Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of 1000 3-Megapixel cameras taking pictures of the sky through telescopes, and do that every 3 nights. That's how impressive this project is going to be.
I'd be willing to help process the data if they need a significant supercomputer to make the comparisons to previous nights. Or does comparing 3 Gigapixel images not really put a strain on their computers?
There's nothing wrong in what Rocketship posted, yet the moderators give you a +5? There are multiple examples, some of which Rocketship posted that demonstrate how modern medical knowledge can fail to made proper treatment from either ignoring or misinterpreting evidence. There was evidence since the 1980s that some stomache ulcers are related to a bacterial infection, yet it took decades for that fact to gain widespread acceptance, so that people could be best treated with our medical technology.
I hope you're never sick with a mystery illness like I have been, it's extremely frustrating for doctors to fight over the cause, giving contradictory diagnosis, and never determining what the cause was, despite numerous blood samples, photographic evidence, and tissue evidence as well. It's from personal experience that I can assure you that medical tricorders like the kind you see on Star Trek would be the world's greatest invention. It would make the pathogen deniers blow away like leaves in the Fall. It's not all in someone's head just because there's no definitive test to confirm the person is ill.
I can't give a link to a personal conversation with a Lyme disease sufferer I had. She tried to seek treatment in her home state in the south, but had to travel to another more northern state to get useful help from a doctor. The CDC's recommended antibiotic course is completely inadaquate, since the timeframe for taking the drugs is much too short, as experienced by my friend who had to be on drugs for months before the disease didn't come right back.
There are all sorts of illnesses that doctors refuse to treat because "it doesn't exist in the area". Lyme disease isn't recognized to be in certain states, so doctors there can't or won't diagnose it, lest a political fallout ensue. Of course there are rumours too that Lyme is some engineered bug, and so the CDC doesn't want word that it's widely spread to get around for that reason...
I've seen Taco reply to some threads, but it's very rare. One time I left a comment for one of his that was a bit slashdot mocking in a good natured way, and a mod came along and modded me down for it.
I know libraries can get a 30% discount, and when you renew you pay only 50% of the inital purchase, which lasts for 2 years instead of only 1. Considering AV is more important at the firewall and email filter than the desktop anyway, it's great to save on the desktop install price with AVG.
AVG Admin will save you time. If you use Windows Desktop Protection in the Shared Computer Toolkit, Grisoft will even send you the script for auto-updates when Windows Updates from your WSUS run.
AVG Free edition is ruled out by the licensing which doesn't cover non-home users pretty much. Even libraries are excluded from using it legally.
When even geeks think about nanotechnology they'd think of buckyballs [which can be poisonous], the Borg and assimilation nanites, or carbon nanotube contruction. At least two of those should be regulated by the FDA.
Perhaps my knowledge of Churchill has lead some to believe I know everything about history and Nazi culture. Who is this Godwin people are speaking of?
I was mimicking a meme from fark.com that I saw where someone said that everyone loses once a Hitler analogy pops up. Did I accidentially paraphrase a pro-racist statement or something?
It's a little offtopic, but it bugs me that Word Press blog software will pretend to generate W3C compliant HTML, but there are options all over the place to avoid it. Worse, there's the possibility of breaking the entire webpage, due to an auto-generated bad tag in a single entry. It would be nice if mainstream tools produced only standard code, and made it obvious when someone makes a "non-compliant" site.
It would be very interesting to see how bland, or flashy a complaint site would be.
If they can fake the Bin Laden audio tape(s), then they can fake a black box tape. How many people know what a hijacked plane black box tape sounds like anyway? And now they just have United 93 the movie to copy the audio from. If they do that, people might get suspicious I guess.
I'm teasing about faking the tape, I'll believe it's real. I don't trust the Bin Laden audio tapes though, it doesn't make sense he'd resort to no video unless he's been wounded, or is dead.
Everyone here is assigning their own personal bias to the virus writer's motives.
My bias tells me that the simplest explanation for writing is it often the case. Since it deletes specific files, we can assume that's the intended outcome - to delete files.
Just because McAfee benefits from people losing files doesn't mean they commissioned it. Just because MP3s might be lost doesn't mean the RIAA commissioned it. What we do know is the virus writer is a prick [or pricks], who wanted to delete files. Everything else is just speculation.
Maybe the space aliens wrote it to test our virus defence capability before disabling our Internet?
I clocked your pun doing 110 in a 100 pun zone. If convicted, the punishment is setting VCR clocks in your state, each to within a fraction of a second of each other.
No, the 't' isn't missing, but maybe a comma or elipsise... is. You're technically correct about the who in place of that. I do that on Jeopardy all the time saying, "What is George Washington?" for example.
There's a +5 comment near the top with someone else who had the same experience where email would escalate a situation and a phone call would bring things back to normal.
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Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of 1000 3-Megapixel cameras taking pictures of the sky through telescopes, and do that every 3 nights. That's how impressive this project is going to be.
I'd be willing to help process the data if they need a significant supercomputer to make the comparisons to previous nights. Or does comparing 3 Gigapixel images not really put a strain on their computers?
There's nothing wrong in what Rocketship posted, yet the moderators give you a +5? There are multiple examples, some of which Rocketship posted that demonstrate how modern medical knowledge can fail to made proper treatment from either ignoring or misinterpreting evidence. There was evidence since the 1980s that some stomache ulcers are related to a bacterial infection, yet it took decades for that fact to gain widespread acceptance, so that people could be best treated with our medical technology.
