For good reason. That's just reflecting the fact that a program has to check a series of instructions. The code can't check multiple conditions at the same time. Branching out into a series of tables for different things is the best way to reduce the unnecessary checks by filtering out those that do/don't apply. My first rule is always to allow RELATED/ESTABLISHED packets, so only the first packet of any new connection goes any further.
openwrt puts that related/established rule first and it sucks. If I want an internet curfew I want it to take effect immediately, not when the current connection is finished. Same for an IP address that trips up the malware triggers. It has to stop and it has to stop now, not when the payload has finished downloading.
Some things can be accepted with a high degree of certainty. It strikes me that it is almost certain that all life evolved from a common ancestor. It also strikes me as almost certain that the Earth and the other planets condensed out of a cloud of gas and material orbiting the young Sun. It also strikes me as certain that the observable universe was once very hot and very dense and began to expand and cool about 13.5 to 13.7 billion years ago.
There is not Truth in science, but there is something like provisional truth.
I think the problem with "certain" in this case is when science makes you so certain that you will not consider any alternate theory. History is peppered with many examples of this.
The true definition of species is a group that can and do inter-breed to make offspring. So, the line actually *IS* very clear cut... as soon as a mutation occurs that branches one set so they can no longer reproduce with the other, it is a new species.
Suppose you have a string of islands, call them A-E. Birds on adjacent +2 islands can interbreed with fertile offspring, but birds at either end of the string of islands cannot. By the standard definition you can argue that the birds living on A are a different species to the birds living on E, but birds on A and E can breed with C, so the birds living on C must therefore belong to both species.
Just because you have a clear cut _definition_, doesn't mean that applying that definition will get you clear cut results
if you really want to talk to a young earth creationist (I don't know why you would)
To teach, of course. And I echo everything you said.
A creationist most likely believes what he believes because it's what he's been told to believe. In most cases the best you can do is get them to believe something different by telling them to believe it and doing so with more charisma than whoever instilled them with their original beliefs. If you can teach them to _understand_, then you have achieved a wonderful goal, but first you have to get them listen...
...with a better word than "brainwashing?" Since that already means something that does not match the contents of the article.
BEEP BOOP I am a robot can't detect a joke.
Brainwashing is a perfect word to use here since that's exactly what's happening.
"brainwashing" != "brain washing". And I don't think it was that the OP didn't get the pun, it's just that the pun was crap. As I said above, I would have gone with a pun on "dirty mind" if it was my headline.
Oh my goodness I'm freaking out and waving my hands like a schoolgirl right now.
But seriously, the Web of Fear is one of my favorite classic Doctor Who episodes, despite the fact that the only available version is almost entirely an audio reconstruction with still-photograph accompaniment. Notably, this episode is where the much beloved stiff-upper-lip character Lethbridge-Stewart is first introduced. He is of course instantly recognizable even as part of an audio-only soundtrack.
As much as I enjoyed the 3rd (Jon Pertwee) and 4th (Tom Baker) Doctors, like everyone else, I'd go so far as to say that many of the 1st (William Hartnell) and 2nd (Patrick Troughton) Doctors' episodes were some of the most interesting and entertaining of the entire series, just as many of the most original and memorable episodes of Star Trek and TNG came during their first and second seasons. The more I watch the older episodes of Doctor Who the more I appreciate what they accomplished, especially in the context of the fact that the series started out in 1963 in seriously grainy black and white as basically a televised live-action play. So finding more old episodes is a big thing for me. I love 'em.
I'm also one of those weirdos who thinks the most recent few seasons of the show are boot-licking, Doctor-worshiping, ultra-melodramatic, vomit-inducing crap that caused Doctor Who to go from one of my favorite shows of all time to something I cannot physically stomach watching anymore. But I digress.
Hooray for more classic Doctor Who!
