We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online.'
That's not opposing the legislation, it's commending it!
Did you even READ the article? (Yeah, I must be new here...) The summery just took a poor paragraph to use as it can be taken out of context, however they are not commending it. They are simply agreeing that the internet could be a nicer place for kids, but censorship isn't the right path. Really, just go read the article. Here is a clip of some of it if you still don't have the time:
As a large proportion of child sexual abuse content is not found on public websites, but in chat-rooms or peer-to-peer networks, we know the proposed filtering regime will not effectively protect children from this objectionable material.
In fact, the policy may give parents a 'false sense of security' encouraging them to reduce their supervision.
We are concerned that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide. Filtering all RC material could block content with a strong social or educational value.
If I remember my reading of what Maxwell's Demon was about, your description of venting light out your window so it doesn't become trapped heat in the house is remarkably close to it... and then to have that as your/. handle... great stuff:)
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Still isn't perfect. Simply humiliating the wrong bully is enough to get shot over, which happened in my middle school back in '92. Actually putting a beat down on the bully might just cement his need to reassert his street cred. Even if you don't get shot, I lost count how many times I would stand up for myself, only to get jumped by gangs of kids.
Everything is nice and simple when it is just one bully, but they (at least in my experience) seem to form tribes of assholes who will happily sucker punch you from behind and lend a hand to the bully in distress. When their are 50 people on your school bus, and 20 of them are in the same gang, their is very little you can do short of carrying a lead pipe in your bag. They made my life hell at school and even worse around my neighborhood. They made it well know that they had several guns in their circle, and would chase people down just to beat on them for the lulz.
It got so bad that my father decided he had to intervene (this is long after getting the police involved, due to how often I would come home with my face busted up and bloody, mind you I was 12 at the time) he got in his truck with me with an eye swollen shut, bleeding from my mouth, nose and cuts all over the front of my shirt joining him, and we drove around looking for the head of this gang. We found him walking down the street in front of his house, so he drove him down into his grass yard, got out of the truck and pinned him to the wall of the house. He then explained that if anything further happened to me, that he would be back in the middle of the night and would screw all the windows and doors shut and would burn their house down with them in it, if it did not end. I expected this wouldn't change anything, I figured me being in the truck watching all this would just make my life that much worse the next day, or that they would directly retaliate against my family, but they stopped messing with me after that.
I never wanted my dad to win my fights, and I'm not sure how well this would have gone down in the slightly more sue happy atmosphere of today, but I was thankful. The police, the school administrators, and myself getting in numerous fights where at times I would viciously defend myself were never enough to dissuade this persistent group of hell spawn. Just sharing my anecdote, as not everyone is able to make the bullying stop just by fighting back. The harder I fought back, the harder they made my life.
I believe you mean FM-200 (as in Halon). We had a contractor accidentally set them off in our datacenter. They have an explosive cap in the release valve that assists in the rapid deployment of the halon... lets just say I didn't need any more coffee the rest of that morning as I was working the in datacenter when it popped. The only thing scarier I've dealt with was walking into the room that housed hundreds of batteries for our UPS, it was dark as the lights were off and I couldn't get them on, it smelt of burning plastic, and their were some positively spooky grinding noises coming from "something". Their is something more unnerving about a pitch black room full of potentially explosive batteries making unhappy noises than the 8 canisters of FM-200 going off like a bomb blast all around you. Must be the anticipation/anxiety that makes all the difference.
A node is generally just a fancy name for a computer in a cluster. Nodes don't always need a OS locally (getting it via PXE), and may have some special hardware. But honestly in my experience, a node is a node if the systems architect wants to call it one.
You've gotten better karma which gives more mod points it seems. I've been getting 15 points for some time now. Comically, I just logged in to tell you this and noticed I've gotten another allotment of points:)
For some reason that is incredibly funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. I really loved the description the site provides:
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
By the time I got back to Sept 25th I was sure that Jon had hung himself, and it all made sense. Great laughs, thanks!
A 100+ emails a day is quite a low number even if they only have a few hundred servers. Then again, places I've worked use email as a back up method of reporting a problem as well as a webpage / app that reports it as well. The idea for the redundant monitoring is that if the monitoring server's apache goes down, or the app stops working, at least we'll get an email on it, and visa versa. Between disk space, strange logs, run away processes, garbage collection times that start taking too long, broker services, port monitoring, and much more, 100+ is a drop in the bucket once you have a sufficiently large operation.
