Screw the Red Cross, they are nothing but a corporation out to make a buck. The head of the Red Cross makes $576,000 a year. The Red Cross also makes contracts with hospitals to only buy blood and other supplies from them. For example, a few years ago I had to get surgery, I was going to self-donate blood 3 months in advance to avoid any kind of conflicts or infections. The hospital then kindly informed me that such practices were no longer able to be done because a contract with the Red Cross said they must get all their blood through the Red Cross. Don't donate to the Red Cross, donate here. Regards, Steve
On linux, if your infected with a virus, reboot, log in as root, copy important data over from your regular user's home directory, remove the user and user's home. Recreate user, move data back over. Problem solved. Assuming that it was just a virus and not some kind of privilege escalation exploit (which don't happen all too often, and running up2date or you should always be fine) and that the user only has write access to their home directory and no where else (which is all you need) then literally the above procedure is all you need to do to fix an infected linux machine. Also most distros have well configured firewalls. Regards, Steve
Chemical explosives are pretty weak and expensive for a job like this. People think of nuclear and automatically think of huge mushroom clouds spreading miles. Today, nuclear technology is advanced enough that you can use low yield nukes with little or no measurable radiation, get the job done quicker, cheaper, and more effectively. The biggest problem would be convincing people that nuclear does not mean bad. Regards, Steve
If you and your buddies are being blocked by AOL its because the users are highlighting their email and clicking "This is spam". If someone gets an email that they dont want, even if they signed up for something and clicked "Send me whatever", if you are sending emails to them and it inconveniences them in the least bit they'll report it as spam. Depending on the domain it may take as little as 20 to 200 people for that domain to be blacklisted. What your seeing is the people reacting, sure they may have agreed to receiving something, that doesn't mean they want it. Moral of the story: Only send people email when they request a specific email, i.e. they lost their password, otherwise they'll be inclined to think, "Hey I don't want this, good bye email *click*, sent to spam". Regards, Steve
Wow I guess some people are just so ignorant and stubborn that they can't see the light of day. Wake up guy, a lot of progress is being made, I mean a ton of progress and this is from first hand reports from soldiers over there. Did you ever think that maybe the media that your listening to has a bias against America and is trying to make it seem as bad as humanly possible? After all, tragedy and disaster make good news, nobody wants to hear about good things or progress so maybe your views are distorted by your distorted media. Or the alternative is that either consciously or subconsciously you neglect the prgress being made. You really seem to have it out for America, one day during the next World War or whatever, when Americans are saving your ass I hope you'll change your attitude. Regards, Steve
Ignorance must be bliss. We are extremely similar to both monkeys, pigs and well every other animal out there (some more than others). We don't use apes for many medical uses mainly because we as humans relate to them much more, hell we can even communicate with some of them. They are capable of thought and language. Pigs, though, noone cares about, thousands are killed daily and there are plenty of them around. It also just so happens that we have many genes in common with them.
We did evolve and there is substantial proof, refusing to accept it is just dumb and no more intelligent than saying that we were magically placed here in our current form from some unknown entity that used to "talk" to people on a daily basis and than for the past thousand to 2 thousand years magically stopped talking to us as things started being recorded rather than spread by word of mouth, and as things started being understood rather than being attributed to some magical thing. Show me some proof that we were magically placed here on earth and earth was just as it is and then maybe I'll believe you. Also please show that the lineage of the human fossils were all faked as well.
Blindly accepting something just because you grew up believing it is nonsense. Evolution occurs everyday and you can see it. Evolution is combining and mutating genes and growing a new organism. If that new gene combination is good or neutral than the organism should go on to reproduce and spread the good or neutral genes, otherwise they should die and not reproduce (accorindg to evolution's principles). When your parents had sex they combined their genes along with a few mutations. If this new combination was successful than your chances of reproducing go up significantly. If you were born retarded or with some other socially disabling ailment, you most likely wouldn't spread those bad genes any further.
