patent the research and charge big bucks for the cures are you?
Here are your choices:
1) Drug company creates new drug based on numbers your computer crunched and they charge you big bucks for the cure.
2) Miracle drug you need to save your life (or the life of a family member) is not available because no one ran the distributed client.
What is your choice? Do you pay the money for the cure that exists or do you whine about how there is no cure for your particular disease?
In addition to donating directly to various cancer-related charities, I run the F@H client at home. The cost of the extra electricity consumed is negligable for me. I consider the small increase in my monthly electric bill to be a "donation" to finding a cure that will help someone someday. If "Big Pharma" uses my data to create a new blockbuster drug (even if they charge big bucks for it), then I've helped future generations.
its unreasonable to expect a job to be "held" for you indefinitely.
It's called Long-Term Disability Insurance. Are you telling me that your employer doesn't provide this for you? If I ever get so sick that I can't return to work, I get 66% of my salary for the rest of my life. That's a pretty standard benefit in all of the places I've worked.
> Simply regurgitating a line and giggling in a nerdish fashion whenever you hear a certain word (kind of reminds me of P.W.'s playhouse's secret word, actually) requires absolutely no intelligence whatever.
I agree wholeheartedly but I don't think we'll ever see the end of:
It doesn't matter what label you give it, that's just the way things are. Google for "milwaukee police beating jude" to find out about the "blue line". When certain cops were being investigated for beating the crap out of a guy, the other officers refused to say a word.
I'm not saying that is right or wrong. I'm saying "This is how things are." You may think you are "Mr. Smartguy" for making the sheriff come to your house multiple times at 3am and then finally getting a restraining order against him. The cold, hard truth is that you really don't want to have the Sheriff or any of his buddies pissed at you. The standard Slashdot retort to that is "Well, then I'd sue!". Yeah, sure you would. After something "bad" happens to you. Like the beating that Mr. Jude received.
Welcome to the real world, Mr. AC. Mess with the cops, expect to have a rough time until you move out of that
community.
man I hope he comes to bang on the door at 3am tonight;-)
Instead of being an asshat about the whole situation, why not tell the Sheriff where he can find your ne'er-do-well sons?
It sounds like you know where they live.
Having a LEO for an enemy is not a good idea. They have guns...and lot of friends with guns who are just a radio call away.
Hopefully everything is in order at your residence. Otherwise you may find yourself yelling "But I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" while your neighbors watch you being dragged from your house.
Also, thanks for tying-up the Sheriff's time dealing with your nonsense. Instead of protecting the public, he has had to make multiple visits to your house.
What kind of response time do you expect now when you call 911 due to a knife-wielding guy standing in your kitchen?
"Hello? This is 1311 Evergreen Terrace. There is a man with a knife in my kitchen. Send officers right away!"
"Did you say 1311 Evergreen Terrace? We'll have a squad respond as quickly as possible....after we finish watching CSI!"
an internet connection that can even deliver up to a solid 2-3MB/sec throughput. So, in theory, 802.11b @ 11MB/sec still hasn't even been TRULY maximized.
1. If you meant "Megabits" in your statement, you'll want to use "Mb/sec" or "Mbits/sec". Using the uppercase "B" means "bytes".
2. The signaling rate of 802.11b is 11Mbits/sec. The real data throughput is about half that or 5.5Mbit/sec. Same ROT for 802.11g: 54Mbit/sec signaling but real throughput of 22Mbit/sec.
Okay, maybe you are in trollmode today. But in case you weren't, I'd like to respond that I'm very happy with my Honda motorcycle (manufactured in Ohio by Americans).
Honda's first U.S. production facility, the Marysville Motorcycle Plant remains the only facility in the world to produce Honda's top-of-the-line touring motorcycle - the Gold Wing - and the industry's most powerful V-twin cruiser - the VTX1800. The plant has produced more than 2 million motorcycles and ATVs, with its products exported to 56 countries, including Japan. The flexible plant added motorcycle engine assembly in January 2000.
I am also quite pleased with my Toyota car that was produced in Georgetown, Kentucky by Americans.
