It's obvious to any right-thinking person that TV in general and video games in particular don't cause violence in children. If that were so, educational TV would make them smarter--and I've never seen any evidence of that either.
However, I think there's still a link there. Clearly people who like violent video games over otherwise-equivalent games must be enjoying the violence. So violent video games serve as a magnet to these violence-prone people, which skews the statistics of the anti-gaming nuts. Perhaps a wiser use of our money would be to establish a national DNA database of these whackos that are spending their free time pretending to kill people--it'll save time when they eventually do murder someone.
As you are probably already aware, I run one of the biggest nuclear (research) installations in the US. This means that I have to be constantly on the lookout for security issues. Well, like you, one night I noticed a hack in progress. Some guy was trying to gain access to our plutonium containment facility computer. I was on the phone to the FBI ASAP, as you can imagine. They gave me some similar runaround, so I decided to do a little investigation myself. I ran some pings, traceroutes and a couple of items I have in my toolkit (proprietary, so please don't ask) and figured out where it was coming from.
cia.gov!!
You can bet I shut my PC down and walked right out of there and never mentioned this little incident again until now. BTW, this was in early-to-mid September, 2001.
First of all, you need to know how batteries work. The main thing to take away is the ion transfer from anode to cathode. This is vital in understanding what temperature sensor you need.
After you've read that, you'll need to get additional information on rechargeable batteries. Note that that page talks about nickel oxide batteries but the information applies to lead acid batteries such as you find in a typical UPS (and cars, for that matter).
It is also crucial to understand that the battery is an electric, not an electronic, device. So there's no way for the battery itself to report to your server that it is getting low on power. You'll need some after-market monitoring electronics hooked on there that will sense how the battery is doing and will function as a middle man to your PC.
Another important issue is sinewave capability. If your UPS can't put out a sinewave voltage, you should probably avoid it.
Love 'em or hate 'em, Microsoft produces quality products. What can we hope to see from an MS-created search engine?
Good internationalization support. Contrast this with the Linux-run Google.
High speed returns. Contrast to the slow, BSD-run Yahoo.
Seamless OS integration. Contrast to almost any search engine, none of which tie directly to the browser, let alone let you search from inside a Word document or email message.
Standarization. Contrast this to the situation now, where almost everyone uses a different search engine, requiring website designers to submit their pages to hundreds of different databases.
There are significant, and scientifically valid, reasons to fear GM:
1) Production of previously unknown toxins
2) GM organisms driving NE organisms to extinction
3) Genetic monoculture susceptible to parasites and climate
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
5) Gene transfer between similar existing species leading to any one of the above
for things like improving rice or wheat. These are clearly important, life-sustaining purposes that warrant taking on a little extra risk. But glow in the dark fish? Is that really worth the possibility that the fish will escape and reek havoc in the ecosystem?
Also, many fish, such as goldfish, are just slightly different breeds of wild fish, such as carp. If an "engineered" fish escapes and breeds with a fish that's in our food chain and then we eat it, that could have important health implications. We need to be absolutely sure that genetically engineered products, such as grains, don't reach human mouths.
One of the major complints about this book is the lack of editting. Thes is just like those people that complain about mispelings on the front page of/.. We raed things to get information, not so we can look at the pretty paterns that the words maek. If the book is solid in other dimentions (with it sounds like it isn't in these case) then the speeling can be for givin.
The GPL has never been tested in court. SCO's claim that they own the Linux source code is clearly ridiculous--how can a person own an idea? So there's no doubt in my mind that Linux will emerge victorious in the end, which makes GPL, and therefore GPL/Linux, even stronger!
So bring it on, we welcome the test! Any thoughts?
...the PCI Express technology roadmap will continue to evolve, while maintaining backward compatibility, well into the next decade with enhancements to its proprietary protocol, signaling, electromechanical and other specifications, which are available for a fee.
I just bet they are available for a fee. Does no one else remember the fiasco with I20, USB and IDE? These are all "specifications" for hardware that no one needs--their only purpose is to try to squeeze Linux out of the marketplace. By charging high fees and building Windoze-centric logic into the spec, Linux development is slowed, if not halted. Worse, the logos and names of these "technologies" are trademarked so even when the Power of Open Source gets them working in the kernal, nobody is allowed to talk about it for fear of litigation.
Just say no to hardware upgrades and stick with what we have now.
OK, you web "coders", listen up. We, the general surfing public, are sick of Java, Flash, Javascript, CSS and "dynamic" anything. HTML was good enough for our grandparents and parents, HTML is good enough for us. It's a content description language, not a layout engine. We want data. When we click a link, we don't expect to see spinning globes or slowly assembling menus--we just want the next piece of data. Recent studies have found that up to 95% of bandwidth is wasted through over-designed websites. Add to that the cost of paying the glorified typists who create these sites and you are looking right at the reason the Internet bubble burst.
