Bullying is not assult, it's intimidation and harrasment, sometimes to the point of mental torture (especially for children and teens), people are not complaining about random insults from random trolls they are complaining that real life bullying is extended to online harrasment. The online bullies are KNOWN to the victim, there is no way for the victim to escape their attention in RL or online.
Anyone who thinks an insult is the same as a punch, has never had to deal with a real bully.
I went to school in the 60's, throughout grade school there was a girl in my level called Allison. Nature had not been kind to Allison and her parents often sent her to school in dirty clothes and oily hair. For her entire time at grade school the entire school would not go near here, at lunch time, after school, and on the weekends, the other kids would taunt her with chants of "Allison's germs". I cannot recall a single instance of physical violence against her but it is by far the worst and longest case of bullying I have ever personally encountered and I'm ashamed to say I participated willingly.
OTOH, I was punched a few times by "big bullies" myself, virtually all male children are at some stage the victim of a random bully, that is almost trivial compared to the constant mental torture Allison had to deal with in her childhood. We don't have any silver bullets for "cyber bulling" precisely because it's a continuation of what people (in particular kids) have been doing since before the dead sea was sick.
My (Aussie) CS degree is around the same vintage, out of 160 starters 3 were women. 12 people made it through the course in the minimum possible time of 3yrs, including myself and 2 of the 3 women.
My kids are adults now but I had the same experience. To the boy learning about the computer was an end unto itself, the girl used it to learn spanish. Same thing with cars, the boy pulled his apart, the girl never looked under the hood.
I suspect you missed the point. - Fair enough, it seems I did.
To nit-pick a "free market" is not a market free of regulation, in fact the word 'market' refers to a set of regulations governing trade, such as property law and company law. The word 'free' means anyone can participate in the market (as opposed to a cartel/state restricting entry into the market). The tebagger interpretation of "free market" as a market without regulation is either a tautology or an oxymoron, but I'm not sure which.
I sounds right beacuse Watts per hour implies you have squred the time unit and are now measuring the growth or acceleration of watts.
However it won't change the dollar amount amount on the bill, so the whole thing is a mathematical curiosity to me.
In just about any kind of renewal energy design, that is based on variable power sources, they are using energy storage to provide a constant amount of energy. Obviously the peak energy that can produced will be during daylight hours, and during the parts of the year where there is more sun.
There is also this idea that coal doesn't have up's and down's, you just light the boiler and feed it coal. In the real world they need maintenance to the extent that you need to build 7 plants to get the adevrtised 'constant output' of 6. Then you also need to work out if it's better(TM) to have a higher 'base load' to pump water uphill for peaks, or have a lower "base load" and bunch of gas turbines for the peaks.
Coal has the same optimization problems meeting the demand curve as renewables, but all that existing complexity is hidden when you plug the TV into the wall and it demonstrably 'just works'.
If you don't think governments (including the US) already have control over power generation then you're delusional. If you actually want unregulated power generation then you're suicidal.
Sounds like a job for the ACCC to me, they have the independence and the teeth to tackle something like this, as you say the opposition are not going to want to help the government look useful. The US could benifit from a similar institution, particularly wrt to pharmecuticals.
Yes you can validate.iso files with a lot less than $150 worth of your time and if this wasn't slashdot that would be informative:)
I'm a 50+ corporate data plumber and have made a good living at it for 20yrs. I don't like the current IP laws, they are the proverbial dog's breakfast. I think the *IAA's should be prosecuted under racketering laws in the US for bankrupting avaerage Joe's, thankfully they can't pull that shit here in Oz and pretend it's not extortion.
Having said that, for at least the last decade I have paid for the proprietary software I use. This is because when all's said and done, paying for proprietry software is the RightThing(TM) to do for those who are willing and able to spend money doing the RightThing(TM). If you don't have money and still want to do the RightThing(TM) then use the free stuff that glues the internet together, even if you have bags of money the free stuff is still worth a look.
Conclusion: The RightThing(TM) and MS software are both expensive and often inconvienient.
Norman Borlaug is his name, he won the Nobel for his part in the green revolution nothing to do with GM foods, he does however believe GM foods have the potential to bring about a second revolution.
I think Penn and Teller are entertaining, and I think the lingering concerns in the public about the safety of GM foods are bullshit, they're sparked by gross ignorance of what has been done to answer those concerns, and fueled by political and/or financial oportunists. However please be aware that P&T are both fellows of the Cato institute pushing their own brand of bullshit. The Cato institute and Greenpeace are two sides of the same propoganda war, they both 'spin' the science to gain advantage.This doesn't mean P&T (or GP for that matter) don't have valid points, just be aware they're both heavily involved in the manafactue of anti-science propoganda for political advantage.
