Climate change scientists have now resorted to trolling us.
Seriously. Cleaner air is bad for the planet? Shut up. As someone who has asthma, this pisses me off. I like breathing, thanks. Stop wasting time blaming the Clean Air Act and look at practical ways to cut carbon emissions in ways that don't knock us back to the stone age.
The real price is $30/month. It's a crazy price. It's Giganews' "Diamond" plan that has no quota and has vpn. This is the one you want if you have a peg leg, hook prosthetic, eye patch, single gold hoop earring, and a parrot on your shoulder. If you buy this, you have more money than sense.
If you use usenet as originally intended, i.e. text only, the Giganews' price is $3/month. But then there are free nntp servers that carry only text groups anyway.
Highwinds (Cox's usenet) has always sucked anyway. It was always slow and cantankerous.
For those of you saying "hurr, use google groups": shut up. The interface is made of dead babies and week old roadkill. Decades old slrn is better.
By the time someone learns how to do that, they know not to do it. Seriously. It's like typing in the fork bomb character string, it's not done accidentally.
And you got one thing wrong, it's not sda, it's still hda - knoppix uses the 2.4 kernel.
Knoppix is a good solution. It detects a lot of hardware, more than Ubuntu sometimes. It's a good swiss-army knife - use it as a live CD, use it to rescue dead Windows systems, whatever.
You're asking for the client side computer to execute a program that will configure the ports on the router and do it in the background. This program may be good or evil. If it's good, that's convenient. But if the program (say you got drive-by-installed) is evil, then it also configures your router's ports in the background.
But not only that, say you buy a CD or DVD from Sony and as part of the DRM rootkit they've used against you, they have also blasted a bunch of holes in your router which you don't notice for months because it was all done without user interaction.
All for the sake of "user friendliness"
I don't know about you, but that seems like a horrible idea to me. Not everyone has your best interests in mind.
have the program send that information when the game starts, and have the ports un-routed when the game ends.
This is insane. This really is an insane concept. If you think that the home user is the black-hat botnet operator's bitch, this will only exacerbate the situation. You are removing what little human interaction there is in configuring a router and turning it over to software completely. You really need to examine what you just asked for, because it's stupid.
Why not just supply the user with a pail of K-Y Jelly?
The "Simple Way" is usually the wrong way when dealing with complex systems.
There are tools that make things easier for "roughing out" what you want, but fine tuning is always breaking out a text editor and making adjustments.
What about the users? Fuck them. They don't even know what an operating system is and don't care what it is, don't care what a firewall is outside of "it keeps the bad guys out," don't care what a router or switch is, and mostly don't care how a network works or even bother to learn how to navigate a file system. Most of all, they cannot be trusted to reliably run a script without somehow screwing it up, even if it's one click of a mouse.
This is why your system administrator treats you like someone who just got off the short bus.
"I have, since then, seen a few of the fossil "finds" so sensationalized by the media which were quite obviously questionable (one of them looked like something a third-grader could have done)."
I'm not too proud to admit that I really don't know what a fake fossil looks like and whether it's obvious or not. I've seen enough photographs of actual living organisms to know that life is not only as weird as we think it is, but can be weirder than we can think.
Not to say my mind is so open my brains fall out.
"I certainly didn't mean to put you in attack/defense mode. "
Sometimes the creationist detector is too sensitive. Apparently someone else modded you down (mod points are not for disagreeing), which was too bad. Oh well, I consider acquired negative mod points wasting some dumb moderator's points.
Anyhoo, thanks for making me go look something up. I learned something.
1. I hadn't known of him until you mentioned him. I do not follow paleontology closely.
2. I therefore googled his name
3. Holeee Shit, the creationist garbage this brought up.
4. Not wanting to dismiss him as a creationist out of hand, I looked further - he's not, and his writings are being misused by the IDers and creationists, because, well, they're nuts and liars, especially this insidious site here: http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1275. These guys do their best do hide their creationism, but really, if you go into their archives, you find they got started at The Rock Church in San Diego (which they mislabel "The Rock University" to hide it.)
5. I had not come across his quote about fake fossils, just the bird/dinosaur hypothesis "controversy".
6. When I googled his claim about fake fossils, the search pointed to articles that all pointed back at the same Discover article. That's it, nothing else, really, except for articles talking about Archeoraptor being faked up by a Chinese farmer.
7. And of course #6 is seized upon by the creationists to paint all Chinese fossils as fakes.
8. Separating the good scientist from the nutjobs looks to be an impossibility. The "controversy" enters the Creationist/IDer echo chamber and just keeps going 'round and 'round. This is a sad state of affairs because Alan is clearly an actual scientist and the Creationists/IDers are a bunch of liars.
