than as a workstation.
Is an active OpenBSD box, running several service, dishing up some dynamic content etc really any safer than other systems?
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe these astronomers were inspired by illegal substances at college [Dude, I can see the universe]? After all they got UK artist Damien Hirst (of shark-in-formaldehyde fame) to do their clour calibration on beagle 2. This guy is a complete fruitcake, and with him on their side I am suprised that the clour of the universe was not "magenta with cyan polkadots"......
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, anyone working on an iPod linux port yet?
Beowulf clusters anyone?
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot sort a row of size 8469, which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8094.
Oh well.... back to Direct Connect and WinMX. I really did want to pay...
Fortean times has a nice archive of such simulcra
My particular favourite being "rasputin in the ear of a kitten". A definate sign of the lack of intelligence on this planet, at least.
I believe that there is a fairly good chance there wont be much left in George's will for relatives. Most will be left to "good causes" (e.g. The Soros foundation...). This is also true of most self made [m|b]illonaires. In fact, Bill Gates - the devil himself - is on record as stating that only $200 million of his will is going to be inherited by relatives. The Bill & Maria Gates foundation overtook the Wellcome Trust as the largest charitable organisation in the world not so long back.
And that is perfectly fair. We know that capital begits capital. If you are rich - and have good intentions - the best thing you can do is be greedy whilst alive. Then give away your money when you die. It will be a substantially larger contribution to good causes.
When is this ludicrous Katz bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing bashing going to end?
ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh help me - recursive loop virus infection in logic unit.
Rock Linux sounds pretty similar. Anyone know how they compare?
How close is the backup power generator to your room? I think this could be the problem - due to EM inteference. A similar problem occurs if you have e.g. a large bass-box and you place the monitor next to it, which I hope you are no doing!
In fact, I have experienced exactly this where I work. There is a fscking great big generator right next door to me. My original monitor flickered like hell when I moved in to my new office. No matter what I did - where i put the monitor, whatever the settings, the flickering was completely unbearable.
The only way round the problem I have found is using a flat-screen. LCD doesnt suffer the same EM inteference problems as cathode ray. Hence no flickering.
Luckily I was able to find someone kind enough to swap monitors with, saving me some expense (my old CRT monitor was pretty darn huge and cool, though). Other than forking out for some new flat screen monitors, I dont know what to suggest!
sorry if Palestine isn't going to sit back and let the Israelis kill them one at a time like they been trying to do for almost 50 years now.
oh, and who mentioned holocaust? not me.
the Israelis are doing _ORGANIZED EXTERMINATION_ though, if you payed any attention to even your extremely bias media you would understand this
please, i know this is widely offtopic:
but what is this "cultist trade secret" incident?
I'm intrigued....
all this took about an hour to create--the very first time I ever used the program.
This is all very good (and quite typical of Apple.) However, ease-of-use almost allways requires a sacrifice of power and complexity. I can imagine that iMovie contains all the snappy, whiz-bang cool stuff that you might want to use first time you use it. But dig a little deeper....
(This is quite typical of Apple.)
Is this program feature poor?
How does it compare to other programs?
The various Windows systems I've seen were just too complex....
...my iMovie is by no means professional
Which answers my question. I guess it depends what you want really - professional quality Vs ameteur and easy.
Check it.
The register, in their usual style, compared the voting process to a zimbabwean national election....
Please excuse me for being a pedant, but the headline
"Virtual keyboard a reality"
is an oxymoron.
That was pretty funny..
ta. just cant help myself...
Aaah - Indymedia. I just posted with a link to suck people in a bit. Indymedia seemed the most suitable silly news organisation to link it to!
Being honest, indymedia can be ok. It is one of the most bias news organisations I know of (contrary to their mission statement), but it is quite nice in the way the bias is opposite to most conventional news agencies. It does have the occasional really insightful news story, that gets completely ignored by Western media. The "open system" of news reporting means that quality varies considerably, but it is pretty idealistic.
Incedently, it is a sister site for protest.org
Go there if you wanna check out some angry young rebels!
And about the anti-semitism: That is fairly recent. A little matter in Israel/Palestine I do believe. The anti-semitism is quite understandable. It does look like the Israelis are going to start building ovens soon.....
More from indymedia:
A renegade iceberg - nine times the size of singapore - has defected from the antarctic republic. The iceberg, believed to hold communist sympathies, is heading directly for washington D.C at a speed of 0.1 knots. Although the motives of the iceberg are not clear, it may be seeking retaliation for President GW Bush's dismissal of the Kyoto agreement. Other sources believe the Iceberg may have recieved funding from Iraq and may be in association with Al Queida. Reports that Ossama bin Laden - having escaped Afghanistan - is Captaining the Iceberg have proved unfounded.
Although no public statement has been offered by the Whitehouse, inside sources believe that Bush is preparing a full readying of America's nuclear resources in preparation for the incident.
ALthought the consequences of the Iceberg reaching Washington are difficult to predict, it is thought that it could lead to a major destabalisation of the global Ice Cream market, eventually resulting in huge economic turmoil for Ben & jerry's ice cream.
Well, a site slashdotted yet again, so I cant stay on topic.
Why dont slashdot set up a temporary mirror system? When a site looks like it wont hold up to the slashdot effect, the editors (with permission, of course) stick up a copy of the relevant pages on the slashdot servers.
To offset costs, they could make this part of the subscription service. I would be quite happy to pay for this. It would count as one of your "page impressions" instead of having adverts removed.
Nowa days every one has a cd burnner and CDRs are
dirt cheap. Besides when was the last time you could find a blank floppy in less then 10 minutes?
I agree. I use LNX-BBC, which fits on a credit card sized CD. Meaning you can carry it round in your wallet or whatever, and have it at hand for all occasions.
