... a former police officer has been dragged into court by the U.S. Department of Justice for teaching people how to beat a pseudoscientific method of detecting whether somebody is lying, a method that itself isn't even admissible as evidence courts in most parts of the world? What's next? Will the surgeon general drag people into court for pointing out that when consuming a homeopathic remedy with 30C dilution, one would need to swallow a volume greater than all the water present in all the oceans of our entire planet in order to stand a good chance of swallowing just one molecule of the original substance?
He entered into a conspiracy to lie to government investigators.
Here I thought he was teaching people how to see through the lies of government investigators. Since polygraphs are not working, the investigators claim they do, and the only effect they have is if people believe in them.
Not in the theory, but in this case Denmark is currently a net exporter of fossil fuel based electricity, and a net importer of hydro-electric and nuclear power. That would change with these news though, or simply an issue that needs to be addressed as Denmark neighbours no longer can import peak-hour dirty power from Denmark.
Not for upgrades.. I don't have 48 hours to let it resolve conflicts and dependencies apt-get can resolve in 48 milliseconds. Especially not when it does a worse job.
That is just retarded. Non-white immigrants and descendants of immigrants only make up 300,000 people in Denmark, or short of 6% of the population, and hasn't been raising since the immigration laws were tighten in the late 90s, and since then they have gone from tight to being outright silly, and no major political party is seriously trying to bring them back to sanity let alone the immigrant positive levels of the 20th century.
Somehow this fact has escaped the nationalist right wing, who rose to power to oppose the immigration policies of the 70-90s, but then admitting they already won would mean shuting down..
Base load is not even as hard as peak load. Sweden for instance has solved base load using nuclear and regenerative hydro power, but they still have to import coal power from Denmark for peak load. Denmark switching from coal will also mean Sweden has a problem, or will have to import from Poland where the coal plant are less efficient and polutes more than the Danish ones.
Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'.
Personally I'm in great anticipation of the upcoming flag day, when some particularly onerous climate-change related events (e.g. the permanent evacuation of Miami, or perhaps just food shortages due to widespread crop failures) occur, and Fox News shifts seamlessly from denying the existence of global warming to blaming the Democrats for not having done enough to prevent it. Good times.
They don't need to shift. Fox News is perfectly capable of denying it exists, blaming the Democrats for it, and blaming the Democrats for not doing enough about it, all the same time from the same speaking head. That wouldn't even be anything unusual, we call that day Tuesday.
One downside of the A+ is that it still has only a single USB 2 connector.
There are two down sides worth noting. That's one of them; have they got USB figured out yet? Just one port is bad enough but if they bugger the polyfuses again... But the real problem is the RAM. 512MB is cramped. 256MB is unacceptable.
A modern standard ARMv7 instead of the odd ARMv6 would be greatly appreciated too.
The part about Clinton and SA was accurate. However, by the 90's. a lot of people were working on work-arounds for SA. SA implemented by making each satellite's clock go fast and slow deliberately, so you could fix it by having a ground station with a good clock looking at the same satellite, and sending corrections, so removing SA wasn't as big a deal as it would have been in 1985.
Yep. Specifically it was commonly defeated by cellphone tower, AGPS we now use for a faster lock, can also defeat SA. All you need is something that already knows where it is and can correct for the local GPS error, such as cell-phone tower.
And that matters to a server how? I reboot my linux servers as little as absolutely necessary (security updates, kernel patches, etc). The added overhead and complexity of debugging why there was a problem with systemd (and its infuriating lack of text logs I can work with in any number of tools) is not worth 2 minutes of saved time every 3-6 months.
The binary logs are optional. I haven't used them, why would I?
I've killed systemd shutdowns hard after 15 minutes of timing out waiting for an nfs share that went offline.
The old system didn't do that. Not to detract from the lovely startup times, but it's not "all baked" yet.
I am pretty sure that would happen under sysv as well, though the old script might have had a workaround for the issue. NFS lockup issues is kernel "bug", the kernel refuses to shutdown or stop any requests that could lead to data loss, but if the NFS server is unreachable, that is impossible to avoid, so they just hang. This leaves to processes that can't even be killed with -9.
