Otto Warburg understand cancer metabolism in 1923. It's been quackery in oncology every since.
Evolutionary Origins of Cancer --"A 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Accident Waiting to Happen" http://bit.ly/18a3ul5
The so-called climate scientists have reduced the complicated coupled system that is climate to one variable: CO2 (cause or effect?). As the best engineer I know told me in grad school, people will ignore variables until they understand the problem. The last time I spoke with a PhD climate modeler (about 5 or so years ago), he told me their models (or at least his) assume the output of the Sun is constant. Apparently, NASA's instruments don't see variability in the output of the Sun, which actually raises more questions.
Again, the question that should be debated is whether civilization is prepared for a changing and unpredictable climate. My guess is we are not.
If there's one variable that affects the Earth's climate, it's the output of the Sun. If there's a second variable that affects the Earth's climate, it's the kinematics of the Earth about the Sun. Neither should be considered constant. The real hoax was that climate is constant, predictable, and controllable. The real debate should be whether civilization is prepared for a unpredictable, Climate change alarmists are doubling down on more command and control.
Sounds like a pyramid scheme of a company. Almost like she's the pretty faced puppet to market the scheme with some back end handlers drumming up publicity.
The question of how little exercise is needed for the beneficial effects was asked scientifically by Arthur Jones, inventor of the Nautlius workout equipment. It was further refined by bodybuilder Mike Mentzer who was a Jones acolyte. The books Body by Science and Congruent Exercise is a relatively up to date compilation of what Jones observed over his career.
Also, the concept of intervals was made popular by a Japanese researcher named Tabata, who observed that anaerobic training improved aerobic capacity, whereas aerobic training did not improve anaerobic capacity. That is, anaerobic metabolism drives aerobic metabolism.
"Incompetent manager type makes bad technical decision against his technical staff." Welcome to the IT industry. That's the rule that breaks the exception.
You mean you don't need a specious govt run anti-trust trial to take down a monopoly the govt help create? I guess the lawyers had to get rich somehow...
The institution I work has been using Postini for almost a year now. It works pretty well. But, I've also used DSPAM and Spamassassin, and Postini is definitely not $625M better than either of those two.
Not so far from the truth... Names have been removed to protect the guilty.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
COMING SOON
Linux admin position... As some of you may know, I was unceremoniously relieved of my duties at my department. It was completely my fault for misreading and misplaying the situation there. I didn't know how to pick my battles, and I didn't know how to keep my mouth shut. In that sense, I deserved what was coming.
KATRINA/NEW ORLEANS
Some of you may still be unclear what happened at my department back in July 2005. Simply, all the critical Windows servers were compromised by IRC bots. How did I know this? Shortly before the malicious hackers took them down, I noticed on one of my linux servers that iptables logs showed at least one of the Windows servers were doing port scans. I've seen such traffic at my previous job where I spent some time monitoring the wild, wild west of academic networks: dorm traffic. The Windows 2003 servers were left open to the internet without any type of firewall protection. DNS, DHCP, Exchange, File & Print, and AD Domain Controller all went down.
About five days into the disaster, with none of the critical servers yet restored, the Windows admin unilaterally decreed that all 500+ computers in the department should be manually reformatted to verify they are clean -- not imaged or automated through some unattended install process, but manually reformatted. I guess the motivation was that nobody would complain about the servers being down if the clients were down as well. Better yet, the grad students would be doing the dirty work of destroying their own workstations. Some of these computers had specialized instruments connected to them with obscure drivers. Ultimately, the reformatting orgy caused more destruction and downtime than the initial compromise. Who needs malicious hackers when you have admins like this, eh? The department I worked for was left with very limited functionality for July and August.
