How about printing every single instance of the spam on 24-pound bond paper and then make the spammer eat it? We could be generous and make the rate of consumption, say, one page every minute? Do we pre-shred it for him or make him fully masticate it? He'll have an entire minute to chew and swallow, after all.
I hope you have the Star Trek Pez set! It'll be worth some serious (bit)coin in about a century. They're no lesser peas under the mattress than ammo clips, though. You can probably shoot a burglar with both.
I think I'll stick with shoving my "coin" under the mattress. It works fine for me because it's obscure; someone would have to first break into my house to discover that the mattress have a secondary purpose, and my house isn't a conspicuous target. Too bad these Bitcoinica folks have a very conspicuous house. I suppose they need Fork Knox and not a mattress.
Do Slashdot readers perceive positive bias to be a problem?
It doesn't matter what I perceive, it's a problem regardless. I can perceive any damned delusional thing I want, and that changes the laws of the universe not one whit. It might make me happier in the short term, until one of those laws I chose not to perceive happens to bite me in the ass.
Perception IS the problem here. Scientists engaging in this behavior are almost certainly doing it knowingly; they're aware they're not practicing the Method. They desire to be perceived as successful, inventive, and ground-breaking, and they're willing to cheat, in essence, and forego inconvenient parts of the Method to achieve that perception. Their own personal success is more important to them than the science.
These techniques abuse and promote competition rather than cooperation. They train people to view their peers as somewhat benign threats rather than colleagues. I suspect that it's techniques like this that prevent societies from being able to effectively transition to collectivism.
Why do people resort to cosmetic surgery, when the result always ends up "looking chintzier than the original"? I'd guess the motivations and reasoning for both might be the same.
"But now it seems we may have been looking in the wrong place for Earth's twin."
Why do people feel compelled to say things like this? There are multiple reasons why we will continue to be motivated to identify planets orbiting M-class stars. The most compelling is perhaps that we simply don't yet know the full range of potential planetary scenarios, both the types of orbits they might adopt and the material nature of the planets themselves. We can't yet even anticipate the full range of unique conditions that might make a planet habitable (for humans much less otherwise). The more planets we identify and characterize, the better we get at estimating those full ranges. So just because these M-class planets are less likely to be a home-away-from-home is not a very good reason to stop looking for them altogether.
I hope you have large lungs and efficient oxygen uptake. I don't. I can see writing on the wall, and this ain't Facebook. The fact that it's gone on for many days now in spite of people modding and flagging tells me that the staff is asleep at the wheel or has another agenda. A captain asleep at the wheel means the ship will run aground or hit an iceberg. I'm abandoning ship before that happens.
GPT includes a very small MBR partition at the front of the drive, which is the only partition that appears if a system doesn't support GPT; if the system does support GPT then the MBR partition is deliberately ignored and hidden. The MBR partition is empty and does not show any of the files in the GPT partition, so if that had been my problem chkdsk wouldn't have had anything to do. Nope, chkdsk spent that entire day checking - and probably destroying via the MFT - the millions of files in the GPT partition.
I'll tell ya, the experience scarred me worse than the bullying in elementary school. I'm distrusting of all filesystems now. Paranoid? Nah, I watched a 5TB MFT being turned into logical hamburger!
Having nothing at all to do with Paragon (not that I'm a fan of the company otherwise), I had a very similar disaster occur with an external eSATA 5TB RAID 5 enclosure. It's one that uses an internal hardware RAID 5 circuit and doesn't require port multiplication, so when connected it appears to the host as a single large volume. At the time I was swapping it between a Linux (Ubuntu) system and a Windows 7 system; it was of course configured as GPT. Eventually I connected it to the Windows 7 system and during boot Windows declared there were problems and initiated chkdsk. Chkdsk ran for more than 18 hours and when it was done, most of the files in the volume were hopelessly corrupted. Upon detailed inspection, I found that blocks of all the files were swapped and intermingled, as if something had made a jigsaw puzzle out of the MFT and couldn't reassemble Humpty Dumpty. Was it chkdsk itself that caused the damage? Was it the swapping between two machines and operating systems (both GPT compliant)? I suspect it was actually caused by chkdsk, but could never prove it.
