Look I think its great that Mexico will prioritize sending drug addicts to rehab instead of prison. However I don't think that's the real problem at all. The real problem is that drugs are illegal, and criminals with guns make tons of money. Drug abuse is made unnecessarily more unsafe due to lack of regulation (people often die from bad heroin or heroin that is too pure from what is commonly on the street). But the problem affects EVERYONE not just users.
Take California for instance. I was reading about marijuana grow shacks set up in California off-grid using diesel generators to power the grow-lights. (The marijuana was grown in a shack to conceal it from police-airplanes) and someone was just setting these probably very profitable grow shacks all over the place to run themselves and going back to collect the product. The unscrupulous farmers were sloppy and the diesel fuel ended up contaminating nearby waterways. This kind of thing could simply be avoided. Farmers do grow tobacco and tomatoes under the sun on the farms that they live on, and if it is legalized, taxed and sold in stores, production can be regulated.
Also do we really want a world where the most powerful people are drug-dealing crime lords? Drug *illegalization* encourages corruption. Police in Mexico and the USA are routinely bought by big dealers. Who knows how high up the political chain the drug money goes? They say there is more cocaine on bills in Washington, DC than in any
other place in the USA. Perhaps coke-addicted politicians are made to do favors to crime lords to get their fix?
I'm not really in favor of drugs. Do Phillip-Morris and Anheuser-Busch bring a net benefit on society? I am sure there are some unknown things about legalization of drugs that would be downright scary. However the known dangers of illegalization are worse than any possible danger I can imagine. These dangers mostly affect non-drug users (shootings, political corruption, increased crime). Good step Mexico, but it's a baby step. Perhaps we can lead the way for our southern brothers and sisters by ending Prohibition in the USA.
I love my HTC G1. Durability anecdotes? "It's so durable that I use it as a hammer!" Actually no, I treat it like an expensive electronic device. I keep it in a padded sleeve, and put that in a ziplock back in case of rain. No wear and tear problems from normal (no abusive) use.
ummm Ruby is a strongly typed language. I *believe* Python is too (although I don't know much about python).
I'm not sure why the above was modded insightful. It would be if he was comparing Java to Perl which is not strongly typed.
hmmm they have a firefox plugin which works fine with 32 bit ubuntu..... I think you might need the java5 plugin as well. I do use my Ubuntu laptop to connect to our DRACs.
That's a very good point. Rather than looking at traffic fatalities for 100,000 people, we should be looking at traffic fatalities/100,000 people*miles. Certainly you could get some odd comparisons comparing automobile traffic fatalities in Metro-West Boston area to a similar area surrounding Venice Italy.
We probably could reduce traffic fatalities in the country, by improving the state of public transportation. Speaking of which as a so-called lazy, fat American, it's time to get into my raingear (gortex jacket, rainpaints, galoshes, pack cover over my laptop backpack, and of course the Ubuntu hat), get on my ULEV bicycle and get to work!
I have no problem doing work at work, or even if I am allowed to work at home. When I am "on the clock" I work, reply to emails quickly and make incremental progress on projects. I find it helpful to make lists of things to do, and easy to avoid the "coder's block" of which you speak. At home, however, it is a different story!
At work, I tend to work on similar type stuff all the time, and I am paid to do that, so I do not complain. However, in order to keep a fresh skillset, I try to do projects outside of work. Even if they are toy projects, I think they are valuable if I am getting familiar with a new language, etc. I think this type of work is *very* challenging, and I get hit with "coder's/developers/learners block" whatever you want to call it all the time. Learn Android or work on a Ruby on Rails website? Improve C programming skills, or learn a cool PHP framework? Finding focus in a vacuum I find is quite difficult. My recent strategy has been to work on something personal, but sort of tangentially related to work. We'll see how that works out.
2) How would you add 5 to each element in an array of integers?
While I agree with you in principle. If someone cannot iterate over an array, one might suspect they had never learned to program or looked at pseudocode.
Personally, I find it difficult to believe that anyone with a masters degree in information science (the equivalent of computer science?), could not do this.
I must confess as well to a definite socialist bent, so I cannot disagree with you. I am glad that Steve Jobs can get the treatment he needs but think it is a crime that the working poor cannot get such high quality medical care.
