I've known about this for years...that's why I store all my important data exclusively on punch cards. Nothing will degrade my precious bales and bales of punch cards! My data will outlast the Apocalypse!
See, look at all these wonderful punched cards....they'll last fore...waitaminit...where did all these silverfish come from???
Very well...then you can simply change my suggestion to: institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get attribution for (per day, week, month...whatever). If a linkwhore wants to spam the queue with stories, fine, but they may not try so hard if they find that their attribution gets stripped out after x amount of stories accepted in Y amount of time.
And yes, you may argue that this will stop the linkwhore from sharing all these interesting stories with us, but the fact here is that the linkwhore isn't making anything here...he's just pointing out something that already exists, and that other readers, readers without agendas, can just as easily find and submit. Sure, the linkwhore might not try so hard to submit interesting stories, but the upside is that everyone else will try harder, because the odds of them geting something accepted just went up. I'm pretty confident that the balance of Slashdot's readership can take up the slack if the linkwhores are put out of business.
Institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get accepted (per day, week, month...whatever). A cap doesn't hurt legitimate submitters, while limiting the payoff for linkwhores.
Good story, but it would have been interesting to see the actual picture taken by the astronauts in 1974, rather than the Geological Survey pic taken in 1968.
By the way, if you're interested in a higher-resolution look at Area 51, just point your Google Earth to 37 d 14' N, 115 d 49' W.
Lots of good info on this problem can be found here, courtesy of the good folks at EPIC.
And finally, you can choose to opt-out of the releasing of your phone data here (at least you can try...opt-out information isn't listed for many of the companies). Also, many of these data brokers employ less-than-legal means to obtain the phone data anyway.
The act of contrasting the vulnerabilities found in the few Windows operating systems with the vulnerabilities found in hundreds of Linux/Unix is bad enough, but when you consider that the Unix/Linux list contains duplicate items, it becomes positively shameful.
From the Groklaw article:
Second, the Unix/Linux list duplicates items, counting a vulnerability more than once in the list. For an example, note that it lists Eric Raymond Fetchmail POP3 Client Buffer Overflow (Updated). However, the same vulnerability is listed, under the same title, four times. That's because it was reported in the week of August 10-15, again in the week of August 17-23, in September 6-13, and the week of November 9-16. Worse, for any comparison purposes, the same vulnerability is also reported as Fetchmail POP3 Client Buffer Overflow, so in reality one vulnerability is listed 5 times, making the total of 2328 meaningless unless you carefully comb through it to weed out duplications.
I honestly expected better from the CERT folks. I don't know why, but I really did.
This certainly sounds like a terrific idea...not only do you get basically free power, but you also get desalinization in the bargain. Abundant power plus abundant fresh water has the potential to completely remake the countries in the equatorial region...the region, coincidentally, where these power/desalinization plants will be most efficient.
However, we really ought to know by know the policy of TANSTAAFL...earlier generations have blithely pursued their agendas without thought to the long-term consequences to the environment, and today we are slowly starting to recognize the signs of these consequences in our environment. Given that the slight amount of global warming we have so far witnessed has caused an unprecedented amount and rapidity of glacial retreat, with truly global consequences. If you doubt this, just ask the Europeans, whose traditionally balmy climate is fast disappearing due to the weakening of the Gulf Stream.
With this in mind, is it really wise to start monkeying with the thermal gradient of the oceans at the equator?
That's a rule??? If it is, it's not too vigorously enforced...
Back when I did a lot of travelling for my job, I made a point of getting hammered in the airport bar before every flight...made the flight go so much quicker and more comfortably. Once, I slept through all five hours of the flight from Chicago to Seattle. Another time, I fell asleep while the plane was preparing to take off from Detroit, and when I woke up, it was on the tarmac again. I asked the person next to me, "Are we there yet"? "No, he replied, "we haven't left yet...they're having mechanical trouble." "Ok", I said, and went back to sleep. When I woke up again, we were in Chicago. ^_^
Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted when users close their Web browsers, he said, but the software in use shipped with persistent cookies already on.
"After being tipped to the issue, we immediately disabled the cookies," he said.
Honest enough mistake, right? Not, really, as it's happened before.
Here's a snippet from a 2002 Associated Press article (available here):
WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA got caught with a hand in the Internet cookie jar.
The agency removed tracking software known as a "cookie" from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered the banned practice, said Mike Stepp, who manages the CIA's public Web site.
"It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional," Stepp said Tuesday. "The public does not need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking them. We're a bit busy to be doing that."
Stepp said an outside company had redesigned the reading room Web site, which was posted to the Internet on Jan. 29.
"Unbeknownst to us, it was loaded with some software, commercial off-the-shelf software used for Web analysis," Stepp said. The software included a cookie that tracked repeat visitors to the site.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that the CIA and the NSA are different agencies. However, that shouldn't preclude one learning from the other's foul-ups.)
