Except in such a case you just have to exploit one box and you get access to the rest. There went all your brilliant planning and schemes.
No, you would probably just get access to the one box (and others identical to it). You generally would not get access to the other boxes, unless they share essentially the same vulnerability. GP's point was that a monoculture can be devastated by a single assault, but a mixed ecosystem is much more difficult to damage severely.
Minor clarification of GP post: the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s was dominated by a single variety of potato - the Lumper - which exacerbated the effect of a single strain of potato blight. The equivalent in computers would be all PCs running the same version of Windows with the same selection of programs, patches and protections: a disaster waiting to happen.
Half? About one twentieth of the world (by population) writes it month/day or month/day/year, in the so-called "middle-endian" form. The other nineteen twentieths mostly write it day/month or day/month/year, in the so-called "little-endian" form. The ISO 8601 standard is the "big-endian form" year-month-day which is used in a few countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format#Date_format
Vuze's bloat problem isn't Java.
It's feature creep. Sometimes I just want to download a torrent.
I'd call it malfeature creep with a commercial bent, in an unnatural union with a hideously malformed GUI.
I installed Vuze innocently and optimistically enough, but as soon as I started it and saw the abomination appear, its days - nay, minutes - on my system were numbered. It was utterly expunged after a quick kill.
It's far from the best SF book on the shelves. I read it when it came out, and many aspects grated quite irritatingly, especially the fandom crap superposed on the story. It was perhaps the only book with Niven among its authors which I almost abandoned before finishing, and never re-read. However, the book did criticise the mindless pursuit of eco-ideals far beyond their justification (which the GP alluded to), and this was one of its good points. Fallen Angels appeared to be too much by Pournelle and too little by Niven or Flynn, IMO.
TFA and the summary both state that the broker "started to force sell, even at a loss, charging the losses to the customers". However, they are silent on what happened to those who were ahead on their trades. Did they get to keep the profits?
Perhaps in value of crops or music, but in area it's the other way around: there are 2.75 Jamaicas in a Belgium.
Jamaica is 11100 sq.km, Belgium is 30528 sq.km, according to their respective Wikipedia pages.
So let me get this straight, your suggesting we ignore the leak in the hull and keep bailing?
I don't exactly agree with GP either, but I think he's suggesting we invest in powerful bilge pumps (to continue your analogy). At least he didn't suggest the other landlubber approach to a leaky vessel: "If water's flowing in through this hole, then let's make a bigger hole lower down so it can flow back out..."
So-called clean coal comes to mind, along with all of the arguments why less-developed countries should be allowed to increase their greenhouse emissions.
A friend pointed me to this site, (possibly NSFW depending on certain links) which has a couple of people going inside North Korea to shoot video. What they shoot is not concentration camps. It's not executions. It's not poverty (strictly speaking). It's just the completely bizarre world that is North Korea.
Hey, thanks for that link; very interesting videos.
Someone mod this guy up as informative. I'd do it myself, but I already posted earlier in this thread.
...in a faux-german accent, as a parody of Werner von Braun:
"I aim for ze stars, but zumtimes I hit London"
Dunno what a faux-Korean accent would be, but I expect a few one-liners like this about the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il and his communications satellite aspirations.
Filing a Statutory Invention registration costs $920, with no discount for small entity. It's much cheaper to file an application and abandon it. Filing costs $330 or $165 for small entity (you are almost certainly a small entity). The filing fee can be higher if your application has a rather large number of claims or a complicated claim dependency structure. Here is the current fee schedule at the US PTO:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009january01_2009jan12.htm
Either way, you must conform to the required format for the filing. Special attention must be given to drawings, so that labels and textual descriptions in drawings match the associated descriptions in the text specification (and all drawings must have descriptions). Drawings may NOT be in colour, or employ shading to distinguish areas - only cross-hatching or other fill patterns are allowed. The application must be accompanied by copies of any references or prior art cited. This is to ensure that your disclosure will be interpreted in the correct way later, even if you abandon it. Before it is printed, there may be requests for formal changes.
If, by "surrender", you mean label the Catalan version of the game as French, then I agree. Let them fight over the definition of a language (if they refer to Catalan as Spanish, they'll discover what a real fight is).
