Of course, as any decent hacker knows, "Stop hacking please" is just a l33t-speak code message for, "Keep up the good work"!
Actually, he wrote "We're winning, stop hacking plz", which is much more funny. He also wrote "EPIC WINNING LOL" on Twitter after the first round in the courtroom. And he's the press spokesperson for TPB,:)
Actually, BBB charges 270SEK (around $34) for 100/40mbps. I'm on it right now, and it is fast! Also, telephony included and I get a fixed IP, no download cap and all ports open in all directions.
Here comes a translation. I didn't proofread it, and it's late here, but probably better than google's. (Or so I hope!:) )
Scientists threatened by lawsuit
Two Swedish sciencetists are being threatened with being sued after publishing paper that condemns the use of polygraphs. The manufacturer Nemesysco writes in a letter to the scientists' publisher that they can be sued for libel if they write about the subject again.
- It is very serious that they are trying to silence us this way. I have never heard of anything similar. We have evidently hurt their business, says Franceso Lacerda, professor in phonetics at the Stockholm University.
Together with Anders Eriksson, professor in phonetics at the Gothenburg University, he wrote the very critical article "Charlatanry in forensic speech science" in 2007.
As DN [the newspaper publishing the article, translator's note] previously reported did the magazine that printed the paper withdraw after pressure from the Israeli company Nemesysco. The article disappeared from the magazine's webpage and an excuse was printed in a later issue.
The article was directly aimed at the company's polygraph oatent, sais Francisco Lacerda:
- We showed that the invention cannot function. The article had a journalistic tone and was quite provocatively written. But we wanted to prove that the technology between polygraphs is a scam.
Nemesycos' lawyers wrote that the authors could be sued for libel if they wrote about the subject again, which the publisher agreed to present to the authors: "We will warn the authors that they should not publish the article in another forum and that if they publish a similar article to another magazine they might be sued for libel.", writes the editor in a response.
The letter was also sent to Francisco Lacerda and Anders Eriksson.
- Of course this feels very uncomfortable. You don't know where it will end. At the same time it is my responsibily as a sciencetist to share my knowledge. The company hasn't presented any counterarguments, but simply try to silence us, says Francisco Lacerda.
He hopes the company won't act on their threat, but still says there is a "great risk".
In a letter to DN.se Nemesysco writes that the Swedish authors slander the company. The warnings from the company doesn't stop Francisco Lacerda from planning more papers on the subject. While the sciencetist community agrees about polygraphs being folly, they are still being used by governments, banks and insurance companies in many countries, he says. In the UK they are used to nail benefit scammers.
- The test hits arbitrarily. It can hit vulnerable people, that for instance apply for income support. The companies have made a lot of money on this, and when we say that the emperor is naked we become a threat to them, says Francisco Lacerda.
Right now he works hard on studying Nemesyscos patent documents. He wants to publish the results, either in his own blog or in a scientific magazine. The public should know about the foundations for the polygraph technology, he says.
In the meantime the acting of Nemesyscos has led to a wider attention for the scientific results of the Swedish professors.
-Hardly that was their intention, but since the article was withdrawn I get loads of e-mail and requests for copies of the article. It would only have been scarecly read if the company just had let it pass with silence, says Francisco Lacerda.
And I thought french had too many exceptions *shakes head*
You, my friend, don't seem to have ever come across the German language. In comparison, French is well-ordered and intiutive. (And yes, I'm fluent in German and a good French speaker)
Or shared cubicles. Or cubicles where you can hear EVERYTHING your coworkers are doing. Or the noise of dozens or hundreds of PCs.
I read this article two people were having a conference call with a speakerphone about 8 feet from me. It sucked, and I could barely focus on this article, let alone the technical article that I need to read and understand to do my job.
Distractions are bad.
Is it that I'm 'just' in my early 20s, or am I the only one who uses large, insulating headphones with music whenever I work in an office?
And the speaker phones are not the worst, I find those who use handsfrees even worse, walking all over the place while talking (loudly) to their clients.
JFS is a great filesystem! Just one big drawback: You cant shrink filesystems. This bit me once, hard, since you can grow but not shrink them. Long story short: Trying to replace a disk with a bigger one in a LVM setup almost nuked the data. Of course, this wasn't too precious data and there was no need for backups, but if this had been in a real situation I would have had a problem. Since that day I exclusively use EXT3.
You leave yours running 24/7 wasting electricity when you're not using it?
I, for one, never reboot my Thinkpad since the Linux system keeps working day after day. When I'm not using the computer I either suspend or hibernate, no need for shutdown.
Peter Sunde alias brokep, recently wrote an excellent essay about how TPB has been treated by Swedish media. For those who (like me) can read Swedish, the link is provided here.
I don't have the energy to translate it right now, but if any other Swede would like to, please do. Until that, try the google translation
I wonder why that design hasn't become more popular. I suspect it was made illegal for racing.