They started playing Doctor Who from the start here (Australia) a while back, and I really enjoyed it. One episode was entirely set in the tardis where the tardis seemed jammed and was trying to tell them something and they had to figure out what it was. And the hand to hand combat fighting was absolutely awful. And the Dalek's spaceship wobbled on the string it was suspended on. Awesome stuff:) Unfortunately The timeslot ended up conflicting with meal times and hungry kids aren't compatible with TV watching, so i gave up watching it. This was before I had a PVR or anything.
If I recall correctly from the previous Dr. Who story on here, the episodes fall to the public domain 50 years after their production (so 2016-2019 for these episodes). So BBC is capitalizing on the last few years when they can make money off these. Yes, I'm disappointed too but not the least bit shocked.
Are they releasing the lost episodes verbatim, or is some remastering involved? And if they are remastered, does that constitute a new original copyrightable work?
We're talking sound pressure levels high enough that you can feel the modulation with your fingers. Is this safe?
And how much power does it take to make pressure that's useful for tactile feedback at a distance?
You might be on to something here. A device that can deter that fucking dog that has scared my kids enough that they won't walk down the street anymore would be a great idea.
I don't want to kill a dog, as such, but if it was afraid to wander the streets alone then I think the world would be a better place.
If he has secured his private keys, then nobody can touch his Bitcoins. Not the NSA, FBI, CIA...
I've heard people say that the NSA can decrypt various things that are thought to be impossible (in reasonable time). Even if that were true, I doubt they are going show their hand and remove all doubt over something as trivial as this, so i think you are correct.
While he still has access to his bitcoins, they can argue that they should be allowed to force him to give up his keys. If he no longer has access to his bitcoins then they can't, so there is an advantage to him putting them somewhere where he can't get them. He'd need to find someone he can trust though...
Even if it somehow loses. They WILL find a way to win.
If the house loses, it's because someone is cheating. That's how they tell you are cheating - if you are winning in a game of chance with the odds firmly tilted in the houses favour then you must be cheating. It's that simple.
Agree that it's more than just the setting. I'm probably spoiled because I saw the originals at least a decade before the prequels, is the feeling the same for anyone who saw the prequels first? I know it's still considered cool to hate the prequels, but I don't think they were that bad. I mean they were bad, and the franchise deserved to be treated better, but they were at least as good as most of the crap hollywood dishes out these days.
Part of the thrill of the first movies for me is it combined superpowers and space, which were two things the average 5-10yo boy is going to be fascinated with, or at least it was in the 80's when I first saw it. Fortunately the storyline is good too, but even when i'm watching it as an adult then enjoyment is partially biased by the memories of watching it as a kid. Anyway my point there is that anyone who watched it as a kid in the late 70's / early 80's is probably going to be a little biased by the dazzle of the time they first watched it, and maybe isn't in a neutral position to be commenting on the prequels...
Was the old cert due to expire? I have thought before that it would be nice if my browser etc gave me a warning like "Certificate has changed but wasn't due to expire for another 3 months". This still gives the bad guys a window where a subverted certificate could be slipped in without notice, but it closes the window a bit.
Also is it common to revoke the old certificate when replacing it, even if there is no reason to suspect the old certificate was compromised? If so that would be another warning that could be presented
I for one found the story of the new island quite interesting. I found about the people dying from BBC well before it came to Slashdot. Why should Slashdot repeat what the mainstream media has already told me?
What's interesting in this case is not that Slashdot is repeating what the mainstream media already told me (first I heard about the earthquake was a story about the island in the national news), but that Slashdot is repeating what the mainstream media already told me without a 24-168 hour lag, and is only reporting it once.
Slashdot used to be great because it would have stories in it that the mainstream media might decide weren't interesting to their audience. The problem now is that the mainstream media thinks _everything_ is interesting. I still go to Slashdot because I don't have to filter out stories about how the forehead of the next top model is too big, another celebrity going off the rails, and a list of things I should never say to my boss.
Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.