Alternatively, just label the Spanish version as French. Then let them study the dialect of French spoken in rural parts of the Haute-Pyrenees departement of France (it's also intermediate between French and Spanish, but differing from Catalan). The inhabitants insist that it's French with no traces of Spanish.
VLC has an amazing GUI (Especially at full-screen mode) for OSX, and the linux version isn't far behind. I don't see why VLC for WIN32 has to be so awful, considering that Win32 is by far their largest audience.
Thanks for that comment. It was very mysterious that there were so many negative comments on VLC, but nearly all were from Windows users. I use VLC and MPlayer on Ubuntu, and find them both excellent in performance and with good - but different - interfaces. They can handle every DVD and video file I throw at them, and their interfaces are quite nice in their own ways.
So how exactly does the VLC interface differ between Windows and Linux? Does the Windows VLC really suck that badly?
...and there are studies that say a short nap during the workday make people more productive.
My wife and I work in the same department, and occasionally take a "nap" together in a spare office. Curiously, this seems to reduce the productivity of our colleagues, who often look annoyed after our "nap".
Damn right, we're annoyed. Those "offices" may have real doors, but they only have fabric walls...
This just means that you are an abusive user who should pay a hell of a lot more than I do for Internet access. I only use 1 to 2GB per month, since I rarely do bulk downloading. I think every plan should include 10GB of throughput and each additional GB should be an additional charge. Then assholes like yourself can pay your own way rather than sponging off my payments.
WTF? I live in Finland, so it's most unlikely that you're subsidizing my internet access.
You're talking through your ass with the "abusive user" allegation, too. My ISP has two 10Gb switches as uplink for the local fiber network I'm attached to, and there are just a few hundred fiber subscribers. The optical switch they installed in my house can serve 8 cat6 ports at full speed (and 800Mb is only a fraction of the fiber's bandwidth) - they have clearly planned for us using far more bandwidth than we do today. Even if I used 1TB per month, that would only average 3Mb per second, or about 3% of the capacity of one cat6 port. The current pair of 10Gb switches can handle 700 houses with throughput like that. As I said, our monthly usage is generally less than 400GB, so the switches could handle 1700 houses like ours. In fact, every other fiber customer they have could be using MORE bandwidth than us, and it still would not affect my bandwidth.
Our ISP has done it right: they have adequately provisioned the infrastructure. We don't need to care how much bandwidth our neighbours are using, and they don't need to care how much we're using. The ISP has also overprovisioned the so-called "last mile" segments to each house. The bottleneck, when it arrives, will be the pair of 10Gb switches, which are the easiest to upgrade (much faster switches are already available).
FYI, I pay euro55 per month for the internet access, and also get IP TV and a package of pay channels. The ISP must consider it profitable, as they offer the same package to others, too. Here (Hiltulanlahti in rural Finland, actually), ISPs do not persecute their customers with miserly third-world usage caps. In Helsinki, of course, a similar package starts at about euro45 per month.
Just out of interest, how much are you paying for the few GB you use monthly? And which city/state/region is it, just for the record.
40Gb, as in gigabits??? I suppose they'll generously up that to 40GB as in gigabytes.
Now if they made it 400GB, we'd probably stay below the cap most months. There have been a few months when we've been above 500GB, but have never broken the 1TB level. Our service is capped at 100Mb per second, every second of the month. If we saturated it, we'd reach 1TB in about a day.
And in answer to the inevitable question: no we're not sharing movies or music. Having a high bandwidth means you access more stuff, and don't worry how many MB anything is.
About 5% of Finns are Swedish-speaking (depends on what counts, but according to Wikipedia, at the end of 2007, that's how many self-identify as such), although practically all of them are fairly fluent in Finnish.
Humph. That's true enough around Uusimaa, but not necessarily so in the countryside near Turku. If you don't speak Swedish there, you're better off trying English instead of Finnish.
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Except in such a case you just have to exploit one box and you get access to the rest. There went all your brilliant planning and schemes.
No, you would probably just get access to the one box (and others identical to it). You generally would not get access to the other boxes, unless they share essentially the same vulnerability. GP's point was that a monoculture can be devastated by a single assault, but a mixed ecosystem is much more difficult to damage severely.
Minor clarification of GP post: the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s was dominated by a single variety of potato - the Lumper - which exacerbated the effect of a single strain of potato blight. The equivalent in computers would be all PCs running the same version of Windows with the same selection of programs, patches and protections: a disaster waiting to happen.
