Agreed. Hopefully some of their IT people will notice this huge banner (This Slashdot article) and do something about it. It is kind of difficult understanding why reputable development firms allowed for the vulnerabilities to exist in the first place unless they just didn't know of the weaknesses.
Better to learn now than in a few months or even a year however...
Let me preface this by saying I ran almost every testing final release of Fedora. A couple of days ago I was trying to get Slash running on Core 6. A friend of mine said I should really try Ubuntu. We were on IRC, so i couldn't actually hear the tone of his voice, but it seemed to me be a pretty strong emphasis. Like "Try Ubuntu you idiot.":).. Well I did. I went and grabbed the 6.0.6 Dapper Server release. The install was painless. Once I was running there were several things I needed in order build stuff. Namely, build-essential, and things like that. Also Cpan was lets just say, interesting to get right, but it always is.
So anyway. It took 3 minutes to get an apache 3.x series server with mod_perl up. Mysql was a breeze. Once the server was up, I decided to build scoop, just to get better. This is the first thing I had ever tried to build as far as a fairly powerful weblog product. The result? It works! If you doubt me, just click on my url. Now, i was just building scoop to learn. Not really gonna use it I don't think.
The point is, Ubuntu rocks, and the longer term support from 6.0.6 is what I need if im gonna be doing some development. And the kernel aint half bad either.:P
So i suppose I should be a little angry for my article submissions rejection this morning on this very subject. Maybe Roland is paying Slashdot to post his submissions, whatever the reasons, unlike Rolands little gem here mine did in fact note that the laser creates globules, pits and voids on the nanoscale level that dramatically increase the surface area of the treated metal.
This technology has huge ramifications for chemical reactions that need a catalyst, and also in the area of fuel cells.
Unlike Roland, I actually try to link to the article and not some empty blog. Roland, your technology trends suck. Link to the originating article you fool!
Physorg
Also, does Roland even have a degree in science? Because he sure doesn't ever seem to have a grasp of the important things in the articles he submits.
Well this is timely for me. Too bad I didn't get to this article when it first posted. But, I recently investigated the Chicago Carbon Exchange for a number of reasons. First of all as a landowner with close to 500 acres of planted pines in plantation form, I wanted to find out what criteria some of these Carbon Offset schemes are founded on.
A quick check of several carbon neutral sites, where they propose to offset your carbon output for a fee dependent on how much driving you do etc..., left me feeling as if it were a scam of some sort. They offer no real assurance that your money is being placed into long term land/biomass projects. IE, the data is not publicaly verifiable. Its just their word. "pay us 88 dollars and you are Carbon Neutral!!" The sites/entities proclaming carbon offsets should be required to have verifable data to those that join.
I saw no evidence of that, and it is needed.
So some digging was in order. A quick call to the Chicago Carbon Exchange, and subsequent dialog with a nice enough bloke in charge of the offsets regarding the siging up of our ranch up in carbon offsets struck me as odd. The exchange currently favors pine plantations with poplars, vs native hardwoods. Native hardwoods live longer and are a a climax species for my area (East Tennessee).
The fellow said that our pine planataion could qualify for listing with the carbon exchange, but they really want actively managed plantations vs. unmanaged tracts of woodlands (even if they are recoverving from clear cutting).. I tend to disagree on the track of these offset schemes, because even the Carbon Exchange wants the timber to be harvested.
The whole process is just getting started I will admit, but it needs some serious thinking through on their part. The trees when mature are harvested. Which emits C02, and then proccessed, and then that carbon slowly degrades back into the atmosphere.
It really doesn't make sense. They should really be trying harder for longer term preservation with native species into climax ecosystems, with selective logging.
Now, about the late comment, I would have posted earlier but I have been running a business all day, and came home to plant yet another acre of white pines for a seperate christmas tree thing we are trying at the homestead...(yep/me = hippie, geek, rancher, musciaion type)
So please folks treat it as more than just feel good, pass the buck public image/advertising.
