It sounds like you live in or around Boston, so I realize that your view is likely quite different than mine, me being halfway across the country. As I see it, it was their 'idiot behavior' that brought all the attention to the issue. At least half of the news spots about it that I've seen are from that press conference. If they'd just have gone along with events as you seem to think they should have, would this even be a story now? The city government would have just swept the case under the rug to hide their own stupidity, and we wouldn't have heard anything more about it.
Almost everybody here seems to think that Boston officials screwed up. But would we be thinking that if all we had heard about the incident was from the news reports from the first 24 hours?
"where harsh weather makes regular coal and oil fuel deliveries unreliable and expensive."
I did read the article, and I understand the benefits of a nuclear plant. But why not just build it on land? One would think that harsh weather would mean unstable seas, meaning it makes even more sense to build it on land where you can reinforce it better against the weather.
I still haven't recieved mine either. However, I did install the client, and it seems to have created me an account. The password must be in the e-mail, but until then the client will log me in to the website. Also, it seems to keep track of the spam that I have forewarded it through both manual forewarding and the Firefox extension.
Voting -- A toddler won't much care about politics. An 8-year old can make a reasonably informed decision, assuming the parent isn't standing behind them telling which lever to push (which is already illegal)
An eight year old can make a reasonably informed decision only when they are reasonably informed about what the real issues are. While the parents may not be physically standing behind them, I'm sure that whatever information they hear will be filtered by their parents.
Hell, a good portion of the current voting public will vote for whoever will promise them a tax cut, despite whether its even financially possible.
Using drugs -- Kids don't like needles or coughing. This won't be a huge issue, and you can always charge the parents with neglect if for some crazy reason they get the kids addicted for shits and giggles.
Parents? But by your argument, there's no difference between the parents and the kids! I thought they could make their own decisions?
Suing - They don't have the comprehension to fill out a legal form
If you argue that a kid can sue, then kids must also be able to be sued. Could you immagine if every playground squabble turned into a lawsuit?
If its something that's really worth suing over, then the parents already have the ability to sue for it.
Getting Married - girls have cooties
What is the purpose of marriage? "Marriage remains important as the socially sanctioned bond in a sexual relationship." - Wikipedia Even leaving out the "sexual" part, why do kids need to be married? They can't move out and go live with each other. (you say so yourself). I realize that social recognition is not the only reason of marriage, but what others would benefit kids?
Yes, there are extreme examples, but come on. Kids don't even want to read the paper, much less vote or sue.
...and the first thing that we'd construct wouldn't be voice or video or text. Chances are, it'd be some sort of filesharing network.
Re-read your argument. It sounds a lot like google would be using the argument: "We don't know what they're using our networks for, so it's not our fault."
If I was google, I wouldn't want to get into that mess.
BURP burp.boinc.dk is a BOINC project that aims to develop a distributed renderfarm for 3D animation. It's still in Alpha-stage, but the tests that they have run so far have produced some pretty good renderings at a good speed.
The last test-render produced a 70 day render-time animation in just 5 days 21 hours. Each frame that would normally take 4 hours was completed in 20 minutes.
The eventual goal is to have a system wher users can submit their own animations to be rendered. That sounds like a practical use to me!
Complicated? I agree that a User Name/Password combo is certainly easier to use than a seemingly random string of letters and numbers, but complicated?! You use the number ONCE for each project on each computer that you register. Let's say the average user runs one, maybe two projects on a single computer. You have to put it in once to sign in on the website, and the site will remember it for you after that. So the average user has to put in the string a total of four times (2x for each project). It can easily be copy/pasted from your gmail. What's so complicated about that?
BOINC automatically caches work, so you don't have to be constantly be connected to the internet for completed/new workunits. That didn't come with the stock install of the old SETI client. You had to add it on with another program.
The main benefit of BOINC is the ability of any other project to use it. Without it, would Predictor@home, Einstien@home, or BURP even be in existance? ClimatePrediction.net thought it was good enough to switch over.
As for the seamless running on other computers, BOINC added a remote administration feature starting after version 4.19. You can connect to any other of your computers that run BOINC and use the same interface to administrate them as you would on that computer itself. You don't even have to be at your parent's computer for anything past running the installer and adding a list of IP's allowed to connect.
In my opinion, the benefits far outweigh the claimed losses.
For everyone who uses Blender, take a look at the BURP project. It's a distributed computing project that runs on BOINC. BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations. Eventually, the goal is for people to be able to submit work for rendering, though they're not that far yet. The code is still in development, so workunits are just to clean bugs out of the system right now.
