Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774
Belief that all currently held scientific theories are true is, in fact, religion. It is a matter of faith as science doesn't deal in truth.
Comment Science or Philosophy? (Score 1, Interesting) 1774
One major issue that many fail to understand is that science cannot define truth. Science and Philosophy are two separate realms. Science is the process of creating and disproving theories based on currently known facts. The important limitation here is "current" and that theories can only be disproven, never proven.
What is the probability that a scientific theory will never be changed or proven incorrect in the future? This is an unanswerable question, as we don't know that which we don't know. We can't even produce a probability of correctness, yet still there is belief that currently held scientific theories are true.
The logically correct conclusion is that belief that current scientific theories are true is as much a matter of faith as belief in a god/gods. Faith that scientific theories will never be changed, faith that humanity will never discover some new fact that changes or invalidates current theories, faith that humans are capiable of discovering everything there is to know about the universe we live in.
Comment Re:Yeah, right. Something has changed. (Score 1) 693
Actually, it is fats that produce the quickest feeling of fullness.
Anyone who is interested in relatively up-to-date diet research should check out the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Source. They do a very good job of explaining what dietary research does and does not indicate.
Journal Journal: Windows XP IPsec Configuration
Steps to turn on optional IPsec on a Windows XP computer
This is a form of Optional Encryption (OE). Optional in Windows is defined as: Attempt an IPsec connection, if it is unsuccessful then use plaintext. This seems mostly the case in practice, although I have seen some oddities where drive mapping and such were ornery. As usual the more people who run IPsec the more of your traffic will run secure over the internet.
Perform the following to enable IPsec:
Journal Journal: Evidence of Iraqi WMD
- April 17, 2007 — "I found Saddam's WMD bunkers" by Melanie Phillips.
- Feb. 15, 2006 — EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace ABC News
- Feb. 14, 2006 — The Changed Baathist: Interview with Ali Ibrahim Al-Tikriti By Ryan M
Journal Journal: Thibor12 HyperWRT
I've rebuilt my home network using Thibor's HyperWRT release, Thibor12, available at linksysinfo.org.
This is the best firmware release for Linksys routers I've used so far, very fast and stable.
I'm running WDS+WPA-PSK between Linksys routers and a Belkin F5D7230-4 router with no problems.
Journal Journal: Thibor HyperWRT 2.1b-201105 performance
I have just done some performance testing with this firmware running on Linksys WRT54GS v.3 hardware. I did discover that WDS mode at a minimum requires that you enter the master router MAC address into the remote router. Anyway, here are the results:
- AP <-> WET
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- Rate: 2.75 MB/sec
- WDS <-> WDS
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- Rate: 2.75 MB/sec
- with afterburner_override=1 Rate: 2.55 MB/s
MB = 1,000,000 bytes
Journal Journal: WRT54GS v.3 3rd party firmware compatibility
CronScript has recently purchased two Linksys WRT54GS v.3 routers which were running the Linksys 4.70.6 firmware.
Sveasoft Alchemy V1.0 firmware bricked the router. Don't try it! It is not compatible with the GS v.3 hardware. Shorting pins 5 and 6 on the flash booted the unit into failsafe mode and allowed a tftp firmware upload.
FreemanBasic V1.0.4 gave me upgrade failed errors.
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