So either one or both agencies in question are simply incompetent, or lying to us. Which do you think is more plausible?
Farnsworth: As a man it has become too much of a chore for me to clean out my wrinkles each day. Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process?
Geneworks Woman: Well yes, in the same way an infant may fight Muhammed Ali! But -
Farnsworth: One pound of stem cells please!
But seriously, it seems to me that the motives of this Professor Wilmut may not be entirely pure. Certainly, it's difficult to argue against offering treatment to victims of neuro-degenerative disorders, and I know for a fact that if I was such a victim, I'd be clamoring for treatment as loud as anyone else, but does that make it right to use humans as guinea pigs to 'speed up the pace of research'?
It's easy to point out the suffering people and make a play for accelerated protocols based upon sentiment. It's not so easy to adhere to the standards of medical ethics and integrity. If Professor Wilmut was an uninvolved commentator on the issue, his opinion might hold a bit more weight, but the fact that he is one of the central players in the field tends to impune his impartiality in the matter.
And, no, the previous AC poster who accused you of karma whoring was someone else. That should help to show how much your fu*king karma whoring is starting to piss people off.
Sure you are, sport. You're a completely different person every time. My faceless AC detractors are legion, apparently.
You're a parody of yourself at this point. And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
Heck, I'm now considering buying stock in Take-Two, just so I can witness what promises to be the most side-splitting board meetings ever held.
In fact, I smell a new reality TV show...get cameras in there to record all the hilarious action.
We can have viewer participation too, go to the website and enter in the poll....how long will Jack last before Paul gets fed up with his inane babbling and calls the police to have him ejected? How many times will the police have to hit him to subdue him before they drag him out? (We'll have a ringer cop in there, so there will always be at least one punch.)
Imagine a few cops stiff-arming Jack Thompson's face into the drywall....now that's must-see TV! ^_^
I suggest you visit this site and familiarize yourself with the event in question.
From the site (emphasis mine):
Tuesday, Dec. 12--The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bush v. Gore 7-2 to reverse the Florida Supreme Court, which had ordered manual recounts in certain counties. The Court contends that the recount was not treating all ballots equally, and was thus a violation of the Constitution's equal protection and due process guarantees. The Supreme Court of Florida would be required to set up new voting standards and carry them out in a recount. The justices, however, split 5-4 along partisan lines about implementing a remedy. Five justices maintain that this process and the recount must adhere to the official deadline for certifying electoral college votes: midnight, Dec. 12; other justices question the importance of this date. Since the Court makes its ruling just hours before the deadline, it in effect ensures that it is too late for a recount. The decision generates enormous controversy. Those objecting to the ruling assert that the Supreme Court, and not the electorate, has effectively determined the outcome of the presidential election. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes in a scathing dissent, "the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.
Bush's 2000 victory was only 'legal' in the sense that a decision of the SCOTUS must be de facto lawful, as there is no higher legal authority...in other words, the doctrine of 'the King can do no wrong'.
For a taste of how our Founding Father's felt about this doctrine, here's a quote from The Federalist No. 69:
The first thing which strikes our attention is, that the executive authority, with few exceptions, is to be vested in a single magistrate. This will scarcely, however, be considered as a point upon which any comparison can be grounded; for if, in this particular, there be a resemblance to the king of Great Britain, there is not less a resemblance to the Grand Seignior, to the khan of Tartary, to the Man of the Seven Mountains, or to the governor of New York. The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.
Of course, this is in regard to the executive branch, but similar views were held forth regarding the judicial. From The Federalist No. 78:
The precautions for their responsibility are comprised in the article respecting impeachments. They are liable to be impeached for malconduct by the House of Representatives, and tried by the Senate; and, if convicted, may be dismissed from office, and disqualified for holding any other. This is the only provision on the point which is consistent with the necessary independence of the judicial character, and is the only one which we find in our own Constitution in respect to our own judges.
Nobody imagined that that son of a bitch Bush II and his minions would have spent the intervening years abusing/hiding behind it while turning the U.S. into a police state...
Um...just for the record...I imagined it. I started imagining it just about when the Republican-dominated Supreme Court of the Unites States handed Dubya the Presidency.
Back in the day, crypto was classified as munitions under ITAR. This restriction was lifted principally because some smart eggs figured out that since the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on math (no matter how much they might wish that to be the case), foreign countries could develop their own algorithms, so all the U.S was doing was shooting themselves in the foot by restricting what they could do in the international market.
And now, Dubya & Company want to try to restrict crypto once again. I really wish I could say I was surprised, but this is sadly a completely predictable move.
This strategy is doomed to failure, not only because foreign companies are perfectly able to develop their own products, but because these 'restricted' products are easily available on warez servers all over the world. If I want a copy of LC5, I can get one in less than five minutes, entirely free of charge, and I don't need to be in the U.S. to do it.