And demand verification from the offset folks, don't just take thier word on it.
"....due to growing weather conditions"
This just in.. Weather conditions are growing all over the world. Visual, and radar data combined with realtime satellite imagery have proven without a doubt that weather is growing! Scientists have so far been unable to explain why the weather is growing however recent CERN experiments have concluded that if left unchecked weather will soon sweep the entire planet@!
Yeah, I have to step up here and speak my mind about Freenode and Levin. I too have used Freenode for years, and as a signal of my appreciatian for the service.. have donated as well. The funny thing is the voluntary donatations are just that. Purely voluntary.
We have a small, but civil channel on Freenode, and have had to ban/kick him many times. We don't allow cussing, etc, and have the rules of conduct clearly stated, but he could never come to terms with them in any sense.
In a lot of ways he acts like a troll. He is clearly masking his own personal ambitions and prejudices against the PDPC under the guise of freeing freenode..whatever.
All I can say is this, if McFarlands actions in #space in the past are any indication of his character and I believe they are.. Then be prepared for more childish hijinks from him.
He won't learn, never will, and hates anyone that does not abide his bad behavoir. The first 4 or 5 times we had to ban him, we thought he might learn something. Turns out that was overly optimistic.
The open source community should not eat its own.. That just ain't right
Failures?
They still do some pretty amazing things.. In fact..
Currently they are building a whole new generation of supercomputing. based on plan 9.
And its not meant to be funny.. Its the truth. When some in the community questioned v9fx support in the linux kernel as not justified due to few users the folks at Los Alamos told them as much.
Next generation folks. LANL. ORNL, it doesn't matter..
Its nice to see a fully functional space agency again. Sure. But its also worrysome that funding for robotic exploration is being cut to pay for it (Moon to Mars, or next week just the moon). Programs at JPL are scrambling to ensure funding. Yet.. despite all the neat bells and whistles of manned spaceflight, robotics have done more to further knowledge of our universe than any manned mission ever thought about. The astronauts didn't put a telescope on the moon, but they jumped around a lot.
/sarcasm on
Lets keep burning stuff like oil, and coal, and once that gone lets start chemically freeing carbon from limestone. Im sure at some point. With enough methane added in the mix we too can be like VENUS!
Yay,.
I propose we let our cars all idle..even when we are home! Hey..get involved! Its for America!:0
/sarcasm off
It was bound to happen again. The net is just too big to enforce something like a.xxx domain, i still think that parents should be more involved with their children. As someone whos wife is a now retired teacher (to stay home with our kids), I have seen just how BADLY a lot of parents engage their childrens minds.
for example..
Children coming into school smelling like meth, (ie parents cooking it off in the house)
Children sexually abused.. A lot
Parents that expect society to instill values and morals instead of the home.
\
Nothing but tv and games all day/night.
I could go on buts its just too damn depressing. BUt we have seen it all.
If the.xxx domain was supposed to protect children well.. nothing can be better for a child than a good sound creative, loving, and supportive home, where the parents actively are a part of the childs life..
Maybe we need a.ped domain (parental education domain)... hehe or something like it.
Ive even seen crack/coke babies with all types of physical defects, while mommie is still out on the streets.
Ive seen a so much of the crazy stuff with regards to bad parenting that i think its about 75% of the problem. The children + porn thing just comes from turning Johnny loose on the net because it shuts him up so the parents can forget about him for a while..
Well, first of all it was shipped from Pepsi to my families business about 40 years ago.
My families business is still in business and the bottle sat with a lot of others in a disused attic storeroom. Sure someone could have opened it, but no one did, becuase it came from pepsi that way. Also, its been sitting in a hot attic for 40 years. If had been opened all the Pepsi would be gone and/or full of growth?
okay. Well maybe the universe is heavier than we thought.. I know my own mass is quite larger than it should be.;)
I have something kinda off topic but its "heavy" as well. Ever seen a pepsi with a wire in it?
