First off, and most importantly, you have no clue as to what the "odds" are on something like that.
Our 'global society' is now consuming way more resources than the planet can sustainably replace. At some point, we're going to have to stop doing so. -- not because it's the good and right thing to do, but rather because we're simply going to run out of stuff (fish, oil, arable land, potable water).
The world population is still growing. As it does, the sustainalbe resources available per capita decreases
When we 'hit the wall' we will be unable to support the kinds of resource skimming that we have been engaging in for the last century. At absolute best, this will mean that the biggest consumers (Mostly North America/Europe) will have a massive drop in standard of living. As a worst case, we'll see millions (possibly billions) of people die off as the planet 'crashes'.
The probable end result is that the planet will be (in the short term -- meaning decades or centuries) less able to support the human population than it was when the 20'th century started. If we don't get smart about this, then the ecological degradation will continue and the sustainable load of the planet will continue to drop until either
Human population is too small to appreciably impact the planet, or
We collectively change our ways to those which support the long term carryin capacity of the global ecosystem.
I, obviously, have my preferences, but I have no idea what society, as a whole, will choose.
Don't worry, the gov't will be fair and release the source for it guys!
You only have to release the source code to people you distribute the hardware to. (If you always distribute the source code with any purchase, there's no need for a 'public release').
This does, however, raise an interesting question: Does physical capture of a UGV classify as 'distribution' requiring a source-code disclosure? More importantly, would enemy lawyers applying for a source-code release order be declared 'unlawful combatants' and shipped off to Guantanimo for 5 years of cross examination?
Micrsoft has scheduled the updates for every 'black friday'. If they start releasing the updates when they're needed, then you'll have security releases all over the place -- destroying any appearance of control that MS pretends to have over the security arena.
Remember: Microsoft appears to be controlled by their marketing department, not their engineering department. In such a regime, appearances are far more important than good customer support.
How hard is it to not run software mailed to you by a stranger?
"The email wasn't from a stranger. It was from my %#@! mother!"
Social engineering, my friend. Social engineering. If you pretend to belong where you don't people are unlikely to ask you to leave. I've had staff at an airport give me a ride from one 'secure' area to another because I looked lik e I belonged, (I didn't realize, at the time, that I was doing anything wrong).
The only way to completely shut down attacks like that is to turn off attachments alltogether. Good luck.
He's free to say whatever he wants -- as long as the interview is pre-cleared with The White House, and he has a political^W PR officer with him in the interview room. (they don't say anything about whether the Political Officer is usually armed).
The prossecutor need not have distinguished between downloading and burning. There is nothing in the statue which distinguishes between the two kinds of copying. If 'making a copy' on your CD makes you culpable, then making a copy by downloading the same image would make you just as culpable. A prosecutor 3 years from now could just as easily 'forget' to make the distinguishment, and throw the book at somebody who accidently
downloaded a kiddi porn flick with the rest of his/her adult purn.
This seems like a most strange way to interpret the law. In my world, 'making a video' generally implies pulling out a video camera and filming something. I think that it would be very fair to presume that the legislature intended to make just such a disginguishment when it set out posession and production as two separate crimes.
Now if the guy videoed kids using his bathroom and shower, that would easily classify as 'making' a video of kids (although whether it would classify as porn Vs. simple violation of privacy might be it's own legal fight).
This seems, to me, like a example of 'good case, bad law'. This guy deserves to be sent up for a long time, but I think that the courts are stretching the law just so that they can give the bastard an extra few years in the slammer.
It was meant to deflect people from the fact that they were realizing that they were getting bad information (disinformation). He was trying to make people feel confused rather than pissed off.
Gates has more money, and even income, than most countries. $30B is a lot of money for most people, but it's not even going to make a dent in Gates' weekly spending allowance.
Then of course, there's the fact that he's trouncing on people's freedom to choose their software, and the ability of the market to freely innovate just so that he can make those billions of dollars.
On the other end of things is a
Canadian diplomat who got blown up because he was (voluntarily) in Afghanistan trying to help the people there recover from decades of civil war.
Now, that is someone I can look up to as a hero.
It depends on how much data you have. If you are already looking at raid 01/10, then going from striping to raid-5 isn't that (relatively) expensive. In terms of added survivability, I'd say that it's a cheap add-on.
