Yeah but how much of that $131 billion that Citi has is part of the bad mortgage scheme that happened? Could it be that they're overstating their revenues using fancy pants accounting?
The unfortunate thing is that none of these companies seem to be using the H-1B visa program for its intended purpose. Recruiting highly skilled, highly intelligent professionals from abroad.
You know what happens when an individual abuses a right or privilege they've been given... They lose it. It's about time that companies lose the privilege of H-1B visas.
You're forgetting how many zombie computers there are in existence that can be used at a hacker's whim to crack such... But that aside being able to use processing power on other things like PS3's and what not could help speed things up particularly if you can make their GPU's do what you want as well.
1) SSL as it stands for HTTPS and what not typically uses key lengths anywhere from 128-bit all the way up to 4096-bit. 2) WEP/WPA requires the router to decrypt all packets over the wireless network so it can route them. 3) Longer keys = More Processing power required. 4) Encrypting and Decrypting everything may involve a performance hit without more processing power.
End Result: You want it more secure, the router is gonna need more RAM and CPU power to pull it off which means instead of picking up a wireless router for $40-60 for consumer grade stuff it'll probably end up more like $80-120.
Actually its sorta like a car... You can drive your car @ 160 MPH everytime you use it and end up with a shitbox that needs to be in the shop every few weeks... Or you can drive it at a sensible 60 MPH with a bit of preventative maintenance it'll last basically for as long as you'll need it to.
Yeah the whole 'ZOMG RACIAL PROFILING!' crap is garbage.
Those 9/11 Hijackers all had something in common and it wasn't their height. You can cry about racial profiling but if 75% of martians are committing laser pistol crimes then if you want to stop laser pistol crimes you're gonna look at martians.
Replace Martians and Laser Pistol Crimes with any race and crime you feel like...
Might not affect you in particular but someone in the market for a new car will look at the prices... $20-30k vs $40-50k for an electric... That Electric is gonna be looking alot more tempting and as for the cost of gas... its gone up from about 80-90 cents a litre up here in Canada to about 120-140 cents and its only going to go up.
So doubling in gas costs isnt entirely out of the realm of possibility over the next 10 years or even in the realm of 5 years.
Well considering the engines Tesla Roadster uses are about 100lbs, you're immediately saving 200lbs vs an Internal Combustion Engine if the typical engine weighs 300 lbs. Also most cars are made out of a steel or aluminum skeleton with plastic coverings.
Oh BTW, Tesla Motors is also planning on a 'family' type car in the $50k range soon if I remember one of their press releases correctly. Thats getting pretty close to the sweet spot for people to buy into electric car technology. As the price of oil and gasoline keeps going up, it will make more and more sense to buy a slightly more expensive car that you can fill up the charge on for a measly 12 cents.
All they need to do is use a less powerful engine that gets the 'family' type car to 80 MPH instead of the 125 MPH the Roadster gets to cut a portion of the costs.
You are entirely right. A hybrid car makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever. Todays hybrids basically use a big gas motor and an electric motor to help go easier on the gas. The problem with this method is that its carrying TWO BIG ENGINES so more weight means you have to be that much more efficient. If you want to help save the environment you'd build a fully electric car but the problem with that is electric motors are retardedly simple and surprisingly clean to maintain (only a little grease/oil on the moving parts).
The idea behind plug-in hybrids is to make the electric motor the big engine and have a small gasoline motor who's only job is to charge the batteries when they get low. This makes a bit more sense than the current hybrid model does as your primary source of 'fuel' is your batteries. If you don't go very far like what is it 60-80 miles a day you probably don't need an Internal Combustion Engine in the first place. Electric cars have a 60-80 mile range currently and that pretty much covers your typical urbanites driving habits well enough. A plug-in hybrid with a gasoline engine for recharging purposes would be more than enough for anyone except for long haul trips for those things like gasoline and possibly hydrogen or biodiesel in the coming years might be popular for road trips.
So Open Source Developers will be allowed to say...