Sometimes risk aversity in a kernel developer is worth beating them with a bat over.
I worked on space rated instruments at NASA Goddard for a while, and talked to a very old dude who claims to have seen this happen once in his very long career.
It happens about 40 times a day on you average PC, it is just rare it hits anything vital. If you run ECC memory you can track how many read errors it corrects. In fact error-correcting memory exists for servers and workstations for this very purpose. It is real and common.
Just installing systemd over sysv speed booting up from a minute to 10 seconds, and shutting down from half a minute to under one second. I always hated Linux couldn't handle shutting the fuck down efficiently, now it does.
Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.
Not to nitpick, but danes refer to that centralized production as "surplus heat". The "surplus" heat is heat generated as a bi-effect from producing electricity.... - from coal. So, when the electricity all comes from wind, the danes need to find some other way to heat their houses during winter.
It also comes from trash burning, but yes. There are issues to be solved for sure.
The Danes are probably looking to Sweden who has been doing this for years. Though in Sweden it only works because they buy coal-fueled power from Denmark during the peak hours.
Not sure who is planning this nonsense in Denmark now. We already have 33% wind power, but due to the issues with peak-power it will be hard to get above 66% and even that will require massive extra capacity.
3)Debit cards do not earn you interest. If you have an interest checking account (rare, and usually such a low rate that its a joke, sub 1% in most cases), you earn that money regardless of if you have or use a debit card.
5)Emergencies/hard times. Sometimes shit happens. You may lose your job and run low on cash. You may have a series of car and house repairs. Its always a good idea to have an additional emergency fun you can call on for short term cash.
That is why you have credit lines and always keep your account around zero or below. The interest on my debit card is 7% for minus or effectivly 0% for plus. Banks are always willing to give you a credit or one or two months full salary if you show them your job contract. That is often better or similar to most credit cards, except the standard interest is much lower, and if you negotiate with your bank you can get even lower interest OR higher credit.
Credit cards are never a good idea, and only makes sense if you live in a country where they are required. Which means the US.
Probably just an urban legend. They were growing steadily before then, and aren;t that far off the Danes, Swedes, Austrians and French.
The men are not that far of from Scandinavians, but the women are. That is the main difference in the average heights, the Dutch women from that generation is as tall as the men.
Btw. A good counter point to the original talk about genetics is ancient Scandinavians. The Vikings were almost as tall as modern Scandinavians, it wasn't until a feudal society was created that the lower peasents class became as short as other places in northern Europe.
It's very hard to find a photo of Abe Lincoln where he isn't at least a head (including his beard) above everyone else. But today several countries have an average height within a 10 cm of him. The Dutch are 184 cm (about 6' 1"), but Abe was only 193 cm (just under 6' 4"). Partly that's due to nutrition, which has an incredibly complicated relationship to height (the Dutch, for example, are dragged down by the descendents of people born during a famine after WW2. Their grandchildren are unexpectedly short and nobody knows why.).
A Dutch person told me an odd tale about hormones they allowed or put in the food during the 70/80s that led to a single extra tall generation. They got rid of the hormones later and hushed the whole thing up, so now the next generation is back to normal height.
Not sure I believe it though, never found anything to back it up, so it could just be a dutch urban legend.
IMO, the fact that the establishment is the establishment should be reason enough to subject them to constant questioning and criticism. Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary.
Yeah, that kind of logic is what anti-science thrives on.
The distortion is strong in that one. And now he must excuse his earlier brief glimses of reality.
Btw. Helvetica is a classic font that is more narrow and easier to read than Lucida especially on print, on a screen it is best with good hinting, which Apple's fontsystem doesn't do.
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... a former police officer has been dragged into court by the U.S. Department of Justice for teaching people how to beat a pseudoscientific method of detecting whether somebody is lying, a method that itself isn't even admissible as evidence courts in most parts of the world? What's next? Will the surgeon general drag people into court for pointing out that when consuming a homeopathic remedy with 30C dilution, one would need to swallow a volume greater than all the water present in all the oceans of our entire planet in order to stand a good chance of swallowing just one molecule of the original substance?
