1) By 'if partnered with another body' I should have specified that the other body not be a star, black hole, etc, etc, etc.
2) Also, with the third requirement, I should have elaborated that the center of orbit would be used to define which object was a moon and which was a planet - and if neither then it's a double-planet.
That's why I'm not a classifier of astonomical bodies!
What I find interesting is the idea that we could be approaching the end of aquireable knowledge.
What would happen if tommorrow physicists all agreed that we had reached the practical limits of subatomic partical experimentation, if astronomers all agreed that without waiting a few million years and actually watching events unfold we won't be figuring out much more about the universe, etc, etc, etc?
Maybe the next hundred years or so are going to be full of wild discoveries, but there may simply not be much more to know about how things work... it already seems we're doing a lot more refining of current knowledge than making radical new discoveries.
How close to a perfect sphere must it be? When you're getting into classification, items like that cause major problems.
Personally, I favour 1) Must orbit a star 2) Must have sufficient mass to maintain an atmosphere (ignoring effects of solar wind) 3) If partnered with another body, the center of orbit must be within its diameter. I think requirement 2 probably covers 'spherical' well enough.
Baron Yam 12 Spongebob Pineapple, Under The Sea MARS
It'd be a fun address for a while, but I bet it would wear quickly. Also, a hundred years later when Mars is dotted with little settlements all looking to grab that tourist dollar... you'd have to live with 23rd century poorly researched Spongebob themed decorations all over town!
Just try visiting Vulcan, which has a large USS Enterprise model and encourages its citizens to wear pointy ears.
"Only a board of specialists can determine whether a particular doctor's actions, judgements are correct, done in good faith and do not amount to gross negligence and incompetence"
I agree with that, for the most part. How many people go to a doctor and hear what they want to (ie 'You'll get better') instead of hearing their ODDS of getting better with certain treatments which in turn have side effects of varying severity. Few patients listen, even fewer have enough medical knowledge or comprehension of statistics to truly understand what a doctor is doing or has done.
A doctor treats you, you get side effects (you were warned!), you complain, the meds are changed, you aren't getting better (but the side effects have changed)... now you complain about the doctor, thinking he doesn't know what's going on. In reality, you may simply be in the 5% who don't recover from Diseaous Miscellaneous.
You don't have to like it, but peer review of a doctor is the only fair way to judge their performance.
When I had the only WAP in my building, no problem. When my neighbours above, below, and on either side all decided to use the same channel for their wireless they were making things worse for everybody.
Mostly, I was only worried about me, of course. I logged on to their unsecured routers and put them on channels likely to cause less interference.
Fool. Given the information provided in the article, it is clearly better to have 30 JAPANESE teenages in your basement forced to memorize numbers.
Though given the differences in wealth and population, I understand why you found it easier to go with the Chinese.
Hmm... do you use them as JBOD, RAID1, or RAID5? Also, transfer rates must suck, and you need to provide shelter, food, and sanitation. Switch to pygmies... much more efficient despite having to compensate for the higher error rates!
I tend not to blame the coders for a certain level of bug content - you can only test so much before you're spending so much on testing that you'll never turn a reasonable profit selling the final product.
Management, however, gets to decide what constitutes 'reasonable', and in my opinion the standard for Symantec products allows too many bugs to get through. The attitudes that permit this are what I would expect to see brought to the Veritas.
It doesn't catch as high a percentage of viruses as its major competitors.
The Symantec Server Console doesn't accurately reflect the state of the clients it is supposedly monitoring.
Symantec AV will crash a moderately loaded file server in several different common situations.
The Symantec Client causes many application problems on workstations - including with Outlook, which you'd expect to be the first app properly tested for compatibility.
The only reason I work with it is that many PHBs seem to have IBM syndrome - "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
And now we can look forward to that 'expertise' being brought to a backup solution. WHEE!
Now, put an RFID tag on the HDD, an RFID reader in the door frame, and one mother of an electromagnetic pulse triggered when the reader scans the tag.:)
I'd rather HERF the sucker than use a magnet.
Probably a failed Leonardo. I've always loved taking things apart, figuring out how they work, then trying to put them back together... and then imagining how to improve them despite my failure to reassemble the original design.