I'd expect off-site mirroring to increase the cost by almost an order of magnitued -- and the only thing it gives you is protection from a site disaster. Having done that, I'd still suggest using raid 5 on each plex and/or true raid-10.
When I saw that quote, I said "I think he's been to an introduction to The Landmark Forum. It's a badly mangled quote from the standard introduction. In the introduction, it's meant to push people to think.
Taken out of context and munged by Rumsfield, it's gobbledygook.
It may be slim, but I've had it happen. The problem turned out to be a bad batch of fiber channel tranceivers, but it made my life hell for a month and finally cost me the entire array before we figured it out.
Raid 0+1 has a number of problems relative to true raid-10 in terms of reduncancy:
First of all, there's the problem that if you do lose 2 disks at close enough to the same time (e.g. a bad batch), that you don't have enough time to replace the first before the second goes, then you've got almost a 50% chance that the second bad drive is going to break your data.
The second is that when one drive goes bad, it breaks the entire plex. This means that, if you've got a 1TB of data, you end up copying the entire 1TB when the replacement drive kicks in. This hurts both your redundancy and your performance for a lot longer than just replicating the data that was on the bad drive in true raid-10.
The one problem with doing raid-10 is that I don't know of any drivers that let you do that in hardware and across controllers... (i.e. the solution of putting mirror pairs on the same controller means that, if the controller dies, you've got a broken array).
So for best redundancy, you want:
ctrl1 . ctrl2
dska1 . dskb1
dska2 . dskb2
dska3 . dskb3 .... .....
but you're almost guaranteed to do it in software.
For best perfomance, you can do some of the raiding in hardware (how, exactly, may depend on your application), but
at the cost of either performance or redundancy.
One good tradeoff is RAID 51 -- raid-5 on the controllers and mirror in software.
This means that you can, guraranteed, suffer 3 dead drives without losing data, and one dead drive means simply regenerating the replacemant drive on rebuild -- not the entire plex. At the same time, you have the advantage of offloading some of the work to the controller but you can still lose an entire controller (and a disk) and keep running.
Even if diebold owns the data format, they don't own the raw data. At the very least, the government should be able to hand over the raw data without a detailed description of how to read it.
That having been said: To the extent to which the government contracted to have critical electoral data effectively encrypted and held hostage by a private company, there must be some way to have that declared illegal and/or unconstitutional.
Many years ago, I got handed a client who was hopping mad that we had misdelivered her most recent bill to her best friend. She wanted all sorts of things to cover the slight -- including a refund. I couldn't figure out how this could have possibly happened given what I knew of the system. Finally, I got the friend's phone number and called.
I got the friend to forward me the misdirected message and -- sure enough -- the customer had forwarded the bill to her friend as part of a test message.
This news only got the irate customer more irate. She accused me of incompetence, and lying to her and all sorts of other things. She still wanted a refund.
In the end, I told her I was passing her back to a Customer Support supervisor (I was a senior analyst, not a Customer Support geek, but I helped the second tier CS geeks with the serious problems).
She wanted me to say that it had been a pleasure dealing with her. I declined.
Google knows that they're in Microsoft's sights, so they have to keep moving quickly.
Microsoft has big guns, but they're slow to target. As long as you're not where they're targeting by the time they get around to firing, you're going to be OK.
The humidity measurements increases at night because the cooler air is less capable of holding water than the warm air is. I wouldn't be surprised if absolute humidity (grams of water/metre^3) were the same or lower at night even though relative humidity (% of carrying capacity) is higher.
As the air warms up during the day, the Relative Humidity will drop on a fixed absolute humidity mix.
Wouldn't supercooling the building in the morning be counter-productive?
Outside air is cooler in the morning, so it's easier to get the building cool then. By late midday, the outside temperature is higher, but then so is the inside thermostat settings. This means that, during the whole day, your target temperature is closer to the outside temperature.
I do something similar in the summer. In the evenings and night, I keep the windows wide open to let the cool air in. Come morning, I close the windows to keep that cool air inside and the worm air outside. Lots of trees out front help shade the windows and keep the temperature moderated.
