I saw the story about this discovery about 10 years ago on CBC's The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. The ingrained medical community was very slow to pick up on this important discovery, which is a shame. Antibiotics met similar resistance [pun intended] when they were first discovered, and I think it took about 10 years for them to be finally put to widespread use, during WWII.
After I saw the TV show, I told anyone who complained in front of me about ulcers, that it was probably treatable with antibiotics and drugs if their doctor did some research into a cure. I still meet people who don't know about H. Pylori bacteria, and I suspect that a great deal many other inflictions of our bodies could be caused by as of yet, undiscovered microbes making us sick.
" Uhh, yeah, except for the legitimate e-mails that I get from PayPal or my bank which aren't fake.
PayPal's legit e-mails will always start with your name, so if they don't, that's an easy sign it's fake."
It doesn't matter if it's real or not. Delete it, or treat is as junk mail. Then independently, go to your secure web browser, visit the website that is potentially trying to notify you of something, and log into it and see what the fuss is about. 9/10 emails from places like those are going to be fake. Trust me, I use both, and I get about 8 legit but essentially worthless PayPal emails a year, and none from my bank. If your bank is emailing you when you haven't emailed them, they are stupid in my opinion. Why would your bank/need/ to send you email anyway? It would just be advertising, or notification of a policy change, never anything you'd have to sign in for.
Has a court in North America ever prosecuted someone for phishing though? I've not heard of a single case, and if it had happened, I'd expect an alert Slashdotter would have informed everyone by now.
Yes it is fraud, but I doubt a court will see a case for quite a while, what with many of the phishers being overseas, and the police resources to deal with online fraud stretched quite thin as it is. It's all they can do to take down child porn rings.
I'm glad California is taking steps to allow citizens to sue for their money back, but the police HAVE to get involved too and investigate cases of fraud, especially when they are affecting wide swaths of [naive] people.
Maybe that old Slashdot troll was on to something when he started putting hot grits down his pants. Maybe he just wasn't advanced enough to realize that if he'd done it with tree sap, then he'd be naked and petrified with blood and DNA intact for at least 20 Million years, just like this spider!
I've been considering different ways I could preserve my body, and I think encasing myself in amber has shot to the top of the list, past deep freezing, and freeze drying.
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I tried going to ant.google.com but nothing came up. I guess the Google ant was Slashdotted or something?;-)
I found the program on my Windows XP still, and it is definitely called DiskData not diskspace which is a compression program if I recall correctly now.
It looks like an old utility that was free for home use, that I used to use, and have used as recently as a few months ago. Diskspace I think it was called.
I also use Duplic8 which is a program that searches for duplicate files by their size or name, and lets you delete the duplicate to free up disk space.
I'm not going to bug you about the non-subscript 2 and 4, but using a 0 for an O on a tech site demands a nit-picker like me to make a comment.
By the way good joke, I learned that rhyme too, but this version was more appropriate for me: John was a chemist's son, but John, he is no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
This is why the destruction of the Canadian railway system is going to cost us BIG time one day. We've pulled out viable tracks, just to let CP and CN sell the steel to the USA where it's gobbled up.
And there IS [or was?] a more than month long trucker strike at the port in Vancouver. The supplies for all sorts of Asian made goods [read: nearly gosh darn everything] was running low on store shelves in Canada. Everything from Mach 3 razor blades, to international foods in Superstore I noticed were dwindling.
"What worries me is not that society can't handle a few bumps but that the vast majority of people can't even list the core institutions critical to the function of western civilization, let alone explain why they are needed. The rampant ignorance reguarding the underpinnings of civilization presents a disturbing problem. Absent a drastic change in public demeanor, it seems we are likely to vote ourselves gradually into barbarity."