The money I spent for the car and for the bike indirectly ended-up in the pockets of Americans working in Ohio and Kentucky. I'm very happy with the quality of both vehicles (as are many other people I've spoken to who own the same make and model that I do - Are you listening, Big Three?). When someone asks "Why didn't yall buy'n American car?", I have a pretty good comeback.:^)
Most large companies, especially ones such as WalMart, do not hire more employees as they get more profits. Those profits go to the top half dozen or so owners of the corporations. WalMart is very good at making extra profit. One method it does this is by having less working in sweat labor camps overseas (usually indirectly, through the companies they forced into lower prices, and they only way to get those lower prices were such practices as these), and paying those workers even less than before. Conditions worsen, there are less workers, and the only people to profit are those at the top. Once they open up a shop in a new location, they drive competition out of business, putting 3 people on the street for every 2 they create jobs for. It's a great system.. if you own WalMart and aren't concerned about making the world a worse place to live in.
I realize that "Walmart bashing" is a sport that everyone enjoys and requires very little brain power. But you may want to take a look at the August 7th issue of Fortune. The cover story is about Walmart's efforts to go "green". Walmart is big enough that if they decide to start favoring/endorsing environmentally-friendly products, they could actually make a difference. There are some interesting examples in the story like Walmart selling clothing made from organic cotton (as opposed to cotton that is grow with the aid of "chemicals") as well as making their stores and distribution network more energy-efficient.
After Walmart's "green" movement starts to make a noticable difference in the environment as well as causing other large companies to adopt similar eco-friendly practices, Walmart won't be such an easy target any more. But we'll still be able to stand around and complain about high taxes, the high price of gasoline and the weather.:^)
Diesel gasoline? Is that like sending the new guy out for a "bucket of steam", a "left-handed monkey wrench", a "board stretcher" or some "blinker fluid"?:^)
MAC address filtering is a better way to do this anyway.
How is access control using a list of known MAC addresses "better" than using wireless encryption? Collecting a list of wireless MACs in the area and then they spoofing one of them is easy-as-pie.
It sounds like the peoplt there are hip, why not toss in a couple hundred bucks per condo, get a T3 or higher to the complex and have wifi all over? Probably a lot cheaper than each one paying $50-100 a month for internet service. And then it becomes a draw to the complex as now they have "free" wifi, increasing their property values.
Yeah, because when I'm going to invest a couple hundred thousand in somewhere to call "Home", one of the things that will affect my decision is "free wireless." Right.
You must either be still in college (renting an apartment with five buddies) or just out of college (renting an apartment with five buddies).
if you do get encryption working right between multiple vendors, you could still run into trouble with performance/usability.
Before you lump all wireless authentication/encyption schemes into the "doesn't work and slows down my network" bucket, please provide a list of the authenctication and/or encryption methods you were trying to use. If you had trouble with WEP, then say so. If you had trouble with WPA-PSK, list it. If you are running something at home that uses 802.1x for authentication (which most of us don't), then let us know. Otherwise you are just scaring the n00bs who read your message. Later-on in the week they're repeat what you said as gospel: "Yeah, wireless encryption between multiple vendors is nearly impossible and will slow down your network. I read it on Slashdot."
Please share with us the authentication and encryption schemes you were using that "slowed down your network".
Getting wireless hardware from different manufacturers to cooperate while using encryption can be a hassle.
What? I call "Shenanigans!"
You'll have to provide specific examples for that one. Please provide a real-world case where getting Vendor A's 802.11 hardware to talk with Vendor B's 802.11 hardware "was a hassle" due to the encryption that was used on the wireless connection.
Cops: Well bugger me, that's the MAC address of that computer sitting right over there in the corner.
... and they get that MAC address *how* exactly?
The first piece of software that popped into my head was Kismet. You could also listen for wireless client MAC addresses with something like Airmagnet but I don't think every wireless hacker on the street has a copy of that software.
Collecting a list of wireless MAC addresses in use nearby is not that hard. After you've collected the station addresses, you pick one, spoof it and go to town.
This is the reason why wireless "security" based on entering a list of trusted MAC address in your access point/wireless router is not very secure. It's not hard for someone to listen for the MACs that have the ability to talk with that access point and then pretend to be one of those clients.