He entered into a conspiracy to lie to government investigators.
Here I thought he was teaching people how to see through the lies of government investigators. Since polygraphs are not working, the investigators claim they do, and the only effect they have is if people believe in them.
There is no downside to lower gas prices. lower prices on anything is always a positive.
There is no downsides to crumpling roads causing lower speed limits and bridges collapsing taking lives, lower taxes is always a positive, right?
It seems to me AMD is as common in laptops as they have ever been. Not very.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
Not in the theory, but in this case Denmark is currently a net exporter of fossil fuel based electricity, and a net importer of hydro-electric and nuclear power. That would change with these news though, or simply an issue that needs to be addressed as Denmark neighbours no longer can import peak-hour dirty power from Denmark.
Aptitude dude!
Not for upgrades.. I don't have 48 hours to let it resolve conflicts and dependencies apt-get can resolve in 48 milliseconds. Especially not when it does a worse job.
http://rt.com/news/184600-isis...
http://cphpost.dk/news/danes-w...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....
That is just retarded. Non-white immigrants and descendants of immigrants only make up 300,000 people in Denmark, or short of 6% of the population, and hasn't been raising since the immigration laws were tighten in the late 90s, and since then they have gone from tight to being outright silly, and no major political party is seriously trying to bring them back to sanity let alone the immigrant positive levels of the 20th century.
Somehow this fact has escaped the nationalist right wing, who rose to power to oppose the immigration policies of the 70-90s, but then admitting they already won would mean shuting down..
Base load is not even as hard as peak load. Sweden for instance has solved base load using nuclear and regenerative hydro power, but they still have to import coal power from Denmark for peak load. Denmark switching from coal will also mean Sweden has a problem, or will have to import from Poland where the coal plant are less efficient and polutes more than the Danish ones.
Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'.
Personally I'm in great anticipation of the upcoming flag day, when some particularly onerous climate-change related events (e.g. the permanent evacuation of Miami, or perhaps just food shortages due to widespread crop failures) occur, and Fox News shifts seamlessly from denying the existence of global warming to blaming the Democrats for not having done enough to prevent it. Good times.
They don't need to shift. Fox News is perfectly capable of denying it exists, blaming the Democrats for it, and blaming the Democrats for not doing enough about it, all the same time from the same speaking head. That wouldn't even be anything unusual, we call that day Tuesday.
One downside of the A+ is that it still has only a single USB 2 connector.
There are two down sides worth noting. That's one of them; have they got USB figured out yet? Just one port is bad enough but if they bugger the polyfuses again... But the real problem is the RAM. 512MB is cramped. 256MB is unacceptable.
A modern standard ARMv7 instead of the odd ARMv6 would be greatly appreciated too.
Triton was a Kuiper belt object. Now it's not.
How long must the discrimination go on? Surely a billion years is enough to qualify for Neptunian citizenship?
The problem is Neptune is in the Kuiper belt, but it is a real planet, a colonist if you like, orbitted by a native.
Someone found the Turbo Button from my old 386. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Funny thing with the turbo button was that it made your computer slower. Specifically as slow as a 8086.
The part about Clinton and SA was accurate. However, by the 90's. a lot of people were working on work-arounds for SA. SA implemented by making each satellite's clock go fast and slow deliberately, so you could fix it by having a ground station with a good clock looking at the same satellite, and sending corrections, so removing SA wasn't as big a deal as it would have been in 1985.
Yep. Specifically it was commonly defeated by cellphone tower, AGPS we now use for a faster lock, can also defeat SA. All you need is something that already knows where it is and can correct for the local GPS error, such as cell-phone tower.
the guy definitely has some unresolved issues.
In Russia ... Putin is Russia's unresolved issue.
I'm like Gay Blade.
You hunt gay people? You live in Russia?
And that matters to a server how? I reboot my linux servers as little as absolutely necessary (security updates, kernel patches, etc). The added overhead and complexity of debugging why there was a problem with systemd (and its infuriating lack of text logs I can work with in any number of tools) is not worth 2 minutes of saved time every 3-6 months.
The binary logs are optional. I haven't used them, why would I?
