Re: Better yet
Yeah, because it *always* requires a click.
There never, ever, ever, ever, existed a drive by.
Fucking moron.
Note to self, add to blacklisted idiot list.
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"Dietary and Medical advice oscillates from one peer-reviewed, journal-published finding to the EXACT OPPOSITE peer-reviewed, journal-publish finding with a period of about ten years. This is a disappointing truth."
Strange, the original study that found benefits of *some* of the chemicals in wine also mentioned that consumption of wine at levels that would have therapeutic impact would also incur levels of alcohol that would erase all of the benefits, excessively so.
Research that is now around(ish) a decade old, but those few words ignored by the sensationalistic press.
Regrettably, the far right complains about *any* scientific research under the complaint "we can't afford it", while trumpeting for defense expenditures and demands to invade pretty much every "offending" nation on Earth (while also being utterly incapable of locating the "offending" nation of the week on a map).
The more fun thing is, the US GPS constellation is aging, with no replacement plans in sight.
"Keep an eye out for black helicopters, black SUVs with dark windows and tracking devices on your car."
Funny, I've posted encrypted messages and routinely send encrypted e-mails to my wife and some friends.
The only helicopters I see are either news, cargo service and the occasional OD green ones being built down the road from me.
No black SUV's with dark windows.
As for tracking devices on my car, they'd get bored to death.
"One cannot protect any kind of system..."
As an information security professional, I disagree with you. Systems can be protected by isolation, disabling non-essential services, proper monitoring, proper security measures overall, protective technologies that are properly implemented and monitored and proper policies enforced.
In every major breach, either policies were not adhered to or protective technologies and isolation of networks was not applied/monitored.
A further case in point, name one classified US information network that was above FOUO that has been successfully breached and exfiltrated data.
Name a NATO classified network that was successfully breached and exfiltrated data.
Name any Russian classified network that was successfully breached and exfiltrated data.
Name any PRC classified network that was successfully breached and exfiltrated data.
No?
Perhaps the The Bank of England?
No?
"You know who is not protecting your nation? The NSA."
First, the NSA is part of the US DoD. As such, they follow orders given by their lawful superiors.
Second, go tell that to two of my friends and one cousin who died in the WTC on 9-11.
You'll need a shovel and your pleas will fall upon literally dead ears for one, for the rest, upon an empty grave.
So, with no due respect, sod off. You have absolutely no clue as to what are real risks in this world.
I happen to know of those risks from first hand experience.
Now, if you want to debate the finer details of what is and is not acceptable, do learn those risks firsthand yourself and we can have an intelligent conversation.
Assuming you don't end up with an RPG removing a sizable part of your anatomy first.
The last time I looked, employees were still discouraged from admitting that they worked for the NSA.
With pressure, they were encouraged to say that they worked for the DoD. With a lot of questioning, rather than raise suspicions, they could admit to working for the NSA.
For the handful I had reveal their affiliation, I simply remarked to the agency affiliation, "Ah, so most of your work is incredibly boring and extremely rarely interesting."
To which I got a nod, smile and appreciating the sensitivity of their agency.
"Personally, I don't know what I find more disturbing : the fact that the NSA publishes a job recruitment pitch on Twitter, or the fact that the NSA has a Twitter account in the first place."
And so, you betrayed your ignorance to the entire planet. The NSA has long had a Twitter account.
Indeed, far, far longer than I have. But then, I'm not recruiting code monkeys or mathematicians.
Ah, so you're the guy with the little bunker!
I got a real steal on my larger complex. You can see the secondary cooling system purge periodically. It took years of inserting fiction in various texts, but people now buy "Old Faithful" as a regular geyser.
When some geologists came along poking about, we started turning on and off the secondary and tertiary systems, now they think that it's a really big caldera! LOL!
If you want, we can link side tunnels, I have a tramway not too far from the Smokies. We're installing one of the new Hitachi super trains soon, can't be late for a weekend on the beach! We can divert one of them your way and you can pop by some evening.
Maybe we can think of some more deviltry to disturb those silly geologists.