BAIT & SWITCH
That being said, I think that was a bait and switch position. My skills are explicitly stated in my resume. I was allowed to support the HPC Linux cluster, which I enjoyed. Interacting with students who needed to efficiently use the computers was a good time. However, during the disaster, I was not allowed to exercise my expertise with DHCP and DNS. The Windows admin didn't seem to realize that if the DNS server wasn't brought back up ASAP, the department was going to drop off the internet. Ultimately, I feel like I was judged on my inability to support Windows, which I never claimed I could do, along with the other reason I listed at the beginning of this story.
The real purpose of this job is to prop up the Windows admin. If you can follow bad and unethical decisions, you will fare much better than I did. The upside is that inability to restore lost data, causing the department to drop off the internet, and "working from home" when no one in the building has connectivity are perfectly acceptable. Within six months, the department had lost three full time IT staff members.
PARTING SHOTS
Being highly motivated and self starting in a department that doesn't take its computing environment very seriously can cause you not to survive the six month probationary period. Staying until midnight with a Knoppix CD, helping students recover files for project due in two days because the Windows admin went home at 5PM buys you absolutely nothing.
To paraphrase that funny Southern comedian, if you think campus IT hasn't put your network behind a firewall because your computers are "well behaved," you may very well be an incompetent Windows admin that missed the memo to contact campus IT to schedule a firewall deployment. I feel bad for the students and professors who have to put up with the daily headaches.
Someone once said, "It's been real... sometimes it's been fun... it just hasn't been real fun."
US elections are controlled at the local level, so unfortunately such a nationwide fix would not be workable here.
It's probably more likely the case that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want a workable solution. There are no technological barriers to having a secure, reliable, and repeatable electronic counting system. An updated voting system would allow the US to get rid of the antiquated Electoral College and institute a proportional representation system.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't slashcode solve this problem years ago with metamoderation?
Elizabeth Holmes seems like an actress fronting a ponzi scheme.
Technological salvation is a faith based proposition.
Govt searches govt property. So who's for more govt?
Otto Warburg understand cancer metabolism in 1923. It's been quackery in oncology every since. Evolutionary Origins of Cancer --"A 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Accident Waiting to Happen" http://bit.ly/18a3ul5
Isn't that the whole purpose of metamoderation as found in Slashcode? Discourse seems to have something similar.
The so-called climate scientists have reduced the complicated coupled system that is climate to one variable: CO2 (cause or effect?). As the best engineer I know told me in grad school, people will ignore variables until they understand the problem. The last time I spoke with a PhD climate modeler (about 5 or so years ago), he told me their models (or at least his) assume the output of the Sun is constant. Apparently, NASA's instruments don't see variability in the output of the Sun, which actually raises more questions. Again, the question that should be debated is whether civilization is prepared for a changing and unpredictable climate. My guess is we are not.
Isn't Florida also cracking down on people trying to live off the grid?
If there's one variable that affects the Earth's climate, it's the output of the Sun. If there's a second variable that affects the Earth's climate, it's the kinematics of the Earth about the Sun. Neither should be considered constant. The real hoax was that climate is constant, predictable, and controllable. The real debate should be whether civilization is prepared for a unpredictable, Climate change alarmists are doubling down on more command and control.
Sounds like a pyramid scheme of a company. Almost like she's the pretty faced puppet to market the scheme with some back end handlers drumming up publicity.
Debian Edition... Linux Mint just became compelling.
Evolutionary Origins of Cancer --"A 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Accident Waiting to Happen" http://bit.ly/18a3ul5
The question of how little exercise is needed for the beneficial effects was asked scientifically by Arthur Jones, inventor of the Nautlius workout equipment. It was further refined by bodybuilder Mike Mentzer who was a Jones acolyte. The books Body by Science and Congruent Exercise is a relatively up to date compilation of what Jones observed over his career. Also, the concept of intervals was made popular by a Japanese researcher named Tabata, who observed that anaerobic training improved aerobic capacity, whereas aerobic training did not improve anaerobic capacity. That is, anaerobic metabolism drives aerobic metabolism.
