Haven't you ever done a risk matrix? Identify a risk, then grade (1-5) the likelyhood of it happening. Then grade(1-5) the impact if the identified risk occurs. Likelyhood 1=no risk of occuring, 5=sure thing to happen Impact 1=almost no impact, 5=everyone within 50km dies(or similar bad thing). Multiply the two and you have a list of risks and everything above 15 (or 10) needs a plan on how to handle. Obviously also those with extreme impact will have to have a plan (like poisoning the mexican gulf), even if the probability of it happening is very low.
For me I would have graded the probability of this low (1-2) and the impact about medium (3-4). I would not have spent any additional money on this since the net result is a 12 tops. However, if reports start to come in about these things happening a swift investigation is needed, and that's what they've done imho.
Are there any reports of this happening outside of the US? If the problem is with the cars then the problem should be global, right?
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical, and will never be until they get economies of scale (which is a chicken and egg problem), or until cheap oil runs out.
I drive a biomethane car (Opel/Vauxhall Zafira) which is perfect for me. Also, our government has put high taxes on non renewable energy so it's actually cheaper for me to drive this car than a petrol/diesel one. And I don't have to pay road tax for the first few years.
Finding biomethane is a bit of a problem in some areas, but since 95% of my travel are on known roads it's not a big problem for me.
Any city that has to take care of human waste can produce biomethane, and the cost is already there so it's just a big bonus to do it. Actually my city charges me to take care of my waste, refines it into biomethane and then sells it back to me. Clever bastards.
A priest, a rapist, and a pedophile walk into a bar, the bartender says "What'll you have, buddy?"
Six people were on a plane. A doctor, a lawyer a priest and 3 children. The pilot comes on the radio and says the plane is going to crash,and there are only three parachutes. The doctor yells out, " Save the children" The lawyer yells out "FUCK THE CHILDREN!" The priest yells out " IS THERE TIME?"
What's the difference between a rabbi and a priest?A rabbi cuts it off, and a priest sucks it off.
Yes, because it's not like there's a large number of german companies that specialize in windows development and managing windows. That's only something that open source has.
Let's be a little honest about the benefits of OSS please. There are plenty, but saying that proprietary software is bad for the local economy is just misleading.
Will the new version of IE still have the compability view in it? A web app that is being used at a clients site requires separate sessions and my fear is that the compability vew which is the one thing that has saved us in IE8 will actually disappear in future versions. Anyone have information about that?
In fact, my company *just* announced an upgrade to IE7
The company I work for isn't there yet. Still IE6 on XP for us. And from what I hear there are no upgrade plans on the horizon. Eventually there will be I think, but for a company of this size it'll be atleast one year away from when they announce it.
I wasn't going to watch twilight, but now I think I will download and watch it out of spite, just to make sure they lost money on it. That's how they count, isn't it. Every downloaded file is lost money. Perhaps if I download it enough times I can force them into bankrupcy?
Not sure if it's worth the pain of having to watch vampire-teen-angst though.
Except for the "Sexting" images that the kids make themselves. You still go to jail if you have it in your possession, but was anyone harmed? Is a kid being harmed if you have that image and use it to wank off to? That's what the law sais. What if it's not a sexting image? What if you're doing it to a regular tv-show with kids in it? Are they being harmed? You'd be a sick puppy if you did it, but is there abuse going on?
Don't get me wrong. People who posess these kind of images probably need some sort of professional help, but should they go to jail for harming a child?
That's assuming that the police are drooling morons that have no clue what they're doing. Obviously they'll copy the drive before trying anything on it. You hand over the "wrong" key, data gets scrambled, the restore it from the copy they took and asks for the correct key.
Contrary to popular belief the police are quite capable. At least when you get one step up from the patroling officers.
Salt is not a poison. Without it you would be dead. Now eat a few kilos of it today.
Water is not a poison. Without it you would be dead. Now drink your own bodyweight in water today.
Actually, don't. It'll probably kill you. Just because something isn't bad (or even essential) in small amounts doesn't mean that large amounts of it won't kill you.
Read this by Dave Grossman http://www.killology.com/print/print_teachkid.htm It's about teaching kids to kill. I'm sure there are many anecdotes out there about how "I played games for years and I haven't killed anyone" but the man has a point...
Some quotes from the text:
"Healthy members of most species have a powerful, natural resistance to killing their own kind. Animals with antlers and horns fight one another by butting heads. Against other species they go to the side to gut and gore. Piranha turn their fangs on everything, but they fight one another with flicks of the tail. Rattlesnakes bite anything, but they wrestle one another.
When we human beings are overwhelmed with anger and fear our thought processes become very primitive, and we slam head on into that hardwired resistance against killing. During World War II, we discovered that only 15-20 percent of the individual riflemen would fire at an exposed enemy soldier (Marshall, 1998). [...]
