It seems to me that many decision makers are nearly completely illiterate in science.
You're just figuring this out? I realized decades ago that the type of education needed to become a successful politician is completely different from that needed to understand science and that almost anybody planning to go into politics would regard studying science to be a complete waste of their time.
What's even more infantile is blaming Microsoft just because whoever did it works there. I'm no Microsoft fanboi, but I can't see any reason why the company as a whole should be held responsible for a childish prank by an employee. Are there really people out there so phulish that they think that whoever did this was told to by a manger or something?
I personally know very few people who use Ubuntu on the desktop. Of those people, none used it at all before 12.04, and none have switched away from Unity.
My sister started using Ubuntu (with Gnome 2) when it was 8.x. When Ubuntu switched everybody to Unity she deicded to give it a try before considering migrating to a different DE. She's not particularly fond of it, but she's put enough time into learning how to use it that she's not interested in switching. After all, the only thing she really wants is to be able to get work done, so as long as the DE doesn't actively get in her way it's OK with her. (I've used it a few times on her box while giving her tech support. Personally, I hate it.)
BTW, both of us are senior citizens; she uses Ubuntu, while I prefer Fedora with Xfce. Neither of us is your steriotypical twenty-something Linux geek. I mention this only because we're probably not in Unity's target demographic, and some of you might find that significant.
True. Consider it mostly a brain phart. However, it's also harder to target a specific machine on a LAN if none of them have routable IP addresses, which was probably what I was thinking of. I did tech support for an ISP for a number of years and had to explain this sort of thing to callers, but it's been almost ten years since that stopped and my memory wasn't quite as good as I thought it was.
That's not unique to IPv6. Every Internet protocol, every web or database server is subject to that, along with many, many other programs. Changing to IPv6 doesn't increase the issue in the slightest, so it's not relevant.
Of course not. However, if properly implemented, NAT can be one of the outlying parts of your firewall. If your router is set to drop all incoming connection requests, port scanners will never find your machines, making them that much safer. Yes, I understand that there are other routes in that this can't protect you from. That's why I called it part of a firewall.
But that does not mean the combination of off-the-shelf components and Linux is the best there is
Especially if you pick the cheapest components you can find. And, of course, you need to customize your server installations properly. Installing your favorite distro from a LiveCD (designed for a worksttion not a server) and then tacking on whatever programs you really need is probably not the best way to go. Still, if you pick your components with care and optimize your installation for what you need, you should be able to end up with something that's far, far better for you than anything bought off-the-shelf.
I was thinking the same thng. Probably, what you do with gay hackers is set them up with a boyfriend who isn't also a hacker. (Putting two gay hackers together is probably just asking for worse trouble than you'd get if they were seperate.)
Judges know this, but are forced to have a conviction ratio or else they will be replaced come election season by a judge who will convict.
Fail. Epic fail. In the USA, judges don't convict people, juries do. It's prosecutors that have to worry about a conviction rate, not judges. Step away from the keyboard, go back to school and stop cutting your Social Studies classes to post ignorant slop on Slashdot.
Type II diabetes current cause (if we ignore the obvious bad diet and lack of exercise) is an autoimmune response taking out insulin receptors in tissues.
I know that Type I is an autoimmune disorder, but AFAICT, Type II isn't. Do you have any sources for your claim, or are you just making it up as you go along?
The only reason I know this is d/t Type 1 myself. All hospital testing I've seen and been part of is blood, no urine.
I'm Type II, diagnosed just over ten years ago when my doctor was trying to find out what caused my first kidney stone. (never did) I'm not sure, but I'd guess that the original diagnoses was from a urinalysis, but I do know that I keep track of my blood sugar with twice-daily blood tests and the occasional A1c, also a blood test. I have several friends who have been (at least) suspected of developing Type II, and in all cases, they were given blood tests.
