I once caught a HD shuttle launch video at NASA's site right after the launch took place, apparently before it had been so carefully edited. The sounds were incredible; you could hear the turbo pumps wind up several seconds before the liquid rockets were lit. Those are large and very high speed pumps that operate at the limit of what materials science can provide; the sound they make is simply chilling. I watched it over and over because I could not f**king believe it.
Later versions of the same launch video had that audio removed. Can't let anyone witness any of that. Must appear as though the launch is a peaceful, happy moment that doesn't involve any sort of drama. Oh ponies!
NASA hurts itself by letting the cowardly nature of its bureaucracy dominate the editing process. If you handed the same raw material to a Hollywood film maker with a mandate to sell tickets you would get a balls out, violent, bare knuckle collection of aerospace machinery burning, shaking and raging its way into orbit and every god damn taxpaying mope that watched it would know exactly what sort of miracle those 100+ successful missions represent.
AMD has also built parts with equally screwed up timers, particularly TSC clock skew on multi-cores. Timers are just messed up on x86 from either company. This nonsense goes back years. There are now at least four distinct general purpose clock sources that must be present on modern systems; tsc, apci_pm, hpet and pit (as labeled by the Linux kernel.) There will probably be further proliferation in the future as ALL of the existing timers are inadequate in subtle ways. Implementations from both manufacturers have been plagued with bugs that require nasty work-arounds; google "clocksource tsc unstable", "pm-timer bug" or "athlon x2 tsc" for some examples. This nonsense that Microsoft has stumbled upon is just the latest in a long and colorful history of failure that we'll now have to add to the list.
Computers are supposed to keep time. Today that means high resolution clocks that work correctly regardless of power saving, concurrency, etc. Using these crucial timers is not suppose to cause spurious interrupts, bus contention or other subtle problems. People that must work with this stuff are thoroughly fed up with this ever growing pile of half-baked bullshit.
What are some of the things you can learn about these climate scientists when you wade through their stolen content with no media filter?
1. These are political animals; whatever pretense of objective impartiality that had been plausibly allowed is gone. The muckity mucks among these scientists spend their time flying around the planet scoring political points as well-funded and credentialed lobbyists.
2. They directly influence the editorial decisions and content of the same peer reviewed scientific journals to which they demand the rest of the world limit its knowledge. When the MSM makes the mistake of publishing something they don't approve of these scientists intervene personally using their media contacts; typically the employers of specific journalists. Publicly they brook no argument with anyone or anything that counters their assertions and they barely tolerate it among themselves.
3. They have no explanation for why global temperature has not increased during the last ten years. They are just as astonished by the exceptionally cold, wet weather they see outside their window as everyone else. Their models do not predict this behavior and the causes are a mystery. The faction among them that is concerned about this and believe it is a problem have been bluntly told by their superiors that they are wrong.
4. They are actively and deliberately preventing access to the data and methods used for conclusions that contribute to the IPCC process. They flaunt the FOI laws of the UK with delays and bureaucracy.
Notice that I have not cited the few "smoking gun" phrases (i.e. "hide the decline") that so many have naturally fixated on. Those cases all have plausible deniability even when then most apparent explanation is simple fraud. I believe the above conclusions are beyond doubt to any rational reader that examines the material without a media filter.
This is a body blow to the AGW community and it will not blow over. These scientists will never again be taken at their word to the degree they had been and their work can no longer provide a basis for ruining the standard of living of the western world, if it ever did.
A particle bunch in the LHC is presently being handled as though it were a young driver that has recently been issued a provisional drivers license. In the same way that smart parents will provide their new commuters with low power, unexciting vehicles to discourage reckless behaviour, the LHC particles are being denied high levels of energy to prevent any additional unintended excursions.
Just as new drivers suffer a high probability of making mistakes due to inexperience, high energy particles in the LHC are liable to reveal (additional) unknown flaws in the design or construction of the facility. By limiting energy levels the effects of any failures will hopefully be minimal, just as a Volvo 740 wagon that can barely break 60mph due to its 190K miles is less likely to kill you when it slides into a ditch than is a Turbo Carrera disintegrating as it rolls at 210mph.
Note that this analogy fails when one considers that drivers are trained to avoid collision, whereas LHC particles are intended to experience many collisions.