I'd have been the peasant who starved because he was so busy trying to figure out how to get his ox to plow more field when all he had to do to survive was plant a small garden with his hands.
Good thing I'm alive today and didn't live in centuries past.
It's interesting you should mention dual cores - the human brain is effectively a collection of specialized brains working together as one machine.
The best example I can think of is vision, and the section of the brain that handles processing that is actually broken down further into motion detection, shape recognition, & color identification, and probably a couple of other items I've forgotten.
There's also hearing, language, emotion, memory, autonomic functions, touch, voluntary motor control... each with a dedicated 'processor'.
What is really interesting is that some minor damage can destroy these functions almost entirely, yet in some rare cases of massive damage, the remainder of the brain successfully picks up the slack - which indicates a certain amount of functional plasticity.
I'd suggest that the study is probably right about the average larger brain providing its owner with a higher intelligence than the average average-sized brain.
However, neuron count in specific brain areas would seem to be more significant, and higher densities would provide more neurons/volume and therefore enable a smaller brain to outperform a larger one.
Using hat size to select job applicants, as the linked article suggests, is probably not a good idea.
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I don't know why you're getting modded 'Funny' - I think you're more or less right.
Generally, a densely populated society requires straightjacket laws to make sure everyone more or less gets along. The less behaviours permitted, the fewer things will piss off your many neighbours.
I think the West needs to get a little closer to 'my right to swing my fist ends at your nose' - but keep in mind that if that happened tomorrow, we'd start campaigning for a return to more restrictive laws as the worst 19% of the population started doing incredibly stupid things and pissing off everyone else.
What would be really scary, would be a GPL, cross-platform, voluntarily installed app that pulls a list of currently approved targets from a hatelist and does its part in a DDOS campaign.
As long as it came with fairly small bandwidth and transfer caps, I'd run it.
I haven't read enough of the writeups, but perhaps the first IP is the 'phone home' IP used by the spyware?
In any case, it'd be nice to DDOS their web server, since we can absolutely, positively be sure the bastards own that. If you can confirm the first IP leads to one of Iframedollars' servers, I say DDOS that too.
Oh, and since going to iframedollars.com or iframedollars.biz takes you to 195.95.218.170 and not the address mentioned in the parent post, you might want to click on the link above a few times as well.
Is it morally acceptable to launch a preemptive strike when you absolutely, positively know the bastard is attacking you? Given that I get a timeout when I click on that link, I'd guess many people have already said, "Yes".
That's a little unfair, and shows more than a little lack of understanding of what a good critic does.
A good critic has to understand not just that a movie is good or bad, but WHY. This means they need to understand the roles of director, writer, producer, editor, actor, costumer, etc... and the effect each has on the final product.
Unfortunately, when you understand those things significantly better than the average person, you start to appreciate them for their own sake instead of for their effective contribution to the final product. You can glow about the script, or the pretty costumes, or the great acting, while not remembering just how badly they failed to rescue a dismal movie.
A great critic can balance their appreciation of the details with how the whole production turned out. My favourite has to be Liz Braun of the Toronto Sun, who will quite clearly tell you that a movie sucks on multiple fronts, but you'll enjoy it despite its flaws.
I don't know what to say except that I have Publisher 2003 on locked down machines, and it won't print without admin access... and I did both KB and Google searches confirming the issue and the lack of a resolution.
Since you're not experiencing the problem, perhaps your machines aren't as locked down as the ones I work with - and while it certainly is a %systemroot% issue with MS Org, it could be registry or something else for Publisher... I filed the 'resolution' in my company's support database months ago and haven't kept the details between my ears.
Yes, that's the kind of thing I want to implement in a large organization:
"Here, user who can barely remember their logon ID, (and continually calls the helpdesk for a reset of their forgotten complex password), here's a second logon that will allow you to violate all of the restriction on your computer"
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1) By 'if partnered with another body' I should have specified that the other body not be a star, black hole, etc, etc, etc.
2) Also, with the third requirement, I should have elaborated that the center of orbit would be used to define which object was a moon and which was a planet - and if neither then it's a double-planet.