I hope you're never sick with a mystery illness like I have been, it's extremely frustrating for doctors to fight over the cause, giving contradictory diagnosis, and never determining what the cause was, despite numerous blood samples, photographic evidence, and tissue evidence as well. It's from personal experience that I can assure you that medical tricorders like the kind you see on Star Trek would be the world's greatest invention. It would make the pathogen deniers blow away like leaves in the Fall. It's not all in someone's head just because there's no definitive test to confirm the person is ill.
I can't give a link to a personal conversation with a Lyme disease sufferer I had. She tried to seek treatment in her home state in the south, but had to travel to another more northern state to get useful help from a doctor. The CDC's recommended antibiotic course is completely inadaquate, since the timeframe for taking the drugs is much too short, as experienced by my friend who had to be on drugs for months before the disease didn't come right back.
There are all sorts of illnesses that doctors refuse to treat because "it doesn't exist in the area". Lyme disease isn't recognized to be in certain states, so doctors there can't or won't diagnose it, lest a political fallout ensue. Of course there are rumours too that Lyme is some engineered bug, and so the CDC doesn't want word that it's widely spread to get around for that reason...
I've seen Taco reply to some threads, but it's very rare. One time I left a comment for one of his that was a bit slashdot mocking in a good natured way, and a mod came along and modded me down for it.
Dude! First they "May Criminalize IT Prose", but next it'll be IT Poetry!
A System Admin named Jody
Could code in both Perl and in C
But a quote he let slip
In a CGI script
And his output is now all wonky
I know libraries can get a 30% discount, and when you renew you pay only 50% of the inital purchase, which lasts for 2 years instead of only 1. Considering AV is more important at the firewall and email filter than the desktop anyway, it's great to save on the desktop install price with AVG.
AVG Admin will save you time. If you use Windows Desktop Protection in the Shared Computer Toolkit, Grisoft will even send you the script for auto-updates when Windows Updates from your WSUS run.
AVG Free edition is ruled out by the licensing which doesn't cover non-home users pretty much. Even libraries are excluded from using it legally.
And if you see someone doesn't get a joke, it's usually polite to explain it or give a hint as to the source at least.
I think there might be a market for maybe 5 Vista premium enabled computers.
Two words:
Jimmy Hoffa
As long as they pay to have the copy of the private key cut, and don't charge me if I lose the original, I'll go along with it.
I've encountered someone before who wondered why the apes today didn't turn into humans like humans did, if "apes evolved into humans".
The whole common ancestor concept doesn't seem to get through to a lot of the literate population.
You're welcome. Not everything should be measured in 747s, and Library's of Congress you know?
When even geeks think about nanotechnology they'd think of buckyballs [which can be poisonous], the Borg and assimilation nanites, or carbon nanotube contruction. At least two of those should be regulated by the FDA.
If you start inching toward measuring in metric instead, the world will be a better place.
In a discussion involving mention of Churchill's speach about still fighting the Nazis, it's not too surprising though ;-)
Perhaps my knowledge of Churchill has lead some to believe I know everything about history and Nazi culture. Who is this Godwin people are speaking of?
I was mimicking a meme from fark.com that I saw where someone said that everyone loses once a Hitler analogy pops up. Did I accidentially paraphrase a pro-racist statement or something?
So to paraphrase Churchill, we only have about 5 more years left of fighting Microsoft [assuming they are the Nazis]?
OK I've just compared Microsoft to murderers. The debate is over, we all lose.
It's a little offtopic, but it bugs me that Word Press blog software will pretend to generate W3C compliant HTML, but there are options all over the place to avoid it. Worse, there's the possibility of breaking the entire webpage, due to an auto-generated bad tag in a single entry. It would be nice if mainstream tools produced only standard code, and made it obvious when someone makes a "non-compliant" site.
It would be very interesting to see how bland, or flashy a complaint site would be.
DVD menus are a pain. You know they've got to be a pain when their makers bypass them just to make the discs useful.
If they can fake the Bin Laden audio tape(s), then they can fake a black box tape. How many people know what a hijacked plane black box tape sounds like anyway? And now they just have United 93 the movie to copy the audio from. If they do that, people might get suspicious I guess.
I'm teasing about faking the tape, I'll believe it's real. I don't trust the Bin Laden audio tapes though, it doesn't make sense he'd resort to no video unless he's been wounded, or is dead.
Everyone here is assigning their own personal bias to the virus writer's motives.
My bias tells me that the simplest explanation for writing is it often the case. Since it deletes specific files, we can assume that's the intended outcome - to delete files.
Just because McAfee benefits from people losing files doesn't mean they commissioned it.
Just because MP3s might be lost doesn't mean the RIAA commissioned it.
What we do know is the virus writer is a prick [or pricks], who wanted to delete files. Everything else is just speculation.
Maybe the space aliens wrote it to test our virus defence capability before disabling our Internet?
"It's about time!"
I clocked your pun doing 110 in a 100 pun zone. If convicted, the punishment is setting VCR clocks in your state, each to within a fraction of a second of each other.
No, the 't' isn't missing, but maybe a comma or elipsise ... is.
You're technically correct about the who in place of that. I do that on Jeopardy all the time saying, "What is George Washington?" for example.
There's a +5 comment near the top with someone else who had the same experience where email would escalate a situation and a phone call would bring things back to normal.