If I had mod points I'd have given you a +1 as well too. I've been using dspam for my own systems as well as clients' systems for years now, with MySQL as the backend (InnoDB tables though, not MyISAM). The only downside is that it can end up eating a fair amount of filesize, but it's extremely fast and highly accurate. Combine that with other methods like RBL, spf checks, dk, etc., and I get but a false-positive once every 3 months or more, and a false-negative once every 6-12 months.
SHR Spam Hit Rate 98.48%
HSR Ham Strike Rate: 0.23%
PPV Positive predictive value: 99.93%
OCA Overall Accuracy: 98.77%
And this is with the same database for the past 3-5 years or so now.
Perhaps if the ratios weren't on the ballpark of 18 minutes of programming per 30 minutes (seriously, that's 2/5's of any time block for commercials), then we wouldn't be so apt to cut them out. If you compare the ratios from an older show, such as Star Trek The Original Series, you'll get on average 50 to 53 minutes of programming per hour. That is a FAR better ratio of programming to commercials, and also raises the value of any commercials shown as our eyeballs and brains don't hit saturation.
I live in Austin and work in LA. Take your pick of poison... "Teh Crazy" as you put it, or "The People's Republic of California", if you will. I find Cali to be no less crazy than TX. It's just a question of how that crazy is expressed, kind of like your genes.
Naive is the person who doesn't think that the gov'ts of the world have not already been doing that which the NSA has been revealed to do (on more than one occasion). Always assume somebody is watching...
-The VPOTUS sits in the Senate and has some powers there.
-The POTUS has some ability to affect HOW legislation is enforced.
-The POTUS can propose legislation to the legislature, IIRC
Actually, IIRC, Fahrenheit is based upon typical saline water of concentrations similar to the ocean... Thus salt water freezing at 0 deg F instead of like fresh water at 32 deg F. Celcius is based upon fresh water, and accounts for the boiling temperature as well. According to the Wikipedia article, 0 F is the freezing point of "brine" but I'm not sure what is defined as brine in this case.
Every car that my family owned since around 1983 had both mph and kph on the dial. This counts even GM cars back in the early 80's before my folks switched to Japanese automakers.
I really wish we could just put a fork in it and be done with the migration to metric. Do we buy soda by... the 4 oz, 12oz, 16oz, 20oz, 1/2 liter, liter, 2 liter, 3 liter? Medicines are measured as... hmm... ml, teaspoons, various gram-oriented measures, etc. It's fscking schizophrenic...
I don't think it would matter one single iota if the older vaccines would still be in use from the standpoint of the anti-vaccs group. The evidence to this day, afaik, does NOT support the 1980's court cases about vaccines in the first place. You don't necessarily need scientific evidence in a courtroom to instill the fear of lawsuits in the manufacturers...
You are indeed correct. To the best of my knowledge, the tetanus booster (at least in the USA) for adults is actually a tdap, so it includes diptheria and pertussis as well. I keep mine current as well - whatever risk there is from a tried-and-true vaccine is almost ALWAYS preferable over the actual disease. That is the part those who refuse to vaccinate themselves and/or their offspring fail to realize.
I felt like chiming in here a bit, as I think I understand what serviscope_minor is getting at. I too have contributed to several projects - whether it be documentation, fixes to code, or enhancements (most recently I added some functionality to FreeSWITCH's mod_curl. I've been down this path before, but I'm also experienced enough in life and professionally to see things for what they really are. Most of the time, you'll be told that your implementation is wrong and needs to be changed, or can it be done a different way, the idea is not good, or they don't like your edits. Now there's two possible responses that you, the contributor, can give:
1) You can cry because somebody was blunt and/or curt with you about your contributions, and take your ball and go home.
OR
2) You can avoid taking the criticism personally. From my experience, there are almost always very good reasons for this criticism. Just because you are providing volunteer work doesn't mean that the project in question is required to accept your contribution. You are either just trying to contribute what they don't need or don't want, or you are contributing something they do want but you need to do it in a different way so it fits better with the vision of the project.
BasilBrush - This is why he is asking for TWiTfan to provide the context. The context is all important - did TWiTfan choose 1 or 2 above? Do we agree that his choice to do one or the other was a good thing or a case of overly thin skin and too easily bruised of an ego? This isn't about 80's frats. This is simply about the cruel nature of the world: the vast majority of the time people only care about what you can provide to them, and if you can't provide anything, then scram.
Not trying to start a flame-war here, but I've been seeing a fair amount of strictly politics related postings here lately. Could anybody please explain to me how this is on topic for Slashdot?
1. Drop the legal BAC, then make people FIGHT to get some decent public transit options, especially for bar/club-goers at night on a weekend
2. Build up the public transit options to a viable level, especially for weekend bar/club-goers, then drop the BAC to 0.05?
