+1 Not only is P.E. a joke but it is an excuse for miserable, unhappy PE teachers to beat up on and insult their students. The answer to the problem lies in getting rid of the coziness of the FDA and Archer Daniels Midlands of America. For too long America's food industry has been allowed to sell us foods with added preservatives and chemicals under the guise of being nutritious but actually can be poisonous. Take, for example, nutrisweet, it breaks down to formaldehyde in the blood stream. But corporate America will tell you it's harmless. Let's attack the cause of obesidy no overweight people.
Or you fight back with a little more creativity using spamd Nothing stops spam like sending the spam spew to a grinding halt (or even crashing it) by setting your TCP receive window to a value of 1 based on known spammer IP addresses. It is a highly elegant solution. I've deployed it within the family business and we went from thousands of spam messages per day to maybe 2 per week without the headaches of heuristic filtering.
Pickens's idea was as follows:
1) while 1% of our electricity is from oil, about 25% is from gas.
2) Replace that 25% with wind.
3) Take the gas freed up and use it to power vehicles.
Result: Reduction of foreign oil.
Now, the problems with that plan were:
That is still flawed logic. Again, I am not expert but my guess is that you might free up enough oil to last two days at present U.S. consumption. With the rate at which automobiles increase on the road every year, any short term benefit realized is quickly negated.
I am no expert but I wonder if the majority air/water pollution is coming from automobiles, trucks, and buses. It would stand to reason that by cleaning up these pollutants first, we would have a greater impact that looking at electricity generation alone. Again, an example of a misguided, politically driven idea.
The failure of T. Boone Pickens has nothing to do with "market forces". It has to do with trying to solve the wrong problem. Or not even understanding what the problem is in the first place. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
I keep hearing the phrase "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" associated with things like wind turbines and nuclear power. Maybe somebody should do a little research and discover that 1% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using oil as fuel. Unless you're planning on cars, trucks, buses and trains powered by wind turbines or nuclear reactors, how exactly does this "reduce our dependence on foreign oil"?
Now that is the best argument I've heard thus far! T. Boone Pickens would have been better off investing in green energy for powering the transportation industry. Unfortunately, Americans seem to hold the wealthy on undeserved pedestals. Pickens conclusion was quite far off. Mod the parent up!
Electricity is a luxury, not a necessity for life. We can live without electricity, life isn't as comfortable. If you do not have water, you can die in days, if not hours.
I never mentioned or assumed anything about any speed of finding the flaws. I simply wrote that, if found, the OpenBSD team will immediately disclose and offer patches.
True, you cannot be 100% sure but you are almost guaranteed to be safer using OpenBSD to secure your systems than any other operating system. Imagine using Windows to secure your infrastructure. I am not stupid enough to do that. Even Cisco and Linux have been compromised but it is much, much harder. Despite these allegations, I would throw an OpenBSD box to protect my infrastructure any day.
Well, it shows that you are not a lawyer because the DoJ can invoke a national security interests clause to be able to utilize these back doors. It is legal but very, very shady and unethical.
FUD is already getting spread around about OpenBSD, see the following article from Linux Journal, "Allegations of OpenBSD back doors may be true" This came as a comment from within the article. The journalist rambles on about far reaching impacts and doomsday scenario for the project. Okay, reality check. If backdoors are found, (a) Theo and company immediately release patches closing the back doors and (b) the FBI would get another black eye for being caught in a major public lie. Far reaching, my ass. In the end, the only changes made will be to close off core commit privileges to all US-based, OpenBSD contributers. Only certain trusted individuals will have core commit privileges. Say what you want about Theo, the man sticks to his principles like cement. Even if back doors are found, I'll still continue to trust OpenBSD as the most secure OS in the world. Why? For every security hole in OpenBSD found, I'll bet that there are several hundred in other operating systems. A 1/~250 ratio is not bad at all!
I know I am being Captain Obvious by saying this but filming the police keeps them honest. In times when police are prone to abusing their authority, there needs to be a check to their power. Police don't like it for obvious reasons but a film could potentially exonerate a police officer wrongfully accused of a crime.
I wonder if the OGA system was decommissioned because Microsoft sees a new trend in server-based, cloud computing versus the decentralized system we have now. Microsoft might really moving towards offering Software as a Service. Very soon, you might use Microsoft Office online only and pay a subscription fee to use a cloud-based form of the office system. In anticipation of this move (and this is purely conjecture) it makes no sense to keep spending money on the infrastructure necessary to maintain the OGA system.
