Damm it I was being vauge on purpose, now I'm scratching my head to remember exactly what it was, I know it was windows and involved an array overrun. I think it may have been winsock's EnumProtocols() since that useless appendage often pops up in MS sample code and the bug was only on MS boxes (it would seem my "optomistic" comment may have been somewhat profound).
Yep smart people allright, and carefull too. It was planned to last two years and they ended up crashing it by accident on the tenth. Ten years is a long time, maybe they got bored and wanted to go map another planet?
A fool and their money are soon parted, and it remains to be seen if Google have been foolish with their money. Also keep in mind that cash is...umm... cash, regardless of how one (legally) aquired it.
I belive there is a fair amount of intellectual snobbery directed toward WP by academics and teachers in general. If Nature has found it to be as credible as Brittanica then where is the contradictory evidence (as opposed to anecdotes)? OTOH: Any and all sites are worthy blocking targets if they are both OT and disruptive to the class.
Even having ipv6 installed can break applications, a lot of older C/C++ code (optomistically) used a pointer to a single element when querying the O/S for installed protocols. It has always been possible to have more than one protocol structure returned by the O/S but it was practicaly unheard of before ipv6, when it started appearing quite a few bugs came out of the woodwork.
Funny you mention UPS. Not sure if it is still true but when I started driving about 30yrs ago it used to be a technicality of law here in Australia that the only people who could legally speed was the government run postal service, IIRC the same was also true in Britain. I agree the 10mph "efficientcy" idea is dumb, to spot speeders you travel at the limit, to spot other things you often need to slow down.
For bullshit like red light cameras cops need a code of conduct that they themselves respect and regular defensive driving lessons, that's about it. Having said that people can and do get killed and maimed every day on the road. A few years back a couple of cops ran a red light near where I lived killing an entire family and causing a massive pile up. It happened right in front of a major suburban police station, the two cops had just come on night duty drunk and had fled the scene of the accident. Thier workmates quickly found them and locked them up for questioning by the internal affairs people, both "pigs" quite rightly ended up with stiff prison sentences for manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
Yeah we still have the "bush pig" problem and corruption varies from state to state and generation to generation. The one thing that is consistent is that the prohibition on drugs is the root cause of a great deal of police corruption and organised crime. The FBI during the US's prohibition on alcohol were overtly corrupt and the same thing been happening the world over with this stupid war on drugs we have had for the last half decade or so.
You want to pull the profit rug from underneath organised crime and corruption then get rid of the antiquated notion of prohibition and bring on "the pursuit of happiness". As for "the children", drug and alcohol problems are health problems, some people are born into shitty circumstances others go looking for it, many end up simply determined to spend all of their often short and miserable lives in an alternate state of reality or behind bars.
Like a large chunk of the adult population I have done all the dumb things, I still like the odd trip to an "alternate reality" and put the foot down every now and then (on a "safe streach of road" naturally). However dumb things can become dead things, particularly if you are young, "bulletproof", and you have never been touched by a "dead thing" (or old and can't see a thing). In my mind, cops should be focused on minimising harm as in preventing "dumb things" turning into "dead things". If they could manage that then who gives a flying fuck if they use a siren to get their doughnuts.
Disclaimer: I have friends and relations in the force. From my experience "cops" outnumber the "pigs" over here by at least 5:1, 10:1 if you put an empty kiddie seat in the back and stand up for your rights without being pedantically confrontational or uncooperative. This doesn't mean you won't get a ticket but it can often mean you won't get a court date (and/or hospitialized for resisting arrest on a "drug offense").
Although we still disagree on some points that was a well thought out reply.:)
I try not to see things in political spectrums, although it's obvious they exist it's also obvious they are all composed of individuals with conflicting opinions and interests. Political parties are held together by "big issues" and if they don't have a "big issue" to hype they will manafacture one that they hope will ensure their survival.
And yes it is true that a beating from the WTO amounts to being assulted by a wet lettuce leaf, but there are many more day to day trade rules honoured than broken, international air/sea traffic also comes to mind. The US is the worlds only superpower, if it says fuck off to the traffic cop then what are they going to do? "Might is right", but it doesn't feel that "right" when you are cleaning up the mess. Other than scale, why should a GHG treaty be a great deal different to the treaty that removed lead from petrol?
