We don't know with any certainty how many have died, China has a pretty poor track record when it comes to opening up about these things. Plenty of other places just aren't set up to accurately record much of anything.
Firstly, if a tenth of the effort that appears to have gone into avian flu
Effort which you haven't even attempted to quantify, but which pretty much all the experts agree is not enough.
However, given there's almost no evidence,
Evidence of what? We know it kills birds nice and quickly. We know that humans can catch it. The only question is if and when it will mutate to a form which is spread easily between humans.
You know, if that eventually does not happen, it's not a cause for celebration for all the dumb wankers like you who go around whining about alarmism and how the money could better be spent on whatever. It just means that the preventative measures which you scorn actually did their work.
the actual deaths will be about 1% of the lowest estimate
The actual deaths resulting from what? Mutated H5N1? Or just the flu in general? Because the number of deaths from influenza itself are already above 1% of the lowball estimate. It kills a lot of people even when it's not particularly nasty.
A bit sheltered, are we? You probably thought it was a catastrophe on par with the holocaust when they cancelled Startrek: The Next Generation, am I right?
The idea that someone with a computer and access to the internet would not understand that carbon nanotubes are cutting edge technology and not something available off the shelf at your local Ace Hardware is mind boggling.
I want to be the one to build the first strawman out of carbon nanotubes.
Tubeman? Nanostraw... guy...??? I'm open to suggestions for the name.
Instead, all they ever produced was "good enough" - never on the leading edge, never innovative.
Their innovation can be summed up as not being as completely fucking retarded about the way they ran their business as IBM, Commodore, Apple, and any UNIX vendor you care to name were.
Having a superior technology and not getting it into users hands is a failure. Why is it so hard for people to understand this? There's a reason why we aren't all typing into Amigas right now and it's not because Microsoft is an EBIL MONOPOLY!!!, it's because Commodore made a lot of extremely dumb business decisions. God knows that's also true of the UNIX vendors and Apple.
What API CAN'T you write for on Windows? We have the shitty POSIX subsystem, SFU, cygwin, win32,.net, qt, gtk, xlib, perl, python, php, java, etc etc etc. So where exactly am I locked in, again?
Don't forget, unless you've moved up to a 64-bit architecture, you've still got compatibility with win16 and MS-DOS (for the love of God). Early OS/2.
Anyone who claims that Microsoft doesn't do broad, highly backward-compatible API support is just arguing out of ignorance.
Ruggedness aside, I'm pretty sure the main benefit of taking cover with a laptop is the psychological effect it will have on your enemies. Curl up and hide with an orange toilet-seat iBook, for example, and your enemies will fall over laughing. THAT is when you strike!
That is so awesome. I think that from now on when anyone dives to take cover in a television program or film, particularly behind a piece of furniture, a Powerbook or at least an iBook should be included in the shot.
The new FreeBSD site boldly states: "Based on BSD Unix (r)". To my knowledge, the AT&T vs. Berkeley case was settled with (among others) the regulation that BSD may not be called Unix. The official Unix trademark FAQ [unix.org] states that Unix "must not be used as a generic term. It must not be used in connection with products, unless the product is licensed to use the mark".
The trademark hasn't been owned by AT&T for a long time, it's owned by The Open Group.
This brings to mind a lawsuit between The Open Group and Apple on this very topic. Does anyone know if that was settled or what?
I am not sure whether the new headline on the homepage is a very wise and professional move of the FreeBSD project.
It's certainly not anything new. I remember seeing "Turn Your PC Into A UNIX Workstation" ads for FreeBSD back when Walnut Creek CDROM was still selling it. I was taken aback by that but nobody really seems to care.
Apple has gotten away with throwing around the word "Unix" a lot more egregiously (and with less justification than FreeBSD). If the Open Group sues anyone, it will probably be Apple.
There was a lawsuit between them on this issue. I don't know what became of it.
Either a few fish will die, or a ship full of hundreds or thousands of sailors could be damaged or destroyed.
Except that's not the dilemma, Einstein. The amount of time the weapon is used in training exercises will probably dwarf the amount of time it's used in combat, as is usually the case.
In other words, we aren't worried about the effect on whales or whatnot the "sonic torpedo defense" has during combat. A few nearby whales and sea creatures versus a human crew, well, duh. It's the hundreds or thousands of hours it will be used when people are not in combat that are significant in weighing the morality of deploying the weapon.