Your birth is the best example of evolution that can be shown. You may be thinking that a gene's combination can be good, bad, or neutral so you have a 30% chance of being born with some defect and that 30% of the population should be retarded. In reality, most gene combinations/mutation are neutral (about 90-95%), the rest either give you some kind of superior "power" or "defect". If you don't believe in evolution than you don't believe in your birth. Please folks wake up. I'm a practicing Roman Catholic but I know nonsense when I see it. Regards, Steve
I don't know what these folks are talking about. There is plenty of coverage on this in the States. At least along the major East Coast cities like Philadelphia and New York. I get the feeling that those complaining are some farm boys that read the local paper about a cow dying or something and realize that this tragedy wasn't written about. (No offense to farmers, I'm friends with a few) Regards, Steve
I never said they weren't, in fact I stated that most foreign scientists use our tools. I know this from experience. Tons of foreigners come here for education and for jobs, I have no problem with that, most are very intelligent. In the United States, everyone is an immigrant so its no big deal and highly accepted. I do have a problem when they take advantage of the system, contribute nothing back to the country that gave them the education and instead just export it back home. Regards, Steve
Err France will not have a better idea than the U.S. It makes sense for the US to take over here, we have the most experience in space, one of the largest space programs, and the only country to get anything on Mars. Most foreign scientists use our tools simply because of their superiority. I'm sure that other countries will make suggestions, but I'll stick with the country that has the most space experience, the most nukes (and other weapons), and arguably the most intelligent scientists in the world. Regards, Steve
I think what he was getting at was that its already been determined if we'll be hit, we just don't know and can't know the answer yet. We can only judge it to a certain accuracy, giving us a certain probability. In reality though there is a definite answer that we just don't know. However, the grandparent is wrong in that when you get to the quantum level, things really are impossible to figure oout. Regards, Steve
If they did that people would not stop complaining about their search habits being tracked. Personally I'd love for them to do that, but after the whole gmail episode they are probably beign careful. Regardless, your browser probably already keeps track and will "autosuggest" searches for you. Regards, Steve
Actually yes chemicals did learn to walk and talk all by themselves. And its been reproduced in very simple forms in the lab. All you are is a highly controlled and integrated chemical reaction capable of sustaining yourself by taking in more chemicals. Afterall, your brain is just a bunch of cleverly connected neurons with some elctricity flowing through them. It's been optimized over the past 2 billion years, thats such a long time that we aren't able to comprehend it. Anyway, just keep in mind that every thought you have ever had, or will have is nothing but some electricity flowing around in your head. Perhaps you should look more into the subject, even just looking at the effectiveness of evolutionary algorithms would be a start. I am a practicing roman catholic, but even I know nonsense when I hear it and anyone who still disagrees with evolution needs to wake the hell up. Regards, Steve
This is the IP address cited on every page of the legal threats. That IP address is not a valid IP simply because of the 450. That number can't be greater than 255 with IPv4. This may make it an easy win for the torrent site maintainers. Regards, Steve
Just because an OS is open sourced doesn't mean developers will flock to it. If Java was opened, I could see that, but not Solaris. Linux is the OS to be a dev for and most kernel developers know that. Its just how it is. Regards, Steve
My laptop's harddrive crapped out on me two days ago. I've been running knoppix since until I can get a new drive. I have just been using the server I have running as a temporary storage place. Knoppix is a life saver. My 'puter stopped working and within 2 minutes I was up and running again. regards, Steve
This guy's information is so distorted its not even funny. That blank diaglog that he blamed on Firefox is cause by McAffee Activescan. It scans for certain types of overflows and sometimes things set it off when there is no overflow, it has no information to put in the dialogue since no overflow exists. It is being patched and supposedly getting updated soon, but thats a problem with a completely different software suite and he blamed it on Mozilla. What a moron. Besides, his whole argument is based on signing code. I'll go buy a cert, grab a copy of the latest virus, sign it, and send it to any one I know using IE. They'll all see the nice little dialogue saying that its perfectly okay to not only download, but run right away because its signed. He acts like signing code is magic. What a bunch of bull. Regards, Steve