That worries me too, and has since at least Grade 9 when I read Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. It made me realize that widespread blindness would cripple the world, since there would simply be too few people left to care for the blind ones until they could become mostly self sufficient again. Our society depends on such complex technologies to provide us with the most basic of essential supplies. We need water purification, pumping, and drainage. We need food growing, harvesting, transporting, and even pre-preparation. Never mind climate control for extreme weather locations too.
What would you list as society's most basic institutions? If you claim the 5th, I'll understand as you might not want to give any terrorists reading some bad ideas, but I'd like to hear a bright person's view of what we can't live without.
Wow, I'd guess that's from a faulty UPS? What brand did you have? Did you get insurance from their lifetime guarantee off of it? Most UPSes I know of have some sort of waranty so that if you have a power problem and their product doesn't protect you, then they'll replace their defective product and the equipment it wrecked.
I have a Cyber Power right now, but the battery has died in it, so it only gives about.5 seconds protection from power failure for my computer and networking gear.
"They were nothing more than a little speed bump in a parking lot."
Those instances were a speed bump in the grand scheme of things, but they demonstrated just how much people depend on society to be a smooth running machine to do every day tasks like using the washroom, and having clean drinking water. The events in New Orleans put a bit of an exclamation point on the example, since it wiped out and/or strained the first responders to the disaster. Now imagine a tsunami on the west coast? Do you think Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, San Fran, and LA would all be able to be hit, and there'd be enough international [anything] experts to keep society functioning west of the Rockies?
We'll know more in a few weeks I'm sure, but if Rita had hit Houston directly, would there still be a cleanup team in New Orleans?
There will probably always be at least some part of North America unaffected by a widespread disaster, at least unaffected enough to go on as normal, but once police, doctors, and the power/food/water supply is disrupted in a widespread area... well you saw what happened in New Orleans.
We can't live without electricity. LIVE, not "get online". It's not a luxury anymore here. If you don't have power you don't have a fridge. You don't have water. You don't have a stove probably, to make drinking water. You don't have any way to pump gas at a filling station to get the heck out of Dodge. [No traffic lights too.] And if it's winter, some people don't even have heat, [or A/C in summer]. You don't have a bank machine to get cash anyway, and you don't have any on hand because you used your credit card or debit card all of the time. Stores can't sell anything quickly because they don't have cash registers. And if its snowing, the snow plows have trouble starting because they can't be plugged in to warm up. I hope your manual release on your garage door works too, because otherwise your car is trapped anyway.
Do you see what I mean now, if there's a prolonged power outage even in a city of 2 million, you can multiply those woes listed there by 2 million or so, and add in sick people in hospitals and old folks homes who might need electricity to breath.
We're losing touch with how to do the most basic survival tasks like making clean drinking water, or finding food, because someone else does it for us and we pay them. In a day when money means nothing, or there are no supplies, we'll regret that.
Or you can do like I might one day, and taking advice from a/. user, find a perfectly clear packing tape that can peel off easily after being applied, and afix a well sized piece to your screen. When it becomes marred, just remove it and apply another.
" I've finally come to conclude that we actually have a rather robust society in place."
We'll see what you think about that when nearly everyone who can maintain a computer ssytem from the mid 1990s has retired. I think NASA is going to learn a thing or two about this phenomenon when they try to go back to the Moom. They're going to have to reinvent the rocket/wheel, figuratively, instead of building on the experience of the Apollo missions.
When things get too complex, it is harder to make them robust, as any little thing can bring the whole shooting match tumbling down. If a sound card died in a 486, you replaced it. If it dies in a new computer where it's integrated into the motherboard, then you might end up needing to reinstall the OS too, to fix things.
Our society is the same way, if you removed the Internet today, thousands of businesses would be thrown into chaos. I you stopped air travel for a week..
If you run out of gasoline for a few days.
If you have a power outage that lasts 24 hours.
Any number of things aside from purposeful terrorism can bring our "robust" society to its knees, by accident.
Don't forget to invest at least $50US into a UPS, so that your investment is isolated from surges, and browouts. You'll also benefit from being mostly immune from short power flickers, as long as your modem and router are backed up by the battery in the UPS too.
