The ingredients of a one gram tube of Oscillococcinum are listed as:
Active ingredient: Anas Barbariae Hepatis et Cordis Extractum (extract of Muscovy Duck liver and heart) 200CK HPUS 1x10-400g
Inactive ingredient: 0.85 g sucrose, 0.15 g lactose
The 200CK indicates that the preparation entails a series of 200 dilutions of the starting ingredient, an extract from the heart and liver of a Muscovy Duck. Each step entails a 1:100 dilution, where the first mixture contains 1% of the extract, the second contains 1% of the first mixture, etc. The K indicates that it is prepared by the Korsakovian method, in which rather than 1% of the preparation being measured out at each stage and then diluted, a single vessel is repeatedly emptied, refilled, and succussed, and it is assumed that 1% remains in the vessel each time. Chemically, it is essentially impossible that the final pill will contain any of the original extract (although as with other homeopathic treatments, it is argued that it is not the presence of the molecules of these ingredients that provide the therapeutic value)
In other words the reviewer is right. It is only a sugar pill. You can calculate for yourself how likely it is that a tube of this "medicine" contains a molecule of the active ingredient.
My company has been trying to upgrade to IE7 from IE6 for almost a year and a half (we wait for other people to have problems first). But we've been held back by our ERP system: SAP. For similar reasons we're stuck with IE for the majority of users - too many systems only work correctly with IE. Retarded.
Most home users (not the ones usually seen here) don't even seem to apply "Critical" M$FT security patches so I'm not holding my breath for them to install a whole new browser.
I have been following "new" energy for years. Every "new" energy story is a mystery novel with the last half removed.
1. Big announcement.
2. Impressive Demo.
4. Denunciation by "mainstream science" (Second Law of Thermodynamics, etc explained again)
5. ????
6. Never hear anything else about it ever again good or bad.
But what happens between 2 and 4??? I need to know!
I always roll my eyes when I hear someone complain about nmap "crashing a system". This should be common sense. If the target crashed simply from being nmapped or scanned from the outside - the target is obviously a turd of a system.
Hey! Shouldn't that be example is obviously a turd of a system?
The basic rule of any con is that "You can't cheat an honest person". Greed and the mark's belief that they are somehow beating the scammer drive the mark's behaviour. Stupidity doesn't necessarily come into it.
But she was definitely stupid to ignore *everyone's* advice. I feel sorry for her husband.
Pretty much everything you see or hear in today's media-saturated world is a "mind control device".
In Koresh's case all the FBI would need to do is somehow plant a wireless loudspeaker on the roof of his compound - to deliver instructions in a suitably "God-like" voice.
A buddy who works at T-Mobile (in corporate) confirmed that their first batch was already pre-sold before the release date. So you *could* line up to buy one but you'd be standing outside the store for a month. It seems that they actually underestimated demand; and exacerbated the problem by selling a big chunk to employees...
My point is that Holson is missing a lot of background information.
Restores/recovery are. I really feel sorry for 1165473 - he/she is stuck in a tough spot. The only advice I can offer is that he/she needs to do some calculations to demonstrate the cost to the business of rebuilding/re-acquiring data.
Another poster mentioned creating a paper trail: that's nice but blatant ass-covering won't make any friends or influence decision-makers. Highlighting the risk, with a valid assessment of the potential loss to the business, and presenting various solutions (at different price points) would help the business owners/managers make a reasoned decision.
Not only are you covering your ass but offering solutions - which you as a sysadmin are best placed to recommend.
It sounds like a lot of meaningless paperwork but the business owners need to understand the objective risk to the business and the cost associated with recovery vs the cost of various solutions. Here's a chance for you to exercise your ingenuity, creativity and sysadmin skills - and demonstrate your value and commitment to the business.
I have no idea what type of fingerprint scanner is used in the Dell and Sony laptops but the more sophisticated scanners read fingerprint below the surface layers; so copying latent prints usually doesn't work. For example: http://www.authentec.com/technology.html
I have no connection with these guys. YMMV etc etc.
Plus FW allows daisy-chaining of devices; and IMO performs better during multiple large file transfers. Eg I can play my music at the same time as editing DV and backing up data from one device to another: my Mac takes no CPU hit and the FW keeps the data flow smooth so nothing stutters or locks up. I love FW.
As for the "There's only *one* FW 800 port on the MBP!" complaints: you can daisy-chain; and you can also connect FW400 devices to a FW800 port with the appropriate cable - so I don't think it's an issue.