The answer to your pellets-vs-slug question? At ten feet, it doesn't matter. At a hundred yards, you damn well bet I'd take the pellets.
huh?
You'd rather get shot nine times with a.308 from 100 yards away than a single shot from a 12-gauge that is 100 yards away?
That doesn't make much sense. If the 12-gauge slug makes it 100 yards, I'd be surprised if it would do much damage at all. However, 100 yards is nothing to a deer rifle like a.308. You'd be quite dead after being hit nine times with a.308 at 100 yards. The bullets would probably go right through you.
I'm hoping that after 200 years, humanity will have lost a bit of its obsession with spending vast amounts of money on pretty pieces of rock and will have moved onto doing something worth while.
Those "pretty pieces of rock" are often associated with the pursuit of the fairer sex. According to Inigo Montoya, "You could not ask for a more noble cause than that.":^)
My Honda motorcycle has a range of about 150 miles.
Fuel economy could be better though. 35 MPG isn't much better than many cars.
Bryan, what kind of bike do you have? I get pretty much the same numbers with my 2002 VTX 1800C.
The wierd part is that the bike's mileage is *always* the same. If I ride really easy, I don't get better mileage than if I am doing full-throttle takeoffs from stoplights. I don't get it. I thought that if I cruised real easy in fifth gear on the Interstate, my mpg would go up. But it's always right around 35mpg. I wonder if it is related to the fact that the VTX 1800 is fuel injected.
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In order to do this he obviously needed a DNA sample, which he can extract from this flute.
There's got to be a joke in there somewhere about George Takei extracting something from Shatner's flute...
Running a TV station on Linux? Incontheivable!
It all depends on the weapon. A .22 is pretty pathetic,
.22...
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I think the principal would disagree with you on the effectiveness of a
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=50645
patent the research and charge big bucks for the cures are you?
Here are your choices:
1) Drug company creates new drug based on numbers your computer crunched and they charge you big bucks for the cure.
2) Miracle drug you need to save your life (or the life of a family member) is not available because no one ran the distributed client.
What is your choice? Do you pay the money for the cure that exists or do you whine about how there is no cure for your particular disease?
In addition to donating directly to various cancer-related charities, I run the F@H client at home. The cost of the extra electricity consumed is negligable for me. I consider the small increase in my monthly electric bill to be a "donation" to finding a cure that will help someone someday. If "Big Pharma" uses my data to create a new blockbuster drug (even if they charge big bucks for it), then I've helped future generations.
No, Gopher is not dead. He's doing just fine. I saw him on the Lido Deck about 30 minutes ago...
a ge-action-figures022.htm
http://www.swfigures.com/swf/Enlarged/non-sw-vint
Cut the Slashdotting in three...two...one...
Actually, Slashdotting that GeoCities user's pages might be a public service. Her web pages definitely made the Baby Jesus cry.
its unreasonable to expect a job to be "held" for you indefinitely.
It's called Long-Term Disability Insurance. Are you telling me that your employer doesn't provide this for you? If I ever get so sick that I can't return to work, I get 66% of my salary for the rest of my life. That's a pretty standard benefit in all of the places I've worked.
> Simply regurgitating a line and giggling in a nerdish fashion whenever you hear a certain word (kind of reminds me of P.W.'s playhouse's secret word, actually) requires absolutely no intelligence whatever.
I agree wholeheartedly but I don't think we'll ever see the end of:
"In Soviet Russia..."
"How about a Beowolf cluster of..."
"Worst. $topic. Ever."
"I, for one, welcome..."
US$0.15/kW-hour (my local power rates)
n /ewi_sheet23-24.pdf
Ouch! I can Fold at night (7pm-7am) for only $0.03826kWh.
http://www.we-energies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsi
You should check with your utility to see if they offer a Time of Use plan.
Hope you enjoy living in a police state.
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"Your papers, please!"
It doesn't matter what label you give it, that's just the way things are. Google for "milwaukee police beating jude" to find out about the "blue line". When certain cops were being investigated for beating the crap out of a guy, the other officers refused to say a word.
