Yes and no. To a large extent you are correct, things like Chlorine are damaging enough that cells aren't going to adapt to it, they'd be wiped out due to the damage they do to all portions of the cell.
However, over use of disinfectants does have some serious issues associated with it. For example, not only do you wipe out the relatively few bacteria that are a problem, but you also wipe out the much larger number of bacteria which are harmless. The ones that actually help by competing for resources with the more dangerous strains. And you're also not giving the body the exposure to bacteria which is really necessary to maintain a healthy immune system.
But the last thing is that if you're not careful what you're using as a disinfectant you can actually spread resistant bacteria around rather than wipe them out. While things like bleach do a great job, you have to be careful just in general do to the health risks associated.
As opposed to when the U.S. government keeps out of it and we get the world's best health care at an affordable price? Wait, you say that it's actually way down on the list for quality and is far more costly than pretty much anybody else's? Hmm, yeah, better keep government out, we might get some of that socialism and corporate responsibility I keep hearing about.
Having an opinion, no. Complaining about the poor quality of the government, yes. If you aren't voting then you've no right to complain about the actions of the elected officials since you're abdicating your responsibility to others. If you don't like their decision, you've got nobody to blame but yourself for not participating.
Of course nothing has changed, you still have the Republicans scaring the crap out of people to prevent the government from doing things which don't favor corporations or the upper class. Combine that with the millions of imbeciles that vote for fascism and there you go.
It's a really sweet gig being a Republican, you get elected on an anti-government platform you sabotage things going through your committees then when things fail you rail against the incompetence of government and how your opponent doesn't have enough American flags. Then when people finally figure you out, you just move out of your office and into some lobbying firm.
Yeah, I know I'll be modded to hell, but like it or not, that's how the Republican party works. Makes you wonder if they ever do anything that is in the interest of the people they're supposed to be representing.
It really depends upon how it is that they do it, but at the end of the day open access points aren't any more the cause of infringement than ones that one pays for. At any rate people shouldn't have truly open access points to begin with. I know that with PF you can set things up to redirect to a log in page that has them agree to the rules. You could always require they put some form of identification in which should get you off the hook for making it anonymous. Unless the new requirements would require an ID check. Which I'm sure there's some reasonable way of dealing with.
This is mostly just an excuse to shake people down for their change than actually fight any kind of real problem.
Have you any idea how insecure it is to access the bios via ethernet? It's hard enough keeping things secured when a box is internet connected, but allowing people to set the bios options and early boot process stuff via ethernet is absolutely insane and an incredibly warm invitation to crackers. And if it doesn't allow you to do that then it's more or less useless as a replacement for a serial console anyways.
I might be missing something, but that's not an adequate substitution. The point of a serial console is for when something goes wrong and for some reason the configuration is broken. In situations like that a web interface doesn't do you a damned bit of good because you can't access the box directly via the internet. Watchdog hardware or remote reboot hardware can get the box back up, but without a good serial console you're not likely to be able to fix the problem without being there.
With a serial console you can have one box hooked up to quite a few other ones to deal with that problem indirectly. It's not ever going to be phased out in the manner you're suggesting, it will however at some point be replaced with something that works in a similar fashion. But the real question is how long until the bios and early functions of the computer be access via some other sort of connection.
I think that means that it logs into itself at times to do things you might do. Think of how revolutionary that really is. Perhaps next we can get a server that plays solitaire for you while you're away from the server room.
You can do that, but you've just given up most of the advantage to ARM. In general we should be moving away from the x86 architecture, it's kind of kludgy and includes workarounds for things which haven't really been necessary for over a decade. The only reason why there's a debate is that there's a huge code base that requires emulation when moved to ARM.
I'm confused, you want to buy one, but the seller shouldn't profit. Last I checked the OLPC laptops were pretty much only being sold to schools or donated. For a while you could buy two and donate one if you wanted to have one. But right now you pretty much have to buy one via ebay if you want to have one for yourself.
Eh, you must be knew here. That's how fascism works. You trick people into voting for these sorts of morons by scaring the crap out of them by theoreticals and what ifs. Then you do whatever you need to to do to take their rights.
That's not true, Microsoft works very hard. Just not at making quality products or fixing bugs. In fact, the last time I saw them do any work, they were trying to lift their huge paychecks.