I'm not sure if it works for other brands, but I know the program was originally written for the Dell Inspiron 8000 series (hence the name)
I do know that it works pretty good for other models of Dell laptops. I use it on my Inspiron 5150 and it works well. You can program custom settings for the fan(s). (At what temp to speed up) Also different profiles can be set up, if you want it quieter in certain situations.
It runs along the top of your screen, and shows CPU usage, memory use, battery life, a news tracker (how I keep track of slashdot), and other various tools.
Both programs are free, of course.
It's more complicated than that. What if the rovers had only lived their expected lifetime? Would the calibration issue have even been noticed? Chances are not, as it took them this long with a lot more data to find it.
So the scientists would have had incorrect data to base all their conclusions off of.
Actually if you have an 89 with hardware version 2 (pretty much any 89 made after the first six months or so of production), OS version 2.08 and above support a real-time clock. It's built right in to the OS, and I've found it keeps fairly accurate time. It drifts off maybe a minute or so every month.
All I get at the first linked page is a horrible attempt at a "page under construction" type page, probably by the same guy. Even though it just repeats the same sentance over and over, it's still filed with typos.
Wondering how long the site's been up, google comes up with a cache of this page http://site-show.ebuy-online.com/. Odd thing is, the Google cache is "as retrieved on Dec 31, 1969 23:59:59 GMT".
All all the other links on the page link to somewhere else, i'm thinking the forst one is incorrect.
That's what the ads at the top of your buddy list are for. I've noticed that the ads are getting more and more annoying. Now some of them play a little movie, sound and all.
For anybody that who is interested in this but has no idea where to start, I highly recomend BOINC. It's becoming the standard as more and more distributed projects convert to using it. Right now, SETI, Predictor, ClimatePrediction, and LHC (the particle accelerator). Follow the link for links to each individual project.
With BOINC, you can run multiple projects, and it'll split resources between them. On multiprocessor (or hyperthreaded) machines, you can dedicate a processor to each project.
I work in a theater also, and from my experience it takes a few years for gaff to develop the residue. The adhesive separates into a real oily residue and a yellowish powder that flakes off. It still sticks, but just gets messy when you try to get it off.
We still use it for everything, since we rarely need tape to stay on for years at a time.
As for brand, we use Permacel. It might be a brand-thing, but probably not.
Network administrators quickly took the compromised system offline and began forensics
So, the 'network administrators' knew ehough to do forensics, but not to secure the system? After the first attack, common sense would have told them to beef up security!
They'll do it because it's a fairly good target. It's one-of-a kind, and hacking it got them at least an article at Securityfocus and a mention here. Sure, they don't really gain anything from it, but since when has that been a requirement of hacking?
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like you live in or around Boston, so I realize that your view is likely quite different than mine, me being halfway across the country. As I see it, it was their 'idiot behavior' that brought all the attention to the issue. At least half of the news spots about it that I've seen are from that press conference. If they'd just have gone along with events as you seem to think they should have, would this even be a story now? The city government would have just swept the case under the rug to hide their own stupidity, and we wouldn't have heard anything more about it.
Almost everybody here seems to think that Boston officials screwed up. But would we be thinking that if all we had heard about the incident was from the news reports from the first 24 hours?
"where harsh weather makes regular coal and oil fuel deliveries unreliable and expensive."
I did read the article, and I understand the benefits of a nuclear plant. But why not just build it on land? One would think that harsh weather would mean unstable seas, meaning it makes even more sense to build it on land where you can reinforce it better against the weather.
Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but what good does putting the reactor offshore do?
I still haven't recieved mine either. However, I did install the client, and it seems to have created me an account. The password must be in the e-mail, but until then the client will log me in to the website. Also, it seems to keep track of the spam that I have forewarded it through both manual forewarding and the Firefox extension.
Hell, a good portion of the current voting public will vote for whoever will promise them a tax cut, despite whether its even financially possible.
Parents? But by your argument, there's no difference between the parents and the kids! I thought they could make their own decisions?
If you argue that a kid can sue, then kids must also be able to be sued. Could you immagine if every playground squabble turned into a lawsuit?
If its something that's really worth suing over, then the parents already have the ability to sue for it.
What is the purpose of marriage?
"Marriage remains important as the socially sanctioned bond in a sexual relationship." - Wikipedia
Even leaving out the "sexual" part, why do kids need to be married? They can't move out and go live with each other. (you say so yourself).
I realize that social recognition is not the only reason of marriage, but what others would benefit kids?
Why bother changing the laws then?
...and the first thing that we'd construct wouldn't be voice or video or text. Chances are, it'd be some sort of filesharing network.
