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sounds like a problem that multicast-based file transfer is designed to solve. http://www.tcnj.edu/~bush/uftp.html You said IPSec VPNs, but is it just ipsec, or is it gre inside ipsec? If there's no GRE, then forget what I said.

I'll post this as AC, to avoid karma-whoring.

The parent is referring to a book by George Orwell called Animal Farm. It's out of copyright in the UK, so can be read online (I did the other night, stayed up all night in fact. Yeah yeah, get out more, but if I did that I wouldn't be a Slashdot reader!).

I also highly recommend that, when the reader has finished the book, they do a little mental excercise in matching the animals to the actual people involved in the rise of Stalinist Russia.

Bear in mind that Orwell was writing before the events of the cold war, as far as I can tell the book ends here. Which brings us neatly back to what the parent is referring to:

The creatures outside looked from pig to man,
and from man to pig, and from pig to man again;
but already it was impossible to say which was which.

A little off-topic, but what's a threaded conversation system for?

there is a difference between abuse and addiction. Both are bad in that the substance in question can come to interfere in the day to day life of the user, but one has a physiological component. specifically tolerance and withdrawal. Pot is not addictive but it can be abused.

Then again, almost anything can be abused. There are plenty of people who abuse video games based on the definition but video games have never been shown to be addictive.

There are people out there who use "addictive" substances like heroin without experiencing many of the issues associated with abuse (failure to fulfill obligations, legal/social issues) but do end up with the withdrawal and tolerance bits of addiction. People tend to treat this sort of thing like its all the same, but it isnt. Drug abuse and drug addiction are two very different things.

http://www.tcnj.edu/~sa/adep/factsheets/dsm2.htm

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

OKAY..... so this is about Japanese scientists (note the location is in TOKYO).... and think about it: CHINK means CHINESE..... so take your raciest comments back to you parents basement and get a life....

http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/chink. htm

1932—In Nazism and neo-Nazism, a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially one of Nordic type, supposed to be part of a master race. Reintroduced under the Nazi regime (1933-1945) applied to inhabitants of Germany of non-Jewish extraction.

The Nordic race was thought to be prevalent in northern Europe, especially among speakers of the Germanic languages. The division of the whites into Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterrean races was a theory proposed by Joseph Deniker, a Frenchman, but it was consistently touted by Germans in order to bolster their idealogy of supremacy.

The Anglo-German racial theorist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who would become a role model for Adolf Hitler, classified Nordics as the original Celtic and Germanic peoples, as well as some Slavic peoples, namely the Balts, Belgians, Dutch, English, French, Germans, Irish, Poles, Scandinavians, Scots, and Welsh. Chamberlain would refer to these people as Celto-Germanic, which is basically Nordic.

Among many white supremacists in Europe and the USA, the Nordic race came to be thought of as the most advanced of human population groups, hence its equation in Nazi ideology with the so-called Aryan master race. It even came to be identified as an entirely independent grouping rather than just a small division of the more distinct Caucasoid or White Race. Nordicism was thus a particular type of white supremacism, one which did not recognize all degrees of "white" as being equal. Italians, Slavs, and Jews were among those considered significantly inferior to the Nordics.

Many web sites call that an urban legend.

Whatever the etymology, it's clearly offensive.

Was your job in the publishing industry that of an editor? No?

http://www.tcnj.edu/~penny/cmsc485/strunk_summary. html

There are rules, and "correct English" is knowing how to break them properly so that you don't break the communication.

... are still a little touchy about such things

I'd just like to point out that The College of New Jersey is another campus that has banned wireless access points as installed by students.

For someone who appears to be a flaming right-winger, you sure sound like a "liberal hippie douchebag" with your hyper icon sensitivity. Lighten up. Take your mind of such trivial frustrations with a nice, relaxing abortion clinic protest.

"Innovation in telecommunications? Pick up the phone, dial a number. This also hasn't changed in a hundred years. "

I don't know about you, but it has been a long time since I've seen a dial on a phone. It might not be obvious, but even telecommunications has changed a lot in the last 10 years

here... I think you need to read this

or try the html link

But with compulsory voting, , strong opposition [yes, I know that the democrats are dead] leading to the upper house hobbling the lower house this isn't going to get very far. Never mind. Thank god for three year terms of office, that's what I say.

Hey, if anyone figures out how to design a network properly, let the good folks over at The College of New Jersey know.

With 6 T1s serving about 3000 students and computer labs/classrooms/faculty offices, you'd think it would be enough for reasonable Internet usage. But you're wrong.

Someone, somewhere, ensured that unless you were using the Internet between the hours of 3 am to 7 am, packet loss would be in the 75% range.

It's impossible to load even a simple webpage in anything less than 5 minutes.

I don't know what it is... A bad or poorly-configured firewall, too much bandwidth being reserved for the labs, or Satanic interference... but it's bad enough to make me want to get a dial-up connection.

To think that I'm giving up my cable modem in 2 weeks to go back there... ughhh.

The College of New Jersey and Villanova University are working on a search engine called W.H.A.T. which uses AI to apply contexts to search results. The idea is that the user can express some how more than words do, the meaning of the target. Pretty interesting stuff.
I'm biased as I worked on it for a year, though. :-)

The College of New Jersey and Villanova University are working on a search engine called W.H.A.T. which uses AI to apply contexts to search results. The idea is that the user can express some how more than words do, the meaning of the target. Pretty interesting stuff.
I'm biased as I worked on it for a year, though. :-)

is called NLX. Dell (and probably others) use them a lot (Dell uses them namely in their OptiPlex line).

