To some degree, everyone at some point in their lives experiences mental illness. Most don't recognize it. Once you learn to recognize it, you can see it everywhere you go. Also, there is an enormous amount of apprehension against this nebulous undefined minority of "the mentally ill." The more ignorant associate mental illness with sex offenses and violent crime... only crazy people commit these crimes, so all crazies are criminals, I suppose their argument goes. Even intelligent unbiggoted people have beliefs, and once they believe something, have formed attitudes based on their belief, its extremely difficult to correct it if its wrong, even if they recognize it as wrong by facts presented in contrary to their incorrect beliefs. Regardless of the selected reports we see and our own biases, most crazy people aren't violent; most violent people aren't crazy. And in my experience, angry people are stupid, not crazy.
agreed. APE is a terrible idea. But its hard to believe so many were using it... and harder to believe this story made it to/. Headline should read "users with crazy unstable systems catch snag on upgrade."
to put major record companies, RIAA, etc. (read as any multimillion dollar company that sues an individual for trifles) out of business if 15 million independent lawsuits suddenly appeared naming them? Mom might be on to something here.
well, crud, sorry I couldn't get the first post on a story about possible alien life or newly discovered invading insects or robots, and posted a "I, for one, welcome our new _________ _________ overlords!" salute. Its a fast computer story. I didn't have much to work with, but... we just do what we can. If I am fortunate enough again to ever be graced with a first post, I hope I have the fortitude, the intelligence, the wisdom, the insight, the... the wit, in those dwindling milliseconds to actually post something that might make you crack a smile... otherwise... why... bother... with anything? Then again... I got a first post. Suck it.
That was my 2nd 1st post ever... and it should be modded funny, because, well, it is the 1st post, and with 2 words and a punctuation I clearly capture at least 3 levels characteristic of the typical/.-user : 1) what comes to mind when ever a single powerful computer is considered, 2) uncontrolable nerdy enthusiasm, and 3) the inability to effectively communicate anything meaningful with human language.
Where's the NRA sponsored link to the story about the 84 year old widow that successfully used an identical, legally owned and licensed weapon to stop a prowler?
From Esmersldis to Loja there is too much rejoicing to notice a new competitor to their exports... silently and swiftly store shelves are teaming with slightly inferior versions of Microsoft Bananas HE, CE, and the deluxe corporate edition, MS Bananas Pro... But don't miss the seafood versions to be released next spring - Microsoft Shrimp Pro Ichstream Edition will directly compete with Ecuadorian Shrimp exports. Now that the sleepy giant is awake, is this the end of Ecuador? Perhaps Gates could be swayed to merely purchase the country rather than compete it into oblivion...
You're right, of course, about freaking out and I must concede to your points about the sometimes inherent disadvantages concerning the cleanest energy sources. But we'll have to agree to disagree about the problem of nuclear waste being solved... you say its solved but I believe your solution is really, at best, an indefinate postponement of a theoretical solution that may never manifest. I'll say that its more likely that no unexpected events would occur with the Yucca option, but in the same breath, that its still irrational to risk it for the main reasons that we don't need to, and the unknown increases steadily if not exponentially as time progresses... and we're talking about a lot of time.
I'm in total agreement, except for the format. Anything muxed is just terrible. Also, its 2007, and I just want everyone to pick the best format instead of defaulting to 'ancient' technology. Why can't there be a decisive best, or 2, depending on application... pay the folks that came up with it a fair price, and everyone thereafter freely adopt it, GPL it, and move on for a decade, leaving any other format available as dev until the next format showoff, then not waste time, endlessly confusing users with too many formats. Can't we just pick a few, like we do with physical media (CD, DVD)? We can do better than flash or video mpg. I must confess I don't completely understand the need for wrappers other than versatility in testing formats, but if we could all just PICK one, a best of many, users wouldn't have to muck around with formats and codicies. Damit, half dozen common wrappers, about a dozen formats for both video in all possible permiatations with how many audio, and who knows how many file suffixes/types... its a mess... its too much. When it comes to video content online, why does everything have to be so bleeding edge... its saturated variety... enough!
Stanford researchers have developed a much much sharper arrowhead for arrows (for use with a better long bow developed by Edinburgh Univ. engineers); an Isreali thinktank has applied the technique and developed a pencil that never needs sharpening; Fuji has purchased the patent rights to a new chemical bath process that makes monochrome film prints even glossier; and Kotex has released a much more reliable, silicon based IUD.
-- Any sufficiently outdated or irrelivant technology is indistnguishable from a paperweight (what is paper, again? Its like an old TV or something, right?).
The fact of the matter is the clean and nondeadly, not-so-dangerous alternatives are BETTER than nuclear... the advances in the efficiency and falling costs of solar power alone are compelling enough to give up on fission. Pile on geothermal power, hydrolic power, tidal and wind generators, and it becomes absurd to continue even discussing an energy source that creates a toxin that will effectively be toxic forever! (30,000+ years is forever to me).
And one doesn't take responsibility for future individuals, but responsibility for our actions here and now... and if what we do now makes people sick in 25,000 years, yes, we're still responsible.