The next couple of points revolve around the definition of "efficiency". The biosphere can be thought of as a capital asset for the global economy, it requires little or no maintenance as it is self healing and so it is essentially "free" (econimists call it a "limited service" or some such thing). I belive it is false "efficiency" to damage the biosphere at a rate greater than it can heal itself. By damage I mean it's ability to support our species and our technology - a degradation of the economist's "limited service" and thus a loss to the global economy and "efficientcy". If coal could be cleaned up and compete under that definition I would be the first to invest in it.
"This will artificially inflate the economy and place the lower income earners into distress. I have been in the lower earning group and know many who still are and know what these impacts can have....I'm not against protecting the environment. I even worked at cleaning it up. But there is so much BS surrounding it that it isn't funny."
"The laws an ass", it should have been quite a simple matter to demonstrate if there was a nest there and if so to remove it and hand rear the chicks in one of those golden eagle rehabs, but once a lawyer rolls up his sleeves nothing is simple or quick. Almost 30yrs ago I worked in a remote sawmill in the Australian bush, 3-400yr old Mountain Ash from old growth forests coups. We had the greenies up in trees ect and we had "eco-terrorists", spiking marked trees, damaging equipment, ect. The people up in trees and chained to dozers are a pest but that is pretty much it. The damage and violence is not easy to work out where it comes from, there were just as many people who wanted to demonize the "tree people" via "false flag" attacks on competing mills as there were eco-terrorists amoungst the bush bunnies.
Anyway the area became a national park and so I moved to the coast and worked on scallop trawlers, no real regulation there until the scallop beds collapsed from over-fishing and two state goverments got into a shit fight as to who's fault it was. I spent about a year on fishing boats and farms in the area and lived with my wife and young kid in what you would call a "trailer park", I was a 29yro old factory worker with a young family when I decided to enrol in university, I am also no stranger to tough economic times in the past and my youngest child (21) is having a few struggles of her own. I expect to have grandkids in the next few years and it is them I am thinking of when I suggest we phase out coal.
The thing I remeber most vividly about the mill is the abundant wildlife, the bush is a busy place for critters in the morning and we started work around sunrise. Walking to work with a carpet of thousands of green and red finches that move in such a way that they are always just three feet away in any direction, 6 foot lizards suning themselves on the logs, foxes and roos coming to the edge of the tree line to see what's going on, at night time huge owls hunted geckos on the front porch. I woul
Obviously I meant "lose" but in context "loose access" looks suspiciously like a Freudian typo. Maybe it's just a garden variety typo, either way I don't go out of my way to create them, if I did then they wouldn't be called a typos, right?
Speaking of context and care factors, I fail to see the point of proof reading my slashdot posts half a dozen times just to avoid the odd spelling nazi, and it's quite obvious even the editors don't think it's worth the effort to proof read the summaries. I (like the editors) don't even care enough to be offended, I find the quote above quite funny.
I know that being wrong on a trivial technical matter such as spelling is the ultimate shame for a nerd but the fact is spelling is based largely on memory. Like the ability to recite the periodic table, or the ability to rattle off PI to 666 decimal places, there is not a lot of intelligence involved in spelling.
"Was this guy wrong in doing what he did? Absolutely. I'll agree with you on the "childish behaviour" part, but to say that he was incompetent based on the handling of this one incident just shows where your own maturity level lies."
You are absloutely correct in that I don't have the full story but I am commenting on the information I have, I don't actually have any say in the matter, I am not his judge and jury, just a random opinion from someone who does not even live the states. Everything I have read about him points to an incompetent manager and a poor role model, OTOH people often come up with good reasons for seemingly bizzare behaviour.
At the very least I still think he needs to explain why he should not be sacked.
BTW: What's with all the AC replies today, scared I'll dob you in to the teacher?
You may be a greatest anonomous sociologist on the planet but your "judgement" of me is based on a false assumption. I am not judging him on his knowledge of computers I am condeming his management skills and his inability to set a mature example to his students and staff. He was given a responsible position because someone thought he was a responsible adult, are you saying you think he is still such a person or do you think he could use a "vacation"?
Disclaimer: I freely admit I am incompetent outside my own "feild", I have had quite a few years experience managing anywhere from 5-50 people and have found it is generally not worth the ulcers.
"People find it funny to be disrespectful to people in power."
Yeah but it takes a "court jester" to pull it off. The real problem (as others have pointed out) would seem to be that the entire staff were seemingly unaware they could selectively block prank sites. The egomaniac should be sacked for gross incompetence and just plain childish behaviour. The rest of the staff should be enrolled in basic computer classes, not left in charge of running them.
