I have a Debian/KDE box (actually, it has several distros to boot from, but whatever), and a Ubuntu/Gnome box with an XP install I can boot to as well. I mostly use Ubuntu, because it does most of what I want with a minimum of effort and complication.
I have a hard time believing that in a world where there are zillions of different F/OSS distros, distro variants, and sub-variants, OpenSolaris would simply cease to exist the moment the ZFS was licensed the way you wish. OpenSolaris stands perfectly well on its own because of its stability, security, scalability, availability of software, and enterprise pedigree.
That figure was for resumes in a pile on a recruiter's desk. If they are looking at your online profile, I assume they are giving you more than just a cursory glance. Who knows... you might land a job with a bunch of other Episcopagans.
If the waste was still usable wouldn't you think they'd have reused it "in a different reactor"
Most of a "waste" fuel rod that comes out of a conventional fission reactor is perfectly usable fuel, which can be extracted via reprocessing, as is done in France. However, politically, reprocessing can be a touchy subject, since it can be related to nuclear proliferation.
Alternate reactor types (Integral Fast Reactor, for example) can actually burn what was once considered waste.
Your resume likely gets 20 to 30 seconds of eyeball time when a manager or recruiter is scanning through a pile of resumes looking for potential interview candidates. At some point down the line, when the field is down to 5 people or so, it might make sense to screen an individual applicant's web pages.
They didn't mention which sites the hiring managers use. MySpace & Facebook are probably where you'll find lots of recent HS/college grads, but what about older professionals who aren't as likely to use those sites? I hear that a significant number of recruiters actually use linkedin.com as a recruiting tool.
I'm certainly no expert, but I thought that work was being done on self cooled wall panels of lithium and vanadium. Apparently vanadium has favorable activation properties?
Reading the GGP in the morning after a cup of coffee, it appears that my tired, gullible brain may have fallen for a troll hook, line, and sinker last night. Well done, sir.
Oil in the ground, like coal, is full of gunk because the ground is dirty
Stop being an idiot. Pollution from petrochemicals is serious, but it has nothing to do with the ground being dirty. Nothing.
Are you advocating batteries as a solution to oil? How are you charging the batteries, bearing in mind that very little of our power comes from anything but fossil fuels? Are you serious about not caring about recycling them, or how much pollution might result? Did the joke go over my head? It sounds like you are advocating a solution in a form that is more harmful than the problem. Please tell me you're not serious.
If I have misunderstood you or otherwise blown this out of proportion, I apologize.
But it shows that relatively small tampering could affect an election.
Absolutely. Ballot box stuffing, whether electronic or physical, is only as good as the planning that goes into it, and does not necessarily need to be huge (millions vs. thousands) to be effective. I am sure that each campaign is aware of where they are strong and where they are weak, and therefore where a little "help" would be most useful.
However, I see the brilliance of electronic fakery like this: If I stuff 10k fake votes into a precinct, the exit polls will be off significantly, a statistical analysis would show that its returns are out of line with the other precincts, and perhaps it will be scrutinized. If I can electronically stuff a handful of ballots into most/all precincts, I can do so with much less chance of being noticed.
But faking large numbers of paper ballots at many sites is a large undertaking, and harder to hide without a big (read: hard to keep secret) conspiracy. Faking electronics ballots could be done by a smaller number of people, but on a larger and less detectable scale.
How about businesses that decide to allow people to work from home? Face it, businesses that need big pipes will lease them as needed. But the summary emphasises connecting homes, and that's the key to a distributed workforce. If I have a LAN-speed connection to my home, and a company-issued computer and IP telephone, much of what I need to do in the office can be done at home.
Upside:
- Fewer commuters, less traffic congestion, lower cost to workers, less CO2 put out. Dare I hope that lower fuel consumption translates into lower prices?
- People who have a harder time being able to work otherwise(mothers with young children, people with disabilities for whom getting home-to-office-and-back is difficult, etc) could remain in the workforce. Their income stays higer/more stable, their company is not forced to rehire/retrain for the position.
- Workers could live in more rural/suburban locations where there is a lower cost of living. Businesses would benefit by having access to a larger talent pool than the do if they draw from a more finite geographical area.
- Businesses would need less office infrastructure to support the same operations, lowering the cost of doing business, and hopefully giving higher profits to owners and lower prices to consumers. Businesses that might not otherwise be viable might spring up.
Not all busniesses can benefit directly from this model, obviously. But then if you consider the overall benefit to the economy by having lower cost of goods & services from the companies who can, everyone wins.
As others have mentioned, Microsoft lauded themselves for allegedly bringing five nines of stability to the LSE. If they take credit for its uptime, methinks it natural to expect them to do the same for its downtime.
Uh, remnants of a slaughtered animal can be rendered into protein feed that can then be fed to other livestock, which is how BSE started spreading in the first place, and why it is now illegal to feed cows to cows.
Okay, so according to TFA (yeah I know, not supposed to read it, yadda yadda yadda), it looks like the RFID device isn't authenticated by its ID, but by a series of challenge-and-response tokens it has that are also stored in some central database, which appear to increment as they are used.
There appears to be a finite number of challenge-response pairs in the authentication database. How limited is that number? Are they also stored on board the RFID tag? Are they generated from the serial# and/or ID#?
