Percentage of paid search results makes this at least mildly intesting.
(mildly offtopic): Has anyone else noticed that when you click on a link in gmail, a new window opens entitled 'wyciwyg'? (before redirecting you to the link)
*heh* What you click is what you get! If only there was some way (that didn't involve liberal beatings) of getting that into your average user's brain!
And if the spam breaks open many years too soon (whoa-ho-ho) and if there is no room on my hard drive (whoa-hoa-hooooo) and if your head explodes with scam site search results too, I'll see you on the dark side of Paid Search (whooooaaaooo - hoooo whooaaaa-oh!)
This doesn't help the fact that playing a first person shooter with one one hand is a bad idea. You'd still need a hand free to like, you know, reload?
Perhaps they need to find a market segment that has a need to have a free hand whilst using a computer?
Please, never link to a transcript of (what I hope was a podcast, because it wasn't good enough for radio) again. I didn't (couldn't) read the linked article, so I'm just going to comment on the summary.
Data that sensitive in those sort of quantities should be encrypted. Triwest as a health care provider should know that.
It's unclear how the story & the headline relate (as the headline is laptops, and the story appears to be about hard drives), but laptops should not have sensitive data in the clear on them. Either access it through a secure VPN or (if net access is unavailable), keep it on truecrypt or similar.
Sure, data theft is still possible, but taking a few simple precautions wills stop cheap hardware theft ballooning into a PR/security nightmare.
In software however, I've seen a lot of the reverse: Apple's stuff working better because it uses the "bazaar" model, as opposed to MS's "cathedral".
Dear God Man!
If Raymond read that, he would die, bury himself & start spinning.
From wikipedia (as ESR is a nutcase & I won't link to his new book).
* The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of developers. GNU Emacs and GCC are presented as examples. * The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. He also provides anecdotal accounts of his implementation of this model for the fetchmail project.
Both Apple & MS follow cathedral models - what you're thinking of is a unixy 'lots of useful little bits you can string together' vs 'big monoloithic and single use' models.
Sure we don't know if it cell phone towers cause cancer, but would you move your family into a house where one is in your yard?;)
I'd happily move my family into such a house (there's no way in Hell I'd be moving there tho';)
Seriously - I've worked in a building with a cell phone mast on the roof & a repeater on every floor. I imagine most slashdotters who've worked in a tall building would have as well.
which strangely coincides with the implementation of Telstra's 3G network, which of course would require an increase in the power and radiation coming from the towers.
3g requires a tower upgrade - was that tower upgraded?
So when your ass in on fire, do you run for water when you smell the smoke ? Or do you wait until you can feel the flames ? Maybe you should go work there for a few years and show us how much of a non-issue this is.
Your comment appears to be of the same sentiment as this one, so please just read my reply to that.
Perhaps read the whole thread before commenting (flaming?) next time.
Unless I've missed the threat of 'caterpillars' crawling the internet (consuming all resources.:-)
Anyway, back on topic - wouldn't it be easier for MS to simply write more secure software? It's rather disheartening to hear their response to the deluge of malware is a classification program.
Welcome to Slashdot, where electrical engineers, or people who think of it as a hobby, will swear backwards and forwards that they know and understand every effect of radiation.
So if you worked in that building, and seven of your coworkers suddenly got brain tumors at the same time, you'd have no worries at all, eh?
Of course I would be worried - I would be worried about the building however, not the phone mast. I've just been reading the forums attached to the story and there's a few interesting comments in there - notably this one:
I would suggest that regardless of any link between mobile phone towers and cancer, a far more likely cause is toxic contamination of the building.
Anybody who has taken a good look inside the RMIT building in question should be able to plainly that the building is unsafe in many ways.
People may remember the floods and resultant evacuations that occurred at a city RMIT campus last year. Two floods, one cold water, another of near boiling water months later. This is the same building.
The safety (or lack thereof) of the wiring and electrics in the same building is also very disturbing.
Any student need only look beneath the desks in the computer rooms to get an idea.
I think RMIT must investigate ALL possible causes of these brain tumors.
It seems very controvertial as to whether mobile phone towers could cause any health-risks, and whilst I agree that it is impossible to say that these towers are safe, surely this building at RMIT with a mere two low power phone towers wouldn't be the first detected incidence of this in the melbourne CBD.
However, it is well known that there are toxins which are highly carcinogenic. It would be prudent to do a broad panel of tests for mutagenic & teratogenic toxins in this building as part of the investigation.
Australian Medical Association president Mukesh Haikerwal said there was no proof of a connection but "if you get clusters of disease it's sensible to investigate."
Dr John Gall, from private health company Southern Medical Services, which has been called in to assess the sick, said last night three of those affected had tumours showing symptoms consistent with radiation.
But he said there was no causal link with the building based on preliminary observations.
There you have it - three people with symptoms consistent with radiation exposure, so the Union demands the building is shut down, the link to the telephone tower is made & people panic.