Sure the little brats will see it as a victory, right up until they get a new headmaster and loose access to myspace on the same day.
"Battery technology will experience a sort of Moore's Law with the demand for hybrid and all-electric vehicles. This is just one of the first stories."
That was a common sentiment back in the early 90's when portable devices started to take off in a big way. It proved to be a stubborn problem that tended to ignore Moore's regulations and follow Murphy's code of natural conduct. After Murphy turned up the pundits started hyping fuel cells, that also proved to be a stubborn problem with no respect for Moore.
Given the huge effort that has gone into looking at batteries over the last few decades, I don't think we can expect to see a battery revolution any time soon.
Water may not be a big surprise however oxygen in the atmosphere (especially a hot atmosphere) will tend to bond with other atoms fairly quickly (oxidization). If O2 is still present in the atmosphere in large quantities after millions of years then it points to something constantly renewing it. Here on Earth that "something" is life, I have no idea what that "something" could be on the "hot jupiter" exoplanet.
Yes potentially catastrophic pollution has been mitigated in the past by international treaty's (such as the CFC's that you mention, lead from exhaust fumes, atmospheric testing of nukes, ect), however the GP was asking for a catastrophe that was predicted but not prevented.
It's the same sort of psuedo-skepticisim you get from people who think the Y2K bug was a hoax because the sky didn't fall on the 1st of Jan.
To yourself and the other replies I apologise for the hyperbole, it was unintentional. I will also concede he is the most credible of any of the "skeptics", even though that could be construde as a back-handed comment.
The point I was trying to make is that he does not back his claims against AGW with peer-reviewed publications, he saves those sort of claims for the opinion pages. His papers on such subjects as "the iris effect" are widely disputed.
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Damm it I was being vauge on purpose, now I'm scratching my head to remember exactly what it was, I know it was windows and involved an array overrun. I think it may have been winsock's EnumProtocols() since that useless appendage often pops up in MS sample code and the bug was only on MS boxes (it would seem my "optomistic" comment may have been somewhat profound).
"This deal being cash is a bit more strange"
We are talking about DoubleClick, see the comment below redarding unmarked $100 bills.
Yep smart people allright, and carefull too. It was planned to last two years and they ended up crashing it by accident on the tenth. Ten years is a long time, maybe they got bored and wanted to go map another planet?
I doubt it, the ABC are a pedantic bunch.
A fool and their money are soon parted, and it remains to be seen if Google have been foolish with their money. Also keep in mind that cash is ...umm... cash, regardless of how one (legally) aquired it.
I belive there is a fair amount of intellectual snobbery directed toward WP by academics and teachers in general. If Nature has found it to be as credible as Brittanica then where is the contradictory evidence (as opposed to anecdotes)? OTOH: Any and all sites are worthy blocking targets if they are both OT and disruptive to the class.
They traded stock for YouTube, they paid cash for DoubleClick.
Even having ipv6 installed can break applications, a lot of older C/C++ code (optomistically) used a pointer to a single element when querying the O/S for installed protocols. It has always been possible to have more than one protocol structure returned by the O/S but it was practicaly unheard of before ipv6, when it started appearing quite a few bugs came out of the woodwork.
"The worst driving I see on a day to day basis is from the women (and more rarely men) turning around to look at their children in the back seat."
What a wonderful country you must have where young men refuse to drive like idiots in a misguided attempt to impress girls and their mates.
"Moving between their waypoints quickly"
Our "bad guys" don't congregate at waypoints.
Funny and insightfull.
Funny you mention UPS. Not sure if it is still true but when I started driving about 30yrs ago it used to be a technicality of law here in Australia that the only people who could legally speed was the government run postal service, IIRC the same was also true in Britain. I agree the 10mph "efficientcy" idea is dumb, to spot speeders you travel at the limit, to spot other things you often need to slow down.
For bullshit like red light cameras cops need a code of conduct that they themselves respect and regular defensive driving lessons, that's about it. Having said that people can and do get killed and maimed every day on the road. A few years back a couple of cops ran a red light near where I lived killing an entire family and causing a massive pile up. It happened right in front of a major suburban police station, the two cops had just come on night duty drunk and had fled the scene of the accident. Thier workmates quickly found them and locked them up for questioning by the internal affairs people, both "pigs" quite rightly ended up with stiff prison sentences for manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
Yeah we still have the "bush pig" problem and corruption varies from state to state and generation to generation. The one thing that is consistent is that the prohibition on drugs is the root cause of a great deal of police corruption and organised crime. The FBI during the US's prohibition on alcohol were overtly corrupt and the same thing been happening the world over with this stupid war on drugs we have had for the last half decade or so.
