Zonk writes "If you've ever wanted to slashdot your own server or just to see how one works, check out this tutorial. The article talks about how the slashdot effect works and gives a guided example through an exploit to help you on your way. Definitely worth checking out." From the article: "Every now and again we all hear about a server disappearing from the face of the earth thanks to the slashdot effect, but what is the slashdot effect? By definition it is when a slashdot editor posts a link on the frontpage to a small server without using coral cache and zillions of slashdotters click on the link the minute the story is published, thus hammering the server into oblivion. To show how this is actually done, I'll explain how to submit a story with a link to your own server by praising Apple, dissing Microsoft or revealing more SCO conspiracies."
Where did you read that? It is totally incorrect - acethylcholine is a neurotransmiter, like serotonin and dopamine, for instance, and it is the one responsible for muscle contraction (and regulation of heart rate). It doesn't come in food, it is syntesized at the synaptic terminal from choline and acethyl coenzime A.
And about cells dying and others taking place - that's also not true. Neurons have several axons forming synapses, and if one dies, the axons go with it - if one were to take it's place, it would have lost all the connections of the previous one. And since learning, memory, our personality, etc, is all due to the way the various axons are arranged, after some time we'd have these parameters altered: different personality, loss of memory, etc, and that does NOT happen. Sure, brain cells die, but with aging, and they are not replaced with new ones.
Well, from what I understand, the actual genetic material from the cells is NEVER damaged at all, only "redundant" (to the protein syntesis) parts of the DNA string are "eaten up" during mitosis (cell division), which is what the telomers are. So, eventually, the cell dies.
However, during meiosis (which is when the cells divide to form the gametes), the telomeres are probably regenerated, which is why the offsprings live the normal age excpected for the species.
This would also happen when mating two cloned, as when producing the gametes, the genetic machinery from those animals would also fix the telomers of the cromossomes, thus making a perfectly fine offsrping.
Imagine that MS changes the Linux kernel, inserting some "crashing" routines on purpose, and then shows off at the Win2000 launch a computer with the Win2000 and another with the sabotaged Linux...
MS would make Linux crash and the NT computer would just run along fine (apparently, of course) thus making people think that NT is ACTUALLY better than Linux!
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Probably just his mother.
Much worse, it was a racing condition between his left and right index fingers!
Precisely. We used to say, back then, that on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
I, for one, will NEVER welcome plant-duck mutant hybrid masters!
Plant-duck mutant hybrid overlords, on the other hand...
I shall send word of you to the Council.
I'm just here to say these two young slashdotters have definitely seen the truth, though they still have a lot to learn from us 3 digit IDers.
Hello, young one! :)
good times, when I was about 16, and able to spend time in front of the computer just for fun... now it's almost just a work tool.
I feel old now...
-- Electron
No, it's Fake.
-- Electron
sue!
Only on Slashdot is this modded as Informative :)
Zonk writes "If you've ever wanted to slashdot your own server or just to see how one works, check out this tutorial. The article talks about how the slashdot effect works and gives a guided example through an exploit to help you on your way. Definitely worth checking out." From the article: "Every now and again we all hear about a server disappearing from the face of the earth thanks to the slashdot effect, but what is the slashdot effect? By definition it is when a slashdot editor posts a link on the frontpage to a small server without using coral cache and zillions of slashdotters click on the link the minute the story is published, thus hammering the server into oblivion. To show how this is actually done, I'll explain how to submit a story with a link to your own server by praising Apple, dissing Microsoft or revealing more SCO conspiracies."
They were going to name it Adobe Photoshop CS:S, for Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite: Source.
I've got a four digit ID. Neener, neener.
I see you are new here. Welcome!
Where did you read that? It is totally incorrect - acethylcholine is a neurotransmiter, like serotonin and dopamine, for instance, and it is the one responsible for muscle contraction (and regulation of heart rate). It doesn't come in food, it is syntesized at the synaptic terminal from choline and acethyl coenzime A.
And about cells dying and others taking place - that's also not true. Neurons have several axons forming synapses, and if one dies, the axons go with it - if one were to take it's place, it would have lost all the connections of the previous one. And since learning, memory, our personality, etc, is all due to the way the various axons are arranged, after some time we'd have these parameters altered: different personality, loss of memory, etc, and that does NOT happen.
Sure, brain cells die, but with aging, and they are not replaced with new ones.
-- Electron
They say that they don't own the content, but can do ANYTHING they want to it?
Call me stupid but... isn't that what OWNING something grants you to do to it?
They still need to patch this :)
-- Electron
Well, from what I understand, the actual genetic material from the cells is NEVER damaged at all, only "redundant" (to the protein syntesis) parts of the DNA string are "eaten up" during mitosis (cell division), which is what the telomers are.
So, eventually, the cell dies.
However, during meiosis (which is when the cells divide to form the gametes), the telomeres are probably regenerated, which is why the offsprings live the normal age excpected for the species.
This would also happen when mating two cloned, as when producing the gametes, the genetic machinery from those animals would also fix the telomers of the cromossomes, thus making a perfectly fine offsrping.
this may well be true...
Imagine that MS changes the Linux kernel, inserting some "crashing" routines on purpose, and then shows off at the Win2000 launch a computer with the Win2000 and another with the sabotaged Linux...
MS would make Linux crash and the NT computer would just run along fine (apparently, of course) thus making people think that NT is ACTUALLY better than Linux!