What brand(s)? I'm not the OP, but almost every mouse i've bought in the last 5 years or so, except for the cheap MS mouse i'm using now, have had the middle button screw up. One doesn't work at all. Another will almost always scroll as i'm clicking it. Another will either doesn't register a click, or registers 5 clicks.
And they aren't all cheap either, although it's entirely possible that i just paid too much for a cheap mouse. I still stand by my earlier statement that the MS Mouse is one of their best products (even if it's pretty crappy these days too).
I get it often (every few years at least - with 4 kids in the household exposure is inevitable) but never that bad. I've heard people say they are so sick they "can't get out of bed", and i've never figured out whether that's a figure of speech or literal, but i've never been that sick.
Right now i'm probably the sickest i've been in a long time, probably flu, or a really bad cold. So bring on the vaccine:)
Yes, its a shame we didn't learn our lesson after the huge pandemics of vaccine resistant polio. Clearly we should let people continue to die of the flu to prevent it from possibly evolving into something harmful. Or maybe if we just kill everyone who gets the flu we can breed flu resistant humans and finally eradicate this deadly disease.
You can't really draw a parallel between polio and the flu. The flu has a bunch of non-human hosts that it can jump between. It will happily sit around in the bird/pig/whatever population until it mutates into something that can infect humans again. And birds go everywhere.
AFAIK, polio is for humans (or primates at least) only
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We couldn't find any way around that.
For good reason. That's just reflecting the fact that a program has to check a series of instructions. The code can't check multiple conditions at the same time. Branching out into a series of tables for different things is the best way to reduce the unnecessary checks by filtering out those that do/don't apply. My first rule is always to allow RELATED/ESTABLISHED packets, so only the first packet of any new connection goes any further.
openwrt puts that related/established rule first and it sucks. If I want an internet curfew I want it to take effect immediately, not when the current connection is finished. Same for an IP address that trips up the malware triggers. It has to stop and it has to stop now, not when the payload has finished downloading.
Documentation: There is a quick howto available at Eric Leblond's website.
Yeah I guess a "quick howto" isn't quite going to cut it. I wonder if Linus would ever put his foot down and say "no docs = no patch accept".
Some things can be accepted with a high degree of certainty. It strikes me that it is almost certain that all life evolved from a common ancestor. It also strikes me as almost certain that the Earth and the other planets condensed out of a cloud of gas and material orbiting the young Sun. It also strikes me as certain that the observable universe was once very hot and very dense and began to expand and cool about 13.5 to 13.7 billion years ago.
There is not Truth in science, but there is something like provisional truth.
I think the problem with "certain" in this case is when science makes you so certain that you will not consider any alternate theory. History is peppered with many examples of this.
The true definition of species is a group that can and do inter-breed to make offspring. So, the line actually *IS* very clear cut... as soon as a mutation occurs that branches one set so they can no longer reproduce with the other, it is a new species.
Suppose you have a string of islands, call them A-E. Birds on adjacent +2 islands can interbreed with fertile offspring, but birds at either end of the string of islands cannot. By the standard definition you can argue that the birds living on A are a different species to the birds living on E, but birds on A and E can breed with C, so the birds living on C must therefore belong to both species.
Just because you have a clear cut _definition_, doesn't mean that applying that definition will get you clear cut results
This makes for interesting reading
To be rid of these silly cults once and for all
Was the use of the word 'prey' instead of 'pray' deliberate?
BEEP BOOP! I am a robot. I have no sense of humor. Must suppress humor in others.
I like how you edited out my joke so you make your point without looking like a dick. That was clever.
(Do you need the sarcasm pointed out to you or can you get it yourself?)
if you really want to talk to a young earth creationist (I don't know why you would)
To teach, of course. And I echo everything you said.
A creationist most likely believes what he believes because it's what he's been told to believe. In most cases the best you can do is get them to believe something different by telling them to believe it and doing so with more charisma than whoever instilled them with their original beliefs. If you can teach them to _understand_, then you have achieved a wonderful goal, but first you have to get them listen...