I really hope that the next iteration of the Mac Mini still has FW.
Gun laws do not prevent felons from using guns to commit crimes. They do, however, mean that felons who use guns to commit further crimes get to stay in prison for much longer because of having violated those gun laws in addition to whatever crime they committed with the gun. That's what this law is about. It won't keep some perv from using mailnator to set up a myspace page, but if they get caught trolling myspace with it, the fact that they didn't register their e-mail address means that they get a longer prison sentence. That's the whole point.
If it's easier to prove that a specific offender is using an unregistered email address than it is to prove that a specific offender committed a sex crime then maybe this law's helpful. But as probably everyone here knows it's pretty damned hard to tie a random hotmail/yahoo/gmail account to an individual.
Otherwise I just don't see the point of this law. The honest offenders won't have access to the sites. The dishonest offenders won't be visible until a serious crime is committed.
The contention that this law allows longer sentencing doesn't make any sense: don't procedures already exist for setting Federal sentencing guidelines eg "three strikes"? So why introduce more legislation?
In my opinion this is useless marketing fluff and really won't protect children in any meaningful way.
No it is not. You have exchanged your privacy for the service provided; or you have exchanged your attention (ads) for the service.
It may not cost you cash but you are paying for the service.
Mr Beckerman's time is not valueless, and sadly human cloning is still not possible so he's also a finite resource. These RIAA asshats are clearly aiming to distract him from the fine work he does. If he's too busy fighting on his own behalf they'll remove one of their biggest threats. Their strategy is sound.
I'm reminded of the adage that a person who represents themself in court has a "fool for a client". Is this a case where someone like the ACLU or EFF could help Mr Beckerman? Maybe he will need to hire a lawyer to handle this nonsense so he can continue fighting the good fight? If the latter is the case then maybe it's time for/. to tangibly show support: with cash for a Beckerman defense fund. Does anyone know how to set that up?
I wasted a lot of cycles on this goddamned ad. The only reason I watched it was because I was intrigued by the idea that this was to counter the "I'm a Mac" ads. (Which incidentally I find appealing.)
I too was scratching my head and saying "WTF?".
The only explanation I had for this bizarre ad was this: later in the series of ads we're going to be told that Macs are "one size fits all"; but beautiful, delicious Vista fits *you* - like a beautiful, delicious pleather Conquistador shoe (in size 10) with flexible soles but strong, resilient uppers.
I hope I'm wrong - because that would make this the cheesiest waste of time and money ever.
BTW - some people have bitched about Seinfeld doing the ad. Why shouldn't he? He's an actor FFS.
Wrong - it is not a fair comparison. Maybe you'd compare a BMW Z8 to a Ford Taurus?
The poster gave a comparison between a simple $20 low-end feature-free 'phone and a sophisticated $600 smartphone.
Perhaps a comparison to a high-end Windows Mobile or CE device; or a high-end Nokia smartphone would be better.
I am not counting "styling" (including the size of the Mac mini, the smooth white case on the Macbook, etc). Just function. Styling too often has negative value (eg, the Mac mini doesn't even provide enough power from USB to charge an iPod Shuffle).
My Mini - unmodded except increased RAM and higher-capacity, faster HDD - is able to simultaneously charge my iPod Nano and power an external bus-powered 120GB USB HDD. I'm surprised that you're struggling with your Shuffle.
Furthermore, form factor is a function. I needed a small, silent, unobtrusive HTPC with bluetooth and firewire - Mac Mini is perfect for me. Some competitors have arisen since I bought my Mini - but since it's working fine I'm not in the market. (It ain't broke so I'm not fixing it.)
Although I admit that the daisy-chain of Firewire drives somewhat negates the smallness of the Mini...
And make sure it's printed in the most curlicued, flourished, Gothic, barely-readable font. Preferably one that's not amenable to OCR. Use the faintest, fastest print setting and use cheap toner.