Half the world writes it 4/1 the other half 1/4
Half? About one twentieth of the world (by population) writes it month/day or month/day/year, in the so-called "middle-endian" form. The other nineteen twentieths mostly write it day/month or day/month/year, in the so-called "little-endian" form. The ISO 8601 standard is the "big-endian form" year-month-day which is used in a few countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format#Date_format
Vuze's bloat problem isn't Java.
It's feature creep. Sometimes I just want to download a torrent.
I'd call it malfeature creep with a commercial bent, in an unnatural union with a hideously malformed GUI.
I installed Vuze innocently and optimistically enough, but as soon as I started it and saw the abomination appear, its days - nay, minutes - on my system were numbered. It was utterly expunged after a quick kill.
And the security fix they were working on is to replace your firewall with a Stonewall (the brand name for this device, curously enough, is Jackson).
It's far from the best SF book on the shelves. I read it when it came out, and many aspects grated quite irritatingly, especially the fandom crap superposed on the story. It was perhaps the only book with Niven among its authors which I almost abandoned before finishing, and never re-read. However, the book did criticise the mindless pursuit of eco-ideals far beyond their justification (which the GP alluded to), and this was one of its good points.
Fallen Angels appeared to be too much by Pournelle and too little by Niven or Flynn, IMO.
Are also called testicles, and most offices lack them.
TFA and the summary both state that the broker "started to force sell, even at a loss, charging the losses to the customers". However, they are silent on what happened to those who were ahead on their trades. Did they get to keep the profits?
There are 2.75 Belgiums in a Jamaca.
Perhaps in value of crops or music, but in area it's the other way around: there are 2.75 Jamaicas in a Belgium.
Jamaica is 11100 sq.km, Belgium is 30528 sq.km, according to their respective Wikipedia pages.
So let me get this straight, your suggesting we ignore the leak in the hull and keep bailing?
I don't exactly agree with GP either, but I think he's suggesting we invest in powerful bilge pumps (to continue your analogy). At least he didn't suggest the other landlubber approach to a leaky vessel: "If water's flowing in through this hole, then let's make a bigger hole lower down so it can flow back out..."
So-called clean coal comes to mind, along with all of the arguments why less-developed countries should be allowed to increase their greenhouse emissions.
Would they call it SunHat or RedSun?
BrownPants, I expect.
...but I do NOT want to grow man-boobs!
[and my wife is already properly-shaped]
A friend pointed me to this site, (possibly NSFW depending on certain links) which has a couple of people going inside North Korea to shoot video. What they shoot is not concentration camps. It's not executions. It's not poverty (strictly speaking). It's just the completely bizarre world that is North Korea.
Hey, thanks for that link; very interesting videos.
Someone mod this guy up as informative. I'd do it myself, but I already posted earlier in this thread.
...in a faux-german accent, as a parody of Werner von Braun:
"I aim for ze stars, but zumtimes I hit London"
Dunno what a faux-Korean accent would be, but I expect a few one-liners like this about the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il and his communications satellite aspirations.
We're better than North Korea.
Or did you mean "our Germans are better than their Germans"?
Cue the Right Stuff (or Dr. Strangelove) follow-up.
Filing a Statutory Invention registration costs $920, with no discount for small entity. It's much cheaper to file an application and abandon it. Filing costs $330 or $165 for small entity (you are almost certainly a small entity). The filing fee can be higher if your application has a rather large number of claims or a complicated claim dependency structure. Here is the current fee schedule at the US PTO: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009january01_2009jan12.htm
Either way, you must conform to the required format for the filing. Special attention must be given to drawings, so that labels and textual descriptions in drawings match the associated descriptions in the text specification (and all drawings must have descriptions). Drawings may NOT be in colour, or employ shading to distinguish areas - only cross-hatching or other fill patterns are allowed. The application must be accompanied by copies of any references or prior art cited. This is to ensure that your disclosure will be interpreted in the correct way later, even if you abandon it. Before it is printed, there may be requests for formal changes.
I recommend you become familiar with the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.htm
What, no manbearpig tag?
Looks like its about time to surrender, eh?
If, by "surrender", you mean label the Catalan version of the game as French, then I agree. Let them fight over the definition of a language (if they refer to Catalan as Spanish, they'll discover what a real fight is).
