Thanks buddy. I will set it up so that, each of us use different profiles. Also I vaguely recall there is a cmdline arg to the start command that will set the title of the top level window. Thus we can identify which instance of Firefox is whose. It will be a great relief, not having to look at the twenty tabs of fanfiction.com she leaves behind.
After seeing the comments and took a real look at iGoogle. I was quite suspicious about the whole iGoogle thingie, because first time I clicked on something it gave some ominous warning about things not created by Google, so I never took a serious look at it. I will give it a try. Thanks for the dope.
She has a low privilege account without root privilege. For simple browsing I dont bother logging her out and logging me in. This is from the family room "public" laptop of the house.
My daughter discovered this infernal thing called iGoogle, something exactly like a yahoo portal customized from her google/gmail account. Every time she forgets to log out, I am presented with that garish thing. I have to go and reset it to "classic" interface. Dont know if it is a google project or someone trying to crash Google's party. Like that thing seenonslash.com trying to live on the reflected glory of slashdot.
Even if the claim is true, we are just transferring the problem from how life originated on Earth? to How life originated in the universe?.
Please before you mod me troll, listen. The Theory of evolution does not explain the origin of life, just the origin of species. Most folk who believe in things like ID (I= intelligent or idiotic depending on your perspective) confuse the issue and attack science. Let us not make the same mistake on the science side. Even the most ardent supporters of the Theory of evolution, like Dawkins, have only proposed very tentative speculation about the origin of life. They readily admit that right now science does not have any definitive theories about the Origin of Life.
This has nothing to do with evolution. Let us keep the discussions straight.
I am also a proud employee, but you would never catch me editing public postings about my company in wiki or posting in stock message boards from the workplace . Geez, why cant the dimwits go home and then do their corporate skulduggery? These nincompoops bring bad name to all of us.
Slashdotters, please tell me how I should edit this posting and make it disappear? If you don't want to post details publicly, please send me an email, to adrian.smith@r.congman.third.district.nebraska.us , thanks a bunch.
... if that strain of genetically fudged bacteria escapes into the wild and undergoes some more unexpected mutations... And should this thing meet the wild grass that has gained immunity from Round UP by cross fertilization between Roundup-Ready-Corn... That would be quite interesting, to put it mildly.
In a late breaking development,Microsoft announced the creation of a new Open International Committee for Information Technology. Microsoft spokesman affirmed the commitment of Microsoft for providing choice for its customers. Mr Toungei N Cheek said, "We have always promoted the idea of choice for the customers. They should be able to choose between multiple standards. But we realized we were all supporting the standards issued by a single international agency. We decided we need choice there too. So the customers will be able choose between multiple standards from multiple agencies. To provide for consistency and reliability the customers should use just a single vendor, us. Apart from that all these standards and standard creating agencies are just so many bullet points for the dumb CIOs and Pointy Haired Bosses to justify continuing to send billions of dollars to Redmond. So let us see it in the proper perspective."
Well, they can clone an iPhone or whatever. Already bugs and security holes are being found in iPhone. And AAPL would fix it and a security patch will be issued. Who is fixing bugs in the iClone? What if it lets people intercept the calls? Who is going to make the repairs? Suddenly when it dies with all your contacts and music and files, you think iChina is going to be there? Half the value AAPL provides is not in the iPhone.
It is known as the Aquatic Ape Theory. The mainstream anthropological view is that it is not correct. I still think most objections would disappear if you postulate partially aquatic near fresh water lakes instead of 100% aquatic life in salt water. But still, intriguing as it is, and as much as I would like to believe it is correct, the AAH (they have demoted it from theory to hypothesis) is not the current mainstream view.
Vaguely recall Dawkins or Diamond talking about optimal genetic distance. If too close deleterious mutations wreak havoc. Too far, beneficial mutations do not gain hold and they get lost in the noise, so to speak. They defined genetic distance as the fraction of genes likely to be common between two individuals.
Distance between parent and child is 0.5, between siblings is 0.5
between an individual and his/her nephew nieces grandkids is 0.25
Distance between first cousins, 0.125, second cousins 1/32 etc
They mentioned the optimal distance to be between 1/8 and 1/32.
We need something like a NoScript extension to Firefox to java plug in itself. The websites tell Firefox how to render the site. But an extension like AdBlock or NoScript or Flashblock intervene and tells FireFox not to render it. Similarly an applet might request a pop up window, but (my imagined) java-extension would cut in and say, "no you dont get to call System Model, sorry buddy". Is it possible to get a JRE that supports such extensions to the plug ins?