"Incompetent manager type makes bad technical decision against his technical staff." Welcome to the IT industry. That's the rule that breaks the exception.
What is it about the other candidates that give you the warm and fuzzies?
A "true super computer" must have had super amounts of money spent on it.
We need more government to do what again? Help the poor and protect the environment?
You mean you don't need a specious govt run anti-trust trial to take down a monopoly the govt help create? I guess the lawyers had to get rich somehow...
The institution I work has been using Postini for almost a year now. It works pretty well. But, I've also used DSPAM and Spamassassin, and Postini is definitely not $625M better than either of those two.
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2005/12/differe nt-argument-for-right-to-bear.html
I'd hit it...
Not so far from the truth... Names have been removed to protect the guilty.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
COMING SOON
Linux admin position... As some of you may know, I was unceremoniously relieved
of my duties at my department. It was completely my fault for misreading and
misplaying the situation there. I didn't know how to pick my battles,
and I didn't know how to keep my mouth shut. In that sense, I
deserved what was coming.
KATRINA/NEW ORLEANS
Some of you may still be unclear what happened at my department back in July 2005.
Simply, all the critical Windows servers were compromised by IRC bots. How did I
know this? Shortly before the malicious hackers took them down, I noticed on one
of my linux servers that iptables logs showed at least one of the Windows servers
were doing port scans. I've seen such traffic at my previous job where I spent
some time monitoring the wild, wild west of academic networks: dorm traffic.
The Windows 2003 servers were left open to the internet without any type
of firewall protection. DNS, DHCP, Exchange, File & Print, and AD Domain
Controller all went down.
About five days into the disaster, with none of the critical servers yet
restored, the Windows admin unilaterally decreed that all 500+ computers in the
department should be manually reformatted to verify they are clean -- not
imaged or automated through some unattended install process, but manually
reformatted. I guess the motivation was that nobody would complain about the
servers being down if the clients were down as well. Better yet, the grad students
would be doing the dirty work of destroying their own workstations. Some of these
computers had specialized instruments connected to them with obscure drivers.
Ultimately, the reformatting orgy caused more destruction and downtime than the initial
compromise. Who needs malicious hackers when you have admins like this, eh? The
department I worked for was left with very limited functionality for July and August.
BAIT & SWITCH
That being said, I think that was a bait and switch position. My skills
are explicitly stated in my resume. I was allowed to support the HPC
Linux cluster, which I enjoyed. Interacting with students who needed to
efficiently use the computers was a good time. However, during the
disaster, I was not allowed to exercise my expertise with DHCP and DNS. The
Windows admin didn't seem to realize that if the DNS server wasn't
brought back up ASAP, the department was going to drop off the internet.
Ultimately, I feel like I was judged on my inability to support Windows,
which I never claimed I could do, along with the other reason I listed at
the beginning of this story.
The real purpose of this job is to prop up the Windows admin. If you can
follow bad and unethical decisions, you will fare much better than I did.
The upside is that inability to restore lost data, causing the department to
drop off the internet, and "working from home" when no one in the building has
connectivity are perfectly acceptable. Within six months, the department had
lost three full time IT staff members.
PARTING SHOTS
Being highly motivated and self starting in a department that doesn't take
its computing environment very seriously can cause you not to survive
the six month probationary period. Staying until midnight with a Knoppix CD,
helping students recover files for project due in two days because the Windows
admin went home at 5PM buys you absolutely nothing.
To paraphrase that funny Southern comedian, if you think campus
IT hasn't put your network behind a firewall because your
computers are "well behaved," you may very well be an incompetent Windows
admin that missed the memo to contact campus IT to schedule a firewall
deployment. I feel bad for the students and professors who have to put up with
the daily headaches.
Someone once said, "It's been real... sometimes it's been fun... it just hasn't
been real fun."
A: When it's backed by a government.
Managerial ability seem to always be inversely proportional to face time.