You might think that D&C would at least try to just keep tabs on international users of LC5 (after all, a wasp in a tent is a lot friendlier when you can see it), but instead, they choose the option to ban export, insuring that truly malicious users will stay well under the radar. Well done, George.
I wish those so "enlightened" ones on/. would stop wholesale bashing of people's beliefs systems.
I don't have any problem with people's 'belief systems'. What I do have a problem with is people attempting to pass off their 'belief systems' as science. And no, science is not itself a 'belief system' (at least not like Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, Intelligent Design, Islam, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, etc. are), so please don't subject us to that tired argument.
Some more information on using stem cells from bone marrow to grow neurons can be found here.
As you can see from the date of the above referenced article, the idea of using stem cells derived from bone marrow to treat brain injury has been around for a while, but now that we've finally progressed to human trials, this field is going to get very exciting very fast. This has the potential to completely rewrite the textbooks on brain & nerve trauma...it's a real pity that Christopher Reeve had to leave us before we made these advances.
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I've known about this for years...that's why I store all my important data exclusively on punch cards. Nothing will degrade my precious bales and bales of punch cards! My data will outlast the Apocalypse!
See, look at all these wonderful punched cards....they'll last fore...waitaminit...where did all these silverfish come from???
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very well...then you can simply change my suggestion to: institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get attribution for (per day, week, month...whatever). If a linkwhore wants to spam the queue with stories, fine, but they may not try so hard if they find that their attribution gets stripped out after x amount of stories accepted in Y amount of time.
And yes, you may argue that this will stop the linkwhore from sharing all these interesting stories with us, but the fact here is that the linkwhore isn't making anything here...he's just pointing out something that already exists, and that other readers, readers without agendas, can just as easily find and submit. Sure, the linkwhore might not try so hard to submit interesting stories, but the upside is that everyone else will try harder, because the odds of them geting something accepted just went up. I'm pretty confident that the balance of Slashdot's readership can take up the slack if the linkwhores are put out of business.
Institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get accepted (per day, week, month...whatever). A cap doesn't hurt legitimate submitters, while limiting the payoff for linkwhores.
Good story, but it would have been interesting to see the actual picture taken by the astronauts in 1974, rather than the Geological Survey pic taken in 1968.
By the way, if you're interested in a higher-resolution look at Area 51, just point your Google Earth to 37 d 14' N, 115 d 49' W.
Unfortunately, this issue is nothing new.
Lots of good info on this problem can be found here, courtesy of the good folks at EPIC.
And finally, you can choose to opt-out of the releasing of your phone data here (at least you can try...opt-out information isn't listed for many of the companies). Also, many of these data brokers employ less-than-legal means to obtain the phone data anyway.
The act of contrasting the vulnerabilities found in the few Windows operating systems with the vulnerabilities found in hundreds of Linux/Unix is bad enough, but when you consider that the Unix/Linux list contains duplicate items, it becomes positively shameful.
From the Groklaw article:
I honestly expected better from the CERT folks. I don't know why, but I really did.
A lot more information on this story can be found at Rebecca MacKinnon's RConversation.
From TFA:
Interesting...I wonder just how long those 'minute' batteries last before a recharge is necessary...let's check TFA.
From TFA: No word whatsoever on how long these batteries will last. That's not promising.
This certainly sounds like a terrific idea...not only do you get basically free power, but you also get desalinization in the bargain. Abundant power plus abundant fresh water has the potential to completely remake the countries in the equatorial region...the region, coincidentally, where these power/desalinization plants will be most efficient.
However, we really ought to know by know the policy of TANSTAAFL...earlier generations have blithely pursued their agendas without thought to the long-term consequences to the environment, and today we are slowly starting to recognize the signs of these consequences in our environment. Given that the slight amount of global warming we have so far witnessed has caused an unprecedented amount and rapidity of glacial retreat, with truly global consequences. If you doubt this, just ask the Europeans, whose traditionally balmy climate is fast disappearing due to the weakening of the Gulf Stream.
With this in mind, is it really wise to start monkeying with the thermal gradient of the oceans at the equator?
There's a lot more info to be found regarding the Dynalifter technology here.
That's a rule??? If it is, it's not too vigorously enforced...
Back when I did a lot of travelling for my job, I made a point of getting hammered in the airport bar before every flight...made the flight go so much quicker and more comfortably. Once, I slept through all five hours of the flight from Chicago to Seattle. Another time, I fell asleep while the plane was preparing to take off from Detroit, and when I woke up, it was on the tarmac again. I asked the person next to me, "Are we there yet"? "No, he replied, "we haven't left yet...they're having mechanical trouble." "Ok", I said, and went back to sleep. When I woke up again, we were in Chicago. ^_^
From TFA:
Honest enough mistake, right? Not, really, as it's happened before.