You want to pull the profit rug from underneath organised crime and corruption then get rid of the antiquated notion of prohibition and bring on "the pursuit of happiness". As for "the children", drug and alcohol problems are health problems, some people are born into shitty circumstances others go looking for it, many end up simply determined to spend all of their often short and miserable lives in an alternate state of reality or behind bars.
Like a large chunk of the adult population I have done all the dumb things, I still like the odd trip to an "alternate reality" and put the foot down every now and then (on a "safe streach of road" naturally). However dumb things can become dead things, particularly if you are young, "bulletproof", and you have never been touched by a "dead thing" (or old and can't see a thing). In my mind, cops should be focused on minimising harm as in preventing "dumb things" turning into "dead things". If they could manage that then who gives a flying fuck if they use a siren to get their doughnuts.
Disclaimer: I have friends and relations in the force. From my experience "cops" outnumber the "pigs" over here by at least 5:1, 10:1 if you put an empty kiddie seat in the back and stand up for your rights without being pedantically confrontational or uncooperative. This doesn't mean you won't get a ticket but it can often mean you won't get a court date (and/or hospitialized for resisting arrest on a "drug offense").
Although we still disagree on some points that was a well thought out reply. :)
I try not to see things in political spectrums, although it's obvious they exist it's also obvious they are all composed of individuals with conflicting opinions and interests. Political parties are held together by "big issues" and if they don't have a "big issue" to hype they will manafacture one that they hope will ensure their survival.
And yes it is true that a beating from the WTO amounts to being assulted by a wet lettuce leaf, but there are many more day to day trade rules honoured than broken, international air/sea traffic also comes to mind. The US is the worlds only superpower, if it says fuck off to the traffic cop then what are they going to do? "Might is right", but it doesn't feel that "right" when you are cleaning up the mess. Other than scale, why should a GHG treaty be a great deal different to the treaty that removed lead from petrol?
The next couple of points revolve around the definition of "efficiency". The biosphere can be thought of as a capital asset for the global economy, it requires little or no maintenance as it is self healing and so it is essentially "free" (econimists call it a "limited service" or some such thing). I belive it is false "efficiency" to damage the biosphere at a rate greater than it can heal itself. By damage I mean it's ability to support our species and our technology - a degradation of the economist's "limited service" and thus a loss to the global economy and "efficientcy". If coal could be cleaned up and compete under that definition I would be the first to invest in it.
"This will artificially inflate the economy and place the lower income earners into distress. I have been in the lower earning group and know many who still are and know what these impacts can have....I'm not against protecting the environment. I even worked at cleaning it up. But there is so much BS surrounding it that it isn't funny."
"The laws an ass", it should have been quite a simple matter to demonstrate if there was a nest there and if so to remove it and hand rear the chicks in one of those golden eagle rehabs, but once a lawyer rolls up his sleeves nothing is simple or quick. Almost 30yrs ago I worked in a remote sawmill in the Australian bush, 3-400yr old Mountain Ash from old growth forests coups. We had the greenies up in trees ect and we had "eco-terrorists", spiking marked trees, damaging equipment, ect. The people up in trees and chained to dozers are a pest but that is pretty much it. The damage and violence is not easy to work out where it comes from, there were just as many people who wanted to demonize the "tree people" via "false flag" attacks on competing mills as there were eco-terrorists amoungst the bush bunnies.
Anyway the area became a national park and so I moved to the coast and worked on scallop trawlers, no real regulation there until the scallop beds collapsed from over-fishing and two state goverments got into a shit fight as to who's fault it was. I spent about a year on fishing boats and farms in the area and lived with my wife and young kid in what you would call a "trailer park", I was a 29yro old factory worker with a young family when I decided to enrol in university, I am also no stranger to tough economic times in the past and my youngest child (21) is having a few struggles of her own. I expect to have grandkids in the next few years and it is them I am thinking of when I suggest we phase out coal.
