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| 2006/2/28 [Finance/Investment] UID:42024 Activity:nil 76%like:42030 |
2/28 New record in investments in foreign stock exchanges
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreign28feb28,0,5874122.story |
| 2006/2/28-3/2 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:42025 Activity:low |
2/28 http://csua.org/u/f3r (Wash Post) Over 1,300 Iraqis dead in last weak. It's okay, because they're probably mostly Sunnis / Baathist hold-outs. \_ Over 1,300 Americans dead in the last we*e*k as well. And? \_ Bad troll. No cookie. \_ It isn't a troll. It is making a point about the op's post. People die. It happens. More than 1300 Americans died in this country just last week. And? What is the point of the op post? Thus, "And?" If op had a point, they should have made one. OP is the troll here. \_ You're either stupid or trolling. That 1300 is because of violent protests/clashes after the bombing of the mosque in Samarrah. OP is either sarcastic or stupid, which is a step above you. \_ Calm down and read the post again. Note that the poster does not mention *where* the Americans in question died. Most of them died of old age in their beds in the U.S., presumably. -!pp \_ That's exactly the fucking point, and exactly why that poster is either a troll or stupid.. God, who's putting lithium in the berkeley water supply? \_ OMG, good point! We're all going to die someday so it doesn't matter if someone kills me! You just blew my mind! \_ 1300 certainly did not die because of violent crime. The point is that the Bush Administration is lying to us (again) by minimizing the violence. \_ Ethnic cleansing - it's okay! \_ Darfur is ethnic cleansing. You're clueless and knee jerk. \_ No, I'm making fun of the asshat that thinks 1300 deaths is "okay." \_ I think he was being sarcastic. No deaths are "ok" but people die. How/why they died is more important than the number. \_ Okay, how's this? Imagine if 16,000 Americans had died in the last two days because the Italians and the Irish in New York had decided to start killing each other. Would that be "ok?" I think the thrust of the article is that far more people died over the weekend than most media had been reporting. Sadly it takes a certain death "threshold" to get media attention these days, as we seem to have gotten used to Iraq being a total clusterfuck (along with most other things our government is doing these days). \_ If it bleeds, it leads. You won't find me defending the media but frankly what's going on in Iraq is actually pretty minor compared to many situation in both the distant and very recent past as well as *right now* in several parts of the world. I'm much more disgusted at all the other things the media ignores than their Iraq coverage. Most people can't even tell you that Darfur isn't a new brand of beer or an ice cream flavor. \- Darfur is trivial compared to the toll of malaria. So was the tsunami. There is more to it than "if it bleeds it leads" and the 1300 is just a small chapter of the overall iraq story. \_ What? You think the tsunami wasn't covered or we're not pumping enough cash into malaria/insect control? And you think an act of god is worse than one people enslaving and wiping out another race with intent and malice? No. You're just a lame troll. D- \- i'm not trolling. my point is the that significant of a story isnt just a matter of the casualty numbers. darfur is being convered a fair amount. not much is being done about it but the coverage is there. there are a lot of aspects to the malaria story ... how foreign aid dollars for public health are spent, the stupidity of DDT usage policy etc. it is interesting to note the difference in casaulaty counts in ex-yugoslavia where the US led sig intervention and conflicts in africa with much higher casualty counts where nothing was done. \_ Good point -- we'd better just sit back and let them kill each other until the butcher's bill is at least as bad as some of those other places. Right. Thanks for the insight, there, Tex. \_ Good way to completely and intentionally miss the point. \_ Thanks. |
| 2006/2/28-3/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:42026 Activity:nil |
2/27 What apache2 directive should I use if I want apache to
execute .cgi files that are symbolic links? Thanks.
\_ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2
Look at the Options directive. -dans |
| 2006/2/28-3/1 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:42027 Activity:moderate |
2/28 Hi I'm a noob and I just installed LINUX DEBIAN for the very first
time in my life. I did a vanilla install, then apt-get sendmail and
pine. I tried to send myself an email on the local machine but
my mailbox is always empty. Even setting up bad crontab -e doesn't
email me any output. What should I do next? Thanks.
\_ check the logfile in /var/log, probably mail.log
\_ It's Debian GNU/Linux, not LINUX DEBIAN
\_ Who gave rms a csua account?
\_ He came in, filled out a form and ate the leftover
watermelon. How could we not give him an account?
\- RMS prefers CRENSHAW melon to WATERMELON.
\_ debian doesn't shove exim onto you anymore? exim
not good enough for you?