Here's a snippet from a 2002 Associated Press article (available here):
(Disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that the CIA and the NSA are different agencies. However, that shouldn't preclude one learning from the other's foul-ups.)
So either one or both agencies in question are simply incompetent, or lying to us. Which do you think is more plausible?
Keep my AC stalker bitching about the anime smiley. Yes!
Keep my AC stalker bitching about my first posts and the fact that I'm a supporter of Slashdot. Score!
Keep my AC stalker bitching about my occasional use of a search engine. Bonus!
Awesome! The GHB and peyote I left out for Santa on Christmas Eve really paid off!
^_^ ^_^ ^_^
This is not news.
It's been done before, and it's been done better.
^_^
But seriously, it seems to me that the motives of this Professor Wilmut may not be entirely pure. Certainly, it's difficult to argue against offering treatment to victims of neuro-degenerative disorders, and I know for a fact that if I was such a victim, I'd be clamoring for treatment as loud as anyone else, but does that make it right to use humans as guinea pigs to 'speed up the pace of research'?
It's easy to point out the suffering people and make a play for accelerated protocols based upon sentiment. It's not so easy to adhere to the standards of medical ethics and integrity. If Professor Wilmut was an uninvolved commentator on the issue, his opinion might hold a bit more weight, but the fact that he is one of the central players in the field tends to impune his impartiality in the matter.
Festivus for the rest of us!
And, no, the previous AC poster who accused you of karma whoring was someone else. That should help to show how much your fu*king karma whoring is starting to piss people off.
Sure you are, sport. You're a completely different person every time. My faceless AC detractors are legion, apparently.
You're a parody of yourself at this point. And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
Heck, I'm now considering buying stock in Take-Two, just so I can witness what promises to be the most side-splitting board meetings ever held.
In fact, I smell a new reality TV show...get cameras in there to record all the hilarious action.
We can have viewer participation too, go to the website and enter in the poll....how long will Jack last before Paul gets fed up with his inane babbling and calls the police to have him ejected? How many times will the police have to hit him to subdue him before they drag him out? (We'll have a ringer cop in there, so there will always be at least one punch.)
Imagine a few cops stiff-arming Jack Thompson's face into the drywall....now that's must-see TV! ^_^
I suggest you visit this site and familiarize yourself with the event in question.
From the site (emphasis mine):Bush's 2000 victory was only 'legal' in the sense that a decision of the SCOTUS must be de facto lawful, as there is no higher legal authority...in other words, the doctrine of 'the King can do no wrong'.
For a taste of how our Founding Father's felt about this doctrine, here's a quote from The Federalist No. 69:Of course, this is in regard to the executive branch, but similar views were held forth regarding the judicial.
From The Federalist No. 78:
Nobody imagined that that son of a bitch Bush II and his minions would have spent the intervening years abusing/hiding behind it while turning the U.S. into a police state...
Um...just for the record...I imagined it. I started imagining it just about when the Republican-dominated Supreme Court of the Unites States handed Dubya the Presidency.
Back in the day, crypto was classified as munitions under ITAR. This restriction was lifted principally because some smart eggs figured out that since the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on math (no matter how much they might wish that to be the case), foreign countries could develop their own algorithms, so all the U.S was doing was shooting themselves in the foot by restricting what they could do in the international market.
And now, Dubya & Company want to try to restrict crypto once again. I really wish I could say I was surprised, but this is sadly a completely predictable move.
This strategy is doomed to failure, not only because foreign companies are perfectly able to develop their own products, but because these 'restricted' products are easily available on warez servers all over the world. If I want a copy of LC5, I can get one in less than five minutes, entirely free of charge, and I don't need to be in the U.S. to do it.
You might think that D&C would at least try to just keep tabs on international users of LC5 (after all, a wasp in a tent is a lot friendlier when you can see it), but instead, they choose the option to ban export, insuring that truly malicious users will stay well under the radar. Well done, George.
I wish those so "enlightened" ones on
I don't have any problem with people's 'belief systems'. What I do have a problem with is people attempting to pass off their 'belief systems' as science. And no, science is not itself a 'belief system' (at least not like Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, Intelligent Design, Islam, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, etc. are), so please don't subject us to that tired argument.
I think the GP was alluding to the fact that most Intelligent Design advocates have brain damage, or at least appear to.
Some more information on using stem cells from bone marrow to grow neurons can be found here.
As you can see from the date of the above referenced article, the idea of using stem cells derived from bone marrow to treat brain injury has been around for a while, but now that we've finally progressed to human trials, this field is going to get very exciting very fast. This has the potential to completely rewrite the textbooks on brain & nerve trauma...it's a real pity that Christopher Reeve had to leave us before we made these advances.