Instead of making you a quirky Scottish engineer, it only makes you a plastic picture of him. That might be good enough for Kirk on occasion, but certainly not for Scotty.
"ifconfig -a" only shows lo0, and/dev/ doesn't have a lot of networking hardware to work with, in particular it doesn't look like there's an ethernet driver, and I doubt you could easily coerce a/dev/tty driver to go anywhere. But it's still cool.
It's been too long since I've tried running a browser in emacs, so I don't remember how (and therefore I'm not using it to reply to this Slashdot thread:-), but emacs itself seems to be running fine. Can Slashdot run in an emacs browser?
Many years ago we had a loaner machine that had to be returned to the vendor because after we'd tested it our director decided we should buy a machine with a more politically correct logo on the front of the box. We had to remove all our files anyway, after copying them to other machines, so "why not rm -rf/".
It ran ok for a while, though once "ls" and "df" were gone it was a bit harder to tell how it was doing. "echo *" still worked fine, and eventually there wasn't much left but enough directory to hold the shell and rm and a few/dev entries. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to save "dd" in the process, so I couldn't overwrite the disk as well.
Yes, you can blame the WTC and Clinton's cruise missile attacks and to some extent even the Afghanistan* War on bin Laden, but the article also blames him for the costs of Bush's Iraq War, which had nothing to do with him and which cost a lot more than Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein was the kind of corrupt secular dictator bin Laden hated, and American troops based in the Holy Land (that's Saudi Arabia, in this case) were one of the things bin Laden got most upset about.
Bush may have used bin Laden as an excuse, along with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Saddam tried to kill my daddy after my daddy tried to kill Saddam", but the Pentagon was planning the Iraq War from the first week Bush got into office. (See Bamford's book "A Pretext for War" for more details - Cheney, Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, and Cheney's neo-con buddies were all at those early planning meetings. And Iraq was a logical target since Bush 41's war had never really been finished, so the Pentagon should have been doing at least some planning in case the politicians wanted to finish the war.)
* And even the Afghanistan War was mostly an attempt to impose a non-Taliban winner onto the civil war that the Taliban had mostly won, and while they were permitting bin Laden to operate in their country, bombing the place in response to 9/11 was a bit like the Brits bombing the Irish parts of Boston and San Francisco after an IRA bombing in London.
It was a few million dollars, though I think he raised it to $25m, and he did spend about that much on the cruise missile attacks on the camps in Afghanistan and the medical factory in Sudan.
And Bush didn't have to drop the war effort in Afghanistan just because he had a political opportunity to attack Iraq, but he and Rumsfeld were hardly competent. And so what if Osama got away, that would just mean we'd have a permanent excuse to continue the wars.
The Bush Administration really wanted to have enemies so they could have wars. Bin Laden was useful, but the Afghanistan War did get in the way of the Iraq War that the Pentagon had been planning since Bush got into office. And all that Patriot Act stuff got put together in a surprising hurry - you'd think the FBI and NSA had been planning to keep proposing power-grabbing rules even before the terrorists got there (pay no attention to that Louis Freeh behind the curtain...)
Terrorists were really convenient, and since the Feds had been trying to scare the public about terrorists with anthrax since at least the second half of the Clinton Administration, it was especially convenient that they used some of that.
(I'm not one of those 9/11 Truther Conspiracy Nuts - I think this was mostly opportunism on the parts of the military-industrial complex folks and the surveillance-state folks who got a chance to do the things they'd been telling us all along they wanted to do. Bush and Cheney got elected as tough-guy militarists, after all, and you don't expect them not to have wanted to help the FBI/NSA eavesdropping types.)
Apparently the Arduino-based Google Android tool costs a lot more than just an Arduino (or than an Arduino plus a couple of USB shields.) It's an open design you can build yourself, but they're not selling the hardware cheap.
