It is actually the lyrics to the Kingsmen version of the song Louie, Louie. Verse 3 mentions a "grassy knoll" and something about @!&ABo((~`={{vb 3:42xyzzyZnorFFoo NO CARRIER
A day or two ago it was reported that the EPA was easing requirements for mercury emmisions to save money for power companies. Nice that the EPA is so worried about the CEO's bonuses. Wish they would do their job and worry about our health.
We should have a heavy tax on mercury emmisions and use the proceeds to subsidise windmills and LED lights.
Lighting is very small part of my electricity use. My eyes don't like fluorescents, and I need to make my eyes as happy as possible (one emergency eye surgery is *more* than enough, thank you). I've been converting some lighting to LEDs. Most of my lights get used very rarely, so obscessing about the 3 Watt-minutes/year that they use is silly.
Obscess a bit less about your light bulbs and instead obscess a bit more about the *big* energy hogs in your life. Get out of your car and use your bicycle instead. I haven't bought any gasoline or Diesel in several years. Insulate your attic, shade your windows in summer, (awnings reduce the heat load an *amasing* amount!) upgrade windows if possible. Check the weatherstripping.
>> BTW, news flash for those of you that think google has good anti-spam. >> They don't. They false positive legit email as spam. > > I'm only speaking from my personal experience. I find Google's spam > filtering to be absolutely top-notch. I only very occasionally get > false positives in the spam folder,
Putting legit mail in a spam folder is one thing. Not delivering legit mail at all is quite another, and gmail started doing that at some point (date forgotten). If the only contact info for someone you have is an email addr, (and that is common) you're stuck.
Oh, and you can't open a gmail account unless you have a cell phone that can receive text messages. WTF?
> I've done the personal mail server dance a few times before. It's > really a lot of work to make sure that your mail gets delivered > everywhere and to make sure that spam is effectively filtered.
It used to work fine before so many people started the assume-you- are-a-spammer-until-proved-innocent thing.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but not being able to contact people is orders of magnitude worse.
>> Web mail SUCKS.
> I think that's subjective.
OK, it is subjective. Web mail is SLOW SLOW SLOW. Editing is a nightmare. Editing in an emacs text window and then copy-and-paste into browser window helps, but is still problematic. Having some company reading your mail is evil. And you have to copy any info you want to save back to your own computer bacause who knows when the webmail will fail.
Webmail is a nice option to have and if you like it great. But being forced to use it when you hate it sucks.
"Get a *real* ISP." What if there isn't one available?
"Get a business account, not a residential one." Residential accounts need to send and receive email too.
"Spend more money for some_feature/T1 line/whatever." Not everyone has Warren Buffet's bank account.
"Use web mail." Web mail SUCKS.
"Have google handle your email." And read it and sell you out to everyone.
BTW, news flash for those of you that think google has good anti-spam. They don't. They false positive legit email as spam.
"Get a static IP" Shouldn't matter.
"Residential accounts can't run servers." a) Why the hell not? server != business b) *OUT*bound port 25 is a client, not a server.
"You might be a spammer." Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? You guys whine about the TSA thinking you might be a terrorist, but assuming you are a spammer until proven guilty (or paying big bucks for some "business" feature) is ok? There is a word for that: hipocrit.
Yeah the original complaint is about a business, but the problem is even worse for individuals.
The single line method is evil. It removes choice from the customer. I want to avoid the cashiers that insist on putting canned soup on top of bread and eggs. (and get upset if you start bagging your own) I avoid stores that use the single line method.
> Everyone who tried to do something useful in APL, put up your hand.
APL is a wonderful language.
> Restricting digital storage to ones and zeros is needlessly polarizing > and limiting. Why not allow a 0.5 bit value?
Word is the Russians tried to build trinary computers but the magnetic cores wouldn't stay unmagnetized.
My stupid keyboard has redundant keys for the digits and a few others, but no Umlaut, no Eszett and no Greek letters. Who designs this crap?
Some things can't even handle plain ASCII. Can anyone explain how to google for "DVD-RW" or for "DVD+RW" without getting a gazillion false hits? Google would be *so* much more useful it it handled regular expressions.
The display on my camcorder is lower resolution
than what it actually captures. So I can't tell
if I am capturing enough detail to read text or
not. A small high resolution display would be
wonderful. Lugging around a desktop monitor
(and battery and inverter) is not practical.