Rigid sails are extremely inflexible compared to their soft counterparts. Every wind needs its own sail shape; different wind speeds, directions, wave heights, etc. all require different shapes. There is no rule against rigid sails, it's just too hard to bring dozens of huge metal foils on a boat.
Being a sailor, I get that queston quite often. The explanation is simple and appears to be a bit contradictory; the sails generate lift from the wind created by the boat's own movement. If you are familiar with vector addition, it is trivial to see that the resulting "apparent wind" is the "true" wind (the wind speed and direction as seen by a stationary observer) added to the the speed of the boat, both which are vectors with different angles.
This is also the reason why iceboats (and probably also the "boat" mentioned in the article) almost exclusively sail with the wind from the side, not higher. They are faster than the true wind speed, and the direction of the apparent wind turns against the boat.
The phenomena of the apparent wind has a lots of uses in the world of sailing, and I'm just scraping the surface here.
Be careful with that, though. Your high grade in the current physics course might cover up an issue leading to a very low grade in a following course.
Well, of course a nifty calculator can do more bad than good, but you should know the facts before you go on ranting.
The reason the calculator helped me was that I needed to do many similar-looking calculations that would have needed a lot of effort to perform with any other calc. On the 50g, I could type in the formula in the graphical equation editor and slightly modify the formula for each calculation. I did not use any CAS during the entire exam, and I am more accustomed to pen and paper than to the workhorse of a calculator that the 50G is.
And at $120+, the HP 49g+/50g also seems rather overpriced...
Not at all! I'm a sophomore in applied physics, and when I last year set out to buy the best calculator on the market my first guess was that it would cost me a few hundred dollars, but the 50G landed on 130 euros. For a monster calculator like the 50G I found it very affordable. It also paid off quickly when it helped me get the highest grade in the physics course that followed the purchase.
Slashdot Mirror
Never log in as root! Sudo exists for a reason, kids.
Yo've never heard of "sudo -i"?
Of course, as any decent hacker knows, "Stop hacking please" is just a l33t-speak code message for, "Keep up the good work"!
Actually, he wrote "We're winning, stop hacking plz", which is much more funny. He also wrote "EPIC WINNING LOL" on Twitter after the first round in the courtroom. And he's the press spokesperson for TPB, :)
Old news.
Actually, BBB charges 270SEK (around $34) for 100/40mbps. I'm on it right now, and it is fast! Also, telephony included and I get a fixed IP, no download cap and all ports open in all directions.
Here comes a translation. I didn't proofread it, and it's late here, but probably better than google's. (Or so I hope! :) )
Scientists threatened by lawsuit
Two Swedish sciencetists are being threatened with being sued after publishing paper that condemns the use of polygraphs. The manufacturer Nemesysco writes in a letter to the scientists' publisher that they can be sued for libel if they write about the subject again.
- It is very serious that they are trying to silence us this way. I have never heard of anything similar. We have evidently hurt their business, says Franceso Lacerda, professor in phonetics at the Stockholm University.
Together with Anders Eriksson, professor in phonetics at the Gothenburg University, he wrote the very critical article "Charlatanry in forensic speech science" in 2007.
As DN [the newspaper publishing the article, translator's note] previously reported did the magazine that printed the paper withdraw after pressure from the Israeli company Nemesysco. The article disappeared from the magazine's webpage and an excuse was printed in a later issue.
The article was directly aimed at the company's polygraph oatent, sais Francisco Lacerda: - We showed that the invention cannot function. The article had a journalistic tone and was quite provocatively written. But we wanted to prove that the technology between polygraphs is a scam.
Nemesycos' lawyers wrote that the authors could be sued for libel if they wrote about the subject again, which the publisher agreed to present to the authors: "We will warn the authors that they should not publish the article in another forum and that if they publish a similar article to another magazine they might be sued for libel.", writes the editor in a response. The letter was also sent to Francisco Lacerda and Anders Eriksson.
- Of course this feels very uncomfortable. You don't know where it will end. At the same time it is my responsibily as a sciencetist to share my knowledge. The company hasn't presented any counterarguments, but simply try to silence us, says Francisco Lacerda.
He hopes the company won't act on their threat, but still says there is a "great risk".
In a letter to DN.se Nemesysco writes that the Swedish authors slander the company. The warnings from the company doesn't stop Francisco Lacerda from planning more papers on the subject. While the sciencetist community agrees about polygraphs being folly, they are still being used by governments, banks and insurance companies in many countries, he says. In the UK they are used to nail benefit scammers.
- The test hits arbitrarily. It can hit vulnerable people, that for instance apply for income support. The companies have made a lot of money on this, and when we say that the emperor is naked we become a threat to them, says Francisco Lacerda.