9. There is no evidence that "many" Chinese fossils are faked. There is just Alan Feduccia's statement. That being said, I cannot dismiss his claim that he has seen fake fossils at fossil shows. I have been to gem/fossil shows and you really need to know what the hell you're looking at before buying anything. I have no doubt there are fakes on the market. But to use this to imply that "many" academic fossils are faked seems a great stretch.
10. Since you are so familiar with Alan Feduccia, I suppose you already know how the IDers and Creationists have latched on to his statements and twisted them. To think that mentioning his name should not bring up the IDer/Creationist connection is to be disingenuous.
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Climate change scientists have now resorted to trolling us.
Seriously. Cleaner air is bad for the planet? Shut up. As someone who has asthma, this pisses me off. I like breathing, thanks. Stop wasting time blaming the Clean Air Act and look at practical ways to cut carbon emissions in ways that don't knock us back to the stone age.
KTHXBAI.
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Never happens?
I know someone personally who did it. Really nice girl. Pretty, too. Took a bunch of Tylenol and killed her liver dead.
Modded informative? Mods on crack.
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And you know what? You have absolutely no sense of humor.
Lighten up.
Sincerely, everyone who doesn't like a killjoy.
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That's not my job.
That's Google's job.
Besides, if I mentioned one specific one here, it would be unfairly burdening their machines.
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"People who want it for discussion will use a web based news reader. "
No. Never. You can pry my curses based news reader from my cold dead fingers.
Web based news readers suck. Google Groups is the worst offender.
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The $15/month is _not_ what you'll be paying.
The real price is $30/month. It's a crazy price. It's Giganews' "Diamond" plan that has no quota and has vpn. This is the one you want if you have a peg leg, hook prosthetic, eye patch, single gold hoop earring, and a parrot on your shoulder. If you buy this, you have more money than sense.
If you use usenet as originally intended, i.e. text only, the Giganews' price is $3/month. But then there are free nntp servers that carry only text groups anyway.
Highwinds (Cox's usenet) has always sucked anyway. It was always slow and cantankerous.
For those of you saying "hurr, use google groups": shut up. The interface is made of dead babies and week old roadkill. Decades old slrn is better.
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By the time someone learns how to do that, they know not to do it. Seriously. It's like typing in the fork bomb character string, it's not done accidentally.
And you got one thing wrong, it's not sda, it's still hda - knoppix uses the 2.4 kernel.
Knoppix is a good solution. It detects a lot of hardware, more than Ubuntu sometimes. It's a good swiss-army knife - use it as a live CD, use it to rescue dead Windows systems, whatever.
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BMO
You're asking for the client side computer to execute a program that will configure the ports on the router and do it in the background. This program may be good or evil. If it's good, that's convenient. But if the program (say you got drive-by-installed) is evil, then it also configures your router's ports in the background.
But not only that, say you buy a CD or DVD from Sony and as part of the DRM rootkit they've used against you, they have also blasted a bunch of holes in your router which you don't notice for months because it was all done without user interaction.
All for the sake of "user friendliness"
I don't know about you, but that seems like a horrible idea to me. Not everyone has your best interests in mind.
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Isn't this an incredible security risk?
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have the program send that information when the game starts, and have the ports un-routed when the game ends.
This is insane. This really is an insane concept. If you think that the home user is the black-hat botnet operator's bitch, this will only exacerbate the situation. You are removing what little human interaction there is in configuring a router and turning it over to software completely. You really need to examine what you just asked for, because it's stupid.
Why not just supply the user with a pail of K-Y Jelly?
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BMO
The "Simple Way" is usually the wrong way when dealing with complex systems.
There are tools that make things easier for "roughing out" what you want, but fine tuning is always breaking out a text editor and making adjustments.
What about the users? Fuck them. They don't even know what an operating system is and don't care what it is, don't care what a firewall is outside of "it keeps the bad guys out," don't care what a router or switch is, and mostly don't care how a network works or even bother to learn how to navigate a file system. Most of all, they cannot be trusted to reliably run a script without somehow screwing it up, even if it's one click of a mouse.
This is why your system administrator treats you like someone who just got off the short bus.
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An interesting short article on forgery.
http://www.jpaleontologicaltechniques.org/pasta3/JPT%20N2/Pdf/JPT_n002_Jul.pdf
I haven't found the "feathers glued" but Archaeoraptor *was* glued together from multiple actual fossils to "increase its value"
"And bought by someone who should have known better"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1248079.stm
Motivating factor? Greed.
