forgot the * part: incidentally the Blackfoot tribe never signed the American / Indian treaty. I told my wife recently when our state government was busy being asshats that she should go to the capitol and take them all as prisoners of war until they started acting like grownups.:)
I used the formulas and such from the Hacker diet and as an experiment did not do any exercise. Dropped over 30 pounds anyway. Now that I weigh less I am in Karate and while when I started the diet I had trouble on ladder rung 1 of the Hacker program, now I just went and tried it out and I'm on rung 15, go figure. (over the span of a year for all this). -nB
My wife is of Native American ancestry (Blackfoot)* and a largely diet controlled diabetic. If you give her rice or white bread her blood sugar will go off the charts to the point where she likens it to being little different from having a couple glasses of wine, or a shot of crown. If you give her other sources of carbs (legumes, lentils, etc.) no effect at all on her blood sugar. Conversely she has low serum cholesterol even though we eat red meat all the time, while I (a cheese eating surrender monkey) need to be a little more choosey in how much fatty foods I eat.
Yeah, we are not all compatible with each others dietary needs. Some people can pound carbs all day long and nothing bad happens, others, looking at a sugar packet will kill them.
The folks I feel sorry for are the diabetics with heart disease. Diabetes and cardiac diets are not exactly compatible. -nB
Here ya go: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ Written by the founder of autodesk. It's a bit dated, but still works wonders. He has an exercise routine in there that is nicely laddered and realistic. Coupled with the tracking spreadsheets and stuff, you can see all sorts of trends that allow you to tune in on where you need more work (whether diet or exercise). -nB
ignoring the troll part, and also with a response to a comment in a parallel thread. No this won't be linux on the desktop, mostly because the market segment is still too small. (this is targeting devs, thus a small market).
Someone else said anything but Ubuntu, and I disagree. I think if Dell goes through with this , it is a good thing. A notebook with all know Linux compatible HW (with working sound even?) would be great. Doesn't matter what distro you put on there, at least the HW is not going to give you fits. Ubuntu is just as good as any other, and I'd argue that it's better for this application. If a Linux newbie buys this at least they won't be dead in the water because they don't know how to use apt or yum. -nB
the performance would be more classically Karmann Ghia
At which point it would be even better to just rebuild the engine to run on propane from an economy standpoint. Also, I'm not sure the frame could handle the weight of Lead Acid to be honest. If I do the mod I'll be having the body professionally redone by a local body shop I trust, and while they're at it I plan on having them add stiffener bars/trusses in key areas. -nB
My commute is 12 miles round trip (one gallon of gas in my truck). I've been thinking of making a Karmann Ghia EV mod using LiPo batteries for weight. I figure all I need is a 40 mile range (run a couple errands) and I can charge for free at work. It's not cost effective, but I've done some math and I think I can gut sub 5 second 0-60 (I'm going to shoot for 4.3) and it'll be one hell of a fun ride. -nB
Most basic health care plans will provide one for free, they will be a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), not a psychiatrist; kind of like seeing a Nurse Practitioner rather than an MD. If you don't have health care, there are still support services out there. It really will help, I promise. Having someone to talk to other than us anon dicks here on/. really works well. They can help you place stuff in perspective and place your priorities where they need to be (as opposed to where you honestly think they should be). They will help you with tools to work with your son, how to step back when the frustration gets to be too much, but in a way that does not make him worse.
Know that you are not alone in this. There are plenty of us here with autism, or like me and you, parents of autistic children. Find a local support group, talk to people. We recently lost my wife's grandmother, who lived with us for several years, that was particularly hard for my son, and by extension for us. If it weren't for the support out there I don't know how I would have dealt with it.