BadAnalogyGuy is supposed to be handling these sort of illustrations, but he has been slacking of late.
Bing censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. Google censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. Yahoo censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. As a result of whatever you care to attribute the subservience of the Chinese people, 21% of our species is subject to the filtering policies of the Chinese government. Ultimately the Chinese must be the the reason this tyranny comes to an end. Or not.
The marketing companies of the West aren't interested in fighting their battles. Stop expecting ad pimps to be responsible for liberating anyone. Instead, raise your expectations of the Chinese.
Open source means just that; open source. The source code is readily available to anyone. It does not necessarily follow that configured, built, regression tested binary images are available for download. Of course Chrome OS is open source; it's based on GPL 2 Linux kernel, GNU libraries, Google's open source Chromium browser, which is in turn based on webkit, etc.; Google is obligated to make the source available for most of that and even the parts for which they are not obligated (it's not all GPL) they're providing anyhow. None of this means that the built binary images for any particular device must also be provided by Google.
If you have the wit to obtain the source, and configure, build and install the resulting images then you're free to do so.
They're billing Go as a "systems language." If by "system" they mean "application server in a Google data center" then I suppose that's correct. Previously the term "systems language" referred to languages suitable for operation system implementation, including device drivers, virtual memory management and other persnickety low-level software. Lack of pointer arithmetic and explicit memory management probably precludes any attempt to use Go as a "systems" language by that definition (although there are exceptions to that thinking.)
There is too much competition from other fresh and well regarded "new" languages for yet another new entrant to gain much headway without something really novel to attract attention. Not that trying is bad; by all means keep at it. Can't afford the mental bandwidth to jump on more new bandwagons, however.
It's flight hardware now. Can't call it a 'boondoggle' or whatever media-speak they had been using. That much more poisonous a pill to swallow when they kill it.
Also, the 'thrust oscillation' theory is on it's last leg. The 5 segment ATK ground test showed no threatening oscillation. This launch won't either. Won't stop any of you from prattling on about it, however.
Larry doesn't mind; the EU delay gives him a scapegoat for the layoffs.
Those of you fixated on MySQL: Sun sells hardware, software licenses and contract support to enterprises that use SQL Server, DB2, SAP and other direct competitors of Oracle, meaning the some DB2 users (for instance) will find themselves relying on Oracle for support of certified DB2 platforms... MySQL may be the least of whatever "competition problems" the EU has in mind
Your model omits some readilyavailabledata that would seem relevant. Population growth among non-immigrants of advanced, wealthy nations such as the US, Japan and parts of western Europe has plateaued at or below replacement. The "western" world has, despite an abundance or food, energy and space (in the case of North America,) tamed its population growth. This has occurred without coercive government control of breeding behavior.
Apparently there are more factors involved in the growth curve than Malthusians such as yourself choose to allow. It is certain that our international governance is equally blind; the next global treaty on the environment that acknowledges this success and, heaven forbid, incorporates population growth into its protocol bean counting will be the first.
Then let the "development" of the Internet it be "hindered". If IPTV takes another decade because new business models have be created to adapt to a neutral network, then so be it. I am happy to wait. If the capacity available to me grows more slowly because there are fewer deal making opportunities for ISPs and content producers then so be it. I've got enough bandwidth. Corrupting the relatively simple model of the existing network by letting Disney et al. carve it up into lucrative morsels to be passes among the elite is not appealing. Whichever content providers don't like it can just keep their stuff on cable until we drop our cable service as we've dropped our landlines. Their stuff just isn't that important to me.
The capitalist claims the market is agile. Adaptation is supposed to be swift. I believe this. I therefore believe we should permit the market to prove this by preventing the aforementioned companies from molding the Internet into models they are already comfortable with. Let them adapt to a neutral network. The Internet isn't broken and doesn't need to be fixed by Time Warner. The Internet will not fail if Ted Turner doesn't get a cut of my ISP's revenue.
There you go; an argument for Net Neutrality from the conservative perspective.
Will we ever learn enough to make these errors truly uncommittable?"
No. As long as correctness can't be proven and operators are permitted to create unanalyzed conditions by altering protocols there will always be risk. There are probably other mis-configured CT scanners out there in use right now that have been overdosing patients for years.
