Increasingly I'm thinking that the only option to stay truly safe on the net or to keep from getting frustrated from the never-ending battle of "white hats vs. black hats" so-to-speak, is not to play at all.
I mean, if it's spreading like wildfire that means people are still just as uneducated OR want to harm the spammers and do something stupid because of it. No matter how much I try to educate people in our department about opening attachements before scanning them, or to ask themselves "do I know the guy that sent me this?" or to give their friend a call to double check on that unsolicited attachment's legitimacy, people still open the d*mn things anyway and *POOF* get nailed by something nasty.
So why should I or they even play the game of using the 'net for anything - if we have a choice in the matter?
If you can't ever win, and by win I mean be productive good workers by using the computer WITHOUT getting a virus that screws you over, DON'T PLAY THE GAME! Disconnect and drop internet cord altogether.
Personally, I'm not there yet but wonder more and more often when I see stuff like this whether it's coming to that
Scientific debate is good but there are two possible reasons why something is in very high agreement:
They are paid to give this opinion - as you suggest
They are right
The first option is unlikely, and in this instance, wrong! There are several noted studies that "show" that global warming is not really all that bad, is normal, or that there just isn't enough evidence to support it at this time. Unfortunately for them, these guys are the ones who really are paid for their opinions by oil companies and their subsidiaries. Google this to find what I'm talking about or attend a presidential press conference.
However, funding for the ones mentioned in this study does come from many different sources for the people that are finding there is evidence that we are now in global warming. Again, Google if you want to find the different organizations involved.
So, when you have an agreement on the meaning of given evidence from many sources that use good, sound, scientific reasoning to come to their results, you have what must be viewed as a high likelihood that the conclusions reached are correct.
In other words, since it isn't essentially one source/industry paying for the results; since the opposing viewpoint is paid essentially by one industry and frequently is viewed by suspicion by the academic review process, the only option left with any high degree of certainty is...
2 - They're coming to the same conclusion because that conclusion is correct!
It helps that good science is impossed but I'm sure someone will point out how nearly unanimous scientific agreement has been wrong in the past. So I'll just say that it is highly likely but not certain that we are experiencing global warming / greenhouse effect right now.
If you don't feel that's the case, go out and smoke a few gross of cigarettes for many years and find out if, indeed, cigarettes don't cause health problems such as cancer. Same type of argument exists there too.
Though the laptops have been good in rep for a while, this now means IBM is really gone from the public PC market.
After the trash - er, - TRS-80s, IBM did it's thing in the PC market and looked unbeatable, although a little tramp didn't help much. Were they the first with beige cases? If they were they should have pattented it! (just kidding)
But they essentially left the desktop business decades ago as far as I'm concerned. But still they had a laptop business and that felt good for some reason. Nostalgia, I guess. But the laptops were good.
Now they're gone, and despite all the fun and pain I've had with their pcs, or maybe because of it, I will miss them.
I fully agree here. AdBlock is THE extension I use to stop advertising. Though it needs some work, it is still an excellent tool to drop images from www.ads.com/* or the equivalent.
You also get to drop all the Flash junk people throw at you these days (though it is getting less).
I appreciate the less cluttered view of the page this gives me.
This is the first add-on I put on my firefox installations and suggest it to everyone first thing too.
Kill the ads!
More free beer! Wow! I think I've detected the secret underlying thread in/. !!
Seriously though, my uncle's family from Greenville, SC (read Bob Jones University - no, don't mean to offend anyone's religious beliefs here but I have a beer point to make;-) have asked me for computer help on occassions but for obvious reasons, that never got ME any free beer.
Is it a coincidence or a conspiracy that your appearance with other "Trek" actors on "Weakest Link" was on last night?
And more importantly, did your host/moderator ever "get it" or smile at you after that?
Did that thoroughly screw up your chances with any women for the next month?
8^>
Who would object?
The far right neo-conservatives. The far right "Christian" conservatives. Large corporations.
Shrub, er, I mean, Bush, who doesn't believe in real science but rather corporate profit.
The list goes on and on...
In case anyone has missed it, this is just part of the general attack on personal rights by radical conservatives. Expect more and worse for the next four year.
If you voted for Bush, you have only yourself to blame when life goes down the tube.
I didn't know EA acted as such poor managers. I remember when Electronic Arts was a small company struggling with their first games. I have a picture of the company from the back of one of their first games. It's like 5-8 people, women and men, who look happy at a job well done. In fact, that game was fun, sort of a new take on chess and a shoot'em up thing.
Though I am surprised by EA, I can't say I'm surprised this is happening. With the torture-supporting Shrub administration's policies towards big business and against workers and the common man AND, in fact, with the horrible growth in anti-union sentiment from Nixon on, this sort of thing is more and more common.