> And FreeBSD has its own effort for that as well.
Could you point me toward this effort please?
Unix grew up on machines where CPU was nearly always the bottleneck. But over the years CPUs have increased in speed more than i/o has, so now i/o is often the bottleneck.
I am convinced that a process that generates data faster than a device can sink it will fill up memory, starving other processes.
BTW, most web forums provide a way to send someone a "private message", but I can't find one on slashdot. Does/. have a similar facility, or if not, why not?
I'm running 10 hard drives, most of them have been upgraded to 2 GB. The expansion slots are all full, so no more controller cards. I need a *lot* more storage space. (SATA port multipliers look promising, but can't find much in the way of reviews, or actual user experience.) They are just now coming out with 3 TB drives, hopefully the prices will come down in a few months like they usually do. But still way too small, I need more like 100 TB per drive. Those itsy bitsy SSDs might be okay for a laptop (that might get dropped) with insignificant amounts of data, but not for serious amounts of data that needs cost effective storage.
The problem with nukes is that people have this tendendacy to make mistakes. Make a mistake with with a windmill or solar and you might hurt yourself and a co-worker or two. Make a mistake with a nuke and the entire world suffers. After Chernobyl there was radioactive fallout in the continental United States. Go look at a map and see how far away the US is from Chernobyl. And the problem doesn't go away in a few days, either. Germany still has problems from Chernobyl, over 24 years later: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100729-28819.html
Have we learned anything in the last 24 years? BP's problems repairing a simple plumbing leak say no.
> You can't get used to it because you are constantly changing between the two.
I wear glasses virtually all day every day.
Here is an example that is constant: Vision in the eye that had the retina surgically reattached still looks distorted (like looking through textured privacy glass) after a year. Theory is that the retina didn't get reattached smoothly.
The upside-down lens experiment sounds interesting. Maybe my brain just isn't plastic enough.
> Sure it might not be ideal but it's better than not being able to see at all.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be an improvement, I'm just doubting that it would look normal.
> The visual field would soon 'look' fairly normal as neural plasticity > made the peripheral visual system do the job of the central and integrate > that into visual processing. There would be loss of visual and color > acuity since the peripheral retina isn't as densely populated, and had > very little chromatic visual receptors. Within weeks any differences > noted would fade as what's being presented became to seem normal.
I sincerely doubt that. I can't even get used to the "wide angle lens" effect of my eyeglasses. (Changing the focus to correct for myopia changes the magnification.) I would *really* like lenses that correct the focus without changing the magnification.
For the optical wizards out there, what would it take to make eyeglasses that can correct extreme myopia without changing the magnification? Would a multiple element lens be able to do this?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99838367 Adjustable power lenses for $19 ? What's the catch? More distortion or other optical problem? Are they fragile or otherwise not very durable? These sound wonderful as an alternative to bifocals/trifocals/etc. Need to look at something X distance away? Just adjust your glasses as needed.
> The classification as "medical devices" by the FDA is what > attaches the requirement of a prescription.
Why aren't drugstore reading glasses classified as "medical devices"? If you are slightly far-sighted you can get 3 pairs for $10 and the quality is surprising decent. If you are near-sighted you have to spend hundreds of dollars.
The eyephone app thingy sounds useful, (was planning on actually reading TFA ( *gasp* ), but it crashed my browser) but will it check your eyes for health problems? Of course none of my eye doctors ever warned me that I was at high risk for retinal detachment, so maybe the eyephone app would have been just as good? GRUMBLE
Is anyone working on treatments (stem cells, carbon nanotubes, magic fairy dust, whatever...) for repairing a wrinkled retina? (It detached, and the fine surgeon didn't get it reattached smoothly, so that eye is like trying to look through textured privacy glass.)
For the optical wizards out there, what would it take to make eyeglasses that can correct extreme myopia without changing the magnification? Would a multiple element lens be able to do this?
For those of you with extreme myopia, you are at higher risk for retinal detachment. Talk with your eye doctor about getting your retina "spot welded" with a laser to prevent this. You do NOT want your retina to detach!!!
NBC is a free broadcast network. Comcrap is pay cable. How well is comcrap going to support/maintain NBC's broadcasting given that comcrap wants everyone to subscribe to their crappy cable service?
