Traffic Lights are a huge problem for cars that can't reach the +5-10MPH above the flow of traffic that you state. Some very inappropriately placed lights; like on the middle of an f'ing hill, make accelerating to traffic flow speeds impossible for most drivers. IMO, traffic lights (lights for merging onto the freeway) hurt more than they seem to help.
Thats not true. I own tons of series on DVD, one of the more annoying thing is only having a few episodes on a disc usually 5-6 if they are in good format. So when you have a series of 100-200 episodes on DVD, for multiple series' the amount of DVD's you have to keep becomes kinda ridiculous. None of these are High Def either, they're just standard DVD quality.
This could end up making life easier on the ring leaders of most botnets. The two purposes I generally see these botnets used for when I worked at a data center were generally to nuke a host offline, or slowly and subtly raise the average bandwidth of a host thereby incurring extreme monthly bandwidth charges to them. Generally, they will extort money from the victim by these means.
Say that this technology is tricked into believing that uninvolved host "X" is part of a botnet; now host "X" is effectively knocked off line or hassled into some troubling TOS issue with their provider due to suspected illegal activity. Mission accomplished for the botnet owners.
It really depends on how it "disrupts" the botnet. The article doesn't clearly state how this is done.
There is a cheaper desktop model that most users could easily use. A workstation like that isn't needed for someone who only uses office, outlook, sometimes a browser. Which is the typical usage by the average Joe/Jane (Jone? Jae? Jae sounds more hip.) in the work place. These are all non-corporate prices though. Not really worth mentioning them when talking about larger businesses.
http://www.hp.com/sbso/buyguides/pg_desktops.html? jumpid=re_R2515_product/solutions/computing/deskto p_buy_guide
I think of this discrimination as a double-edged sword situation. I've met plenty of "geeks" (geeks to people who perceive them as such) who were going into computer science type fields, but weren't really any good at the field nor really interested. I've thought to myself plenty of times that it seems they are just trying to be good at what everyone expects a person who looks like, and acts like they do, to do. If that makes any sense. What I am trying to say is that subtle expectations of people can really be a driving force in their life, and pressure of this sort knows no gender, race, or group.
I've heard plenty of people say to me, as I am repairing their poor computers, "Wow, you don't look like the type of person who would be good with this sort of thing". I just give a sigh and keep hacking away.
I guess you could say discrimination is indiscriminate.:)
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I'll throw my lot in with you. If this actually is true, and they go through with it, I will not buy it. At this point I would say that Vista and AMD have something in common. I mean other than DRM.;P
Vista and AMD will both have a selling point (vista's security and amd's "drm enhancement") end up being a *huge* consideration by the consumer.
Although, it might be possible to use a move like this to force most consumers to take a step back from the industry while AMD isn't doing so hot. After they catch up on technology, maybe they'll remove the DRM to get attention back on themselves again?
I'm just throwing ideas out there. *puts on his tin foil hat*
*start off topic*
Yeah, I have to say this isn't uncommon. Many already use ``American'' as an insult referring to U.S. citizens. Although I always found the title "American" to be a bit arrogant. Wouldn't anyone living on the American continent be an American? Most U.S. citizens refer to themselves as simply Americans, but would refer to someone from say Venezuela as a Mexican. Even though, once again, both Mexican people and Venezuelan people are also Americans. Anyhow, referring to groups of peoples with derogatory intentions is wrong. No matter what country you live in, no one is beyond the title of idiot.:)
*end off topic*
Getting back to the whole Google using another's database though. I wonder if it was just the actions of one within the company or actually planned out by management. I might consider this just one person's laziness getting the better of the company, or possibly a misunderstanding between of what they can and can't use. Either way, direct copies are no-no's. Even younger children in school know to at least switch words around or intentionally induce a mistake into their work.;D
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This sounds really funny if you read it as though "Comic Book Guy" from The Simpsons were saying it.