Some years ago, one thing people commented about liking about Burning Man was that they were really really offline, middle of nowhere, no phone or Internet, if they had any communications it was walkie-talkies to friends in their camp. You could Be Here Now, because you couldn't really be anywhere else. Even Brad's Phone Booth didn't change that much, because there was just one of it and it stayed in one place and you could stand in line.
Now that people have done really cool stuff with satellites and wifi nets and such, you have to try harder to be offline.
I've tried using that and some other sleep-detection systems (currently using a Zeo, which gives a lot more detail about your sleep process.) Having the alarm go off when you're in lighter parts of the sleep cycle is much better than having it go off in deeper parts.
But if you're having lots of grogginess problems in the morning, you might check whether you've got sleep apnea or other sleep problems.
I've got an indoor/outdoor thermometer in the bedroom - it helps to know what the temperatures are like before I get dressed. Sure, I could get fancy and have an app telling me what the temperature is at the office instead of at home, but it's not that necessary.
I'm still talking about having the alerts interrupt the radio, so when you're driving you don't have to get out your cell phone. (And hey, I remember when it was still named CONELRAD...)
I do remember the first time I heard the Emergency Broadcast System come on the radio and say it was not a test. Apparently they'd started using the system for flood warnings and other realistic emergencies, but having grown up in the Cold War, the Emergency Broadcast System only meant two things to my generation, either "This is a test, it is only a test" or "There's a nuclear war, kiss your ass goodbye."
Perhaps you young folks don't remember the late 90s (:-), but the primary business models for Silicon Valley startups in those days were to make something popular and
Maybe IPO, or
Sell your company to Cisco if you made hardware, or
Sell your company to Microsoft if it was software or services.
Microsoft's bought Hotmail for $400M, and it transformed the previously IPO-centric business focus.
The Anti-Trust suit meant you could no longer sell your company to Microsoft, so it was much harder to get venture capital, because VCs wanted to build and sell companies, not try to actually run them and have to deliver profits selling dogfood online. It didn't help that Alan Greenspan raised interest rates six times in early 2000, making capital harder to get, and the Y2K Disaster Prevention Retrofitting business was over, and the market itself was starting to get more realistic about what internet advertising was worth (enough to support free web hosting and search, not enough to support physical delivery of dogfood.*) Al Gore the Senator may have invented the Internet, but Al Gore the Vice President anti-trust activist helped crash the dot-com boom.
* There was one of the Webvan competitors that was making money, not for its investors, but at least for its drivers, but that was only because they weren't just delivering munchies late at night, they were also delivering weed.
A few decades ago I was driving across the country, and there was a bad thunderstorm while I was driving through Iowa. The radio was saying "tornadoes sighted in this county, run away!" "tornadoes sighted in that county, run away!". Did my AAA road map have county names on it? Nope:-) Eventually the rain got heavy enough that we pulled over because we couldn't see the road well enough, but it was kind of annoying.
More seriously, it's kind of annoying that the system for telling you to turn around and run away because of tornadoes or nuclear explosions or big car accidents or whatever requires you to read texts while driving. (I can't do that - I need to wear my reading glasses to read texts, and need to not wear them to be able to drive.) I hope they'll also use the Emergency Broadcast System if they're playing games with texts. And it's annoying that you can turn off local emergency alerts (which you might actually need to receive), but can't turn off texts from the President (which are either about Nuclear War, in which case a text message is rather too late, or else they're political spam.)
If you google my name, the first N pages of results are mostly about a jazz drummer named Bill Stewart. While I am an amateur musician, if you've heard me drum you'd know that I'm not the same Bill Stewart....
"Everything has always been like this" is a great null hypothesis, not only because it's neutral, but because the evidence doesn't support it. It lets the teacher go talk about what kind of evidence there is, and how you figure out what evidence is meaningful, and what the evidence might mean, and how it relates to other evidence. So you've got astronomical evidence telling you about change and the age of the universe, and biological and geographical evidence telling you about them, and genetics. And you get to compare different alternative hypothesis, like Lamarckianism and Darwin's ideas and the folks who think the evolution all happened during one week in 4004BC and then came to a crashing halt, and also some of the Hindu concepts.