Sure you can try to legislate behavior all you want. It doesn't mean that you'll necessarily get any drop in drunk-driving caused accidents. (Also, we have to make sure that driving accidents where the driver of either vehicle is above the legal limit be counted in the statistics, not the ones where the driver was clean but the passengers were sh*tfaced.) You might just end up clogging the courts up and costing a LOT of people money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Which of these two options will have a greater result?
And I'm 100% positive the corpus of data could not become polluted... With such a "fail-safe" type of a system, try proving you are who you say you are when the computer says otherwise...
I'm sorry, but canned tuna doesn't belong on a pizza. On the other hand, though, corn goes well. Now if only the commoner in Israel could figure out that pizza is nasty when it's as dry as cardboard...
Anyway back to my phone call...
Yes, i'd like to order 3 large cheese pizzas for... uhm... Guy Penis...
(Sorry, I sound like I got some sort of small head on me or something...)
I'm just waiting to hear about how it won't let somebody who just put on some alcohol-based hand sanitizer to drive. Sort of like how I heard eating a couple of those listerine breath strips can register a false positive on a breathalyzer...
To elaborate, I'd go with a frontend that was an Atom-Ion type (make sure it's a dual core Atom). From what I hear, due to the VDPAU supported by the nvidia graphics chipset, these are supposed to handle playback of 1080p no problem.
Send to Klingon High Command: "This is Excelsior, a Federation Starship traveling in beta quadrant. We have monitored a large explosion in your sector. Do you require any assistance?"
I always seem to get nailed by mishteret tnuAh (traffic police) every time I go home for a visit, and always for something dumb (like I nearly missed an exit from the ayalon and ended up crossing the i-tnuAh as a result...) I did used to think that we drive like nuts in Israel, but then I took a trip to Vietnam. My recommendation: if you go to F.E. or S.E. or even S. Asia, make sure you have a good insurance policy with you...
Steering lock, from my experience, is not depending on which gear you are in, but instead, whether you have the key in the ignition and what position it's in. Anything besides "on" or "start" would cause the steering wheel to lock in position.
I would say that the mark of the beast is in the form of a fruit emblem that seems to be imprinted on a number of objects in people's possession... *grin*
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AmiMoJo - are sex toys for children? If not, your point is irrelevant. :-)
If I had mod points I'd have given you a +1 as well too. I've been using dspam for my own systems as well as clients' systems for years now, with MySQL as the backend (InnoDB tables though, not MyISAM). The only downside is that it can end up eating a fair amount of filesize, but it's extremely fast and highly accurate. Combine that with other methods like RBL, spf checks, dk, etc., and I get but a false-positive once every 3 months or more, and a false-negative once every 6-12 months.
SHR Spam Hit Rate 98.48%
HSR Ham Strike Rate: 0.23%
PPV Positive predictive value: 99.93%
OCA Overall Accuracy: 98.77%
And this is with the same database for the past 3-5 years or so now.
Perhaps if the ratios weren't on the ballpark of 18 minutes of programming per 30 minutes (seriously, that's 2/5's of any time block for commercials), then we wouldn't be so apt to cut them out. If you compare the ratios from an older show, such as Star Trek The Original Series, you'll get on average 50 to 53 minutes of programming per hour. That is a FAR better ratio of programming to commercials, and also raises the value of any commercials shown as our eyeballs and brains don't hit saturation.
I live in Austin and work in LA. Take your pick of poison... "Teh Crazy" as you put it, or "The People's Republic of California", if you will. I find Cali to be no less crazy than TX. It's just a question of how that crazy is expressed, kind of like your genes.
Naive is the person who doesn't think that the gov'ts of the world have not already been doing that which the NSA has been revealed to do (on more than one occasion). Always assume somebody is watching...
Pongo's review of Rocky 5... thousand!
The POTUS has some power in that:
-The VPOTUS sits in the Senate and has some powers there.
-The POTUS has some ability to affect HOW legislation is enforced.
-The POTUS can propose legislation to the legislature, IIRC
Actually, IIRC, Fahrenheit is based upon typical saline water of concentrations similar to the ocean... Thus salt water freezing at 0 deg F instead of like fresh water at 32 deg F. Celcius is based upon fresh water, and accounts for the boiling temperature as well. According to the Wikipedia article, 0 F is the freezing point of "brine" but I'm not sure what is defined as brine in this case.
Every car that my family owned since around 1983 had both mph and kph on the dial. This counts even GM cars back in the early 80's before my folks switched to Japanese automakers.
I really wish we could just put a fork in it and be done with the migration to metric. Do we buy soda by... the 4 oz, 12oz, 16oz, 20oz, 1/2 liter, liter, 2 liter, 3 liter? Medicines are measured as... hmm... ml, teaspoons, various gram-oriented measures, etc. It's fscking schizophrenic...