Look at Slashdot. With just a few lines of elegant Perl, Taco et al have created a slick, funcational, speedy, high-reliability site that eschews beauty in favor of pure information. Take your queue from these guys, web monkey.
MathML is XML. Amaya (the reference browser from W3C) lets you put XML inside of an HTML document. From the site:
...extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
They still haven't fixed the a huge issue
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MathML. It's supported, but only in pure XML pages. This means that on legacy HTML sites, like Slashdot and K5, I can't fully get across the brilliance of my scientific and mathematical ideas, which is a lose-lose situation.
As open source projects, you'd think that Slashcode and Mozilla could meet halfway on this. But, as anyone who's tried to submit a patch to either project knows, they are open in name only. Development of both systems is really closed to outsiders and only insiders (the creators, their friends and people who think exactly the same way that they do) are allowed to submit patches. Witness the recent Taco IRC interview where his response to "when will Slashdot validate at the W3c" was "Whatever. Next."
/me starts an open-minded source revolution
Microsoft security training...on Slashdot??
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Windows is impossible to make secure--as Linux users, we all know that.[1] So why is a book being reviewed here that purports to make the impossible happen? Where's the review of Make A Perpetual Motion Machine In Your Basement For Only $10?
To go one step further, I'd like to suggest that it is a moral imperative for Linux users to keep this book away from Windows sysadmins. Right now, even they are pretty sure that Windows is insecure, though they run it anyway. But if they read this book, they might start believing the FUD that MS spews and think that Windows is actually usable!
[1]There are even the first glimmerings from the academic world that this could be mathematically proven using "chaOS" theory, the application of regular chaos theory to OS design.
Why does the submitter make such a big deal out of these discs being "incompatible"? That's the only way to cost-effectively add features and create new paradigms. Linux isn't "compatible" with Windows which in turn wasn't "compatible" with DOS. Cars weren't "compatible" with horse-drawn carriages.
If you want something new and different, you can't also ask for it to be compatible. Break out of your preconceptions and help today's technology re-invent itself as tomorrow's.
I have a Palm and I love it. However, when I use it, I rarely think to myself "if only I could be holding my arm awkwardly up to my face right now, life would be perfect". Likewise, it is only infrequently that I moan over how much extra screen real estate my Palm has. Since these two things seem to be the only problems that the Palm Watch solves, why would I want to spend $300 on it?
This is really great news for Linux. For too long we've been trapped in the out-moded hierarchical/graphical paradigm. Plan 9, with its revolutionary "factotum" and "secstore" structures, could really provide a breadth of fresh hair to the Linux kernal, putting it head and shoulders above Windows.
Does anyone else find it suspicious that MS "leaks" a memo that says they must prevent Linux from succeeding "at any cost" and just a few months later we find SCO, inheritors of MS's Xenix code and still tied to them historically, casting doubts on the legality of Linux?
Has anyone checked to see who these lawyers are paid by and associat with? Could it all be a FUD champagne?
First, you will have to decide if he wants to do terrestrial (birds and neighbors) or astronomical viewing. Astro scopes aren't "erected" (flipped the right direction) because it takes an extra prism, which reduces the quality of the view.
After you've decided that, go with aperture. With $600 and the right website, you can go pretty far. I'd get this one--with the 8" aperture and EQ drive it can hardly be beat for astro viewing. And erecter attachment can be used for terrestrial viewing and won't hamper the view too much.
I've been using Python for quite some time now and I've found it vastly superior, both functionally and from a maintenance standpoint, to both Perl and PHP. One knit, though. Why on earth make whitespace vital to the compiler? For business reasons I have to edit my programs in Windows but run them on Linux. Editing out all those ^M's is a big pain.
a 1.6 Ghz chip that is slower than previous laptop processors from Intel, but does more. Hey, isn't that what Apple....have gotten so much guff about?
Not entirely. Apples chips cost more but do the same amount (or less, there's no MMX in an PowerPC). They are also more expensive per clock-cycle and embedded in a desktop (or server, if Apple made a server worthy of the name).
All these anti-trust suites are getting a little boring and aren't doing any good. Memo to prosecutors: It isn't enough to charge them or even find them guilty. You have to follow through with a remedy. Whatever happened to the one we had here, a couple years ago everyone was talking about 3 Baby Bills.
But maybe I'm jumping the gum. This one is in the EU, where socialist policies have no compunctuation about just grabbing MS's cash. That'd work, too.
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However, I think there's still a link there. Clearly people who like violent video games over otherwise-equivalent games must be enjoying the violence. So violent video games serve as a magnet to these violence-prone people, which skews the statistics of the anti-gaming nuts. Perhaps a wiser use of our money would be to establish a national DNA database of these whackos that are spending their free time pretending to kill people--it'll save time when they eventually do murder someone.
cia.gov!!
You can bet I shut my PC down and walked right out of there and never mentioned this little incident again until now. BTW, this was in early-to-mid September, 2001.
