Yeah the parent definitely worded that poorly. But still, when you put warm water at the bottom of the lake in a closed system, you're going to bleed off all its heat into the normally cold water. So the cold water at the bottom becomes warm, and presumably rises to the surface (or at least transfers it heat to more surround water...imnafd I am not a fluid dynamicist). Either way you're warming up that low cold water, which is as the parent's parent's parent says, may lead to CO2 release and kill fish or sailors or something.
I recently downloaded Windows from MSDNAA (my university gives us free copies of XP). They have XP with SP1a already installed that they let you download as an ISO. So yeah, it doesn't make sense that they ship computers without these things. Back in the NT 4.0 days, they always shipped a new computer with the latest service pack CD.
Still XP1a didn't help much. I installed it on one of my computers a few weeks ago. Keep in mind that the computer is behind two home firewalls (a Mac with connection sharing (the only other computer on that lan) -> a dlink firewall -> interweb). After installing, I immediately went to update.microsoft.com and installed all the patches, so I touched msn.com for a second. After doing that a couple of times (a couple of reboots for assorted stupid updates), I went directly to mozilla.org/firefox in IE, and downloaded firefox. I only used IE to visit those three sites (msn.com, windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and mozilla.org). In firefox, I downloaded adaware and there were already 3 nasty registry entries and one trojan/spyware installed. Where the heck did they come from?
After all, if I take some source code from an OSS project and cut n' paste it into my closed source app, how would you ever know?
Well, if I compiled the code with the same C compiler as you (or even not, I imagine many compilers roll out loops in the same way into machine code), there would be a big chunk of the binary that was exactly the same. That would be one giveaway...I believe this happened with some open source sound app a couple of years ago, perhaps someone remembers the details?
Actually Trek does (sort of). The alien picture is one of the aliens from TOS. I don't know TOS very well, but I think it was a pretty early one with Pike in it.
wouldn't a giant lens be the ideal arson tool? Since it leaves no chemical evidence, there's nothing to really tie it to the arsonist. Of course, the trouble is that you have to burn everything in broad daylight, when everyone can see you...
As yet another mathematician who enjoys rock climbing, I can attest to this. I've talked to a lot of climbers and the love seems pretty consistent -- normally we think about whatever we do (medicine, math, physics) all the time. It's like our brains just don't stop. Climbing is the only way to get a mental reset. When you're hanging on a cliff, pretty much all you can think about is your next move. Professional and research stuff goes right out the window.
I guess it's a bit like meditation for non-religious people.
Kayakers probably experience similar a similar mental state. Any water rec people reading?
The first exhibit to go in should be this one, entitled "Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass."
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This photo looks more like your lens just didn't let in enough light, so your camera automatically dropped the shutter speed. Probably you couldn't hold it perfectly still during the longer exposure and schlorp, blurred photo. Having an optical zoom would only make things worse, as the lens lets in less light when zoomed in.
This probably won't work, and history tells us why: Apple suffered terribly when it started licensing mac clones. ION "clones" already exist in the form of x86 boxen everywhere.
Had Power Computing and all those mac clone companies existed before Apple, I doubt even Apple would have gotten off the ground...by extension...
"Their interview with USGS Yellowstone scientists covers all the angles and should inspire the mad-hatters to find something else to fear (for now)."
The trouble is, conspiracy theorists don't operate rationally. A conspiracy theorist would simply say "the scientists were paid off/faked the report/are covering it up." It's a government conspiracy, after all, and we all know that the "real" government has unlimited resources with which to rule the world (secretly) with an iron fist.
Debunking a conspiracy theorist is about as easy as solving the meaning of life.
Is a zone just a stripped-down virtual machine? This doesn't seem to be answered too well, but that's what it looks like.
VMs are bad, if only because the I/O performance takes an obvious hit. Any attacker worth his/her salt would be able to tell that they're logged into a VM with a little experimentation...so this thing's use as an effective honeypot is pretty much (against a smart attacker).
I was about to say the same thing. The US military planning to attack the actual enemy is somewhat unheard of in this day and age. This could be a paradigm shift in the way pre-emptive strikes operate...
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Yeah the parent definitely worded that poorly. But still, when you put warm water at the bottom of the lake in a closed system, you're going to bleed off all its heat into the normally cold water. So the cold water at the bottom becomes warm, and presumably rises to the surface (or at least transfers it heat to more surround water...imnafd I am not a fluid dynamicist). Either way you're warming up that low cold water, which is as the parent's parent's parent says, may lead to CO2 release and kill fish or sailors or something.
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I recently downloaded Windows from MSDNAA (my university gives us free copies of XP). They have XP with SP1a already installed that they let you download as an ISO. So yeah, it doesn't make sense that they ship computers without these things. Back in the NT 4.0 days, they always shipped a new computer with the latest service pack CD.
