How about unplugging the equipment, opening it up and have a fan blow in it for a day or two? Humid air might be better since it could be better at outgassing the nasty odors. It's worth a shot, and offers the least dangerous method of cleaning as you still have the potential to break a critical server if you wash with alcohol,
What, exactly, is so offensive about that statement?
I don't find it offensive as much as wildly innacurate. I've read cookbooks, there's nothing gendered about them. Many of them assume you know how to cook already, but what's gender specific about that? I also looked at the website, and the only thing it seems to be is more verbose. It sounds more like cooking for dummies than cooking for engineers.
The Joy of Cooking is far better since it's explicit and tells you how to do basic techniques and procedures like how to poach an egg.
Yeah, the scoring system is crap, and the guy who created it fully admits that (as he states in the second page analysis). The point of the test isn't your score or some kind of silly competition, but an attempt to learn or demonstrate something about how people estimate. The score at the end is just a hook to get you to take the test.
I've never heard of a reverse firewall. Is that something that only lets in people trying to break into the computer and blocks legitimate requests?
A firewall is a device that controls access between you and the outside world. Whether it's blocking incoming or outgoing traffic or both there's no need to "reverse" it.
Yah, I feel the same way about british TV shows with large US viewership. They should explain all the weirdo british slang so us yanks can understand it. Barney Rubble.. TROUBLE!!!
Sorry man, but everyone here knows what Jeopardy is. Even though I don't watch Jeopardy I've at least heard of this guy who's won all the money. The point is of course it's incumbant on YOU to learn what the US cultural reference means. If you aren't comfortable with that, then you shouldn't be here.
And the absence of those specific photos from what's on sale will permit the terrorists to work out which of their camps the US government knows about.
It would be a matter of national security if the goverment requested a flyby of a training camp to get recent pictures. The knowledge of a recent flyby (an normally not scheduled) flyby of a specific area would alert anyone in that area that someone is awfully interested in it.
A single pictures of an area are one thing, but I'm sure more usefull are a series of photos taken at different times of the day to establish patterns, number of people etc.
When the military buys a commercial satellite pass over a suspected terrorist camp and forbids the satellite company from reselling the image
Your example doesn't apply in any way to this case. Pictures of terrorist training camps would clearly be an issue of national security and the company would already be prohibited from distributing it. The government is already excempt from revealing the photos, as FOIA requests don't apply to anything that compromises national security.
Having accountability is a good thing. How tricky is it to deploy a frikin parachute?
Probbably a lot harder than you think when you've been exposed to the intense heat and radiation of the sun, the near-absolute zero of space, and then re-enter the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour.
Sorry buddy, but this just isn't pulling a rip cord after a short airplane ride at a few hundred miles an hour. There's no semi-intelligence human with eyes, ears, and a brain to easily determine when to do it. Space is HARSH. I'm sure I don't really full appreciate how difficult this is, and even I know that this just isn't as simple as you'd like it to be.
I'm tired of people not understanding the value of money and how much things cost. This mission cost 260 million dollars.. sounds like a lot right? But then how much do you think it costs to introduce a new brand of toothpaste?
260 million dollars is about a dollar from each US citizen. Try to put things into perspective.
It has 500 nodes that are highly and quickly interconnected. It's like the difference between 500 people working on a problem in the same room, and 500 people spread across the country communicating by postal mail. Most interesting problems require a lot of inter-communication, so 500 slowly connect nodes isn't too usefull.
How soon before the bad guys set up a dummy corporation and start running nuclear bomb or protein folding simulations on this cluster?
The hardest part by far in making a nuclear weapon is getting the fissile material. If you are able to get highly enriched uranium you don't even need to do any simulations, the design is fairly simple and no testing is needed. Plutonium is a bit harder.
The point though is that computer simulations of nuclear weapons is the least of your problems, and is by no means required. Computers aren't secrets, and getting a few hundred of them together in a cluster is a task anyone with $100,000 can easily accomplish. Compared to getting the required fissile material, any required computations are easy.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with protein folding. Is their some doomsday weapon you can create by knowing how proteins fold? Even if it is, it's not a big concern. No one has gotten even close to completely simulating a protein folding. There's simply not enough computing power yet. What's been done to date are just small scale simulations.