\_ As far as I know exim is still the default. op should probably
just stick to exim
\_ Yes, exim is still the default. op should definitely not use
sendmail as it deserves no place on *any* system installed after
newer, better MTA's were written. op should probably use
postfix. -dans
\_ What are some of the newer, better MTA's? tia.
\_ exim, postfix, qmail in no particular order.
\_ got milter?
\_ Eh. It's fairly weak and unconfigurable compared to what
you can do with postfix. Even if I thought the milter
offerred much value, it wouldn't come anywhere near making
up for the pain and suffering of configuring sendmail.
-dans |
| 2006/2/28-3/2 [Reference/Tax, Finance/Investment] UID:42028 Activity:low |
2/28 What's a good "next step up" from high-yield (4-5%) savings accounts
if I want something to invest, say, $50k in and still keep it fairly
liquid and still have little to no risk (i.e. I'm OK with !FDIC if
it's a biggish institution and not too likely to fold). By "fairly
liquid" I mean no more than a year lock-in.
\_ I have some I-bonds that are pulling in 6-7% a year. I bought
those a few years ago though, and I think they've been dropping
the yield in recent years.
the yield in recent years. Oh, and they're fed tax free too.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/ibonds_glance.htm
\_ Don't you have to pay taxes when they adjust the principal?
\_ Woops. I got it the other way around. No state tax,
and fed tax deferred until either bond redeemed or
annually--your choice--and not on adjusting the principal.
\_ No, that is for TIPS.
\_ I bonds deduct 3 months interest if you sell before 5 years,
so that's a minus for the op since he wants less than 1 year
lock-in.
\_ probably more risk than you would like but I like FAX (asian bonds
close end fund) recommended by Bill Gross (king of bonds). It
yields 6.87% and is currently 4.68% below its net asset value.
\_ 6.87 taxable w/ risk vs. 6.73 state-tax free no-risk (I Bond)..
meh. What does "4.68% below..." mean?
\_ well, I Bond yield is inflation dependent and may go down,
so it is not risk free. 4.68% below nav means that the
fund is trading at a value that is 4.68% below the total
value of the bonds it holds. of course FAX also has
exchange rates risk. you should probably only buy it
if you think the dollar is going to fall, or you want
to diversify your currency risks. I personally think
the dollar will fall, so I especially like FAX. In the
scenario that FAX returns to NAV, and dollar falls, I
could get 15% return.
- I bond holder who suggested I bonds on the motd
a few months ago.
\_ I'm a big fan of FAX too. I'm curious though, where are you
getting the "*currently* 4.68% below its net asset value"?
I know they mention it periodically, but is there some way
to check at any given point (they have way too many holdings
to calculate it yourself) -crebbs
\_ http://www.etfconnect.com it's down to 4.35% now. I recently
found out that IFN is 30% above NAV. I am going to sell
IFN and get MINDX or maybe IBN (ICICI) to stay exposed
to India. IIF is also 15-20% above NAV so it's not much
help.
\_ Funny, I was just yesterday showing a buddy of mine
a comment that IFN was 30% over NAV and that he should
short it. How do they manage a 9% dividend at that
pemium? are they really holding assest that pay well
over 9% divedends on average?? Anyway, thanks for the
over 9% dividends on average?? Anyway, thanks for the
link. Email me and tell me who you are if you don't
mind being bugged once in a while about this kind of
thing. -crebbs
\_ feel free. good for me to have someone to bounce
one's investment ideas off too. I have a rather
patchy record with shorting. I recently tried
shorting GM; it promptly appreciated 20% but
later fell back, so I am now even. Do you think
I should be glad I didn't lose money and run, or
keep the short? - ecchang
\_I would be terrified of shorting GM. The funds
seem to be sticking with them. The gubmnt could
come to their rescue (again). Despite their
dire straights and massive debt, I think that's
a scary play. But I pretty much only take
short positions in combo with long. For exmple
I shorted 3dfx and went long with NVDA back in
the day. </brag> -crebbs
\_ my thinking with regard to GM is that there
is something fundamentally wrong with GM
that cannot be fixed without going into
bankruptcy. yes there may be short term
gains but it won't last. question is
whether one can hold through those gains.
But you may be right, the risks are pretty
high, especially given how far GM has
fallen already.
NVDA is another of my bad shorts. I shorted
it around 21 and it went up to 26 at which
point, I gave up. After I gave up, it
dropped all the way to 10. This was in
mid 2004, I think, when ATI is kicking
NVDA's butt when NVDA is having production
and heat issues with their chips. What's
worse is that I then missed NVDA's runup
from 10 to the current 48. ugh!
- ecchang
\_ How about T-Bills? If I read this right, you can go in for a
month and make > 4% state-tax free? Am I reading that wrong?