This is exactly why everyone needs strong unions. Yes, anything that gets strong and stays that way for too long without regulation becomes corrupt - and this is what happened to many labor unions - this is what has happened to large companies. In fact, large companies become corrupt with little regulatory oversight. Because their moral is only one: make money. Real moral get over-run if you only follow the make money moral. You need a strong union to balance a large corporation. They prevent each other from becoming too powerful in the absence of the other. Yin and Yang.
So, if you husband wants out of this he must get together with his friends and foment rebellion. I suggest he doe this in secret lest he get fired. If he's already in one, it isn't working so he needs to start another. He needs to get up on his work bench and like Sally Fields in the movies, figuratively hold up a sign saying...
UNION UNION UNION UNION!!!
No, I don't think you've done your research. And I am educated enough to tell you 4PPM is big in this instance.
See, it's not that it's a small amount in our eyes. What is small differs greatly from one area of science to another. Some chemicals, if put into your system will be enough to give you cancer. Some, breathed in over the course of a few months, say by being in the atmostphere you have in your office, will make you sick and if you keep going back to the office will kill your at worst or cause permanent damage to your system.
Now, given that fact, is 4PPM small and insignificant. No. It's large and it's bad in those instances. So what makes you so sure 4PPM is insignificant here?
The people that are saying that this is nothing to worry about or okay or even that we are in a minor perturbation (sp?) not a true warming event are 1% of the scientists out there. Plus, I have not heard from one who isn't a paid spokesman for the oil industry in one way or another. And given big industries vested self interest in making us think everything is okay - these "scientists" are not to be trusted. You need independant, real scientists, and you won't find them saying we don't have a problem.
I loved the FF series of the 60s. It's funny how, in my mind, the animation is smooth and free flowing while other favorites like Astroboy (now THAT's and oldy) and Speed Racer remain jerky. Regardless of how the animation actually was my favorite part was always the wise-cracks delivered by "ol' blue eyes."
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Increasingly I'm thinking that the only option to stay truly safe on the net or to keep from getting frustrated from the never-ending battle of "white hats vs. black hats" so-to-speak, is not to play at all.
I mean, if it's spreading like wildfire that means people are still just as uneducated OR want to harm the spammers and do something stupid because of it. No matter how much I try to educate people in our department about opening attachements before scanning them, or to ask themselves "do I know the guy that sent me this?" or to give their friend a call to double check on that unsolicited attachment's legitimacy, people still open the d*mn things anyway and *POOF* get nailed by something nasty.
So why should I or they even play the game of using the 'net for anything - if we have a choice in the matter?
If you can't ever win, and by win I mean be productive good workers by using the computer WITHOUT getting a virus that screws you over, DON'T PLAY THE GAME! Disconnect and drop internet cord altogether.
Personally, I'm not there yet but wonder more and more often when I see stuff like this whether it's coming to that
What do other /.-ers think about that?
Scientific debate is good but there are two possible reasons why something is in very high agreement:
The first option is unlikely, and in this instance, wrong! There are several noted studies that "show" that global warming is not really all that bad, is normal, or that there just isn't enough evidence to support it at this time. Unfortunately for them, these guys are the ones who really are paid for their opinions by oil companies and their subsidiaries. Google this to find what I'm talking about or attend a presidential press conference.
However, funding for the ones mentioned in this study does come from many different sources for the people that are finding there is evidence that we are now in global warming. Again, Google if you want to find the different organizations involved.
So, when you have an agreement on the meaning of given evidence from many sources that use good, sound, scientific reasoning to come to their results, you have what must be viewed as a high likelihood that the conclusions reached are correct.
In other words, since it isn't essentially one source/industry paying for the results; since the opposing viewpoint is paid essentially by one industry and frequently is viewed by suspicion by the academic review process, the only option left with any high degree of certainty is...
2 - They're coming to the same conclusion because that conclusion is correct!
It helps that good science is impossed but I'm sure someone will point out how nearly unanimous scientific agreement has been wrong in the past. So I'll just say that it is highly likely but not certain that we are experiencing global warming / greenhouse effect right now.
If you don't feel that's the case, go out and smoke a few gross of cigarettes for many years and find out if, indeed, cigarettes don't cause health problems such as cancer. Same type of argument exists there too.
Though the laptops have been good in rep for a while, this now means IBM is really gone from the public PC market.
After the trash - er, - TRS-80s, IBM did it's thing in the PC market and looked unbeatable, although a little tramp didn't help much. Were they the first with beige cases? If they were they should have pattented it! (just kidding)
But they essentially left the desktop business decades ago as far as I'm concerned. But still they had a laptop business and that felt good for some reason. Nostalgia, I guess. But the laptops were good.