Some are blogging as a fad, but I've been blogging semi-regularly since 2002 as a way to journalize my trip to Ottawa for friends, family, and me. I posted pictures and stories of my travels, and more recently I've made it a nearly daily log of things I've been talking about online, articles I've written [for slashdot even], and pictures I've taken.
Useful? To me it's a personal historical reference tool, so yeah. To Joe Blow from Idaho? Maybe not, but he might get a laugh out of it anyway, so I'm happy to help in that regard.
I don't use my "secure" passwords on certain systems. Any bulletin board for example is not a secure use, so it gets a basic password, and if I don't trust the site admin I make up a completely new password for it only so if he tries to log in other places with my info, it won't work.
My more secure passwords are reserved for things like financially linked sites.
" When a mosquito sucks your blood it is not feeding. It's a reproductive act."
But it is feeding. I eat before sex too. It would be a reproductive act if while feeding, she were laying eggs in the bloodstream of a new host [which malaria kinda is I suppose].
I'm guessing the monorail, or L-train in the Spiderman 2 movie is complete fiction though?
I've been on the AirTrain in Newark too. It was memorable, because I got into the car, which is only big enough for about 4 people and their bags, and the door tried to shut, but wouldn't. An attendant came after a couple minutes, got into the car, pulled off a panel, and tried to unjam whatever had gone wrong. He ended up putting the system into manual, and closed the doors as best he could before telling the train to move to the next station and letting us out manually. This was in 2003 July.
Slashdot Mirror
I saw the story about this discovery about 10 years ago on CBC's The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. The ingrained medical community was very slow to pick up on this important discovery, which is a shame. Antibiotics met similar resistance [pun intended] when they were first discovered, and I think it took about 10 years for them to be finally put to widespread use, during WWII.
After I saw the TV show, I told anyone who complained in front of me about ulcers, that it was probably treatable with antibiotics and drugs if their doctor did some research into a cure. I still meet people who don't know about H. Pylori bacteria, and I suspect that a great deal many other inflictions of our bodies could be caused by as of yet, undiscovered microbes making us sick.
"
/need/ to send you email anyway? It would just be advertising, or notification of a policy change, never anything you'd have to sign in for.
Uhh, yeah, except for the legitimate e-mails that I get from PayPal or my bank which aren't fake.
PayPal's legit e-mails will always start with your name, so if they don't, that's an easy sign it's fake."
It doesn't matter if it's real or not. Delete it, or treat is as junk mail. Then independently, go to your secure web browser, visit the website that is potentially trying to notify you of something, and log into it and see what the fuss is about. 9/10 emails from places like those are going to be fake. Trust me, I use both, and I get about 8 legit but essentially worthless PayPal emails a year, and none from my bank. If your bank is emailing you when you haven't emailed them, they are stupid in my opinion. Why would your bank
A moon without a planet involved is also known as indecent exposure in most legal jurisdictions.
Why would you have to do that?
It's really this simple:
You get an email from PayPal or your bank? It's fake. Delete it.
Open your web browser. Log into your account, read the news there. If everyone did it that way, there'd be no problems [but for the silly few].
Has a court in North America ever prosecuted someone for phishing though? I've not heard of a single case, and if it had happened, I'd expect an alert Slashdotter would have informed everyone by now.
Yes it is fraud, but I doubt a court will see a case for quite a while, what with many of the phishers being overseas, and the police resources to deal with online fraud stretched quite thin as it is. It's all they can do to take down child porn rings.
I'm glad California is taking steps to allow citizens to sue for their money back, but the police HAVE to get involved too and investigate cases of fraud, especially when they are affecting wide swaths of [naive] people.
Maybe that old Slashdot troll was on to something when he started putting hot grits down his pants. Maybe he just wasn't advanced enough to realize that if he'd done it with tree sap, then he'd be naked and petrified with blood and DNA intact for at least 20 Million years, just like this spider!