Reading TFA (Yeah, yeah, I know. However, I'm Type II, and this might be important to me.) I see that it says, "Diabetes is caused by a buildup of glucose in the blood, which can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and blindness." Wrong! the buildup of glucose in the blood is a symptom of diabetes, not the cause. I gather that this is just a blog post, not the original report so this might just be the blogger not knowing as much about the subject as he thinks he does. Still, it does make you wonder how many other errors are in TFA for the same reason.
I may be wrong, but that doesn't sound like it's a good idea. The whole thing that makes tablets so great is their portability. Making a tablet with a keyboard is going to cut into that by making the whole thing bigger, bulkier and heavier, even if the keyboard's too small for the average adult to do any touch typing. Plus, if it's hinged, so that the touchscreen can sit up at an easy to read angle, you end up with a netbook with a touchscreen. And, if the keyboard's separate, it's even less convenient. I can't imagine something like that being any more than a nitche item, or a toy for geeks with more money than sense, but of course, I might easily be wrong.
People bring up crap from history as if it's supposed to make us feel better about today's crap.
No, that's not why I brought that up. I did so to remind people that this type of activity isn't anything new and that the federal government has a long history of doing this type of thing. I did so because few people bother to study history any more and most of the younger generation has exactly the same attitude you show: "Who cares what happened back then? I wasn't born, so it doesn't matter." And, I assure you, what happened back then had an immediate impact on a large percentage of the inhabitants of the USA, and not only the Indians who were forcibly removed from their tribal lands.
As of this moment, there are 6143, including mine. I've also sent the link to a friend of mine who (I think) has a login there. He's pretty far out to the left and tends to vote for the Democrats without even thinking about it, but he'll probably sign this one. As I pointed out to him, this is exactly the type of transparancy Obama was talking about four years ago.
To be accurate, both Pluto and Charon orbit their common center of gravity. Just like the Earth and Moon orbit their common center of gravity, or like any two other orbiting objects.
I would have said that the last one was the only one used correctly. However, after reading your post, I can see that either one of them could be right, but not (I think) both together.
One of the easiest ways to infect computers is to put up a website with a phony virus scan and tell everybody that their system's infected, then offer to "clean" it for them. Most of us are trying to get our friends and family to understand that when a random website tells them that their computer's infected, it's a scam. What you're suggesting would just make our lives that much harder. Having all of their DNS fail, however, is going to make these people understand that there's something wrong, even if they don't have a clue about what's happening.
What's so hard about that? Even a little child can walk in the water. Now walking on the water, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Of course, back when I was working in IT, I preferred to part the waters and cross on dry land. Maybe that's why it kept getting harder and harder to get new jobs as time went on. Interesting.
Myself, I'm pushing 50 and want to know all the details and pick up the newest stuff...
Back when I was your age, I got a job doing tech support for a small ISP. As time went on, I gradually turned myself into a Windows Internals guru because it helped me fix whatever was ailing our customer's computers without their having to re-install Windows. At the same time, most of our techs, who were at most half my age, were content to do nothing more than follow whatever cheat-sheets they were given and hope that they'd picked the right one. As you say, it's not age, it's attitude. I wanted to do the best job I could and learned whatever was needed; most of the other techs were just there to put in their time and collect their paychecks.
As long as other operating systems are closed source or require money to run, Linux will be more than abundant.
I doubt that most kids care much about open source/closed source unless they're into programming. Free, OTOH, is a major advantage because most of them don't have much (if any) money, and once they go the Linux route, they don't have to keep asking their parents to pay for upgrades. I can't speak for anybody else, but personally, when I'm explaining why I use Linux the word "free" gets used an awful lot.
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It seems to me that many decision makers are nearly completely illiterate in science.
You're just figuring this out? I realized decades ago that the type of education needed to become a successful politician is completely different from that needed to understand science and that almost anybody planning to go into politics would regard studying science to be a complete waste of their time.