CT scans use X-rays; an easily detected frequency of light. Why not require that scanners incorporate an independent detector that measures the amount X-ray energy? If that is possible then create an interlock that can shut down the emitter when the net energy gets out of bounds and require that any such incident be NRC reportable. If the detector excluded from alteration by the operators then software bugs, misunderstandings, etc. can be detected even years after the last engineer had contact with the system, either before harm is done or at least before hundreds of patients are literally burned.
I wonder who can actually tell if a strad is better than a good modern violin. Is anyone aware of this sort of testing ever happening?
Wikipedia cites this book by James Beament of Oxford as a source of blind tests and audio analysis that concludes there is no observable difference. The money quote:
there appear to be no characterizing differences between the perceived sound from well-made orthodox instruments on any age when played by a skilled player
The audiophile phenomenon is neither new nor isolated to electronics and turntables. Instruments are shiny and expensive and often rarefied; it is inevitable that a mystique emerges that lead to claims of dramatically superior audio quality. Never expect that the existence of actual evidence will dissuade the audiophiles; for every one tester there are a thousand bullshit artists and a million fools that want to believe them.
This is the real issue. Citizens, power companies, rational environmentalists and all the rest can get just as enthusiastic as they wish but if every new plant comes with 20 years of built-in legal delays and costs the investors will not show up. Some percentage of our contemporary pool of judges will not hesitate to leverage or invent whatever justifications are necessary to hinder zoning, construction or whatever.
This is what is required. Congress must make law that trumps the enviros, NIMBYers, the Sierra Club judges and the rest. It will literally require an Act Of Congress, probably one for each plant, before anything can happen.
This was spelled out for you 15 months ago right here on Slashdot.
There is no saving Ares. Not because there is anything wrong with Ares. The "technical problems" are trumped up exaggerations of the engineering challenges that have emerged and been overcome. The "cost overruns" are fictional; Augustine is "finding" dramatic cost overruns because that helps justify killing the project. The reason there is no saving Ares is that the US voted in people that despise manned space flight. They have "better" places to spend money so whatever plans the US had for manned space flight are on hold for the indefinite future.
Lots of apologists appeared to muddy the waters but the bottom line is that the original plan to give the Constellation money to the NEA (a.k.a "early-education") was never repudiated by anyone in the Administration. We're just doing the necessary political push-ups to bury NASA's manned space flight capability.
It is amusing to watch as NASA and it's contractors make sweeping their work under the rug difficult; the engine test will be dramatic and will unavoidably appear in the news cycle. Ares I-X has a launch date and is being erected right now... It's kinda hard to characterize all this as "failure."
No, you're just the only one with the gall to point it out. You're supposed to hand wave the fact that the plane is yet another iteration a design that first flew 32 years ago as the Su-27. You supposed to do this because it is (somehow) self evident to everyone except you that the supposedly stealthy, obsolete, absurdly expensive F-22 that only really stupid people like Americans could possibly be suckered into building is somehow, if not surpassed, then certainly matched by this miracle of Sukhoi engineering.
The world rankings are spun toward universal health care for the US every year as well.
An increase of 73 days average life expectancy in only one year...
"IT'S A PEAK!!!11 SEE?!! IT'S GOT TO BE A PEAK!!1"
roflmao
Fortunately many other media outlets that aren't governed by slashdot editors had no difficultly sorting the relevant information from the spin; the US health care system is not, in fact, failing. It is rather expensive, and that may need to be dealt with, but it's not 'failing' according to any reasonable definition of fail that isn't founded on leftist propaganda.
Another thing to note is that the 0.2 year increase adds a little more than 2 extra months of social security payments, medicare reimbursements, VA benefits, prescription drug subsidies, pension disbursements, etc. to the Federal budget. Three guesses as to whether our forthright and brilliant rulers were factoring in such 'unexpected' yet large life expectancy increases into any of those future budgets while they were making their campaign promises... and the first two don't count.
They're jumpy for a reason. Between the copyright actions the White House has pursued over Obama's likeness and the justifiable paranoia of anything that approaches MSM Intellectual Property (a consequence of the Dem's RIAA, et. al. buddies) I can understand why Flikr is scared shit-less of our present ruling class.
That image has now been martyred.
But why stick with more obvious motivations...?