Wow. You certainly have put the security researchers in their place with that "or something". The truth is that if implemented properly you can have highly secure communications while anyone can monitor those signals.
It remains to be seen if this is the case, but if you really want security use proven technology like SSH or a well implemented VPN.
The "audiophiles" will say whatever you want them to say given the right price, and hype. Make it expensive and hype it up like "monster cables" and it'll be audio gold. Make it cheap and common and everyone will want "old fashioned magnets".
If your society has no language for counting above "two", then it likely has no need for counting above two, and so when presented with a situation where they need to count above two, they will be confused, because it's something they haven't done before.
This guy was on Science Friday today, and I happened to catch it. He agrees with you that they have no need for counting above three, and that's why they have no word for it. However, he did add that they often get cheated while trading with other people that do have a counting system. If these people ever did develop a need for counting above two, they'd certainly develop one.
After all, when you're taught numbers, you're taught to count! So is it linguistic? I doubt it. I think the reverse is more true - thought (and society) shapes language.
I don't think many people would dispute that, but this tribes inability to count precicely does influence them when they need that ability but lack it, like when they occasionally trade with others.
The lead scientist went into a lot more detail than was explained in the poor article. They still posses the ability to determine imprecise amounts for instance, just not exact amounts. He also tried to teach them portugese words for numbers, but they just didn't get it (the kids however were quite good at learning it though).
I find it ludicrous that the psychologist made the leap "language directs thought" rather than "society directs language".
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Language can direct thought, and the society can direct language. For instance, the concept of zero as a number was unknown before it was invented by people from India.
I remember reading a story about how strong fumes affect astronauts and that everything that goes into a spaceship gets sniffed to make sure its not emitting any unpleasant odors.
The difference is that this would be a short term odor source that could be cleaned up through filtering the air through carbon filters. Once the source of the odor is gone (soldering) you can eliminate the odor. A piece of plastic that slowly gives off an odor for months and months is a different matter entirely since you can't eliminate the odor source.
These folks did not "teleport" a single particle, they transferred the _properties_ of some particles to particles elsewere.
And what's the difference between the two? If you transmit all the properties of a particle onto another particle for all intents and purposes you've transmitted the particle. The only difference between the two particles is the properties they posess. If you could do this to a huge number of particles (and somehow put them in the same order) you could teleport a person.
Of course that's kind of like taking one step and then dreaming of going to the Andromeda galaxy. You do still have to take that first step though.
Why is it the replies to this stuff always fall into two camps:
1) The sky is falling, we're doomed 2) There is no way anything I find useful could be harmful
1. because people don't understand what the study means. 2. I wouldn't go that far, I don't see many people saying there's no POSSIBILITY that AM radio could be harmfull. However, the study at hand has only a very slight suggestion that AM radio might be the cause of harm. Given that this was merely an epidemiological study it's FAR more likely that the cause is much more related to where radio towers tend to be built than the radio waves themselves.
You also have to realize that every time a study like this comes out there's a HUGE number of people that grossly miss-interpret the study and start freaking out about factor-X that "causes cancer". The power lines cancer myth has persisted for decades for this very reason.
While I think the study is interesting, I also think it says very little about the effects of AM radio. If someone did a study where one group of animals who were exposed to AM radio got cancer at higher rates than non-exposed animals I'd be a bit more concerned.
I'm also hoping we'll be able to offer web access (IE and Mozilla, hopefully. IE at a minimum), Word, Excel, and Powerpoint....
it would really comfort me not to pump several hundred dollars per machine into a monopolist's coffers for an OS we're just going to debilitate anyway
So you don't want Windows, but you want IE, Word, Excel and Powerpoint? I think MacOS has the office programs, but unless you want to run the ancient IE5, you're SOL.
I'd personally try to push you away from supporting a lot of apps outside of just plain-jane internet access. Supporting the apps is going to be a pain in the ass, and people are going to be taking up lots of time writing term papers, etc when others just want to check their email.