Still we have to look at both sides right? Let's ignore rich criminals for a minute and look at it like a utilitarian for a minute. What if the work Steve Jobs was doing was significantly improving the quality of everyone's life? What if he was not making iPhones, but working on a cure to cancer, and a breakthrough was expected within 5 years. Given there are only so many livers to go around, does a meritocracy based medical system keep the exceptional talents required for human advancement better than a socialized medical system?
I would still agree socialized medicine is the way to go. It's a moral issue, not a practical one. But then again, I live in the USA, so it is unlikely I will ever see socialized medicine.
My neighbors driveway is light colored cement. Mine is paved the old with asphalt. So in the winter here in Connecticut, it does snow, and snow seems to melts much quicker on ashpalt than light colored cement. It also seems to be easier to shovel it off my driveway. I wonder if the heat savings will be offset by the added cost of maintenance and snow removal. TFS makes the savings sound pretty dramatic. I better start whitewashing everything!
It's every earthling's obligation to not harm the earth. However, it's only due to greedy human nature that "what's in it for me" ruins the economics of it. If everyone cared about the common good (cooperated) instead of themselves (defected), then the Game Theory of Life would benefit all.
Pollution is nothing more or less than Tragedy of the Commons.
Perhaps its not greedy human nature, that ruins the economics of it, but maybe we are creating incentives for people to do the wrong thing.
For instance, in the USA, gas is cheap, and healthcare is expensive. It is "smart" to drive a big inefficient car as long as it is a tank which will protect you in an accident despite the fact that it is bad for the planet. If we were to put a large tax on gasoline and give the money to, say, research to help improve air quality, people would probably be more amenable to driving a smaller more fuel-efficient car or riding a bicycle.
I totally agree with you on the SUV thing. We shouldn't be looking at the MPG of vehicle, but the people*miles/gallon. Buses definitely get better people*miles/gallon, when they are full, but where the population density is low (maybe suburban sprawl), cars may make more sense. Or maybe riding a bike or driving a car to a central hub (like a train station). But really, I think the first step to get people to want to take these options is to increase the tax on gasoline.
Please, read the following: http://www.birdflubook.com/
Then you will know the difference between the common flu (which sucks), and a the dreaded pandemic.
Well I think in 1997, I made the equivalent of a linksys router for my brother's shop. That was an ipchains PAT server to give all the computers connected to the COAXial network access to the internet.
There was no issue of "switching back to Windows" because the only other OS on my 486/33 was DOS! In DOS, I used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Turbo C++, telemate, GLITE(a word processor), a really cool TSR French Translator and a few games.
So what did I first do with Linux? I ran gcc, vi, started learning Perl, used minicom, spent many pleasant hours in/usr/doc/HOWTO, wasted ridiculous amounts of time playing nethack, and occasionally ran dosemu. I remember I installed Slackware (which I liked), and Redhat which put this weird grapical thing in between me and the terminal, and Debian. I eventually stuck with Debian and now on to ubuntu. Compiling the kernel to support a new network card took a full working day (and we liked it!).
Eventually in my pursuit of a CSE degree, I had to install Windows 95 in a dual-boot configuration to run LogicWorks. But I did put VNC on the lab computers and just VNC'ed into the lab after they were closed from my SLIRP'ed dialup at home. And whenever I had to work from the Lab computers, I was VNC'ed into a terminal on my home machine. (This was before the ubiquitous putty)
We thought 1 GB HD was big back then and we liked it, now get off my lawn you whippersnappers!
But this is distributed. Ie, from 13 different IPs there will be 13 different login attempts with different passwords targetting the same username.
To me, this seems like something new. I've been doing this for years to protect my users from your ordinary brute force attack:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187
Now, it is no longer effective. Of course my users should not have weak passwords, but rate-limiting by IP is no longer a trustworthy defense against dictionary attacks.
I, for one, don't think any power tool should be controlled by a WIIMOTE. Also, I'd never want to have to explain to my neighbor how I accidentally "mowed" her cat. This device isn't really a timesaver, you would just end up with poorer control and less ability to see what you were actually cutting.
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No I won't advertise it. That's Peter Tosh's job http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTf2C2N5OU
Look I think its great that Mexico will prioritize sending drug addicts to rehab instead of prison. However I don't think that's the real problem at all. The real problem is that drugs are illegal, and criminals with guns make tons of money. Drug abuse is made unnecessarily more unsafe due to lack of regulation (people often die from bad heroin or heroin that is too pure from what is commonly on the street). But the problem affects EVERYONE not just users.
