Each Viking Lander had 3 biological experiments, for a total of 6.
I worked on Viking (but not on the biological experiments), and before the mission landed I received a bunch of NASA PR type hype, including the protocols for the biological experiments. These were each (at a very high level) of the same form -
- collect a soil sample - add something to it (such as water or nutrients) - see what happens
and, as a control, repeat this with another sample after "sterilizing" it (by heating it).
I recall your post from the last time a meta-analysis was performed concluding 75%, then ~90% likelihood of life found on Mars by Viking.
This is the 3rd meta-analysis to conclude the same thing, yet even the science shows like CBC's Quirks & Quarks haven't addressed the issue.
I find it very frustrating that possibly the most significant discovery in history has been virtually ignored.
I believe you're thinking of WWI. Your argument, while still flawed and simplistic, might have held more weight there. But "WWII" didn't truly become a *world war* until the late 1930s.
WWII became a world war in 1939. USA joined late 1941, > 24 months later. That's pretty fucking late to the party, just like WWI.
I see a pattern here.
Yet it has been involved in war against smaller countries innumerable times, to the point of starting a good number of them. Another pattern there.
Generally you have made good points, but holy fuck, don't try to wave away the fact that the only wars the US didn't engage with eagerness were the ones that mattered most in the past century.
It would be acceptable if US hesitated every time armed conflict came up, it would be consistent if nothing else.
You're missing the point of the article. She claims she wasn't in the bar that night.
No, that's the point of the summary. The article makes things less clear. In the article a victim identifies her using a photo. The accused shows the cops some text messages to suggest she was somewhere else. Given these unequal pieces of evidence, informing a person in such a situation that they are a suspect, reading them their rights and fingerprinting them seems a pretty normal thing for police to do. People get arrested and processed when they are mere suspects. The fact that the photo came from facebook isn't really relevant.
I was with you up until the "reading them their rights" part. Unless it was a very clear photo, with a rather unique face, I'd question whether taking it beyond suspect was warranted.
I would hope that more than one witness would have identified the suspect based pm that thumbnail, for example, before an arrest was made.
While showing some text messages from the date in question isn't particularly compelling, they're also difficult to fake. That alone would offset, in my mind, the value of a single ID based on a thumbnail.
This post created without knowing all the facts, all IMHO, etc.
Look, read the f'ing FAQ and learn how to dispute your being banned, or just sign up with a different account if you aren't IP-banned.
But tantrums like this are useless & pointless; it would be better for everyone if you instead just went away rather than continuing to post crap.
WTF I ask, WTF?
My comment was modded +1 Insightful, +1 Informative, for trying to point out how to dispute a ban, and to admonish a Flamebait posting, yet then was modded -1 Flamebait twice now (so far).
I ask again, WTF? Can anyone explain how this works, I can't make sense of it. I still maintain I was trying to be helpful to "Ethanol-fuelled" and to the/. community.
I'd block ALL Roblimo stories, except... watching the comments is irresistible, like a slow motion car crash.
One has to wonder how Roblimo feels about being an anchor around the neck of/. - does she hate having the slashvertisement beat, does she hate/., does she perceive some value to these slashvertisements?
Yep, even if I block her "stories", they still are ruinous to our beloved Slashdot's prestige and reputation. I don't think the brain trust behind these abominations realize how quickly a downward spiral can initiate, and how irreversible they are.
Gotta wonder also what Rob Malda (C. Taco) thinks of this trend?
I just hope someone realizes the errors of their ways, and soon.
Hmm, I've got mod points but I can't find the -1, Wrong entry on the menu. So I'll just point out here that you're wrong. The internet has not magically caused everyone to use your particular dialect of English.
Er, thanks for the reply instead of down-mod. And, apologies to orig. poster; I was a bit harsh.
However, I was also correct. And misuse (on the internet or elsewhere) has not (yet) made drug mean dragged.
transitive verb 1: to affect with a drug; especially : to stupefy by a narcotic drug 2: to administer a drug to 3: to lull or stupefy as if with a drug
“It’s still early, but I think the days of having old textbooks with out-of-date information are gone,” Su said. “It’s realistic to think that in five years’ time, every student will be a digital-immersion student.”
And, to throw some red meat to the/. crowd, here's a quote from the first (and only, so far) comment:
too bad for the kids. they will now be exposed to pulsed microwave radiation of the same frequency as a microwave oven for the entire school day and throughout their school life. this will have devastating consequences for their health and reproductive capabilities.