Indeed, from what I gather it's mostly the magic ability to freeride on somebody else's network that makes it magic. It's easy to be that cheap when you can get somebody else to pay most of the costs involved. I've been wondering for a while how long they'll be allowed to keep selling their devices.
It deserves it in certain areas, but you're right over all it is better than the US system. It's just that for emergency care and heavy duty operations type care a lot of Canadians end up crossing into the US to have that work done. Doesn't mean that the Canadian system sucks, it just means that it isn't as good as ours in that one area. The better access to preventative and routine care, I'm sure more than makes up for it.
You're essentially right on that. The alternative is doing something crazy like joining a quality union. I know that the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) for instance most of their skilled jobs require the employer to pick up the tab for all the health care premiums. But in general it's a crap shoot if you're not in the other first world nations right now. Sure they tax you more heavily, but the likelihood of falling through the cracks is significantly lower than in the US. (OK, not entirely true, France for instance has a huge number of out of work immigrants.)
I've seen that, but it generally results from a misunderstanding of the rules perpetuated by white supremacist groups, and Republicans. It's not that minorities can't be racist or that women can't be sexist, it's that there's less harm resulting when a minority engages in it than when somebody in the majority does. (Although that doesn't really explain women since they make up the majority of eligible voters and vote down their own interests anyways)
Ageism against the young is particularly heinous in this period because even as tuition is going up and support is going down, there's increased competition from people that would've retired had they behaved responsibly previously and had most of the defined benefit pensions not been phased out via deregulation. I'm sorry, but chances are that if you're hitting retirement age and realizing that you can't afford it that it's your own damned fault for not planning ahead. The youth shouldn't have to sacrifice their future because you didn't do any retirement planning.
Sure you can, smoking isn't illegal, but the taxes on it are more or less as much as it costs to produce and sell. Likewise it isn't illegal to make mistakes as a doctor, but doing so can get you sued for massive amounts of money.
But your ignorant rant about federal crimes and how obviously the government shouldn't be getting involved to make sure that private businesses maintain things like airplanes is well placed as well.
My advice, go back to wherever you come from and educate yourself. The answer usually is to get the government involved because there's a lot of idiots out there like you that support fascism and oppose regulation needed to deal with corporate malfeasance and irresponsibility.
The problem tends to be network based software as much as the particular browser in place. I use a browser based application at work. It runs fine with recent versions of IE, except that since it's running over the internet, it's not particularly secure and when the box handling the internet connection goes down, we don't have access to the program. A serious pain in the ass, but not as bad as for some other companies.
The people that develop the software do as good a job as can be expected, but at the end of the day if the people making the purchasing decisions don't have a clue about things like security and redundancy you're screwed pretty much whatever they buy.
Depending upon the product that might very well be a savvy move. Since they're also the ones that are technically inept enough to probably sue when they don't understand the units of measure used for HDD and such.
Well, if it's your company then you've got a point. But if you're like the vast majority of web developers, you're being paid to create a site to somebody else's specifications. Meaning that if they want IE6 support then you're either going to do it or be fired. That's forced for all intents and purposes. Sure they might not literally hold a gun to your head, but they're definitely forcing the issue.
It's fine until somebody uses an exploit in IE to steal millions of sales records. The problem really isn't so much IE6 as the failure of the government and courts to come down hard on companies that behave in such an irresponsible fashion. Sure no platform is perfect, but some are known to be insecure to the point where it shouldn't be used at all.
Except he's right, in fact we should go a few steps further and get rid of Flash on other platforms for similar reasons. It's buggy, slow, wastes power and isn't available on all platforms. To make matters worse it's typically used for things where javascript and other technologies work just fine.
You're point stands, but the resolution and size dictate how far away you sit. 11" is probably just about right for watching HD TV on like a bus or a train, just not for in home viewing. More of a mismarketing than anything else.
Because it's not a subscription it's included with the game. And the makers of Autocad got smacked recently for trying to stop people from selling Autocad on the second hand market. This is just greed pure and simple, companies have gotten used to being able to get away with this sort of shit because the DoJ over the last decade or so hasn't been doing their job when it comes to markets.
