Yes, exactly. It was beleived extinct because no evidence had been provided to the contrary. Once evidence was discovered (in the form of one caught in a fishing net), it was no longer considered an extinct species. Also, I never heard of anyone claiming it had NEVER existed.
We do not have a standard curriculum in America, so unless you have done a survey of public and private schools, you're just pulling that out of your ass, weren't you just ragging about that?
Well, I didn't specify the US, but I am simply going by my repeatable, verifiable observations of Slashdot posts;)
As has been stated before, it is a logical impossibility to prove a negative. You are asking me to support, evidentially, a negative statement. That is not how science works. Seriously, what type of CONCLUSIVE evidence could be produced to prove they never existed? Logically, that does not make sense.
And, no, without empirical evidence (i.e. fossil records, remains, REPEATABLE and VERIFIABLE observations, etc..) I would NOT believe in the existance of the dodo.
What baffles me is that people are no longer being taught proper Scientific Method in school. This is what leads to statements like the parent's. Sheesh.
Annecdotal evidence is not accepted to support a hypothesis. That is what your "large and widespread cultural evidence" is. The only means to support a hypothesis is with empirical evidence.
This is how ESP and UFO nut-jobs spread their FUD. With anecdotal, rather than empirical, evidence and complete ignorace of Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. In this case, the simplest explanation is that all these myths and tales are simply that: myths and tales. Until someone can present some concrete, empirical evidence of dragons (for instance)... Well, I will continue to assume they never existed outside of myths and legends.
I had the exact opposite experience. Fedora 2 was dog-ass slow for me. I was ready to look for another distro, but then FC3 came out. I did a clean install (my/home is on its own partition), and holy cow. I saw an IMMENSE improvement in speed. Using Gnome 2.8 and SELinux is enabled. I especially like udev. My computer is a laptop (ultralight) so I am constantly plugging and unplugging USB 2 drives. udev makes it a snap.
One thing you may want to try. If you are not on an IPv6 network, you may want to disable IPv6 in/etc/modconf. Fedora tries IPv6 first for everything. I found this issue with FC1 and noticed a speed improvement when I disabled IPv6.
Even though this is still for FC2, this site still has some good information:
I still have my Applix CD somewhere. The one I have came with RH 6 (or at least that's the case I ended up putting it in)... Man, this is turning into a trip down geeky lane. Off topic as it's turned into, a cool one nonetheless:)
They may have released the source, but it wasn't developed by them. They aquired StarOffice from a German company (IIRC Star Labs or something). I used to use it in the late 90s until Sun bought it.
My thought on your footnote... It's intersting and DOES make sense, but...
Wasn't the same thing predicted during the Industrial Revolution? (vague recollections of high-school History) America at the time was moving from a primarily agriculture-based economy to a manufacturing-based economy (as were other parts of the world). Yes, there were some short-term upheavals, but the DOOM that was to befall the American economy never came to pass.
We (and the rest of the world) will weather this and emerge with a radically re-aligned economy. Just because we cannot imagine what form this will take, doesn't mean the ruin of the industrialized nations. It means a shift in mindset.
Ah yes, better race relations... That's a good one to bring up.
Especially all the warm fuzzies that France and Germany have towards the Jewish and African immigrants. Really the only difference (race relation-wise) between the 1930s and now is that the scope of the hatred has widened, there's no central figure like Hitler to get it really organized, and France is joining in on the fun. BTW, the better educated just seem to be throwing rhetoric rather than rocks. Can't let all that learning go to waste.
And let me head you off at the pass. No, you don't have Klansmen burning churches in the middle of the night like we have had. You have skinheads burning immigrant ghettos in the middle of night.
I wouldn't consider a tiny banner for Suicide Girls, which doesn't even contain any nudity, to be a pornographic ad.
Yeah, but I'm guessing you don't set policy at your company. If you do, then I'm sure you'll get a ton of lawsuits faster than you can say "Anita Hill".
Its not what you or I define as porn, but what a battallion of company lawyers define as porn. Anything that could even whisper lawsuit to them will be banned faster than a burrito covered in vaseline going through an incontinent Rottweiller.