...with a better word than "brainwashing?" Since that already means something that does not match the contents of the article.
BEEP BOOP I am a robot can't detect a joke.
Brainwashing is a perfect word to use here since that's exactly what's happening.
"brainwashing" != "brain washing". And I don't think it was that the OP didn't get the pun, it's just that the pun was crap. As I said above, I would have gone with a pun on "dirty mind" if it was my headline.
...with a better word than "brainwashing?" Since that already means something that does not match the contents of the article.
Agree. A "dirty mind" joke would have gone down far better.
In the mean time, why can't people simply enjoy a film, without trying to pick apart ever millisecond?
I don't understand... picking apart a film like that _is_ how I enjoy it. Are you cross because I enjoy a film in a different way to you?
All this time we were running around blaming the NSA, when it was Joel all along!
Oh my goodness I'm freaking out and waving my hands like a schoolgirl right now.
But seriously, the Web of Fear is one of my favorite classic Doctor Who episodes, despite the fact that the only available version is almost entirely an audio reconstruction with still-photograph accompaniment. Notably, this episode is where the much beloved stiff-upper-lip character Lethbridge-Stewart is first introduced. He is of course instantly recognizable even as part of an audio-only soundtrack.
As much as I enjoyed the 3rd (Jon Pertwee) and 4th (Tom Baker) Doctors, like everyone else, I'd go so far as to say that many of the 1st (William Hartnell) and 2nd (Patrick Troughton) Doctors' episodes were some of the most interesting and entertaining of the entire series, just as many of the most original and memorable episodes of Star Trek and TNG came during their first and second seasons. The more I watch the older episodes of Doctor Who the more I appreciate what they accomplished, especially in the context of the fact that the series started out in 1963 in seriously grainy black and white as basically a televised live-action play. So finding more old episodes is a big thing for me. I love 'em.
I'm also one of those weirdos who thinks the most recent few seasons of the show are boot-licking, Doctor-worshiping, ultra-melodramatic, vomit-inducing crap that caused Doctor Who to go from one of my favorite shows of all time to something I cannot physically stomach watching anymore. But I digress.
Hooray for more classic Doctor Who!
They started playing Doctor Who from the start here (Australia) a while back, and I really enjoyed it. One episode was entirely set in the tardis where the tardis seemed jammed and was trying to tell them something and they had to figure out what it was. And the hand to hand combat fighting was absolutely awful. And the Dalek's spaceship wobbled on the string it was suspended on. Awesome stuff :) Unfortunately The timeslot ended up conflicting with meal times and hungry kids aren't compatible with TV watching, so i gave up watching it. This was before I had a PVR or anything.
If I recall correctly from the previous Dr. Who story on here, the episodes fall to the public domain 50 years after their production (so 2016-2019 for these episodes). So BBC is capitalizing on the last few years when they can make money off these. Yes, I'm disappointed too but not the least bit shocked.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/10/03/2232213/first-few-doctor-who-episodes-may-fall-to-public-domain-next-year?sdsrc=popbyskid
Are they releasing the lost episodes verbatim, or is some remastering involved? And if they are remastered, does that constitute a new original copyrightable work?
We're talking sound pressure levels high enough that you can feel the modulation with your fingers. Is this safe?
And how much power does it take to make pressure that's useful for tactile feedback at a distance?
You might be on to something here. A device that can deter that fucking dog that has scared my kids enough that they won't walk down the street anymore would be a great idea.
I don't want to kill a dog, as such, but if it was afraid to wander the streets alone then I think the world would be a better place.
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" is an attempt at getting you to admit guilt in the first interaction.
"I think you pulled me over to praise me on my excellent driving".
If he has secured his private keys, then nobody can touch his Bitcoins. Not the NSA, FBI, CIA...
I've heard people say that the NSA can decrypt various things that are thought to be impossible (in reasonable time). Even if that were true, I doubt they are going show their hand and remove all doubt over something as trivial as this, so i think you are correct.