I'm not saying that is right or wrong. I'm saying "This is how things are." You may think you are "Mr. Smartguy" for making the sheriff come to your house multiple times at 3am and then finally getting a restraining order against him. The cold, hard truth is that you really don't want to have the Sheriff or any of his buddies pissed at you. The standard Slashdot retort to that is "Well, then I'd sue!". Yeah, sure you would. After something "bad" happens to you. Like the beating that Mr. Jude received.
Welcome to the real world, Mr. AC. Mess with the cops, expect to have a rough time until you move out of that community.
Want a fun example? Check out this article:
http://badgerherald.com/news/2003/11/17/police_ar
Tell me that guy isn't going to be harassed until the day he leaves the state of Wisconsin.
man I hope he comes to bang on the door at 3am tonight ;-)
Instead of being an asshat about the whole situation, why not tell the Sheriff where he can find your ne'er-do-well sons?
It sounds like you know where they live.
Having a LEO for an enemy is not a good idea. They have guns...and lot of friends with guns who are just a radio call away.
Hopefully everything is in order at your residence. Otherwise you may find yourself yelling "But I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" while your neighbors watch you being dragged from your house.
Also, thanks for tying-up the Sheriff's time dealing with your nonsense. Instead of protecting the public, he has had to make multiple visits to your house.
What kind of response time do you expect now when you call 911 due to a knife-wielding guy standing in your kitchen?
"Hello? This is 1311 Evergreen Terrace. There is a man with a knife in my kitchen. Send officers right away!"
"Did you say 1311 Evergreen Terrace? We'll have a squad respond as quickly as possible....after we finish watching CSI!"
There is no such thing as a water shortage.
You are correct, sir.
But there is a shortage of clean, drinkable water.
There is not an unlimited supply of clean, drinkable water on the planet.
an internet connection that can even deliver up to a solid 2-3MB/sec throughput. So, in theory, 802.11b @ 11MB/sec still hasn't even been TRULY maximized.
1. If you meant "Megabits" in your statement, you'll want to use "Mb/sec" or "Mbits/sec". Using the uppercase "B" means "bytes".
2. The signaling rate of 802.11b is 11Mbits/sec. The real data throughput is about half that or 5.5Mbit/sec. Same ROT for 802.11g: 54Mbit/sec signaling but real throughput of 22Mbit/sec.
Because they are crap.
Okay, maybe you are in trollmode today. But in case you weren't, I'd like to respond that I'm very happy with my Honda motorcycle (manufactured in Ohio by Americans).
I am also quite pleased with my Toyota car that was produced in Georgetown, Kentucky by Americans.
http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/
The money I spent for the car and for the bike indirectly ended-up in the pockets of Americans working in Ohio and Kentucky. I'm very happy with the quality of both vehicles (as are many other people I've spoken to who own the same make and model that I do - Are you listening, Big Three?). When someone asks "Why didn't yall buy'n American car?", I have a pretty good comeback.
Has Microsoft taken into account how this small change will affect the transparent aluminum industry?
Most large companies, especially ones such as WalMart, do not hire more employees as they get more profits. Those profits go to the top half dozen or so owners of the corporations. WalMart is very good at making extra profit. One method it does this is by having less working in sweat labor camps overseas (usually indirectly, through the companies they forced into lower prices, and they only way to get those lower prices were such practices as these), and paying those workers even less than before. Conditions worsen, there are less workers, and the only people to profit are those at the top. Once they open up a shop in a new location, they drive competition out of business, putting 3 people on the street for every 2 they create jobs for. It's a great system.. if you own WalMart and aren't concerned about making the world a worse place to live in.
:^)
I realize that "Walmart bashing" is a sport that everyone enjoys and requires very little brain power. But you may want to take a look at the August 7th issue of Fortune. The cover story is about Walmart's efforts to go "green". Walmart is big enough that if they decide to start favoring/endorsing environmentally-friendly products, they could actually make a difference. There are some interesting examples in the story like Walmart selling clothing made from organic cotton (as opposed to cotton that is grow with the aid of "chemicals") as well as making their stores and distribution network more energy-efficient.
