you are operating in an entirely different dimension--string theory?--that the "theory" of evolution doubters in Texas.
Just like gravity, we can see HOW evolution occurs (genes), why (mutations give survival advantage), etc. You can do MATH and run numbers and it works.
We "discoverd" DNA in like the 1950s. So it's relatively new. It's complicated.
But it's real.
Gravity is real too. Yes, it seems that every day we are discoverning some weird new anomaly. But do you "doubt" gravity, and maybe want to propose that the turtle that holds up earth (the TOP turtle only, please) is pushing "up" so we all go "down"?
I see the point you are trying to make. But go to the School Board Luddites who are pushing the bible as a science reference, present it to them, and they might burn you at the stake. They are superstitious, essentially, so why not?
Concur with Jurily; using Ubuntu with light desktop manager (Openbox) as a non-gaming desktop.
It fast, stable, no hassles, installation was easy, everything worked--easier than a Windows installation with hunting down drivers and installing them in the right order, actually.
Hmmm, Mandriva is #13 at Distrowatch: not so lucky, apparently. Was surprised to see it is on there, actually.
Yes, a Soekris unit, or a Supermicro mini ITX cost more than an Asus, but putting together something like a Soekris opens up many more software options.
OpenBSD if you're paranoid? Check.
Monowall, sure.
BSDs, Linux, and Plan 9: all good to go.
Also, Soekris and Supermicro both have great reputations for reliability--set it up, forget it, it works for years.
In fact, Hayabusa wasn't supposed to actually land, but it did, for about 30 minutes. It may have a sample of the asteroid that it is bringing back in 2010, just in time for a re-issue of the Late Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain.
The asteroid was not destroyed by the landing....just like the comet that was hit by a space probe did not disintegrate either:
Oh, that has already been done: November 1999-- Nawaq ALHAZMI (whose name is on the lease) and Khalid ALMIDHAR move into apartment 127 at Parkwood Apartments, a 175-unit apartment complex in the Clairemont, section of San Diego on Mount Ada Road near the mosque off Balboa Drive. Neighbors report them playing flight-simulator videogames late into the night. They are constantly on their cell phones. They drive a gray early-90s Toyota Camry, but are seen getting into limousines late at night. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/683026/posts
Clearly: Toyota is the terror car of choice. Except for limosines, which should be banned.
If you are not getting work, drop your price. Do a great job, get referrals, raise your price as your time becomes more in demand.
Also, your handle, "Dragon THC". Quick James Joyce stream of consciousness:
THC = marijuana = doper.
Dragon = aggressive, destructive:
"Like most mythological creatures, dragons are perceived in different ways by different cultures. Dragons are sometimes said to breathe and spit fire or poison. They are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing typically feathered or scaly bodies. They are sometimes portrayed as having large yellow or red eyes, a feature that is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures. They are sometimes portrayed with a row of dorsal spines, keeled scales, or leathery bat-like wings."
A much better idea would be to build a missile that has the ability to be launched from earth or a ship at sea that can fly to an intercept orbit, get close enough to shoot a tethered harpoon into the dead satellite Great white satellite...international space station...could get ugly, Ishmael.
Both he and Nicole were lying in giant pools of blood. I had never seen so much blood in my life. . . . I again looked down at myself, at my blood-soaked clothes, and noticed the knife in my hand. The knife was covered in blood, as were my hand and wrist and half of my right forearm.
Another passage from page 132:
Now I was standing in Nicole's courtyard, in the dark, listening to the loud, rhythmic, accelerated beating of my own heart. I put my left hand to my heart and my shirt felt strangely wet. . . . The whole front of me was covered in blood. . .
Nowhere does he say "if" he was standing there, or "if" his hands and knife were drenched in blood, or "if" two innocent people lay dead before him.
So, that's OJ's side of the story.....let's hope terrorists don't get real good lawyers....hey, if Phil Spector can get a 10-2 mistrial, Robert Blake can walk, and OJ can go to Vegas to Stay in Vegas, Osama could get off, and, get a settlement for cash as well--with a good lawyer.
28 year old Todd Shriber is not a "victim"; he is apparently not real bright--a communications director who did not pick up on the allusion to pidgeons as a communication device?