Anyone volunteer to post a comment to set the record straight?
Sorry for going grammar NAZI, however I am going to do it anyway:
I understand that. I see it at my daughter's school, unfortunately. What really sucks, though, is that my daughter's education is drug down because of that.
Um, drug down? Your daughter's drug use is harming her education?
I think you might mean dragged down.
FFS, drug is a noun, a verb (i.e. to slip someone drugs), it has not got anything to do with dragged.
It's probably the moderation thing where he becomes limited to only posting twice per day if logged in. Shame, if true.
I haven't heard of such a policy, so I went looking...
Found this about bans, which I had never heard of being implemented (not that I hear much):
Do you ban people from Slashdot?
Occasionally we ban IPs from which we see abuse, or disallow accounts from specific actions (such as posting or submitting stories) in response to spam, persistent flamebait, etc. If this happens unfairly to you, please read How do I get an IP Unbanned. These bans are relatively rare, but necessary when specific users or IPs disrupt service for others.
Found this about temp bans:
Are there anti-troll filters?
A handful of filters have been put into place to try to make sure that people don't abuse the system. For instance, the same person can't post more than once every 120 seconds.
Also, if a single user is moderated down several times in a short span, a temporary ban will be imposed on that user... a cooling off period, if you will.
If you believe you've been unfairly banned, let us know, so we can fix it.
TL;DR version:
The final comment in his archive must have... hurt his butt.
Hopefully the pain, er, ban, goes away. He ought to contact/. at the link in the FAQ to get it rectum^H^Hified.
The best way to get these guys is to cut off their revenue stream. Stop buying [1] their crap.
[1] By "buying" I also mean downloading, for by doing so you are endorsing it, giving it further mindshare.
But the drop in revenue will only be attributed to more pirating.
Yeah. Kindly fuck off with your "stop buying/downloading" and actually get off your ass and give a shit like the rest of us.
I've contacted the EFF about issues like this, what have YOU done, mister "sit around and do jack shit"?
Sorry for cursing, I'm just really peeved about stuff like this. I'm an indie musician
The ills of the entertainment industry are merely symptoms of a greater problem.
Boycotting in all forms is an excellent plan, while considering options to deal with the real issues (bribery, corruption, crippled economy, laws by the 1% for the 1%, etc.)
When facing civilization-challenging crises, entertainment is something that's rather easy to ignore / boycott.
We're likely on the same side, but I see entertainment as the circuses part of "bread & circuses" and seek farther-ranging solutions, which ought to trickle down into the content industries, copyright, and patents.
Of course, I myself am not exactly sure what to do, and expect any effective solution to be... messy as hell, probably devastating to many, and entirely unpalatable. At some point, our status quo will be describable in those same terms, and by then maybe some ideas will be on the table with a critical mass of support behind them. Not there yet...
I think he was implying that daylight saving time was one of the reasons Canada looks silly (just like the US) and eliminating daylight saving time would make them look less silly.
No, all I need to make the US look silly are bunches of 3-letter acronyms: DHS and TSA to name two.
As a non-American, you forgot the biggest fools having a 3 letter acronym: GOP.
According to the incident report, a teacher had been reading pornographic material from the Internet to the students in class. One of the stories was about prostitutes having their faces covered with ejaculation.
If that were true, it would be career suicide. Seems pretty unlikely, would be shocked if it were true.
We'll see...
My guess: student fantasy mixed with a touch of reality (reality being "teacher read...", rest being fantasy).
Check out some of the comments on the source article. There are claims he was not really reading Ender's Game, and that the school is covering it up.
Sure the claims were made, but... from what I saw it seemed completely baseless:
Do you know that Ender's Game was in fact the book that was read?
Answer: no, does she ("Lori") know it wasn't Ender's Game? Or what it might have otherwise been?
Then there's this, from "VeryConcernedParent":
my daughter has class with this teacher but was not in the class this occurred in. i talked to several students who were tho and they all said he was reading from the internet. one student even mention a nook he always brings daily as well as my daughter says he bring his personal lap top as well. Mrs Jackie Barnwell should loose her job over her handeling of this.
Aha - something more concrete: he might have been reading... from the Internet!!1! And calls for firing over it too. (From an apparently semi-literate "VeryConcernedParent" to boot, oh the irony.)
So, thanks for the link to the story & comments, but I saw nothing indicating anything else was actually being read, just wild speculation.