Take California for instance. I was reading about marijuana grow shacks set up in California off-grid using diesel generators to power the grow-lights. (The marijuana was grown in a shack to conceal it from police-airplanes) and someone was just setting these probably very profitable grow shacks all over the place to run themselves and going back to collect the product. The unscrupulous farmers were sloppy and the diesel fuel ended up contaminating nearby waterways. This kind of thing could simply be avoided. Farmers do grow tobacco and tomatoes under the sun on the farms that they live on, and if it is legalized, taxed and sold in stores, production can be regulated.
Also do we really want a world where the most powerful people are drug-dealing crime lords? Drug *illegalization* encourages corruption. Police in Mexico and the USA are routinely bought by big dealers. Who knows how high up the political chain the drug money goes? They say there is more cocaine on bills in Washington, DC than in any other place in the USA. Perhaps coke-addicted politicians are made to do favors to crime lords to get their fix?
I'm not really in favor of drugs. Do Phillip-Morris and Anheuser-Busch bring a net benefit on society? I am sure there are some unknown things about legalization of drugs that would be downright scary. However the known dangers of illegalization are worse than any possible danger I can imagine. These dangers mostly affect non-drug users (shootings, political corruption, increased crime). Good step Mexico, but it's a baby step. Perhaps we can lead the way for our southern brothers and sisters by ending Prohibition in the USA.
I love my HTC G1. Durability anecdotes? "It's so durable that I use it as a hammer!" Actually no, I treat it like an expensive electronic device. I keep it in a padded sleeve, and put that in a ziplock back in case of rain. No wear and tear problems from normal (no abusive) use.
Wow I suppose in the back of my mind I knew that was true all along, but until it was spelled out so clearly, I never realized it!
ummm Ruby is a strongly typed language. I *believe* Python is too (although I don't know much about python). I'm not sure why the above was modded insightful. It would be if he was comparing Java to Perl which is not strongly typed.
Java
sorry but this is mandatory: http://xkcd.com/326/
hmmm they have a firefox plugin which works fine with 32 bit ubuntu..... I think you might need the java5 plugin as well. I do use my Ubuntu laptop to connect to our DRACs.
What about Zimbra?
That's a very good point. Rather than looking at traffic fatalities for 100,000 people, we should be looking at traffic fatalities/100,000 people*miles. Certainly you could get some odd comparisons comparing automobile traffic fatalities in Metro-West Boston area to a similar area surrounding Venice Italy.
We probably could reduce traffic fatalities in the country, by improving the state of public transportation. Speaking of which as a so-called lazy, fat American, it's time to get into my raingear (gortex jacket, rainpaints, galoshes, pack cover over my laptop backpack, and of course the Ubuntu hat), get on my ULEV bicycle and get to work!
I have no problem doing work at work, or even if I am allowed to work at home. When I am "on the clock" I work, reply to emails quickly and make incremental progress on projects. I find it helpful to make lists of things to do, and easy to avoid the "coder's block" of which you speak. At home, however, it is a different story!
At work, I tend to work on similar type stuff all the time, and I am paid to do that, so I do not complain. However, in order to keep a fresh skillset, I try to do projects outside of work. Even if they are toy projects, I think they are valuable if I am getting familiar with a new language, etc. I think this type of work is *very* challenging, and I get hit with "coder's/developers/learners block" whatever you want to call it all the time. Learn Android or work on a Ruby on Rails website? Improve C programming skills, or learn a cool PHP framework? Finding focus in a vacuum I find is quite difficult. My recent strategy has been to work on something personal, but sort of tangentially related to work. We'll see how that works out.
2) How would you add 5 to each element in an array of integers?
While I agree with you in principle. If someone cannot iterate over an array, one might suspect they had never learned to program or looked at pseudocode. Personally, I find it difficult to believe that anyone with a masters degree in information science (the equivalent of computer science?), could not do this.
I must confess as well to a definite socialist bent, so I cannot disagree with you. I am glad that Steve Jobs can get the treatment he needs but think it is a crime that the working poor cannot get such high quality medical care.
Still we have to look at both sides right? Let's ignore rich criminals for a minute and look at it like a utilitarian for a minute. What if the work Steve Jobs was doing was significantly improving the quality of everyone's life? What if he was not making iPhones, but working on a cure to cancer, and a breakthrough was expected within 5 years. Given there are only so many livers to go around, does a meritocracy based medical system keep the exceptional talents required for human advancement better than a socialized medical system?