What's the catch? -op |
| 2006/2/28-3/1 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:42029 Activity:low |
2/28 It switched again. Lines from old and new motds:
< FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (MKVII) #0: Fri Dec 17 17:40:05 UTC 2004
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> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (SODA-MINIMAL) #0: Fri Dec 17 17:40:05 UTC 2004
Although uname says we're still on soda-minimal.
\_ I think there was a power failure. Blame god.
\_ Where can we see a record of the reboots and such?
\_ man last
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I'm sorry. Did you say something? I was just struck by the
uncontrollable urge to laugh at absurdity. -dans
\_ Wow, you're an ass.
\_ A fucking ignorant ass, no less.
\_ No, the notion that the csua would keep records, ahem a
log, if you will, of system administration tasks above
and beyond what the system does automagically really is
laughable to anyone who spent enough time around the
csua to be even remotely familiar with its history and
culture. So is the idea that requests for basic unix
information on the motd will be dignified with a
helpful response. Though it does make me feel warm and
fuzzy that I can make anonymous cowards resort to
profanity in their ad hominem attacks. -dans
\_ So, given the choice between uselessly mouthing off,
providing an answer to a technical question, or
staying silent and not adding to the noise, you chose
to be a rude and useless jerk. Nice. At least tom
actually seems to have (and give) clue. BTW, I don't
\_ tom_jerk > tom_clue
\_ heh
know which motd you've been reading, but I've seen
*a lot* of n00b questions get answered here without
empty sanctimoniuous snarkiness.
--does the ad hominem thing when PP's being a jerk
\_ When did we slip into your reality? Why am I
typing with tentacles? Where's that japanese
school girl?
Letting the days go by...
\_ Uhm, yeahhh.... Speaking of people with
reality issues....in my reality the *Japanese
schoolgirls* are the ones with the tentacles.
*sheesh* kids these days....
\_ You call it noise. I call it humor. If you read
the motd regularly, then you'd know that I
provide helpful answers as well as deserved and
undeserved snarkiness. In fact, I've got at
least two helpful responses in this motd alone
(see apache2 and sendmail threads). Frankly, I
find your whole anonymous motd behaviorial critic
schtick to be pretty pathetic. If it's so
important to you, at least have the courage to
sign your posts; I do. -dans
\_ *shrug* Whatever floats your boat, dude.
\_ 'last' is what the op was looking for. I don't think
they deserved to be abused for asking a question like
they did. they certainly weren't asking for any
special logging or effort on anyone's part.
--doesn't do the ad hominen thing
\_ "last | grep reboot". I apologize in advance if this is actually
useful info.
\_ or "last reboot"
\_ Even better
\_ Excellent. Thanks. -op |
| 2006/2/28-3/2 [Finance/Investment] UID:42030 Activity:nil 76%like:42024 |
2/28 New record of U.S. investment in foreign stock exchanges
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreign28feb28,0,5874122.story
\_ welcome to the global economy.
\_ Trading deficit of $900 billion in 2006 means that foreigners will
have to buy up all of our assets unless they actually believe we
intend to actually pay back our debts.
\_ You're confusing the national debt and deficit with the trade
deficit. Trade deficits do not automatically equal the U.S.
owing foreigners money. |
| 2006/2/28-3/1 [Computer/Companies/Apple] UID:42031 Activity:nil |
2/28 Anyone tried running the hacked MacOS on generic wintel hardware?
Review?
\_ I did and the Steve showed up 10sec later and yelled,
"THIS IS MY BOOM STICK! Don't steal OSX!"
\_ was that really a shotgun he was holding? |
| 2006/2/28-3/2 [Science/Space, Science] UID:42032 Activity:nil |
2/28 Pics of an elaborate underground weed growing facility in TN.
http://www.phishhook.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=550448
\- wow, DIY hydraulic door.
\_ I can't wait to read the details on all of this.
\_ Doesn't look like it helped.
\_ The cops worked on it for 5 years before the warrant was
served. Which means they were probably running if for
10. If they had kept their heads down and quit when
they were ahead. They could've gotten away clean.
\- i met a fellow at a dinner party recently who was in
the marijuana business on a moderate scale [he isnt
retired but it paid the bills] in NYC and Boston and
his view was you pretty much have to get out soon because
no matter how careful you are some of the flakey people
who have to deal with will either be turned or will
slip up. i would think you could find people by applying
FREAKONOMICS type techniques but we probably dont care
enough to do that [e.g. by looking at electricity
consumption etc].
\_ Or they could spend gvt. dollars on something more
worthwhile than arresting people who grow a plant.
