He wasn't modded down. Roman mir posts so much incoherent schitzophrenic babble that his karma is in the toilet. Look at the moderation (click on the number on a comment to see how it was modded). He's at +1 now with 100% insightful. Moderation worked.
OTOH you should be modded offtopic. Moderation failed on your comment. It wasn't informative, it was incorrect. Mods, please pay attention! If someone's sitting below 1, don't assume he'd been modded down.
It may be possible to create a fabric that doesn't let thermal radiation escape, but lets the air through so convection can cool the wearer
Cooling is the removal of heat. Your air conditioner blows hotter air out its exhaust than it blows cold inside. Either you'll be seen or will get rapidly hot.
Firefighters' gear keeps the firefighters cooler than they would without it because the heat their bodies generate isn't as hot as the surrounding air. Too long in that gear and they suffer from heat exhaustion.
As for your flaimbait at the end, well your and idiot
LOL! I love the irony. Also, I'd have never seen the AC's comment if you guys hadn't pointed to it.
I don't understand why they're so surprised at this. The sun's radiation and magnetic field isn't stationary, why would the position of the heliopause be? Seems to me that an abrupt transition or an evenly distributed transition would be surprising.
It's outrageous that anyone is dropping bug and security fixes for any software that's still in use. I have an old XP box on my home network that I use to digitize LPs and cassettes with. I'm desperately searching for a replacement for EAC that will work in Linux. Audacity won't quite cut it. With EAC I can record the analog, and five minutes later I have a CD.
Unless I find a good replacement I'll have to take the XP box off of the network and use sneakernet to get the music into the network.
When hardware outlasts software, the software is pretty damned shabby. My other tower is the same age and is happily running Linux, and still will be when the hardware wears out.
My car is ten years old, and if there's a safety defect the manufacturer will still fix it for free. Microsoft should keep issuing security updates until nobody is downloading them any more. EOLing a still useful OS is pretty damned sociopathic IMO.
Microsoft makes shoddy products and has terrible EOL policies. I hate Microsoft's products and policies.
And the fix is... Linux! Before you mod me funny, hear me out.
Pick a good Linux distro and install it dual-boot alongside whatever version of Windows you're running. In the installation of most distros you can add a separate partition; do so.
Alternately, you can run FDisk (which will wipe out all data) and make three partitions. Install your current version of Windows in one of them, then W8 on a second, and then install Linux on the third.
When you boot your machine you'll get a menu giving you a choice of (e.g.) Win 7, Win 8, and Linux. Use Win 7 or Linux for normal computing and Win 8 for the W8-only games.
I had an incident with a black SUV with large, armed men a few years ago. All I did wrong was park in front of the wrong house. Scared the hell out of me, afterwards it just pissed me off that my 4th amendment rights were violated when they searched me and my car with no warrant. They didn't bother asking, they just pointed their tasers at me. Coats read SPD, FBI, and the guy in the ski mask (in July!) had a coat that read DEA. And I'm an old white guy, imagine if I was 20 and black.
Really lessened my respect for cops. No, fuck calling them cops, here's a handle from my youth - PIGS.
OT (or maybe not considering we're discussing our loss of civil rights), but considering PRISM your sig is a little backwards. In Soviet USSA, internet logs on to you.
Come to think of it, it is on-topic. The kid wouldn't have been arrested if the Texas KGB hadn't been trolling Facebook for illegal free speech.
I have a cousin who spent ten years in prison for posession; not sure what drug or what amount, but considering your username I'd move to Colorado or Washington State if I were you (possession of small amounts is a civil offense with a small fine here in Springfield). Texas is the closest thing to Singapore the US has when it comes to laws.
Seriously, you should stay out of Texas. Ever heard Uneasy Rider?
There's no way he'll be convicted unless he uses a public defender. He should be able to easily recoup the legal fees once he files suit against the entity that arrested him.
If he plays his cards right he can retire before he's 20. As you noted, this was a gross violation of his civil rights. With the right lawyer, he'll be a rich man when he's grown.
Why would they need wait for you to be online then risk detection by using a backdoor when they can just make a call to facebook, your ISP or your mobile phone network and probably get far more valuable information?
Neither Facebook nor your ISP has any information about your network that you didn't volunteer. Unless you're not smart enough to put a hardware firewall between your modem and router (as well as other measures) they're not going to easily get your private data. Data you give your ISP, facebook, or any other cloud entity isn't private.