I've been reading for a year about bufferbloat and all these tools designed to mitigate it but none of the explainations make sense to someone who isn't already a traffic control guru.
Can someone explain how, if I'm using a typical Linux system as a firewall between my LAN and a cable modem, I should reconfigure that system if I want to not experience bufferbloat?
Note that I am in no way a network guru / expert, etc. so take my comment with a large dose of salt.
That said, I don't think there's much you can do in a home environment to mitigate buffer bloat, it's when large ISPs, or other large networks, and backbones interconnect, for the most part.
I'm not going to say much more at risk of being egregiously wrong. I'll just await someone more knowledgeable to jump in and enlighten us both...
For anyone reading and is interested in the issue:
This problem is caused mainly by router and switch manufacturers making incorrect assumptions about whether to buffer packets or drop them. As a general rule,[which?]} packets should not be buffered for more than a few milliseconds. Any more than this can lead to TCP's congestion-avoidance algorithms breaking, causing problems such as high and variable latency, and choking network bottlenecks for all other flows as the buffer becomes full of the packets of one TCP stream and other packets are then dropped.[4] The buffers then take some time to drain, before the TCP connection ramps back up to speed and then floods the buffers again.
And a link that may show everything I said to be wrong:
CeroWrt is a project built on the OpenWrt firmware to resolve the endemic problems of bufferbloat in home networking today, and to push forward the state of the art of edge networks and routers. Projects include proper IPv6 support, tighter integration with DNSSEC, and most importantly, reducing bufferbloat in both the wired and wireless components of the stack....
And if he were to accept a position in the U.S. tomorrow, would that then make you the fucking liar?
Of course not. To paraphrase Babbage, I cannot even conceive of the mental confusion that would lead to that question.
Or is it just convenient to your argument to fling self righteous remarks about?
I don't think that word means whatever you seem to think it means.
Seems you and politicians may have more in common than you think.
WTF does that even mean? Politicians are people. I have that in common with them, yes. No one that knows me would call me a lying power-seeking egotist, if that's your definition of politician.
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Each Viking Lander had 3 biological experiments, for a total of 6.
I worked on Viking (but not on the biological experiments), and before the mission landed I received a bunch of NASA PR type hype, including the protocols for the biological experiments. These were each (at a very high level) of the same form -
- collect a soil sample
- add something to it (such as water or nutrients)
- see what happens
and, as a control, repeat this with another sample after "sterilizing" it (by heating it).
I recall your post from the last time a meta-analysis was performed concluding 75%, then ~90% likelihood of life found on Mars by Viking.
This is the 3rd meta-analysis to conclude the same thing, yet even the science shows like CBC's Quirks & Quarks haven't addressed the issue.
I find it very frustrating that possibly the most significant discovery in history has been virtually ignored.
I believe you're thinking of WWI. Your argument, while still flawed and simplistic, might have held more weight there. But "WWII" didn't truly become a *world war* until the late 1930s.
WWII became a world war in 1939. USA joined late 1941, > 24 months later. That's pretty fucking late to the party, just like WWI.
I see a pattern here.
Yet it has been involved in war against smaller countries innumerable times, to the point of starting a good number of them. Another pattern there.
Generally you have made good points, but holy fuck, don't try to wave away the fact that the only wars the US didn't engage with eagerness were the ones that mattered most in the past century.
It would be acceptable if US hesitated every time armed conflict came up, it would be consistent if nothing else.
T-Mobile will unlock a phone 40 days after it was bought, no need to wait 2 years for the end of the contract.
Wind Mobile Canada (also using AWS bands) does this too, but after 3 months.
My antenna gives me [...] a channel that plays nothing but old synidicated shows (Xena, Hercules, Davinci, Trek, SG1)
Is Davinci the coroner/cop/mayor show(s) (i.e. Da Vinci's Inquest) set in Vancouver?
Those were fucking brilliant shows, as was the follow-up series, Intelligence.
Anyway, it would be nice to know that it is still being played in re-runs somewhere.
You're missing the point of the article. She claims she wasn't in the bar that night.
No, that's the point of the summary. The article makes things less clear. In the article a victim identifies her using a photo. The accused shows the cops some text messages to suggest she was somewhere else. Given these unequal pieces of evidence, informing a person in such a situation that they are a suspect, reading them their rights and fingerprinting them seems a pretty normal thing for police to do. People get arrested and processed when they are mere suspects. The fact that the photo came from facebook isn't really relevant.
