You don't need autoplay for infection. Most viruses in the times of DOS spread in floppy disks, and there was no autoplay feature in DOS. Whatever system you are using, it has to access the media in order to learn about things like its filesystem, even before that, there has to be a driver of some sort for the actual hardware. If there is a bug in the code handling any of these things, an infection can occur long time before any autorun feature would even kick in.
When I was at graduate school, the entire department ran on Solaris/SunOS, with few people using macs as their desktops. When I returned there several years ago, it seems that pretty much everybody was running Linux.
My first job was at a small private college that used Windows for everything. When I asked them about Linux, they gave me an old obsolete computer, and let me install Linux on it and connect it to the network. I still had to have my Windows computer on my desk, though. So I ended up having an expensive Windows computer that I never used, and an old Linux computer that I did all my work on.
At the college I work now, I asked the IT office for an advice. I wanted Linux, but I asked them if there will be any problem with it, and if there was, if they would recommend getting a Mac instead. They said they didn't see any reason whatsoever why Linux would be a problem, as long as I download and install it myself. Several of my colleagues have since installed Linux on their office computers without asking anybody, and none of them seems to have any problem with it.
the horns would actually be used to make sound, too. It seems that he uses them just as a decoration. Seriously, he needs some brass in that robotic band.
"Gavin Russell, prime minister of the student government, gathered scores of signatures on a petition supporting Mr. Christie before two staff members warned him that, if he continued, he could also face punishment."
Now, you completely misunderstood their intentions. It's all done for educational reasons. The school administration realizes that the students growing in democracy will never experience what some of us experienced in our formative years, things like a threat of being kicked out of school, imprisoned, or severely beaten by the cops for doing things like starting a petition in someones support. They are just trying to strengthen their character, and to make them fully appreciate the democratic system they live in. They are really hoping that he will continue in spite of their threats, and eventually prevail.
I wonder if that's what's really going on there. If the teacher has been pain in the administration's ass, they cannot easily get rid of him, and so they go after his students.
I don't know, writing a good word processor would certainly require a good knowledge of Computer Science. In fact, it seems to be so hard that nobody has managed to do it well so far.
As far as large moon being necessary for magnetosphere, that should not be too hard to find out. We have several planets right here in the solar system to look at. Are there any of them that have magnetosphere without having a large moon?
As for the suggestion to look for magnetic field when looking for extraterestrial life, are we actually able to detect such small magnetic fields over such distances? I don't know, but I would assume that if we could do it, we would hear about it more often, when we read about a discovery of a new extrasolar planet, it would say whether it has magnetosphere or not.
Finally, as for the harmful effects of the sun, is there any reason why life couldn't evolve to take advantage of the radiation that is harmful to us? The life that evolved on this planet was always more or less protected by magnetosphere, and so it evolved to harvest solar energy mostly in form of visible light, or near visible infrared, and, as it was never seriously exposed to other forms of radiation for significant period of time, it did not evolve any resistance to it. Would it be possible that on other planets, life could evolve to not only be resistant to, but actually take an advantage of some of the more aggressive forms of radiation?
Long term, tidal lock to the star will happen. A moon slows that down.
Yeah, I can see that is the reason. I can see all the aminoacids and whatnot swimming in the early oceans, happily combining into more and more complicated molecules, searching for the one that can self-replicate, suddenly looking towards the sky and saying: "Oh shit, no moon here, in like billions of years this planet will become tidal locked to the star, and it will be a very unpleasant place to be. Forget it, guys, lets pack up and go home!"
In both cases, the crank would help you, unless you have an electric car.
I suppose that one of the reason cars today don't have a crank is that if they would, bunch of people would try to crank they car, do it wrong, break their arm, and sue the car company.
in a sense. Not an accredited one, they are not going to get a degree from it, but that's exactly what the "mentorship from the Foundationâ(TM)s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators" will be.
The difference is that they will not have to go through the painful part of American college education that's called "general education requirements". Since these people will presumably be selected in some way, we can assume that they will already be reasonably well educated from high school. Such students, in many other countries, would not be taking any "general education" classes anyway, and would go straight to studying the subject they are interested in. It seems like that's exactly what's happening here, except the studying will be more hands on that in a regular college. In addition, it seems like they will actually be paid for it, rather than paying for it themselves.