After Walmart's "green" movement starts to make a noticable difference in the environment as well as causing other large companies to adopt similar eco-friendly practices, Walmart won't be such an easy target any more. But we'll still be able to stand around and complain about high taxes, the high price of gasoline and the weather.
as long as there was diesel gasoline available.
:^)
Diesel gasoline? Is that like sending the new guy out for a "bucket of steam", a "left-handed monkey wrench", a "board stretcher" or some "blinker fluid"?
MAC address filtering is a better way to do this anyway.
How is access control using a list of known MAC addresses "better" than using wireless encryption? Collecting a list of wireless MACs in the area and then they spoofing one of them is easy-as-pie.
It sounds like the peoplt there are hip, why not toss in a couple hundred bucks per condo, get a T3 or higher to the complex and have wifi all over? Probably a lot cheaper than each one paying $50-100 a month for internet service. And then it becomes a draw to the complex as now they have "free" wifi, increasing their property values.
Yeah, because when I'm going to invest a couple hundred thousand in somewhere to call "Home", one of the things that will affect my decision is "free wireless." Right.
You must either be still in college (renting an apartment with five buddies) or just out of college (renting an apartment with five buddies).
if you do get encryption working right between multiple vendors, you could still run into trouble with performance/usability.
Before you lump all wireless authentication/encyption schemes into the "doesn't work and slows down my network" bucket, please provide a list of the authenctication and/or encryption methods you were trying to use. If you had trouble with WEP, then say so. If you had trouble with WPA-PSK, list it. If you are running something at home that uses 802.1x for authentication (which most of us don't), then let us know. Otherwise you are just scaring the n00bs who read your message. Later-on in the week they're repeat what you said as gospel: "Yeah, wireless encryption between multiple vendors is nearly impossible and will slow down your network. I read it on Slashdot."
Please share with us the authentication and encryption schemes you were using that "slowed down your network".
Getting wireless hardware from different manufacturers to cooperate while using encryption can be a hassle.
What? I call "Shenanigans!"
You'll have to provide specific examples for that one. Please provide a real-world case where getting Vendor A's 802.11 hardware to talk with Vendor B's 802.11 hardware "was a hassle" due to the encryption that was used on the wireless connection.
Cops: Well bugger me, that's the MAC address of that computer sitting right over there in the corner.
... and they get that MAC address *how* exactly?
The first piece of software that popped into my head was Kismet. You could also listen for wireless client MAC addresses with something like Airmagnet but I don't think every wireless hacker on the street has a copy of that software.
Collecting a list of wireless MAC addresses in use nearby is not that hard. After you've collected the station addresses, you pick one, spoof it and go to town.
This is the reason why wireless "security" based on entering a list of trusted MAC address in your access point/wireless router is not very secure. It's not hard for someone to listen for the MACs that have the ability to talk with that access point and then pretend to be one of those clients.
The answer to your pellets-vs-slug question? At ten feet, it doesn't matter. At a hundred yards, you damn well bet I'd take the pellets.
.308 from 100 yards away than a single shot from a 12-gauge that is 100 yards away?
.308. You'd be quite dead after being hit nine times with a .308 at 100 yards. The bullets would probably go right through you.
huh?
You'd rather get shot nine times with a
That doesn't make much sense. If the 12-gauge slug makes it 100 yards, I'd be surprised if it would do much damage at all. However, 100 yards is nothing to a deer rifle like a
I'm hoping that after 200 years, humanity will have lost a bit of its obsession with spending vast amounts of money on pretty pieces of rock and will have moved onto doing something worth while.
:^)
Those "pretty pieces of rock" are often associated with the pursuit of the fairer sex. According to Inigo Montoya, "You could not ask for a more noble cause than that."
My Honda motorcycle has a range of about 150 miles. Fuel economy could be better though. 35 MPG isn't much better than many cars.
Bryan, what kind of bike do you have? I get pretty much the same numbers with my 2002 VTX 1800C. The wierd part is that the bike's mileage is *always* the same. If I ride really easy, I don't get better mileage than if I am doing full-throttle takeoffs from stoplights. I don't get it. I thought that if I cruised real easy in fifth gear on the Interstate, my mpg would go up. But it's always right around 35mpg. I wonder if it is related to the fact that the VTX 1800 is fuel injected.
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