So that's what happened to Hans Reiser's car seat!
For anyone who's forgotten, Hans Reiser is the author of the popular journaling filesystem ReiserFS, and is under arrest for murdering his wife. Part of the evidence for his murder of the missing woman is the way his car seat very conveniently disappeared from his car before police could search it, but they still found blood in his house and car.
You do realize that most of the "Teflon" references at teflonrecal.com are references to politicions being like Teflon because nothing stucks to them, right?
The first one is an interesting read. It does seem to be mix the risks of PFOA (a component used to manufacture Teflon, which is dangerous by itself), with those of Teflon itself in various ways. But just because you can burn Teflon cookware and cause it to release toxic fumes at 500 degrees Fahrenheit seems fairly irrelevant to its use in medical implants which would never reach such a temperature.
Considering that the Rumsfeld claims seem to trace straight back to Betty, I suspect you've been reading her material and not even been aware of it.
But 8 liters of diet Dr. Pepper a day? You are aware that Dr. Pepper has one of the highest concentrations of caffeine of any soda, right? What did you *think* you were doing to your physiology with that much caffeine? The aspartame is probably the least of your worries from that time of your life!
Well, in logical terms, you have a point. But I've got friends who diet, and whom I've cooked for occasionally, and have friends who get caught up in these "it's evil, don't use it!" fads. The result is that I've done some looking, and a huge amount of the Aspartame conspiracy claims can be traced directly and indirectly back to Betty, who flat out lies.
There is big money in sweeteners, and having specific ones banned: the result is very good for the manufacturers of the *other* sweeteners. Ban cyclamates, and saccharin comes into more use, or aspartame becomes popular. Ban aspartame, and sucralose will take up a lot of the same market. And there's real money in diet foods.
That's interesting. Unfortunately, you seem to have done the classic Slashdot error of not actually reading the article you cite. The carcinogen mostly referred to is not Teflon itself: it's PFDA, which is used to *make* Teflon and of which no significant amount remains in the Teflon itself.
There are any number of people with plenty of Teflon embedded in them: it's a common component in medical implants, and one of the safer ones to use. The stuff is amazingly non-reactive and non-irritating.
You've been reading Betty Martini, haven't you? Reading Betty's work is like reading Noam Chomsky's politics: the level of delusion is so consistent that people take it seriously, and start citing other people as cites when you can trace the cite back to the same deluded source.
It's also safe for the humans, fast, cheap, and easy to scan in a busy loading dock or port without the cooperation of the animal. This is especially handy if the animal is ill, or the animal is from another country where rabies, antrax, or bird flu are active health risks.
Excuse me, but 'chrosomomal damage whem DNA is dragged across the mitotic spindle and gets dragged on an asbestos needle" certainly sounds like a chemical interaction, if not a reaction, to me. One might call it a catalytic one, where the catalyst remains unchanged but significantly alters the outcome of a reaction.
Of course they reflect EM! Go take a look at X-rays of such implants. The implants are steel, platinum, and other alloying materials: you can't magically make them not interact with EM by waving a wand and "designing" them not to do so. You can avoid making them para-magnetic like a lot of iron materials. You can even avoid them causing big problems in MRI chambers by not having loops in them that would couple to the MRI and carry current in those loops, causing fascinating and dangerous magnetic interactions.
Please actually look these sorts of things up, or become familiar somewhat with them, before inventing conclusions like "they are not reflective to EMI" because you haven't noticed any reports of such damage.
No, not really. Glass is one of the most biocompatbile substances available: it's stable, non-porous, and extremely resistant to chemical interaction with blood or tissue. Its primary issue when in tissue is that it's often embedded as sharp little pieces, and after an accident those pieces are often dirty. But in and of itself, it's safer than steel, and easier to clean.
About the only thing more bioicompatible is Teflon.
That's a *good* ticket system used that way. Bad ones, like for example Siebel, are often used to block work because people who are privileged skip around it, and people who are not privileged are forced to waste enormous amounts of time even getting a copy of it to submit their help request, then have their tickets marked as "resolved" by IT or helpdesk personnel who should have marked it "rejected", because they literally did nothing and did not resolve the issue.
Not at all. "Paradigm shift" should be considered the "Godwin's Law" of new technologies: anytime it's used to describe a new product, it's obvious that the approach is being sold purely to attract money, not to actually accomplish anything.
And even richer when the old system running that business app has to be maintained on the network, with out of date OS, shared accounts with admin privileges, no backup, no hardware support, and it's five years later and the person who wrote the strange proprietary odd system on it left 3 years ago.