After you've read that, you'll need to get additional information on rechargeable batteries. Note that that page talks about nickel oxide batteries but the information applies to lead acid batteries such as you find in a typical UPS (and cars, for that matter).
It is also crucial to understand that the battery is an electric, not an electronic, device. So there's no way for the battery itself to report to your server that it is getting low on power. You'll need some after-market monitoring electronics hooked on there that will sense how the battery is doing and will function as a middle man to your PC.
Another important issue is sinewave capability. If your UPS can't put out a sinewave voltage, you should probably avoid it.
Can anyone add anything to that?
1) Production of previously unknown toxins
2) GM organisms driving NE organisms to extinction
3) Genetic monoculture susceptible to parasites and climate
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
5) Gene transfer between similar existing species leading to any one of the above
Also, many fish, such as goldfish, are just slightly different breeds of wild fish, such as carp. If an "engineered" fish escapes and breeds with a fish that's in our food chain and then we eat it, that could have important health implications. We need to be absolutely sure that genetically engineered products, such as grains, don't reach human mouths.
Language evolves, get over it.
The GPL has never been tested in court. SCO's claim that they own the Linux source code is clearly ridiculous--how can a person own an idea? So there's no doubt in my mind that Linux will emerge victorious in the end, which makes GPL, and therefore GPL/Linux, even stronger!
So bring it on, we welcome the test! Any thoughts?
I just bet they are available for a fee. Does no one else remember the fiasco with I20, USB and IDE? These are all "specifications" for hardware that no one needs--their only purpose is to try to squeeze Linux out of the marketplace. By charging high fees and building Windoze-centric logic into the spec, Linux development is slowed, if not halted. Worse, the logos and names of these "technologies" are trademarked so even when the Power of Open Source gets them working in the kernal, nobody is allowed to talk about it for fear of litigation.
Just say no to hardware upgrades and stick with what we have now.
Look at Slashdot. With just a few lines of elegant Perl, Taco et al have created a slick, funcational, speedy, high-reliability site that eschews beauty in favor of pure information. Take your queue from these guys, web monkey.
Contrary to the reference browser, Mozilla does not allow this.
As open source projects, you'd think that Slashcode and Mozilla could meet halfway on this. But, as anyone who's tried to submit a patch to either project knows, they are open in name only. Development of both systems is really closed to outsiders and only insiders (the creators, their friends and people who think exactly the same way that they do) are allowed to submit patches. Witness the recent Taco IRC interview where his response to "when will Slashdot validate at the W3c" was "Whatever. Next."
To go one step further, I'd like to suggest that it is a moral imperative for Linux users to keep this book away from Windows sysadmins. Right now, even they are pretty sure that Windows is insecure, though they run it anyway. But if they read this book, they might start believing the FUD that MS spews and think that Windows is actually usable!
[1]There are even the first glimmerings from the academic world that this could be mathematically proven using "chaOS" theory, the application of regular chaos theory to OS design.
If you want something new and different, you can't also ask for it to be compatible. Break out of your preconceptions and help today's technology re-invent itself as tomorrow's.
I have a Palm and I love it. However, when I use it, I rarely think to myself "if only I could be holding my arm awkwardly up to my face right now, life would be perfect". Likewise, it is only infrequently that I moan over how much extra screen real estate my Palm has. Since these two things seem to be the only problems that the Palm Watch solves, why would I want to spend $300 on it?
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This is really great news for Linux. For too long we've been trapped in the out-moded hierarchical/graphical paradigm. Plan 9, with its revolutionary "factotum" and "secstore" structures, could really provide a breadth of fresh hair to the Linux kernal, putting it head and shoulders above Windows.
This is the first time I've been in the newly decorated Games section. Eyes/goggles/nothing.
Has anyone checked to see who these lawyers are paid by and associat with? Could it all be a FUD champagne?
Buy an ad.
HTH
Rosalind Franklin, the co-discoverer who was shut-out by her chauvinist pig "colleagues". Please, Slashdot, don't perpetuate the evil.
After you've decided that, go with aperture. With $600 and the right website, you can go pretty far. I'd get this one--with the 8" aperture and EQ drive it can hardly be beat for astro viewing. And erecter attachment can be used for terrestrial viewing and won't hamper the view too much.
I've been using Python for quite some time now and I've found it vastly superior, both functionally and from a maintenance standpoint, to both Perl and PHP. One knit, though. Why on earth make whitespace vital to the compiler? For business reasons I have to edit my programs in Windows but run them on Linux. Editing out all those ^M's is a big pain.
Not entirely. Apples chips cost more but do the same amount (or less, there's no MMX in an PowerPC). They are also more expensive per clock-cycle and embedded in a desktop (or server, if Apple made a server worthy of the name).
But maybe I'm jumping the gum. This one is in the EU, where socialist policies have no compunctuation about just grabbing MS's cash. That'd work, too.