While he still has access to his bitcoins, they can argue that they should be allowed to force him to give up his keys. If he no longer has access to his bitcoins then they can't, so there is an advantage to him putting them somewhere where he can't get them. He'd need to find someone he can trust though...
Any headphones i've ever had have suffered cable problems long before the buds themselves have started to show any signs of wearing out.
The dinosaurs already had this technology, but it got out of hand and melted them down into oil and pretty much wiped them out.
Even if it somehow loses. They WILL find a way to win.
If the house loses, it's because someone is cheating. That's how they tell you are cheating - if you are winning in a game of chance with the odds firmly tilted in the houses favour then you must be cheating. It's that simple.
Agree that it's more than just the setting. I'm probably spoiled because I saw the originals at least a decade before the prequels, is the feeling the same for anyone who saw the prequels first? I know it's still considered cool to hate the prequels, but I don't think they were that bad. I mean they were bad, and the franchise deserved to be treated better, but they were at least as good as most of the crap hollywood dishes out these days.
Part of the thrill of the first movies for me is it combined superpowers and space, which were two things the average 5-10yo boy is going to be fascinated with, or at least it was in the 80's when I first saw it. Fortunately the storyline is good too, but even when i'm watching it as an adult then enjoyment is partially biased by the memories of watching it as a kid. Anyway my point there is that anyone who watched it as a kid in the late 70's / early 80's is probably going to be a little biased by the dazzle of the time they first watched it, and maybe isn't in a neutral position to be commenting on the prequels...
Was the old cert due to expire? I have thought before that it would be nice if my browser etc gave me a warning like "Certificate has changed but wasn't due to expire for another 3 months". This still gives the bad guys a window where a subverted certificate could be slipped in without notice, but it closes the window a bit.
Also is it common to revoke the old certificate when replacing it, even if there is no reason to suspect the old certificate was compromised? If so that would be another warning that could be presented
I for one found the story of the new island quite interesting. I found about the people dying from BBC well before it came to Slashdot. Why should Slashdot repeat what the mainstream media has already told me?
What's interesting in this case is not that Slashdot is repeating what the mainstream media already told me (first I heard about the earthquake was a story about the island in the national news), but that Slashdot is repeating what the mainstream media already told me without a 24-168 hour lag, and is only reporting it once.
Slashdot used to be great because it would have stories in it that the mainstream media might decide weren't interesting to their audience. The problem now is that the mainstream media thinks _everything_ is interesting. I still go to Slashdot because I don't have to filter out stories about how the forehead of the next top model is too big, another celebrity going off the rails, and a list of things I should never say to my boss.
Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.
What brand(s)? I'm not the OP, but almost every mouse i've bought in the last 5 years or so, except for the cheap MS mouse i'm using now, have had the middle button screw up. One doesn't work at all. Another will almost always scroll as i'm clicking it. Another will either doesn't register a click, or registers 5 clicks.
And they aren't all cheap either, although it's entirely possible that i just paid too much for a cheap mouse. I still stand by my earlier statement that the MS Mouse is one of their best products (even if it's pretty crappy these days too).
I get it often (every few years at least - with 4 kids in the household exposure is inevitable) but never that bad. I've heard people say they are so sick they "can't get out of bed", and i've never figured out whether that's a figure of speech or literal, but i've never been that sick.
Right now i'm probably the sickest i've been in a long time, probably flu, or a really bad cold. So bring on the vaccine :)
Yes, its a shame we didn't learn our lesson after the huge pandemics of vaccine resistant polio. Clearly we should let people continue to die of the flu to prevent it from possibly evolving into something harmful. Or maybe if we just kill everyone who gets the flu we can breed flu resistant humans and finally eradicate this deadly disease.
You can't really draw a parallel between polio and the flu. The flu has a bunch of non-human hosts that it can jump between. It will happily sit around in the bird/pig/whatever population until it mutates into something that can infect humans again. And birds go everywhere.
AFAIK, polio is for humans (or primates at least) only