He is also dishonest. He initially lied about his involvement--perhaps he thought the tubes in which internet traffic travels were opaque, (steel? lead?) and therefore would keep his communications (*) private.
*** Quote: "Asked why he launched the scheme, Shriber [said] "I would rather not get into that at all. I just got a little too far ahead of myself thinking about things down the road." His college grades "weren't that great," he acknowledged. ***
No, he did not think about 'things down the road', like public humiliation, job loss, prison, although dare I say it, with his political connections, it is likely that he will hunker down, make no more public comments about this, and wait for it to blow over.
He solicited a criminal act....how is this that much different than old men chatting online with undercover officers posing as children? People go to jail a long time for that....
Because he initially lied about it, then admitted it?
Quote:
*** After initially denying knowledge of the exchange, Shriber told me this afternoon in the final of our three phone conversations: "I did something that's greatly out of character for me and it's a mistake that I regret." ***
If the army soldier WarriorPena84@aol.com did in fact write and send this, he is going to be attending the UCMJ School of Hard Knocks, and that is going to suck:
"listen you dumb mother fucker my sister bought that phone from some cab driver so what the fuck do you want . shes not going to return it if she bought it, and am military police so dont give me that bullshit about you going to the cops over a lost phone the nypd has better things to do then to worry about your friend losing her phone. you better stop harrasing my sister or you'll have to deal with me and you dont want that"
Shows a lack of impulse control, immaturity, and absence of sound judgement: given the mutlple recent international incidents our military has been involved in, I truly hope they take away his weapon privileges, and soon.
I am not a JAG, but, there are about a dozen things they can charge him with there, from 'conduct unbecoming', to making a threat, conspiracy, etc. Not good.
They should turn him over to the grammar and spelling Nazis too....
What's the difference between a medical student and dog crap?
No one goes out of their way to step on dog crap.....
You are quite correct--best to get an EKG/watch for extrapyramidal side effects, but, I have found that very low doses of Pimozide are effective, on the order of 1 or 2 mg a day, not a full antipsychotic dose.
Most difficult therapeutic maneuver is building trust--not at all easy to get them to take anything at all. I just try to be very honest, reassuring, kind--sort of like Mr. Rogers.
They misinterpret lint, fibers, dust, and other debris as parasites; sort of a variant of hearing voices/OCD/other disorders where sensations are spurious or can't be correctly decoded.
Did the air traffic control center really have a "Microsoft server crash"? Submitted by doc on Wed, 09/22/2004 - 19:02.
On Tuesday, September 14, something went wrong at the FAA's regional center that controls high altitude air traffic over Southern California and much of the southwest U.S. Two days later, this Associated Press story (carried here on MSNBC) summarized the problem in its opening sentence: "Failure to perform a routine maintenance check caused the shutdown of an air traffic communications system serving a large swath of the West, resulting in several close calls in the skies, the FAA and a union official said Wednesday." That same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story titled "Human Factors Silenced Airports". Then, on September 21, TechWorld ran a story titled "Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up: Failure to restart system caused data overload". It begins, "A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system last week was partly due to a 'design anomaly' in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Here's what the Times story said....
Officials from Professional Airways Systems Specialists, the union that represents FAA technicians, acknowledged Wednesday that an improperly trained employee failed to reset the Palmdale radio system.
But they said the quirk in the system, known as Voice Switching and Control System, is a "design anomaly" that should have been corrected after it was discovered last year in Atlanta.
As originally designed, the VSCS system used computers that ran on an operating system known as Unix, said Ray Baggett, vice president for the union's western region.
The VSCS system was built for the FAA by Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., at a cost of more than $1.5 billion.
When the system was upgraded about a year ago, the original computers were replaced by Dell computers using Microsoft software. Baggett said the Microsoft software contained an internal clock designed to shut the system down after 49.7 days to prevent it from becoming overloaded with data.
Software analysts say a shutdown mechanism is preferable to allowing an overloaded system to keep running and potentially give controllers wrong information about flights.
Richard Riggs, an advisor to the technicians union, said the FAA had been planning to fix the program for some time. "They should have done it before they fielded the system," he said.
To prevent a reoccurrence of the problem before the software glitch is fixed, Laura Brown, an FAA spokeswoman, said the agency plans to install a system that would issue a warning well before shutdown.