Come to think of it, talk to your child's care provider... they may be able to hook you up with someone. -nB
Seconded tolkein fan. I've had a shrink for a while. It does help, and there is no shame in it. (Not to say I don't enjoy a drink now and then). Don't let this become your demon. And, you can always contact me for some moral support:) -nB
It is focused on vaccines because there is an amazing correlation between the MMR vaccine and Autism onset. The correlation is strong enough that there have been multiple studies to see if there was also causation. There is not. The brain goes through some crazy changes at 18 to 30 months, the MMR vaccine is targeted for 24 months. Since in many cases Autism onset appears to be rapid, and there is a high probability of recently (within 6 months) of having gotten shots, naturally people seize on that. I even grappled with that, the scientific part of me said it was not the cause, but the parental protection part of me, yeah, that crossed my mind. I'd be lying if I said otherwise. -nB
usage can easily be profiled by having a WiFi NIC in promiscuious mode listening to traffic, when there is no traffic you are not using your WiFi network. MAC addresses are sent in the clear even in a WPA2 session. There are several NICs out there that support programatically changing the MAC address. -nB
All your arguments are predicated on some shaky assumptions, rather than downmodding you, I'll comment. You keep harping on unauthorized access, to wit, how would you know? Likely you would not know until you've gotten a police visit or a subpoena. If I am going to leach your bandwidth I'm going to do two things: Profile your usage, clone your MAC address. you look at your router and all you see is your machine connecting. I'm not connecting when you are likely to be using your system. You're at work or asleep when my cron job fires off to clone your MAC and connect to your AP, fires up BT and downloads a crapload of movies.
Taking this further, if I wanted to frame you up for something I would try to connect to another machine in your network and breech it, once I've mounted your filesystem I place a weekly encrypted* container file full of whatever I think is illegal, but believable in some obscure dir on your computer, downloaded from your IP.
Lets say I'm mobile and this is a "drive by" attack to Tx/Rx some sensitive and illegal data (perhaps the latest target for a suicide bombing in the US? Perhaps CP?). I breech your security (what is it, 30 seconds to break WEP, 6 min to break WPA?) and do whatever it is I was going to do. I can do the breech in a short enough amount of time to not arouse suspicion, and the actual downloads can be pre-canned scripts that run while the machine is tucked under the seat of the car. Meanwhile I go for a walk at the nearby park. In this case by the time you see an unauthorized MAC I'm gone, and you can't ID me.
The point is, even without direct malice you can be in a bad place really quick; a place where guilt appears to be presumed and innocence must be proven. -nB *say a compatible mode zip file with a dictionary word password?
As others have stated, this is remarkably inefficient. There is a reason Edison lost the power distribution battle. I think you may be able to run one PSU per rack, it's in the middle, with bus bars top to bottom, but beyond that you're looking at I^2*R losses that run over what you lose in the AC- DC - AC DC cycle of mains - UPS - PSU - MB -nB
As soneone responsible for machine infrastructure, this is a big deal. 21" racks means that I have to change the layout of my lab. Currently we have the mandatory 42" aisle (or whatever ADA requires) running the length of the lab, with banks of racks pedistileing (sp?) out from the wall with power and data. If all the racks were 2" wider I'd lose a rack in each row, so unless these machines improve density... it's a no sell for me.
I think they thought he was trolling me rather than responding to my sig. Also: "sudo make me a sandwich" exceeds the character limit or it would have been in there. -nB
Are you woken up at 4:30 a.m. because your autistic child won't go back to sleep?
Or kept up till midnight for the same reason, or end up giving up and sleeping on the floor next to him? yes.
Do you have to spend $6.00 on a gluten free loaf of bread?
no, because I don't have those allergies in my family.
Does it hurt when you remember what your son WAS like and wonder if he will ever be 'normal'?
not so much, I am happy I have a son that is high functioning (which it sounds like may not be your case, so you have my sympathies).
etc.
Look, all of us have issues, I've not walked in your shoes, just like you've not walked in mine (high function Autism and factor IX hemophilia), I'll agree that the post you were responding to was worded badly, and aggressively, but I must agree with him that the vaccinations were highly unlikely to have been causative. I'm going to guess this happened around the time he got the MMR shot series? This developmentally also happens to be the time when the brain makes lots of changes, one of which is manifesting symptoms of the miswiring we are discussing here. -nB
Like I said I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember thinking the same thing. 3 kids would have died (without vaccines) for every one that got sick (with them). Now herd immunity will skew those numbers given that the majority of the population is vaccinated, but it is still crazy numbers. -nB
For what it's worth, if you have a friend or family member say they don't want to vaccinate their kids remind them of the following math:
If you count *all* children with autism where anybody made any claim that it was the fault of a vaccine... And you count all children that have a medical reason for the vaccine hurting them (egg allergy, severe adverse reaction, etc.)... And you count *all* children that were made very ill (beyond the normal fever, but not bad enough to be in the above category)...