"...and 20 to 50 grams of graphite powder (found in pencil leads)”
Personally, I'll use the graphite in a bottle that is 8 inches tall. Graphite is far, far, far cheaper that way than bonded with clay and then clad with cheap wood.
As for the rest, true enough. It *would* make one potentially divorce making mess and bollocks the blender.
Wouldn't stop me from trying with a spare or newly purchased blender.
It's not like the damned things are expensive!
Most of the asteroids detonated, for that *is* what they did, in the upper atmosphere over an ocean.
Think of idiots on the ground, fingers near buttons, fear guiding their movements. Figure Russia and the US over the Ukraine, figure India and Pakistan, figure any of the usual nonsense that gets nations tense.
Now, think of one of those asteroids popping off over Washington, D.C., Moscow, London, pick anywhere in India or Pakistan when tensions are high at a level between Chelyabinsk and Tunguska.
A few years back, Pakistan and India *had* mobilized nuclear forces due to tensions between the two nations. Along came an asteroid that blew and set off these detectors globally.
Thankfully, it blew apart over the Med, with chunks landing largely around Libya.
That gave some pause and the nuclear forces of both sides stood down, for it'd have been only a short time later that that asteroid could've blown over their heads and a premature decision to launch could have triggered irretrievable actions.
As one who grew up during the Cold War, served in the military under Reagan, actually watched a real nuclear countdown be initiated and thankfully cancelled after the realization that things weren't at a war footing, but something else happened, I know how quickly things can go unimaginably wrong.
Something that occasionally does wake me up at night remembering programming flowing into a missile that was within seconds of launch.
But, nobody is watching for these. One launch on warn is all we'd need to join the dodo.
Hehe, more like Ben Franklin rapping his knuckles on a key hanging from a string of a kite before the leading edge of a thunderstorm.
This science is in its most fetal stages. The "machine" can't do anything but sit there stupidly. The lipid membrane protecting the non-functional device.
Give it a half century, it might actually go somewhere.
Pity, it'd be *great* to have something workable within my lifetime.
Blather.
It worked quite well for me with 12.04, it's working quite well for me on my test environment. I might update the rest of the systems at home in the late summer to early fall, after the version bump comes out.
Upsides: newer kernel tree level. Enhancements of that which was a bit functional to be more functional.
My 5 year old+ systems are working fine, thank you, have zero clue what the author was blithering nonsense about, it's a matter of choosing frills you want or do not want.
But then, the vast and overwhelming majority of work that I do on the machines is on the command line. The only time I use the GUI is to write a formal letter, print it and post it or when I have to write a formal letter and, ugh, fax it.
What matters is this:
It works. It does the job. Other distros could as well, but this one works reasonably well with only modest tweaking *and* has an LTS version.
Out of five test machines, only one had a problem and that was an HD that was positively ancient failed hard. As much of my home environment is enterprise level servers and switches and the rest is older workstations, it's a "big shit", order a new HD and move on.
Had one bit of annoyance with one test netbook, with a massive 8 gig SSD, not quite enough space for a basic office system. Did an apt-get clear and life was good again. SSD tuning wasn't necessary, but I'll probably play with it to see what I can break, erm, improve. OK, don't see improvement in the cards.
One broken thing on that miniscule antique system is overlayfs, which has some brokeness inherited from debian. But, if I boot without the overlay, the base OS is up and can update without fudging by adding chances to the overlay on flash card and instead update the base OS on SSD.
As for it overall, it's an updated version of a solid distro. It isn't like we're talking about the difference between a Vic-20 and the GSV Grey Area.
OK, a hint. Petrol is across the pond from Verizon. Verizon is what was once Bell Telephone (OK, a bit more complicated than that, but close enough for government work).
Here, where Verizon is a company to contend with (my voice, data and internet provider is Verizon, as they offered the sweetest deal *and* fiberoptic to my home), we use gasoline. Same deal, different name, courtesy of English being a foreign language to the US. ;)
Still, one ponders the fact that Verizon figured out what every *other* study has figured out.
Next week, a new study on how the sky is brighter in the day and it gets dark in the night (a second study).
A third study will tell us that PASSWORD is a bad password.
A fourth study will tell us that ASSWORD is a bad password.