Alternatively, just label the Spanish version as French. Then let them study the dialect of French spoken in rural parts of the Haute-Pyrenees departement of France (it's also intermediate between French and Spanish, but differing from Catalan). The inhabitants insist that it's French with no traces of Spanish.
Wow, that was quick. I'm very surprised that AT&T didn't even try to tough it out.
AT&T executive's kid: "Waaaaah! You make me use AT&T! Waaaaah!"
AT&T executive: "There, there, it must be just a mistake..."
VLC has an amazing GUI (Especially at full-screen mode) for OSX, and the linux version isn't far behind. I don't see why VLC for WIN32 has to be so awful, considering that Win32 is by far their largest audience.
Thanks for that comment. It was very mysterious that there were so many negative comments on VLC, but nearly all were from Windows users. I use VLC and MPlayer on Ubuntu, and find them both excellent in performance and with good - but different - interfaces. They can handle every DVD and video file I throw at them, and their interfaces are quite nice in their own ways.
So how exactly does the VLC interface differ between Windows and Linux? Does the Windows VLC really suck that badly?
...and there are studies that say a short nap during the workday make people more productive.
My wife and I work in the same department, and occasionally take a "nap" together in a spare office. Curiously, this seems to reduce the productivity of our colleagues, who often look annoyed after our "nap".
Damn right, we're annoyed. Those "offices" may have real doors, but they only have fabric walls...
I'm sure my boss is going to be thrilled since he's looking over my shoulder reading this page as I type comments instead of doing my work.
Switch to surfing porn. It will make him even happier!
This just means that you are an abusive user who should pay a hell of a lot more than I do for Internet access. I only use 1 to 2GB per month, since I rarely do bulk downloading. I think every plan should include 10GB of throughput and each additional GB should be an additional charge. Then assholes like yourself can pay your own way rather than sponging off my payments.
WTF? I live in Finland, so it's most unlikely that you're subsidizing my internet access.
You're talking through your ass with the "abusive user" allegation, too. My ISP has two 10Gb switches as uplink for the local fiber network I'm attached to, and there are just a few hundred fiber subscribers. The optical switch they installed in my house can serve 8 cat6 ports at full speed (and 800Mb is only a fraction of the fiber's bandwidth) - they have clearly planned for us using far more bandwidth than we do today. Even if I used 1TB per month, that would only average 3Mb per second, or about 3% of the capacity of one cat6 port. The current pair of 10Gb switches can handle 700 houses with throughput like that. As I said, our monthly usage is generally less than 400GB, so the switches could handle 1700 houses like ours. In fact, every other fiber customer they have could be using MORE bandwidth than us, and it still would not affect my bandwidth.
Our ISP has done it right: they have adequately provisioned the infrastructure. We don't need to care how much bandwidth our neighbours are using, and they don't need to care how much we're using. The ISP has also overprovisioned the so-called "last mile" segments to each house. The bottleneck, when it arrives, will be the pair of 10Gb switches, which are the easiest to upgrade (much faster switches are already available).
FYI, I pay euro55 per month for the internet access, and also get IP TV and a package of pay channels. The ISP must consider it profitable, as they offer the same package to others, too. Here (Hiltulanlahti in rural Finland, actually), ISPs do not persecute their customers with miserly third-world usage caps. In Helsinki, of course, a similar package starts at about euro45 per month.
Just out of interest, how much are you paying for the few GB you use monthly? And which city/state/region is it, just for the record.
40Gb, as in gigabits??? I suppose they'll generously up that to 40GB as in gigabytes.
Now if they made it 400GB, we'd probably stay below the cap most months. There have been a few months when we've been above 500GB, but have never broken the 1TB level. Our service is capped at 100Mb per second, every second of the month. If we saturated it, we'd reach 1TB in about a day.
And in answer to the inevitable question: no we're not sharing movies or music. Having a high bandwidth means you access more stuff, and don't worry how many MB anything is.
'nuff said, check today's date.
About 5% of Finns are Swedish-speaking (depends on what counts, but according to Wikipedia, at the end of 2007, that's how many self-identify as such), although practically all of them are fairly fluent in Finnish.
Humph. That's true enough around Uusimaa, but not necessarily so in the countryside near Turku. If you don't speak Swedish there, you're better off trying English instead of Finnish.