Creationism takes 10 minutes to teach. Intelligent Design takes longer, because it's got complicated bits to try to explain how it isn't just Creationism in spite of not contradicting it, and to try to explain things that Creationism doesn't explain, and in general because it's Creationism plus Weasel Wording, and sometimes weasels just won't work fast enough.
There are lots of good arguments against it - the tinfoil is just about the question of whether "intruding on the privacy of the drivers" is the primary motivation, as opposed to fairly taxing road use. (I tend to suspect it's a major part of the motivation, if not for the people who want to sell measuring systems, at least for the government people supporting them.)
Slashdot seems to have started putting numbers after the article titles, so I saw it as "Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds 34", which is obviously a Rule 34 site for Ringworld fans. Imagine my disappointment when I found that it just mean there were 34 comments on the article, and it's now "Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds 37"...
There are lots of services like Dropbox and Evernote and Pick-your-favorite-Online-Backup-Service that are focused on people storing their own data or on data they're only going to share with a small number of people (e.g. web upload/download instead of FTP, for people behind firewalls or with random DHCP addresses), and many of them give their users the idea that they're getting privacy. It's different from the Youtube-without-censorship file upload site market.
The recent complaints about Dropbox and similar file storage sites violating users' privacy in return to lawsuits is because the site is doing the encryption, not the user.
The user uploads unencrypted data to the site across an encrypted SSL tunnel. W00t! We're R333713 S3kr1t Heer!
The site unpacks the tunnel and stores the data, possibly encrypted using a key they know, or possibly just with passwords to keep unauthorized users out.
The receiving user gives the site a password, and the site gives the user the again-unencrypted data over another R3333713 S3kr1t encrypted SSL tunnel.,li>The FBI hands the Storage site a subpoena or warrant or National Security Letter or a note from their mom, and the site hands over the stored data and any keys they have, along with the transaction records from the upload.
If you want to protect your data, you can never hand the storage site unencrypted data, and this includes handing them encrypted data along with the keys. Ideally, depending on the kind of security you're looking for, you'd like their storage system not to store files in ways that are easily traced back to you (for instance, the file gets stored with a filename that's a random string, and the storage site forgets who it belongs to after storing the file, so that anybody who steals the disk drive only knows that there are files named "bunch of random digits", and has know way to know which ones belong to which users. Anybody who wants to recover the file needs to know the filename (so the service can retrieve it) and the decryption key (which the service doesn't know.)
On the other hand, Intelligent Design is the hypothesis that evolution happened, but it was all during one week in 4004BC, which was able to work because a Creator helped. And the appropriate null hypothesis to compare this to is that "everything has always been the way it is now."
Yes, undermining education undermines our ability to govern ourselves and corrupts children into not thinking about what they're told. Are you suggesting that that's NOT their objective?
The right-wing takeover of the Republican party has been well-designed, and while it's mostly about getting people to vote Republican and getting voters to support wars when they want wars, but occasionally their Corporate Sponsors have other messages, like "Drill Baby Drill" and "There's No Global Warming" (so leave our oil companies alone.)
The Anti-Evolution parts are there to tell religious conservatives that the political conservatives are the party that they agree with and that supports their objectives and to get them to emotionally identify themselves as Right-Wing Republicans. The Rove/Bush/Norquist/Limbaugh/Fox folks mostly don't actually believe in Creationism themselves, but they don't care. They care about pushing the buttons of potential supporters. Religious conservatives aren't any dumber than liberals, and if you don't think liberals don't have buttons to push, try telling feminists how early fetuses have heartbeats and brain activity and that abortion kills them. What's useful about religious conservatives is that their buttons are big and well-marked and lots of people have lots of practice pushing on them. Occasionally the right-wingers get caught pushing religious people's buttons - there was a lot of press in the mid-late 00's about how evangelicals were getting disillusioned about how the Bush Administration was using them and not giving them anything in return, and this is part of that - but so is the creation of the Tea Party, which suddenly discovered that there was a horrible budget deficit now that Bush wasn't going to be in office.