Martin, the chief FAA spokesman in Washington, said the failure was not an indication of the reliability of the radio communications system itself, which he described as "nearly perfect."
you like secure operating systems. So does Theo de Raadt: he loves them!
Please contact Theo directly at *deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org*
Be firm: Theo will help you, but only if you are make it clear that you expect help, and you want it now. (I think that when you contacted CentOS's team, you were sort of beating around the bush. That won't work with the OpenBSD team. Be direct!)
Theo will respect your 22 years of IT experience. And, I think he will be impressed that you worked at Raytheon--wow!
No need to call the FBI to get a response from Theo and his boyz. Enjoy!
Yes, the atmosphere is much less harsh--in fact, in simulations, no one who has taken off their helmet and sampled the moon's simulated atmosphere has ever complained. Ever.
I am certainly glad it is less harsh than the atmosphere of Mars, since I still have that image of Shwarzenegger's eyeballs popping out of his head in "Total Recall" when he is exposed to the pre-terraformed atmosphere.
Perhaps hybrid Man-Beasts will be able to farm water on the Moon. I am looking forward to them filling some craters with farmed water, so I can go sailing there. The trade winds are always nice around the Sea of Stoopidity.
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Good sir or madame,
you are operating in an entirely different dimension--string theory?--that the "theory" of evolution doubters in Texas.
Just like gravity, we can see HOW evolution occurs (genes), why (mutations give survival advantage), etc. You can do MATH and run numbers and it works.
We "discoverd" DNA in like the 1950s. So it's relatively new. It's complicated.
But it's real.
Gravity is real too. Yes, it seems that every day we are discoverning some weird new anomaly. But do you "doubt" gravity, and maybe want to propose that the turtle that holds up earth (the TOP turtle only, please) is pushing "up" so we all go "down"?
I see the point you are trying to make. But go to the School Board Luddites who are pushing the bible as a science reference, present it to them, and they might burn you at the stake. They are superstitious, essentially, so why not?
Concur with Jurily; using Ubuntu with light desktop manager (Openbox) as a non-gaming desktop.
It fast, stable, no hassles, installation was easy, everything worked--easier than a Windows installation with hunting down drivers and installing them in the right order, actually.
Hmmm, Mandriva is #13 at Distrowatch: not so lucky, apparently. Was surprised to see it is on there, actually.
2012, Year of the Linux desktop? For some!
RTFA, VTFWs (visit the web site?)
That, or ICE took it back again.
Yes, a Soekris unit, or a Supermicro mini ITX cost more than an Asus, but putting together something like a Soekris opens up many more software options.
OpenBSD if you're paranoid? Check.
Monowall, sure.
BSDs, Linux, and Plan 9: all good to go.
Also, Soekris and Supermicro both have great reputations for reliability--set it up, forget it, it works for years.
Quote: "PC Engines is so behind the times that you might as well just go Soekris. Oh wait, they don't have gigE either."
Um, no, you are wrong, AC, they do:
http://soekris.com/catalog/category/view/s/net6501/id/76/
Four Genuine (R) Intel (C) GB adapters, Atom CPU, small form factor, low power consumption.
And no I do not work for or at Soekris....I am rocking a cheap Airlink 101, ten bucks from Fry's.....
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/02/1546214
*Landing an object on an asteroid is neither cheap nor convenient...even a robotic device is difficult. *
Yes, but it has already been done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
In fact, Hayabusa wasn't supposed to actually land, but it did, for about 30 minutes. It may have a sample of the asteroid that it is bringing back in 2010, just in time for a re-issue of the Late Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain.
The asteroid was not destroyed by the landing....just like the comet that was hit by a space probe did not disintegrate either:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050704_deepimpact_success.html
"Next to impossible": I do not think this means what you think it means.
Oh, that has already been done:
November 1999-- Nawaq ALHAZMI (whose name is on the lease) and Khalid ALMIDHAR move into apartment 127 at Parkwood Apartments, a 175-unit apartment complex in the Clairemont, section of San Diego on Mount Ada Road near the mosque off Balboa Drive. Neighbors report them playing flight-simulator videogames late into the night. They are constantly on their cell phones. They drive a gray early-90s Toyota Camry, but are seen getting into limousines late at night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/683026/posts
Clearly: Toyota is the terror car of choice. Except for limosines, which should be banned.