NLX rocks. You'll have to get a riser card, but you'll never go back to ATX. =)

I have an NLX machine with integrated video sitting under my couch, which is about 8 feet in front of my tv. I have a video card in the machine that can use a TV for output. I put the TV in front of the couch, run all the cabling underneath the carpet, and my 'cable box' stays under the couch. Footstamp is about 14"d x 12"w 3.5"h (i'm guessing. i'm at work, the machine is at home, and it has been under the couch for a few months).

Thanks to a good internet connection, I can stream stuff and watch it on the TV, through the boxen.

A few weeks ago, there was a discussion on that douche-bag giving out free-ads for his own company...I mean, about using ethernet to hook up fibre channel drives. I have a few of those drives and the QLA2100 hooked up to the same machine (the NLX slot riser gives me 2 PCI slots in this case) and I keep all my MP3s on there, except I don't use that pussy ethernet to do it...I use HSSDC as it's intended [thanks Sandin!] (sorry, but 100Mbit is too slow for me ). Since those drives are so damn cheap though, I may get some more and figure out a way to rip DVDs onto a drive and watch them from there. =)

I use W2k Pro on it, just because I didn't want to spend much time mucking with the DVD business with nixen and the video card. I'm sure that someone could get it to work though.

check this or this out...has some info you might find useful =)

check this or this out...has some info you might find useful =)

Search on bp6.com for 'Fibre Channel' and you'll come up with an article about a BP6 user that did this months ago. If you want to skip reading the article, go here or here. Then again, they're using ethernet instead of serial, but that's damn close, IMHO.

Props go to sandin. I've got my qla2100 =)

Search on bp6.com for 'Fibre Channel' and you'll come up with an article about a BP6 user that did this months ago. If you want to skip reading the article, go here or here. Then again, they're using ethernet instead of serial, but that's damn close, IMHO.

Props go to sandin. I've got my qla2100 =)

I take it that this topic is a result of MSNBC's program on the Challenger failure. IMO, it was a fairly well done piece, and it brought tears back to my eyes.

On that tragic morning, our whole school was shocked by the principal's un-scheduled, rushed, and awkwardly worded announcement that "The Space Shuttle blew up." We were particularly affected because my H.S. Calculus teacher was one of the semi-finalist for the Teachers-in-space program. If the failure had not happened, she probably would have gone up in a later shuttle flight.

Edward Tufte (in his excellecnt book, Visual Explanations ) has an interesting section on the Challenger Disaster -- Basically, NASA didn't understand the urgency of the objections from Thiokol engineers because they (NASA) didn't clearly understand the o-ring failure probability. Thiokol engineers gave NASA the tabular data of o-ring failure rates (the data collected from post-flight analyses of past spent SRB's). Had they graphed the data, Tufte claims, NASA would have clearly understood that the SRB's were in an unusable temperature range.

Some people believe that science and technology has advanced to StarTrek-like perfection: a car should tell you that there's a problem with its right front tire, a chemical plant's safety system is multiply redundant and will never fail, a computer will instantly solve your problems if you ask the right questions, and common devices are instantly and infinitely reconfigurable to work in any environment. These are worthy ideal goals to have; but, of course, reality falls far short of these StarTrek dreams. Time and money, limits of practicality, and social and political dynamics combine to form trade-offs that sometimes don't work out.

It might be in somewhat poor taste, but I own a stock-certificate of the Thiokol Corporation as a reminder of the lesson that I learned from the disaster. My fellow engineers will occasionally hear me say "Go with Throttle up" when I feel that a (software) project has been rushed, inadequately designed, and poorly tested. Of these 'doomed projects', 3/5-th of those project 'launches' without significant problems, the next 1/5th has significant problems after launch, and the last 1/5th end up with critical failures which we then have to scramble to contain. Of course, failures are best understood in hindsight. The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes.

It seems people have been bamboozled into thinking that democracy==voting. When I went on the freedom trail tour in Boston, one of the things that struck me is that the revolutionaries (at least in Boston) had a much more radical idea of democracy. To them democracy was about town hall meetings, about mass civic participation. For example, in the Boston Tea Party, although only a handful of people committed the sabotage, 1/3 of the town of Boston marched down with them to support them! That's a big protest! If, in my lifetime, 1/3 of any town is ever gathered in the same spot to do anything but watch a football game (or go to the mall), I will be (happily) suprised.

In Seattle, we all chanted, "This is what democracy looks like". I think that's true. In response to Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts (those radical Massuchetts people again), Jefferson wrote: "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

How did women get the right to vote? Ever see the the pictures of the suffragists picketing outside the white house? How did blacks get civil rights in the south? Remember the Montgomery bus boycott? Democracy is when people take power over their own lives, by taking to the streets or, on a more day-to-day level, by getting involved in school boards, in city councils, in town hall, in the local co-operatively owned grocery store.

With due respects to Laurence J. Peter, going to the voting booth doesn't make you a (small "d") democrat any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

Don't vote. Or do vote. Who cares. If you want to make change, tho, don't whine -- ORGANIZE.

Ah, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Scourge of Liberty and Friend to the Tyrant.

We really must get this damnéd thing repealed.

Of course, if you are in New Jersey, you should go to my old Alma Mater, Rutgers, anyway (where I got my B.A. in English). I think they have a more liberal use policy, here it is http://rucs.rutgers.edu/acceptabl e-use-guide.html