I've been asked to deal with or salvage such sysems at least annually for years. It can be fun, but it's a huge timesink.
I've seen what you describe, and I sympathize. It's a management problem for IT, and I've been part of IT when this was happening *because what IT was told to do was broken*. I've personally saved a company's legal ass in court because I had an unreported email backup system running that was "in testing" for a year, because I couldn't get through the chains of command to report the known flaws to "the Exchange team" or even sit down with them to explain the observed problem. And saved a salesman's big deal when I ignored my company's requisition procedure and found him a laptop before he had to go overseas and his work laptop was failing, cutting him off from our corporate VPN while he traveled. And I got written up for it, because I hadn't followed procedures.
Did you have a working trouble ticket system? I swear, they're one of the most useful things on both sides to prevent IT departments from slowing development, and to allow IT departments to get their work published and noticed. A transparent, publicly accessible system like Bugzilla or RT that encourages input from the requester, and encourages comment from others involved and doesn't require fancy clients or training to use is a tremendous help.
Any IT department forced to use Siebel, however, is doomed from the start.
Really? You're not parroting Theo and not talking about GPL taking away freedom? Then let's read again what you wrote:
> And for the record, I don't consider "more free" when that "more free" includes the "freedom" to restrict others freedom. GPL puts restrictions on people explicitly. BSD allows people to to put whatever restrictions they want.
Funny. That really sounds a lot like one of Theo's repeated themes in his message, and talks about the explicit restrictions of the GPL. Love America or not, I responded to what you actually wrote.
The GPL license is odd: I really recommend reading it carefully and comparing it to other licenses such as the numerous BSD license variants currently in use. And it does limit freedoms, namely the freedom to harvest the GPL software and then privatize or commoditize it so others can't work with it. There are solid historical reasons to do things this way: Tivo-ization or Microsoft's XML patent oddities are bound to cause serious problems otherwise.
Hop over to www.xenu.net for more details on this. They're the worst Usenet spammers in history, 3000 messages a night in one newsgroup for many months, using throwaway accounts at ISP's bought with cash and connected with long-distance dialup lines. They also destroyed the old anon.penet.fi anonymous posting service.
That's a corporation, cult, or whatever actively trying to prevent discussion and doing it in a criminal fashion.
Why do you need rsh, Bluetooth libraries, PCMCIA and Coolkey utilities on a mail server in the RHEL "base" installation"? If you're going to bloat a basic install with such nonsense, why not make more useful real utilities at least available on the installation media and supported packages. That way, if you have to, you can read your customer's Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to support the media they may use.
Oddly, this is not necessarily true with RHEL. The "5Server" version does not seem to include OpenOffice, the "5Client" version does. I have no idea why.
This is actually a good reason to buy the HP, throw out the RHEL with the registration and update difficulties, and install CentOS which doesn't have the weird registration requirements to get update, maintains the "centosplus" repository of software more recent than RedHat is willing to upgrade to in a server-class release, and generally is a lot easier to install. (CentOS has Bittorrent binary CD and DVD downloads: RedHat doesn't publish DVD's.)
I suspect not. Frauds, and fences, are often one-shot operations. Set up the account with stolen credit card information, collect some cash, and get out.Therefore the sort of followup and attention to details of pleasing the customer are unlikely to find there.
Although, come to think of it, a money laundering operation with multiple accounts could easily use a little pyramid scheme of vendor approval to boost their ratings.
Good. I respect your resources. Now find the intact paper tapes, or 8" floppies that still work or can even be duplicated to modern media. Paper tapes are more durable than floppies, but finding material that can parse that old source material is often quite an adventure. And finding old paper tapes that have never wound up soaked or thrown out in purges of old material can spell doom to a backporting project. (I actually saw this happen once.)
Just have Voyager broadcast pictures of the hot babe in the skin-tight outfit. Some/. fanboy will break the 30 year-old DRM in a matter of moments, although Voyager will crash from the download traffic.
Have you ever tried to backport software to a previous operating system release? Simply finding the documentation and the backups and installation media, then being able to read it is a major issue. I've actually seen old software lost, from my undergraduate days, because there weren't any readers available to recover it.
Go ahead: find an 8 1/" floppy drive that still works, or a paper tape reader. Finding the set of Rosetta stones to understand such old hardware and convert its capabilities to modern work is a serious, serious problem. It actually helps pay my salary when I come across old projects and upgrade them to new software.
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So that's what happened to Hans Reiser's car seat!
For anyone who's forgotten, Hans Reiser is the author of the popular journaling filesystem ReiserFS, and is under arrest for murdering his wife. Part of the evidence for his murder of the missing woman is the way his car seat very conveniently disappeared from his car before police could search it, but they still found blood in his house and car.