Still XP1a didn't help much. I installed it on one of my computers a few weeks ago. Keep in mind that the computer is behind two home firewalls (a Mac with connection sharing (the only other computer on that lan) -> a dlink firewall -> interweb). After installing, I immediately went to update.microsoft.com and installed all the patches, so I touched msn.com for a second. After doing that a couple of times (a couple of reboots for assorted stupid updates), I went directly to mozilla.org/firefox in IE, and downloaded firefox. I only used IE to visit those three sites (msn.com, windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and mozilla.org). In firefox, I downloaded adaware and there were already 3 nasty registry entries and one trojan/spyware installed. Where the heck did they come from?
After all, if I take some source code from an OSS project and cut n' paste it into my closed source app, how would you ever know?
Well, if I compiled the code with the same C compiler as you (or even not, I imagine many compilers roll out loops in the same way into machine code), there would be a big chunk of the binary that was exactly the same. That would be one giveaway...I believe this happened with some open source sound app a couple of years ago, perhaps someone remembers the details?
Google for porn and you get over 8 million hits, buy playboy for google and you get only one issue.
I'd put my money on google...
So how many PDP-11's can you run on a Pentium 4 anyhow?
How about a beowulf cluster of PDP-11s?
Note that this does not mean that they are replacing IE with FireFox.
They don't have to...I already have...
Thank you thank you, you are quite right.
Actually Trek does (sort of). The alien picture is one of the aliens from TOS. I don't know TOS very well, but I think it was a pretty early one with Pike in it.
I'm on a mac, too, and the links work just fine :).
What version of Windows Media Player do you have? 9.0 works well on my ibook...
I put up a mirror of the videos as well.
s /b52/.
http://www.readingfordummies.com/Permanent/mirror
wouldn't a giant lens be the ideal arson tool? Since it leaves no chemical evidence, there's nothing to really tie it to the arsonist.
Of course, the trouble is that you have to burn everything in broad daylight, when everyone can see you...
Um, you linked to a 12 year old newsgroup flamewar? How is this a mirror of AST's latest argument (unless this is still his latest argument :)).
As yet another mathematician who enjoys rock climbing, I can attest to this. I've talked to a lot of climbers and the love seems pretty consistent -- normally we think about whatever we do (medicine, math, physics) all the time. It's like our brains just don't stop. Climbing is the only way to get a mental reset. When you're hanging on a cliff, pretty much all you can think about is your next move. Professional and research stuff goes right out the window.
I guess it's a bit like meditation for non-religious people.
Kayakers probably experience similar a similar mental state. Any water rec people reading?
True, but the posters in the thread may wish to cut it SHORT.
The first exhibit to go in should be this one, entitled "Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass."
This photo looks more like your lens just didn't let in enough light, so your camera automatically dropped the shutter speed. Probably you couldn't hold it perfectly still during the longer exposure and schlorp, blurred photo. Having an optical zoom would only make things worse, as the lens lets in less light when zoomed in.
This probably won't work, and history tells us why: Apple suffered terribly when it started licensing mac clones. ION "clones" already exist in the form of x86 boxen everywhere.
Had Power Computing and all those mac clone companies existed before Apple, I doubt even Apple would have gotten off the ground...by extension...
I'm not a chimp, but !
cost overruns of over $200 million and four CIO's in seven years
So do they get a big tax write-off this year or what?
*badum ching*
their little internal communication system that they have working at their office that functions like the badge communicators from ST:TNG
Those were the communicators that you sometimes had to tap to talk, and sometimes didn't, right?
Boy oh boy this is going to get people into trouble...
"Their interview with USGS Yellowstone scientists covers all the angles and should inspire the mad-hatters to find something else to fear (for now)."
The trouble is, conspiracy theorists don't operate rationally. A conspiracy theorist would simply say "the scientists were paid off/faked the report/are covering it up." It's a government conspiracy, after all, and we all know that the "real" government has unlimited resources with which to rule the world (secretly) with an iron fist.
Debunking a conspiracy theorist is about as easy as solving the meaning of life.
Whoah. Looking at this page reminds me of Capt. Mandrake from Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove."
Purity of Essence. Peace on earth.
Is a zone just a stripped-down virtual machine? This doesn't seem to be answered too well, but that's what it looks like.
VMs are bad, if only because the I/O performance takes an obvious hit. Any attacker worth his/her salt would be able to tell that they're logged into a VM with a little experimentation...so this thing's use as an effective honeypot is pretty much (against a smart attacker).
I was about to say the same thing. The US military planning to attack the actual enemy is somewhat unheard of in this day and age. This could be a paradigm shift in the way pre-emptive strikes operate...