You know, if preserving genetic diversity and variation is really important, there is nothing like endogamous marriages. Marriages between parallel cousins. Marriage between the offspring of two brothers (or two sisters) would be called parallel cousin endogamous marriages. The cross cousin marriages (between offspring of a brother and his sister) is sometimes called endo but some dispute it and say it is exo. But is the genetic diversity brought about by such marriages worth it?
Please forgive me for asking a dumb question. Is it possible to set up permissions so that applets launched by the browsers do not have the ability to use "system modal"?
First please realize I am no MSFT fanboi, I have been extremely critical of that company in my previous postings.
MSFT should try to fix the bug that is crashing IE, because crashes in IE have a tendency to become a remote execution bug later. But still, no point in bashing MSFT on this issue. Browsers crashing on malformed input is well known. Firefox, my fav and only browser, too crashes often on malformed input. There is this thing called fuzzing, sending deliberately malformed input to the browser and see what happens. Firefox used to crash more often than IE under fuzzing. Now they provide fuzzing tools for their testers to strengthen mozilla products.
...colonies. So many industries destroyed in so many colonies. Weaving, spinning yarn, farmed dyes, local foundries all destroyed in the Indian sub continent, (India+Pakistan+Afghanistan+Bangaladesh+Sri Lanka+Burma). Farmers abandoning food crops to favor cash crop creating famines... London commodity traders who had knowledge about the entire world production statistics, but local farmers were farming/producing blind...
The Industrial revolution was accompanied by untold misery to the world.
Next year unhealthy people will be forced to eat tofu and yogurt 24/7/365 (they can anything they want on Feb 29 once in four years) till their BMI drops below 25.
And dont forget negative refractive index materials for the lens. Is it real or imaginary. From what little I remember, refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in a medium and the speed in vacuum. Negative index means, negative speed of light? Speed is not a vector. How does one get negative speed?
Reminds me of the brilliant proof for the existence of perpetual motion machines, that assumes a magnetic monopole.
I don't, I have a preteen kid. Among my friends almost nobody uses the V-chip. Infact half of them dont even know their TV has the V-Chip. And those who know find it a pain to set up thresholds and remember the password. The only person I know who knows how to use the V-Chip is my brother's 10 year old son. He is a remarkably curious boy who reads all the manuals and figures out things mainly to annoy the adults. He would set the V-chip threshold very low (or high, I dont know the parlance) and make his mom scream, in a strange mixture of admiration and admonition, "You make the TV play Law-and-Order now or I am going to ground you for a week!" and the boy would laugh and giggle.
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Thanks buddy. I will set it up so that, each of us use different profiles. Also I vaguely recall there is a cmdline arg to the start command that will set the title of the top level window. Thus we can identify which instance of Firefox is whose. It will be a great relief, not having to look at the twenty tabs of fanfiction.com she leaves behind.
After seeing the comments and took a real look at iGoogle. I was quite suspicious about the whole iGoogle thingie, because first time I clicked on something it gave some ominous warning about things not created by Google, so I never took a serious look at it. I will give it a try. Thanks for the dope.
She has a low privilege account without root privilege. For simple browsing I dont bother logging her out and logging me in. This is from the family room "public" laptop of the house.
My daughter discovered this infernal thing called iGoogle, something exactly like a yahoo portal customized from her google/gmail account. Every time she forgets to log out, I am presented with that garish thing. I have to go and reset it to "classic" interface. Dont know if it is a google project or someone trying to crash Google's party. Like that thing seenonslash.com trying to live on the reflected glory of slashdot.
Please before you mod me troll, listen. The Theory of evolution does not explain the origin of life, just the origin of species. Most folk who believe in things like ID (I= intelligent or idiotic depending on your perspective) confuse the issue and attack science. Let us not make the same mistake on the science side. Even the most ardent supporters of the Theory of evolution, like Dawkins, have only proposed very tentative speculation about the origin of life. They readily admit that right now science does not have any definitive theories about the Origin of Life.
This has nothing to do with evolution. Let us keep the discussions straight.
I am also a proud employee, but you would never catch me editing public postings about my company in wiki or posting in stock message boards from the workplace . Geez, why cant the dimwits go home and then do their corporate skulduggery? These nincompoops bring bad name to all of us.