Now they're gone, and despite all the fun and pain I've had with their pcs, or maybe because of it, I will miss them.
No, but you can prove that zero and one exist!
So, now China will have the Fox News of search engines.
Both extremes meet in the middle and do the same..
I fully agree here. AdBlock is THE extension I use to stop advertising. Though it needs some work, it is still an excellent tool to drop images from www.ads.com/* or the equivalent. You also get to drop all the Flash junk people throw at you these days (though it is getting less). I appreciate the less cluttered view of the page this gives me. This is the first add-on I put on my firefox installations and suggest it to everyone first thing too. Kill the ads!
We "still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
And just to mix your metaphores...
"Holy Modern Stone-Age Family, Batman!"
Yep.
The real /. surfaces again.
Who's your daddy! Uh, mommy. Uh, ugh!
Freud?
More free beer! Wow! I think I've detected the secret underlying thread in /. !!
Seriously though, my uncle's family from Greenville, SC (read Bob Jones University - no, don't mean to offend anyone's religious beliefs here but I have a beer point to make ;-) have asked me for computer help on occassions but for obvious reasons, that never got ME any free beer.
I'm going off to cry in my beer now...
Mmmm, salty!
Well, I do! It reminds me of my first days in college before my memory was fr...
Uh... Uh... uh???
What was I talking about?
Must be all the free beer from NOAA.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131430&cid =10971934
Now THAT'S funny. Regardless of any political comments I feel like posting these days about the neo... uh, I promised I wouldn't go there.
Where's that free Guiness Draught (in a can)? Love those little sherical gassy pods, man!
Is it a coincidence or a conspiracy that your appearance with other "Trek" actors on "Weakest Link" was on last night? And more importantly, did your host/moderator ever "get it" or smile at you after that? Did that thoroughly screw up your chances with any women for the next month? 8^>
Who would object? The far right neo-conservatives. The far right "Christian" conservatives. Large corporations. Shrub, er, I mean, Bush, who doesn't believe in real science but rather corporate profit. The list goes on and on...
In case anyone has missed it, this is just part of the general attack on personal rights by radical conservatives. Expect more and worse for the next four year. If you voted for Bush, you have only yourself to blame when life goes down the tube.
I didn't know EA acted as such poor managers. I remember when Electronic Arts was a small company struggling with their first games. I have a picture of the company from the back of one of their first games. It's like 5-8 people, women and men, who look happy at a job well done. In fact, that game was fun, sort of a new take on chess and a shoot'em up thing. Though I am surprised by EA, I can't say I'm surprised this is happening. With the torture-supporting Shrub administration's policies towards big business and against workers and the common man AND, in fact, with the horrible growth in anti-union sentiment from Nixon on, this sort of thing is more and more common. This is exactly why everyone needs strong unions. Yes, anything that gets strong and stays that way for too long without regulation becomes corrupt - and this is what happened to many labor unions - this is what has happened to large companies. In fact, large companies become corrupt with little regulatory oversight. Because their moral is only one: make money. Real moral get over-run if you only follow the make money moral. You need a strong union to balance a large corporation. They prevent each other from becoming too powerful in the absence of the other. Yin and Yang. So, if you husband wants out of this he must get together with his friends and foment rebellion. I suggest he doe this in secret lest he get fired. If he's already in one, it isn't working so he needs to start another. He needs to get up on his work bench and like Sally Fields in the movies, figuratively hold up a sign saying... UNION UNION UNION UNION!!!
No, I don't think you've done your research. And I am educated enough to tell you 4PPM is big in this instance.
See, it's not that it's a small amount in our eyes. What is small differs greatly from one area of science to another. Some chemicals, if put into your system will be enough to give you cancer. Some, breathed in over the course of a few months, say by being in the atmostphere you have in your office, will make you sick and if you keep going back to the office will kill your at worst or cause permanent damage to your system.
Now, given that fact, is 4PPM small and insignificant. No. It's large and it's bad in those instances. So what makes you so sure 4PPM is insignificant here?
The people that are saying that this is nothing to worry about or okay or even that we are in a minor perturbation (sp?) not a true warming event are 1% of the scientists out there. Plus, I have not heard from one who isn't a paid spokesman for the oil industry in one way or another. And given big industries vested self interest in making us think everything is okay - these "scientists" are not to be trusted. You need independant, real scientists, and you won't find them saying we don't have a problem.
I loved the FF series of the 60s. It's funny how, in my mind, the animation is smooth and free flowing while other favorites like Astroboy (now THAT's and oldy) and Speed Racer remain jerky. Regardless of how the animation actually was my favorite part was always the wise-cracks delivered by "ol' blue eyes."