Re-read your argument. It sounds a lot like google would be using the argument: "We don't know what they're using our networks for, so it's not our fault."
If I was google, I wouldn't want to get into that mess.
BURP burp.boinc.dk is a BOINC project that aims to develop a distributed renderfarm for 3D animation. It's still in Alpha-stage, but the tests that they have run so far have produced some pretty good renderings at a good speed. The last test-render produced a 70 day render-time animation in just 5 days 21 hours. Each frame that would normally take 4 hours was completed in 20 minutes. The eventual goal is to have a system wher users can submit their own animations to be rendered. That sounds like a practical use to me!
Complicated? I agree that a User Name/Password combo is certainly easier to use than a seemingly random string of letters and numbers, but complicated?! You use the number ONCE for each project on each computer that you register. Let's say the average user runs one, maybe two projects on a single computer. You have to put it in once to sign in on the website, and the site will remember it for you after that. So the average user has to put in the string a total of four times (2x for each project). It can easily be copy/pasted from your gmail. What's so complicated about that?
BOINC automatically caches work, so you don't have to be constantly be connected to the internet for completed/new workunits. That didn't come with the stock install of the old SETI client. You had to add it on with another program.
The main benefit of BOINC is the ability of any other project to use it. Without it, would Predictor@home, Einstien@home, or BURP even be in existance? ClimatePrediction.net thought it was good enough to switch over.
As for the seamless running on other computers, BOINC added a remote administration feature starting after version 4.19. You can connect to any other of your computers that run BOINC and use the same interface to administrate them as you would on that computer itself. You don't even have to be at your parent's computer for anything past running the installer and adding a list of IP's allowed to connect.
In my opinion, the benefits far outweigh the claimed losses.
For everyone who uses Blender, take a look at the BURP project. It's a distributed computing project that runs on BOINC. BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations. Eventually, the goal is for people to be able to submit work for rendering, though they're not that far yet. The code is still in development, so workunits are just to clean bugs out of the system right now.
http://www.svsu.edu/~agsharro/web_trailer_II_large r.mov
Let the /.ing begin!
Unrelated to I8kfan, I also use Winbar, available at http://www.winbar.nl/.
It runs along the top of your screen, and shows CPU usage, memory use, battery life, a news tracker (how I keep track of slashdot), and other various tools. Both programs are free, of course.
It's more complicated than that. What if the rovers had only lived their expected lifetime? Would the calibration issue have even been noticed? Chances are not, as it took them this long with a lot more data to find it. So the scientists would have had incorrect data to base all their conclusions off of.
Actually if you have an 89 with hardware version 2 (pretty much any 89 made after the first six months or so of production), OS version 2.08 and above support a real-time clock. It's built right in to the OS, and I've found it keeps fairly accurate time. It drifts off maybe a minute or so every month.
All I get at the first linked page is a horrible attempt at a "page under construction" type page, probably by the same guy. Even though it just repeats the same sentance over and over, it's still filed with typos. Wondering how long the site's been up, google comes up with a cache of this page http://site-show.ebuy-online.com/. Odd thing is, the Google cache is "as retrieved on Dec 31, 1969 23:59:59 GMT". All all the other links on the page link to somewhere else, i'm thinking the forst one is incorrect.
That's what the ads at the top of your buddy list are for. I've noticed that the ads are getting more and more annoying. Now some of them play a little movie, sound and all.
Then comes the problem: Who decides what sites to add to the list?
O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist.
There's still nothing from stopping thieves from setting off multiple alarms at once to distract security from the real theft.
For anybody that who is interested in this but has no idea where to start, I highly recomend BOINC. It's becoming the standard as more and more distributed projects convert to using it. Right now, SETI, Predictor, ClimatePrediction, and LHC (the particle accelerator). Follow the link for links to each individual project.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
With BOINC, you can run multiple projects, and it'll split resources between them. On multiprocessor (or hyperthreaded) machines, you can dedicate a processor to each project.
I listen to WIOG for the same reason. The morning show is great, but I can't stand the dance remixes they play Friday & Saturday nights.
If you recieve it, try 105.5. That's what I listen to the rest of the day.
I work in a theater also, and from my experience it takes a few years for gaff to develop the residue. The adhesive separates into a real oily residue and a yellowish powder that flakes off. It still sticks, but just gets messy when you try to get it off. We still use it for everything, since we rarely need tape to stay on for years at a time. As for brand, we use Permacel. It might be a brand-thing, but probably not.
They'll do it because it's a fairly good target. It's one-of-a kind, and hacking it got them at least an article at Securityfocus and a mention here. Sure, they don't really gain anything from it, but since when has that been a requirement of hacking?