What's even more infantile is blaming Microsoft just because whoever did it works there. I'm no Microsoft fanboi, but I can't see any reason why the company as a whole should be held responsible for a childish prank by an employee. Are there really people out there so phulish that they think that whoever did this was told to by a manger or something?
I personally know very few people who use Ubuntu on the desktop. Of those people, none used it at all before 12.04, and none have switched away from Unity.
My sister started using Ubuntu (with Gnome 2) when it was 8.x. When Ubuntu switched everybody to Unity she deicded to give it a try before considering migrating to a different DE. She's not particularly fond of it, but she's put enough time into learning how to use it that she's not interested in switching. After all, the only thing she really wants is to be able to get work done, so as long as the DE doesn't actively get in her way it's OK with her. (I've used it a few times on her box while giving her tech support. Personally, I hate it.)
BTW, both of us are senior citizens; she uses Ubuntu, while I prefer Fedora with Xfce. Neither of us is your steriotypical twenty-something Linux geek. I mention this only because we're probably not in Unity's target demographic, and some of you might find that significant.
True. Consider it mostly a brain phart. However, it's also harder to target a specific machine on a LAN if none of them have routable IP addresses, which was probably what I was thinking of. I did tech support for an ISP for a number of years and had to explain this sort of thing to callers, but it's been almost ten years since that stopped and my memory wasn't quite as good as I thought it was.
4: Unknown 0-day security holes.
That's not unique to IPv6. Every Internet protocol, every web or database server is subject to that, along with many, many other programs. Changing to IPv6 doesn't increase the issue in the slightest, so it's not relevant.
NAT is not a firewall.
Of course not. However, if properly implemented, NAT can be one of the outlying parts of your firewall. If your router is set to drop all incoming connection requests, port scanners will never find your machines, making them that much safer. Yes, I understand that there are other routes in that this can't protect you from. That's why I called it part of a firewall.
But that does not mean the combination of off-the-shelf components and Linux is the best there is
Especially if you pick the cheapest components you can find. And, of course, you need to customize your server installations properly. Installing your favorite distro from a LiveCD (designed for a worksttion not a server) and then tacking on whatever programs you really need is probably not the best way to go. Still, if you pick your components with care and optimize your installation for what you need, you should be able to end up with something that's far, far better for you than anything bought off-the-shelf.
I was thinking the same thng. Probably, what you do with gay hackers is set them up with a boyfriend who isn't also a hacker. (Putting two gay hackers together is probably just asking for worse trouble than you'd get if they were seperate.)
Judges know this, but are forced to have a conviction ratio or else they will be replaced come election season by a judge who will convict.
Fail. Epic fail. In the USA, judges don't convict people, juries do. It's prosecutors that have to worry about a conviction rate, not judges. Step away from the keyboard, go back to school and stop cutting your Social Studies classes to post ignorant slop on Slashdot.
Type II diabetes current cause (if we ignore the obvious bad diet and lack of exercise) is an autoimmune response taking out insulin receptors in tissues.
I know that Type I is an autoimmune disorder, but AFAICT, Type II isn't. Do you have any sources for your claim, or are you just making it up as you go along?
The only reason I know this is d/t Type 1 myself. All hospital testing I've seen and been part of is blood, no urine.
I'm Type II, diagnosed just over ten years ago when my doctor was trying to find out what caused my first kidney stone. (never did) I'm not sure, but I'd guess that the original diagnoses was from a urinalysis, but I do know that I keep track of my blood sugar with twice-daily blood tests and the occasional A1c, also a blood test. I have several friends who have been (at least) suspected of developing Type II, and in all cases, they were given blood tests.
Reading TFA (Yeah, yeah, I know. However, I'm Type II, and this might be important to me.) I see that it says, "Diabetes is caused by a buildup of glucose in the blood, which can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and blindness." Wrong! the buildup of glucose in the blood is a symptom of diabetes, not the cause. I gather that this is just a blog post, not the original report so this might just be the blogger not knowing as much about the subject as he thinks he does. Still, it does make you wonder how many other errors are in TFA for the same reason.