OTOH this sort of thing is eternal, so if we must have it I prefer side splitting comedy as the medium. At least that way I get something of value from it.
I've bought two this year both came with a Win7 OEM DVD and a key, I had to 'remind' one sales guy that I was entiled to the half price OEM copy that comes with just about every motherboard, he wanted to sell me the retail version. I reminded him after we negotiate a price of course:)
Personally I wouldn't stick a cracked.iso on my machine. Now you can call me a shill if you like but you'd be wrong, I do my banking and work from home 2 days a week, my computers are my tools of trade and I simply don't trust a cracked O/S with the keys to my piggy bank, and I'm sure as hell my employer would take a dim view of it.
Moral of the story: Don't buy your PC from a department store and if you want a free O/S don't install some malware ridden windows.iso you found on TPB, there are plenty of free O/S's out there from reputable sources that are just as good (if not better) than windows..
The two sites are both as good as it gets. We now have two telescopes each concentrating on a seperate part of the spectrum. Cooperation between the two telescopes will overlap into other areas of science and engineering, spreading hands on experience as well as ideas. I think it's a great outcome for science and I really can't see any reason to bitch about the politics that has brought the project this close to shovels in the ground.
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie taxpayer who would just like to see it up and running. Solomen's wisdom does not apply here, I'm happy to see the baby cut in half if it means it gets twice as much love.:).
because clearly they want to watch Fox, they just don't want fucking adverts
That's odd, my (Aussie built) bullshit detector can't distinguish any difference between Fox News, and a fucking advert. Same strange phenomena occurs here, shows like "A current Affair" and "Today Tonight" are actually popular with people who claim to despise adverts. I think it's a phenomena worthy of further study, maybe there's some money in it?
Yes BBC sells retail products, usually in the form of DVD's, books and audio tapes. The ABC and SBS here in Australia are modeled after the BBC and have a chain of ABC shops (we dropped the antiquated licensing paperwork decades ago and gave it a proper budget). The stuff they sell is quality viewing, someone bought me Attenborough's "Planet Earth" box set as a gift recently and I have other stuff of theirs such as the "Yes minister" series. The difference with the ABC selling themselves is that, the breaks are shorter than commercial stations, they do it the "old fashioned way", between shows, not 5min of ads 3min before the show ends. They funnel the money to people like Attenbourough, and finally - I'm actually interested in some of them.
Matter of fact I think the BBC model is a prime example of what a "public service" should be; efficient, accurate, non-partisan, and trustworthy. That they are entertaining, informative, and have used "unfair competition" to make Rupert cry, is a delightful bonus.
Way back in the 'olden days', I bought my first stereo in 1975, $270 was a lot of cash back then* but it was a top shelf system in its day and I was 15. It had a feature that allowed you to skip pre-selected tracks on a casset. There were no ads on the tapes to skip, but automatically skipping content you don't want to listen to is conceptually the same thing. The fact that it didn't work on 9 out of 10 cassets and was slow as cold treacle is beside the point.
* - Proud to say I got every cent of that pumping gas after school for $1.20/hr. Sorry to say the old valve driven chunk of furniture I had rescued from the hard rubbish and repaired went back to where I found it. ( it had to go to make room for the fuck off headphones.:)
Armstrong had balls of steel, nobody who has watched the landing approach can deny that. Not to mention their craft had tinfoil walls which they could not touch for fear of tearing them. However, as you have indicated, big balls without education and experience rarely achives anything more than a Darwin award.
That's a big assumption, there have been a few high profile experiments with closed loop "ecodomes" built on Earth, some of them are quite large structures. Building one that doesn't turn into rotting sesspit after a year or two is still beyond our technical grasp. For the foreseable future I think any off world colony is going to need a supply line for food and water. Our inability to create a sustainable source of food in isolation from Earth's environment is the tallest technological hurdle we have to leap wrt to colonising nearby rocks, let alone rocks who's distance is measured in light years.
So then, what exactly is the goal of a suicide bomber in a crowded market full of civilians?
REVENGE, usually for the death of a loved one and usually perpetrated by teenagers, they are picked and groomed for the job in pretty much the same way runaways to hollywood are picked and groomed by pimps.
BTW, what was the point of firebombing Dressden if not to kill civilians?
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone who thinks an insult is the same as a punch, has never had to deal with a real bully.
I went to school in the 60's, throughout grade school there was a girl in my level called Allison. Nature had not been kind to Allison and her parents often sent her to school in dirty clothes and oily hair. For her entire time at grade school the entire school would not go near here, at lunch time, after school, and on the weekends, the other kids would taunt her with chants of "Allison's germs". I cannot recall a single instance of physical violence against her but it is by far the worst and longest case of bullying I have ever personally encountered and I'm ashamed to say I participated willingly.