I was with you up until the "reading them their rights" part. Unless it was a very clear photo, with a rather unique face, I'd question whether taking it beyond suspect was warranted.
I would hope that more than one witness would have identified the suspect based pm that thumbnail, for example, before an arrest was made.
While showing some text messages from the date in question isn't particularly compelling, they're also difficult to fake. That alone would offset, in my mind, the value of a single ID based on a thumbnail.
This post created without knowing all the facts, all IMHO, etc.
Well, what a bunch of faggot assholes here.
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
--- Ethanol-fueled
Look, read the f'ing FAQ and learn how to dispute your being banned, or just sign up with a different account if you aren't IP-banned.
But tantrums like this are useless & pointless; it would be better for everyone if you instead just went away rather than continuing to post crap.
WTF I ask, WTF?
My comment was modded +1 Insightful, +1 Informative, for trying to point out how to dispute a ban, and to admonish a Flamebait posting, yet then was modded -1 Flamebait twice now (so far).
I ask again, WTF? Can anyone explain how this works, I can't make sense of it. I still maintain I was trying to be helpful to "Ethanol-fuelled" and to the /. community.
Baffled...
He. Robin "Roblimo" Miller.
Thanks for the correction!
I thought I'd read somewhere that "Robin" was a she. Oops, apologies to Roblimo.
But I still think he's doing harm to /.
I'd block ALL Roblimo stories, except... watching the comments is irresistible, like a slow motion car crash.
One has to wonder how Roblimo feels about being an anchor around the neck of /. - does she hate having the slashvertisement beat, does she hate /., does she perceive some value to these slashvertisements?
Yep, even if I block her "stories", they still are ruinous to our beloved Slashdot's prestige and reputation. I don't think the brain trust behind these abominations realize how quickly a downward spiral can initiate, and how irreversible they are.
Gotta wonder also what Rob Malda (C. Taco) thinks of this trend?
I just hope someone realizes the errors of their ways, and soon.
Well, what a bunch of faggot assholes here.
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
--- Ethanol-fueled
Look, read the f'ing FAQ and learn how to dispute your being banned, or just sign up with a different account if you aren't IP-banned.
But tantrums like this are useless & pointless; it would be better for everyone if you instead just went away rather than continuing to post crap.
an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada,
Use it for torpedo practice. Once it floats into your territorial waters just sink the damn thing. Problem solved.
Except for the oil & diesel leak we'd have created in our own waters.
And the loss of salvage or scrap value.
And the cost of the torpedo, unless a practice shot is, in fact, useful.
Probably a few better things could be done with it.
Hmm, I've got mod points but I can't find the -1, Wrong entry on the menu. So I'll just point out here that you're wrong. The internet has not magically caused everyone to use your particular dialect of English.
Er, thanks for the reply instead of down-mod. And, apologies to orig. poster; I was a bit harsh.
However, I was also correct. And misuse (on the internet or elsewhere) has not (yet) made drug mean dragged.
Drug tr.v.:
Or here:
This site is also in agreement.
It's rather clear that orig. poster was meaning dragged.
A timely piece found in today's Georgia Straight:
And, to throw some red meat to the /. crowd, here's a quote from the first (and only, so far) comment:
Anyone volunteer to post a comment to set the record straight?
Sorry for going grammar NAZI, however I am going to do it anyway:
I understand that. I see it at my daughter's school, unfortunately. What really sucks, though, is that my daughter's education is drug down because of that.
Um, drug down? Your daughter's drug use is harming her education?
I think you might mean dragged down.
FFS, drug is a noun, a verb (i.e. to slip someone drugs), it has not got anything to do with dragged.
Really? Was that even mentioned by the researchers or just added in by NS to try to sell more copies... I've never heard of isotopic diseases.
Maybe it's just a misspelling of this?
(I'll get my coat now...)
Selling drugs is P2P, but so is having sex (see wikipedia for more info fellow reader).
Erm, I'm interested in what you say and would like to subsc... Never mind, got any, um, more illustrative links?
(ducks & runs...)
It's probably the moderation thing where he becomes limited to only posting twice per day if logged in. Shame, if true.
I haven't heard of such a policy, so I went looking...
Found this about bans, which I had never heard of being implemented (not that I hear much):
Found this about temp bans:
TL;DR version:
The final comment in his archive must have ... hurt his butt.
Hopefully the pain, er, ban, goes away. He ought to contact /. at the link in the FAQ to get it rectum^H^Hified.