That's the reality of the battlefield. Only a small percentage of soldiers are willing and able to kill. When the military became aware of this, they systematically went about the process of âoefixingâ this âoeproblem.â And fix it they did. By Vietnam the firing rate rose to over 90 percent (Grossman, 1999a).
[...]
The training methods the military uses are brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and role modeling. Let us explain these and then observe how the media does the same thing to our children, but without the safeguards.
Brutalization, or âoevalues inculcation,â is what happens at boot camp. Your head is shaved, you are herded together naked, and dressed alike, losing all vestiges of individuality. You are trained relentlessly in a total immersion environment. In the end you embrace violence and discipline and accept it as a normal and essential survival skill in your brutal new world.
Something very similar is happening to our children through violence in the media. [...]
Classical conditioning is like Pavlov's dog in Psych 101. Remember the ringing bell, the food, and the dog could not hear the bell without salivating?
In World War II, the Japanese would make some of their young, unblooded soldiers bayonet innocent prisoners to death. Their friends would cheer them on. Afterwards, all these soldiers were treated to the best meal they've had in months, sake, and to so-called "comfort girls." The result? They learned to associate violence with pleasure.
This technique is so morally reprehensible that there are very few examples of it in modern U.S. military training, but the media is doing it to our children. Kids watch vivid images of human death and suffering and they learn to associate it with: laughter, cheers, popcorn, soda, and their girlfriend's perfume (Grossman & DeGaetano, 1999). [...] The third method the military uses is operant conditioning, a powerful procedure of stimulus-response training. We see this with pilots in flight simulators, or children in fire drills. When the fire alarm is set off, the children learn to file out in orderly fashion. One day there's a real fire and they're frightened out of their little wits, but they do exactly what they've been conditioned to do (Grossman & DeGaetano, 1999).
In World War II we taught our soldiers to fire at bullseye targets, but that training failed miserably because we have no known instances of any soldiers being attacked by bullseyes. Now soldiers learn to fire at realistic, man-shaped silhouettes that pop up in their field of view. That's the stimulus. The conditioned response is to shoot the target and then it drops. Stimulus-response, stimulus-response, repeated hundreds of times."
...not so much for fishermen. Where I'm at we try to sink ships like these (steel ships) on or near fish breeding grounds. This will accomplish two things. First it'll provide refuge for fish and second it'll discourage fishing there. Trawlers can't fish if there's a big ship there. The trawls will break if they try so most stay well clear of sites like this.
Experts say that about 90% of all "large fish" are now gone so we need to do something about overfishing. This is "something" although not nearly enough.
When the freemarket, which we do not have, or businesses make mistakes they should be held accountable. But who holds government accountable?
I suppose that would be the people voting. Is there really such a big difference between "I will have nothing to do with company X and buy from company Y instead" and "I will have nothing to do with party X and will vote for party Y instead"?
The community isn't really vibrant.
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Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly. I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
A pharmaceutical company that pours billions of dollars into research and tials to finally develop a drug that takes away disease gets a 20 year patent.
An automaker that develops new type of breaks that saves peoples lives gets a 20 year patent.
Someone who goes "la la la" into a microphone gets 70 year copyright.
Yes, I know that patents and copyright aren't exactly the same but still. The proportions are WAY off here.
This gets really stupid after a while. I mean everything you do will be a threat to someone's "business model". If I choose to walk to work then I threaten Fords model. If I choose to go the Gym instead of buying a wii-fit I'm hurting Nintendo. Could my ISP sue me for writing a letter instead of an email?
It would take up to 141 small windmills to power an average American household entirely using wind energy...
I think this sais more about American household power consumption than it does about small windmills. Doesn't it?
I think it's a little sad and I would love to see a power-meter that shows exactly how much power you use when you use it. I think that would make people think. Also it's a little amusing to read this site on how "bloated" KDE and Gnome are, or how bloated the linux kernel is, but still people use their terrible inefficient cars and houses that are energy-hogs. Why isn't everyone here trying to make their home and car as efficient as comfortably possible? It's the "techie" thing to do. And the tech is already available. Remember that the cheapest energy unit is the one that you don't use.
Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem. This is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a choice of two Free Software, Open Source licences.
This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it continues to function even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.
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Haven't you ever done a risk matrix?
Identify a risk, then grade (1-5) the likelyhood of it happening. Then grade(1-5) the impact if the identified risk occurs.
Likelyhood 1=no risk of occuring, 5=sure thing to happen
Impact 1=almost no impact, 5=everyone within 50km dies(or similar bad thing).
Multiply the two and you have a list of risks and everything above 15 (or 10) needs a plan on how to handle.
Obviously also those with extreme impact will have to have a plan (like poisoning the mexican gulf), even if the probability of it happening is very low.