It has an X window system, which even includes some games (to play when you are waiting for that fscking fsck!), and a full browser.
What is really useful, beyond the usual suite of maintanance/repair tools, is the comprehensive network tools. This is why it can be quite useful to carry around. It means you can put it into a windows box (e.g. on a windows only network) and use it for debugging a network problems. Or l337 activities.......
if you analyzed people's ICQ, Hotmail, Slashdot, computer, domain, etc passwords you would find some pretty common correlations
/. account gets cracked.
There is some good advice to get round this problem: Have 2 or 3 passwords.
The 1st password is something weak and easy to remember. Use this for slashdot, websites logins etc. Most people really arent that bothered if their
Use a more secure password for ICQ/hotmail etc.
Have an "uncrackable" password for your computer login. I dont have a problem with writing down passwords, as long as you store it in a safe!
This method means that if someon cracks your more simple passwords, they dont have access to more important stuff.
Saying that, if you have access to the desk, their is probably easier ways to access their filesystem than guessing passwords. Like a boot disk or whatever. Kind of makes the whole article a bit irrelevent really....
As a side note, i recently had a nice incident which illustrated most people's attitude to passwords.
A good friend told me he allways used his dog's name for a password. I told him he was dumb and should choose something more cryptic.
"But who would want to hack me?" He said.
A couple of weeks later, his girlfriend was suspicous of him having an affair. She guessed his email password first time, and read his email. She is a bit of a dumb bitch, and seeing all the "Britney spears naked" spam, decided that her boyfriend was some kind of pervert. They nearly broke up over it....
My friend learnt his lesson about weak passwords.
There was a similar court case in the UK recently.
McDonalds took Yu Kwan Yuen, a chinese retaurant owner to court for naming his restaurant "McChina". The judge was quite correct in ruling that McDonalds could not monopolise the prefix "Mc". It means "son of" in scottish, and Yuen had been living in scotland for some time and adopted "McChina" to indicate "Son of China".
But would he have named his restaurant McChina if McDonalds didnt exist?
This is a similar case to the Lindows situation. Although they are deriving their name from a generic source, they are (to some extent) stepping on somebody else's turf. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but certainly in the McChina case I think it wsa the correct outcome.
omfg - please everyone dont tell Rolf Harris abouth this little gadget.
He murdered "stairway to heaven" with a wobble board!
What next?
"light my fire" played with a fire blanket?
"ace of spades" on a pack of a cards?
"130 steps" on an escalator?
please people keep schtum if you want your favourite classic to remain unviolated.
They produced chocolate, goddamnit.
You know? The frigging eight wonder of the modern world...
I found these points interesting:
;-)
;-), despite the fact that it was originally identified in 1986. If this isnt prior art, I do not know what is.
;-) . It will show huge proportion of "patented" sequences have prior art.
Novartis was one of the companies which successfully lobbied for the European convention allowing companies to patent genes
New global trade rules have also allowed big corporations to patent crop varieties and, in effect, the genes of plants, animals and human beings.
Even without going into ethical debates, gene patenting is notoriously dubious. The standards that these companies apply to patenting genes is very poor at best. My patent law is not up to scratch, so i would be happy if someone could point me in the right direction on this. However, my genetic knowledge is rather good
Essentially, companies (such as novartis) cast a very wide net when patenting genes. Alot of the time, they dont actually do anything particularly pro-active when attempting to discover them. They essentially take a pool of all genes expressed in a certain tissue ("mRNA") and randomly sequence these genes. And then slap a patent on them. This is quite clearly discovery. Furthermore, it is cheap, non-directional, quick and easy.
Originally, companies like novartis argued that cloning genes would take a strategy of e.g. specifically identifying genes causing a disease. This takes alot more effort and money, and is more likely to have medical significance. Therefore it is easier to argue that patenting is to some degree fair.
However, the first strategy is quite clearly against patenting law (even the stretched definition for gene patenting). For example, I often see "patents" for DNA sequences of the gene MYB (which I know quite well
This is a result of the essentially random, "wide-net" strategy the companies are utilising. Even worse, it is trivial to check (using a homology search) whether there is "prior art" on a gene or not. But the companies do not do this.
BUT I COULD. And may well do. I have been thinking about comparing the database of patented DNA sequences against those in the public domain (It will take some time to set up, which i dont have right now, and significant computer resources, which i dont have right now - help anyone? reply to this as above email wrong
But who would I go to with these results? Could the companies be held responsible? If, so what would be the result?
I often see this in /. in threads related to computer security:
.... 4 years with no remote exploits on a default installation
use OpenBSD
I have never used OpenBSD and do not know what "a default instillation" consists of. But can you actually do anything useful with a default instillation?
For instance, if i installed linux but turned off all services (unlike most default instillations), i reckon I could go 4 years without a being rooted [yes, I know there have been privelege elevation exploits found in kernel fairly recently etc, but you get the point]. But I wouldnt actaully be able to do much with it other than as a workstation.
Is an active OpenBSD box, running several service, dishing up some dynamic content etc really any safer than other systems?
non-standard white
WTF??????? What the hell is non-standard white?
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe these astronomers were inspired by illegal substances at college [Dude, I can see the universe]? After all they got UK artist Damien Hirst (of shark-in-formaldehyde fame) to do their clour calibration on beagle 2. This guy is a complete fruitcake, and with him on their side I am suprised that the clour of the universe was not "magenta with cyan polkadots"......
UK artist Damien Hirst is reported to have provided paintings to travel on the spacecraft. These would be used as test cards for the cameras
In reference to the earlier Spinal Tap comment:
I really hope that this "Darth Vader volume knob" goes all the way up to 11......