Most likely is that the affected people were doing something together out of hours (after all, people who work together, often also play together). It's quite possible (after all, the IT in RMIT stands for Institute of Technology), that they were all building a home made breeder reactor
In short, the only danger mobile towers hold, is when the fuckwit in the SUV doesn't see me on my bicycle, because he's too busy chatting to drive. (seriously, every time I've felt threatened, its been someone chatting on a cell phone)
Why doesn't diebold just use the same security system it uses on its ATMs? After all (quoting):
Sygate defends your ATM with multiple layers of security:
First, the system locks down all electronic points of entry - making them invisible to hackers, viruses, and worms.
Next, it monitors, analyzes, and authenticates any external source attempting to connect to the ATM- and blocks anything the software doesn't recognize.
Failing that, they should just use the blue force shields that feature prominently in their Digital Security Videohahahaha - as long as your attacker is using little yellow balls to stage their attack.
Maybe an algae scoop on a river could generate enough energy to pump water through pipes (cutting down on evaporation) while increasing the total amount of usable water.
A great idea! Or even a portable version - that could be driven to wherever there is a problem bloom, to clean that waterway!
Of course you're quite welcome to have a different take on it!
Thanks - I do:-)
The API in windows is a bit hard to get to, so a lot of people don't use it!
I think translucency can be useful in a windowing envionment can be good when it's used well. I'd like to see larger mice pointers that are translucent, sometimes I can't see the trash properly when I'm dragging large items into it - would be nice if the items were translucent.
Also - I sometimes run a music player that likes to sit on top of all other windows - would be good for that to be translucent too....
Of course, if you're looking for a tiling window manager, you wouldn't be as interested in transulcency as most people, as it's main strength is for overlapping windows...
As Australia consumes 50 billion litres of oil yearly, and this plant produces 1 million litres of oil yearly, I'd say you're going to need a lot of waterways clogged with algae!
On a side note - I believe the Australian waterways are clogged with blue-green algaes? (The same neon-blue blooms you see in many US waterways). It's a big problem - but I'm not sure blue green algaes are suitable for this method of biodiesel production.
How much is that compared to the oil consumption of New Zealand? How many of those factories would be needed to be independent of crude oil and would that be feasible?
NZ consumes around 151,900 blue barrels a day that's around 8815 million litres a year. So this plant will be able to provide around 0.01% of NZ's fuel.
But, there is going to be no single replacement for fossil fuels, there's going to be many (and this is just the first plant).
As well as creating diesel from waste products, the process cleans water:
Creating fuel from the algae removes the problem while producing useful clean water, said Mr Leay. The clean water can then be used for stock food, irrigation and, if treated properly, for human consumption.
In spite of this, I'm sure a million slashdotters are going to bleat about this not solving the fuel crisis, giving us their back of napkin calculations that show you'll need to cover the entire surface of the united states with algae ponds to replace fossil fuels, etc.
Remember folks - there is not going to be a single replacement for fossil fuels, but many (and lets not forget the other half of the equation - reducing our energy consumption).
Nice simple clean theme unified across KDE & Gnome, the install, the boot screen, partition manager, etc. They all look the same & really pretty nice.
Good job Suse!
Oh - and this release includes XGL - if anyone wants to have a look at what it looks like - check out this video (I think it's Suse 10, but with lots of extra's included in 10.1) - man it looks nice!
Here's a quote from the article that seems almost tailor written for you:
Those weaned on an Ayn Rand kind of individualism aren't likely to appreciate the debt they owe to the American labor movement, or why restoring it to health is in their interests, too. Until the ax falls; then they understand. I've known talented people who have lost their jobs with little more than a shrug. The shrugging usually stops, however, when finding a comparable job proves more difficult than they ever imagined.
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...get something you didn't bargain for.
Really, is this even remotely news?
Percentage of paid search results makes this at least mildly intesting.
(mildly offtopic): Has anyone else noticed that when you click on a link in gmail, a new window opens entitled 'wyciwyg'? (before redirecting you to the link)
*heh* What you click is what you get! If only there was some way (that didn't involve liberal beatings) of getting that into your average user's brain!
And if the spam breaks open many years too soon (whoa-ho-ho)
and if there is no room on my hard drive (whoa-hoa-hooooo)
and if your head explodes with scam site search results too,
I'll see you on the dark side of Paid Search (whooooaaaooo - hoooo whooaaaa-oh!)
This doesn't help the fact that playing a first person shooter with one one hand is a bad idea. You'd still need a hand free to like, you know, reload?
Perhaps they need to find a market segment that has a need to have a free hand whilst using a computer?
Please, never link to a transcript of (what I hope was a podcast, because it wasn't good enough for radio) again. I didn't (couldn't) read the linked article, so I'm just going to comment on the summary.
Data that sensitive in those sort of quantities should be encrypted. Triwest as a health care provider should know that.
It's unclear how the story & the headline relate (as the headline is laptops, and the story appears to be about hard drives), but laptops should not have sensitive data in the clear on them. Either access it through a secure VPN or (if net access is unavailable), keep it on truecrypt or similar.
Sure, data theft is still possible, but taking a few simple precautions wills stop cheap hardware theft ballooning into a PR/security nightmare.
Dear God Man!
If Raymond read that, he would die, bury himself & start spinning.