That's why I'm not a classifier of astonomical bodies!
What I find interesting is the idea that we could be approaching the end of aquireable knowledge.
What would happen if tommorrow physicists all agreed that we had reached the practical limits of subatomic partical experimentation, if astronomers all agreed that without waiting a few million years and actually watching events unfold we won't be figuring out much more about the universe, etc, etc, etc?
Maybe the next hundred years or so are going to be full of wild discoveries, but there may simply not be much more to know about how things work... it already seems we're doing a lot more refining of current knowledge than making radical new discoveries.
How close to a perfect sphere must it be? When you're getting into classification, items like that cause major problems.
Personally, I favour 1) Must orbit a star 2) Must have sufficient mass to maintain an atmosphere (ignoring effects of solar wind) 3) If partnered with another body, the center of orbit must be within its diameter. I think requirement 2 probably covers 'spherical' well enough.
Of course, I'm not an astronomer.
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It'd be a fun address for a while, but I bet it would wear quickly. Also, a hundred years later when Mars is dotted with little settlements all looking to grab that tourist dollar... you'd have to live with 23rd century poorly researched Spongebob themed decorations all over town!
Just try visiting Vulcan, which has a large USS Enterprise model and encourages its citizens to wear pointy ears.
I used GIMP over Corel PhotoPaint, but the interface logic prevented me from fully utilizing GIMP.
After seeing this article appear on Slashdot, I installed GIMPShop, and within minutes I was as proficient with GIMP as I was with PhotoPaint.
I'm glad the GIMP developers don't have any control over the GIMPShop mod.
"Only a board of specialists can determine whether a particular doctor's actions, judgements are correct, done in good faith and do not amount to gross negligence and incompetence"
I agree with that, for the most part. How many people go to a doctor and hear what they want to (ie 'You'll get better') instead of hearing their ODDS of getting better with certain treatments which in turn have side effects of varying severity. Few patients listen, even fewer have enough medical knowledge or comprehension of statistics to truly understand what a doctor is doing or has done.
A doctor treats you, you get side effects (you were warned!), you complain, the meds are changed, you aren't getting better (but the side effects have changed)... now you complain about the doctor, thinking he doesn't know what's going on. In reality, you may simply be in the 5% who don't recover from Diseaous Miscellaneous.
You don't have to like it, but peer review of a doctor is the only fair way to judge their performance.
I believe that complexity will tend to increase in an evolving system.
As long as everyone's asexual and existing on sunlight, it's all good, but the moment you get a predator/prey split, you have an arms race.
I am, by your definition, a bozo.
When I had the only WAP in my building, no problem. When my neighbours above, below, and on either side all decided to use the same channel for their wireless they were making things worse for everybody.
Mostly, I was only worried about me, of course. I logged on to their unsecured routers and put them on channels likely to cause less interference.
Fool. Given the information provided in the article, it is clearly better to have 30 JAPANESE teenages in your basement forced to memorize numbers.
Though given the differences in wealth and population, I understand why you found it easier to go with the Chinese.
Hmm... do you use them as JBOD, RAID1, or RAID5? Also, transfer rates must suck, and you need to provide shelter, food, and sanitation. Switch to pygmies... much more efficient despite having to compensate for the higher error rates!
I tend not to blame the coders for a certain level of bug content - you can only test so much before you're spending so much on testing that you'll never turn a reasonable profit selling the final product.
Management, however, gets to decide what constitutes 'reasonable', and in my opinion the standard for Symantec products allows too many bugs to get through. The attitudes that permit this are what I would expect to see brought to the Veritas.
The only reason I work with it is that many PHBs seem to have IBM syndrome - "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
And now we can look forward to that 'expertise' being brought to a backup solution. WHEE!
Now, put an RFID tag on the HDD, an RFID reader in the door frame, and one mother of an electromagnetic pulse triggered when the reader scans the tag. :)
I'd rather HERF the sucker than use a magnet.
Probably a failed Leonardo. I've always loved taking things apart, figuring out how they work, then trying to put them back together... and then imagining how to improve them despite my failure to reassemble the original design.