"I've definitely priced myself out of this market. "
Dragon THC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
If you are not getting work, drop your price. Do a great job, get referrals, raise your price as your time becomes more in demand.
Also, your handle, "Dragon THC". Quick James Joyce stream of consciousness:
THC = marijuana = doper.
Dragon = aggressive, destructive:
"Like most mythological creatures, dragons are perceived in different ways by different cultures. Dragons are sometimes said to breathe and spit fire or poison. They are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing typically feathered or scaly bodies. They are sometimes portrayed as having large yellow or red eyes, a feature that is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures. They are sometimes portrayed with a row of dorsal spines, keeled scales, or leathery bat-like wings."
Be positive; read Dale Carnegie:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650
I am not suggesting you change your user name to NiceChinchilla, but, maybe consider an attitude adjustment? Change your attitude, change your life.
HTH
Thanks Larry. See you in Minnesota...stall 4.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-parker22sep22,0,1326069,full.story?coll=la-home-commentary
From OJ's [if] I Did It: p 132:
Both he and Nicole were lying in giant pools of blood. I had never seen so much blood in my life. . . . I again looked down at myself, at my blood-soaked clothes, and noticed the knife in my hand. The knife was covered in blood, as were my hand and wrist and half of my right forearm.
Another passage from page 132:
Now I was standing in Nicole's courtyard, in the dark, listening to the loud, rhythmic, accelerated beating of my own heart. I put my left hand to my heart and my shirt felt strangely wet. . . . The whole front of me was covered in blood. . .
Nowhere does he say "if" he was standing there, or "if" his hands and knife were drenched in blood, or "if" two innocent people lay dead before him.
So, that's OJ's side of the story.....let's hope terrorists don't get real good lawyers....hey, if Phil Spector can get a 10-2 mistrial, Robert Blake can walk, and OJ can go to Vegas to Stay in Vegas, Osama could get off, and, get a settlement for cash as well--with a good lawyer.
Yes, and I think the "Fury of the Fah King" is next.
Pigeon, not "Pidgeon", as in Walter Pidgeon....
28 year old Todd Shriber is not a "victim"; he is apparently not real bright--a communications director who did not pick up on the allusion to pidgeons as a communication device?
He is also dishonest. He initially lied about his involvement--perhaps he thought the tubes in which internet traffic travels were opaque, (steel? lead?) and therefore would keep his communications (*) private.
***
Quote: "Asked why he launched the scheme, Shriber [said] "I would rather not get into that at all. I just got a little too far ahead of myself thinking about things down the road." His college grades "weren't that great," he acknowledged.
***
No, he did not think about 'things down the road', like public humiliation, job loss, prison, although dare I say it, with his political connections, it is likely that he will hunker down, make no more public comments about this, and wait for it to blow over.
He solicited a criminal act....how is this that much different than old men chatting online with undercover officers posing as children? People go to jail a long time for that....
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9999
He initially lies, then admits it....
Because he initially lied about it, then admitted it?
9
Quote:
***
After initially denying knowledge of the exchange, Shriber told me this afternoon in the final of our three phone conversations: "I did something that's greatly out of character for me and it's a mistake that I regret."
***
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/999
'Greatly out of character': right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
We were able to terraform LV-426, and that place had some real problems.
If the army soldier WarriorPena84@aol.com did in fact write and send this, he is going to be attending the UCMJ School of Hard Knocks, and that is going to suck:
"listen you dumb mother fucker my sister bought that phone from some cab driver so what the fuck do you want . shes not going to return it if she bought it, and am military police so dont give me that bullshit about you going to the cops over a lost phone the nypd has better things to do then to worry about your friend losing her phone. you better stop harrasing my sister or you'll have to deal with me and you dont want that"
Shows a lack of impulse control, immaturity, and absence of sound judgement: given the mutlple recent international incidents our military has been involved in, I truly hope they take away his weapon privileges, and soon.
I am not a JAG, but, there are about a dozen things they can charge him with there, from 'conduct unbecoming', to making a threat, conspiracy, etc. Not good.
They should turn him over to the grammar and spelling Nazis too....
What's the difference between a medical student and dog crap?
No one goes out of their way to step on dog crap.....