I would still agree socialized medicine is the way to go. It's a moral issue, not a practical one. But then again, I live in the USA, so it is unlikely I will ever see socialized medicine.
My neighbors driveway is light colored cement. Mine is paved the old with asphalt. So in the winter here in Connecticut, it does snow, and snow seems to melts much quicker on ashpalt than light colored cement. It also seems to be easier to shovel it off my driveway. I wonder if the heat savings will be offset by the added cost of maintenance and snow removal. TFS makes the savings sound pretty dramatic. I better start whitewashing everything!
you can put a debian chroot, on your android phone... is that good enough?
Parrots repeat what they have heard. They do not jump to conclusions.
It's every earthling's obligation to not harm the earth. However, it's only due to greedy human nature that "what's in it for me" ruins the economics of it. If everyone cared about the common good (cooperated) instead of themselves (defected), then the Game Theory of Life would benefit all.
Pollution is nothing more or less than Tragedy of the Commons.
Perhaps its not greedy human nature, that ruins the economics of it, but maybe we are creating incentives for people to do the wrong thing.
For instance, in the USA, gas is cheap, and healthcare is expensive. It is "smart" to drive a big inefficient car as long as it is a tank which will protect you in an accident despite the fact that it is bad for the planet. If we were to put a large tax on gasoline and give the money to, say, research to help improve air quality, people would probably be more amenable to driving a smaller more fuel-efficient car or riding a bicycle.
I totally agree with you on the SUV thing. We shouldn't be looking at the MPG of vehicle, but the people*miles/gallon. Buses definitely get better people*miles/gallon, when they are full, but where the population density is low (maybe suburban sprawl), cars may make more sense. Or maybe riding a bike or driving a car to a central hub (like a train station). But really, I think the first step to get people to want to take these options is to increase the tax on gasoline.
It sounds to me like KDE will make this year 2009, the year of the linux desktop.
How is this offtopic? Using self-powered USB drives is a great idea for a laptop battery protected server!
Please, read the following: http://www.birdflubook.com/
Then you will know the difference between the common flu (which sucks), and a the dreaded pandemic.
Well I think in 1997, I made the equivalent of a linksys router for my brother's shop. That was an ipchains PAT server to give all the computers connected to the COAXial network access to the internet.
There was no issue of "switching back to Windows" because the only other OS on my 486/33 was DOS! In DOS, I used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C and Turbo C++, telemate, GLITE(a word processor), a really cool TSR French Translator and a few games. /usr/doc/HOWTO, wasted ridiculous amounts of time playing nethack, and occasionally ran dosemu. I remember I installed Slackware (which I liked), and Redhat which put this weird grapical thing in between me and the terminal, and Debian. I eventually stuck with Debian and now on to ubuntu. Compiling the kernel to support a new network card took a full working day (and we liked it!).
So what did I first do with Linux? I ran gcc, vi, started learning Perl, used minicom, spent many pleasant hours in
Eventually in my pursuit of a CSE degree, I had to install Windows 95 in a dual-boot configuration to run LogicWorks. But I did put VNC on the lab computers and just VNC'ed into the lab after they were closed from my SLIRP'ed dialup at home. And whenever I had to work from the Lab computers, I was VNC'ed into a terminal on my home machine. (This was before the ubiquitous putty)
We thought 1 GB HD was big back then and we liked it, now get off my lawn you whippersnappers!
Good idea, you should run a honey_sshd on port 22 as well.
But this is distributed. Ie, from 13 different IPs there will be 13 different login attempts with different passwords targetting the same username.
To me, this seems like something new. I've been doing this for years to protect my users from your ordinary brute force attack: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187 Now, it is no longer effective. Of course my users should not have weak passwords, but rate-limiting by IP is no longer a trustworthy defense against dictionary attacks.
I, for one, don't think any power tool should be controlled by a WIIMOTE. Also, I'd never want to have to explain to my neighbor how I accidentally "mowed" her cat. This device isn't really a timesaver, you would just end up with poorer control and less ability to see what you were actually cutting.
What is the Linux CLI memory test? I assume you can run it on lightly loaded servers without taking them offline. This could be quite useful to me!