Why do stories like this even make it to Slashdot anymore?
Why do they mod you flaimbait? This is a good question.
Microsoft security problems are one of a handful of topics that appeal to the slashdot priesthood. It is really quite an ecclectic group: global warming, crank science, amateur space programs, criticism of the Bush administration... These are confortable subjects that reaffirm their views.
This forum mainly came about to resist Microsoft and promote free software. It is interesting that over time slashdot has come to promote open source and ridicule free software.
Like freeway chases, Microsoft security problems are entertaining. Most will never be effectively exploited, but there is always a chance that it will be 'the big one'.
I'm sorry if you feel that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically stupid, but this development is just not that important.
You are wasting you breath on this windows drone. He is only dimmly aware that other OSs even exist. What puzzles me is why more and more of his ilk are trolling this site. Guess he got tired of ZDNet.
I'm not a fan of government regulation, but if you eliminate the FCC, every Tom, Dick and Harry could build an inexpensive transmitter in their basement.
This makes me wonder why all of the Tom, Dick, and Harry ham radio operators have never organised to create wireless networks. Or have they? Does anyone know?
The launch is taking place on a 7 acre island near Kwajalein Atoll. The island is evacuated before the rocket is fueled. You can read about it here. I wish these guys luck. There're going to need it.
but his opinion about the Iraq war and the growing list of American war crimes in that country, is DEAD ON.
Well, at least that is the prevailing opinion of academia, the liberal intelligencia, secular internationalists (some EU countries like France and Germany), and fearful authoritarian states (Russia, China, Iran, Syria). More mainstream observers perceive the positive role that an international coalition of the willing can have on the destruction of tyranny and the spread of democracy. The greatest war crime would have been inaction.
OpenBSD is a vital project that is lead by an amateur. OpenBSD had a sugardaddy in Darpa, but apparently offended them with negative comments. My question, who does he think will be most interested in his super secure OS?
Thanks for providing a reference, but you have done your argument further harm. You lecture me on the inadequacy of 150 years of regional NOAA data then offer up some spacious, pseudo-statistical conclusions based on 10 years of the *same* data? Perhaps you should get into marketing.
Prof. Emanuel, MIT: "Data on U.S. landfalling storms is only about 2 tenths of one percent of data we have on global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes. Thus while we can already detect trends in data for global hurricane activity considering the whole life of each storm, we estimate that it would take at least another 50 years to detect any long-term trend in U.S. landfalling hurricane statistics, so powerful is the role of chance in these numbers."
This is an anecdote. Speculation. Fog. Given your haughtiness I was expecting an argument bolstered by better statistical evidence than I got from NOAA. I would welcome a link worldwide data on the size and duration of hurricanes. This is not it. You are not strengthening your argument. I am still quite content in my original observation that global warming is not correlated with hurricane formation.
The numbers you are looking at are too small to make valid statistical claims. That is why real scientists use total hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, or even better, global hurricanes.
Don't the NOAA statistics I linked go back 150 years. The issue is the frequency of hurricane strikes on the US and how much global warming is supposed to affect it. This is the relevant data that is available. What deep statistical reasoning do you propose? You are not thinking clearly.
Oh - wait, but you are trying to make a hysterical political claim by using data sets that are too small to draw valid conclusions from! mmm, the flavor of hypocrisy...
That the US has been hit by a historically low number of hurricanes in the last 5 years is a simple observation. Observations of 60 previous 5 year periods bear this out. That is a pretty good statistical sample. I draw no conclusion except that the nefarious global warming does not seem to be causing an uptick in hurricane strike in the US. This is why I criticized the initial post and drew the ire of the Kyotoists. If you are a Kyotoist see the bogeyman of global warming in every whirlwind, then you will be disappointed. I can't help that. I can only be honest.
The only 'outdated' part of slackware is the kernel -- everything in -current has all the latest software (and unlike in gentoo, everything works right).
...and Gnome and udev and millions of others I don't have time to list.
Slackware is perfectly ready for a custom 2.6 (or one from their website.)
Which one? 2.6.0? Are you sure you want to compile from scratch? Wouldn't you like to leave it to someone more knowledgable, like your slackware masters? It will be more user friendly that way.
Speaking of outdated -- by how many months did Slackware beat gentoo to the punch with regard to NPTL...? Yeah, thought so. Troll in some other thread.
I would not waste my time. The NPTL stubs have been in glibc for a while. Since it was just released in the kernel nobody has extensive experience them, including you. Red Hat forks don't count. I often wait for software to be released in some fashion before I use it. Given the glacial Slackware release process (isn't it one guy?) I would think you would have learned more patience.
Trolling? No, at least the original poster didn't think so. Proselytizing? Certainly. I am a Gentoo GNU/Linux fanboy and zealot. I am always trying to help new users to use their computers more wisely.