Fire off shotgun lawsuits hoping to hit someone who committed infringement because there must be pirates out there. Also to send extortion letters to said pirates offering to forget taking them to court for thousands of $$$?
Oh wait that only applies to big companies I forgot, Open Source Developers are usually individuals or groups of individuals with limited funds.
If he has 4 GB of RAM then an 8 GB swap partition either
1) Wont be used
or
2) Be too big/slow to be worth a damn
My advice would be to just throw 512MB-1GB of Swap Space and make that the standard instead of some arbitrary 2x RAM. We're getting to the point where 2-4 GB is becoming standard sizes. Sooner or later we'll be seeing 4-8GB or 8-16GB becoming standard sizes (not much more than that before 64 bit CPUs and 64 bit addressing though!). Do we really need 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of Swap space? I honestly dont think very many programs use that much anymore any extra RAM you get will either be used only when gaming OR for multitasking (IE. Browser + Office + IM Programs + etc...)
Only thing they'll be good for DoS attacking is something in Japan because they'll instantly hit a bottleneck of epic proportions the moment they try to touch the US Network with all its bandwidth problems:P
I think some ISP in Japan recently capped their users at like 250 GB A DAY... Whatever Japan is doing is what the US should be doing in terms of expanding their network. I understand theres alot more problems like distance and such but still.
No Pirating Software isnt 'Illegal' it is a civil law matter until the Intellectual Property lobbies actually force a law that makes all piracy a federal offense so the US can put 10% of its population into jail instead of just the 1% they're doing at the moment.
They expect us to trust that their system will have no false positives and no false negatives when they cant even get SPAM FILTERING done properly...
Lets frame it in the context of Japan... They have a cap of what is it? 200 gigs a day? Why cant the US get that sort of infrastructure? Is Fiber that expensive to set up? I thought it just used glass which is basically boiled sand and there is plenty of sand out there.
Have you really paid attention? CD sales are way down, far more than online sales are up.
Could it be because oh I dont know... People have huge racks of CD's already? People didnt rush out to buy CD's when they came out because they still had lots on vinyl.
They're losing sales because guess what every single song is a formulaic ripoff. Who needs Brittany Spears Ripoff #2987 when you have Brittany Spears Ripoffs #1-8.
Or maybe it could be that people arent buying because they heard about the Sony Rootkit Fiasco? Who wants a CD that is going to $*&# your computer up?
Or it could be because of their strong arm tactics of the RIAA leaving a sour taste in people's mouths giving them a reason to search out and check out independent labels?
If you think he's just doing it based on his own interpretation then I think you're not giving him credit where it is due. More than likely he's gotten reports from the engineers who worked on the technology you know the ones he's probably paying like $100k a year to do this for him.
Interesting... Surprised you dont work for the Bush Administration:D
You might be able to get away with claiming that men between 18 and 25 are potential combatants *IF* the Draft was instated. However, doing such would be political suicide as you already have an unpopular war and low public support.
Also it explicitly states that you have to be a member of the armed forces to stand trial without a Grand Jury indictment. So unless the drug dealer or whatever was a member of the army your SOL playing that angle too.
Or maybe its just because DVD is perfectly fine resolution to watch a movie on unless your completely anal retentive about getting the super ultra best crisp sharp hi-def picture on your super double ultra maximum plasma TV.
Honestly I dont see much of a difference between standard def TV and HDTV... Then again maybe its because I'm using a 24" TV that has 1080i. (Psst Apparently theres some article on slashdot before stating that the human eye cannot distinguish a higher resolution than 720p from recommended viewing distances!)
Here's hoping to the kicking of RIAA ass by you Ray. We can all hope that the final nail in the RIAA coffin is their attempt to sue you (or at least if not it'll serious hit in their litigation engine).
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Yeah but how much of that $131 billion that Citi has is part of the bad mortgage scheme that happened? Could it be that they're overstating their revenues using fancy pants accounting?
The unfortunate thing is that none of these companies seem to be using the H-1B visa program for its intended purpose. Recruiting highly skilled, highly intelligent professionals from abroad.