OTOH, I was punched a few times by "big bullies" myself, virtually all male children are at some stage the victim of a random bully, that is almost trivial compared to the constant mental torture Allison had to deal with in her childhood. We don't have any silver bullets for "cyber bulling" precisely because it's a continuation of what people (in particular kids) have been doing since before the dead sea was sick.
And now think what a beowulf cluster of those could accomplish!
A slashdot mirror?
My (Aussie) CS degree is around the same vintage, out of 160 starters 3 were women. 12 people made it through the course in the minimum possible time of 3yrs, including myself and 2 of the 3 women.
My kids are adults now but I had the same experience. To the boy learning about the computer was an end unto itself, the girl used it to learn spanish. Same thing with cars, the boy pulled his apart, the girl never looked under the hood.
An alarm system where information and activities is coordinated against laws and censorship sounds like a good thing
They already exist, EFF, Grok law, ACLU, collectively they are known as lobbyists.
So, every time there's an emergency, i'm updating code? What sense does that make? LOL come on guys!
It's Monday morning here, the above quote eloquently describes the rest of my week.
He also lost in part because Japan did something stupid, and provoked the US from joining into the fun
I'm guessing the US attacked Hitler becuse he formally declared war on the US, not because the Japs 'king hit' the US in the Pacific parking lot.
I suspect you missed the point. - Fair enough, it seems I did.
To nit-pick a "free market" is not a market free of regulation, in fact the word 'market' refers to a set of regulations governing trade, such as property law and company law. The word 'free' means anyone can participate in the market (as opposed to a cartel/state restricting entry into the market). The tebagger interpretation of "free market" as a market without regulation is either a tautology or an oxymoron, but I'm not sure which.
News.com is one step away from the onion, in the wrong direction.
I sounds right beacuse Watts per hour implies you have squred the time unit and are now measuring the growth or acceleration of watts. However it won't change the dollar amount amount on the bill, so the whole thing is a mathematical curiosity to me.
In just about any kind of renewal energy design, that is based on variable power sources, they are using energy storage to provide a constant amount of energy. Obviously the peak energy that can produced will be during daylight hours, and during the parts of the year where there is more sun.
There is also this idea that coal doesn't have up's and down's, you just light the boiler and feed it coal. In the real world they need maintenance to the extent that you need to build 7 plants to get the adevrtised 'constant output' of 6. Then you also need to work out if it's better(TM) to have a higher 'base load' to pump water uphill for peaks, or have a lower "base load" and bunch of gas turbines for the peaks.
Coal has the same optimization problems meeting the demand curve as renewables, but all that existing complexity is hidden when you plug the TV into the wall and it demonstrably 'just works'.
If you don't think governments (including the US) already have control over power generation then you're delusional. If you actually want unregulated power generation then you're suicidal.
shortly before it closed Bitcoinica was boasting that it had recently come under regulatory supervision.
...and now their database and all the backups vanish? - I feel a conspiracy theory brewing.
Sounds like a job for the ACCC to me, they have the independence and the teeth to tackle something like this, as you say the opposition are not going to want to help the government look useful. The US could benifit from a similar institution, particularly wrt to pharmecuticals.
Yes you can validate .iso files with a lot less than $150 worth of your time and if this wasn't slashdot that would be informative :)
I'm a 50+ corporate data plumber and have made a good living at it for 20yrs. I don't like the current IP laws, they are the proverbial dog's breakfast. I think the *IAA's should be prosecuted under racketering laws in the US for bankrupting avaerage Joe's, thankfully they can't pull that shit here in Oz and pretend it's not extortion.
Having said that, for at least the last decade I have paid for the proprietary software I use. This is because when all's said and done, paying for proprietry software is the RightThing(TM) to do for those who are willing and able to spend money doing the RightThing(TM). If you don't have money and still want to do the RightThing(TM) then use the free stuff that glues the internet together, even if you have bags of money the free stuff is still worth a look.
Conclusion: The RightThing(TM) and MS software are both expensive and often inconvienient.
Norman Borlaug is his name, he won the Nobel for his part in the green revolution nothing to do with GM foods, he does however believe GM foods have the potential to bring about a second revolution.