Depends on the environment. I worked for Florida Internet back when mom and pop ISP's were more common. At Flinet, many forms of office politics could be handled by a good old fashion nerf gun fight. However when we were later bought out and assimilated into our new parent company, they took less kindly to us taking to the halls with cushy little nerf missiles flying in all directions. (The looks we'd get from Sales, you'd think they wore suits when they were at home as well) Something about the corporate environment leaches peoples desire to be carefree and jubilant. Of course this was like 12 years ago, I'm sure some of my inner child is starting to atrophy from too much corporate exposure as well having been long deprived of nerf gun use. I hardily approve of their use as a community building device.
I'll 2nd this. I'm also using T-Mobile pre-paid and also go for the $100 for 1000 minutes for a year deal (only does voice and sms, no data). You can even get a free phone out of them at certain times of the year.
Having not lived in one of these groups myself, I only have the word of mouth from my sister in law. When I spoke with her about it, I never really asked or got a clear statement as to the size of the communities. I took from her that their size often fluctuated as parts of the group would sometimes move between one of their several living sites (for a lack of a better word, I'm not even sure where they got the land from, I assume a few people in the group own the lands and allowed the community to use it). I would speculate (since you asked for "roughly speaking") that the group she was living with had between 20 to 40 people based off our conversations and one of the pictures she showed me of her place. I'm unsure how many communities they make up, or if this is in anyway representative of their average community (if such a thing can be said), nor did I get a good grasp of how the different communities operate together to meet the groups needs.
The wiki page makes it seem like it is an annual get together thing, but that is only for the yearly Gatherings. Many people in the Rainbow family live together year round as fully functioning communities that provide their own cloths, food, education, etc.
Please show me a society in which no participant has any desire for power, money, or both. Capitalism isn't great, but Communism has only served those who've used it to gain power and money.
There are many small communities based off the idea of communism, and they seem to be working well enough. Here is a larger community that seems to pull off the idea pretty well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family My sister in law was involved with the Rainbow Family for many years and generally lived a simple life of working and providing for each other in the community. Not everything thinks of only money and power at the end of the day, just most people it seems.
And rather than starting where it left off, it should start when Agent Cooper is the older man seen in his visions.
I'd pay good money just to read the intended ending of that show. That show is high on my list of great TV, but the cliff hanger ending... it has to be one of the greatest (i.e. worst) cliff hangers to have a show canceled on, ever. That said, Kyle MacLachlan was making some noise last year about resurrecting the show on the internet in 5 minute parts. I'm hopefully, although without Lynch at the helm, it will never be the same. And I have serious questions if 5 minutes is enough time to build much story. Here is the short article, I've not heard anything new beyond it. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0835522/
As soon as I hit submit, I realized I answered the wrong part of this question. I'm expecting them to publish, but what likely trolling AC was saying is they did the research but now armed with their findings they aren't publishing due to possible bias of the funders not wanting to hear that answer. I don't think we can combat this, as once again no one would know about it as it would be an inhouse secret. Unless a researcher on the team decided to go rogue and release it to wikileaks, I think no one would be the wiser.
No quick answers to that one other than to allow the research to kill itself overtime. Since no one but funders/researchers would be aware of any bias, no one could do much about it until they publish their findings. But once they publish, if it is bias then an independent review with repeated testing and evaluation against the original research should either show it to be legitimate or not. If the research was obviously faked, then I hope the "scientists" behind it and any other research they have done are closely reviewed as well.
When they take an asteroid that's not likely to hit Earth, and accidentally divert it onto a path directly at Earth, I'm going to do an epic facepalm.
Orbital mechanics have a funny way of making an object return to its point of egress. Given how close it is, it is a bit concerning they want to adjust its orbit.
That said, I feel this is something we need more experience in anyhow. Their is already an asteroid out there right now with our name on it, it is just a matter of time before it shows up. We will lose out if we don't take this opportunity to field test our idea's as we have the tech to do so now. As an economical side point, one day I'm sure we'd like to know how to slowly adjust their paths to bring them into an more contained/slower orbit around/near Earth so we can begin mining them for untold trillions of $ worth of materials they contain.
PS. Polish women are the hottest of all European women.
Pics or it isn't true! That said, I'm sure the GP was trolling. But due to the PC movement (more specifically, our backlash to the PC movement) it is too easy to claim to be an authority of something like this and get people to believe their might be a hint of truth to it without him even providing any real details. If you condense the post down to its finer points, it quickly becomes obvious he is bashing people with brown skin, especially by the time you get to the end of the post.
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Did the submitter READ that quote?
That's not opposing the legislation, it's commending it!
Did you even READ the article? (Yeah, I must be new here...) The summery just took a poor paragraph to use as it can be taken out of context, however they are not commending it. They are simply agreeing that the internet could be a nicer place for kids, but censorship isn't the right path. Really, just go read the article. Here is a clip of some of it if you still don't have the time:
As a large proportion of child sexual abuse content is not found on public websites, but in chat-rooms or peer-to-peer networks, we know the proposed filtering regime will not effectively protect children from this objectionable material.