You know what happens when an individual abuses a right or privilege they've been given... They lose it. It's about time that companies lose the privilege of H-1B visas.
You're forgetting how many zombie computers there are in existence that can be used at a hacker's whim to crack such... But that aside being able to use processing power on other things like PS3's and what not could help speed things up particularly if you can make their GPU's do what you want as well.
Problems...
1) SSL as it stands for HTTPS and what not typically uses key lengths anywhere from 128-bit all the way up to 4096-bit.
2) WEP/WPA requires the router to decrypt all packets over the wireless network so it can route them.
3) Longer keys = More Processing power required.
4) Encrypting and Decrypting everything may involve a performance hit without more processing power.
End Result: You want it more secure, the router is gonna need more RAM and CPU power to pull it off which means instead of picking up a wireless router for $40-60 for consumer grade stuff it'll probably end up more like $80-120.
Actually its sorta like a car... You can drive your car @ 160 MPH everytime you use it and end up with a shitbox that needs to be in the shop every few weeks... Or you can drive it at a sensible 60 MPH with a bit of preventative maintenance it'll last basically for as long as you'll need it to.
Are you suggesting that Britney Spears is lip syncing to some 7 year old Chinese girl?
"there is no smoke without fire"
Sounds like someone has never had a toaster before.
Yeah the whole 'ZOMG RACIAL PROFILING!' crap is garbage.
Those 9/11 Hijackers all had something in common and it wasn't their height. You can cry about racial profiling but if 75% of martians are committing laser pistol crimes then if you want to stop laser pistol crimes you're gonna look at martians.
Replace Martians and Laser Pistol Crimes with any race and crime you feel like...
Might not affect you in particular but someone in the market for a new car will look at the prices... $20-30k vs $40-50k for an electric... That Electric is gonna be looking alot more tempting and as for the cost of gas... its gone up from about 80-90 cents a litre up here in Canada to about 120-140 cents and its only going to go up.
So doubling in gas costs isnt entirely out of the realm of possibility over the next 10 years or even in the realm of 5 years.
Well considering the engines Tesla Roadster uses are about 100lbs, you're immediately saving 200lbs vs an Internal Combustion Engine if the typical engine weighs 300 lbs. Also most cars are made out of a steel or aluminum skeleton with plastic coverings.
If I had $109k... Tesla Motors Roadster.
Oh BTW, Tesla Motors is also planning on a 'family' type car in the $50k range soon if I remember one of their press releases correctly. Thats getting pretty close to the sweet spot for people to buy into electric car technology. As the price of oil and gasoline keeps going up, it will make more and more sense to buy a slightly more expensive car that you can fill up the charge on for a measly 12 cents.
All they need to do is use a less powerful engine that gets the 'family' type car to 80 MPH instead of the 125 MPH the Roadster gets to cut a portion of the costs.
You are entirely right. A hybrid car makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever. Todays hybrids basically use a big gas motor and an electric motor to help go easier on the gas. The problem with this method is that its carrying TWO BIG ENGINES so more weight means you have to be that much more efficient. If you want to help save the environment you'd build a fully electric car but the problem with that is electric motors are retardedly simple and surprisingly clean to maintain (only a little grease/oil on the moving parts).
The idea behind plug-in hybrids is to make the electric motor the big engine and have a small gasoline motor who's only job is to charge the batteries when they get low. This makes a bit more sense than the current hybrid model does as your primary source of 'fuel' is your batteries. If you don't go very far like what is it 60-80 miles a day you probably don't need an Internal Combustion Engine in the first place. Electric cars have a 60-80 mile range currently and that pretty much covers your typical urbanites driving habits well enough. A plug-in hybrid with a gasoline engine for recharging purposes would be more than enough for anyone except for long haul trips for those things like gasoline and possibly hydrogen or biodiesel in the coming years might be popular for road trips.
So Open Source Developers will be allowed to say...
Fire off shotgun lawsuits hoping to hit someone who committed infringement because there must be pirates out there. Also to send extortion letters to said pirates offering to forget taking them to court for thousands of $$$?