The other part of the study is to lower overall peak consumption. If you widen the load demand and lower the peak usage (early afternoon air conditioning), then you can handle more customers with the same infrastructure -- You probably also have less energy loss if your peak usage is lower.
Solaris 2.5.2 was also sunos 5.2. By the time they got to 5.7, they realized that they could drop both the '2' and the (equivalent) '5' which was now smaller, and simply call it solaris 7.
When palladium/vista/'trusted computing' comes out, most of this capability is going to be built into the OS. Sony will be able to install this garbage and we won't have much say in it because 'trusted' computing is meant to be trusted by companies like Sony, not people like us.
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Our 'global society' is now consuming way more resources than the planet can sustainably replace. At some point, we're going to have to stop doing so. -- not because it's the good and right thing to do, but rather because we're simply going to run out of stuff (fish, oil, arable land, potable water).
The world population is still growing. As it does, the sustainalbe resources available per capita decreases
When we 'hit the wall' we will be unable to support the kinds of resource skimming that we have been engaging in for the last century. At absolute best, this will mean that the biggest consumers (Mostly North America/Europe) will have a massive drop in standard of living. As a worst case, we'll see millions (possibly billions) of people die off as the planet 'crashes'.
The probable end result is that the planet will be (in the short term -- meaning decades or centuries) less able to support the human population than it was when the 20'th century started. If we don't get smart about this, then the ecological degradation will continue and the sustainable load of the planet will continue to drop until either
- Human population is too small to appreciably impact the planet, or
- We collectively change our ways to those which support the long term carryin capacity of the global ecosystem.
I, obviously, have my preferences, but I have no idea what society, as a whole, will choose.You mean, like, make it unconstitutional???
Oh yeah. I can just see it now --- the F42 emperor penguin!
(scaring the B'Jesus out of red herrings worldwide!)
You only have to release the source code to people you distribute the hardware to. (If you always distribute the source code with any purchase, there's no need for a 'public release').
This does, however, raise an interesting question: Does physical capture of a UGV classify as 'distribution' requiring a source-code disclosure?
More importantly, would enemy lawyers applying for a source-code release order be declared 'unlawful combatants' and shipped off to Guantanimo for 5 years of cross examination?
We're getting real close to the first 'killer app' for Linux.
Remember: Microsoft appears to be controlled by their marketing department, not their engineering department. In such a regime, appearances are far more important than good customer support.
"The email wasn't from a stranger. It was from my %#@! mother!"
Social engineering, my friend. Social engineering. If you pretend to belong where you don't people are unlikely to ask you to leave. I've had staff at an airport give me a ride from one 'secure' area to another because I looked lik e I belonged, (I didn't realize, at the time, that I was doing anything wrong).
The only way to completely shut down attacks like that is to turn off attachments alltogether. Good luck.
It was good while it lasted.
He's free to say whatever he wants -- as long as the interview is pre-cleared with The White House, and he has a political^W PR officer with him in the interview room. (they don't say anything about whether the Political Officer is usually armed).
This seems like a most strange way to interpret the law. In my world, 'making a video' generally implies pulling out a video camera and filming something. I think that it would be very fair to presume that the legislature intended to make just such a disginguishment when it set out posession and production as two separate crimes.
Now if the guy videoed kids using his bathroom and shower, that would easily classify as 'making' a video of kids (although whether it would classify as porn Vs. simple violation of privacy might be it's own legal fight).
This seems, to me, like a example of 'good case, bad law'. This guy deserves to be sent up for a long time, but I think that the courts are stretching the law just so that they can give the bastard an extra few years in the slammer.
It was meant to deflect people from the fact that they were realizing that they were getting bad information (disinformation). He was trying to make people feel confused rather than pissed off.
Then of course, there's the fact that he's trouncing on people's freedom to choose their software, and the ability of the market to freely innovate just so that he can make those billions of dollars.
On the other end of things is a Canadian diplomat who got blown up because he was (voluntarily) in Afghanistan trying to help the people there recover from decades of civil war.
Now, that is someone I can look up to as a hero.
I'd expect off-site mirroring to increase the cost by almost an order of magnitued -- and the only thing it gives you is protection from a site disaster. Having done that, I'd still suggest using raid 5 on each plex and/or true raid-10.