In fact, the policy may give parents a 'false sense of security' encouraging them to reduce their supervision.
We are concerned that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide. Filtering all RC material could block content with a strong social or educational value.
If I remember my reading of what Maxwell's Demon was about, your description of venting light out your window so it doesn't become trapped heat in the house is remarkably close to it... and then to have that as your /. handle... great stuff :)
Still isn't perfect. Simply humiliating the wrong bully is enough to get shot over, which happened in my middle school back in '92. Actually putting a beat down on the bully might just cement his need to reassert his street cred. Even if you don't get shot, I lost count how many times I would stand up for myself, only to get jumped by gangs of kids.
Everything is nice and simple when it is just one bully, but they (at least in my experience) seem to form tribes of assholes who will happily sucker punch you from behind and lend a hand to the bully in distress. When their are 50 people on your school bus, and 20 of them are in the same gang, their is very little you can do short of carrying a lead pipe in your bag. They made my life hell at school and even worse around my neighborhood. They made it well know that they had several guns in their circle, and would chase people down just to beat on them for the lulz.
It got so bad that my father decided he had to intervene (this is long after getting the police involved, due to how often I would come home with my face busted up and bloody, mind you I was 12 at the time) he got in his truck with me with an eye swollen shut, bleeding from my mouth, nose and cuts all over the front of my shirt joining him, and we drove around looking for the head of this gang. We found him walking down the street in front of his house, so he drove him down into his grass yard, got out of the truck and pinned him to the wall of the house. He then explained that if anything further happened to me, that he would be back in the middle of the night and would screw all the windows and doors shut and would burn their house down with them in it, if it did not end. I expected this wouldn't change anything, I figured me being in the truck watching all this would just make my life that much worse the next day, or that they would directly retaliate against my family, but they stopped messing with me after that.
I never wanted my dad to win my fights, and I'm not sure how well this would have gone down in the slightly more sue happy atmosphere of today, but I was thankful. The police, the school administrators, and myself getting in numerous fights where at times I would viciously defend myself were never enough to dissuade this persistent group of hell spawn. Just sharing my anecdote, as not everyone is able to make the bullying stop just by fighting back. The harder I fought back, the harder they made my life.
Thank you for the correction, I've honestly thought it was releasing Halon for a shamefully long time it would seem :)
I believe you mean FM-200 (as in Halon). We had a contractor accidentally set them off in our datacenter. They have an explosive cap in the release valve that assists in the rapid deployment of the halon... lets just say I didn't need any more coffee the rest of that morning as I was working the in datacenter when it popped. The only thing scarier I've dealt with was walking into the room that housed hundreds of batteries for our UPS, it was dark as the lights were off and I couldn't get them on, it smelt of burning plastic, and their were some positively spooky grinding noises coming from "something". Their is something more unnerving about a pitch black room full of potentially explosive batteries making unhappy noises than the 8 canisters of FM-200 going off like a bomb blast all around you. Must be the anticipation/anxiety that makes all the difference.
*Anyone know exactly what a node entails?
A node is generally just a fancy name for a computer in a cluster. Nodes don't always need a OS locally (getting it via PXE), and may have some special hardware. But honestly in my experience, a node is a node if the systems architect wants to call it one.
You've gotten better karma which gives more mod points it seems. I've been getting 15 points for some time now. Comically, I just logged in to tell you this and noticed I've gotten another allotment of points :)
Are you kidding? Garfield is more brilliantly insightful than ever. You just have to know how to read it.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
For some reason that is incredibly funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. I really loved the description the site provides:
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
By the time I got back to Sept 25th I was sure that Jon had hung himself, and it all made sense. Great laughs, thanks!
You realize, don't you, that battery is a plural term already?
Says who? Check out the title of this webpage. http://www.duracell.com/en-US/index.jspx
Google doesn't try to correct me when I search for batteries either. Even MW doesn't have a problem with the word.
batteries. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Retrieved January 30, 2010, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/batteries
A 100+ emails a day is quite a low number even if they only have a few hundred servers. Then again, places I've worked use email as a back up method of reporting a problem as well as a webpage / app that reports it as well. The idea for the redundant monitoring is that if the monitoring server's apache goes down, or the app stops working, at least we'll get an email on it, and visa versa. Between disk space, strange logs, run away processes, garbage collection times that start taking too long, broker services, port monitoring, and much more, 100+ is a drop in the bucket once you have a sufficiently large operation.