If you take all those kids in one pool, and count them against the number of children that died young every year from the diseases vaccines prevent, you will find that even accepting the pseudoscience as truth, it is *still* better to vaccinate your kids from a numbers game. I forget the exact numbers, but IIRC it was like 3:1 deaths to everything else as a ratio. I converted one of my family members with this argument. True they were still reluctant, but laying out the numbers you can't counter that, especially when you count the pseudoscience numbers in favor of the pseudoscience, and the vaccines still win.
I'd love to see Randal do an XKCD chart on this... -nB
My son is a high functioning Autism spectrum disorder child. He is 7 and has his feelings hurt quite genuinely and easily. That is the hard part about being a parent of a child with this issue. His mom and I long ago decided it is not a disability, and not to treat it as such. You are very correct that he has an extremely ordered mindset, very logical and very strongly identified concept of right and wrong. The kicker is that his labels of right and wrong are very accurate, not just with the niavite of a 7 year old. The hardest part is helping him understand that the world is distinctively unfair. That right and wrong, while ideal logical statements often have substantial color to them that makes right wrong and wrong right enough to really make it difficult to just say "That's not right". One of his current passions (they seem to run in very deep streaks) is martial arts. The high focus / high structure seems to really work well for him.
I think he has a future that will be bright, as long as I can help steer his course in life towards something that resonates with him.
Since it sounds like you have experience in this environment, have you any sage advice for a parent that wants to do the right thing for his child?
so it would still work, as everyone would be picking them up to see what the EvilWest has, thus removing their population base, and without that you have no army.
If memory serves, there is only one flying Zero left in existence (with the Sakai engine), I don't remember how many there are total (3 IIRC, with P&W'w), but I think it can be counted on one hand, and none more will ever be flyable. Yes a cache of 16-20 Zero's would be mind-blowing, but I think I'm content to Squee about the Spitfires, Zeros would make me do substantially more than Squee. -nB
I was thinking Windows XP/7 and Photoshop actually. As soon as you switch architecture then *everything* is legacy, including the OS. I doubt that Microsoft will be so kind as to port it for them....
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forgot the * part: :)
incidentally the Blackfoot tribe never signed the American / Indian treaty. I told my wife recently when our state government was busy being asshats that she should go to the capitol and take them all as prisoners of war until they started acting like grownups.
I used the formulas and such from the Hacker diet and as an experiment did not do any exercise. Dropped over 30 pounds anyway. Now that I weigh less I am in Karate and while when I started the diet I had trouble on ladder rung 1 of the Hacker program, now I just went and tried it out and I'm on rung 15, go figure.
(over the span of a year for all this).
-nB
My wife is of Native American ancestry (Blackfoot)* and a largely diet controlled diabetic. If you give her rice or white bread her blood sugar will go off the charts to the point where she likens it to being little different from having a couple glasses of wine, or a shot of crown.
If you give her other sources of carbs (legumes, lentils, etc.) no effect at all on her blood sugar.
Conversely she has low serum cholesterol even though we eat red meat all the time, while I (a cheese eating surrender monkey) need to be a little more choosey in how much fatty foods I eat.
Yeah, we are not all compatible with each others dietary needs. Some people can pound carbs all day long and nothing bad happens, others, looking at a sugar packet will kill them.
The folks I feel sorry for are the diabetics with heart disease. Diabetes and cardiac diets are not exactly compatible.
-nB
Here ya go:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ Written by the founder of autodesk. It's a bit dated, but still works wonders. He has an exercise routine in there that is nicely laddered and realistic. Coupled with the tracking spreadsheets and stuff, you can see all sorts of trends that allow you to tune in on where you need more work (whether diet or exercise).
-nB
ignoring the troll part, and also with a response to a comment in a parallel thread.
No this won't be linux on the desktop, mostly because the market segment is still too small. (this is targeting devs, thus a small market).
Someone else said anything but Ubuntu, and I disagree.
I think if Dell goes through with this , it is a good thing. A notebook with all know Linux compatible HW (with working sound even?) would be great. Doesn't matter what distro you put on there, at least the HW is not going to give you fits. Ubuntu is just as good as any other, and I'd argue that it's better for this application. If a Linux newbie buys this at least they won't be dead in the water because they don't know how to use apt or yum.
-nB
/. would be a much bigger loss than FB IMHO...
Especially if you consider that losing /. likely means FSDN, thus things like freshmeat and such as well.
-nB
the performance would be more classically Karmann Ghia
At which point it would be even better to just rebuild the engine to run on propane from an economy standpoint.