It depends how you interpret the ratings. Interpreting the ratings as a measure of quality of the actual album is flawed, as only people who are interested in the album, and mostly people who will actually purchase it will rate it. I personally would give the album the lowest available rating based on the stuff I have heard from it, but I and other people like me are not very likely to go there and rate it. So the rating cannot be in any way an objective measure of quality of the album.
If you, on the other hand, interpret the rating as a measure of satisfaction with the service you are purchasing, then the low rating is, IMHO, somewhat appropriate.
Or perhaps you could eat a lot of vegetables, fruits, and beans and get the right amount of vitamin D, and get enough of some other key nutrients like Omega-3s and iodine...
And die early from worrying about all that crap? That does not sound like fun at all....a connection to the infinite...
I think I have that. I teach calculus and set theory fairly often.
whether you can enjoy root beer and twizzlers. After nearly 20 years in the US, I can eat almost anything, but why would anybody drink cough medicine and chew on tasteless bits of red plastic totally escapes me.
That's exactly right, I wish I had mod points. If you are an Asian in the Midwest, your choices are bad Asian food, very bad Asian food, or burgers. If you are a central European in the Midwest, your choices are driving 250 miles to Chicago, or bad Asian food. Or burgers.
I don't know. The burger does look pretty good, I would cut down on the "veggies" a bit, but it does look tasty. On the other hand, if I had to choose between that and a plate of goulash with bread dumplings and a nice cold mug of good lager, I know what my choice would be.
Well, calculus is a Math class, so I suppose they would charge the math rate for that. Considering typical math faculty salaries, and the fact that you don't need much lab equipment for calculus, it would probably be pretty cheap.
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You don't need autoplay for infection. Most viruses in the times of DOS spread in floppy disks, and there was no autoplay feature in DOS. Whatever system you are using, it has to access the media in order to learn about things like its filesystem, even before that, there has to be a driver of some sort for the actual hardware. If there is a bug in the code handling any of these things, an infection can occur long time before any autorun feature would even kick in.
While I personally dislike Palin, can someone with mod points please moderate the parent as -1: Idiot! ? Thank you.
When I was at graduate school, the entire department ran on Solaris/SunOS, with few people using macs as their desktops. When I returned there several years ago, it seems that pretty much everybody was running Linux.
My first job was at a small private college that used Windows for everything. When I asked them about Linux, they gave me an old obsolete computer, and let me install Linux on it and connect it to the network. I still had to have my Windows computer on my desk, though. So I ended up having an expensive Windows computer that I never used, and an old Linux computer that I did all my work on.
At the college I work now, I asked the IT office for an advice. I wanted Linux, but I asked them if there will be any problem with it, and if there was, if they would recommend getting a Mac instead. They said they didn't see any reason whatsoever why Linux would be a problem, as long as I download and install it myself. Several of my colleagues have since installed Linux on their office computers without asking anybody, and none of them seems to have any problem with it.
the horns would actually be used to make sound, too. It seems that he uses them just as a decoration. Seriously, he needs some brass in that robotic band.
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What's that?
"Gavin Russell, prime minister of the student government, gathered scores of signatures on a petition supporting Mr. Christie before two staff members warned him that, if he continued, he could also face punishment."
Now, you completely misunderstood their intentions. It's all done for educational reasons. The school administration realizes that the students growing in democracy will never experience what some of us experienced in our formative years, things like a threat of being kicked out of school, imprisoned, or severely beaten by the cops for doing things like starting a petition in someones support. They are just trying to strengthen their character, and to make them fully appreciate the democratic system they live in. They are really hoping that he will continue in spite of their threats, and eventually prevail.
I wonder if that's what's really going on there. If the teacher has been pain in the administration's ass, they cannot easily get rid of him, and so they go after his students.
I don't know, writing a good word processor would certainly require a good knowledge of Computer Science. In fact, it seems to be so hard that nobody has managed to do it well so far.
As far as large moon being necessary for magnetosphere, that should not be too hard to find out. We have several planets right here in the solar system to look at. Are there any of them that have magnetosphere without having a large moon?