Just in time to make the equipment totally valueless. The FBI did such a great job in helping economic recovery. They just scared legitimate business into looking for offshore data centers thereby contributing to further job loss and economic decline. If I were Faulkner, I too, would be looking for offshore data centers.
The government has no business coming up with funding or promoting this theme park. There exists a clause in the constitution separating church and state. It is a shame the governor wants to reduce learning to going to a theme park about creationism. This sounds tragically like the time machine in the movie Idiocracy.
While autodidacticism is a great idea, learning from the internet is not necessarily a great idea because data on the internet can be replete with factual errors or even information designed to be biased towards one point of view. Wikipedia comes up against this problem quite often. You don't want a sixth or seventh stumbling on some web pages proclaiming that the holocaust was a myth and then believing that to be true. My point is that, while self education is a good idea, it does need guidance so that information learned is accurate and we are not learning to hatred.
I will be dining with some members of my family that, more often than not, seem to represent the shallower end of the Gene Pool! I came from the deep end (I think.)
Janet Napolitano's hubris is pretty strong. I don't think the body scanners are going to survive this whole TSA debacle. I actually think TSA is going to be curtailed and severely weakened. Already, public perception of them are as idiotic clowns that do absolutely nothing to secure out skies. They are a weak, freak show that is a tremendous burden on our tax dollars.
This guys is a fucking idiot that committed career suicide. I'd say that this portly fellow should not bother with running for re-election. If I were a resident, I would be actively campaigning against this guy. I read the TFA and Wolfsohn did not have to call the police. He could have just gone up to the kids and politely explained the situation. Is the fat bastard scared these kids are gonna go ape shit on him?
I am not really surprised but I refuse to single out Microsoft as the only company that behaves in this manner. I am willing to bet most corporations try and fudge tests and benchmarks here there to get ahead. It is done in the name of capitalism and marketing. Look at the methods by which vehicle fuel efficiency is tested. Fuel efficiency tests are suspect at best. I would leave Microsoft alone on this. In my opinion, all browsers suck equally. I have IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome installed because there are features from all three that I like for different websites and browsing habits. If you could take the best features from all three, you would have the killer browser. In my sole opinion, Chrome sucks less than the others.
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+1 Not only is P.E. a joke but it is an excuse for miserable, unhappy PE teachers to beat up on and insult their students. The answer to the problem lies in getting rid of the coziness of the FDA and Archer Daniels Midlands of America. For too long America's food industry has been allowed to sell us foods with added preservatives and chemicals under the guise of being nutritious but actually can be poisonous. Take, for example, nutrisweet, it breaks down to formaldehyde in the blood stream. But corporate America will tell you it's harmless. Let's attack the cause of obesidy no overweight people.
until AMD issues a DMCA takedown notice.
Or you fight back with a little more creativity using spamd Nothing stops spam like sending the spam spew to a grinding halt (or even crashing it) by setting your TCP receive window to a value of 1 based on known spammer IP addresses. It is a highly elegant solution. I've deployed it within the family business and we went from thousands of spam messages per day to maybe 2 per week without the headaches of heuristic filtering.
Ethanol ended up increasing food prices. That is all it did/does.
Pickens's idea was as follows: 1) while 1% of our electricity is from oil, about 25% is from gas. 2) Replace that 25% with wind. 3) Take the gas freed up and use it to power vehicles. Result: Reduction of foreign oil.
Now, the problems with that plan were:
That is still flawed logic. Again, I am not expert but my guess is that you might free up enough oil to last two days at present U.S. consumption. With the rate at which automobiles increase on the road every year, any short term benefit realized is quickly negated.
I am no expert but I wonder if the majority air/water pollution is coming from automobiles, trucks, and buses. It would stand to reason that by cleaning up these pollutants first, we would have a greater impact that looking at electricity generation alone. Again, an example of a misguided, politically driven idea.
The failure of T. Boone Pickens has nothing to do with "market forces". It has to do with trying to solve the wrong problem. Or not even understanding what the problem is in the first place. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
I keep hearing the phrase "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" associated with things like wind turbines and nuclear power. Maybe somebody should do a little research and discover that 1% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using oil as fuel. Unless you're planning on cars, trucks, buses and trains powered by wind turbines or nuclear reactors, how exactly does this "reduce our dependence on foreign oil"?
Now that is the best argument I've heard thus far! T. Boone Pickens would have been better off investing in green energy for powering the transportation industry. Unfortunately, Americans seem to hold the wealthy on undeserved pedestals. Pickens conclusion was quite far off. Mod the parent up!
Electricity is a luxury, not a necessity for life. We can live without electricity, life isn't as comfortable. If you do not have water, you can die in days, if not hours.