Its obvious that you are highly intelligent, but your morality is that of a child (action while denying responsibility for said action).
Why can't you see that the sheer amounts of time involved here becomes the unknowable? Nuclear waste has such a long half-life that it really is on the scale of geological time. Saying that Yucca is geologically stable is myopic; its the same thing as claiming that a volcano is extinct: ultimately, looking forward in time for millenia, it is meaningless and just plain wrong. There is no science anywhere that would support a claim that Yucca will be 'geologically stable' in 17,000 years. It is unknowable! I prefer not to gamble with the future, or stake our future on what some NRC hack geologist says.
Burying nuclear waste is not the solution. It'll just immanently turn into a bigger, more deadly Love Canal situation. No one knows where garbage was buried 50 years ago. Try adding 2 zeros to that figure, and basically its just planting the unsuspecting future death.
As a responsible global society, it is pointless to discuss continuing to use, much less build more, nuclear reactors until such time that the problem of nuclear waste is solved. Right this moment, in the US, all storage facilites for waste have 2 things in common: 1) they were conceived to be temporary 2) they are full. Building more reactors and continuing to create more waste is both insane and either really stupid or suicidal.
And France hasn't solved anything! They've merely concentrated the toxic, nuclear waste, and are burying it! I seriously doubt France will be here 5000 years from now baby-sitting their garbage, which is poisonous for 30,000 years!
Nuclear energy is not clean anywhere. And there are clean alternatives, yes, more expensive, but they (solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and hydro) are really they only rational alternatives to dirty energy like nuclear and fossil fuels.
I hate how you glaze over the fact that France hasn't solved the problem of nuclear waste. Recycling cuts down on the volume of waste, but makes it that much more toxic. Will France still be here in 3000 years? 10,000 years? 25,000 years? Because their nuclear waste will still be here and just as deadly. Nuclear energy (fission) is not clean.
mod parent insightful! The pro-nuclear position never addresses the very real and current problem of what to do with the waste. We are at capacity, and there is no permanent solution. Nuclear power is not any cleaner than burning fossil fuels, just concentrates the pollution.... We shouldn't be looking for more power, but figure out how to need less.
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To some degree, everyone at some point in their lives experiences mental illness. Most don't recognize it. Once you learn to recognize it, you can see it everywhere you go. Also, there is an enormous amount of apprehension against this nebulous undefined minority of "the mentally ill." The more ignorant associate mental illness with sex offenses and violent crime... only crazy people commit these crimes, so all crazies are criminals, I suppose their argument goes. Even intelligent unbiggoted people have beliefs, and once they believe something, have formed attitudes based on their belief, its extremely difficult to correct it if its wrong, even if they recognize it as wrong by facts presented in contrary to their incorrect beliefs. Regardless of the selected reports we see and our own biases, most crazy people aren't violent; most violent people aren't crazy. And in my experience, angry people are stupid, not crazy.
agreed. APE is a terrible idea. But its hard to believe so many were using it... and harder to believe this story made it to /.
Headline should read "users with crazy unstable systems catch snag on upgrade."
I've often thought how great it would be if traffic forces were cut in half and the resources repurposed to solve and prevent
crime.
to put major record companies, RIAA, etc. (read as any multimillion dollar company that sues an individual for trifles) out of business if 15 million independent lawsuits suddenly appeared naming them? Mom might be on to something here.
Blasphemy! Mod the heretic!
well, crud, sorry I couldn't get the first post on a story about possible alien life or newly discovered invading insects or robots, and posted a "I, for one, welcome our new _________ _________ overlords!" salute. Its a fast computer story. I didn't have much to work with, but... we just do what we can. If I am fortunate enough again to ever be graced with a first post, I hope I have the fortitude, the intelligence, the wisdom, the insight, the... the wit, in those dwindling milliseconds to actually post something that might make you crack a smile... otherwise... why... bother... with anything? Then again... I got a first post. Suck it.
That was my 2nd 1st post ever... and it should be modded funny, because, well, it is the 1st post, and with 2 words and a punctuation I clearly capture at least 3 levels characteristic of the typical /.-user : 1) what comes to mind when ever a single powerful computer is considered, 2) uncontrolable nerdy enthusiasm, and 3) the inability to effectively communicate anything meaningful with human language.
cluster!
Where's the NRA sponsored link to the story about the 84 year old widow that successfully used an identical, legally owned and licensed weapon to stop a prowler?
Is the backdoor in DisplayPDF also? How is it this doesn't affect OS X?
netcosm youtube vid
From Esmersldis to Loja there is too much rejoicing to notice a new competitor to their exports... silently and swiftly store shelves are teaming with slightly inferior versions of Microsoft Bananas HE, CE, and the deluxe corporate edition, MS Bananas Pro... But don't miss the seafood versions to be released next spring - Microsoft Shrimp Pro Ichstream Edition will directly compete with Ecuadorian Shrimp exports. Now that the sleepy giant is awake, is this the end of Ecuador? Perhaps Gates could be swayed to merely purchase the country rather than compete it into oblivion...