OTA TV is less compressed than cable/satelite, and recording it is legal. MIfiAA lawyers can take a hike.
Yeah, NBC doesn't have much worth watching at the moment, but that stuff goes in cycles, and someday NBC will have great stuff again. Unless comcrap is allowed to destroy NBC forever.
Clear antitrust, but is anyone paying attention? Where is Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
And now for something completely different:
> You couldn't get 90% of voters to oppose Hitler.
Dig out your history books and look up who was running against Hitler. Reminds me of some recent US elections.
My VW has special glass that prevents the interior from heating up and it works *great*. Park the thing on blacktop all day in the hot summer sun and the interior barely gets warm at all. Orders of magnitude more comfortable than cars with regular glass. I assume the glass is low-e although VW didn't describe it as such.
The glass is no darker than normal factory tinted glass. The garage door opener remote works fine.
For those of you whining about the heavy hand of government, there are many far worse problems than requiring decent glass in cars. Many of these problems are discussed in slashdot so you ought to be aware of them.
> we do not have thermostatic regulators on cars that vary > the work of the compressors
Slashdot Mirror
It is actually the lyrics to the Kingsmen version
of the song Louie, Louie. Verse 3 mentions a
"grassy knoll" and something about @!&ABo((~`={{vb
3:42xyzzyZnorFFoo
NO CARRIER
A day or two ago it was reported that the EPA was easing
requirements for mercury emmisions to save money for power
companies. Nice that the EPA is so worried about the CEO's
bonuses. Wish they would do their job and worry about our
health.
We should have a heavy tax on mercury emmisions and use
the proceeds to subsidise windmills and LED lights.
Lighting is very small part of my electricity use.
My eyes don't like fluorescents, and I need to make
my eyes as happy as possible (one emergency eye surgery
is *more* than enough, thank you). I've been converting
some lighting to LEDs. Most of my lights get used very
rarely, so obscessing about the 3 Watt-minutes/year that
they use is silly.
Obscess a bit less about your light bulbs and instead
obscess a bit more about the *big* energy hogs in your life.
Get out of your car and use your bicycle instead. I
haven't bought any gasoline or Diesel in several years.
Insulate your attic, shade your windows in summer,
(awnings reduce the heat load an *amasing* amount!)
upgrade windows if possible. Check the weatherstripping.
>> BTW, news flash for those of you that think google has good anti-spam.
>> They don't. They false positive legit email as spam.
>
> I'm only speaking from my personal experience. I find Google's spam
> filtering to be absolutely top-notch. I only very occasionally get
> false positives in the spam folder,
Putting legit mail in a spam folder is one thing. Not delivering
legit mail at all is quite another, and gmail started doing that
at some point (date forgotten). If the only contact info for
someone you have is an email addr, (and that is common) you're stuck.
Oh, and you can't open a gmail account unless you have a cell phone
that can receive text messages. WTF?
> I've done the personal mail server dance a few times before. It's
> really a lot of work to make sure that your mail gets delivered
> everywhere and to make sure that spam is effectively filtered.
It used to work fine before so many people started the assume-you-
are-a-spammer-until-proved-innocent thing.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but not being able to
contact people is orders of magnitude worse.
>> Web mail SUCKS.
> I think that's subjective.
OK, it is subjective. Web mail is SLOW SLOW SLOW.
Editing is a nightmare. Editing in an emacs text window
and then copy-and-paste into browser window helps, but is
still problematic. Having some company reading your mail
is evil. And you have to copy any info you want to save
back to your own computer bacause who knows when the
webmail will fail.
Webmail is a nice option to have and if you like it great.
But being forced to use it when you hate it sucks.
The discussion here is depressing.
"Get a *real* ISP."
What if there isn't one available?
"Get a business account, not a residential one."
Residential accounts need to send and receive email too.
"Spend more money for some_feature/T1 line/whatever."
Not everyone has Warren Buffet's bank account.
"Use web mail."
Web mail SUCKS.
"Have google handle your email."
And read it and sell you out to everyone.
BTW, news flash for those of you that think google has good
anti-spam. They don't. They false positive legit email
as spam.
"Get a static IP"
Shouldn't matter.
"Residential accounts can't run servers."
a) Why the hell not? server != business
b) *OUT*bound port 25 is a client, not a server.
"You might be a spammer."