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The ingredients of a one gram tube of Oscillococcinum are listed as: Active ingredient: Anas Barbariae Hepatis et Cordis Extractum (extract of Muscovy Duck liver and heart) 200CK HPUS 1x10-400g Inactive ingredient: 0.85 g sucrose, 0.15 g lactose The 200CK indicates that the preparation entails a series of 200 dilutions of the starting ingredient, an extract from the heart and liver of a Muscovy Duck. Each step entails a 1:100 dilution, where the first mixture contains 1% of the extract, the second contains 1% of the first mixture, etc. The K indicates that it is prepared by the Korsakovian method, in which rather than 1% of the preparation being measured out at each stage and then diluted, a single vessel is repeatedly emptied, refilled, and succussed, and it is assumed that 1% remains in the vessel each time. Chemically, it is essentially impossible that the final pill will contain any of the original extract (although as with other homeopathic treatments, it is argued that it is not the presence of the molecules of these ingredients that provide the therapeutic value)
In other words the reviewer is right. It is only a sugar pill. You can calculate for yourself how likely it is that a tube of this "medicine" contains a molecule of the active ingredient.
I'll be happy to jab you with needles until you can't feel any pain. Plus I'll undercut those thieving "body piercers".
My company has been trying to upgrade to IE7 from IE6 for almost a year and a half (we wait for other people to have problems first). But we've been held back by our ERP system: SAP. For similar reasons we're stuck with IE for the majority of users - too many systems only work correctly with IE. Retarded.
Most home users (not the ones usually seen here) don't even seem to apply "Critical" M$FT security patches so I'm not holding my breath for them to install a whole new browser.
I believe XP does have the "Disk Layout task" which runs when the System is Idle. This process is not a defrag but might be confused with defragging.
I couldn't find a good explanation/reference but this article from MSFT gives an overview:
Windows XP does not enter standby after the exact period that is configured in the Power Options profile
Also:
Benchmarking on Windows XP
(look in the section entitled "General Concepts: The Dynamic Nature of Windows XP")
I have been following "new" energy for years. Every "new" energy story is a mystery novel with the last half removed.
1. Big announcement.
2. Impressive Demo.
4. Denunciation by "mainstream science" (Second Law of Thermodynamics, etc explained again)
5. ????
6. Never hear anything else about it ever again good or bad.
But what happens between 2 and 4??? I need to know!
I always roll my eyes when I hear someone complain about nmap "crashing a system". This should be common sense. If the target crashed simply from being nmapped or scanned from the outside - the target is obviously a turd of a system.
Hey! Shouldn't that be example is obviously a turd of a system?
I *really* wanted to mod this "Informative" but I'm afraid that the secret descendants of the Hashshashin would kill me for revealing the truth.
The basic rule of any con is that "You can't cheat an honest person". Greed and the mark's belief that they are somehow beating the scammer drive the mark's behaviour. Stupidity doesn't necessarily come into it.
But she was definitely stupid to ignore *everyone's* advice. I feel sorry for her husband.
Pretty much everything you see or hear in today's media-saturated world is a "mind control device".
In Koresh's case all the FBI would need to do is somehow plant a wireless loudspeaker on the roof of his compound - to deliver instructions in a suitably "God-like" voice.
Post your 'phone number on /. - I'm sure one or two people would be willing to send a message when the results are called.
Isn't it obvious: some parts are mostly transparent; others are nearly opaque. Hence almost completely translucent.
A buddy who works at T-Mobile (in corporate) confirmed that their first batch was already pre-sold before the release date. So you *could* line up to buy one but you'd be standing outside the store for a month. It seems that they actually underestimated demand; and exacerbated the problem by selling a big chunk to employees...
My point is that Holson is missing a lot of background information.
Backups are not important to anyone.
Restores/recovery are. I really feel sorry for 1165473 - he/she is stuck in a tough spot. The only advice I can offer is that he/she needs to do some calculations to demonstrate the cost to the business of rebuilding/re-acquiring data.
Another poster mentioned creating a paper trail: that's nice but blatant ass-covering won't make any friends or influence decision-makers. Highlighting the risk, with a valid assessment of the potential loss to the business, and presenting various solutions (at different price points) would help the business owners/managers make a reasoned decision.
Not only are you covering your ass but offering solutions - which you as a sysadmin are best placed to recommend.
It sounds like a lot of meaningless paperwork but the business owners need to understand the objective risk to the business and the cost associated with recovery vs the cost of various solutions. Here's a chance for you to exercise your ingenuity, creativity and sysadmin skills - and demonstrate your value and commitment to the business.
I have no idea what type of fingerprint scanner is used in the Dell and Sony laptops but the more sophisticated scanners read fingerprint below the surface layers; so copying latent prints usually doesn't work. For example: http://www.authentec.com/technology.html
I have no connection with these guys. YMMV etc etc.