You do realize that most of the "Teflon" references at teflonrecal.com are references to politicions being like Teflon because nothing stucks to them, right?
The first one is an interesting read. It does seem to be mix the risks of PFOA (a component used to manufacture Teflon, which is dangerous by itself), with those of Teflon itself in various ways. But just because you can burn Teflon cookware and cause it to release toxic fumes at 500 degrees Fahrenheit seems fairly irrelevant to its use in medical implants which would never reach such a temperature.
That is actually a good point. Thank you for the corerction.
Considering that the Rumsfeld claims seem to trace straight back to Betty, I suspect you've been reading her material and not even been aware of it.
But 8 liters of diet Dr. Pepper a day? You are aware that Dr. Pepper has one of the highest concentrations of caffeine of any soda, right? What did you *think* you were doing to your physiology with that much caffeine? The aspartame is probably the least of your worries from that time of your life!
Well, in logical terms, you have a point. But I've got friends who diet, and whom I've cooked for occasionally, and have friends who get caught up in these "it's evil, don't use it!" fads. The result is that I've done some looking, and a huge amount of the Aspartame conspiracy claims can be traced directly and indirectly back to Betty, who flat out lies.
There is big money in sweeteners, and having specific ones banned: the result is very good for the manufacturers of the *other* sweeteners. Ban cyclamates, and saccharin comes into more use, or aspartame becomes popular. Ban aspartame, and sucralose will take up a lot of the same market. And there's real money in diet foods.
That's interesting. Unfortunately, you seem to have done the classic Slashdot error of not actually reading the article you cite. The carcinogen mostly referred to is not Teflon itself: it's PFDA, which is used to *make* Teflon and of which no significant amount remains in the Teflon itself.
There are any number of people with plenty of Teflon embedded in them: it's a common component in medical implants, and one of the safer ones to use. The stuff is amazingly non-reactive and non-irritating.
You've been reading Betty Martini, haven't you? Reading Betty's work is like reading Noam Chomsky's politics: the level of delusion is so consistent that people take it seriously, and start citing other people as cites when you can trace the cite back to the same deluded source.
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For evidence of the delusional nature of Betty's claims, check out http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.as
It's also safe for the humans, fast, cheap, and easy to scan in a busy loading dock or port without the cooperation of the animal. This is especially handy if the animal is ill, or the animal is from another country where rabies, antrax, or bird flu are active health risks.
Excuse me, but 'chrosomomal damage whem DNA is dragged across the mitotic spindle and gets dragged on an asbestos needle" certainly sounds like a chemical interaction, if not a reaction, to me. One might call it a catalytic one, where the catalyst remains unchanged but significantly alters the outcome of a reaction.
Of course they reflect EM! Go take a look at X-rays of such implants. The implants are steel, platinum, and other alloying materials: you can't magically make them not interact with EM by waving a wand and "designing" them not to do so. You can avoid making them para-magnetic like a lot of iron materials. You can even avoid them causing big problems in MRI chambers by not having loops in them that would couple to the MRI and carry current in those loops, causing fascinating and dangerous magnetic interactions.
Please actually look these sorts of things up, or become familiar somewhat with them, before inventing conclusions like "they are not reflective to EMI" because you haven't noticed any reports of such damage.
No, not really. Glass is one of the most biocompatbile substances available: it's stable, non-porous, and extremely resistant to chemical interaction with blood or tissue. Its primary issue when in tissue is that it's often embedded as sharp little pieces, and after an accident those pieces are often dirty. But in and of itself, it's safer than steel, and easier to clean.
About the only thing more bioicompatible is Teflon.
That's a *good* ticket system used that way. Bad ones, like for example Siebel, are often used to block work because people who are privileged skip around it, and people who are not privileged are forced to waste enormous amounts of time even getting a copy of it to submit their help request, then have their tickets marked as "resolved" by IT or helpdesk personnel who should have marked it "rejected", because they literally did nothing and did not resolve the issue.
Not at all. "Paradigm shift" should be considered the "Godwin's Law" of new technologies: anytime it's used to describe a new product, it's obvious that the approach is being sold purely to attract money, not to actually accomplish anything.
Oh, my goodness. Been there, done that, have the "asdfghjk" on my forehead from falling asleep at the keyboard.
Are they at least giving you interesting toys to play with? And do they at least buy you beer, or send you to an occasional interesting conference?