I've been considering different ways I could preserve my body, and I think encasing myself in amber has shot to the top of the list, past deep freezing, and freeze drying.
I tried going to ant.google.com but nothing came up. I guess the Google ant was Slashdotted or something? ;-)
I found the program on my Windows XP still, and it is definitely called DiskData not diskspace which is a compression program if I recall correctly now.
It looks like an old utility that was free for home use, that I used to use, and have used as recently as a few months ago. Diskspace I think it was called.
I also use Duplic8 which is a program that searches for duplicate files by their size or name, and lets you delete the duplicate to free up disk space.
Where can I get some of that H-Twenty water?
I'm not going to bug you about the non-subscript 2 and 4, but using a 0 for an O on a tech site demands a nit-picker like me to make a comment.
By the way good joke, I learned that rhyme too, but this version was more appropriate for me:
John was a chemist's son, but John, he is no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
This is why the destruction of the Canadian railway system is going to cost us BIG time one day. We've pulled out viable tracks, just to let CP and CN sell the steel to the USA where it's gobbled up.
And there IS [or was?] a more than month long trucker strike at the port in Vancouver. The supplies for all sorts of Asian made goods [read: nearly gosh darn everything] was running low on store shelves in Canada. Everything from Mach 3 razor blades, to international foods in Superstore I noticed were dwindling.
I understand now. I thought a UPS would have some sort of fuse that would take care of a situation like that. Glad you avoided a fire.
"What worries me is not that society can't handle a few bumps but that the vast majority of people can't even list the core institutions critical to the function of western civilization, let alone explain why they are needed. The rampant ignorance reguarding the underpinnings of civilization presents a disturbing problem. Absent a drastic change in public demeanor, it seems we are likely to vote ourselves gradually into barbarity."
That worries me too, and has since at least Grade 9 when I read Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. It made me realize that widespread blindness would cripple the world, since there would simply be too few people left to care for the blind ones until they could become mostly self sufficient again. Our society depends on such complex technologies to provide us with the most basic of essential supplies. We need water purification, pumping, and drainage. We need food growing, harvesting, transporting, and even pre-preparation. Never mind climate control for extreme weather locations too.
What would you list as society's most basic institutions? If you claim the 5th, I'll understand as you might not want to give any terrorists reading some bad ideas, but I'd like to hear a bright person's view of what we can't live without.
Wow, I'd guess that's from a faulty UPS? What brand did you have? Did you get insurance from their lifetime guarantee off of it? Most UPSes I know of have some sort of waranty so that if you have a power problem and their product doesn't protect you, then they'll replace their defective product and the equipment it wrecked.
.5 seconds protection from power failure for my computer and networking gear.
I have a Cyber Power right now, but the battery has died in it, so it only gives about
If Red Green taught you anything, it's that you need to take Duct Tape with you EVERYWHERE you go, especially if you'll be fixing things.
"They were nothing more than a little speed bump in a parking lot."
Those instances were a speed bump in the grand scheme of things, but they demonstrated just how much people depend on society to be a smooth running machine to do every day tasks like using the washroom, and having clean drinking water. The events in New Orleans put a bit of an exclamation point on the example, since it wiped out and/or strained the first responders to the disaster. Now imagine a tsunami on the west coast? Do you think Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, San Fran, and LA would all be able to be hit, and there'd be enough international [anything] experts to keep society functioning west of the Rockies?
We'll know more in a few weeks I'm sure, but if Rita had hit Houston directly, would there still be a cleanup team in New Orleans?
There will probably always be at least some part of North America unaffected by a widespread disaster, at least unaffected enough to go on as normal, but once police, doctors, and the power/food/water supply is disrupted in a widespread area... well you saw what happened in New Orleans.