Don't mean to dis slackware. Gentoo allows you to keep your machine updated daily, quarterly, or never if you prefer. You will have very fine control over what you install. You can use spacific compiler options that apply to your flavor of CPU. The Gentoo forums are a great source of help. They are very active. A lot of people have suffered over the years to make things nice (if not easy). You should not have to suffer. Start here: http://www.gentoo.org/ Good luck!
What would you rather have federal funding spent on?
Provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of libery...
If we are going to be "taxed" at the rates that the Bush administration seems to feel are acceptable, would you not rather have the money go to science funding rather than subsidizing companies like Halliburton?
More horrible deception! You present a false choice again. Haliburton or liberal altruism? I reject both. I would prefer if the money went to pay down the national debt.
Well, our lab has been doing OK, but the 20% cut that many NIH funded labs have endured this year has meant the loss of a significant number of highly skilled jobs that return money in tax revenues. I personally know eleven jobs that have been eliminated as a result of these cuts and beyond that, there are a significant number of positions that could not be filled to begin with.
The brazenness of you ivory tower propeller heads never ceases to amaze. Federally funded jobs do not net anything in taxes. They consume them. I am amazed you suggest otherwise. Reduce those jobs to a minimum and you lower the tax burden of working people, so they can afford to educate their children. As for the jobs that are eliminated, biotechnology is a growing field. Your coworkers job prospects in the private sector are bright. Thanks President Bush!
I think your response shows the deceptiveness and self-centered greed that characterizes special interests. What you call 'reduced funding' is actually increased funding at a lower rate of growth. What you neglect to tell readers is the NIH budget has had several years of sustained growth under this administration. In an era were federal spending is out of control I would have hoped that growth in the NIH budget could be restrained more. My guess is that the damage being done is similarly illusory.
The topic at hand is hurricanes, Atlantic tropical cyclones, and their frequency through time. If I am not giving equal time to whatever harmful weather strikes your eurotrash location, I do apologize.
In what way does the table linked suggest "the number of hurrican strikes is at a cyclic low"? Perhaps you haven't notice that all except the last entry are for 10-years periods, while the last is only for 3?
Because the cummulative numbers rise and fall twice in 150 years, and 2000's number is historically low. Can you read? Before drawing conclusions on the current decade you might let it finish. Ah, but I forget diehard Kyotoists insist that real climate history began when the US opted out of the treaty.
Long term statistics suggest that the number of hurrican strikes is at a cyclic low. Kyotoists tend to use sensational single incidents to bolster their hysterical, political claims. Kyoto was rejected because it is an economic Jonestown that will do nothing to affect global warming.
It is equally as hard to see how google NOT being present leads to a better future in China.
Ah honesty. If Mr. Schmidt had suggested this I would be more impressed. Ofcourse my 'jailer' question still stands. The role of Google CEO is not enought for this egomaniac. He really wants to be Secretary of State. Perhaps he will sober up when Google's stock price has fallen a few hundred more points.
To those who talk about embargoing filtering technology to China or other regimes that restrict political information, Schmidt said that personally (not as a Google executive) he was instructed by the example of Cuba. He said the embargo there hasn't worked, with Castro still in power, and with the Cuban people living with technology form the 1950s.
This is a tad self-serving. The Cuba embargo has failed to bring down Casto because domestic Cuban opposition has been crushed. It is non-existant due to fear, just like China. The Cuban standard of living continues to slouch to the 19th century because their economy is subject to the manipulations of one man! What is the US, as home to 10's of thousands of Cuban refugees, supposed to do? Prop Casto up? At least the US government has the guts to treat Castro like the pariah he is.
Mr. Schmidt's high thinking solution is nothing more than to act as the Maoists information jailer, or worse, be their stool pigeon. Hard to see how that leads to a better future in China. But ofcourse we know Google is not operating will the goal of higher ethics. They are making a buck. Do no evil?
Look like you were in a big hurry to do some karma whoring and you neglected to even look at the story. The original posting was completely reasonable.
HTML is a pretty niche language with limited power. Everything it does can easily be accomplished by other means (TeX, OpenDocument...). How about paying more attention to more 'bread and butter' languages like RTF, BibTeX, and plain text?
I suppose I should welcome any comment for a posting modded at -1, even if your analogy sucks.
Seriously, PHP is quite good at what it's intended for...
You are not instructing the ignorant. I am complaining that the Slashdot 'Development Section' is being polluted with trivial PHP gunk of limited interest. Same goes for AJAX, C# and the mindless prattle that goes with them. The slashdot priests don't like to be called on it.
This is the 3rd PHP posting in the last 3 days. PHP is a pretty niche language with little theoretical power. Everything it does can be accomplished as easily by other means (JSP, Perl...). How about paying more attention to 'bread and butter' languages like C, C++, and Scheme?