I'd have been the peasant who starved because he was so busy trying to figure out how to get his ox to plow more field when all he had to do to survive was plant a small garden with his hands.
Good thing I'm alive today and didn't live in centuries past.
It's interesting you should mention dual cores - the human brain is effectively a collection of specialized brains working together as one machine.
The best example I can think of is vision, and the section of the brain that handles processing that is actually broken down further into motion detection, shape recognition, & color identification, and probably a couple of other items I've forgotten.
There's also hearing, language, emotion, memory, autonomic functions, touch, voluntary motor control... each with a dedicated 'processor'.
What is really interesting is that some minor damage can destroy these functions almost entirely, yet in some rare cases of massive damage, the remainder of the brain successfully picks up the slack - which indicates a certain amount of functional plasticity.
I'd suggest that the study is probably right about the average larger brain providing its owner with a higher intelligence than the average average-sized brain.
However, neuron count in specific brain areas would seem to be more significant, and higher densities would provide more neurons/volume and therefore enable a smaller brain to outperform a larger one.
Using hat size to select job applicants, as the linked article suggests, is probably not a good idea.
Umm... invaded Poland?
I don't know why you're getting modded 'Funny' - I think you're more or less right.
Generally, a densely populated society requires straightjacket laws to make sure everyone more or less gets along. The less behaviours permitted, the fewer things will piss off your many neighbours.
I think the West needs to get a little closer to 'my right to swing my fist ends at your nose' - but keep in mind that if that happened tomorrow, we'd start campaigning for a return to more restrictive laws as the worst 19% of the population started doing incredibly stupid things and pissing off everyone else.
What would be really scary, would be a GPL, cross-platform, voluntarily installed app that pulls a list of currently approved targets from a hatelist and does its part in a DDOS campaign.
As long as it came with fairly small bandwidth and transfer caps, I'd run it.
The legal issues would be somewhat interesting.
I haven't read enough of the writeups, but perhaps the first IP is the 'phone home' IP used by the spyware?
In any case, it'd be nice to DDOS their web server, since we can absolutely, positively be sure the bastards own that. If you can confirm the first IP leads to one of Iframedollars' servers, I say DDOS that too.
Oh, and since going to iframedollars.com or iframedollars.biz takes you to 195.95.218.170 and not the address mentioned in the parent post, you might want to click on the link above a few times as well.
So what if everyone here started clicking here?
Is it morally acceptable to launch a preemptive strike when you absolutely, positively know the bastard is attacking you? Given that I get a timeout when I click on that link, I'd guess many people have already said, "Yes".
That's a little unfair, and shows more than a little lack of understanding of what a good critic does.
A good critic has to understand not just that a movie is good or bad, but WHY. This means they need to understand the roles of director, writer, producer, editor, actor, costumer, etc... and the effect each has on the final product.
Unfortunately, when you understand those things significantly better than the average person, you start to appreciate them for their own sake instead of for their effective contribution to the final product. You can glow about the script, or the pretty costumes, or the great acting, while not remembering just how badly they failed to rescue a dismal movie.
A great critic can balance their appreciation of the details with how the whole production turned out. My favourite has to be Liz Braun of the Toronto Sun, who will quite clearly tell you that a movie sucks on multiple fronts, but you'll enjoy it despite its flaws.
Actually, I'm sticking to my guns and not going. I also won't rent it...
However, I will catch it when it hits broadcast TV.
I don't know what to say except that I have Publisher 2003 on locked down machines, and it won't print without admin access... and I did both KB and Google searches confirming the issue and the lack of a resolution. Since you're not experiencing the problem, perhaps your machines aren't as locked down as the ones I work with - and while it certainly is a %systemroot% issue with MS Org, it could be registry or something else for Publisher... I filed the 'resolution' in my company's support database months ago and haven't kept the details between my ears.
Yes, that's the kind of thing I want to implement in a large organization:
"Here, user who can barely remember their logon ID, (and continually calls the helpdesk for a reset of their forgotten complex password), here's a second logon that will allow you to violate all of the restriction on your computer"
Seriously, how can you be that stupid?