Also, I'm not sure the frame could handle the weight of Lead Acid to be honest. If I do the mod I'll be having the body professionally redone by a local body shop I trust, and while they're at it I plan on having them add stiffener bars/trusses in key areas.
-nB
My commute is 12 miles round trip (one gallon of gas in my truck).
I've been thinking of making a Karmann Ghia EV mod using LiPo batteries for weight. I figure all I need is a 40 mile range (run a couple errands) and I can charge for free at work. It's not cost effective, but I've done some math and I think I can gut sub 5 second 0-60 (I'm going to shoot for 4.3) and it'll be one hell of a fun ride.
-nB
Most basic health care plans will provide one for free, they will be a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), not a psychiatrist; kind of like seeing a Nurse Practitioner rather than an MD. If you don't have health care, there are still support services out there. It really will help, I promise. Having someone to talk to other than us anon dicks here on /. really works well. They can help you place stuff in perspective and place your priorities where they need to be (as opposed to where you honestly think they should be). They will help you with tools to work with your son, how to step back when the frustration gets to be too much, but in a way that does not make him worse.
Know that you are not alone in this. There are plenty of us here with autism, or like me and you, parents of autistic children. Find a local support group, talk to people. We recently lost my wife's grandmother, who lived with us for several years, that was particularly hard for my son, and by extension for us. If it weren't for the support out there I don't know how I would have dealt with it.
Come to think of it, talk to your child's care provider... they may be able to hook you up with someone.
-nB
Seconded tolkein fan. :)
I've had a shrink for a while. It does help, and there is no shame in it. (Not to say I don't enjoy a drink now and then).
Don't let this become your demon.
And, you can always contact me for some moral support
-nB
It is focused on vaccines because there is an amazing correlation between the MMR vaccine and Autism onset. The correlation is strong enough that there have been multiple studies to see if there was also causation. There is not.
The brain goes through some crazy changes at 18 to 30 months, the MMR vaccine is targeted for 24 months. Since in many cases Autism onset appears to be rapid, and there is a high probability of recently (within 6 months) of having gotten shots, naturally people seize on that. I even grappled with that, the scientific part of me said it was not the cause, but the parental protection part of me, yeah, that crossed my mind. I'd be lying if I said otherwise.
-nB
usage can easily be profiled by having a WiFi NIC in promiscuious mode listening to traffic, when there is no traffic you are not using your WiFi network. MAC addresses are sent in the clear even in a WPA2 session. There are several NICs out there that support programatically changing the MAC address.
-nB
All your arguments are predicated on some shaky assumptions, rather than downmodding you, I'll comment.
You keep harping on unauthorized access, to wit, how would you know? Likely you would not know until you've gotten a police visit or a subpoena.
If I am going to leach your bandwidth I'm going to do two things:
Profile your usage, clone your MAC address.
you look at your router and all you see is your machine connecting.
I'm not connecting when you are likely to be using your system. You're at work or asleep when my cron job fires off to clone your MAC and connect to your AP, fires up BT and downloads a crapload of movies.
Taking this further, if I wanted to frame you up for something I would try to connect to another machine in your network and breech it, once I've mounted your filesystem I place a weekly encrypted* container file full of whatever I think is illegal, but believable in some obscure dir on your computer, downloaded from your IP.
Lets say I'm mobile and this is a "drive by" attack to Tx/Rx some sensitive and illegal data (perhaps the latest target for a suicide bombing in the US? Perhaps CP?). I breech your security (what is it, 30 seconds to break WEP, 6 min to break WPA?) and do whatever it is I was going to do. I can do the breech in a short enough amount of time to not arouse suspicion, and the actual downloads can be pre-canned scripts that run while the machine is tucked under the seat of the car. Meanwhile I go for a walk at the nearby park. In this case by the time you see an unauthorized MAC I'm gone, and you can't ID me.
The point is, even without direct malice you can be in a bad place really quick; a place where guilt appears to be presumed and innocence must be proven.
-nB
*say a compatible mode zip file with a dictionary word password?
As others have stated, this is remarkably inefficient. There is a reason Edison lost the power distribution battle.
I think you may be able to run one PSU per rack, it's in the middle, with bus bars top to bottom, but beyond that you're looking at I^2*R losses that run over what you lose in the AC- DC - AC DC cycle of mains - UPS - PSU - MB
-nB
As soneone responsible for machine infrastructure, this is a big deal.