For me I would have graded the probability of this low (1-2) and the impact about medium (3-4). I would not have spent any additional money on this since the net result is a 12 tops. However, if reports start to come in about these things happening a swift investigation is needed, and that's what they've done imho.
Are there any reports of this happening outside of the US? If the problem is with the cars then the problem should be global, right?
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical, and will never be until they get economies of scale (which is a chicken and egg problem), or until cheap oil runs out.
I drive a biomethane car (Opel/Vauxhall Zafira) which is perfect for me. Also, our government has put high taxes on non renewable energy so it's actually cheaper for me to drive this car than a petrol/diesel one.
And I don't have to pay road tax for the first few years.
Finding biomethane is a bit of a problem in some areas, but since 95% of my travel are on known roads it's not a big problem for me.
Any city that has to take care of human waste can produce biomethane, and the cost is already there so it's just a big bonus to do it.
Actually my city charges me to take care of my waste, refines it into biomethane and then sells it back to me.
Clever bastards.
Catholic priests are fucking immature assholes.
A priest, a rapist, and a pedophile walk into a bar, the bartender says "What'll you have, buddy?"
Six people were on a plane. A doctor, a lawyer a priest and 3 children. The pilot comes on the radio and says the plane is going to crash,and there are only three parachutes. The doctor yells out, " Save the children" The lawyer yells out "FUCK THE CHILDREN!" The priest yells out " IS THERE TIME?"
What's the difference between a rabbi and a priest?A rabbi cuts it off, and a priest sucks it off.
And a little song ot end it. http://open.spotify.com/track/4i8mXoDsPX99hfkCo0USg1
If you have more jokes like these I'd love to hear them...
Yes, because it's not like there's a large number of german companies that specialize in windows development and managing windows. That's only something that open source has.
Let's be a little honest about the benefits of OSS please. There are plenty, but saying that proprietary software is bad for the local economy is just misleading.
Will the new version of IE still have the compability view in it?
A web app that is being used at a clients site requires separate sessions and my fear is that the compability vew which is the one thing that has saved us in IE8 will actually disappear in future versions. Anyone have information about that?
In fact, my company *just* announced an upgrade to IE7
The company I work for isn't there yet. Still IE6 on XP for us. And from what I hear there are no upgrade plans on the horizon. Eventually there will be I think, but for a company of this size it'll be atleast one year away from when they announce it.
I love a smart engineer. :-)
I wasn't going to watch twilight, but now I think I will download and watch it out of spite, just to make sure they lost money on it.
That's how they count, isn't it. Every downloaded file is lost money.
Perhaps if I download it enough times I can force them into bankrupcy?
Not sure if it's worth the pain of having to watch vampire-teen-angst though.
The EU countries, unlike some other countries, are civilized ones and here we don't execute our citizens.
Except for the "Sexting" images that the kids make themselves. You still go to jail if you have it in your possession, but was anyone harmed?
Is a kid being harmed if you have that image and use it to wank off to? That's what the law sais.
What if it's not a sexting image? What if you're doing it to a regular tv-show with kids in it? Are they being harmed?
You'd be a sick puppy if you did it, but is there abuse going on?
Don't get me wrong. People who posess these kind of images probably need some sort of professional help, but should they go to jail for harming a child?
That's assuming that the police are drooling morons that have no clue what they're doing.
Obviously they'll copy the drive before trying anything on it. You hand over the "wrong" key, data gets scrambled, the restore it from the copy they took and asks for the correct key.
Contrary to popular belief the police are quite capable. At least when you get one step up from the patroling officers.
Except that the kids can't help that their parents are thick as bricks.
Salt is not a poison. Without it you would be dead.
Now eat a few kilos of it today.
Water is not a poison. Without it you would be dead.
Now drink your own bodyweight in water today.
Actually, don't. It'll probably kill you. Just because something isn't bad (or even essential) in small amounts doesn't mean that large amounts of it won't kill you.
Read this by Dave Grossman http://www.killology.com/print/print_teachkid.htm
It's about teaching kids to kill. I'm sure there are many anecdotes out there about how "I played games for years and I haven't killed anyone" but the man has a point...
Some quotes from the text:
"Healthy members of most species have a powerful, natural resistance to killing their own kind. Animals with antlers and horns fight one another by butting heads. Against other species they go to the side to gut and gore. Piranha turn their fangs on everything, but they fight one another with flicks of the tail. Rattlesnakes bite anything, but they wrestle one another.
When we human beings are overwhelmed with anger and fear our thought processes become very primitive, and we slam head on into that hardwired resistance against killing. During World War II, we discovered that only 15-20 percent of the individual riflemen would fire at an exposed enemy soldier (Marshall, 1998). [...]