Fedora has had OOo with native widgets since Core 2, that was nearly a year ago. I don't see why people are acting like this is something new? Regards, Steve
This is the best news I've heard all month. I'm getting a DS in 5 days and was really hoping something like this would come around. I got a DS for my girlfriend's little brother and he was hoping that we could play games together even when we weren't in the same places. This is really great news. Now I wonder if it will still support up to 16 players:) Regards, Steve
Raising the bar as in people will expect computers to start intelligently assissting them when the are trying to figure something out. Not Clippy style, I mean assisst you as in being useful. In addition to that, it won't only be expected for native applications but also for web services. The nice thing is, this should ease people into the mentality that its okay for computers to help you.Some people still are freaked out by that. Regards, Steve
I guess its too late now because she already had the line ran, but satellite and VoIP would've worked nicely. Granted, itd have a slight lag in the conversation, but no different the calling someone in Europe. If something like this comes up again, you might want to think about it. Regards, Steve
Yes... and so many are getting on the Apple desktop. Linux is free and cheap and can run on many different platforms, and at a low cost. It is easily customizable and it leaves the user in control. The linux market is indeed taking off and rapidly. By 2008 Linux is expected to be a 35 billion dollar industry. Regardless, many more people are switching or trying out linux per day than they are trying apple, simply because its much easier. Not to mention, the only thing apple has going for it is looks. Linux has way more software options and just a better community in general. You highly underestimate it. Regards, Steve
Heh it just so happens the two distros I run, have packages. I already have it installed on every computer in my house, whether it runs debian or fedora (Before a distro war breaks out, both are excellent distros and have their purposes. Thats why I use both). Regards, Steve
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Screw the Red Cross, they are nothing but a corporation out to make a buck. The head of the Red Cross makes $576,000 a year. The Red Cross also makes contracts with hospitals to only buy blood and other supplies from them. For example, a few years ago I had to get surgery, I was going to self-donate blood 3 months in advance to avoid any kind of conflicts or infections. The hospital then kindly informed me that such practices were no longer able to be done because a contract with the Red Cross said they must get all their blood through the Red Cross. Don't donate to the Red Cross, donate here.
Regards,
Steve
On linux, if your infected with a virus, reboot, log in as root, copy important data over from your regular user's home directory, remove the user and user's home. Recreate user, move data back over. Problem solved. Assuming that it was just a virus and not some kind of privilege escalation exploit (which don't happen all too often, and running up2date or you should always be fine) and that the user only has write access to their home directory and no where else (which is all you need) then literally the above procedure is all you need to do to fix an infected linux machine. Also most distros have well configured firewalls.
Regards,
Steve
Chemical explosives are pretty weak and expensive for a job like this. People think of nuclear and automatically think of huge mushroom clouds spreading miles. Today, nuclear technology is advanced enough that you can use low yield nukes with little or no measurable radiation, get the job done quicker, cheaper, and more effectively. The biggest problem would be convincing people that nuclear does not mean bad.
Regards,
Steve
If you and your buddies are being blocked by AOL its because the users are highlighting their email and clicking "This is spam". If someone gets an email that they dont want, even if they signed up for something and clicked "Send me whatever", if you are sending emails to them and it inconveniences them in the least bit they'll report it as spam. Depending on the domain it may take as little as 20 to 200 people for that domain to be blacklisted. What your seeing is the people reacting, sure they may have agreed to receiving something, that doesn't mean they want it. Moral of the story: Only send people email when they request a specific email, i.e. they lost their password, otherwise they'll be inclined to think, "Hey I don't want this, good bye email *click*, sent to spam".