Traffic Lights are a huge problem for cars that can't reach the +5-10MPH above the flow of traffic that you state. Some very inappropriately placed lights; like on the middle of an f'ing hill, make accelerating to traffic flow speeds impossible for most drivers. IMO, traffic lights (lights for merging onto the freeway) hurt more than they seem to help.
Thats not true. I own tons of series on DVD, one of the more annoying thing is only having a few episodes on a disc usually 5-6 if they are in good format. So when you have a series of 100-200 episodes on DVD, for multiple series' the amount of DVD's you have to keep becomes kinda ridiculous. None of these are High Def either, they're just standard DVD quality.
This could end up making life easier on the ring leaders of most botnets. The two purposes I generally see these botnets used for when I worked at a data center were generally to nuke a host offline, or slowly and subtly raise the average bandwidth of a host thereby incurring extreme monthly bandwidth charges to them. Generally, they will extort money from the victim by these means.
Say that this technology is tricked into believing that uninvolved host "X" is part of a botnet; now host "X" is effectively knocked off line or hassled into some troubling TOS issue with their provider due to suspected illegal activity. Mission accomplished for the botnet owners.
It really depends on how it "disrupts" the botnet. The article doesn't clearly state how this is done.
http://store.madtux.org/index.php?cPath=57&osCsid= ab13235458a21b30b17c7b68d351ff71
Or those same users could use open office, evolution, and firefox. ;D
There is a cheaper desktop model that most users could easily use. A workstation like that isn't needed for someone who only uses office, outlook, sometimes a browser. Which is the typical usage by the average Joe/Jane (Jone? Jae? Jae sounds more hip.) in the work place. These are all non-corporate prices though. Not really worth mentioning them when talking about larger businesses. http://www.hp.com/sbso/buyguides/pg_desktops.html? jumpid=re_R2515_product/solutions/computing/deskto p_buy_guide
I think of this discrimination as a double-edged sword situation. I've met plenty of "geeks" (geeks to people who perceive them as such) who were going into computer science type fields, but weren't really any good at the field nor really interested. I've thought to myself plenty of times that it seems they are just trying to be good at what everyone expects a person who looks like, and acts like they do, to do. If that makes any sense. What I am trying to say is that subtle expectations of people can really be a driving force in their life, and pressure of this sort knows no gender, race, or group.
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I've heard plenty of people say to me, as I am repairing their poor computers, "Wow, you don't look like the type of person who would be good with this sort of thing". I just give a sigh and keep hacking away.
I guess you could say discrimination is indiscriminate.
I'll throw my lot in with you. If this actually is true, and they go through with it, I will not buy it. At this point I would say that Vista and AMD have something in common. I mean other than DRM. ;P
Vista and AMD will both have a selling point (vista's security and amd's "drm enhancement") end up being a *huge* consideration by the consumer.
Although, it might be possible to use a move like this to force most consumers to take a step back from the industry while AMD isn't doing so hot. After they catch up on technology, maybe they'll remove the DRM to get attention back on themselves again?
I'm just throwing ideas out there. *puts on his tin foil hat*
*start off topic* Yeah, I have to say this isn't uncommon. Many already use ``American'' as an insult referring to U.S. citizens. Although I always found the title "American" to be a bit arrogant. Wouldn't anyone living on the American continent be an American? Most U.S. citizens refer to themselves as simply Americans, but would refer to someone from say Venezuela as a Mexican. Even though, once again, both Mexican people and Venezuelan people are also Americans. Anyhow, referring to groups of peoples with derogatory intentions is wrong. No matter what country you live in, no one is beyond the title of idiot. :)
*end off topic*
Getting back to the whole Google using another's database though. I wonder if it was just the actions of one within the company or actually planned out by management. I might consider this just one person's laziness getting the better of the company, or possibly a misunderstanding between of what they can and can't use. Either way, direct copies are no-no's. Even younger children in school know to at least switch words around or intentionally induce a mistake into their work. ;D