When I saw that quote, I said "I think he's been to an introduction to The Landmark Forum. It's a badly mangled quote from the standard introduction. In the introduction, it's meant to push people to think.
Taken out of context and munged by Rumsfield, it's gobbledygook.
It may be slim, but I've had it happen. The problem turned out to be a bad batch of fiber channel tranceivers, but it made my life hell for a month and finally cost me the entire array before we figured it out.
Raid 0+1 has a number of problems relative to true raid-10 in terms of reduncancy:
First of all, there's the problem that if you do lose 2 disks at close enough to the same time (e.g. a bad batch), that you don't have enough time to replace the first before the second goes, then you've got almost a 50% chance that the second bad drive is going to break your data.
The second is that when one drive goes bad, it breaks the entire plex. This means that, if you've got a 1TB of data, you end up copying the entire 1TB when the replacement drive kicks in. This hurts both your redundancy and your performance for a lot longer than just replicating the data that was on the bad drive in true raid-10.
The one problem with doing raid-10 is that I don't know of any drivers that let you do that in hardware and across controllers... (i.e. the solution of putting mirror pairs on the same controller means that, if the controller dies, you've got a broken array).
So for best redundancy, you want:
.... . ....
ctrl1 . ctrl2
dska1 . dskb1
dska2 . dskb2
dska3 . dskb3
but you're almost guaranteed to do it in software.
For best perfomance, you can do some of the raiding in hardware (how, exactly, may depend on your application), but at the cost of either performance or redundancy.
One good tradeoff is RAID 51 -- raid-5 on the controllers and mirror in software. This means that you can, guraranteed, suffer 3 dead drives without losing data, and one dead drive means simply regenerating the replacemant drive on rebuild -- not the entire plex. At the same time, you have the advantage of offloading some of the work to the controller but you can still lose an entire controller (and a disk) and keep running.
That having been said: To the extent to which the government contracted to have critical electoral data effectively encrypted and held hostage by a private company, there must be some way to have that declared illegal and/or unconstitutional.
I got the friend to forward me the misdirected message and -- sure enough -- the customer had forwarded the bill to her friend as part of a test message.
This news only got the irate customer more irate. She accused me of incompetence, and lying to her and all sorts of other things. She still wanted a refund.
In the end, I told her I was passing her back to a Customer Support supervisor (I was a senior analyst, not a Customer Support geek, but I helped the second tier CS geeks with the serious problems).
She wanted me to say that it had been a pleasure dealing with her. I declined.
Microsoft has big guns, but they're slow to target. As long as you're not where they're targeting by the time they get around to firing, you're going to be OK.
The humidity measurements increases at night because the cooler air is less capable of holding water than the warm air is. I wouldn't be surprised if absolute humidity (grams of water/metre^3) were the same or lower at night even though relative humidity (% of carrying capacity) is higher.
As the air warms up during the day, the Relative Humidity will drop on a fixed absolute humidity mix.
Outside air is cooler in the morning, so it's easier to get the building cool then. By late midday, the outside temperature is higher, but then so is the inside thermostat settings. This means that, during the whole day, your target temperature is closer to the outside temperature.
I do something similar in the summer. In the evenings and night, I keep the windows wide open to let the cool air in. Come morning, I close the windows to keep that cool air inside and the worm air outside. Lots of trees out front help shade the windows and keep the temperature moderated.
The other part of the study is to lower overall peak consumption.
If you widen the load demand and lower the peak usage (early afternoon air conditioning), then you can handle more customers with the same infrastructure -- You probably also have less energy loss if your peak usage is lower.
Why would poking fun at the idiot christians cause a rift between science and everything christian?
Try putting extra quotes around "Everything Christian".
It may not be what the original poster intended, but it makes way more sense to me.
I don't sea why you get so up tight about a couple of comma's?
I have a memo to go write....
Solaris 2.5.2 was also sunos 5.2. By the time they got to 5.7, they realized that they could drop both the '2' and the (equivalent) '5' which was now smaller, and simply call it solaris 7.
When palladium/vista/'trusted computing' comes out, most of this capability is going to be built into the OS. Sony will be able to install this garbage and we won't have much say in it because 'trusted' computing is meant to be trusted by companies like Sony, not people like us.