Regards,
Steve
Wow I guess some people are just so ignorant and stubborn that they can't see the light of day. Wake up guy, a lot of progress is being made, I mean a ton of progress and this is from first hand reports from soldiers over there. Did you ever think that maybe the media that your listening to has a bias against America and is trying to make it seem as bad as humanly possible? After all, tragedy and disaster make good news, nobody wants to hear about good things or progress so maybe your views are distorted by your distorted media. Or the alternative is that either consciously or subconsciously you neglect the prgress being made. You really seem to have it out for America, one day during the next World War or whatever, when Americans are saving your ass I hope you'll change your attitude.
Regards,
Steve
Ignorance must be bliss. We are extremely similar to both monkeys, pigs and well every other animal out there (some more than others). We don't use apes for many medical uses mainly because we as humans relate to them much more, hell we can even communicate with some of them. They are capable of thought and language. Pigs, though, noone cares about, thousands are killed daily and there are plenty of them around. It also just so happens that we have many genes in common with them.
We did evolve and there is substantial proof, refusing to accept it is just dumb and no more intelligent than saying that we were magically placed here in our current form from some unknown entity that used to "talk" to people on a daily basis and than for the past thousand to 2 thousand years magically stopped talking to us as things started being recorded rather than spread by word of mouth, and as things started being understood rather than being attributed to some magical thing. Show me some proof that we were magically placed here on earth and earth was just as it is and then maybe I'll believe you. Also please show that the lineage of the human fossils were all faked as well.
Blindly accepting something just because you grew up believing it is nonsense. Evolution occurs everyday and you can see it. Evolution is combining and mutating genes and growing a new organism. If that new gene combination is good or neutral than the organism should go on to reproduce and spread the good or neutral genes, otherwise they should die and not reproduce (accorindg to evolution's principles). When your parents had sex they combined their genes along with a few mutations. If this new combination was successful than your chances of reproducing go up significantly. If you were born retarded or with some other socially disabling ailment, you most likely wouldn't spread those bad genes any further.
Your birth is the best example of evolution that can be shown. You may be thinking that a gene's combination can be good, bad, or neutral so you have a 30% chance of being born with some defect and that 30% of the population should be retarded. In reality, most gene combinations/mutation are neutral (about 90-95%), the rest either give you some kind of superior "power" or "defect". If you don't believe in evolution than you don't believe in your birth. Please folks wake up. I'm a practicing Roman Catholic but I know nonsense when I see it.
Regards,
Steve
I don't know what these folks are talking about. There is plenty of coverage on this in the States. At least along the major East Coast cities like Philadelphia and New York. I get the feeling that those complaining are some farm boys that read the local paper about a cow dying or something and realize that this tragedy wasn't written about. (No offense to farmers, I'm friends with a few)
Regards,
Steve
I never said they weren't, in fact I stated that most foreign scientists use our tools. I know this from experience. Tons of foreigners come here for education and for jobs, I have no problem with that, most are very intelligent. In the United States, everyone is an immigrant so its no big deal and highly accepted. I do have a problem when they take advantage of the system, contribute nothing back to the country that gave them the education and instead just export it back home.
Regards,
Steve
Err France will not have a better idea than the U.S. It makes sense for the US to take over here, we have the most experience in space, one of the largest space programs, and the only country to get anything on Mars. Most foreign scientists use our tools simply because of their superiority. I'm sure that other countries will make suggestions, but I'll stick with the country that has the most space experience, the most nukes (and other weapons), and arguably the most intelligent scientists in the world.
Regards,
Steve
Last I checked, that was a 1 in 45.4545 chance, not 1 in 15.
Regards,
Steve
I think what he was getting at was that its already been determined if we'll be hit, we just don't know and can't know the answer yet. We can only judge it to a certain accuracy, giving us a certain probability. In reality though there is a definite answer that we just don't know. However, the grandparent is wrong in that when you get to the quantum level, things really are impossible to figure oout.
Regards,
Steve
If they did that people would not stop complaining about their search habits being tracked. Personally I'd love for them to do that, but after the whole gmail episode they are probably beign careful. Regardless, your browser probably already keeps track and will "autosuggest" searches for you.