It's my understanding that passwords greater than 14 chars are only hashed using LMv2(at least in XP/2000/2003). Only passwords with 14 or less characters are hased with LMv1 concurrently with LMv2 - why use v1 at all? Does this splitting apply to both versions of LM?
Of course, I could be wrong. I use mostly *NIX at work and home. Just minimal exposure to MS.
[sarcasm]Being slashdot I'm sure that where I am in error will pointed out in a polite and respecful manner.[/sarcasm]
No, the grandparent is right. Normally a noun ending with an s has the apostrophe appended with no extra s. However, when the noun in question is only one syllable, it requires an 's.
I think the fact that its a singular noun (someone's name) that ends with an s also plays into it, but I'm too lazy to pull out my "Elements of Style."
How the hell is using a nuclear rocket engine the "old way" of doing things? Yeah I know its been on paper for awhile, but its never been realized.
Plus you're talking about two seperate type of propulsion with different uses. Ammonia and rubber may be good to get about 300K feet up, but thats a far cry from getting to Mars (and our track record with ballistic trajectories at that distance ain't all that great...). I would imagine a chem/solid booster to orbit and then nuclear for interplanetary.
There is no new "tranportation technology" about the X-Prize technology. Its old tech that's hasn't changed fundamentally since the 1950s. If there had been a paradigm shift involved like horse-and-buggy to autos, I would agree with you. Really the only "new" thing was engine tuning and fuel refinement. Hardly new tech.
You're right... I finally did find it. I had done "define: hypotypical" search with no result. Without checking if actual web pages had the word. In my pedantic glee I rushed off to post. Next time I'll also search web pages for it.
I was serious, though. I did want to know what it meant if it existed (which it obviously does as evidenced by the posts). It just looked funny to me.
Really no other comment than this. Quite an eye-opener:
"Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't."
Considering Yoda was Frank Oz, I don't know what good it would do to have Jim Henson around. Of course, it would be interesting to hear his take on the crapitude of the Muppet movies since he died...
a parsec is 3.26 lightyears, and thus a measurement of distance...
Over the years I have thought long and hard about the Kessel Run statement in the movie (it always bugged me). The only semi-satisfactory explanation I could come up with was this:
Since the Millenium Falcon mostly travels in Hyperspace, the only real space it travels in would be too and from jump points and planets. I am making a HUGE assumption that in the SW universe you can't make arbitrary jumps from point A to Z. You could argue that he discovered a highly efficient jump pattern that required only 12 parsecs of travel in real space. Therefore, this is more a testament to his skill as a Navigator than how fast the ship is.
It would make sense... but, if I remember correctly, the statement is made reagrding how fast the ship is. While the trip would obviously be faster (because its covering less real space), the comment is not about the efficient navigational plotting but the inherent speed of the Falcon.
Now we don't store PGP/GPG plaintext passwords, but we do store plaintext KEK (Key Encryption Key) and Master Keys and what not for banking networks, ATMs, etc.. They are in a safe. It takes two people to open the safe. It takes two other people to enter the plaintext into the HSMs (There's much more involved - such as the audit trail, and so on...) I dare ya to social engineer that.
As long as proper security controls are implemented (i.e. dual-control, seperation of duties, authentication procedures) there's nothing wrong with having plain-text for recovery purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
It won't be in there. You have to explicitly turn it off. Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
Not absolutely sure if the second line HAS to be there, but the first one does.
Ha! You caught me! :)
I'm actually sitting next to Nessie (while bigfoot and the Yeti pilot our UFO) as I post this.
Just like the coelacanth, huh?
;)
Yes, exactly. It was beleived extinct because no evidence had been provided to the contrary. Once evidence was discovered (in the form of one caught in a fishing net), it was no longer considered an extinct species. Also, I never heard of anyone claiming it had NEVER existed.
We do not have a standard curriculum in America, so unless you have done a survey of public and private schools, you're just pulling that out of your ass, weren't you just ragging about that?