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Why do stories like this even make it to Slashdot anymore?
Why do they mod you flaimbait? This is a good question.
I'm sorry if you feel that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically stupid, but this development is just not that important.
You are wasting you breath on this windows drone. He is only dimmly aware that other OSs even exist. What puzzles me is why more and more of his ilk are trolling this site. Guess he got tired of ZDNet.
I'm not a fan of government regulation, but if you eliminate the FCC, every Tom, Dick and Harry could build an inexpensive transmitter in their basement.
This makes me wonder why all of the Tom, Dick, and Harry ham radio operators have never organised to create wireless networks. Or have they? Does anyone know?
The launch is taking place on a 7 acre island near Kwajalein Atoll. The island is evacuated before the rocket is fueled. You can read about it here. I wish these guys luck. There're going to need it.
but his opinion about the Iraq war and the growing list of American war crimes in that country, is DEAD ON.
Well, at least that is the prevailing opinion of academia, the liberal intelligencia, secular internationalists (some EU countries like France and Germany), and fearful authoritarian states (Russia, China, Iran, Syria). More mainstream observers perceive the positive role that an international coalition of the willing can have on the destruction of tyranny and the spread of democracy. The greatest war crime would have been inaction.
OpenBSD is a vital project that is lead by an amateur. OpenBSD had a sugardaddy in Darpa, but apparently offended them with negative comments. My question, who does he think will be most interested in his super secure OS?
Thanks for providing a reference, but you have done your argument further harm. You lecture me on the inadequacy of 150 years of regional NOAA data then offer up some spacious, pseudo-statistical conclusions based on 10 years of the *same* data? Perhaps you should get into marketing.
Prof. Emanuel, MIT: "Data on U.S. landfalling storms is only about 2 tenths of one percent of data we have on global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes. Thus while we can already detect trends in data for global hurricane activity considering the whole life of each storm, we estimate that it would take at least another 50 years to detect any long-term trend in U.S. landfalling hurricane statistics, so powerful is the role of chance in these numbers."
This is an anecdote. Speculation. Fog. Given your haughtiness I was expecting an argument bolstered by better statistical evidence than I got from NOAA. I would welcome a link worldwide data on the size and duration of hurricanes. This is not it. You are not strengthening your argument. I am still quite content in my original observation that global warming is not correlated with hurricane formation.
The numbers you are looking at are too small to make valid statistical claims. That is why real scientists use total hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, or even better, global hurricanes.
Don't the NOAA statistics I linked go back 150 years. The issue is the frequency of hurricane strikes on the US and how much global warming is supposed to affect it. This is the relevant data that is available. What deep statistical reasoning do you propose? You are not thinking clearly.
Oh - wait, but you are trying to make a hysterical political claim by using data sets that are too small to draw valid conclusions from! mmm, the flavor of hypocrisy...
That the US has been hit by a historically low number of hurricanes in the last 5 years is a simple observation. Observations of 60 previous 5 year periods bear this out. That is a pretty good statistical sample. I draw no conclusion except that the nefarious global warming does not seem to be causing an uptick in hurricane strike in the US. This is why I criticized the initial post and drew the ire of the Kyotoists. If you are a Kyotoist see the bogeyman of global warming in every whirlwind, then you will be disappointed. I can't help that. I can only be honest.
The only 'outdated' part of slackware is the kernel -- everything in -current has all the latest software (and unlike in gentoo, everything works right).
...and Gnome and udev and millions of others I don't have time to list.
Slackware is perfectly ready for a custom 2.6 (or one from their website.)
Which one? 2.6.0? Are you sure you want to compile from scratch? Wouldn't you like to leave it to someone more knowledgable, like your slackware masters? It will be more user friendly that way.
Speaking of outdated -- by how many months did Slackware beat gentoo to the punch with regard to NPTL...? Yeah, thought so. Troll in some other thread.
I would not waste my time. The NPTL stubs have been in glibc for a while. Since it was just released in the kernel nobody has extensive experience them, including you. Red Hat forks don't count. I often wait for software to be released in some fashion before I use it. Given the glacial Slackware release process (isn't it one guy?) I would think you would have learned more patience.
Trolling? No, at least the original poster didn't think so. Proselytizing? Certainly. I am a Gentoo GNU/Linux fanboy and zealot. I am always trying to help new users to use their computers more wisely.
Don't mean to dis slackware. Gentoo allows you to keep your machine updated daily, quarterly, or never if you prefer. You will have very fine control over what you install. You can use spacific compiler options that apply to your flavor of CPU. The Gentoo forums are a great source of help. They are very active. A lot of people have suffered over the years to make things nice (if not easy). You should not have to suffer. Start here: http://www.gentoo.org/ Good luck!