I really think you need to step back and look at what you really _need_ the system to do. From the details you've provided it doesn't seem like you really have a good grasp about what you want to provide, what your maintenance requirements are, etc.
Thin client is a nice buzz-word, but it doesn't have a huge amount of meaning. Does each client have a HD, or only minimal boot-roms? What about if the central server goes down, any thin-client won't be able to restart.
Hire someone that actually can help you with these problems and analyze the requirements, do research, etc. Slashdot can provide you with very raw information, but it really sounds like you need someone with more tech experience to analyze your situation.
People can't own music in the same way the own a car. I'm sorry, but breaking copyright law is just NOT the same thing as theft. Implying that it is is just a lie.
If you go to the BSA website they list piracy right up their with hacking, cyber-terrorism, and child porn. Do you think copyright violations rank up their with those crimes? It's not even a crime (as the BSA would have you believe) it's a civil matter.
Well, not being an American -- but isn't both of these changing?
Arguably with all the microbreweries the US should have at least as good beer as the average in Europe (except for e.g. the British islands and Belgium).
Very much so. There's micro-breweries all over the place now, and many restaraunts have their own brewery on-site. 20 years ago it was all bud, miller, and old milwaukee. Today you can at least go into a bar and expect to get a palatable beer, and have a decent chance of getting a quite good beer.
This is just an unacceptable practice. If you don't like it, just don't ever buy any Seagate products. Slashdot it pretty big, and the HD industry is fiercly competitive. How much business can you stand to lose over this Seagate?
About the self-signed certificate: any self-respecting browser will complain about self-signed certificates (unless already known and told to accept it). Highjacking SSL isn't that easy.
I'm not denying this at all. But the fact remains that people will simply just click OK and not think much about it.
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How about unplugging the equipment, opening it up and have a fan blow in it for a day or two? Humid air might be better since it could be better at outgassing the nasty odors. It's worth a shot, and offers the least dangerous method of cleaning as you still have the potential to break a critical server if you wash with alcohol,
Not here in qwest land. The phone line is disconnected here, and there's no power on the line at all.
What, exactly, is so offensive about that statement?
I don't find it offensive as much as wildly innacurate. I've read cookbooks, there's nothing gendered about them. Many of them assume you know how to cook already, but what's gender specific about that? I also looked at the website, and the only thing it seems to be is more verbose. It sounds more like cooking for dummies than cooking for engineers.
The Joy of Cooking is far better since it's explicit and tells you how to do basic techniques and procedures like how to poach an egg.
Sure, but you'd need to come up with some way of doing that. It's not impossible, it just takes some thought and time.
Yeah, the scoring system is crap, and the guy who created it fully admits that (as he states in the second page analysis). The point of the test isn't your score or some kind of silly competition, but an attempt to learn or demonstrate something about how people estimate. The score at the end is just a hook to get you to take the test.
I've never heard of a reverse firewall. Is that something that only lets in people trying to break into the computer and blocks legitimate requests?
A firewall is a device that controls access between you and the outside world. Whether it's blocking incoming or outgoing traffic or both there's no need to "reverse" it.
It did mention "Mr Trebek", who's don't nothing BUT Jeopardy for something like 20 years.
Yah, I feel the same way about british TV shows with large US viewership. They should explain all the weirdo british slang so us yanks can understand it. Barney Rubble.. TROUBLE!!!
Sorry man, but everyone here knows what Jeopardy is. Even though I don't watch Jeopardy I've at least heard of this guy who's won all the money. The point is of course it's incumbant on YOU to learn what the US cultural reference means. If you aren't comfortable with that, then you shouldn't be here.
And the absence of those specific photos from what's on sale will permit the terrorists to work out which of their camps the US government knows about.
It would be a matter of national security if the goverment requested a flyby of a training camp to get recent pictures. The knowledge of a recent flyby (an normally not scheduled) flyby of a specific area would alert anyone in that area that someone is awfully interested in it.