21" racks means that I have to change the layout of my lab. Currently we have the mandatory 42" aisle (or whatever ADA requires) running the length of the lab, with banks of racks pedistileing (sp?) out from the wall with power and data. If all the racks were 2" wider I'd lose a rack in each row, so unless these machines improve density... it's a no sell for me.
I think they thought he was trolling me rather than responding to my sig.
Also: "sudo make me a sandwich" exceeds the character limit or it would have been in there.
-nB
Are you woken up at 4:30 a.m. because your autistic child won't go back to sleep?
Or kept up till midnight for the same reason, or end up giving up and sleeping on the floor next to him? yes.
Do you have to spend $6.00 on a gluten free loaf of bread?
no, because I don't have those allergies in my family.
Does it hurt when you remember what your son WAS like and wonder if he will ever be 'normal'?
not so much, I am happy I have a son that is high functioning (which it sounds like may not be your case, so you have my sympathies).
etc.
Look, all of us have issues, I've not walked in your shoes, just like you've not walked in mine (high function Autism and factor IX hemophilia), I'll agree that the post you were responding to was worded badly, and aggressively, but I must agree with him that the vaccinations were highly unlikely to have been causative. I'm going to guess this happened around the time he got the MMR shot series? This developmentally also happens to be the time when the brain makes lots of changes, one of which is manifesting symptoms of the miswiring we are discussing here.
-nB
Like I said I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember thinking the same thing. 3 kids would have died (without vaccines) for every one that got sick (with them).
Now herd immunity will skew those numbers given that the majority of the population is vaccinated, but it is still crazy numbers.
-nB
For what it's worth, if you have a friend or family member say they don't want to vaccinate their kids remind them of the following math:
If you count *all* children with autism where anybody made any claim that it was the fault of a vaccine...
And you count all children that have a medical reason for the vaccine hurting them (egg allergy, severe adverse reaction, etc.)...
And you count *all* children that were made very ill (beyond the normal fever, but not bad enough to be in the above category)...
If you take all those kids in one pool, and count them against the number of children that died young every year from the diseases vaccines prevent, you will find that even accepting the pseudoscience as truth, it is *still* better to vaccinate your kids from a numbers game. I forget the exact numbers, but IIRC it was like 3:1 deaths to everything else as a ratio.
I converted one of my family members with this argument. True they were still reluctant, but laying out the numbers you can't counter that, especially when you count the pseudoscience numbers in favor of the pseudoscience, and the vaccines still win.
I'd love to see Randal do an XKCD chart on this...
-nB
Well played sir, well played.
-nB
My son is a high functioning Autism spectrum disorder child. He is 7 and has his feelings hurt quite genuinely and easily.
That is the hard part about being a parent of a child with this issue. His mom and I long ago decided it is not a disability, and not to treat it as such. You are very correct that he has an extremely ordered mindset, very logical and very strongly identified concept of right and wrong. The kicker is that his labels of right and wrong are very accurate, not just with the niavite of a 7 year old. The hardest part is helping him understand that the world is distinctively unfair. That right and wrong, while ideal logical statements often have substantial color to them that makes right wrong and wrong right enough to really make it difficult to just say "That's not right". One of his current passions (they seem to run in very deep streaks) is martial arts. The high focus / high structure seems to really work well for him.
I think he has a future that will be bright, as long as I can help steer his course in life towards something that resonates with him.
Since it sounds like you have experience in this environment, have you any sage advice for a parent that wants to do the right thing for his child?
-nB
so it would still work, as everyone would be picking them up to see what the EvilWest has, thus removing their population base, and without that you have no army.
If memory serves, there is only one flying Zero left in existence (with the Sakai engine), I don't remember how many there are total (3 IIRC, with P&W'w), but I think it can be counted on one hand, and none more will ever be flyable. Yes a cache of 16-20 Zero's would be mind-blowing, but I think I'm content to Squee about the Spitfires, Zeros would make me do substantially more than Squee.
-nB
I was thinking Windows XP/7 and Photoshop actually.
As soon as you switch architecture then *everything* is legacy, including the OS. I doubt that Microsoft will be so kind as to port it for them....
And surprisingly the US may be learning its lesson about meddling...
We've been fairly nice/pleasant to the new ruling party in Egypt.
Not to say we don't have a ways to go, but you got to start somewhere...
-nB