Depends on the environment. I worked for Florida Internet back when mom and pop ISP's were more common. At Flinet, many forms of office politics could be handled by a good old fashion nerf gun fight. However when we were later bought out and assimilated into our new parent company, they took less kindly to us taking to the halls with cushy little nerf missiles flying in all directions. (The looks we'd get from Sales, you'd think they wore suits when they were at home as well) Something about the corporate environment leaches peoples desire to be carefree and jubilant. Of course this was like 12 years ago, I'm sure some of my inner child is starting to atrophy from too much corporate exposure as well having been long deprived of nerf gun use. I hardily approve of their use as a community building device.
Reminds me of the movie Boxing Helena. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106471/
I'll 2nd this. I'm also using T-Mobile pre-paid and also go for the $100 for 1000 minutes for a year deal (only does voice and sms, no data). You can even get a free phone out of them at certain times of the year.
Correct. Police are an auxiliary force that has no responsibility to protect or even enforce the law while they are present, as numerous court cases have shown. http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kasler-protection.html
Having not lived in one of these groups myself, I only have the word of mouth from my sister in law. When I spoke with her about it, I never really asked or got a clear statement as to the size of the communities. I took from her that their size often fluctuated as parts of the group would sometimes move between one of their several living sites (for a lack of a better word, I'm not even sure where they got the land from, I assume a few people in the group own the lands and allowed the community to use it). I would speculate (since you asked for "roughly speaking") that the group she was living with had between 20 to 40 people based off our conversations and one of the pictures she showed me of her place. I'm unsure how many communities they make up, or if this is in anyway representative of their average community (if such a thing can be said), nor did I get a good grasp of how the different communities operate together to meet the groups needs.
The wiki page makes it seem like it is an annual get together thing, but that is only for the yearly Gatherings. Many people in the Rainbow family live together year round as fully functioning communities that provide their own cloths, food, education, etc.
Please show me a society in which no participant has any desire for power, money, or both. Capitalism isn't great, but Communism has only served those who've used it to gain power and money.
There are many small communities based off the idea of communism, and they seem to be working well enough. Here is a larger community that seems to pull off the idea pretty well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family My sister in law was involved with the Rainbow Family for many years and generally lived a simple life of working and providing for each other in the community. Not everything thinks of only money and power at the end of the day, just most people it seems.
Thanks for the suggestion. I went home last night and watched it over netflix streaming. It was truly a great story.
And rather than starting where it left off, it should start when Agent Cooper is the older man seen in his visions.
I'd pay good money just to read the intended ending of that show. That show is high on my list of great TV, but the cliff hanger ending... it has to be one of the greatest (i.e. worst) cliff hangers to have a show canceled on, ever. That said, Kyle MacLachlan was making some noise last year about resurrecting the show on the internet in 5 minute parts. I'm hopefully, although without Lynch at the helm, it will never be the same. And I have serious questions if 5 minutes is enough time to build much story. Here is the short article, I've not heard anything new beyond it. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0835522/
Funny you mentioned Avatar after I finished reading this. Avatar could have been taken from Pocahontas, check this out... http://failblog.org/2010/01/10/avatar-plot-fail/
As soon as I hit submit, I realized I answered the wrong part of this question. I'm expecting them to publish, but what likely trolling AC was saying is they did the research but now armed with their findings they aren't publishing due to possible bias of the funders not wanting to hear that answer. I don't think we can combat this, as once again no one would know about it as it would be an inhouse secret. Unless a researcher on the team decided to go rogue and release it to wikileaks, I think no one would be the wiser.
No quick answers to that one other than to allow the research to kill itself overtime. Since no one but funders/researchers would be aware of any bias, no one could do much about it until they publish their findings. But once they publish, if it is bias then an independent review with repeated testing and evaluation against the original research should either show it to be legitimate or not. If the research was obviously faked, then I hope the "scientists" behind it and any other research they have done are closely reviewed as well.
When they take an asteroid that's not likely to hit Earth, and accidentally divert it onto a path directly at Earth, I'm going to do an epic facepalm.
Orbital mechanics have a funny way of making an object return to its point of egress. Given how close it is, it is a bit concerning they want to adjust its orbit.
That said, I feel this is something we need more experience in anyhow. Their is already an asteroid out there right now with our name on it, it is just a matter of time before it shows up. We will lose out if we don't take this opportunity to field test our idea's as we have the tech to do so now. As an economical side point, one day I'm sure we'd like to know how to slowly adjust their paths to bring them into an more contained/slower orbit around/near Earth so we can begin mining them for untold trillions of $ worth of materials they contain.
Nice catch, I think you might have nailed it.
PS. Polish women are the hottest of all European women.
Pics or it isn't true! That said, I'm sure the GP was trolling. But due to the PC movement (more specifically, our backlash to the PC movement) it is too easy to claim to be an authority of something like this and get people to believe their might be a hint of truth to it without him even providing any real details. If you condense the post down to its finer points, it quickly becomes obvious he is bashing people with brown skin, especially by the time you get to the end of the post.