Few to no studies will offer a workable solution.
Second upvote.
"...though the study found that personal flying craft..."
Damn! But, they can barely drive on the ground, now they want to play rush hour bumper cars in the air too?!
@Mark, better the family tree that is a straight line than those whose family tree is lousy with tight circles.
"So folks like jake who in their ignorance think certain domains should be discriminated against really rub me the wrong way."
I disagree. But, on the basis of performance and annoyances, such as spam.
If one domain leads the pack in distributing spam, it *should* be discriminated against until they get their act together.
Otherwise, one is constantly playing with the filter to let the spam leading domain traffic through, then catching merry hell for the spam coming in.
"Err, so isn't the fix that MailMan etc. need to rewrite the DMARC/SPF headers ?"
So, let me get this straight.
*Every* mailing list in the world must comply to Yahoo's changes.
Isn't that what Microsoft said when they bungled TCP/IP, Kerberos, well, pretty much every protocol that they didn't originate or steal?
"Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame has posted an animated gif..."
Not really. I've known Phil for ages and am quite familiar with his blog.
He's really good at showing how some notions are wrong, but some people suffer from fixation.
They have their own view of what is and it borders on, or even crosses deeply into the realm of delusion.
And worse, they're not shy about sharing their delusions with anyone unfortunate to come across them.
"Either or both of these caveats argue for Curiosity to live up to her name, and to get the hell over there and check it out. But this is NASA, so they won't."
OK, I'll bite. *Precisely* where is "over there"? Can you provide precise direction and range?
That said, if it's repeated and the location of "flash" corresponds to the same area, it *would* give a decent range and bearing. I know of a lot of geologists who would *love* to know what mineral could withstand Martian sandblasting and still remain reflective.
I'd pay real money for it, get my glasses made of it so they won't scratch or chip.
"I thought it could be a backlit dust devil..."
The fact that it was front lit rather rules it out as well. Look at the hills and see what is better lit.
Now, if they kept getting something like that, it'd be worthwhile to see what reflective mineral survives being sand blasted, yet can still reflect.
"As it plainly states somewhere in the first half of the Bible/Koran/DSM IV..."
Ah, but in DSM XVVIVXXI, it plainly states that lifeforms are all over the bloody place and that the intelligent ones are blithering idiots.
Got my copy from a Doctor, when I popped into the wrong Turdis that turned out to be a TARDIS.
Next time, I'll check the sign more closely. Can't get those pepper pot guys ichor out of my sand shoes!
"Laser wouldn't hit just a few pixels in one camera, mon."
Unless the rover itself had the laser and that was the scintillation return.
As the rover doesn't have a ranging laser that I'm aware of, NASA would know if the thing was on and a lot more should be scintillating, we'll say that a laser is flat out wrong.
True enough. Everyone is more of an expert than the experts who work with the equipment that they designed and sent through space to another planet to explore is.
Even money, it's just a piece of schist.
Excuse the lousy pun, but it could as well be a flash reflection off of a rock. Some people forget that some rocks are shiny.
"When I got there, I found 30 instances of 5 differrent click-jackers on the machine! It seems many came over from his old XP machine, which had around 200 instances of malware on it!"
Well, I had a brand new XP box and deployed to the Middle East.
Within a minute of *modem* connection, I saw connection to my $C.
I terminated connection and examined what Gateway sold me, software wise, in rather a bit of detail.
When I reconnected, I had already ascertained no rootkit nonsense, no new connections to C$ and admin$ was long gone (thank the Gods of careless Computing for letting me miss that!).
One burst of intracranial flatulence is all that it takes.
As for Microsoft, my wife had a Vista64 box that was incorrigibly slow. *Nothing* this old BOFH could do could make it run reasonably.
I upgraded to Linux.
The 64 bit system operates as advertised. Even her Facebook bullshit games work far, far, far, far better. Which means attempts at consuming 100% memory, but failing to and still operating.
Even better, it plays moving pictures of our grandchildren quite well!*
*Intentional use of a relatively ancient term. I'm equally comfortable in a low tech, no tech or high tech environment, operationally. I far prefer high tech for comfort. ;)