A single pictures of an area are one thing, but I'm sure more usefull are a series of photos taken at different times of the day to establish patterns, number of people etc.
When the military buys a commercial satellite pass over a suspected terrorist camp and forbids the satellite company from reselling the image
Your example doesn't apply in any way to this case. Pictures of terrorist training camps would clearly be an issue of national security and the company would already be prohibited from distributing it. The government is already excempt from revealing the photos, as FOIA requests don't apply to anything that compromises national security.
Having accountability is a good thing. How tricky is it to deploy a frikin parachute?
Probbably a lot harder than you think when you've been exposed to the intense heat and radiation of the sun, the near-absolute zero of space, and then re-enter the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour.
Sorry buddy, but this just isn't pulling a rip cord after a short airplane ride at a few hundred miles an hour. There's no semi-intelligence human with eyes, ears, and a brain to easily determine when to do it. Space is HARSH. I'm sure I don't really full appreciate how difficult this is, and even I know that this just isn't as simple as you'd like it to be.
I'm tired of people not understanding the value of money and how much things cost. This mission cost 260 million dollars.. sounds like a lot right? But then how much do you think it costs to introduce a new brand of toothpaste?
260 million dollars is about a dollar from each US citizen. Try to put things into perspective.
You know, that only has ~500 nodes right?
It has 500 nodes that are highly and quickly interconnected. It's like the difference between 500 people working on a problem in the same room, and 500 people spread across the country communicating by postal mail. Most interesting problems require a lot of inter-communication, so 500 slowly connect nodes isn't too usefull.
How soon before the bad guys set up a dummy corporation and start running nuclear bomb or protein folding simulations on this cluster?
The hardest part by far in making a nuclear weapon is getting the fissile material. If you are able to get highly enriched uranium you don't even need to do any simulations, the design is fairly simple and no testing is needed. Plutonium is a bit harder.
The point though is that computer simulations of nuclear weapons is the least of your problems, and is by no means required. Computers aren't secrets, and getting a few hundred of them together in a cluster is a task anyone with $100,000 can easily accomplish. Compared to getting the required fissile material, any required computations are easy.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with protein folding. Is their some doomsday weapon you can create by knowing how proteins fold? Even if it is, it's not a big concern. No one has gotten even close to completely simulating a protein folding. There's simply not enough computing power yet. What's been done to date are just small scale simulations.
Wow. You certainly have put the security researchers in their place with that "or something". The truth is that if implemented properly you can have highly secure communications while anyone can monitor those signals.
It remains to be seen if this is the case, but if you really want security use proven technology like SSH or a well implemented VPN.
What do the audiophiles have to say?
The "audiophiles" will say whatever you want them to say given the right price, and hype. Make it expensive and hype it up like "monster cables" and it'll be audio gold. Make it cheap and common and everyone will want "old fashioned magnets".
If your society has no language for counting above "two", then it likely has no need for counting above two, and so when presented with a situation where they need to count above two, they will be confused, because it's something they haven't done before.
This guy was on Science Friday today, and I happened to catch it. He agrees with you that they have no need for counting above three, and that's why they have no word for it. However, he did add that they often get cheated while trading with other people that do have a counting system. If these people ever did develop a need for counting above two, they'd certainly develop one.
After all, when you're taught numbers, you're taught to count! So is it linguistic? I doubt it. I think the reverse is more true - thought (and society) shapes language.
I don't think many people would dispute that, but this tribes inability to count precicely does influence them when they need that ability but lack it, like when they occasionally trade with others.
The lead scientist went into a lot more detail than was explained in the poor article. They still posses the ability to determine imprecise amounts for instance, just not exact amounts. He also tried to teach them portugese words for numbers, but they just didn't get it (the kids however were quite good at learning it though).
I find it ludicrous that the psychologist made the leap "language directs thought" rather than "society directs language".
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Language can direct thought, and the society can direct language. For instance, the concept of zero as a number was unknown before it was invented by people from India.
I remember reading a story about how strong fumes affect astronauts and that everything that goes into a spaceship gets sniffed to make sure its not emitting any unpleasant odors.