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Yes and no. To a large extent you are correct, things like Chlorine are damaging enough that cells aren't going to adapt to it, they'd be wiped out due to the damage they do to all portions of the cell.
However, over use of disinfectants does have some serious issues associated with it. For example, not only do you wipe out the relatively few bacteria that are a problem, but you also wipe out the much larger number of bacteria which are harmless. The ones that actually help by competing for resources with the more dangerous strains. And you're also not giving the body the exposure to bacteria which is really necessary to maintain a healthy immune system.
But the last thing is that if you're not careful what you're using as a disinfectant you can actually spread resistant bacteria around rather than wipe them out. While things like bleach do a great job, you have to be careful just in general do to the health risks associated.
As opposed to when the U.S. government keeps out of it and we get the world's best health care at an affordable price? Wait, you say that it's actually way down on the list for quality and is far more costly than pretty much anybody else's? Hmm, yeah, better keep government out, we might get some of that socialism and corporate responsibility I keep hearing about.
Having an opinion, no. Complaining about the poor quality of the government, yes. If you aren't voting then you've no right to complain about the actions of the elected officials since you're abdicating your responsibility to others. If you don't like their decision, you've got nobody to blame but yourself for not participating.
Of course nothing has changed, you still have the Republicans scaring the crap out of people to prevent the government from doing things which don't favor corporations or the upper class. Combine that with the millions of imbeciles that vote for fascism and there you go.
It's a really sweet gig being a Republican, you get elected on an anti-government platform you sabotage things going through your committees then when things fail you rail against the incompetence of government and how your opponent doesn't have enough American flags. Then when people finally figure you out, you just move out of your office and into some lobbying firm.
Yeah, I know I'll be modded to hell, but like it or not, that's how the Republican party works. Makes you wonder if they ever do anything that is in the interest of the people they're supposed to be representing.
It really depends upon how it is that they do it, but at the end of the day open access points aren't any more the cause of infringement than ones that one pays for. At any rate people shouldn't have truly open access points to begin with. I know that with PF you can set things up to redirect to a log in page that has them agree to the rules. You could always require they put some form of identification in which should get you off the hook for making it anonymous. Unless the new requirements would require an ID check. Which I'm sure there's some reasonable way of dealing with.
This is mostly just an excuse to shake people down for their change than actually fight any kind of real problem.
Have you any idea how insecure it is to access the bios via ethernet? It's hard enough keeping things secured when a box is internet connected, but allowing people to set the bios options and early boot process stuff via ethernet is absolutely insane and an incredibly warm invitation to crackers. And if it doesn't allow you to do that then it's more or less useless as a replacement for a serial console anyways.
I might be missing something, but that's not an adequate substitution. The point of a serial console is for when something goes wrong and for some reason the configuration is broken. In situations like that a web interface doesn't do you a damned bit of good because you can't access the box directly via the internet. Watchdog hardware or remote reboot hardware can get the box back up, but without a good serial console you're not likely to be able to fix the problem without being there.
With a serial console you can have one box hooked up to quite a few other ones to deal with that problem indirectly. It's not ever going to be phased out in the manner you're suggesting, it will however at some point be replaced with something that works in a similar fashion. But the real question is how long until the bios and early functions of the computer be access via some other sort of connection.
I think that means that it logs into itself at times to do things you might do. Think of how revolutionary that really is. Perhaps next we can get a server that plays solitaire for you while you're away from the server room.
You can do that, but you've just given up most of the advantage to ARM. In general we should be moving away from the x86 architecture, it's kind of kludgy and includes workarounds for things which haven't really been necessary for over a decade. The only reason why there's a debate is that there's a huge code base that requires emulation when moved to ARM.
I'm confused, you want to buy one, but the seller shouldn't profit. Last I checked the OLPC laptops were pretty much only being sold to schools or donated. For a while you could buy two and donate one if you wanted to have one. But right now you pretty much have to buy one via ebay if you want to have one for yourself.
Eh, you must be knew here. That's how fascism works. You trick people into voting for these sorts of morons by scaring the crap out of them by theoreticals and what ifs. Then you do whatever you need to to do to take their rights.
That's not true, Microsoft works very hard. Just not at making quality products or fixing bugs. In fact, the last time I saw them do any work, they were trying to lift their huge paychecks.