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
You guys whine about the TSA thinking you might be a terrorist,
but assuming you are a spammer until proven guilty (or paying
big bucks for some "business" feature) is ok? There is a word
for that: hipocrit.
Yeah the original complaint is about a business, but the problem
is even worse for individuals.
The single line method is evil. It removes choice
from the customer. I want to avoid the cashiers
that insist on putting canned soup on top of
bread and eggs. (and get upset if you start bagging your own)
I avoid stores that use the single line method.
> Everyone who tried to do something useful in APL, put up your hand.
APL is a wonderful language.
> Restricting digital storage to ones and zeros is needlessly polarizing
> and limiting. Why not allow a 0.5 bit value?
Word is the Russians tried to build trinary computers but the
magnetic cores wouldn't stay unmagnetized.
My stupid keyboard has redundant keys for the digits and a few others,
but no Umlaut, no Eszett and no Greek letters. Who designs this crap?
Some things can't even handle plain ASCII. Can anyone explain how
to google for "DVD-RW" or for "DVD+RW" without getting a gazillion
false hits? Google would be *so* much more useful it it handled
regular expressions.
The display on my camcorder is lower resolution than what it actually captures. So I can't tell if I am capturing enough detail to read text or not. A small high resolution display would be wonderful. Lugging around a desktop monitor (and battery and inverter) is not practical.
> And FreeBSD has its own effort for that as well.
Could you point me toward this effort please?
Unix grew up on machines where CPU was nearly
always the bottleneck. But over the years CPUs
have increased in speed more than i/o has, so
now i/o is often the bottleneck.
I am convinced that a process that generates
data faster than a device can sink it will
fill up memory, starving other processes.
BTW, most web forums provide a way to send /. have a similar facility,
someone a "private message", but I can't find
one on slashdot. Does
or if not, why not?
I'm running 10 hard drives, most of them have been
upgraded to 2 GB. The expansion slots are all
full, so no more controller cards. I need a *lot*
more storage space. (SATA port multipliers look
promising, but can't find much in the way of
reviews, or actual user experience.) They are
just now coming out with 3 TB drives, hopefully
the prices will come down in a few months like
they usually do. But still way too small, I need
more like 100 TB per drive. Those itsy bitsy
SSDs might be okay for a laptop (that might get
dropped) with insignificant amounts of data,
but not for serious amounts of data that needs
cost effective storage.
>> Maybe even with the IBM logo added to make that clear
> Either that or they weren't immune to product placement in the 50's
Check out _Ozzie_and_Harriet_ pushing Coke, or
_I_Love_Lucy_ pushing cigarettes.
For most applications, wired mics are better than
wireless. Sometimes the wire is even a feature.
What would Roger Daltrey do with a wireless mic?
The real problem is overpopulation.
What is the FCC's excuse for censorship now that they have killed
off analog TV and thus all TVs have the V-chip?
Even medical education shows have everything blurred out.
Violence is offensive.
American football is violent and therefore offensive.
Janet Jackson is offensive with or without a "costume malfunction".
Nearly everything coming out of a politicion's mouth is offensive,
but they are constantly on the news.
Beam me up, Scotty, the USA has "jumped the shark".
Is anyone working on reverse engineering UVD? :-(
AMD/ATI is really dragging their feet on documenting UVD.
The problem with nukes is that people have this tendendacy to
make mistakes. Make a mistake with with a windmill or solar
and you might hurt yourself and a co-worker or two. Make a
mistake with a nuke and the entire world suffers. After
Chernobyl there was radioactive fallout in the continental
United States. Go look at a map and see how far away the US
is from Chernobyl. And the problem doesn't go away in a few
days, either. Germany still has problems from Chernobyl,
over 24 years later:
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100729-28819.html
Have we learned anything in the last 24 years? BP's
problems repairing a simple plumbing leak say no.
Real operating systems have real jails.
> You can't get used to it because you are constantly changing between the two.
I wear glasses virtually all day every day.
Here is an example that is constant: Vision in the eye that had the retina
surgically reattached still looks distorted (like looking through textured
privacy glass) after a year. Theory is that the retina didn't get reattached
smoothly.
The upside-down lens experiment sounds interesting. Maybe my brain just
isn't plastic enough.
> Sure it might not be ideal but it's better than not being able to see at all.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be an improvement, I'm just doubting that it would
look normal.