That's the reality of the battlefield. Only a small percentage of soldiers are willing and able to kill. When the military became aware of this, they systematically went about the process of âoefixingâ this âoeproblem.â And fix it they did. By Vietnam the firing rate rose to over 90 percent (Grossman, 1999a).
[...]
The training methods the military uses are brutalization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and role modeling. Let us explain these and then observe how the media does the same thing to our children, but without the safeguards.
Brutalization, or âoevalues inculcation,â is what happens at boot camp. Your head is shaved, you are herded together naked, and dressed alike, losing all vestiges of individuality. You are trained relentlessly in a total immersion environment. In the end you embrace violence and discipline and accept it as a normal and essential survival skill in your brutal new world.
Something very similar is happening to our children through violence in the media. [...]
Classical conditioning is like Pavlov's dog in Psych 101. Remember the ringing bell, the food, and the dog could not hear the bell without salivating?
In World War II, the Japanese would make some of their young, unblooded soldiers bayonet innocent prisoners to death. Their friends would cheer them on. Afterwards, all these soldiers were treated to the best meal they've had in months, sake, and to so-called "comfort girls." The result? They learned to associate violence with pleasure.
This technique is so morally reprehensible that there are very few examples of it in modern U.S. military training, but the media is doing it to our children. Kids watch vivid images of human death and suffering and they learn to associate it with: laughter, cheers, popcorn, soda, and their girlfriend's perfume (Grossman & DeGaetano, 1999).
[...]
The third method the military uses is operant conditioning, a powerful procedure of stimulus-response training. We see this with pilots in flight simulators, or children in fire drills. When the fire alarm is set off, the children learn to file out in orderly fashion. One day there's a real fire and they're frightened out of their little wits, but they do exactly what they've been conditioned to do (Grossman & DeGaetano, 1999).
In World War II we taught our soldiers to fire at bullseye targets, but that training failed miserably because we have no known instances of any soldiers being attacked by bullseyes. Now soldiers learn to fire at realistic, man-shaped silhouettes that pop up in their field of view. That's the stimulus. The conditioned response is to shoot the target and then it drops. Stimulus-response, stimulus-response, repeated hundreds of times."
Hey, at least you'll have the progressive countries of Myanmar and Liberia as your allies.
Yet Another MMO?
Zero Punctuation did a fair analysis about MMOs in general in this review. At about 2:30.
I never got into these kind of games so I might be biased.
...not so much for fishermen.
Where I'm at we try to sink ships like these (steel ships) on or near fish breeding grounds. This will accomplish two things. First it'll provide refuge for fish and second it'll discourage fishing there. Trawlers can't fish if there's a big ship there. The trawls will break if they try so most stay well clear of sites like this.
Experts say that about 90% of all "large fish" are now gone so we need to do something about overfishing. This is "something" although not nearly enough.
When the freemarket, which we do not have, or businesses make mistakes they should be held accountable. But who holds government accountable?
I suppose that would be the people voting.
Is there really such a big difference between "I will have nothing to do with company X and buy from company Y instead" and "I will have nothing to do with party X and will vote for party Y instead"?
Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly.
I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
A pharmaceutical company that pours billions of dollars into research and tials to finally develop a drug that takes away disease gets a 20 year patent.
An automaker that develops new type of breaks that saves peoples lives gets a 20 year patent.
Someone who goes "la la la" into a microphone gets 70 year copyright.
Yes, I know that patents and copyright aren't exactly the same but still. The proportions are WAY off here.
This gets really stupid after a while. I mean everything you do will be a threat to someone's "business model". If I choose to walk to work then I threaten Fords model. If I choose to go the Gym instead of buying a wii-fit I'm hurting Nintendo.
Could my ISP sue me for writing a letter instead of an email?
Ridiculous is what it is.
Right. They should harvest the bullshit that they're spewing and make biogas out of it.
They are often mislabeled as gay.
Yeah, what was wrong with the old label "Pervert"?
(It's a joke. Laugh. Or lighten up)
It's funny here anyway. Might not be if you're in the US-taliban controlled bible belt.
It would take up to 141 small windmills to power an average American household entirely using wind energy...
I think this sais more about American household power consumption than it does about small windmills. Doesn't it?
I think it's a little sad and I would love to see a power-meter that shows exactly how much power you use when you use it. I think that would make people think.
Also it's a little amusing to read this site on how "bloated" KDE and Gnome are, or how bloated the linux kernel is, but still people use their terrible inefficient cars and houses that are energy-hogs.
Why isn't everyone here trying to make their home and car as efficient as comfortably possible? It's the "techie" thing to do.
And the tech is already available.
Remember that the cheapest energy unit is the one that you don't use.
Something like this? http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem. This is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a choice of two Free Software, Open Source licences.
This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it continues to function even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.