All such a process can do is verify that the file header appears well-formed. That might flag a few bad apples, but the ones with good headers and corrupted contents will slip through the cracks.
That's a preemptive strategy, though. No help at all if you only think to use it after your kid brother decides it would be fun to slap his Magnet Balls all over your computer case.
Lacking not only a backup but also PAR(2) and MD5 files, manual inspection of each and every file is the ONLY way you can determine their integrity. There is no automagic after-the-fact integrity check. If you had MD5 sums for every file, you could at least check their integrity. Some PAR2 files would not only verify but possibly repair if the damage wasn't more extensive than the PAR recovery blocks. Of course if you're willing and able to do all that, you'd probably have had full and differential backups first.
Show me a house with 100ppm radon gas and I'll show you a radioactive fart. Say, Glenn Beck is a fart and he's also pretty radioactive. He munches on thorium trail mix.
Being fine with being modded down - and stating it preemptively - might be construed as a problem with dogmatism. I hear there's a twelve-step program for that.
So you're claiming that humans themselves produce radioactive fallout in a fashion comparable to how ruminants produce methane? I hope not, because that would make you appear a bigger idiot than, say, Glenn Beck or Rick Santorum, and nobody wants that, not least being Beck or Santorum themselves for stealing their limelight.
And like a DDOS it's still ongoing right now, in many if not all new submissions. This freak has serious issues. Other sites have been poisoned earlier, like answers.yahoo.com (google "gamemakerdom").
I dunno what to tell you. There are examples of similar (though even less intelligible) posts to other sites, like answers.yahoo.com, again using multiple user accounts to create the appearance of a conversation. Maybe it's just a bored and profoundly stupid tweenager (twentysomething who acts like a teenager)? Sadly there's no meaningful restrictions to who can create a Slashdot account, nor even how many!
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How about printing every single instance of the spam on 24-pound bond paper and then make the spammer eat it? We could be generous and make the rate of consumption, say, one page every minute? Do we pre-shred it for him or make him fully masticate it? He'll have an entire minute to chew and swallow, after all.
So how many gigaHertz is that CPU? What's its TDP? If I water-cool it can I overclock it?
I hope you have the Star Trek Pez set! It'll be worth some serious (bit)coin in about a century. They're no lesser peas under the mattress than ammo clips, though. You can probably shoot a burglar with both.
Yes, I'm so double-jointed that I can paint a bullseye on my own back....
I think I'll stick with shoving my "coin" under the mattress. It works fine for me because it's obscure; someone would have to first break into my house to discover that the mattress have a secondary purpose, and my house isn't a conspicuous target. Too bad these Bitcoinica folks have a very conspicuous house. I suppose they need Fork Knox and not a mattress.
Considering that the current chkdsk is actually capable of causing massive logical damage , Microsoft has a LONG way to go to make it function as intended.
Do Slashdot readers perceive positive bias to be a problem?
It doesn't matter what I perceive, it's a problem regardless. I can perceive any damned delusional thing I want, and that changes the laws of the universe not one whit. It might make me happier in the short term, until one of those laws I chose not to perceive happens to bite me in the ass.
Perception IS the problem here. Scientists engaging in this behavior are almost certainly doing it knowingly; they're aware they're not practicing the Method. They desire to be perceived as successful, inventive, and ground-breaking, and they're willing to cheat, in essence, and forego inconvenient parts of the Method to achieve that perception. Their own personal success is more important to them than the science.
Right. Who does actually benefit? As you said, it ain't the employee.
These techniques abuse and promote competition rather than cooperation. They train people to view their peers as somewhat benign threats rather than colleagues. I suspect that it's techniques like this that prevent societies from being able to effectively transition to collectivism.
Is there something I'm missing?
Apparently you're missing the reason. :-)
Why do people resort to cosmetic surgery, when the result always ends up "looking chintzier than the original"? I'd guess the motivations and reasoning for both might be the same.
"But now it seems we may have been looking in the wrong place for Earth's twin."