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Instead of making you a quirky Scottish engineer, it only makes you a plastic picture of him. That might be good enough for Kirk on occasion, but certainly not for Scotty.
"ifconfig -a" only shows lo0, and /dev/ doesn't have a lot of networking hardware to work with, in particular it doesn't look like there's an ethernet driver, and I doubt you could easily coerce a /dev/tty driver to go anywhere. But it's still cool.
It's been too long since I've tried running a browser in emacs, so I don't remember how (and therefore I'm not using it to reply to this Slashdot thread :-), but emacs itself seems to be running fine. Can Slashdot run in an emacs browser?
Many years ago we had a loaner machine that had to be returned to the vendor because after we'd tested it our director decided we should buy a machine with a more politically correct logo on the front of the box. We had to remove all our files anyway, after copying them to other machines, so "why not rm -rf /".
It ran ok for a while, though once "ls" and "df" were gone it was a bit harder to tell how it was doing. "echo *" still worked fine, and eventually there wasn't much left but enough directory to hold the shell and rm and a few /dev entries. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to save "dd" in the process, so I couldn't overwrite the disk as well.
Yes, you can blame the WTC and Clinton's cruise missile attacks and to some extent even the Afghanistan* War on bin Laden, but the article also blames him for the costs of Bush's Iraq War, which had nothing to do with him and which cost a lot more than Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein was the kind of corrupt secular dictator bin Laden hated, and American troops based in the Holy Land (that's Saudi Arabia, in this case) were one of the things bin Laden got most upset about.
Bush may have used bin Laden as an excuse, along with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Saddam tried to kill my daddy after my daddy tried to kill Saddam", but the Pentagon was planning the Iraq War from the first week Bush got into office. (See Bamford's book "A Pretext for War" for more details - Cheney, Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, and Cheney's neo-con buddies were all at those early planning meetings. And Iraq was a logical target since Bush 41's war had never really been finished, so the Pentagon should have been doing at least some planning in case the politicians wanted to finish the war.)
* And even the Afghanistan War was mostly an attempt to impose a non-Taliban winner onto the civil war that the Taliban had mostly won, and while they were permitting bin Laden to operate in their country, bombing the place in response to 9/11 was a bit like the Brits bombing the Irish parts of Boston and San Francisco after an IRA bombing in London.
It was a few million dollars, though I think he raised it to $25m, and he did spend about that much on the cruise missile attacks on the camps in Afghanistan and the medical factory in Sudan.
And Bush didn't have to drop the war effort in Afghanistan just because he had a political opportunity to attack Iraq, but he and Rumsfeld were hardly competent. And so what if Osama got away, that would just mean we'd have a permanent excuse to continue the wars.
The Bush Administration really wanted to have enemies so they could have wars. Bin Laden was useful, but the Afghanistan War did get in the way of the Iraq War that the Pentagon had been planning since Bush got into office. And all that Patriot Act stuff got put together in a surprising hurry - you'd think the FBI and NSA had been planning to keep proposing power-grabbing rules even before the terrorists got there (pay no attention to that Louis Freeh behind the curtain...)
Terrorists were really convenient, and since the Feds had been trying to scare the public about terrorists with anthrax since at least the second half of the Clinton Administration, it was especially convenient that they used some of that.
(I'm not one of those 9/11 Truther Conspiracy Nuts - I think this was mostly opportunism on the parts of the military-industrial complex folks and the surveillance-state folks who got a chance to do the things they'd been telling us all along they wanted to do. Bush and Cheney got elected as tough-guy militarists, after all, and you don't expect them not to have wanted to help the FBI/NSA eavesdropping types.)