I think Penn and Teller are entertaining, and I think the lingering concerns in the public about the safety of GM foods are bullshit, they're sparked by gross ignorance of what has been done to answer those concerns, and fueled by political and/or financial oportunists. However please be aware that P&T are both fellows of the Cato institute pushing their own brand of bullshit. The Cato institute and Greenpeace are two sides of the same propoganda war, they both 'spin' the science to gain advantage.This doesn't mean P&T (or GP for that matter) don't have valid points, just be aware they're both heavily involved in the manafactue of anti-science propoganda for political advantage.
OTOH this sort of thing is eternal, so if we must have it I prefer side splitting comedy as the medium. At least that way I get something of value from it.
Computers nowadays don't come with a Windows CD.
I've bought two this year both came with a Win7 OEM DVD and a key, I had to 'remind' one sales guy that I was entiled to the half price OEM copy that comes with just about every motherboard, he wanted to sell me the retail version. I reminded him after we negotiate a price of course :)
.iso on my machine. Now you can call me a shill if you like but you'd be wrong, I do my banking and work from home 2 days a week, my computers are my tools of trade and I simply don't trust a cracked O/S with the keys to my piggy bank, and I'm sure as hell my employer would take a dim view of it.
.iso you found on TPB, there are plenty of free O/S's out there from reputable sources that are just as good (if not better) than windows..
Personally I wouldn't stick a cracked
Moral of the story: Don't buy your PC from a department store and if you want a free O/S don't install some malware ridden windows
The two sites are both as good as it gets. We now have two telescopes each concentrating on a seperate part of the spectrum. Cooperation between the two telescopes will overlap into other areas of science and engineering, spreading hands on experience as well as ideas. I think it's a great outcome for science and I really can't see any reason to bitch about the politics that has brought the project this close to shovels in the ground.
:).
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie taxpayer who would just like to see it up and running. Solomen's wisdom does not apply here, I'm happy to see the baby cut in half if it means it gets twice as much love.
But we will call it "Bruce" to avoid confusion.
because clearly they want to watch Fox, they just don't want fucking adverts
That's odd, my (Aussie built) bullshit detector can't distinguish any difference between Fox News, and a fucking advert. Same strange phenomena occurs here, shows like "A current Affair" and "Today Tonight" are actually popular with people who claim to despise adverts. I think it's a phenomena worthy of further study, maybe there's some money in it?
Yes BBC sells retail products, usually in the form of DVD's, books and audio tapes. The ABC and SBS here in Australia are modeled after the BBC and have a chain of ABC shops (we dropped the antiquated licensing paperwork decades ago and gave it a proper budget). The stuff they sell is quality viewing, someone bought me Attenborough's "Planet Earth" box set as a gift recently and I have other stuff of theirs such as the "Yes minister" series. The difference with the ABC selling themselves is that, the breaks are shorter than commercial stations, they do it the "old fashioned way", between shows, not 5min of ads 3min before the show ends. They funnel the money to people like Attenbourough, and finally - I'm actually interested in some of them.
Matter of fact I think the BBC model is a prime example of what a "public service" should be; efficient, accurate, non-partisan, and trustworthy. That they are entertaining, informative, and have used "unfair competition" to make Rupert cry, is a delightful bonus.
Way back in the 'olden days', I bought my first stereo in 1975, $270 was a lot of cash back then* but it was a top shelf system in its day and I was 15. It had a feature that allowed you to skip pre-selected tracks on a casset. There were no ads on the tapes to skip, but automatically skipping content you don't want to listen to is conceptually the same thing. The fact that it didn't work on 9 out of 10 cassets and was slow as cold treacle is beside the point.
:)
* - Proud to say I got every cent of that pumping gas after school for $1.20/hr. Sorry to say the old valve driven chunk of furniture I had rescued from the hard rubbish and repaired went back to where I found it. ( it had to go to make room for the fuck off headphones.
Armstrong had balls of steel, nobody who has watched the landing approach can deny that. Not to mention their craft had tinfoil walls which they could not touch for fear of tearing them. However, as you have indicated, big balls without education and experience rarely achives anything more than a Darwin award.
That's a big assumption, there have been a few high profile experiments with closed loop "ecodomes" built on Earth, some of them are quite large structures. Building one that doesn't turn into rotting sesspit after a year or two is still beyond our technical grasp. For the foreseable future I think any off world colony is going to need a supply line for food and water. Our inability to create a sustainable source of food in isolation from Earth's environment is the tallest technological hurdle we have to leap wrt to colonising nearby rocks, let alone rocks who's distance is measured in light years.
So then, what exactly is the goal of a suicide bomber in a crowded market full of civilians?
REVENGE, usually for the death of a loved one and usually perpetrated by teenagers, they are picked and groomed for the job in pretty much the same way runaways to hollywood are picked and groomed by pimps.
BTW, what was the point of firebombing Dressden if not to kill civilians?