You are quite correct--best to get an EKG/watch for extrapyramidal side effects, but, I have found that very low doses of Pimozide are effective, on the order of 1 or 2 mg a day, not a full antipsychotic dose.
Most difficult therapeutic maneuver is building trust--not at all easy to get them to take anything at all. I just try to be very honest, reassuring, kind--sort of like Mr. Rogers.
UCLA Med School: awesome....congrats.
This is referred to as "delusions of parasitosis".
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic939.htm
The *sensation* they have is "real", not to sound like Morpheus: feels like bugs in skin. The sensation goes away quickly when Pimozide is prescribed.
It's not all that uncommon.
It's very hard to convince patients that they need Pimozide, and not a can of "Raid" to spray on themselves.
There's another web site that has been around longer relating to the same issue:
http://www.skinparasites.com/
They misinterpret lint, fibers, dust, and other debris as parasites; sort of a variant of hearing voices/OCD/other disorders where sensations are spurious or can't be correctly decoded.
More insightful?: "S3 needs to shut their collective pie hole, and write non-blob OpenBSD drivers".
Did the air traffic control center really have a "Microsoft server crash"?
Submitted by doc on Wed, 09/22/2004 - 19:02.
On Tuesday, September 14, something went wrong at the FAA's regional center that controls high altitude air traffic over Southern California and much of the southwest U.S. Two days later, this Associated Press story (carried here on MSNBC) summarized the problem in its opening sentence: "Failure to perform a routine maintenance check caused the shutdown of an air traffic communications system serving a large swath of the West, resulting in several close calls in the skies, the FAA and a union official said Wednesday." That same day, the Los Angeles Times ran a story titled "Human Factors Silenced Airports". Then, on September 21, TechWorld ran a story titled "Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up: Failure to restart system caused data overload". It begins, "A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system last week was partly due to a 'design anomaly' in the way Microsoft Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Here's what the Times story said....
Officials from Professional Airways Systems Specialists, the union that represents FAA technicians, acknowledged Wednesday that an improperly trained employee failed to reset the Palmdale radio system.
But they said the quirk in the system, known as Voice Switching and Control System, is a "design anomaly" that should have been corrected after it was discovered last year in Atlanta.
As originally designed, the VSCS system used computers that ran on an operating system known as Unix, said Ray Baggett, vice president for the union's western region.
The VSCS system was built for the FAA by Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., at a cost of more than $1.5 billion.
When the system was upgraded about a year ago, the original computers were replaced by Dell computers using Microsoft software. Baggett said the Microsoft software contained an internal clock designed to shut the system down after 49.7 days to prevent it from becoming overloaded with data.
Software analysts say a shutdown mechanism is preferable to allowing an overloaded system to keep running and potentially give controllers wrong information about flights.
Richard Riggs, an advisor to the technicians union, said the FAA had been planning to fix the program for some time. "They should have done it before they fielded the system," he said.
To prevent a reoccurrence of the problem before the software glitch is fixed, Laura Brown, an FAA spokeswoman, said the agency plans to install a system that would issue a warning well before shutdown.
Martin, the chief FAA spokesman in Washington, said the failure was not an indication of the reliability of the radio communications system itself, which he described as "nearly perfect."
Jerry A. Taylor
City Manager
Tuttle, OK
Dear Jerry,
you like secure operating systems. So does Theo de Raadt: he loves them!
Please contact Theo directly at *deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org*
Be firm: Theo will help you, but only if you are make it clear that you expect help, and you want it now. (I think that when you contacted CentOS's team, you were sort of beating around the bush. That won't work with the OpenBSD team. Be direct!)
Theo will respect your 22 years of IT experience. And, I think he will be impressed that you worked at Raytheon--wow!
No need to call the FBI to get a response from Theo and his boyz. Enjoy!
--A concerned citizen
Yes, the atmosphere is much less harsh--in fact, in simulations, no one who has taken off their helmet and sampled the moon's simulated atmosphere has ever complained. Ever.
I am certainly glad it is less harsh than the atmosphere of Mars, since I still have that image of Shwarzenegger's eyeballs popping out of his head in "Total Recall" when he is exposed to the pre-terraformed atmosphere.
Perhaps hybrid Man-Beasts will be able to farm water on the Moon. I am looking forward to them filling some craters with farmed water, so I can go sailing there. The trade winds are always nice around the Sea of Stoopidity.