Apparently the Arduino-based Google Android tool costs a lot more than just an Arduino (or than an Arduino plus a couple of USB shields.) It's an open design you can build yourself, but they're not selling the hardware cheap.
Some years ago, one thing people commented about liking about Burning Man was that they were really really offline, middle of nowhere, no phone or Internet, if they had any communications it was walkie-talkies to friends in their camp. You could Be Here Now, because you couldn't really be anywhere else. Even Brad's Phone Booth didn't change that much, because there was just one of it and it stayed in one place and you could stand in line.
Now that people have done really cool stuff with satellites and wifi nets and such, you have to try harder to be offline.
I've tried using that and some other sleep-detection systems (currently using a Zeo, which gives a lot more detail about your sleep process.) Having the alarm go off when you're in lighter parts of the sleep cycle is much better than having it go off in deeper parts.
But if you're having lots of grogginess problems in the morning, you might check whether you've got sleep apnea or other sleep problems.
I've got an indoor/outdoor thermometer in the bedroom - it helps to know what the temperatures are like before I get dressed. Sure, I could get fancy and have an app telling me what the temperature is at the office instead of at home, but it's not that necessary.
I'm still talking about having the alerts interrupt the radio, so when you're driving you don't have to get out your cell phone. (And hey, I remember when it was still named CONELRAD...)
I do remember the first time I heard the Emergency Broadcast System come on the radio and say it was not a test. Apparently they'd started using the system for flood warnings and other realistic emergencies, but having grown up in the Cold War, the Emergency Broadcast System only meant two things to my generation, either "This is a test, it is only a test" or "There's a nuclear war, kiss your ass goodbye."
Perhaps you young folks don't remember the late 90s (:-), but the primary business models for Silicon Valley startups in those days were to make something popular and
Microsoft's bought Hotmail for $400M, and it transformed the previously IPO-centric business focus.
The Anti-Trust suit meant you could no longer sell your company to Microsoft, so it was much harder to get venture capital, because VCs wanted to build and sell companies, not try to actually run them and have to deliver profits selling dogfood online. It didn't help that Alan Greenspan raised interest rates six times in early 2000, making capital harder to get, and the Y2K Disaster Prevention Retrofitting business was over, and the market itself was starting to get more realistic about what internet advertising was worth (enough to support free web hosting and search, not enough to support physical delivery of dogfood.*) Al Gore the Senator may have invented the Internet, but Al Gore the Vice President anti-trust activist helped crash the dot-com boom.
* There was one of the Webvan competitors that was making money, not for its investors, but at least for its drivers, but that was only because they weren't just delivering munchies late at night, they were also delivering weed.
Timmy's in the well?
A few decades ago I was driving across the country, and there was a bad thunderstorm while I was driving through Iowa. The radio was saying "tornadoes sighted in this county, run away!" "tornadoes sighted in that county, run away!". Did my AAA road map have county names on it? Nope :-) Eventually the rain got heavy enough that we pulled over because we couldn't see the road well enough, but it was kind of annoying.
More seriously, it's kind of annoying that the system for telling you to turn around and run away because of tornadoes or nuclear explosions or big car accidents or whatever requires you to read texts while driving. (I can't do that - I need to wear my reading glasses to read texts, and need to not wear them to be able to drive.) I hope they'll also use the Emergency Broadcast System if they're playing games with texts. And it's annoying that you can turn off local emergency alerts (which you might actually need to receive), but can't turn off texts from the President (which are either about Nuclear War, in which case a text message is rather too late, or else they're political spam.)
Yes, Officer, I was just reading this text while I was driving because it might have been from the PRESIDENT!
If you google my name, the first N pages of results are mostly about a jazz drummer named Bill Stewart. While I am an amateur musician, if you've heard me drum you'd know that I'm not the same Bill Stewart....