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" but fresh feathers just glued onto the clay/rock are kind of a tipoff."
You sure that wasn't just a representation of what the dead organism would have looked like in the position in the sediment?
If not, citation needed, just so I can laugh.
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"I have, since then, seen a few of the fossil "finds" so sensationalized by the media which were quite obviously questionable (one of them looked like something a third-grader could have done)."
I'm not too proud to admit that I really don't know what a fake fossil looks like and whether it's obvious or not. I've seen enough photographs of actual living organisms to know that life is not only as weird as we think it is, but can be weirder than we can think.
Not to say my mind is so open my brains fall out.
"I certainly didn't mean to put you in attack/defense mode. "
Sometimes the creationist detector is too sensitive. Apparently someone else modded you down (mod points are not for disagreeing), which was too bad. Oh well, I consider acquired negative mod points wasting some dumb moderator's points.
Anyhoo, thanks for making me go look something up. I learned something.
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1. I hadn't known of him until you mentioned him. I do not follow paleontology closely.
2. I therefore googled his name
3. Holeee Shit, the creationist garbage this brought up.
4. Not wanting to dismiss him as a creationist out of hand, I looked further - he's not, and his writings are being misused by the IDers and creationists, because, well, they're nuts and liars, especially this insidious site here: http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1275. These guys do their best do hide their creationism, but really, if you go into their archives, you find they got started at The Rock Church in San Diego (which they mislabel "The Rock University" to hide it.)
5. I had not come across his quote about fake fossils, just the bird/dinosaur hypothesis "controversy".
6. When I googled his claim about fake fossils, the search pointed to articles that all pointed back at the same Discover article. That's it, nothing else, really, except for articles talking about Archeoraptor being faked up by a Chinese farmer.
7. And of course #6 is seized upon by the creationists to paint all Chinese fossils as fakes.
8. Separating the good scientist from the nutjobs looks to be an impossibility. The "controversy" enters the Creationist/IDer echo chamber and just keeps going 'round and 'round. This is a sad state of affairs because Alan is clearly an actual scientist and the Creationists/IDers are a bunch of liars.
9. There is no evidence that "many" Chinese fossils are faked. There is just Alan Feduccia's statement. That being said, I cannot dismiss his claim that he has seen fake fossils at fossil shows. I have been to gem/fossil shows and you really need to know what the hell you're looking at before buying anything. I have no doubt there are fakes on the market. But to use this to imply that "many" academic fossils are faked seems a great stretch.
10. Since you are so familiar with Alan Feduccia, I suppose you already know how the IDers and Creationists have latched on to his statements and twisted them. To think that mentioning his name should not bring up the IDer/Creationist connection is to be disingenuous.
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"Alan Feduccia pointed out years ago that fake Chinese fossils are a whole industry."
No, he has not.
He has *disagreed* with the interpretations of some of them with regards to the dinosaur/bird hypothesis, but he has not called them fake.
However, he is a darling of the IDers and Creationists because he represents some sort of "controversy," which is unfortunate.
And that is all I'm going to say on this. I have learned not to discuss evolution with creationists/IDers.
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Then you're just being a bigot.
Thanks for playing.
Fuck you.
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It used to be you *could* leave a jetliner by parachute.
Then D.B. Cooper jumped from a 727 and now you can't, not safely anyway, because you can't leave by the back stairs anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane
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"You could ask most Americans where the border between Quebec and British Columbia is, and they'd point to some arbitrary place."
>border between Quebec and BC.
That's because the questioner doesn't even know geography and is asking a stupid question.
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Antagonize your own customers at your own risk.
This is a "bet the company" move, and I'm betting this leads to Chapter 7.
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a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.
Oh good, so now instead of just Fax spam, we can get Printer spam.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512587.aspx
>You can't clean a compromised system by patching it.
>You can't clean a compromised system by removing the back doors.
>You can't clean a compromised system by using some "vulnerability remover."
>You can't clean a compromised system by using a virus scanner.
>You can't clean a compromised system by reinstalling the operating system over the existing installation.
>You can't trust any data copied from a compromised system.
>You can't trust the event logs on a compromised system.
>You may not be able to trust your latest backup.
>>>>>The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild.
Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D. [YES, HE'S A DOCTOR], CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I
Security Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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...Rupert Murdoch is raging, yelling, and throwing things, and plotting a way to destroy ProPublica.
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Every hard disk not sold by Paramount will be counted as 20 incidents of piracy.
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