Thats right! A stainless steel wire in an old unopened pepsi. Can we find out how that happened?
If you want to see it here it is.. http://www.regardingspace.com.wireinpepsi.jpg/
Happy April 1. The image is legit though.
Slashdot Mirror
"mmm pie"
Meaning Microsoft lost one piece (the db), but is definately going to go after the rest and try to cut it up how they want to.
Oh brother I should have elaborated more in that first comment..
Better to learn now than in a few months or even a year however...
mmm pie!
Let me preface this by saying I ran almost every testing final release of Fedora. A couple of days ago I was trying to get Slash running on Core 6. A friend of mine said I should really try Ubuntu. We were on IRC, so i couldn't actually hear the tone of his voice, but it seemed to me be a pretty strong emphasis. Like "Try Ubuntu you idiot." :).. Well I did. I went and grabbed the 6.0.6 Dapper Server release. The install was painless. Once I was running there were several things I needed in order build stuff. Namely, build-essential, and things like that. Also Cpan was lets just say, interesting to get right, but it always is.
So anyway. It took 3 minutes to get an apache 3.x series server with mod_perl up. Mysql was a breeze. Once the server was up, I decided to build scoop, just to get better. This is the first thing I had ever tried to build as far as a fairly powerful weblog product. The result? It works! If you doubt me, just click on my url. Now, i was just building scoop to learn. Not really gonna use it I don't think.
The point is, Ubuntu rocks, and the longer term support from 6.0.6 is what I need if im gonna be doing some development. And the kernel aint half bad either. :P
You are a genius.
This technology has huge ramifications for chemical reactions that need a catalyst, and also in the area of fuel cells.
Unlike Roland, I actually try to link to the article and not some empty blog. Roland, your technology trends suck. Link to the originating article you fool!
Physorg
Also, does Roland even have a degree in science? Because he sure doesn't ever seem to have a grasp of the important things in the articles he submits.
You are now free to stone me to death. :)
That is seriously sexy. :)
Sorry about the spelling folks...
This link goes there.
This link goes projects home.
It also uses nanotubes, and we all know how cool they are. :)
A quick check of several carbon neutral sites, where they propose to offset your carbon output for a fee dependent on how much driving you do etc..., left me feeling as if it were a scam of some sort. They offer no real assurance that your money is being placed into long term land/biomass projects. IE, the data is not publicaly verifiable. Its just their word. "pay us 88 dollars and you are Carbon Neutral!!" The sites/entities proclaming carbon offsets should be required to have verifable data to those that join.
I saw no evidence of that, and it is needed.
So some digging was in order. A quick call to the Chicago Carbon Exchange, and subsequent dialog with a nice enough bloke in charge of the offsets regarding the siging up of our ranch up in carbon offsets struck me as odd. The exchange currently favors pine plantations with poplars, vs native hardwoods. Native hardwoods live longer and are a a climax species for my area (East Tennessee).
The fellow said that our pine planataion could qualify for listing with the carbon exchange, but they really want actively managed plantations vs. unmanaged tracts of woodlands (even if they are recoverving from clear cutting).. I tend to disagree on the track of these offset schemes, because even the Carbon Exchange wants the timber to be harvested.
The whole process is just getting started I will admit, but it needs some serious thinking through on their part. The trees when mature are harvested. Which emits C02, and then proccessed, and then that carbon slowly degrades back into the atmosphere.
It really doesn't make sense. They should really be trying harder for longer term preservation with native species into climax ecosystems, with selective logging.
Now, about the late comment, I would have posted earlier but I have been running a business all day, and came home to plant yet another acre of white pines for a seperate christmas tree thing we are trying at the homestead...(yep /me = hippie, geek, rancher, musciaion type)
So please folks treat it as more than just feel good, pass the buck public image/advertising.
And demand verification from the offset folks, don't just take thier word on it.