Regards,
Steve
Actually yes chemicals did learn to walk and talk all by themselves. And its been reproduced in very simple forms in the lab. All you are is a highly controlled and integrated chemical reaction capable of sustaining yourself by taking in more chemicals. Afterall, your brain is just a bunch of cleverly connected neurons with some elctricity flowing through them. It's been optimized over the past 2 billion years, thats such a long time that we aren't able to comprehend it. Anyway, just keep in mind that every thought you have ever had, or will have is nothing but some electricity flowing around in your head. Perhaps you should look more into the subject, even just looking at the effectiveness of evolutionary algorithms would be a start. I am a practicing roman catholic, but even I know nonsense when I hear it and anyone who still disagrees with evolution needs to wake the hell up.
Regards,
Steve
This is the IP address cited on every page of the legal threats. That IP address is not a valid IP simply because of the 450. That number can't be greater than 255 with IPv4. This may make it an easy win for the torrent site maintainers.
Regards,
Steve
Do you know if torrents could be used this way? or n o?
Regards,
Steve
Just because an OS is open sourced doesn't mean developers will flock to it. If Java was opened, I could see that, but not Solaris. Linux is the OS to be a dev for and most kernel developers know that. Its just how it is.
Regards,
Steve
My laptop's harddrive crapped out on me two days ago. I've been running knoppix since until I can get a new drive. I have just been using the server I have running as a temporary storage place. Knoppix is a life saver. My 'puter stopped working and within 2 minutes I was up and running again.
regards,
Steve
This guy's information is so distorted its not even funny. That blank diaglog that he blamed on Firefox is cause by McAffee Activescan. It scans for certain types of overflows and sometimes things set it off when there is no overflow, it has no information to put in the dialogue since no overflow exists. It is being patched and supposedly getting updated soon, but thats a problem with a completely different software suite and he blamed it on Mozilla. What a moron. Besides, his whole argument is based on signing code. I'll go buy a cert, grab a copy of the latest virus, sign it, and send it to any one I know using IE. They'll all see the nice little dialogue saying that its perfectly okay to not only download, but run right away because its signed. He acts like signing code is magic. What a bunch of bull.
Regards,
Steve
Fedora has had OOo with native widgets since Core 2, that was nearly a year ago. I don't see why people are acting like this is something new?
Regards,
Steve
This is the best news I've heard all month. I'm getting a DS in 5 days and was really hoping something like this would come around. I got a DS for my girlfriend's little brother and he was hoping that we could play games together even when we weren't in the same places. This is really great news. Now I wonder if it will still support up to 16 players:)
Regards,
Steve
Raising the bar as in people will expect computers to start intelligently assissting them when the are trying to figure something out. Not Clippy style, I mean assisst you as in being useful. In addition to that, it won't only be expected for native applications but also for web services. The nice thing is, this should ease people into the mentality that its okay for computers to help you.Some people still are freaked out by that.
Regards,
Steve
I guess its too late now because she already had the line ran, but satellite and VoIP would've worked nicely. Granted, itd have a slight lag in the conversation, but no different the calling someone in Europe. If something like this comes up again, you might want to think about it.
Regards,
Steve
Yes... and so many are getting on the Apple desktop. Linux is free and cheap and can run on many different platforms, and at a low cost. It is easily customizable and it leaves the user in control. The linux market is indeed taking off and rapidly. By 2008 Linux is expected to be a 35 billion dollar industry. Regardless, many more people are switching or trying out linux per day than they are trying apple, simply because its much easier. Not to mention, the only thing apple has going for it is looks. Linux has way more software options and just a better community in general. You highly underestimate it.
Regards,
Steve
You were modded as a troll, but I thought it was funny. +5
Regards,
Steve
Heh it just so happens the two distros I run, have packages. I already have it installed on every computer in my house, whether it runs debian or fedora (Before a distro war breaks out, both are excellent distros and have their purposes. Thats why I use both).
Regards,
Steve