I never mentioned or assumed anything about any speed of finding the flaws. I simply wrote that, if found, the OpenBSD team will immediately disclose and offer patches.
True, you cannot be 100% sure but you are almost guaranteed to be safer using OpenBSD to secure your systems than any other operating system. Imagine using Windows to secure your infrastructure. I am not stupid enough to do that. Even Cisco and Linux have been compromised but it is much, much harder. Despite these allegations, I would throw an OpenBSD box to protect my infrastructure any day.
Well, it shows that you are not a lawyer because the DoJ can invoke a national security interests clause to be able to utilize these back doors. It is legal but very, very shady and unethical.
I am an ex cop. I know something about the subject matter ....
FUD is already getting spread around about OpenBSD, see the following article from Linux Journal, "Allegations of OpenBSD back doors may be true" This came as a comment from within the article. The journalist rambles on about far reaching impacts and doomsday scenario for the project. Okay, reality check. If backdoors are found, (a) Theo and company immediately release patches closing the back doors and (b) the FBI would get another black eye for being caught in a major public lie. Far reaching, my ass. In the end, the only changes made will be to close off core commit privileges to all US-based, OpenBSD contributers. Only certain trusted individuals will have core commit privileges. Say what you want about Theo, the man sticks to his principles like cement. Even if back doors are found, I'll still continue to trust OpenBSD as the most secure OS in the world. Why? For every security hole in OpenBSD found, I'll bet that there are several hundred in other operating systems. A 1/~250 ratio is not bad at all!
I know I am being Captain Obvious by saying this but filming the police keeps them honest. In times when police are prone to abusing their authority, there needs to be a check to their power. Police don't like it for obvious reasons but a film could potentially exonerate a police officer wrongfully accused of a crime.
Why does that sound awfully like a mafia protection racket?
I wonder if the OGA system was decommissioned because Microsoft sees a new trend in server-based, cloud computing versus the decentralized system we have now. Microsoft might really moving towards offering Software as a Service. Very soon, you might use Microsoft Office online only and pay a subscription fee to use a cloud-based form of the office system. In anticipation of this move (and this is purely conjecture) it makes no sense to keep spending money on the infrastructure necessary to maintain the OGA system.
Just in time to make the equipment totally valueless. The FBI did such a great job in helping economic recovery. They just scared legitimate business into looking for offshore data centers thereby contributing to further job loss and economic decline. If I were Faulkner, I too, would be looking for offshore data centers.
Flash has seen its day come and go. With Webm and HTML5, Flash will be killed off!
The government has no business coming up with funding or promoting this theme park. There exists a clause in the constitution separating church and state. It is a shame the governor wants to reduce learning to going to a theme park about creationism. This sounds tragically like the time machine in the movie Idiocracy.
While autodidacticism is a great idea, learning from the internet is not necessarily a great idea because data on the internet can be replete with factual errors or even information designed to be biased towards one point of view. Wikipedia comes up against this problem quite often. You don't want a sixth or seventh stumbling on some web pages proclaiming that the holocaust was a myth and then believing that to be true. My point is that, while self education is a good idea, it does need guidance so that information learned is accurate and we are not learning to hatred.
I have to give the guy credit for trying and credit for his consideration for others.
I will be dining with some members of my family that, more often than not, seem to represent the shallower end of the Gene Pool! I came from the deep end (I think.)
Janet Napolitano's hubris is pretty strong. I don't think the body scanners are going to survive this whole TSA debacle. I actually think TSA is going to be curtailed and severely weakened. Already, public perception of them are as idiotic clowns that do absolutely nothing to secure out skies. They are a weak, freak show that is a tremendous burden on our tax dollars.
This guys is a fucking idiot that committed career suicide. I'd say that this portly fellow should not bother with running for re-election. If I were a resident, I would be actively campaigning against this guy. I read the TFA and Wolfsohn did not have to call the police. He could have just gone up to the kids and politely explained the situation. Is the fat bastard scared these kids are gonna go ape shit on him?
I am not really surprised but I refuse to single out Microsoft as the only company that behaves in this manner. I am willing to bet most corporations try and fudge tests and benchmarks here there to get ahead. It is done in the name of capitalism and marketing. Look at the methods by which vehicle fuel efficiency is tested. Fuel efficiency tests are suspect at best. I would leave Microsoft alone on this. In my opinion, all browsers suck equally. I have IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome installed because there are features from all three that I like for different websites and browsing habits. If you could take the best features from all three, you would have the killer browser. In my sole opinion, Chrome sucks less than the others.