We were deliberately trained, over most of the previous decade, that ascribing benign motivations to our leaders is certain proof of ignorance or other mental deficiency. Perhaps that wasn't such a good idea?
The question here is why doesnt Firefox do this natively?
The answer is that the browser is ignorant of what Flash is doing with the hard drive. HTML cookies and Flash cookies (LSOs) are not related. Firefox is not aware of and has no mechanism to control what Flash does with your disk.
Flash Player (for Mozilla/Firefox) is based on the ancient and crufty NPAPI. This interface provides no generic "clear your temporary crap" hook for the host (browser.) It should; it's 2009 and this browser thing has been going on for 15 years now...
IE 7 has a feature in "Delete Browsing History" that prompts the user to delete "files and settings stored by add-ons." I've never confirmed whether this means "flash cookies" (because I don't rely on IE for anything...) but that is what is implied, so this isn't some novel idea unheard of in the traditions of the Internets.
Dear Mozilla,
It is incumbent upon you as the present keeper of the NPAPI specification, such as it is, to extend said specification to provide a generic mechanism to monitor and control any and all storage utilized by third party plug-ins, and then encourage third parties (nasty warnings on plug-in invocation would work...) to adopt this extension. Please do so THIS decade. Do not continue to delay the obvious because NPAPI is an unholy mess; privacy trumps engineering elegance. Thanks!
You're told secret data has been wrestled from the grasp of the corporates and you're given a link. The page presents a pair of images right at the top, unavoidable; seen before anything is even read. Two images; one of vast quantities of ice, the second utterly free of ice. Global Warming has been implicated before you've read word number one.
If you look carefully you might notice one end of a landing strip just inland in both photos. These photos cover very small areas; only a few miles. The caption reads:
Sea ice forms along the coast in the winter, and generally melts or breaks away by mid July. Observations of sea ice position reveal considerable year-to-year variability. Changes in the timing of coastal sea ice breakup and in the location of offshore sea ice have significant local impacts: ecological, biological, and human. This image series portrays changes in the timing of coastal sea ice breakup, and gives information on smaller scale properties of ice. This information recorded over long periods, is required to understand and model the dynamics of sea ice and how changes or trends develop and influence other systems.
In other words these photos are 'evidence' of nothing. Minor, small scale year-to-year variation in ice flow patterns. The use of these photos in this manner is equivalent to claiming that because there was snow on my walk on January 10, 2008, but none on January 10, 2009, my environment has been ruined by Global Warming.
Yet there it is, fed to the reader at the very start of the story; no disclaimer provided. The pair of photos will now be repeated ad nauseam for years on end around the planet. Biden will have a blown up poster of these photos in his town hall kit by Wednesday. Fresh new memes the huckster elite will use goad "The West" into self inflicted poverty; "See? The planet is in peril! Man must be stopped!"
Here is a recent and well researched report on the $79 billion that has been spent by the US government (only) on climate research over the last 20 years. 19 pages and 52 citations. I dare you to read it. Global Warming advocates are not the underdogs. They rule vast quantities of public money.
In almost all other matters you can take it as a given that around Slashdot you will find if not cynics then certainly skeptics. On the other hand if it has a Bush taint, a little anti-business flavor and it's wrapped up in a Global Warming ribbon you people suck it up like hicks at a Benny Hinn sermon.
Here is a map of sites for which applications have been submitted to the NRC and are currently undergoing review. None of these will happen until the political will emerges to move the bureaucracy.
This is my feeling as well. FYI: document.write is the JavaScript equivalent of write(2). It is used liberally in modern web content; I doubt there are any popular contemporary pages that don't use it.
This code path should be impervious to any overflow exploit that might conceivably appear. Obviously document.write can and is used to exploit other more subtle flaws in a browser as it is capable of producing arbitrary document content, but that's not what we have here. Here we have long strings breaking document.write itself.
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I once caught a HD shuttle launch video at NASA's site right after the launch took place, apparently before it had been so carefully edited. The sounds were incredible; you could hear the turbo pumps wind up several seconds before the liquid rockets were lit. Those are large and very high speed pumps that operate at the limit of what materials science can provide; the sound they make is simply chilling. I watched it over and over because I could not f**king believe it.