> The visual field would soon 'look' fairly normal as neural plasticity
> made the peripheral visual system do the job of the central and integrate
> that into visual processing. There would be loss of visual and color
> acuity since the peripheral retina isn't as densely populated, and had
> very little chromatic visual receptors. Within weeks any differences
> noted would fade as what's being presented became to seem normal.
I sincerely doubt that. I can't even get used to the "wide angle lens"
effect of my eyeglasses. (Changing the focus to correct for myopia
changes the magnification.) I would *really* like lenses that correct
the focus without changing the magnification.
This "donut" thing sounds worse.
For the optical wizards out there, what would it take to make
eyeglasses that can correct extreme myopia without changing
the magnification? Would a multiple element lens be able to
do this?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99838367
Adjustable power lenses for $19 ? What's the catch?
More distortion or other optical problem? Are they fragile
or otherwise not very durable? These sound wonderful as
an alternative to bifocals/trifocals/etc. Need to look
at something X distance away? Just adjust your glasses
as needed.
> The classification as "medical devices" by the FDA is what
> attaches the requirement of a prescription.
Why aren't drugstore reading glasses classified as "medical devices"?
If you are slightly far-sighted you can get 3 pairs for $10 and
the quality is surprising decent. If you are near-sighted you
have to spend hundreds of dollars.
The eyephone app thingy sounds useful, (was planning on actually
reading TFA ( *gasp* ), but it crashed my browser) but will it
check your eyes for health problems? Of course none of my eye
doctors ever warned me that I was at high risk for retinal
detachment, so maybe the eyephone app would have been just as good?
GRUMBLE
"Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:"
At least Facebook admits they aren't cool.
Is anyone working on treatments (stem cells, carbon nanotubes,
magic fairy dust, whatever...) for repairing a wrinkled retina?
(It detached, and the fine surgeon didn't get it reattached smoothly,
so that eye is like trying to look through textured privacy glass.)
For the optical wizards out there, what would it take to make
eyeglasses that can correct extreme myopia without changing
the magnification? Would a multiple element lens be able to
do this?
For those of you with extreme myopia, you are at higher risk for
retinal detachment. Talk with your eye doctor about getting
your retina "spot welded" with a laser to prevent this.
You do NOT want your retina to detach!!!
NBC is a free broadcast network. Comcrap is pay cable.
How well is comcrap going to support/maintain NBC's broadcasting
given that comcrap wants everyone to subscribe to their crappy
cable service?
OTA TV is less compressed than cable/satelite,
and recording it is legal. MIfiAA lawyers can take
a hike.
Yeah, NBC doesn't have much worth watching at the moment,
but that stuff goes in cycles, and someday NBC will have
great stuff again. Unless comcrap is allowed to destroy
NBC forever.
Clear antitrust, but is anyone paying attention? Where
is Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
And now for something completely different:
> You couldn't get 90% of voters to oppose Hitler.
Dig out your history books and look up who was running
against Hitler. Reminds me of some recent US elections.
> whats wrong with sony, samsung, or intel.
Sony: rootkit
Intel: an endless list of bugs and design problems,
fdiv being one of the more infamous.
Samsung: I give up, you tell me.
Reiser has a method for eliminating unwanted bits, but there
is a bug that chroots you inside a jail.
>>> The probability of a hash collision for a 256 bit hash (or even a 128
>>> bit one) is negligible.
Which means idiots will assume that it never happens. In other
news, real estate prices never go down and o-rings on space
shuttles never leak.
>> I run Linux, where's my ZFS?
Upgrade to FreeBSD.
> Log files Log files can only be appended to.
See OpenBSD.
> Managed files Managed files are random-access files managed by a
> database or archive program.
Such a limited view. I have lots of random access files I
maintain with emacs.
My VW has special glass that prevents the interior from
heating up and it works *great*. Park the thing on blacktop
all day in the hot summer sun and the interior barely gets
warm at all. Orders of magnitude more comfortable than cars
with regular glass. I assume the glass is low-e although VW
didn't describe it as such.
The glass is no darker than normal factory tinted glass.
The garage door opener remote works fine.
For those of you whining about the heavy hand of government,
there are many far worse problems than requiring decent
glass in cars. Many of these problems are discussed in
slashdot so you ought to be aware of them.
> we do not have thermostatic regulators on cars that vary
> the work of the compressors
Maybe yours doesn't but mine does.