As for the suggestion to look for magnetic field when looking for extraterestrial life, are we actually able to detect such small magnetic fields over such distances? I don't know, but I would assume that if we could do it, we would hear about it more often, when we read about a discovery of a new extrasolar planet, it would say whether it has magnetosphere or not.
Finally, as for the harmful effects of the sun, is there any reason why life couldn't evolve to take advantage of the radiation that is harmful to us? The life that evolved on this planet was always more or less protected by magnetosphere, and so it evolved to harvest solar energy mostly in form of visible light, or near visible infrared, and, as it was never seriously exposed to other forms of radiation for significant period of time, it did not evolve any resistance to it. Would it be possible that on other planets, life could evolve to not only be resistant to, but actually take an advantage of some of the more aggressive forms of radiation?
Long term, tidal lock to the star will happen. A moon slows that down.
Yeah, I can see that is the reason. I can see all the aminoacids and whatnot swimming in the early oceans, happily combining into more and more complicated molecules, searching for the one that can self-replicate, suddenly looking towards the sky and saying: "Oh shit, no moon here, in like billions of years this planet will become tidal locked to the star, and it will be a very unpleasant place to be. Forget it, guys, lets pack up and go home!"
In both cases, the crank would help you, unless you have an electric car.
I suppose that one of the reason cars today don't have a crank is that if they would, bunch of people would try to crank they car, do it wrong, break their arm, and sue the car company.
in a sense. Not an accredited one, they are not going to get a degree from it, but that's exactly what the "mentorship from the Foundationâ(TM)s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators" will be.
The difference is that they will not have to go through the painful part of American college education that's called "general education requirements". Since these people will presumably be selected in some way, we can assume that they will already be reasonably well educated from high school. Such students, in many other countries, would not be taking any "general education" classes anyway, and would go straight to studying the subject they are interested in. It seems like that's exactly what's happening here, except the studying will be more hands on that in a regular college. In addition, it seems like they will actually be paid for it, rather than paying for it themselves.
Classic browser? You mean like Lynx? Lynx never had an URL bar.
It depends how you interpret the ratings. Interpreting the ratings as a measure of quality of the actual album is flawed, as only people who are interested in the album, and mostly people who will actually purchase it will rate it. I personally would give the album the lowest available rating based on the stuff I have heard from it, but I and other people like me are not very likely to go there and rate it. So the rating cannot be in any way an objective measure of quality of the album.
If you, on the other hand, interpret the rating as a measure of satisfaction with the service you are purchasing, then the low rating is, IMHO, somewhat appropriate.
Or perhaps you could eat a lot of vegetables, fruits, and beans and get the right amount of vitamin D, and get enough of some other key nutrients like Omega-3s and iodine...
And die early from worrying about all that crap? That does not sound like fun at all. ...a connection to the infinite...
I think I have that. I teach calculus and set theory fairly often.
Lynx never had no steenking URL bar, and it always worked just fine without it.
It would be helpful if you included some details.
Caffeine addicts with excessive consumption are also at higher risk of cardiac arrhythmias that could cause sudden death
Interesting point, that. I personally would much rather die a sudden death than suffer through years of cancer.
Be careful which part of Europe you are talking about. Europe is not all France and Germany, you know.
whether you can enjoy root beer and twizzlers. After nearly 20 years in the US, I can eat almost anything, but why would anybody drink cough medicine and chew on tasteless bits of red plastic totally escapes me.
That's exactly right, I wish I had mod points. If you are an Asian in the Midwest, your choices are bad Asian food, very bad Asian food, or burgers. If you are a central European in the Midwest, your choices are driving 250 miles to Chicago, or bad Asian food. Or burgers.
But they were British, they don't count. As they say, the British have good table manners, while the continental Europeans have good food.
I don't know. The burger does look pretty good, I would cut down on the "veggies" a bit, but it does look tasty. On the other hand, if I had to choose between that and a plate of goulash with bread dumplings and a nice cold mug of good lager, I know what my choice would be.
I think I need to hit the cellar, grab some bottles and start experimenting.
Well, calculus is a Math class, so I suppose they would charge the math rate for that. Considering typical math faculty salaries, and the fact that you don't need much lab equipment for calculus, it would probably be pretty cheap.