Later versions of the same launch video had that audio removed. Can't let anyone witness any of that. Must appear as though the launch is a peaceful, happy moment that doesn't involve any sort of drama. Oh ponies!
NASA hurts itself by letting the cowardly nature of its bureaucracy dominate the editing process. If you handed the same raw material to a Hollywood film maker with a mandate to sell tickets you would get a balls out, violent, bare knuckle collection of aerospace machinery burning, shaking and raging its way into orbit and every god damn taxpaying mope that watched it would know exactly what sort of miracle those 100+ successful missions represent.
AMD has also built parts with equally screwed up timers, particularly TSC clock skew on multi-cores. Timers are just messed up on x86 from either company. This nonsense goes back years. There are now at least four distinct general purpose clock sources that must be present on modern systems; tsc, apci_pm, hpet and pit (as labeled by the Linux kernel.) There will probably be further proliferation in the future as ALL of the existing timers are inadequate in subtle ways. Implementations from both manufacturers have been plagued with bugs that require nasty work-arounds; google "clocksource tsc unstable", "pm-timer bug" or "athlon x2 tsc" for some examples. This nonsense that Microsoft has stumbled upon is just the latest in a long and colorful history of failure that we'll now have to add to the list.
Computers are supposed to keep time. Today that means high resolution clocks that work correctly regardless of power saving, concurrency, etc. Using these crucial timers is not suppose to cause spurious interrupts, bus contention or other subtle problems. People that must work with this stuff are thoroughly fed up with this ever growing pile of half-baked bullshit.
What are some of the things you can learn about these climate scientists when you wade through their stolen content with no media filter?
1. These are political animals; whatever pretense of objective impartiality that had been plausibly allowed is gone. The muckity mucks among these scientists spend their time flying around the planet scoring political points as well-funded and credentialed lobbyists.
2. They directly influence the editorial decisions and content of the same peer reviewed scientific journals to which they demand the rest of the world limit its knowledge. When the MSM makes the mistake of publishing something they don't approve of these scientists intervene personally using their media contacts; typically the employers of specific journalists. Publicly they brook no argument with anyone or anything that counters their assertions and they barely tolerate it among themselves.
3. They have no explanation for why global temperature has not increased during the last ten years. They are just as astonished by the exceptionally cold, wet weather they see outside their window as everyone else. Their models do not predict this behavior and the causes are a mystery. The faction among them that is concerned about this and believe it is a problem have been bluntly told by their superiors that they are wrong.
4. They are actively and deliberately preventing access to the data and methods used for conclusions that contribute to the IPCC process. They flaunt the FOI laws of the UK with delays and bureaucracy.
Notice that I have not cited the few "smoking gun" phrases (i.e. "hide the decline") that so many have naturally fixated on. Those cases all have plausible deniability even when then most apparent explanation is simple fraud. I believe the above conclusions are beyond doubt to any rational reader that examines the material without a media filter.
This is a body blow to the AGW community and it will not blow over. These scientists will never again be taken at their word to the degree they had been and their work can no longer provide a basis for ruining the standard of living of the western world, if it ever did.
Could you put that into a car analogy?
Certainly.
A particle bunch in the LHC is presently being handled as though it were a young driver that has recently been issued a provisional drivers license. In the same way that smart parents will provide their new commuters with low power, unexciting vehicles to discourage reckless behaviour, the LHC particles are being denied high levels of energy to prevent any additional unintended excursions.
Just as new drivers suffer a high probability of making mistakes due to inexperience, high energy particles in the LHC are liable to reveal (additional) unknown flaws in the design or construction of the facility. By limiting energy levels the effects of any failures will hopefully be minimal, just as a Volvo 740 wagon that can barely break 60mph due to its 190K miles is less likely to kill you when it slides into a ditch than is a Turbo Carrera disintegrating as it rolls at 210mph.
Note that this analogy fails when one considers that drivers are trained to avoid collision, whereas LHC particles are intended to experience many collisions.
BadAnalogyGuy is supposed to be handling these sort of illustrations, but he has been slacking of late.
Bing censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. Google censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. Yahoo censors at the "request" of the Chinese government. As a result of whatever you care to attribute the subservience of the Chinese people, 21% of our species is subject to the filtering policies of the Chinese government. Ultimately the Chinese must be the the reason this tyranny comes to an end. Or not.