Give Gentoo a try. You can keep a stable kernel and experiment with a number of new ones. Slackware is hopelessly outdated.
What would you rather have federal funding spent on?
Provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of libery...
If we are going to be "taxed" at the rates that the Bush administration seems to feel are acceptable, would you not rather have the money go to science funding rather than subsidizing companies like Halliburton?
More horrible deception! You present a false choice again. Haliburton or liberal altruism? I reject both. I would prefer if the money went to pay down the national debt.
Well, our lab has been doing OK, but the 20% cut that many NIH funded labs have endured this year has meant the loss of a significant number of highly skilled jobs that return money in tax revenues. I personally know eleven jobs that have been eliminated as a result of these cuts and beyond that, there are a significant number of positions that could not be filled to begin with.
The brazenness of you ivory tower propeller heads never ceases to amaze. Federally funded jobs do not net anything in taxes. They consume them. I am amazed you suggest otherwise. Reduce those jobs to a minimum and you lower the tax burden of working people, so they can afford to educate their children. As for the jobs that are eliminated, biotechnology is a growing field. Your coworkers job prospects in the private sector are bright. Thanks President Bush!
I think your response shows the deceptiveness and self-centered greed that characterizes special interests. What you call 'reduced funding' is actually increased funding at a lower rate of growth. What you neglect to tell readers is the NIH budget has had several years of sustained growth under this administration. In an era were federal spending is out of control I would have hoped that growth in the NIH budget could be restrained more. My guess is that the damage being done is similarly illusory.
The topic at hand is hurricanes, Atlantic tropical cyclones, and their frequency through time. If I am not giving equal time to whatever harmful weather strikes your eurotrash location, I do apologize.
In what way does the table linked suggest "the number of hurrican strikes is at a cyclic low"? Perhaps you haven't notice that all except the last entry are for 10-years periods, while the last is only for 3?
Because the cummulative numbers rise and fall twice in 150 years, and 2000's number is historically low. Can you read? Before drawing conclusions on the current decade you might let it finish. Ah, but I forget diehard Kyotoists insist that real climate history began when the US opted out of the treaty.
Long term statistics suggest that the number of hurrican strikes is at a cyclic low. Kyotoists tend to use sensational single incidents to bolster their hysterical, political claims. Kyoto was rejected because it is an economic Jonestown that will do nothing to affect global warming.
I agree with what you say, and don't forget Canadians to whom Cuban freedom is less important than cheap prostitution and a vacation in the sun.
It is equally as hard to see how google NOT being present leads to a better future in China.
Ah honesty. If Mr. Schmidt had suggested this I would be more impressed. Ofcourse my 'jailer' question still stands. The role of Google CEO is not enought for this egomaniac. He really wants to be Secretary of State. Perhaps he will sober up when Google's stock price has fallen a few hundred more points.
To those who talk about embargoing filtering technology to China or other regimes that restrict political information, Schmidt said that personally (not as a Google executive) he was instructed by the example of Cuba. He said the embargo there hasn't worked, with Castro still in power, and with the Cuban people living with technology form the 1950s.
This is a tad self-serving. The Cuba embargo has failed to bring down Casto because domestic Cuban opposition has been crushed. It is non-existant due to fear, just like China. The Cuban standard of living continues to slouch to the 19th century because their economy is subject to the manipulations of one man! What is the US, as home to 10's of thousands of Cuban refugees, supposed to do? Prop Casto up? At least the US government has the guts to treat Castro like the pariah he is.
Mr. Schmidt's high thinking solution is nothing more than to act as the Maoists information jailer, or worse, be their stool pigeon. Hard to see how that leads to a better future in China. But ofcourse we know Google is not operating will the goal of higher ethics. They are making a buck. Do no evil?
NASA *Reaffirms* Big Bang Theory
Look like you were in a big hurry to do some karma whoring and you neglected to even look at the story. The original posting was completely reasonable.
HTML is a pretty niche language with limited power. Everything it does can easily be accomplished by other means (TeX, OpenDocument...). How about paying more attention to more 'bread and butter' languages like RTF, BibTeX, and plain text?
I suppose I should welcome any comment for a posting modded at -1, even if your analogy sucks.
Seriously, PHP is quite good at what it's intended for...
You are not instructing the ignorant. I am complaining that the Slashdot 'Development Section' is being polluted with trivial PHP gunk of limited interest. Same goes for AJAX, C# and the mindless prattle that goes with them. The slashdot priests don't like to be called on it.
This is the 3rd PHP posting in the last 3 days. PHP is a pretty niche language with little theoretical power. Everything it does can be accomplished as easily by other means (JSP, Perl...). How about paying more attention to 'bread and butter' languages like C, C++, and Scheme?
do your thinking for you?