Why do people feel compelled to say things like this? There are multiple reasons why we will continue to be motivated to identify planets orbiting M-class stars. The most compelling is perhaps that we simply don't yet know the full range of potential planetary scenarios, both the types of orbits they might adopt and the material nature of the planets themselves. We can't yet even anticipate the full range of unique conditions that might make a planet habitable (for humans much less otherwise). The more planets we identify and characterize, the better we get at estimating those full ranges. So just because these M-class planets are less likely to be a home-away-from-home is not a very good reason to stop looking for them altogether.
I hope you have large lungs and efficient oxygen uptake. I don't. I can see writing on the wall, and this ain't Facebook. The fact that it's gone on for many days now in spite of people modding and flagging tells me that the staff is asleep at the wheel or has another agenda. A captain asleep at the wheel means the ship will run aground or hit an iceberg. I'm abandoning ship before that happens.
There's not much being done with PAR2, unfortunately. I think MultiPAR work might still be current.
GPT includes a very small MBR partition at the front of the drive, which is the only partition that appears if a system doesn't support GPT; if the system does support GPT then the MBR partition is deliberately ignored and hidden. The MBR partition is empty and does not show any of the files in the GPT partition, so if that had been my problem chkdsk wouldn't have had anything to do. Nope, chkdsk spent that entire day checking - and probably destroying via the MFT - the millions of files in the GPT partition.
I'll tell ya, the experience scarred me worse than the bullying in elementary school. I'm distrusting of all filesystems now. Paranoid? Nah, I watched a 5TB MFT being turned into logical hamburger!
You gots a thorium mine in the back yard? That wasn't chicken, and those aren't beans!
Having nothing at all to do with Paragon (not that I'm a fan of the company otherwise), I had a very similar disaster occur with an external eSATA 5TB RAID 5 enclosure. It's one that uses an internal hardware RAID 5 circuit and doesn't require port multiplication, so when connected it appears to the host as a single large volume. At the time I was swapping it between a Linux (Ubuntu) system and a Windows 7 system; it was of course configured as GPT. Eventually I connected it to the Windows 7 system and during boot Windows declared there were problems and initiated chkdsk. Chkdsk ran for more than 18 hours and when it was done, most of the files in the volume were hopelessly corrupted. Upon detailed inspection, I found that blocks of all the files were swapped and intermingled, as if something had made a jigsaw puzzle out of the MFT and couldn't reassemble Humpty Dumpty. Was it chkdsk itself that caused the damage? Was it the swapping between two machines and operating systems (both GPT compliant)? I suspect it was actually caused by chkdsk, but could never prove it.
All such a process can do is verify that the file header appears well-formed. That might flag a few bad apples, but the ones with good headers and corrupted contents will slip through the cracks.
That's a preemptive strategy, though. No help at all if you only think to use it after your kid brother decides it would be fun to slap his Magnet Balls all over your computer case.
Lacking not only a backup but also PAR(2) and MD5 files, manual inspection of each and every file is the ONLY way you can determine their integrity. There is no automagic after-the-fact integrity check. If you had MD5 sums for every file, you could at least check their integrity. Some PAR2 files would not only verify but possibly repair if the damage wasn't more extensive than the PAR recovery blocks. Of course if you're willing and able to do all that, you'd probably have had full and differential backups first.
(And yes, the subject was a lyrics reference.)
Show me a house with 100ppm radon gas and I'll show you a radioactive fart. Say, Glenn Beck is a fart and he's also pretty radioactive. He munches on thorium trail mix.
Being fine with being modded down - and stating it preemptively - might be construed as a problem with dogmatism. I hear there's a twelve-step program for that.
So you're claiming that humans themselves produce radioactive fallout in a fashion comparable to how ruminants produce methane? I hope not, because that would make you appear a bigger idiot than, say, Glenn Beck or Rick Santorum, and nobody wants that, not least being Beck or Santorum themselves for stealing their limelight.
And like a DDOS it's still ongoing right now, in many if not all new submissions. This freak has serious issues. Other sites have been poisoned earlier, like answers.yahoo.com (google "gamemakerdom").
I dunno what to tell you. There are examples of similar (though even less intelligible) posts to other sites, like answers.yahoo.com, again using multiple user accounts to create the appearance of a conversation. Maybe it's just a bored and profoundly stupid tweenager (twentysomething who acts like a teenager)? Sadly there's no meaningful restrictions to who can create a Slashdot account, nor even how many!