The marketing companies of the West aren't interested in fighting their battles. Stop expecting ad pimps to be responsible for liberating anyone. Instead, raise your expectations of the Chinese.
Open source means just that; open source. The source code is readily available to anyone. It does not necessarily follow that configured, built, regression tested binary images are available for download. Of course Chrome OS is open source; it's based on GPL 2 Linux kernel, GNU libraries, Google's open source Chromium browser, which is in turn based on webkit, etc.; Google is obligated to make the source available for most of that and even the parts for which they are not obligated (it's not all GPL) they're providing anyhow. None of this means that the built binary images for any particular device must also be provided by Google.
If you have the wit to obtain the source, and configure, build and install the resulting images then you're free to do so.
Will this "story" make 500 posts? Will the philes still be replying in 2010? Tune in next week!
The "quick and dirty test" bit is a really nice touch. You can feel the hate.
We salute thee and thy mighty trolling skillz!
They're billing Go as a "systems language." If by "system" they mean "application server in a Google data center" then I suppose that's correct. Previously the term "systems language" referred to languages suitable for operation system implementation, including device drivers, virtual memory management and other persnickety low-level software. Lack of pointer arithmetic and explicit memory management probably precludes any attempt to use Go as a "systems" language by that definition (although there are exceptions to that thinking.)
There is too much competition from other fresh and well regarded "new" languages for yet another new entrant to gain much headway without something really novel to attract attention. Not that trying is bad; by all means keep at it. Can't afford the mental bandwidth to jump on more new bandwagons, however.
Did Bolden even bother to be on hand for this?
It's flight hardware now. Can't call it a 'boondoggle' or whatever media-speak they had been using. That much more poisonous a pill to swallow when they kill it.
Also, the 'thrust oscillation' theory is on it's last leg. The 5 segment ATK ground test showed no threatening oscillation. This launch won't either. Won't stop any of you from prattling on about it, however.
Larry doesn't mind; the EU delay gives him a scapegoat for the layoffs.
Those of you fixated on MySQL: Sun sells hardware, software licenses and contract support to enterprises that use SQL Server, DB2, SAP and other direct competitors of Oracle, meaning the some DB2 users (for instance) will find themselves relying on Oracle for support of certified DB2 platforms... MySQL may be the least of whatever "competition problems" the EU has in mind
Your model omits some readily available data that would seem relevant. Population growth among non-immigrants of advanced, wealthy nations such as the US, Japan and parts of western Europe has plateaued at or below replacement. The "western" world has, despite an abundance or food, energy and space (in the case of North America,) tamed its population growth. This has occurred without coercive government control of breeding behavior.
Apparently there are more factors involved in the growth curve than Malthusians such as yourself choose to allow. It is certain that our international governance is equally blind; the next global treaty on the environment that acknowledges this success and, heaven forbid, incorporates population growth into its protocol bean counting will be the first.
Then let the "development" of the Internet it be "hindered". If IPTV takes another decade because new business models have be created to adapt to a neutral network, then so be it. I am happy to wait. If the capacity available to me grows more slowly because there are fewer deal making opportunities for ISPs and content producers then so be it. I've got enough bandwidth. Corrupting the relatively simple model of the existing network by letting Disney et al. carve it up into lucrative morsels to be passes among the elite is not appealing. Whichever content providers don't like it can just keep their stuff on cable until we drop our cable service as we've dropped our landlines. Their stuff just isn't that important to me.
The capitalist claims the market is agile. Adaptation is supposed to be swift. I believe this. I therefore believe we should permit the market to prove this by preventing the aforementioned companies from molding the Internet into models they are already comfortable with. Let them adapt to a neutral network. The Internet isn't broken and doesn't need to be fixed by Time Warner. The Internet will not fail if Ted Turner doesn't get a cut of my ISP's revenue.
There you go; an argument for Net Neutrality from the conservative perspective.
Will we ever learn enough to make these errors truly uncommittable?"
No. As long as correctness can't be proven and operators are permitted to create unanalyzed conditions by altering protocols there will always be risk. There are probably other mis-configured CT scanners out there in use right now that have been overdosing patients for years.