I don't think it would matter one single iota if the older vaccines would still be in use from the standpoint of the anti-vaccs group. The evidence to this day, afaik, does NOT support the 1980's court cases about vaccines in the first place. You don't necessarily need scientific evidence in a courtroom to instill the fear of lawsuits in the manufacturers...
You are indeed correct. To the best of my knowledge, the tetanus booster (at least in the USA) for adults is actually a tdap, so it includes diptheria and pertussis as well. I keep mine current as well - whatever risk there is from a tried-and-true vaccine is almost ALWAYS preferable over the actual disease. That is the part those who refuse to vaccinate themselves and/or their offspring fail to realize.
I felt like chiming in here a bit, as I think I understand what serviscope_minor is getting at. I too have contributed to several projects - whether it be documentation, fixes to code, or enhancements (most recently I added some functionality to FreeSWITCH's mod_curl. I've been down this path before, but I'm also experienced enough in life and professionally to see things for what they really are. Most of the time, you'll be told that your implementation is wrong and needs to be changed, or can it be done a different way, the idea is not good, or they don't like your edits. Now there's two possible responses that you, the contributor, can give:
1) You can cry because somebody was blunt and/or curt with you about your contributions, and take your ball and go home.
OR
2) You can avoid taking the criticism personally. From my experience, there are almost always very good reasons for this criticism. Just because you are providing volunteer work doesn't mean that the project in question is required to accept your contribution. You are either just trying to contribute what they don't need or don't want, or you are contributing something they do want but you need to do it in a different way so it fits better with the vision of the project.
BasilBrush - This is why he is asking for TWiTfan to provide the context. The context is all important - did TWiTfan choose 1 or 2 above? Do we agree that his choice to do one or the other was a good thing or a case of overly thin skin and too easily bruised of an ego? This isn't about 80's frats. This is simply about the cruel nature of the world: the vast majority of the time people only care about what you can provide to them, and if you can't provide anything, then scram.
At least in the US, name for me one major car rental company that will allow you to rent with nothing other than cash...
I guess you're right... But this could be a corollary to Rule 34 no? (If you can think of it, there's a group of "nerds" interested in it...) :-)
Not trying to start a flame-war here, but I've been seeing a fair amount of strictly politics related postings here lately. Could anybody please explain to me how this is on topic for Slashdot?
Let's be honest here... Which is more effective?
1. Drop the legal BAC, then make people FIGHT to get some decent public transit options, especially for bar/club-goers at night on a weekend
2. Build up the public transit options to a viable level, especially for weekend bar/club-goers, then drop the BAC to 0.05?
Sure you can try to legislate behavior all you want. It doesn't mean that you'll necessarily get any drop in drunk-driving caused accidents. (Also, we have to make sure that driving accidents where the driver of either vehicle is above the legal limit be counted in the statistics, not the ones where the driver was clean but the passengers were sh*tfaced.) You might just end up clogging the courts up and costing a LOT of people money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Which of these two options will have a greater result?
And I'm 100% positive the corpus of data could not become polluted... With such a "fail-safe" type of a system, try proving you are who you say you are when the computer says otherwise...
I'm sorry, but canned tuna doesn't belong on a pizza. On the other hand, though, corn goes well. Now if only the commoner in Israel could figure out that pizza is nasty when it's as dry as cardboard...
Anyway back to my phone call...
Yes, i'd like to order 3 large cheese pizzas for... uhm... Guy Penis...
(Sorry, I sound like I got some sort of small head on me or something...)
I'm just waiting to hear about how it won't let somebody who just put on some alcohol-based hand sanitizer to drive. Sort of like how I heard eating a couple of those listerine breath strips can register a false positive on a breathalyzer...
To elaborate, I'd go with a frontend that was an Atom-Ion type (make sure it's a dual core Atom). From what I hear, due to the VDPAU supported by the nvidia graphics chipset, these are supposed to handle playback of 1080p no problem.
"You haven't heard Shakespeare until you've heard it in the original Klingon."
Takh bakh o takh bekh? (Apologies to those who actually do know Klingon...)
Send to Klingon High Command: "This is Excelsior, a Federation Starship traveling in beta quadrant. We have monitored a large explosion in your sector. Do you require any assistance?"
I always seem to get nailed by mishteret tnuAh (traffic police) every time I go home for a visit, and always for something dumb (like I nearly missed an exit from the ayalon and ended up crossing the i-tnuAh as a result...) I did used to think that we drive like nuts in Israel, but then I took a trip to Vietnam. My recommendation: if you go to F.E. or S.E. or even S. Asia, make sure you have a good insurance policy with you...
Steering lock, from my experience, is not depending on which gear you are in, but instead, whether you have the key in the ignition and what position it's in. Anything besides "on" or "start" would cause the steering wheel to lock in position.
I would say that the mark of the beast is in the form of a fruit emblem that seems to be imprinted on a number of objects in people's possession... *grin*