If you're putting, say, trade secrets in the cloud you're a fool.
Having the source to your firewall's OS and software is far more important than internal OSes, but code in your OS can "phone home" and let the attacker in to your network, so a closed source OS with network access is still dangerous.
The "humanities" in modern American academia are so fucking orthodox they might as well be called the "government worship department."
Wow, that's sad. It's a complete 180 from how college was in the late seventies. Of course, we'd just gotten out of a very unpopular war, the previous President had resigned in disgrace, and we had recession and inflation at the same time.
However, a few humanities courses wouldn't hurt some slashdotters. I haven't seen any in this thread yet, but some comments make me think the commenter is a high school dropout. "i thought those dog's would loose there mind's." You can't write like that and be taken seriously by anyone with an education.
I also agree with another poster in this thread who said humanities majors should take more math and science. If you haven't gotten a well-rounded education, you're not really educated.
From your link: "At 05:38 GMT on Thursday 23rd May, Ecuadorâ(TM)s first and only satellite collided with the fuel tank of an S14 Soviet rocket, which was launched in 1985."
Yes, there was a collision between Ecuador's satellite (TFA doesn't say how big) but the satellite wasn't the debris, it was the discarded fuel tank that when jettisoned should have been thrown so that it would have come back down that was the debris. But the space junk problem hadn't really come up a quarter century ago. The rest of the article just showed the naming conventions of various satellite sizes.
Give me a link where two functional devices that were actually being used at the time collided. Space junk is a problem, but these de-orbit at EOL, unlike Russian fuel tanks.
Something that small can't, at least after it reaches the atmosphere. These things are, if I read right, about the size of a Rubic Cube. Skylab was just a little bigger. They'll vaporize instantly.
Yes, but how do you know that MS hasn't inserted a nice big back-door for the spooks?
Microsoft wouldn't have to insert a backdoor. NSA spooks could easily infiltrate Microsoft's or any other company's programming staff and put them in themselves.
From a "security" perspective, you'll have to go with an open-source browser -- but even that's not a guarantee.
The haters are free to voice their opinions in their own blogs, where they will too be flamed.
I don't disagree with that. My problem with TFA was it looked like he wanted speech like that outlawed. My site didn't have a messageboard but I got a lot of email, and posted much of it and almost all of the negative mail, which I lampooned on the site.
There are plenty of offline trolls, too. Note some of the comments after the story, that's just how things are.
Excellent quote. I haven't read that book but it looks like he's making a statement about anthropomorphism. All I ever say to my computer (the one with Windows) is FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!! I said the same thing to my car this morning when it wouldn't start.
Hmm, are one of those "You're either for me or against me" types?
No, that's just nonsense. I like KDE, think it's the best desktop environment I've tried and support his work. But the piece read like he wants trolling and fanboying outlawed. He's entitled to his opinion and entitled to express that opinion. There usually are shades of gray, even with censorship. If someone lies about you maliciously you should have recourse. But the only recourse you should have against someone expressing an opinion is to counter it with your own arguments.
we have to defend our values, like freedom and democracy against those that want to take them away. And yes, that also means restricting their freedom of speech.
You don't see the logical disconnect in that sentence? You're saying we have to give up freedoms to be free.
One may grow a thick skin naturally due to the harshness of the environment, however it should never be a requirement to grow a thick skin to get on the internet, or join a video game's forums, or to become a free software developer.
Someone who faints at the sight of blood is unsuited for a job as a paramedic. I have a fear of heights, which makes me unsuited for the job of roofer or window washer. If you have a blog, web site, or join a forum you're going to get flamed. If you can't handle flames, you're unsuited for blogs, forums, or running a web site. It's part of the job description!
This isn't censorship anyway. It's his personal blog.
Tell him, he's the one who spoke of censorship as if flaming and trolling should be illegal.
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He wasn't modded down. Roman mir posts so much incoherent schitzophrenic babble that his karma is in the toilet. Look at the moderation (click on the number on a comment to see how it was modded). He's at +1 now with 100% insightful. Moderation worked.
OTOH you should be modded offtopic. Moderation failed on your comment. It wasn't informative, it was incorrect. Mods, please pay attention! If someone's sitting below 1, don't assume he'd been modded down.