CT scans use X-rays; an easily detected frequency of light. Why not require that scanners incorporate an independent detector that measures the amount X-ray energy? If that is possible then create an interlock that can shut down the emitter when the net energy gets out of bounds and require that any such incident be NRC reportable. If the detector excluded from alteration by the operators then software bugs, misunderstandings, etc. can be detected even years after the last engineer had contact with the system, either before harm is done or at least before hundreds of patients are literally burned.
What can I do with this that I can't do with a dozen other dd-wrt routers?
You can help to convince other OEMs to embrace open platforms, as Netgear has, by buying this product instead of hacking some other box.
I wonder who can actually tell if a strad is better than a good modern violin. Is anyone aware of this sort of testing ever happening?
Wikipedia cites this book by James Beament of Oxford as a source of blind tests and audio analysis that concludes there is no observable difference. The money quote:
there appear to be no characterizing differences between the perceived sound from well-made orthodox instruments on any age when played by a skilled player
The audiophile phenomenon is neither new nor isolated to electronics and turntables. Instruments are shiny and expensive and often rarefied; it is inevitable that a mystique emerges that lead to claims of dramatically superior audio quality. Never expect that the existence of actual evidence will dissuade the audiophiles; for every one tester there are a thousand bullshit artists and a million fools that want to believe them.
Unleash the anecdotes!
This is the real issue. Citizens, power companies, rational environmentalists and all the rest can get just as enthusiastic as they wish but if every new plant comes with 20 years of built-in legal delays and costs the investors will not show up. Some percentage of our contemporary pool of judges will not hesitate to leverage or invent whatever justifications are necessary to hinder zoning, construction or whatever.
This is what is required. Congress must make law that trumps the enviros, NIMBYers, the Sierra Club judges and the rest. It will literally require an Act Of Congress, probably one for each plant, before anything can happen.
Don't hold your breath.
This was spelled out for you 15 months ago right here on Slashdot.
There is no saving Ares. Not because there is anything wrong with Ares. The "technical problems" are trumped up exaggerations of the engineering challenges that have emerged and been overcome. The "cost overruns" are fictional; Augustine is "finding" dramatic cost overruns because that helps justify killing the project. The reason there is no saving Ares is that the US voted in people that despise manned space flight. They have "better" places to spend money so whatever plans the US had for manned space flight are on hold for the indefinite future.
Lots of apologists appeared to muddy the waters but the bottom line is that the original plan to give the Constellation money to the NEA (a.k.a "early-education") was never repudiated by anyone in the Administration. We're just doing the necessary political push-ups to bury NASA's manned space flight capability.
It is amusing to watch as NASA and it's contractors make sweeping their work under the rug difficult; the engine test will be dramatic and will unavoidably appear in the news cycle. Ares I-X has a launch date and is being erected right now... It's kinda hard to characterize all this as "failure."
Am I the only one
No, you're just the only one with the gall to point it out. You're supposed to hand wave the fact that the plane is yet another iteration a design that first flew 32 years ago as the Su-27. You supposed to do this because it is (somehow) self evident to everyone except you that the supposedly stealthy, obsolete, absurdly expensive F-22 that only really stupid people like Americans could possibly be suckered into building is somehow, if not surpassed, then certainly matched by this miracle of Sukhoi engineering.
The world rankings are done every year.
The world rankings are spun toward universal health care for the US every year as well.
An increase of 73 days average life expectancy in only one year...
"IT'S A PEAK!!!11 SEE?!! IT'S GOT TO BE A PEAK!!1"
roflmao
Fortunately many other media outlets that aren't governed by slashdot editors had no difficultly sorting the relevant information from the spin; the US health care system is not, in fact, failing. It is rather expensive, and that may need to be dealt with, but it's not 'failing' according to any reasonable definition of fail that isn't founded on leftist propaganda.
Another thing to note is that the 0.2 year increase adds a little more than 2 extra months of social security payments, medicare reimbursements, VA benefits, prescription drug subsidies, pension disbursements, etc. to the Federal budget. Three guesses as to whether our forthright and brilliant rulers were factoring in such 'unexpected' yet large life expectancy increases into any of those future budgets while they were making their campaign promises... and the first two don't count.
Currency collapse. Bank on it.