Indeed, from what I gather it's mostly the magic ability to freeride on somebody else's network that makes it magic. It's easy to be that cheap when you can get somebody else to pay most of the costs involved. I've been wondering for a while how long they'll be allowed to keep selling their devices.
You forgot about not reading the article no matter how brief.
It deserves it in certain areas, but you're right over all it is better than the US system. It's just that for emergency care and heavy duty operations type care a lot of Canadians end up crossing into the US to have that work done. Doesn't mean that the Canadian system sucks, it just means that it isn't as good as ours in that one area. The better access to preventative and routine care, I'm sure more than makes up for it.
You're essentially right on that. The alternative is doing something crazy like joining a quality union. I know that the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) for instance most of their skilled jobs require the employer to pick up the tab for all the health care premiums. But in general it's a crap shoot if you're not in the other first world nations right now. Sure they tax you more heavily, but the likelihood of falling through the cracks is significantly lower than in the US. (OK, not entirely true, France for instance has a huge number of out of work immigrants.)
I've seen that, but it generally results from a misunderstanding of the rules perpetuated by white supremacist groups, and Republicans. It's not that minorities can't be racist or that women can't be sexist, it's that there's less harm resulting when a minority engages in it than when somebody in the majority does. (Although that doesn't really explain women since they make up the majority of eligible voters and vote down their own interests anyways)
Ageism against the young is particularly heinous in this period because even as tuition is going up and support is going down, there's increased competition from people that would've retired had they behaved responsibly previously and had most of the defined benefit pensions not been phased out via deregulation. I'm sorry, but chances are that if you're hitting retirement age and realizing that you can't afford it that it's your own damned fault for not planning ahead. The youth shouldn't have to sacrifice their future because you didn't do any retirement planning.
Sure you can, smoking isn't illegal, but the taxes on it are more or less as much as it costs to produce and sell. Likewise it isn't illegal to make mistakes as a doctor, but doing so can get you sued for massive amounts of money.
But your ignorant rant about federal crimes and how obviously the government shouldn't be getting involved to make sure that private businesses maintain things like airplanes is well placed as well.
My advice, go back to wherever you come from and educate yourself. The answer usually is to get the government involved because there's a lot of idiots out there like you that support fascism and oppose regulation needed to deal with corporate malfeasance and irresponsibility.
The problem tends to be network based software as much as the particular browser in place. I use a browser based application at work. It runs fine with recent versions of IE, except that since it's running over the internet, it's not particularly secure and when the box handling the internet connection goes down, we don't have access to the program. A serious pain in the ass, but not as bad as for some other companies.
The people that develop the software do as good a job as can be expected, but at the end of the day if the people making the purchasing decisions don't have a clue about things like security and redundancy you're screwed pretty much whatever they buy.
Depending upon the product that might very well be a savvy move. Since they're also the ones that are technically inept enough to probably sue when they don't understand the units of measure used for HDD and such.
Well, if it's your company then you've got a point. But if you're like the vast majority of web developers, you're being paid to create a site to somebody else's specifications. Meaning that if they want IE6 support then you're either going to do it or be fired. That's forced for all intents and purposes. Sure they might not literally hold a gun to your head, but they're definitely forcing the issue.
It's fine until somebody uses an exploit in IE to steal millions of sales records. The problem really isn't so much IE6 as the failure of the government and courts to come down hard on companies that behave in such an irresponsible fashion. Sure no platform is perfect, but some are known to be insecure to the point where it shouldn't be used at all.
Except he's right, in fact we should go a few steps further and get rid of Flash on other platforms for similar reasons. It's buggy, slow, wastes power and isn't available on all platforms. To make matters worse it's typically used for things where javascript and other technologies work just fine.
You're point stands, but the resolution and size dictate how far away you sit. 11" is probably just about right for watching HD TV on like a bus or a train, just not for in home viewing. More of a mismarketing than anything else.
Because it's not a subscription it's included with the game. And the makers of Autocad got smacked recently for trying to stop people from selling Autocad on the second hand market. This is just greed pure and simple, companies have gotten used to being able to get away with this sort of shit because the DoJ over the last decade or so hasn't been doing their job when it comes to markets.