The thing I remeber most vividly about the mill is the abundant wildlife, the bush is a busy place for critters in the morning and we started work around sunrise. Walking to work with a carpet of thousands of green and red finches that move in such a way that they are always just three feet away in any direction, 6 foot lizards suning themselves on the logs, foxes and roos coming to the edge of the tree line to see what's going on, at night time huge owls hunted geckos on the front porch. I woul
Wanker.
"Why would you go out of your way to be wrong?"
Obviously I meant "lose" but in context "loose access" looks suspiciously like a Freudian typo. Maybe it's just a garden variety typo, either way I don't go out of my way to create them, if I did then they wouldn't be called a typos, right?
Speaking of context and care factors, I fail to see the point of proof reading my slashdot posts half a dozen times just to avoid the odd spelling nazi, and it's quite obvious even the editors don't think it's worth the effort to proof read the summaries. I (like the editors) don't even care enough to be offended, I find the quote above quite funny.
I know that being wrong on a trivial technical matter such as spelling is the ultimate shame for a nerd but the fact is spelling is based largely on memory. Like the ability to recite the periodic table, or the ability to rattle off PI to 666 decimal places, there is not a lot of intelligence involved in spelling.
"Was this guy wrong in doing what he did? Absolutely. I'll agree with you on the "childish behaviour" part, but to say that he was incompetent based on the handling of this one incident just shows where your own maturity level lies."
You are absloutely correct in that I don't have the full story but I am commenting on the information I have, I don't actually have any say in the matter, I am not his judge and jury, just a random opinion from someone who does not even live the states. Everything I have read about him points to an incompetent manager and a poor role model, OTOH people often come up with good reasons for seemingly bizzare behaviour.
At the very least I still think he needs to explain why he should not be sacked.
BTW: What's with all the AC replies today, scared I'll dob you in to the teacher?
You may be a greatest anonomous sociologist on the planet but your "judgement" of me is based on a false assumption. I am not judging him on his knowledge of computers I am condeming his management skills and his inability to set a mature example to his students and staff. He was given a responsible position because someone thought he was a responsible adult, are you saying you think he is still such a person or do you think he could use a "vacation"?
Disclaimer: I freely admit I am incompetent outside my own "feild", I have had quite a few years experience managing anywhere from 5-50 people and have found it is generally not worth the ulcers.
"....He's supposed to be a leader...." - Thank-you, that is exactly what I meant.
"People find it funny to be disrespectful to people in power."
Yeah but it takes a "court jester" to pull it off. The real problem (as others have pointed out) would seem to be that the entire staff were seemingly unaware they could selectively block prank sites. The egomaniac should be sacked for gross incompetence and just plain childish behaviour. The rest of the staff should be enrolled in basic computer classes, not left in charge of running them.
Sure the little brats will see it as a victory, right up until they get a new headmaster and loose access to myspace on the same day.
"Battery technology will experience a sort of Moore's Law with the demand for hybrid and all-electric vehicles. This is just one of the first stories."
That was a common sentiment back in the early 90's when portable devices started to take off in a big way. It proved to be a stubborn problem that tended to ignore Moore's regulations and follow Murphy's code of natural conduct. After Murphy turned up the pundits started hyping fuel cells, that also proved to be a stubborn problem with no respect for Moore.
Given the huge effort that has gone into looking at batteries over the last few decades, I don't think we can expect to see a battery revolution any time soon.
Water may not be a big surprise however oxygen in the atmosphere (especially a hot atmosphere) will tend to bond with other atoms fairly quickly (oxidization). If O2 is still present in the atmosphere in large quantities after millions of years then it points to something constantly renewing it. Here on Earth that "something" is life, I have no idea what that "something" could be on the "hot jupiter" exoplanet.
Notice how I had already posted an apology for my mistake before you opened your AC trap.
Yes potentially catastrophic pollution has been mitigated in the past by international treaty's (such as the CFC's that you mention, lead from exhaust fumes, atmospheric testing of nukes, ect), however the GP was asking for a catastrophe that was predicted but not prevented.
It's the same sort of psuedo-skepticisim you get from people who think the Y2K bug was a hoax because the sky didn't fall on the 1st of Jan.
And the KKK probably thinks GWB is a bleeding heart liberal, what's your point?
To yourself and the other replies I apologise for the hyperbole, it was unintentional. I will also concede he is the most credible of any of the "skeptics", even though that could be construde as a back-handed comment.
The point I was trying to make is that he does not back his claims against AGW with peer-reviewed publications, he saves those sort of claims for the opinion pages. His papers on such subjects as "the iris effect" are widely disputed.