Right now he works hard on studying Nemesyscos patent documents. He wants to publish the results, either in his own blog or in a scientific magazine. The public should know about the foundations for the polygraph technology, he says.
In the meantime the acting of Nemesyscos has led to a wider attention for the scientific results of the Swedish professors. -Hardly that was their intention, but since the article was withdrawn I get loads of e-mail and requests for copies of the article. It would only have been scarecly read if the company just had let it pass with silence, says Francisco Lacerda.
And I thought french had too many exceptions *shakes head*
You, my friend, don't seem to have ever come across the German language. In comparison, French is well-ordered and intiutive. (And yes, I'm fluent in German and a good French speaker)
225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1186637
Should I be worried? (Disk is ~2.5 years old)
Real men don't use a GUI, you n00b.
You, my friend, have never heard of gpm
N'est-ce pas?
There, fixed it for you
The teacher got upset when the students came to me [...] and asked for Linux, so I handed them Ubuntu's live cd's...
OMG! It's YOU!
I read this article two people were having a conference call with a speakerphone about 8 feet from me. It sucked, and I could barely focus on this article, let alone the technical article that I need to read and understand to do my job.
Distractions are bad.
Is it that I'm 'just' in my early 20s, or am I the only one who uses large, insulating headphones with music whenever I work in an office?
And the speaker phones are not the worst, I find those who use handsfrees even worse, walking all over the place while talking (loudly) to their clients.
My 0.02 (insert currency here)
"There are two types of people in the world. Those who take backups, and those who have never had a disk crash/fs corruption/IDE driver bug/whatever"
That's why he whistles on it, you insensitve clod!
That should probably read âoeyou insensitive coldâ.
That should probably read "you insensitive cold!"
JFS is a great filesystem! Just one big drawback: You cant shrink filesystems. This bit me once, hard, since you can grow but not shrink them. Long story short: Trying to replace a disk with a bigger one in a LVM setup almost nuked the data.
Of course, this wasn't too precious data and there was no need for backups, but if this had been in a real situation I would have had a problem.
Since that day I exclusively use EXT3.
You leave yours running 24/7 wasting electricity when you're not using it?
I, for one, never reboot my Thinkpad since the Linux system keeps working day after day. When I'm not using the computer I either suspend or hibernate, no need for shutdown.
Hm... the /. front page as well as this page's title still shows "&ndash"
Uh?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080201-pirate-bay-big-revenue-claims-fabricated-by-prosecutors.html/
Peter Sunde alias brokep, recently wrote an excellent essay about how TPB has been treated by Swedish media. For those who (like me) can read Swedish, the link is provided here.
I don't have the energy to translate it right now, but if any other Swede would like to, please do. Until that, try the google translation
I wonder why that design hasn't become more popular. I suspect it was made illegal for racing.
Rigid sails are extremely inflexible compared to their soft counterparts. Every wind needs its own sail shape; different wind speeds, directions, wave heights, etc. all require different shapes. There is no rule against rigid sails, it's just too hard to bring dozens of huge metal foils on a boat.
Being a sailor, I get that queston quite often. The explanation is simple and appears to be a bit contradictory; the sails generate lift from the wind created by the boat's own movement. If you are familiar with vector addition, it is trivial to see that the resulting "apparent wind" is the "true" wind (the wind speed and direction as seen by a stationary observer) added to the the speed of the boat, both which are vectors with different angles.
This is also the reason why iceboats (and probably also the "boat" mentioned in the article) almost exclusively sail with the wind from the side, not higher. They are faster than the true wind speed, and the direction of the apparent wind turns against the boat.
The phenomena of the apparent wind has a lots of uses in the world of sailing, and I'm just scraping the surface here.
Just turned 20. Yes, I'm probably quite off-scale when it comes to the UID/Age ratio. I believe I signed up around 2001/2002. Do the math.
Be careful with that, though. Your high grade in the current physics course might cover up an issue leading to a very low grade in a following course.
Well, of course a nifty calculator can do more bad than good, but you should know the facts before you go on ranting.
The reason the calculator helped me was that I needed to do many similar-looking calculations that would have needed a lot of effort to perform with any other calc. On the 50g, I could type in the formula in the graphical equation editor and slightly modify the formula for each calculation. I did not use any CAS during the entire exam, and I am more accustomed to pen and paper than to the workhorse of a calculator that the 50G is.
And at $120+, the HP 49g+/50g also seems rather overpriced...
Not at all! I'm a sophomore in applied physics, and when I last year set out to buy the best calculator on the market my first guess was that it would cost me a few hundred dollars, but the 50G landed on 130 euros. For a monster calculator like the 50G I found it very affordable. It also paid off quickly when it helped me get the highest grade in the physics course that followed the purchase.
How would this baby look when placed side-by-side with the delicious X300?
Apparently the materials used to make the Air are relatively environmentally friendly
Duh. It's made of air