And so determining the effect it has on sea creatures is important. "Who cares" indeed. Moron.
I bet those of you making the "but what about the animals" comments would care less about the animals if you had friends or relatives serving on a ship that could be a torpedo target.
Knee-jerk reaction, false-dichotomy. The issue isn't combat, which only happens rarely. The issue is training, and the effect "sonic torpedo defense" would have during the thousands of hours it would be used in exercises during peacetime.
He was a dick to a bunch of people, he got in trouble, he spent some time in jail. Okay, that sucks for him, but why does everyone drool over him?
There were a couple of things that make the case interesting (not worthy of DROOL, of course). The fact that his crimes amounted to, well, being a dick, but the government and his corporate victims pulled a random number out of their ass as "damages" and it was pretty much accepted without question by the court. That has a certain interest. Much greater damage happens to a much wider variety of systems today but somehow the prisons are not full.
The fact that he was held without being charged for an extremely long time is worrying. I tend to think Mitnick needed a better lawyer, but the judge definitely bought into a lot of BS about Mitnick's magical powers.
I think most people who followed the case just saw the government abusing their power. The sheer pretentiousness of most of the crap written about Mitnick's crimes probably makes some sympathetic to him just by default.
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I don't think I'd take anyone seriously who compared the two men.
As long as IP addresses are expensive IDs (i.e. a user can't just get another at will), the problem is partly solved, anyway. When I catch one instance of vandalism, I list other submissions from that IP, and start ripping out other changes. Vandals very rarely are useful contributors.
Phew! It's a good thing the vast majority of web users aren't on dynamic IP addresses assigned from a large pool.
The reason it doesn't bother me is because it really doesn't effect anything. I've never vandalized anything that didn't get reverted in the next few minutes.
In other words, you really don't give a shit about wasting somebody else's time.
What about innocent until proven guilty? (Or innocent until proven liable, in this case.)
There is already sworn testimony from the mother that the girl did what the Plaintiff said she did.
"Candy Chan ultimately testified that she had a conversation with Brittany Chan in which Britanny Chan admitted to using the 'Spicybrnweyedgirl' name associated with the copyright infringement.
Of course, in these litigious and amoral times you can split hairs by talking about whether guilty means "having committed the crime of which one is accused" and "being found guilty of the crime of which one is accused". Because we all know legal terminology is more important than objective reality.
Wrong. "Theft of services" is an actual defined crime. "Criminal infringement of copyright" is not theft - see how the word "theft" doesn't appear anywhere in that phrase?
Everyone who thinks this is a clever, meaningful distinction: please line up along the same wall we are going to use for all the lawyers when the revolution comes. Thanks.
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It can do that already. That's not the mutation everyone is worried about.
Come on, that's just ignorant. The virus has probably been around a long time. The virus changes. Evolution. Darwin. I Ching.
And who the fuck are you?
Yeah, all the silly scientists with their silly preventative measures. What a waste of money that all was!!!!
We don't know with any certainty how many have died, China has a pretty poor track record when it comes to opening up about these things. Plenty of other places just aren't set up to accurately record much of anything.
Effort which you haven't even attempted to quantify, but which pretty much all the experts agree is not enough.
Evidence of what? We know it kills birds nice and quickly. We know that humans can catch it. The only question is if and when it will mutate to a form which is spread easily between humans.
You know, if that eventually does not happen, it's not a cause for celebration for all the dumb wankers like you who go around whining about alarmism and how the money could better be spent on whatever. It just means that the preventative measures which you scorn actually did their work.
The actual deaths resulting from what? Mutated H5N1? Or just the flu in general? Because the number of deaths from influenza itself are already above 1% of the lowball estimate. It kills a lot of people even when it's not particularly nasty.
A bit sheltered, are we? You probably thought it was a catastrophe on par with the holocaust when they cancelled Startrek: The Next Generation, am I right?
I want to be the one to build the first strawman out of carbon nanotubes.
Tubeman? Nanostraw... guy...??? I'm open to suggestions for the name.
Baited breath!
Congrats on finding and interviewing the only science PhD in the country who doesn't think Bush is a fucking idiot.