Slashdotters, please tell me how I should edit this posting and make it disappear? If you don't want to post details publicly, please send me an email, to adrian.smith@r.congman.third.district.nebraska.us , thanks a bunch.
to everyone in my .mailrc. Then I will read about whats the matter with the emails.
... if that strain of genetically fudged bacteria escapes into the wild and undergoes some more unexpected mutations ... And should this thing meet the wild grass that has gained immunity from Round UP by cross fertilization between Roundup-Ready-Corn... That would be quite interesting, to put it mildly.
In a late breaking development,Microsoft announced the creation of a new Open International Committee for Information Technology. Microsoft spokesman affirmed the commitment of Microsoft for providing choice for its customers. Mr Toungei N Cheek said, "We have always promoted the idea of choice for the customers. They should be able to choose between multiple standards. But we realized we were all supporting the standards issued by a single international agency. We decided we need choice there too. So the customers will be able choose between multiple standards from multiple agencies. To provide for consistency and reliability the customers should use just a single vendor, us. Apart from that all these standards and standard creating agencies are just so many bullet points for the dumb CIOs and Pointy Haired Bosses to justify continuing to send billions of dollars to Redmond. So let us see it in the proper perspective."
Well, they can clone an iPhone or whatever. Already bugs and security holes are being found in iPhone. And AAPL would fix it and a security patch will be issued. Who is fixing bugs in the iClone? What if it lets people intercept the calls? Who is going to make the repairs? Suddenly when it dies with all your contacts and music and files, you think iChina is going to be there? Half the value AAPL provides is not in the iPhone.
It is known as the Aquatic Ape Theory. The mainstream anthropological view is that it is not correct. I still think most objections would disappear if you postulate partially aquatic near fresh water lakes instead of 100% aquatic life in salt water. But still, intriguing as it is, and as much as I would like to believe it is correct, the AAH (they have demoted it from theory to hypothesis) is not the current mainstream view.
Distance between parent and child is 0.5, between siblings is 0.5
between an individual and his/her nephew nieces grandkids is 0.25
Distance between first cousins, 0.125, second cousins 1/32 etc
They mentioned the optimal distance to be between 1/8 and 1/32.
We need something like a NoScript extension to Firefox to java plug in itself. The websites tell Firefox how to render the site. But an extension like AdBlock or NoScript or Flashblock intervene and tells FireFox not to render it. Similarly an applet might request a pop up window, but (my imagined) java-extension would cut in and say, "no you dont get to call System Model, sorry buddy". Is it possible to get a JRE that supports such extensions to the plug ins?
Please forgive me for asking a dumb question. Is it possible to set up permissions so that applets launched by the browsers do not have the ability to use "system modal"?
MSFT should try to fix the bug that is crashing IE, because crashes in IE have a tendency to become a remote execution bug later. But still, no point in bashing MSFT on this issue. Browsers crashing on malformed input is well known. Firefox, my fav and only browser, too crashes often on malformed input. There is this thing called fuzzing, sending deliberately malformed input to the browser and see what happens. Firefox used to crash more often than IE under fuzzing. Now they provide fuzzing tools for their testers to strengthen mozilla products.
The Industrial revolution was accompanied by untold misery to the world.
You dont count Barry Bonds, you got that BMI by using steroids.
Next year unhealthy people will be forced to eat tofu and yogurt 24/7/365 (they can anything they want on Feb 29 once in four years) till their BMI drops below 25.
Reminds me of the brilliant proof for the existence of perpetual motion machines, that assumes a magnetic monopole.
"No, we are fiendly with al-quaeda. We are at war with China"
We have always been friendly with al-aueda.
Oranges and lemons, said the bells of St clemens
When will I grow rich, said the bells of St Patrich
All of us know, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, the mitochloreans engineered a parthenogenic birth in Tattoonie.
I know, that boy is pure gold.
I don't, I have a preteen kid. Among my friends almost nobody uses the V-chip. Infact half of them dont even know their TV has the V-Chip. And those who know find it a pain to set up thresholds and remember the password. The only person I know who knows how to use the V-Chip is my brother's 10 year old son. He is a remarkably curious boy who reads all the manuals and figures out things mainly to annoy the adults. He would set the V-chip threshold very low (or high, I dont know the parlance) and make his mom scream, in a strange mixture of admiration and admonition, "You make the TV play Law-and-Order now or I am going to ground you for a week!" and the boy would laugh and giggle.