Encrypt your communications
Djl;lk;mckj88 d d ddddja;pdooble!
How's that? The NSA will never know what I said there!
It may be possible to create a fabric that doesn't let thermal radiation escape, but lets the air through so convection can cool the wearer
Cooling is the removal of heat. Your air conditioner blows hotter air out its exhaust than it blows cold inside. Either you'll be seen or will get rapidly hot.
Firefighters' gear keeps the firefighters cooler than they would without it because the heat their bodies generate isn't as hot as the surrounding air. Too long in that gear and they suffer from heat exhaustion.
That's really going to go over well in August. Heat reflective clothing could be deadly.
As for your flaimbait at the end, well your and idiot
LOL! I love the irony. Also, I'd have never seen the AC's comment if you guys hadn't pointed to it.
I don't understand why they're so surprised at this. The sun's radiation and magnetic field isn't stationary, why would the position of the heliopause be? Seems to me that an abrupt transition or an evenly distributed transition would be surprising.
It's outrageous that anyone is dropping bug and security fixes for any software that's still in use. I have an old XP box on my home network that I use to digitize LPs and cassettes with. I'm desperately searching for a replacement for EAC that will work in Linux. Audacity won't quite cut it. With EAC I can record the analog, and five minutes later I have a CD.
Unless I find a good replacement I'll have to take the XP box off of the network and use sneakernet to get the music into the network.
When hardware outlasts software, the software is pretty damned shabby. My other tower is the same age and is happily running Linux, and still will be when the hardware wears out.
My car is ten years old, and if there's a safety defect the manufacturer will still fix it for free. Microsoft should keep issuing security updates until nobody is downloading them any more. EOLing a still useful OS is pretty damned sociopathic IMO.
Microsoft makes shoddy products and has terrible EOL policies. I hate Microsoft's products and policies.
And the fix is... Linux! Before you mod me funny, hear me out.
Pick a good Linux distro and install it dual-boot alongside whatever version of Windows you're running. In the installation of most distros you can add a separate partition; do so.
Alternately, you can run FDisk (which will wipe out all data) and make three partitions. Install your current version of Windows in one of them, then W8 on a second, and then install Linux on the third.
When you boot your machine you'll get a menu giving you a choice of (e.g.) Win 7, Win 8, and Linux. Use Win 7 or Linux for normal computing and Win 8 for the W8-only games.
I had an incident with a black SUV with large, armed men a few years ago. All I did wrong was park in front of the wrong house. Scared the hell out of me, afterwards it just pissed me off that my 4th amendment rights were violated when they searched me and my car with no warrant. They didn't bother asking, they just pointed their tasers at me. Coats read SPD, FBI, and the guy in the ski mask (in July!) had a coat that read DEA. And I'm an old white guy, imagine if I was 20 and black.
Really lessened my respect for cops. No, fuck calling them cops, here's a handle from my youth - PIGS.
OT (or maybe not considering we're discussing our loss of civil rights), but considering PRISM your sig is a little backwards. In Soviet USSA, internet logs on to you.
Come to think of it, it is on-topic. The kid wouldn't have been arrested if the Texas KGB hadn't been trolling Facebook for illegal free speech.
I have a cousin who spent ten years in prison for posession; not sure what drug or what amount, but considering your username I'd move to Colorado or Washington State if I were you (possession of small amounts is a civil offense with a small fine here in Springfield). Texas is the closest thing to Singapore the US has when it comes to laws.
Seriously, you should stay out of Texas. Ever heard Uneasy Rider?
There's no way he'll be convicted unless he uses a public defender. He should be able to easily recoup the legal fees once he files suit against the entity that arrested him.
If he plays his cards right he can retire before he's 20. As you noted, this was a gross violation of his civil rights. With the right lawyer, he'll be a rich man when he's grown.
Why would they need wait for you to be online then risk detection by using a backdoor when they can just make a call to facebook, your ISP or your mobile phone network and probably get far more valuable information?
Neither Facebook nor your ISP has any information about your network that you didn't volunteer. Unless you're not smart enough to put a hardware firewall between your modem and router (as well as other measures) they're not going to easily get your private data. Data you give your ISP, facebook, or any other cloud entity isn't private.
If you're putting, say, trade secrets in the cloud you're a fool.