The best way to get these guys is to cut off their revenue stream. Stop buying [1] their crap.
[1] By "buying" I also mean downloading, for by doing so you are endorsing it, giving it further mindshare.
But the drop in revenue will only be attributed to more pirating.
Yeah. Kindly fuck off with your "stop buying/downloading" and actually get off your ass and give a shit like the rest of us.
I've contacted the EFF about issues like this, what have YOU done, mister "sit around and do jack shit"?
Sorry for cursing, I'm just really peeved about stuff like this.
I'm an indie musician
The ills of the entertainment industry are merely symptoms of a greater problem.
Boycotting in all forms is an excellent plan, while considering options to deal with the real issues (bribery, corruption, crippled economy, laws by the 1% for the 1%, etc.)
When facing civilization-challenging crises, entertainment is something that's rather easy to ignore / boycott.
We're likely on the same side, but I see entertainment as the circuses part of "bread & circuses" and seek farther-ranging solutions, which ought to trickle down into the content industries, copyright, and patents.
Of course, I myself am not exactly sure what to do, and expect any effective solution to be ... messy as hell, probably devastating to many, and entirely unpalatable. At some point, our status quo will be describable in those same terms, and by then maybe some ideas will be on the table with a critical mass of support behind them. Not there yet...
Speaking of fascist leaders on a power trip, I have been banned permanently from Slashdot. And if you post with a sense of humor, you're next.
-- Ethanol-fueled
When? Why? What did they tell you, and what happens when you try to log in?
I think he was implying that daylight saving time was one of the reasons Canada looks silly (just like the US) and eliminating daylight saving time would make them look less silly.
No, all I need to make the US look silly are bunches of 3-letter acronyms: DHS and TSA to name two.
As a non-American, you forgot the biggest fools having a 3 letter acronym: GOP.
Asking for your Facebook password is practically the same as asking forbidden interview questions.
Do they really want the risk of having to defend themselves in court against charges of discrimination when you are not hired?
Bingo!
You win the thread, IMHO.
(Replying to self...)
From another link:
If that were true, it would be career suicide. Seems pretty unlikely, would be shocked if it were true.
We'll see...
My guess: student fantasy mixed with a touch of reality (reality being "teacher read...", rest being fantasy).
Check out some of the comments on the source article. There are claims he was not really reading Ender's Game, and that the school is covering it up.
Sure the claims were made, but... from what I saw it seemed completely baseless:
Answer: no, does she ("Lori") know it wasn't Ender's Game? Or what it might have otherwise been?
Then there's this, from "VeryConcernedParent":
Aha - something more concrete: he might have been reading... from the Internet!!1! And calls for firing over it too. (From an apparently semi-literate "VeryConcernedParent" to boot, oh the irony.)
So, thanks for the link to the story & comments, but I saw nothing indicating anything else was actually being read, just wild speculation.
That stupid word always drived me crazy.
That one doesn't bother me. If fact, I think I like it - irregular verbs with fewer syllables are usually ok by me.
Here's one that I cannot stand: drug as past tense of drag. Drug is already a word, both noun and verb. Dragged is worth the extra syllable.
I hate hearing how "I drug that heavy thing (thang?) across the room."
I've been reading for a year about bufferbloat and all these tools designed to mitigate it but none of the explainations make sense to someone who isn't already a traffic control guru.
Can someone explain how, if I'm using a typical Linux system as a firewall between my LAN and a cable modem, I should reconfigure that system if I want to not experience bufferbloat?
Note that I am in no way a network guru / expert, etc. so take my comment with a large dose of salt.
That said, I don't think there's much you can do in a home environment to mitigate buffer bloat, it's when large ISPs, or other large networks, and backbones interconnect, for the most part.
I'm not going to say much more at risk of being egregiously wrong. I'll just await someone more knowledgeable to jump in and enlighten us both...
For anyone reading and is interested in the issue:
Bufferbloat:
And a link that may show everything I said to be wrong:
And if he were to accept a position in the U.S. tomorrow, would that then make you the fucking liar?
Of course not. To paraphrase Babbage, I cannot even conceive of the mental confusion that would lead to that question.
Or is it just convenient to your argument to fling self righteous remarks about?
I don't think that word means whatever you seem to think it means.
Seems you and politicians may have more in common than you think.
WTF does that even mean? Politicians are people. I have that in common with them, yes. No one that knows me would call me a lying power-seeking egotist, if that's your definition of politician.
Idiot.