Plus FW allows daisy-chaining of devices; and IMO performs better during multiple large file transfers. Eg I can play my music at the same time as editing DV and backing up data from one device to another: my Mac takes no CPU hit and the FW keeps the data flow smooth so nothing stutters or locks up. I love FW.
As for the "There's only *one* FW 800 port on the MBP!" complaints: you can daisy-chain; and you can also connect FW400 devices to a FW800 port with the appropriate cable - so I don't think it's an issue.
I really hope that the next iteration of the Mac Mini still has FW.
Gun laws do not prevent felons from using guns to commit crimes. They do, however, mean that felons who use guns to commit further crimes get to stay in prison for much longer because of having violated those gun laws in addition to whatever crime they committed with the gun. That's what this law is about. It won't keep some perv from using mailnator to set up a myspace page, but if they get caught trolling myspace with it, the fact that they didn't register their e-mail address means that they get a longer prison sentence. That's the whole point.
If it's easier to prove that a specific offender is using an unregistered email address than it is to prove that a specific offender committed a sex crime then maybe this law's helpful. But as probably everyone here knows it's pretty damned hard to tie a random hotmail/yahoo/gmail account to an individual.
Otherwise I just don't see the point of this law. The honest offenders won't have access to the sites. The dishonest offenders won't be visible until a serious crime is committed.
The contention that this law allows longer sentencing doesn't make any sense: don't procedures already exist for setting Federal sentencing guidelines eg "three strikes"? So why introduce more legislation?
In my opinion this is useless marketing fluff and really won't protect children in any meaningful way.
Right now all the "cloud computing" I do is free:
No it is not. You have exchanged your privacy for the service provided; or you have exchanged your attention (ads) for the service.
It may not cost you cash but you are paying for the service.
Maybe this is the UID that got sold in the auction. http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1524206
Mr Beckerman's time is not valueless, and sadly human cloning is still not possible so he's also a finite resource. These RIAA asshats are clearly aiming to distract him from the fine work he does. If he's too busy fighting on his own behalf they'll remove one of their biggest threats. Their strategy is sound.
/. to tangibly show support: with cash for a Beckerman defense fund. Does anyone know how to set that up?
I'm reminded of the adage that a person who represents themself in court has a "fool for a client". Is this a case where someone like the ACLU or EFF could help Mr Beckerman? Maybe he will need to hire a lawyer to handle this nonsense so he can continue fighting the good fight? If the latter is the case then maybe it's time for
Goatse.cx of course.
I wasted a lot of cycles on this goddamned ad. The only reason I watched it was because I was intrigued by the idea that this was to counter the "I'm a Mac" ads. (Which incidentally I find appealing.)
I too was scratching my head and saying "WTF?".
The only explanation I had for this bizarre ad was this: later in the series of ads we're going to be told that Macs are "one size fits all"; but beautiful, delicious Vista fits *you* - like a beautiful, delicious pleather Conquistador shoe (in size 10) with flexible soles but strong, resilient uppers.
I hope I'm wrong - because that would make this the cheesiest waste of time and money ever.
BTW - some people have bitched about Seinfeld doing the ad. Why shouldn't he? He's an actor FFS.
Wrong - it is not a fair comparison. Maybe you'd compare a BMW Z8 to a Ford Taurus?
The poster gave a comparison between a simple $20 low-end feature-free 'phone and a sophisticated $600 smartphone.
Perhaps a comparison to a high-end Windows Mobile or CE device; or a high-end Nokia smartphone would be better.
I am not counting "styling" (including the size of the Mac mini, the smooth white case on the Macbook, etc). Just function. Styling too often has negative value (eg, the Mac mini doesn't even provide enough power from USB to charge an iPod Shuffle).
My Mini - unmodded except increased RAM and higher-capacity, faster HDD - is able to simultaneously charge my iPod Nano and power an external bus-powered 120GB USB HDD. I'm surprised that you're struggling with your Shuffle.
Furthermore, form factor is a function. I needed a small, silent, unobtrusive HTPC with bluetooth and firewire - Mac Mini is perfect for me. Some competitors have arisen since I bought my Mini - but since it's working fine I'm not in the market. (It ain't broke so I'm not fixing it.)
Although I admit that the daisy-chain of Firewire drives somewhat negates the smallness of the Mini...
And make sure it's printed in the most curlicued, flourished, Gothic, barely-readable font. Preferably one that's not amenable to OCR. Use the faintest, fastest print setting and use cheap toner.