Well, I didn't specify the US, but I am simply going by my repeatable, verifiable observations of Slashdot posts
As has been stated before, it is a logical impossibility to prove a negative. You are asking me to support, evidentially, a negative statement. That is not how science works. Seriously, what type of CONCLUSIVE evidence could be produced to prove they never existed? Logically, that does not make sense.
And, no, without empirical evidence (i.e. fossil records, remains, REPEATABLE and VERIFIABLE observations, etc..) I would NOT believe in the existance of the dodo.
What baffles me is that people are no longer being taught proper Scientific Method in school. This is what leads to statements like the parent's. Sheesh.
Annecdotal evidence is not accepted to support a hypothesis. That is what your "large and widespread cultural evidence" is. The only means to support a hypothesis is with empirical evidence.
This is how ESP and UFO nut-jobs spread their FUD. With anecdotal, rather than empirical, evidence and complete ignorace of Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. In this case, the simplest explanation is that all these myths and tales are simply that: myths and tales. Until someone can present some concrete, empirical evidence of dragons (for instance)... Well, I will continue to assume they never existed outside of myths and legends.
Sorry that should be "/etc/modprobe.conf"... My bad.
I had the exact opposite experience. Fedora 2 was dog-ass slow for me. I was ready to look for another distro, but then FC3 came out. I did a clean install (my /home is on its own partition), and holy cow. I saw an IMMENSE improvement in speed. Using Gnome 2.8 and SELinux is enabled. I especially like udev. My computer is a laptop (ultralight) so I am constantly plugging and unplugging USB 2 drives. udev makes it a snap.
/etc/modconf. Fedora tries IPv6 first for everything. I found this issue with FC1 and noticed a speed improvement when I disabled IPv6.
One thing you may want to try. If you are not on an IPv6 network, you may want to disable IPv6 in
Even though this is still for FC2, this site still has some good information:
Unofficial Fedora FAQ
You think they don't compress it?
What does that have to do with anything? The issue is not the amount of storage, it's the sheer volume of data available.
If I compress a PB of data, I may be only using about..say... 100TB of storage, but it's still a PB of data.
Star Division!! That was it!
:)
Thank you!
I still have my Applix CD somewhere. The one I have came with RH 6 (or at least that's the case I ended up putting it in)... Man, this is turning into a trip down geeky lane. Off topic as it's turned into, a cool one nonetheless
I'd been out of work for over a year
I wonder why?
They may have released the source, but it wasn't developed by them. They aquired StarOffice from a German company (IIRC Star Labs or something). I used to use it in the late 90s until Sun bought it.
My thought on your footnote... It's intersting and DOES make sense, but...
Wasn't the same thing predicted during the Industrial Revolution? (vague recollections of high-school History) America at the time was moving from a primarily agriculture-based economy to a manufacturing-based economy (as were other parts of the world). Yes, there were some short-term upheavals, but the DOOM that was to befall the American economy never came to pass.
We (and the rest of the world) will weather this and emerge with a radically re-aligned economy. Just because we cannot imagine what form this will take, doesn't mean the ruin of the industrialized nations. It means a shift in mindset.
Ah yes, better race relations... That's a good one to bring up.
Especially all the warm fuzzies that France and Germany have towards the Jewish and African immigrants. Really the only difference (race relation-wise) between the 1930s and now is that the scope of the hatred has widened, there's no central figure like Hitler to get it really organized, and France is joining in on the fun. BTW, the better educated just seem to be throwing rhetoric rather than rocks. Can't let all that learning go to waste.
And let me head you off at the pass. No, you don't have Klansmen burning churches in the middle of the night like we have had. You have skinheads burning immigrant ghettos in the middle of night.
I wouldn't consider a tiny banner for Suicide Girls, which doesn't even contain any nudity, to be a pornographic ad.
Yeah, but I'm guessing you don't set policy at your company. If you do, then I'm sure you'll get a ton of lawsuits faster than you can say "Anita Hill".