Peace out, D
TechGranny is mean ornery and horny! She is also old, and slow, like windows.
A match made in heaven if there ever was one. TechGranny is OEM windows certified. TechGranny can come to your house!
peace out, its a joke folks. Don't take it seriously. I had some slack time, and recorded her.
Yeah.. now *thats funny* :)
This just in.. Weather conditions are growing all over the world. Visual, and radar data combined with realtime satellite imagery have proven without a doubt that weather is growing! Scientists have so far been unable to explain why the weather is growing however recent CERN experiments have concluded that if left unchecked weather will soon sweep the entire planet@!
Save Yourselves!
Yeah, I have to step up here and speak my mind about Freenode and Levin. I too have used Freenode for years, and as a signal of my appreciatian for the service.. have donated as well. The funny thing is the voluntary donatations are just that. Purely voluntary.
We have a small, but civil channel on Freenode, and have had to ban/kick him many times. We don't allow cussing, etc, and have the rules of conduct clearly stated, but he could never come to terms with them in any sense.
In a lot of ways he acts like a troll. He is clearly masking his own personal ambitions and prejudices against the PDPC under the guise of freeing freenode..whatever. All I can say is this, if McFarlands actions in #space in the past are any indication of his character and I believe they are.. Then be prepared for more childish hijinks from him.
He won't learn, never will, and hates anyone that does not abide his bad behavoir.
The first 4 or 5 times we had to ban him, we thought he might learn something. Turns out that was overly optimistic. The open source community should not eat its own..
That just ain't right
It should be Plan9, and v9fs.
*corrected*
Currently they are building a whole new generation of supercomputing. based on plan 9.
And its not meant to be funny.. Its the truth. When some in the community questioned v9fx support in the linux kernel as not justified due to few users the folks at Los Alamos told them as much.
Next generation folks. LANL. ORNL, it doesn't matter..
Stuff gets done. :)
Id post AC, but screw it. Im telling the truth. :)
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Anything that builds music awareness is cool by me
At least this guy did something with his brain, instead of letting it rot on MySpace
Nice!
/sarcasm on :0
/sarcasm off
Lets keep burning stuff like oil, and coal, and once that gone lets start chemically freeing carbon from limestone. Im sure at some point. With enough methane added in the mix we too can be like VENUS!
Yay,.
I propose we let our cars all idle..even when we are home! Hey..get involved! Its for America!
The thing is.. its everywhere. You just don't see it unless you are education. :(
for example..
Children coming into school smelling like meth, (ie parents cooking it off in the house)
Children sexually abused.. A lot
Parents that expect society to instill values and morals instead of the home.
\ Nothing but tv and games all day/night.
I could go on buts its just too damn depressing. BUt we have seen it all.
If the .xxx domain was supposed to protect children well.. nothing can be better for a child than a good sound creative, loving, and supportive home, where the parents actively are a part of the childs life..
Maybe we need a .ped domain (parental education domain)... hehe or something like it.
Ive even seen crack/coke babies with all types of physical defects, while mommie is still out on the streets.
Ive seen a so much of the crazy stuff with regards to bad parenting that i think its about 75% of the problem. The children + porn thing just comes from turning Johnny loose on the net because it shuts him up so the parents can forget about him for a while..
Thats my 2$
My families business is still in business and the bottle sat with a lot of others in a disused attic storeroom. Sure someone could have opened it, but no one did, becuase it came from pepsi that way. Also, its been sitting in a hot attic for 40 years. If had been opened all the Pepsi would be gone and/or full of growth?
crap!
http://www.regardingspace.com/wireinpepsi.jpg
Sorry about that.
I have something kinda off topic but its "heavy" as well. Ever seen a pepsi with a wire in it?
Thats right! A stainless steel wire in an old unopened pepsi. Can we find out how that happened? If you want to see it here it is.. http://www.regardingspace.com.wireinpepsi.jpg/ Happy April 1. The image is legit though.