We can't live without electricity. LIVE, not "get online". It's not a luxury anymore here. If you don't have power you don't have a fridge. You don't have water. You don't have a stove probably, to make drinking water. You don't have any way to pump gas at a filling station to get the heck out of Dodge. [No traffic lights too.] And if it's winter, some people don't even have heat, [or A/C in summer]. You don't have a bank machine to get cash anyway, and you don't have any on hand because you used your credit card or debit card all of the time. Stores can't sell anything quickly because they don't have cash registers. And if its snowing, the snow plows have trouble starting because they can't be plugged in to warm up. I hope your manual release on your garage door works too, because otherwise your car is trapped anyway.
Do you see what I mean now, if there's a prolonged power outage even in a city of 2 million, you can multiply those woes listed there by 2 million or so, and add in sick people in hospitals and old folks homes who might need electricity to breath.
We're losing touch with how to do the most basic survival tasks like making clean drinking water, or finding food, because someone else does it for us and we pay them. In a day when money means nothing, or there are no supplies, we'll regret that.
Or you can do like I might one day, and taking advice from a /. user, find a perfectly clear packing tape that can peel off easily after being applied, and afix a well sized piece to your screen. When it becomes marred, just remove it and apply another.
"
I've finally come to conclude that we actually have a rather robust society in place."
We'll see what you think about that when nearly everyone who can maintain a computer ssytem from the mid 1990s has retired. I think NASA is going to learn a thing or two about this phenomenon when they try to go back to the Moom. They're going to have to reinvent the rocket/wheel, figuratively, instead of building on the experience of the Apollo missions.
When things get too complex, it is harder to make them robust, as any little thing can bring the whole shooting match tumbling down. If a sound card died in a 486, you replaced it. If it dies in a new computer where it's integrated into the motherboard, then you might end up needing to reinstall the OS too, to fix things.
Our society is the same way, if you removed the Internet today, thousands of businesses would be thrown into chaos. I you stopped air travel for a week..
If you run out of gasoline for a few days.
If you have a power outage that lasts 24 hours.
Any number of things aside from purposeful terrorism can bring our "robust" society to its knees, by accident.
Don't forget to invest at least $50US into a UPS, so that your investment is isolated from surges, and browouts. You'll also benefit from being mostly immune from short power flickers, as long as your modem and router are backed up by the battery in the UPS too.
This is the first time anyone's wanted a "bug" in their mouth.
Thank you - I'm here all night!
Some are blogging as a fad, but I've been blogging semi-regularly since 2002 as a way to journalize my trip to Ottawa for friends, family, and me. I posted pictures and stories of my travels, and more recently I've made it a nearly daily log of things I've been talking about online, articles I've written [for slashdot even], and pictures I've taken.
Useful? To me it's a personal historical reference tool, so yeah. To Joe Blow from Idaho? Maybe not, but he might get a laugh out of it anyway, so I'm happy to help in that regard.
I don't use my "secure" passwords on certain systems. Any bulletin board for example is not a secure use, so it gets a basic password, and if I don't trust the site admin I make up a completely new password for it only so if he tries to log in other places with my info, it won't work.
My more secure passwords are reserved for things like financially linked sites.
I don't know what's funnier, the EEEEEEEEeeEEEEeee eeeEEE or the fact that you have a +5 Informative. Mods eating tuna?
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When a mosquito sucks your blood it is not feeding. It's a reproductive act."
But it is feeding. I eat before sex too. It would be a reproductive act if while feeding, she were laying eggs in the bloodstream of a new host [which malaria kinda is I suppose].
I'm guessing the monorail, or L-train in the Spiderman 2 movie is complete fiction though?
I've been on the AirTrain in Newark too. It was memorable, because I got into the car, which is only big enough for about 4 people and their bags, and the door tried to shut, but wouldn't. An attendant came after a couple minutes, got into the car, pulled off a panel, and tried to unjam whatever had gone wrong. He ended up putting the system into manual, and closed the doors as best he could before telling the train to move to the next station and letting us out manually. This was in 2003 July.