Its not what you or I define as porn, but what a battallion of company lawyers define as porn. Anything that could even whisper lawsuit to them will be banned faster than a burrito covered in vaseline going through an incontinent Rottweiller.
It's my understanding that passwords greater than 14 chars are only hashed using LMv2(at least in XP/2000/2003). Only passwords with 14 or less characters are hased with LMv1 concurrently with LMv2 - why use v1 at all? Does this splitting apply to both versions of LM?
Of course, I could be wrong. I use mostly *NIX at work and home. Just minimal exposure to MS.
[sarcasm]Being slashdot I'm sure that where I am in error will pointed out in a polite and respecful manner.[/sarcasm]
And yes I messed up it's in the above post (just heading it off at the pass.)
its = possesive of it it's = it is
crud.
No, the grandparent is right. Normally a noun ending with an s has the apostrophe appended with no extra s. However, when the noun in question is only one syllable, it requires an 's.
:)
I think the fact that its a singular noun (someone's name) that ends with an s also plays into it, but I'm too lazy to pull out my "Elements of Style."
Just my $0.02 worth of pedantic nit-picking
How the hell is using a nuclear rocket engine the "old way" of doing things? Yeah I know its been on paper for awhile, but its never been realized.
Plus you're talking about two seperate type of propulsion with different uses. Ammonia and rubber may be good to get about 300K feet up, but thats a far cry from getting to Mars (and our track record with ballistic trajectories at that distance ain't all that great...). I would imagine a chem/solid booster to orbit and then nuclear for interplanetary.
There is no new "tranportation technology" about the X-Prize technology. Its old tech that's hasn't changed fundamentally since the 1950s. If there had been a paradigm shift involved like horse-and-buggy to autos, I would agree with you. Really the only "new" thing was engine tuning and fuel refinement. Hardly new tech.
You're right... I finally did find it. I had done "define: hypotypical" search with no result. Without checking if actual web pages had the word. In my pedantic glee I rushed off to post. Next time I'll also search web pages for it.
I was serious, though. I did want to know what it meant if it existed (which it obviously does as evidenced by the posts). It just looked funny to me.
Regards
"Hypotypical"??
:)
Ummm... Did you just make up a word? If not, what the hell does it mean? (can't find anything at google or dictionary.com)
It looks like "hypothetical" and "typical" had a bastard child that was kept in the basement until you let it out
Really no other comment than this. Quite an eye-opener:
"Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't."
Stewart's 'stoned slackers'? Not quite
Considering Yoda was Frank Oz, I don't know what good it would do to have Jim Henson around. Of course, it would be interesting to hear his take on the crapitude of the Muppet movies since he died...
a parsec is 3.26 lightyears, and thus a measurement of distance...
Over the years I have thought long and hard about the Kessel Run statement in the movie (it always bugged me). The only semi-satisfactory explanation I could come up with was this:
Since the Millenium Falcon mostly travels in Hyperspace, the only real space it travels in would be too and from jump points and planets. I am making a HUGE assumption that in the SW universe you can't make arbitrary jumps from point A to Z. You could argue that he discovered a highly efficient jump pattern that required only 12 parsecs of travel in real space. Therefore, this is more a testament to his skill as a Navigator than how fast the ship is.
It would make sense... but, if I remember correctly, the statement is made reagrding how fast the ship is. While the trip would obviously be faster (because its covering less real space), the comment is not about the efficient navigational plotting but the inherent speed of the Falcon.
Damn! Now its back to bugging me again.
Why is that clueless?
Now we don't store PGP/GPG plaintext passwords, but we do store plaintext KEK (Key Encryption Key) and Master Keys and what not for banking networks, ATMs, etc.. They are in a safe. It takes two people to open the safe. It takes two other people to enter the plaintext into the HSMs (There's much more involved - such as the audit trail, and so on...) I dare ya to social engineer that.
As long as proper security controls are implemented (i.e. dual-control, seperation of duties, authentication procedures) there's nothing wrong with having plain-text for recovery purposes.
Crap! Didn't mean to dupe a previous comment (although this is /.). I should've figured the obvious Space Balls reference would be taken...