From wikipedia (as ESR is a nutcase & I won't link to his new book).Both Apple & MS follow cathedral models - what you're thinking of is a unixy 'lots of useful little bits you can string together' vs 'big monoloithic and single use' models.
Sure we don't know if it cell phone towers cause cancer, but would you move your family into a house where one is in your yard? ;)
;)
I'd happily move my family into such a house (there's no way in Hell I'd be moving there tho'
Seriously - I've worked in a building with a cell phone mast on the roof & a repeater on every floor. I imagine most slashdotters who've worked in a tall building would have as well.
which strangely coincides with the implementation of Telstra's 3G network, which of course would require an increase in the power and radiation coming from the towers.
3g requires a tower upgrade - was that tower upgraded?
So when your ass in on fire, do you run for water when you smell the smoke ? Or do you wait until you can feel the flames ? Maybe you should go work there for a few years and show us how much of a non-issue this is.
Your comment appears to be of the same sentiment as this one, so please just read my reply to that.
Perhaps read the whole thread before commenting (flaming?) next time.
An inchworm is a caterpillar.
(Offtopic warning!)
:-)
That eweek's "malware icon" (just like slashdot's malware icon has a picture of something that's not a worm.
Unless I've missed the threat of 'caterpillars' crawling the internet (consuming all resources.
Anyway, back on topic - wouldn't it be easier for MS to simply write more secure software? It's rather disheartening to hear their response to the deluge of malware is a classification program.
Welcome to Slashdot, where electrical engineers, or people who think of it as a hobby, will swear backwards and forwards that they know and understand every effect of radiation.
Errr right, maybe I just listen to the expert's opinion.
Of course I would be worried - I would be worried about the building however, not the phone mast. I've just been reading the forums attached to the story and there's a few interesting comments in there - notably this one:
They didn't just say 'link'.
Read the related article (from the same website) for a more complete picture.
Most likely is that the affected people were doing something together out of hours (after all, people who work together, often also play together). It's quite possible (after all, the IT in RMIT stands for Institute of Technology), that they were all building a home made breeder reactor
In short, the only danger mobile towers hold, is when the fuckwit in the SUV doesn't see me on my bicycle, because he's too busy chatting to drive. (seriously, every time I've felt threatened, its been someone chatting on a cell phone)
Maybe an algae scoop on a river could generate enough energy to pump water through pipes (cutting down on evaporation) while increasing the total amount of usable water.
A great idea! Or even a portable version - that could be driven to wherever there is a problem bloom, to clean that waterway!
Of course you're quite welcome to have a different take on it!
:-)
Thanks - I do
The API in windows is a bit hard to get to, so a lot of people don't use it!
I think translucency can be useful in a windowing envionment can be good when it's used well. I'd like to see larger mice pointers that are translucent, sometimes I can't see the trash properly when I'm dragging large items into it - would be nice if the items were translucent.
Also - I sometimes run a music player that likes to sit on top of all other windows - would be good for that to be translucent too....
Of course, if you're looking for a tiling window manager, you wouldn't be as interested in transulcency as most people, as it's main strength is for overlapping windows...
As Australia consumes 50 billion litres of oil yearly, and this plant produces 1 million litres of oil yearly, I'd say you're going to need a lot of waterways clogged with algae!
On a side note - I believe the Australian waterways are clogged with blue-green algaes? (The same neon-blue blooms you see in many US waterways). It's a big problem - but I'm not sure blue green algaes are suitable for this method of biodiesel production.
How much is that compared to the oil consumption of New Zealand? How many of those factories would be needed to be independent of crude oil and would that be feasible?
NZ consumes around 151,900 blue barrels a day that's around 8815 million litres a year. So this plant will be able to provide around 0.01% of NZ's fuel.
But, there is going to be no single replacement for fossil fuels, there's going to be many (and this is just the first plant).
I wish Aquaflow Bionomics Corporation's home page was a little more professional looking, but this is most certainly good news!
Remember folks - there is not going to be a single replacement for fossil fuels, but many (and lets not forget the other half of the equation - reducing our energy consumption).
what makes it all worth is that it apparently offers Exposé functionality.
Yup - that is the most immediately useful functionality!
But I disagree with you that Alpha transparency isn't useful - it's just that it's does not do anything useful in Windows.
Wow. How incredibly underwhelming. All the other bugs in linux must be fixed, huh?
I guess you posted as AC 'cause you knew how terribly ignorant you were going to look hey?
This is looking great!
Nice simple clean theme unified across KDE & Gnome, the install, the boot screen, partition manager, etc. They all look the same & really pretty nice.
Good job Suse!
Oh - and this release includes XGL - if anyone wants to have a look at what it looks like - check out this video (I think it's Suse 10, but with lots of extra's included in 10.1) - man it looks nice!
That it's not okay to speak out against the values of the culture you are in?
Somebody mod this guy down!!!
That deserves a +5 funny (or even insightful).
A slashdot would dot all the dots a slashdot could dot if a slashdot could dot dots.
I believe that should be:
A slashdot would dot all the slashes a slashdot could dot if a slashdot could dot slashes.
(I believe thats correct anyway)