Oh wait that only applies to big companies I forgot, Open Source Developers are usually individuals or groups of individuals with limited funds.
Guilty until proven innocent. If it's good enough to apply to American Citizens, its good enough to apply to American Corporations.
If he has 4 GB of RAM then an 8 GB swap partition either
1) Wont be used
or
2) Be too big/slow to be worth a damn
My advice would be to just throw 512MB-1GB of Swap Space and make that the standard instead of some arbitrary 2x RAM. We're getting to the point where 2-4 GB is becoming standard sizes. Sooner or later we'll be seeing 4-8GB or 8-16GB becoming standard sizes (not much more than that before 64 bit CPUs and 64 bit addressing though!). Do we really need 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of Swap space? I honestly dont think very many programs use that much anymore any extra RAM you get will either be used only when gaming OR for multitasking (IE. Browser + Office + IM Programs + etc...)
If all it takes is $100 billion for the bail out why ask for $700 billion?
I say let the crooks on Wall Street rot with the mess they created.
No they didnt mean 51 places blurred out they meant Area 51... You know where they have the Alien bodies hidden.
Only thing they'll be good for DoS attacking is something in Japan because they'll instantly hit a bottleneck of epic proportions the moment they try to touch the US Network with all its bandwidth problems :P
I think some ISP in Japan recently capped their users at like 250 GB A DAY... Whatever Japan is doing is what the US should be doing in terms of expanding their network. I understand theres alot more problems like distance and such but still.
No Pirating Software isnt 'Illegal' it is a civil law matter until the Intellectual Property lobbies actually force a law that makes all piracy a federal offense so the US can put 10% of its population into jail instead of just the 1% they're doing at the moment.
They expect us to trust that their system will have no false positives and no false negatives when they cant even get SPAM FILTERING done properly...
Lets frame it in the context of Japan... They have a cap of what is it? 200 gigs a day? Why cant the US get that sort of infrastructure? Is Fiber that expensive to set up? I thought it just used glass which is basically boiled sand and there is plenty of sand out there.
Have you really paid attention? CD sales are way down, far more than online sales are up.
Could it be because oh I dont know... People have huge racks of CD's already? People didnt rush out to buy CD's when they came out because they still had lots on vinyl.
They're losing sales because guess what every single song is a formulaic ripoff. Who needs Brittany Spears Ripoff #2987 when you have Brittany Spears Ripoffs #1-8.
Or maybe it could be that people arent buying because they heard about the Sony Rootkit Fiasco? Who wants a CD that is going to $*&# your computer up?
Or it could be because of their strong arm tactics of the RIAA leaving a sour taste in people's mouths giving them a reason to search out and check out independent labels?
Its a disaster of their own making.
If you think he's just doing it based on his own interpretation then I think you're not giving him credit where it is due. More than likely he's gotten reports from the engineers who worked on the technology you know the ones he's probably paying like $100k a year to do this for him.
Interesting... Surprised you dont work for the Bush Administration :D
You might be able to get away with claiming that men between 18 and 25 are potential combatants *IF* the Draft was instated. However, doing such would be political suicide as you already have an unpopular war and low public support.
Also it explicitly states that you have to be a member of the armed forces to stand trial without a Grand Jury indictment. So unless the drug dealer or whatever was a member of the army your SOL playing that angle too.
Or maybe its just because DVD is perfectly fine resolution to watch a movie on unless your completely anal retentive about getting the super ultra best crisp sharp hi-def picture on your super double ultra maximum plasma TV.
Honestly I dont see much of a difference between standard def TV and HDTV... Then again maybe its because I'm using a 24" TV that has 1080i. (Psst Apparently theres some article on slashdot before stating that the human eye cannot distinguish a higher resolution than 720p from recommended viewing distances!)
Here's hoping to the kicking of RIAA ass by you Ray. We can all hope that the final nail in the RIAA coffin is their attempt to sue you (or at least if not it'll serious hit in their litigation engine).