\_ Don't try to apply logic to the War on Drugs.
\_ Yeah, like catching all those music pirates!
\- i am not necessarily advocating more stringent
crackdowns on dope fiends and more than i think
crackdowns on dope fiends any more than i think
we should necessaily be more aggressive about
speeding or illegal immigration when i dis-
passionately comment on things like photo-
speeding tickets, speed traps, cracking
down on employers of illegal aliens etc.
if anything it is interesting to see the
data mining potential for things like
SAFETYWAY CLUB cards. years again some
"acquaintances" bought a mirror and some
razor blades at the college ave safeway
razor blades at the college ave 7/11
at something like 3am. i'm not saying that
should be probably cause for a search warrant
should be probable cause for a search warrant
but, it would be interesting to see the
empirical numbers. studies often show that
"intuition" is often a lot less accurate than
statistical decision making [e.g. from examples
of medical diagnosis to jury selection ... say
people over estimate what "body language"
people overestimate what "body language"
conveys vs say the zip code somebody lives in
as a predictor of prosecution/defense bias],
so some of this type of analysis may be much
better than informal/naive "profiling". like
the spped trap law seems to say "if i try to
the speed trap law seems to say "if i try to
measure the speed more scientifically that is
illegal" as opposed to letting "trained" cops
eyeball you. this anti-technology rules are
probably to preserve discretion in teh system
eyeball you. these anti-technology rules are
probably to preserve discretion in the system
so police/judges can get rid of tickets
for friends/insiders. i agree the deference
to the media industry and capturing of
public policy to private ends in this area
is an abomination. we have good evidence they
were sending theatening letters based only on
the "prima facie" evidence of having some
common p2p [ephemeral] ports open. ok tnx.
\_ Encore! Encore!
\_ psb, do you have a blog?
\- i do not know how to blog but i blog
about cheese and antibiotics. |
| 2006/2/28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:42033 Activity:kinda low |
2/28 Wow, motd is extra snarky today, isn't it?
\_ Just doing my part to make the motd a more interesting place to
visit. -dans
\_ Dan, do you need a hug? --erikred
\_ Everyone loves hugs. They make people feel special. -dans
\_ I'd think that's highly dependant on who's doing the
hugging. -mice |
| 2006/2/28-3/1 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:42034 Activity:nil |
2/28 http://www.zillow.com/Charts.z?chartDuration=5years&zpid=20461297 http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.z?zprop=20461297 So why would a SoCal house that zillow thinks is worth $800K sell for $1.41 million in March 2005? I mean, it sold for $452K in 2002 and $480K in 2003, the house was last updated in 1941, and it's only 1,072 sq ft. \_ Someone really wanted it. \- Vaughn JONES lived there. zillow needs to use the HOMFLY polynomial. \_ Maybe it was owned by a Congressman. \_ Tell me why this home, that sold for $710k in 2003, is "worth"\ $1.4M now? \_ Tell me why this home, that sold for $710k in 2003, is "worth" $1.4M now? http://csua.org/u/f47 Ans: zillow is only a rough estimate. \_ Things are "worth" what someone will pay for them... shrug. |
| 2006/2/28-3/2 [Science/Biology] UID:42035 Activity:nil |
2/28 Anti-Darwin Bill Fails in Utah. "[Republican majority whip Stephen
H. Urquhart] said he thought God did not have an argument with
science." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/national/28utah.html
\_ "life is too complicated to have evolved without an architect"
clearly, this is the Architect mentioned in Matrix Revolutions.
\_ This architect is clearly Einstein's god (re the universe and
dice) and predates the Matrix.
\_ Why oh why must everyone put this crap in terms of Darwin? Is an
attempted ban on dynamite "Anti-Nobel"? Evolution is an actual
science that has progressed far beyond the admittedly groundbreaking
work of one man many years ago. To ignore that and build its
credibility off of that one man is foolhardy.
\_ None of this has anything to do with evolution. It's an attack
on modernity.
\_ evolution is a change in the gene pool of a population
\- so is genocide
\_ I'm not talking about the attack itself, I'm talking about the
idiocy in reporting. -pp
\_ Reporters fuck up everything about science to a painful degree.
It's very annoying, but I wouldn't say that they single out
evolutionary biology in particular when they're deciding when
to be dumb and lazy. It may be that they're like this on all
subjects, but science is the one I know enough about to notice
it the most, and it's the only subject on which I've personally
dealt with reporters.
\_ It's everything. A friend of mine's little brother
was killed by a criminal, and the paper couldn't even
keep the names straight. I've seem similar stuff in
every article I've known something about. |
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