"Everything has always been like this" is a great null hypothesis, not only because it's neutral, but because the evidence doesn't support it. It lets the teacher go talk about what kind of evidence there is, and how you figure out what evidence is meaningful, and what the evidence might mean, and how it relates to other evidence. So you've got astronomical evidence telling you about change and the age of the universe, and biological and geographical evidence telling you about them, and genetics. And you get to compare different alternative hypothesis, like Lamarckianism and Darwin's ideas and the folks who think the evolution all happened during one week in 4004BC and then came to a crashing halt, and also some of the Hindu concepts.
Creationism takes 10 minutes to teach. Intelligent Design takes longer, because it's got complicated bits to try to explain how it isn't just Creationism in spite of not contradicting it, and to try to explain things that Creationism doesn't explain, and in general because it's Creationism plus Weasel Wording, and sometimes weasels just won't work fast enough.
There are lots of good arguments against it - the tinfoil is just about the question of whether "intruding on the privacy of the drivers" is the primary motivation, as opposed to fairly taxing road use. (I tend to suspect it's a major part of the motivation, if not for the people who want to sell measuring systems, at least for the government people supporting them.)
Slashdot seems to have started putting numbers after the article titles, so I saw it as "Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds 34", which is obviously a Rule 34 site for Ringworld fans. Imagine my disappointment when I found that it just mean there were 34 comments on the article, and it's now "Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds 37"...
There are lots of services like Dropbox and Evernote and Pick-your-favorite-Online-Backup-Service that are focused on people storing their own data or on data they're only going to share with a small number of people (e.g. web upload/download instead of FTP, for people behind firewalls or with random DHCP addresses), and many of them give their users the idea that they're getting privacy. It's different from the Youtube-without-censorship file upload site market.
The recent complaints about Dropbox and similar file storage sites violating users' privacy in return to lawsuits is because the site is doing the encryption, not the user.
If you want to protect your data, you can never hand the storage site unencrypted data, and this includes handing them encrypted data along with the keys. Ideally, depending on the kind of security you're looking for, you'd like their storage system not to store files in ways that are easily traced back to you (for instance, the file gets stored with a filename that's a random string, and the storage site forgets who it belongs to after storing the file, so that anybody who steals the disk drive only knows that there are files named "bunch of random digits", and has know way to know which ones belong to which users. Anybody who wants to recover the file needs to know the filename (so the service can retrieve it) and the decryption key (which the service doesn't know.)
On the other hand, Intelligent Design is the hypothesis that evolution happened, but it was all during one week in 4004BC, which was able to work because a Creator helped. And the appropriate null hypothesis to compare this to is that "everything has always been the way it is now."
Yes, undermining education undermines our ability to govern ourselves and corrupts children into not thinking about what they're told. Are you suggesting that that's NOT their objective?
The right-wing takeover of the Republican party has been well-designed, and while it's mostly about getting people to vote Republican and getting voters to support wars when they want wars, but occasionally their Corporate Sponsors have other messages, like "Drill Baby Drill" and "There's No Global Warming" (so leave our oil companies alone.)
The Anti-Evolution parts are there to tell religious conservatives that the political conservatives are the party that they agree with and that supports their objectives and to get them to emotionally identify themselves as Right-Wing Republicans. The Rove/Bush/Norquist/Limbaugh/Fox folks mostly don't actually believe in Creationism themselves, but they don't care. They care about pushing the buttons of potential supporters. Religious conservatives aren't any dumber than liberals, and if you don't think liberals don't have buttons to push, try telling feminists how early fetuses have heartbeats and brain activity and that abortion kills them. What's useful about religious conservatives is that their buttons are big and well-marked and lots of people have lots of practice pushing on them. Occasionally the right-wingers get caught pushing religious people's buttons - there was a lot of press in the mid-late 00's about how evangelicals were getting disillusioned about how the Bush Administration was using them and not giving them anything in return, and this is part of that - but so is the creation of the Tea Party, which suddenly discovered that there was a horrible budget deficit now that Bush wasn't going to be in office.