I've killed systemd shutdowns hard after 15 minutes of timing out waiting for an nfs share that went offline.
The old system didn't do that. Not to detract from the lovely startup times, but it's not "all baked" yet.
I am pretty sure that would happen under sysv as well, though the old script might have had a workaround for the issue. NFS lockup issues is kernel "bug", the kernel refuses to shutdown or stop any requests that could lead to data loss, but if the NFS server is unreachable, that is impossible to avoid, so they just hang. This leaves to processes that can't even be killed with -9.
Sometimes risk aversity in a kernel developer is worth beating them with a bat over.
I worked on space rated instruments at NASA Goddard for a while, and talked to a very old dude who claims to have seen this happen once in his very long career.
It happens about 40 times a day on you average PC, it is just rare it hits anything vital. If you run ECC memory you can track how many read errors it corrects. In fact error-correcting memory exists for servers and workstations for this very purpose. It is real and common.
Just installing systemd over sysv speed booting up from a minute to 10 seconds, and shutting down from half a minute to under one second. I always hated Linux couldn't handle shutting the fuck down efficiently, now it does.
Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.
Not to nitpick, but danes refer to that centralized production as "surplus heat". The "surplus" heat is heat generated as a bi-effect from producing electricity.... - from coal. So, when the electricity all comes from wind, the danes need to find some other way to heat their houses during winter.
It also comes from trash burning, but yes. There are issues to be solved for sure.
The Danes are probably looking to Sweden who has been doing this for years. Though in Sweden it only works because they buy coal-fueled power from Denmark during the peak hours.
Not sure who is planning this nonsense in Denmark now. We already have 33% wind power, but due to the issues with peak-power it will be hard to get above 66% and even that will require massive extra capacity.
3)Debit cards do not earn you interest. If you have an interest checking account (rare, and usually such a low rate that its a joke, sub 1% in most cases), you earn that money regardless of if you have or use a debit card.
5)Emergencies/hard times. Sometimes shit happens. You may lose your job and run low on cash. You may have a series of car and house repairs. Its always a good idea to have an additional emergency fun you can call on for short term cash.
That is why you have credit lines and always keep your account around zero or below. The interest on my debit card is 7% for minus or effectivly 0% for plus. Banks are always willing to give you a credit or one or two months full salary if you show them your job contract. That is often better or similar to most credit cards, except the standard interest is much lower, and if you negotiate with your bank you can get even lower interest OR higher credit.
Credit cards are never a good idea, and only makes sense if you live in a country where they are required. Which means the US.
Probably just an urban legend. They were growing steadily before then, and aren;t that far off the Danes, Swedes, Austrians and French.
The men are not that far of from Scandinavians, but the women are. That is the main difference in the average heights, the Dutch women from that generation is as tall as the men.
Btw. A good counter point to the original talk about genetics is ancient Scandinavians. The Vikings were almost as tall as modern Scandinavians, it wasn't until a feudal society was created that the lower peasents class became as short as other places in northern Europe.
The analogy really sucks.
It's very hard to find a photo of Abe Lincoln where he isn't at least a head (including his beard) above everyone else. But today several countries have an average height within a 10 cm of him. The Dutch are 184 cm (about 6' 1"), but Abe was only 193 cm (just under 6' 4"). Partly that's due to nutrition, which has an incredibly complicated relationship to height (the Dutch, for example, are dragged down by the descendents of people born during a famine after WW2. Their grandchildren are unexpectedly short and nobody knows why.).
A Dutch person told me an odd tale about hormones they allowed or put in the food during the 70/80s that led to a single extra tall generation. They got rid of the hormones later and hushed the whole thing up, so now the next generation is back to normal height.
Not sure I believe it though, never found anything to back it up, so it could just be a dutch urban legend.
IMO, the fact that the establishment is the establishment should be reason enough to subject them to constant questioning and criticism. Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary.
Yeah, that kind of logic is what anti-science thrives on.
The distortion is strong in that one. And now he must excuse his earlier brief glimses of reality.
Btw. Helvetica is a classic font that is more narrow and easier to read than Lucida especially on print, on a screen it is best with good hinting, which Apple's fontsystem doesn't do.