You're right, of course, about freaking out and I must concede to your points about the sometimes inherent disadvantages concerning the cleanest energy sources. But we'll have to agree to disagree about the problem of nuclear waste being solved... you say its solved but I believe your solution is really, at best, an indefinate postponement of a theoretical solution that may never manifest. I'll say that its more likely that no unexpected events would occur with the Yucca option, but in the same breath, that its still irrational to risk it for the main reasons that we don't need to, and the unknown increases steadily if not exponentially as time progresses... and we're talking about a lot of time.
I'm in total agreement, except for the format. Anything muxed is just terrible. Also, its 2007, and I just want everyone to pick the best format instead of defaulting to 'ancient' technology. Why can't there be a decisive best, or 2, depending on application... pay the folks that came up with it a fair price, and everyone thereafter freely adopt it, GPL it, and move on for a decade, leaving any other format available as dev until the next format showoff, then not waste time, endlessly confusing users with too many formats. Can't we just pick a few, like we do with physical media (CD, DVD)? We can do better than flash or video mpg. I must confess I don't completely understand the need for wrappers other than versatility in testing formats, but if we could all just PICK one, a best of many, users wouldn't have to muck around with formats and codicies. Damit, half dozen common wrappers, about a dozen formats for both video in all possible permiatations with how many audio, and who knows how many file suffixes/types... its a mess... its too much. When it comes to video content online, why does everything have to be so bleeding edge... its saturated variety... enough!
Stanford researchers have developed a much much sharper arrowhead for arrows (for use with a better long bow developed by Edinburgh Univ. engineers); an Isreali thinktank has applied the technique and developed a pencil that never needs sharpening; Fuji has purchased the patent rights to a new chemical bath process that makes monochrome film prints even glossier; and Kotex has released a much more reliable, silicon based IUD.
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Any sufficiently outdated or irrelivant technology is indistnguishable from a paperweight (what is paper, again? Its like an old TV or something, right?).
uh... radiation. Heavy metals aren't as hot.
The fact of the matter is the clean and nondeadly, not-so-dangerous alternatives are BETTER than nuclear... the advances in the efficiency and falling costs of solar power alone are compelling enough to give up on fission. Pile on geothermal power, hydrolic power, tidal and wind generators, and it becomes absurd to continue even discussing an energy source that creates a toxin that will effectively be toxic forever! (30,000+ years is forever to me).
And one doesn't take responsibility for future individuals, but responsibility for our actions here and now... and if what we do now makes people sick in 25,000 years, yes, we're still responsible.
Its obvious that you are highly intelligent, but your morality is that of a child (action while denying responsibility for said action).
Screw fission reactors, we got better stuff now!
Why can't you see that the sheer amounts of time involved here becomes the unknowable? Nuclear waste has such a long half-life that it really is on the scale of geological time. Saying that Yucca is geologically stable is myopic; its the same thing as claiming that a volcano is extinct: ultimately, looking forward in time for millenia, it is meaningless and just plain wrong. There is no science anywhere that would support a claim that Yucca will be 'geologically stable' in 17,000 years. It is unknowable! I prefer not to gamble with the future, or stake our future on what some NRC hack geologist says.
IANANE, but I'm fairly certain what they want to put back into the ground is many orders of magnitude more toxic than the natural uranium ore.
Burying nuclear waste is not the solution. It'll just immanently turn into a bigger, more deadly Love Canal situation. No one knows where garbage was buried 50 years ago. Try adding 2 zeros to that figure, and basically its just planting the unsuspecting future death.
I concur. However, doing w/o TV out is really bumming me.
7) It wasn't Steve's idea.
As a responsible global society, it is pointless to discuss continuing to use, much less build more, nuclear reactors until such time that the problem of nuclear waste is solved. Right this moment, in the US, all storage facilites for waste have 2 things in common: 1) they were conceived to be temporary 2) they are full. Building more reactors and continuing to create more waste is both insane and either really stupid or suicidal.
And France hasn't solved anything! They've merely concentrated the toxic, nuclear waste, and are burying it! I seriously doubt France will be here 5000 years from now baby-sitting their garbage, which is poisonous for 30,000 years!
Nuclear energy is not clean anywhere. And there are clean alternatives, yes, more expensive, but they (solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and hydro) are really they only rational alternatives to dirty energy like nuclear and fossil fuels.
I hate how you glaze over the fact that France hasn't solved the problem of nuclear waste. Recycling cuts down on the volume of waste, but makes it that much more toxic. Will France still be here in 3000 years? 10,000 years? 25,000 years? Because their nuclear waste will still be here and just as deadly. Nuclear energy (fission) is not clean.
I thought DNA was microscopic... but if there's some the size of a briefcase, then I guess we better analyze it.
mod parent insightful! The pro-nuclear position never addresses the very real and current problem of what to do with the waste. We are at capacity, and there is no permanent solution. Nuclear power is not any cleaner than burning fossil fuels, just concentrates the pollution.... We shouldn't be looking for more power, but figure out how to need less.