Yes, that's right. Other word processors use pixie dust for formatting. WP was way behind.
Their innovation can be summed up as not being as completely fucking retarded about the way they ran their business as IBM, Commodore, Apple, and any UNIX vendor you care to name were.
Having a superior technology and not getting it into users hands is a failure. Why is it so hard for people to understand this? There's a reason why we aren't all typing into Amigas right now and it's not because Microsoft is an EBIL MONOPOLY!!!, it's because Commodore made a lot of extremely dumb business decisions. God knows that's also true of the UNIX vendors and Apple.
You just know that anyone brought in to work on POSIX compatibility has got some problems. Being an X-Men freak is probably just the beginning...
Don't forget, unless you've moved up to a 64-bit architecture, you've still got compatibility with win16 and MS-DOS (for the love of God). Early OS/2.
Anyone who claims that Microsoft doesn't do broad, highly backward-compatible API support is just arguing out of ignorance.
Ruggedness aside, I'm pretty sure the main benefit of taking cover with a laptop is the psychological effect it will have on your enemies. Curl up and hide with an orange toilet-seat iBook, for example, and your enemies will fall over laughing. THAT is when you strike!
That is so awesome. I think that from now on when anyone dives to take cover in a television program or film, particularly behind a piece of furniture, a Powerbook or at least an iBook should be included in the shot.
The trademark hasn't been owned by AT&T for a long time, it's owned by The Open Group.
This brings to mind a lawsuit between The Open Group and Apple on this very topic. Does anyone know if that was settled or what?
It's certainly not anything new. I remember seeing "Turn Your PC Into A UNIX Workstation" ads for FreeBSD back when Walnut Creek CDROM was still selling it. I was taken aback by that but nobody really seems to care.
There was a lawsuit between them on this issue. I don't know what became of it.
You talk to your privates?!? I've heard some guys name them, but...
Except that's not the dilemma, Einstein. The amount of time the weapon is used in training exercises will probably dwarf the amount of time it's used in combat, as is usually the case.
In other words, we aren't worried about the effect on whales or whatnot the "sonic torpedo defense" has during combat. A few nearby whales and sea creatures versus a human crew, well, duh. It's the hundreds or thousands of hours it will be used when people are not in combat that are significant in weighing the morality of deploying the weapon.
And so determining the effect it has on sea creatures is important. "Who cares" indeed. Moron.
Knee-jerk reaction, false-dichotomy. The issue isn't combat, which only happens rarely. The issue is training, and the effect "sonic torpedo defense" would have during the thousands of hours it would be used in exercises during peacetime.
There were a couple of things that make the case interesting (not worthy of DROOL, of course). The fact that his crimes amounted to, well, being a dick, but the government and his corporate victims pulled a random number out of their ass as "damages" and it was pretty much accepted without question by the court. That has a certain interest. Much greater damage happens to a much wider variety of systems today but somehow the prisons are not full.
The fact that he was held without being charged for an extremely long time is worrying. I tend to think Mitnick needed a better lawyer, but the judge definitely bought into a lot of BS about Mitnick's magical powers.
I think most people who followed the case just saw the government abusing their power. The sheer pretentiousness of most of the crap written about Mitnick's crimes probably makes some sympathetic to him just by default.
I don't think I'd take anyone seriously who compared the two men.
You frankly aren't looking that hard.
They can't. You get more if you download the CDs, or at least that's the way it was for 9.3. I haven't downloaded 10.0 yet.
Phew! It's a good thing the vast majority of web users aren't on dynamic IP addresses assigned from a large pool.
Oh wait...
In other words, you really don't give a shit about wasting somebody else's time.
Except less reliable.
There is already sworn testimony from the mother that the girl did what the Plaintiff said she did.
"Candy Chan ultimately testified that she had a conversation with Brittany Chan in which Britanny Chan admitted to using the 'Spicybrnweyedgirl' name associated with the copyright infringement.
Of course, in these litigious and amoral times you can split hairs by talking about whether guilty means "having committed the crime of which one is accused" and "being found guilty of the crime of which one is accused". Because we all know legal terminology is more important than objective reality.
Everyone who thinks this is a clever, meaningful distinction: please line up along the same wall we are going to use for all the lawyers when the revolution comes. Thanks.
IANAL, but I'm guessing about the same same time they made laws against it...