Or maybe jumpy business people
They're jumpy for a reason. Between the copyright actions the White House has pursued over Obama's likeness and the justifiable paranoia of anything that approaches MSM Intellectual Property (a consequence of the Dem's RIAA, et. al. buddies) I can understand why Flikr is scared shit-less of our present ruling class.
That image has now been martyred.
But why stick with more obvious motivations...?
We were deliberately trained, over most of the previous decade, that ascribing benign motivations to our leaders is certain proof of ignorance or other mental deficiency. Perhaps that wasn't such a good idea?
Too late.
The question here is why doesnt Firefox do this natively?
The answer is that the browser is ignorant of what Flash is doing with the hard drive. HTML cookies and Flash cookies (LSOs) are not related. Firefox is not aware of and has no mechanism to control what Flash does with your disk.
Flash Player (for Mozilla/Firefox) is based on the ancient and crufty NPAPI. This interface provides no generic "clear your temporary crap" hook for the host (browser.) It should; it's 2009 and this browser thing has been going on for 15 years now...
IE 7 has a feature in "Delete Browsing History" that prompts the user to delete "files and settings stored by add-ons." I've never confirmed whether this means "flash cookies" (because I don't rely on IE for anything...) but that is what is implied, so this isn't some novel idea unheard of in the traditions of the Internets.
Dear Mozilla,
It is incumbent upon you as the present keeper of the NPAPI specification, such as it is, to extend said specification to provide a generic mechanism to monitor and control any and all storage utilized by third party plug-ins, and then encourage third parties (nasty warnings on plug-in invocation would work...) to adopt this extension. Please do so THIS decade. Do not continue to delay the obvious because NPAPI is an unholy mess; privacy trumps engineering elegance.
Thanks!
Try Google Groups.
That's the entire thread, supposedly.
You're told secret data has been wrestled from the grasp of the corporates and you're given a link. The page presents a pair of images right at the top, unavoidable; seen before anything is even read. Two images; one of vast quantities of ice, the second utterly free of ice. Global Warming has been implicated before you've read word number one.
If you look carefully you might notice one end of a landing strip just inland in both photos. These photos cover very small areas; only a few miles. The caption reads:
Sea ice forms along the coast in the winter, and generally melts or breaks away by mid July. Observations of sea ice position reveal considerable year-to-year variability. Changes in the timing of coastal sea ice breakup and in the location of offshore sea ice have significant local impacts: ecological, biological, and human. This image series portrays changes in the timing of coastal sea ice breakup, and gives information on smaller scale properties of ice. This information recorded over long periods, is required to understand and model the dynamics of sea ice and how changes or trends develop and influence other systems.
In other words these photos are 'evidence' of nothing. Minor, small scale year-to-year variation in ice flow patterns. The use of these photos in this manner is equivalent to claiming that because there was snow on my walk on January 10, 2008, but none on January 10, 2009, my environment has been ruined by Global Warming.
Yet there it is, fed to the reader at the very start of the story; no disclaimer provided. The pair of photos will now be repeated ad nauseam for years on end around the planet. Biden will have a blown up poster of these photos in his town hall kit by Wednesday. Fresh new memes the huckster elite will use goad "The West" into self inflicted poverty; "See? The planet is in peril! Man must be stopped!"
Here is a recent and well researched report on the $79 billion that has been spent by the US government (only) on climate research over the last 20 years. 19 pages and 52 citations. I dare you to read it. Global Warming advocates are not the underdogs. They rule vast quantities of public money.
In almost all other matters you can take it as a given that around Slashdot you will find if not cynics then certainly skeptics. On the other hand if it has a Bush taint, a little anti-business flavor and it's wrapped up in a Global Warming ribbon you people suck it up like hicks at a Benny Hinn sermon.
Here is a map of sites for which applications have been submitted to the NRC and are currently undergoing review. None of these will happen until the political will emerges to move the bureaucracy.
This is my feeling as well. FYI: document.write is the JavaScript equivalent of write(2). It is used liberally in modern web content; I doubt there are any popular contemporary pages that don't use it.
This code path should be impervious to any overflow exploit that might conceivably appear. Obviously document.write can and is used to exploit other more subtle flaws in a browser as it is capable of producing arbitrary document content, but that's not what we have here. Here we have long strings breaking document.write itself.
Unacceptable. Fix it now. Sunday.