The difference is that this would be a short term odor source that could be cleaned up through filtering the air through carbon filters. Once the source of the odor is gone (soldering) you can eliminate the odor. A piece of plastic that slowly gives off an odor for months and months is a different matter entirely since you can't eliminate the odor source.
These folks did not "teleport" a single particle, they transferred the _properties_ of some particles to particles elsewere.
And what's the difference between the two? If you transmit all the properties of a particle onto another particle for all intents and purposes you've transmitted the particle. The only difference between the two particles is the properties they posess. If you could do this to a huge number of particles (and somehow put them in the same order) you could teleport a person.
Of course that's kind of like taking one step and then dreaming of going to the Andromeda galaxy. You do still have to take that first step though.
Why is it the replies to this stuff always fall into two camps:
1) The sky is falling, we're doomed
2) There is no way anything I find useful could be harmful
1. because people don't understand what the study means.
2. I wouldn't go that far, I don't see many people saying there's no POSSIBILITY that AM radio could be harmfull. However, the study at hand has only a very slight suggestion that AM radio might be the cause of harm. Given that this was merely an epidemiological study it's FAR more likely that the cause is much more related to where radio towers tend to be built than the radio waves themselves.
You also have to realize that every time a study like this comes out there's a HUGE number of people that grossly miss-interpret the study and start freaking out about factor-X that "causes cancer". The power lines cancer myth has persisted for decades for this very reason.
While I think the study is interesting, I also think it says very little about the effects of AM radio. If someone did a study where one group of animals who were exposed to AM radio got cancer at higher rates than non-exposed animals I'd be a bit more concerned.
I'm also hoping we'll be able to offer web access (IE and Mozilla, hopefully. IE at a minimum), Word, Excel, and Powerpoint....
it would really comfort me not to pump several hundred dollars per machine into a monopolist's coffers for an OS we're just going to debilitate anyway
So you don't want Windows, but you want IE, Word, Excel and Powerpoint? I think MacOS has the office programs, but unless you want to run the ancient IE5, you're SOL.
I'd personally try to push you away from supporting a lot of apps outside of just plain-jane internet access. Supporting the apps is going to be a pain in the ass, and people are going to be taking up lots of time writing term papers, etc when others just want to check their email.
I really think you need to step back and look at what you really _need_ the system to do. From the details you've provided it doesn't seem like you really have a good grasp about what you want to provide, what your maintenance requirements are, etc.
Thin client is a nice buzz-word, but it doesn't have a huge amount of meaning. Does each client have a HD, or only minimal boot-roms? What about if the central server goes down, any thin-client won't be able to restart.
Hire someone that actually can help you with these problems and analyze the requirements, do research, etc. Slashdot can provide you with very raw information, but it really sounds like you need someone with more tech experience to analyze your situation.
People can't own music in the same way the own a car. I'm sorry, but breaking copyright law is just NOT the same thing as theft. Implying that it is is just a lie.
If you go to the BSA website they list piracy right up their with hacking, cyber-terrorism, and child porn. Do you think copyright violations rank up their with those crimes? It's not even a crime (as the BSA would have you believe) it's a civil matter.
Well, not being an American -- but isn't both of these changing?
Arguably with all the microbreweries the US should have at least as good beer as the average in Europe (except for e.g. the British islands and Belgium).
Very much so. There's micro-breweries all over the place now, and many restaraunts have their own brewery on-site. 20 years ago it was all bud, miller, and old milwaukee. Today you can at least go into a bar and expect to get a palatable beer, and have a decent chance of getting a quite good beer.
This is just an unacceptable practice. If you don't like it, just don't ever buy any Seagate products. Slashdot it pretty big, and the HD industry is fiercly competitive. How much business can you stand to lose over this Seagate?
Except you're required to file a police report. Are you willing to file an incorrect police report to get your laptop replaced?
About the self-signed certificate: any self-respecting browser will complain about self-signed certificates (unless already known and told to accept it). Highjacking SSL isn't that easy.
I'm not denying this at all. But the fact remains that people will simply just click OK and not think much about it.