Having the source to your firewall's OS and software is far more important than internal OSes, but code in your OS can "phone home" and let the attacker in to your network, so a closed source OS with network access is still dangerous.
By the time Google cars get here I'll probably really need one; I'm not getting any younger. I'm looking forward to them, too.
The "humanities" in modern American academia are so fucking orthodox they might as well be called the "government worship department."
Wow, that's sad. It's a complete 180 from how college was in the late seventies. Of course, we'd just gotten out of a very unpopular war, the previous President had resigned in disgrace, and we had recession and inflation at the same time.
However, a few humanities courses wouldn't hurt some slashdotters. I haven't seen any in this thread yet, but some comments make me think the commenter is a high school dropout. "i thought those dog's would loose there mind's." You can't write like that and be taken seriously by anyone with an education.
I also agree with another poster in this thread who said humanities majors should take more math and science. If you haven't gotten a well-rounded education, you're not really educated.
From your link: "At 05:38 GMT on Thursday 23rd May, Ecuadorâ(TM)s first and only satellite collided with the fuel tank of an S14 Soviet rocket, which was launched in 1985."
Yes, there was a collision between Ecuador's satellite (TFA doesn't say how big) but the satellite wasn't the debris, it was the discarded fuel tank that when jettisoned should have been thrown so that it would have come back down that was the debris. But the space junk problem hadn't really come up a quarter century ago. The rest of the article just showed the naming conventions of various satellite sizes.
Give me a link where two functional devices that were actually being used at the time collided. Space junk is a problem, but these de-orbit at EOL, unlike Russian fuel tanks.
LEO can still be hazardous.
Something that small can't, at least after it reaches the atmosphere. These things are, if I read right, about the size of a Rubic Cube. Skylab was just a little bigger. They'll vaporize instantly.
+1 funny, though, and that was a great link.
According to a link another slashdotter provided, these come down after three months.
Since, as others have pointed out, there is no possible way for this to be space junk the comment is not only way overrated but offtopic as well.
I know reading the article is seldom done, but if you're moderating you really should RTFA so you don't mod comments like the above badly.
Yes, but how do you know that MS hasn't inserted a nice big back-door for the spooks?
Microsoft wouldn't have to insert a backdoor. NSA spooks could easily infiltrate Microsoft's or any other company's programming staff and put them in themselves.
From a "security" perspective, you'll have to go with an open-source browser -- but even that's not a guarantee.
Turtles all the way down?
The haters are free to voice their opinions in their own blogs, where they will too be flamed.
I don't disagree with that. My problem with TFA was it looked like he wanted speech like that outlawed. My site didn't have a messageboard but I got a lot of email, and posted much of it and almost all of the negative mail, which I lampooned on the site.
There are plenty of offline trolls, too. Note some of the comments after the story, that's just how things are.
The same with my cats, cats can be trained, too. You just need to know the psychology and instincts of any species of animal to train it.
I don't say "excuse me" I say "Move!" Same thing, English is a foreign language (or second language) to an animal.
Excellent quote. I haven't read that book but it looks like he's making a statement about anthropomorphism. All I ever say to my computer (the one with Windows) is FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!! I said the same thing to my car this morning when it wouldn't start.
Hmm, are one of those "You're either for me or against me" types?
No, that's just nonsense. I like KDE, think it's the best desktop environment I've tried and support his work. But the piece read like he wants trolling and fanboying outlawed. He's entitled to his opinion and entitled to express that opinion. There usually are shades of gray, even with censorship. If someone lies about you maliciously you should have recourse. But the only recourse you should have against someone expressing an opinion is to counter it with your own arguments.
we have to defend our values, like freedom and democracy against those that want to take them away. And yes, that also means restricting their freedom of speech.
You don't see the logical disconnect in that sentence? You're saying we have to give up freedoms to be free.
One may grow a thick skin naturally due to the harshness of the environment, however it should never be a requirement to grow a thick skin to get on the internet, or join a video game's forums, or to become a free software developer.
Someone who faints at the sight of blood is unsuited for a job as a paramedic. I have a fear of heights, which makes me unsuited for the job of roofer or window washer. If you have a blog, web site, or join a forum you're going to get flamed. If you can't handle flames, you're unsuited for blogs, forums, or running a web site. It's part of the job description!
This isn't censorship anyway. It's his personal blog.
Tell him, he's the one who spoke of censorship as if flaming and trolling should be illegal.