And even richer when the old system running that business app has to be maintained on the network, with out of date OS, shared accounts with admin privileges, no backup, no hardware support, and it's five years later and the person who wrote the strange proprietary odd system on it left 3 years ago. I've been asked to deal with or salvage such sysems at least annually for years. It can be fun, but it's a huge timesink.
I've seen what you describe, and I sympathize. It's a management problem for IT, and I've been part of IT when this was happening *because what IT was told to do was broken*. I've personally saved a company's legal ass in court because I had an unreported email backup system running that was "in testing" for a year, because I couldn't get through the chains of command to report the known flaws to "the Exchange team" or even sit down with them to explain the observed problem. And saved a salesman's big deal when I ignored my company's requisition procedure and found him a laptop before he had to go overseas and his work laptop was failing, cutting him off from our corporate VPN while he traveled. And I got written up for it, because I hadn't followed procedures.
Did you have a working trouble ticket system? I swear, they're one of the most useful things on both sides to prevent IT departments from slowing development, and to allow IT departments to get their work published and noticed. A transparent, publicly accessible system like Bugzilla or RT that encourages input from the requester, and encourages comment from others involved and doesn't require fancy clients or training to use is a tremendous help.
Any IT department forced to use Siebel, however, is doomed from the start.
Really? You're not parroting Theo and not talking about GPL taking away freedom? Then let's read again what you wrote:
> And for the record, I don't consider "more free" when that "more free" includes the "freedom" to restrict others freedom. GPL puts restrictions on people explicitly. BSD allows people to to put whatever restrictions they want.
Funny. That really sounds a lot like one of Theo's repeated themes in his message, and talks about the explicit restrictions of the GPL. Love America or not, I responded to what you actually wrote.
The GPL license is odd: I really recommend reading it carefully and comparing it to other licenses such as the numerous BSD license variants currently in use. And it does limit freedoms, namely the freedom to harvest the GPL software and then privatize or commoditize it so others can't work with it. There are solid historical reasons to do things this way: Tivo-ization or Microsoft's XML patent oddities are bound to cause serious problems otherwise.
Hop over to www.xenu.net for more details on this. They're the worst Usenet spammers in history, 3000 messages a night in one newsgroup for many months, using throwaway accounts at ISP's bought with cash and connected with long-distance dialup lines. They also destroyed the old anon.penet.fi anonymous posting service.
That's a corporation, cult, or whatever actively trying to prevent discussion and doing it in a criminal fashion.
Why do you need rsh, Bluetooth libraries, PCMCIA and Coolkey utilities on a mail server in the RHEL "base" installation"? If you're going to bloat a basic install with such nonsense, why not make more useful real utilities at least available on the installation media and supported packages. That way, if you have to, you can read your customer's Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to support the media they may use.
Oddly, this is not necessarily true with RHEL. The "5Server" version does not seem to include OpenOffice, the "5Client" version does. I have no idea why. This is actually a good reason to buy the HP, throw out the RHEL with the registration and update difficulties, and install CentOS which doesn't have the weird registration requirements to get update, maintains the "centosplus" repository of software more recent than RedHat is willing to upgrade to in a server-class release, and generally is a lot easier to install. (CentOS has Bittorrent binary CD and DVD downloads: RedHat doesn't publish DVD's.)
I suspect not. Frauds, and fences, are often one-shot operations. Set up the account with stolen credit card information, collect some cash, and get out.Therefore the sort of followup and attention to details of pleasing the customer are unlikely to find there.
Although, come to think of it, a money laundering operation with multiple accounts could easily use a little pyramid scheme of vendor approval to boost their ratings.
Good. I respect your resources. Now find the intact paper tapes, or 8" floppies that still work or can even be duplicated to modern media. Paper tapes are more durable than floppies, but finding material that can parse that old source material is often quite an adventure. And finding old paper tapes that have never wound up soaked or thrown out in purges of old material can spell doom to a backporting project. (I actually saw this happen once.)
Just have Voyager broadcast pictures of the hot babe in the skin-tight outfit. Some /. fanboy will break the 30 year-old DRM in a matter of moments, although Voyager will crash from the download traffic.
Have you ever tried to backport software to a previous operating system release? Simply finding the documentation and the backups and installation media, then being able to read it is a major issue. I've actually seen old software lost, from my undergraduate days, because there weren't any readers available to recover it.
Go ahead: find an 8 1/" floppy drive that still works, or a paper tape reader. Finding the set of Rosetta stones to understand such old hardware and convert its capabilities to modern work is a serious, serious problem. It actually helps pay my salary when I come across old projects and upgrade them to new software.
I guess he should pull a Theo de Raadt, and release an OpenLinux kernel now?