I may be wrong, but that doesn't sound like it's a good idea. The whole thing that makes tablets so great is their portability. Making a tablet with a keyboard is going to cut into that by making the whole thing bigger, bulkier and heavier, even if the keyboard's too small for the average adult to do any touch typing. Plus, if it's hinged, so that the touchscreen can sit up at an easy to read angle, you end up with a netbook with a touchscreen. And, if the keyboard's separate, it's even less convenient. I can't imagine something like that being any more than a nitche item, or a toy for geeks with more money than sense, but of course, I might easily be wrong.
People bring up crap from history as if it's supposed to make us feel better about today's crap.
No, that's not why I brought that up. I did so to remind people that this type of activity isn't anything new and that the federal government has a long history of doing this type of thing. I did so because few people bother to study history any more and most of the younger generation has exactly the same attitude you show: "Who cares what happened back then? I wasn't born, so it doesn't matter." And, I assure you, what happened back then had an immediate impact on a large percentage of the inhabitants of the USA, and not only the Indians who were forcibly removed from their tribal lands.
As of this moment, there are 6143, including mine. I've also sent the link to a friend of mine who (I think) has a login there. He's pretty far out to the left and tends to vote for the Democrats without even thinking about it, but he'll probably sign this one. As I pointed out to him, this is exactly the type of transparancy Obama was talking about four years ago.
In other words, our fascist government just does whatever the hell it wants and no one can do a damn thing about it.
You don't think this is anything new, do you? The federal government has been ignoring court decisions that it doesn't like since at least 1832.
To be accurate, both Pluto and Charon orbit their common center of gravity. Just like the Earth and Moon orbit their common center of gravity, or like any two other orbiting objects.
Sorry, but you really should research before you spout off.
You must be really new here. Nobody on Slashdot ever bothers to do their research before spouting off.
I would have said that the last one was the only one used correctly. However, after reading your post, I can see that either one of them could be right, but not (I think) both together.
One of the easiest ways to infect computers is to put up a website with a phony virus scan and tell everybody that their system's infected, then offer to "clean" it for them. Most of us are trying to get our friends and family to understand that when a random website tells them that their computer's infected, it's a scam. What you're suggesting would just make our lives that much harder. Having all of their DNS fail, however, is going to make these people understand that there's something wrong, even if they don't have a clue about what's happening.
...you have to walk in water...
What's so hard about that? Even a little child can walk in the water. Now walking on the water, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Of course, back when I was working in IT, I preferred to part the waters and cross on dry land. Maybe that's why it kept getting harder and harder to get new jobs as time went on. Interesting.
Myself, I'm pushing 50 and want to know all the details and pick up the newest stuff...
Back when I was your age, I got a job doing tech support for a small ISP. As time went on, I gradually turned myself into a Windows Internals guru because it helped me fix whatever was ailing our customer's computers without their having to re-install Windows. At the same time, most of our techs, who were at most half my age, were content to do nothing more than follow whatever cheat-sheets they were given and hope that they'd picked the right one. As you say, it's not age, it's attitude. I wanted to do the best job I could and learned whatever was needed; most of the other techs were just there to put in their time and collect their paychecks.
As long as other operating systems are closed source or require money to run, Linux will be more than abundant.
I doubt that most kids care much about open source/closed source unless they're into programming. Free, OTOH, is a major advantage because most of them don't have much (if any) money, and once they go the Linux route, they don't have to keep asking their parents to pay for upgrades. I can't speak for anybody else, but personally, when I'm explaining why I use Linux the word "free" gets used an awful lot.
And while you're at it, you can send the GPS coordinates of his home to OADS. It's the only way to be sure.
No. Except for watching my carbs, I'm not on any type of diet, fad or otherwise.