What is the length of the challenge, and of the response? Could a captured item (ie, passport) with such an RFID tag be brute-force interrogated (hit with a series of random-number "challenges" to see which might elicit stored "responses"), and counterfeited that way?
Could this scheme be vulnerable to MITM-style attack?
geek#1 "Dude, what the fsck did you just do? Did you just wipe my whole drive?"
geek#2 "Sorry, dude, I was just messing around. Was there anything on there?"
geek#1 "Yeah, dude, I had a tarfile and a zipfile with pron in 'em. I wanna get that stuff back."
geek#2 "Dude, just download some more. The internet is like, full of it."
geek#1 "No, dude, that stuff was your mom nekkid. I'll never be able to replace it. (gets punched by 2nd guy) Seriously, though. I want it back."
(Both think for a minute, take another bong hit.)
geek#2 "Dude, I've got it! There's all these recovery services companies, and they get deleted data back all the time for companies and the CIA and stuff."
geek#1 "Yeah, dude, but those are, like, expensive. How are we gonna pay for it?"
(Again, both think for a minute, take another bong hit.)
geek#2 "Dude, I've got it! What if we told them it was like, a contest, and whoever could recover the data would be like, the king of data recovery!"
geek#1 "Ya, dude, that would totally work!" (they high-five)
More like a "where were you in 1977" kind of way, judging by Bill's mug shot the on his discount card, cropped to just leave his face. I've got to admit, that part made me laugh, even though I didn't want to.
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I have a Debian/KDE box (actually, it has several distros to boot from, but whatever), and a Ubuntu/Gnome box with an XP install I can boot to as well. I mostly use Ubuntu, because it does most of what I want with a minimum of effort and complication.
You got to it before I could, but you failed to use "Hardon Collider" in the most relevant metaphor I've yet seen.
I have a hard time believing that in a world where there are zillions of different F/OSS distros, distro variants, and sub-variants, OpenSolaris would simply cease to exist the moment the ZFS was licensed the way you wish. OpenSolaris stands perfectly well on its own because of its stability, security, scalability, availability of software, and enterprise pedigree.
Whole Ubuntu/GNOME is build around concept that user is an idiot who doesn't know why he has just forked $$$ for the PC.
Are you implying they are anything but? (I kid! I kid!)
Disclosure: I am running Ubuntu/Gnome.
That figure was for resumes in a pile on a recruiter's desk. If they are looking at your online profile, I assume they are giving you more than just a cursory glance. Who knows ... you might land a job with a bunch of other Episcopagans.
If the waste was still usable wouldn't you think they'd have reused it "in a different reactor"
Most of a "waste" fuel rod that comes out of a conventional fission reactor is perfectly usable fuel, which can be extracted via reprocessing, as is done in France. However, politically, reprocessing can be a touchy subject, since it can be related to nuclear proliferation.
Alternate reactor types (Integral Fast Reactor, for example) can actually burn what was once considered waste.
Your resume likely gets 20 to 30 seconds of eyeball time when a manager or recruiter is scanning through a pile of resumes looking for potential interview candidates. At some point down the line, when the field is down to 5 people or so, it might make sense to screen an individual applicant's web pages.
They didn't mention which sites the hiring managers use. MySpace & Facebook are probably where you'll find lots of recent HS/college grads, but what about older professionals who aren't as likely to use those sites? I hear that a significant number of recruiters actually use linkedin.com as a recruiting tool.
I'm certainly no expert, but I thought that work was being done on self cooled wall panels of lithium and vanadium. Apparently vanadium has favorable activation properties?
Reading the GGP in the morning after a cup of coffee, it appears that my tired, gullible brain may have fallen for a troll hook, line, and sinker last night. Well done, sir.
Oil in the ground, like coal, is full of gunk because the ground is dirty
Stop being an idiot. Pollution from petrochemicals is serious, but it has nothing to do with the ground being dirty. Nothing.
Are you advocating batteries as a solution to oil? How are you charging the batteries, bearing in mind that very little of our power comes from anything but fossil fuels? Are you serious about not caring about recycling them, or how much pollution might result? Did the joke go over my head? It sounds like you are advocating a solution in a form that is more harmful than the problem. Please tell me you're not serious.
If I have misunderstood you or otherwise blown this out of proportion, I apologize.
The Orthodox Church would like to differ with you over the "monopoly" reference. Seems they are/were competitors of some sort.
But it shows that relatively small tampering could affect an election.
Absolutely. Ballot box stuffing, whether electronic or physical, is only as good as the planning that goes into it, and does not necessarily need to be huge (millions vs. thousands) to be effective. I am sure that each campaign is aware of where they are strong and where they are weak, and therefore where a little "help" would be most useful.
However, I see the brilliance of electronic fakery like this: If I stuff 10k fake votes into a precinct, the exit polls will be off significantly, a statistical analysis would show that its returns are out of line with the other precincts, and perhaps it will be scrutinized. If I can electronically stuff a handful of ballots into most/all precincts, I can do so with much less chance of being noticed.
But faking large numbers of paper ballots at many sites is a large undertaking, and harder to hide without a big (read: hard to keep secret) conspiracy. Faking electronics ballots could be done by a smaller number of people, but on a larger and less detectable scale.
How about businesses that decide to allow people to work from home? Face it, businesses that need big pipes will lease them as needed. But the summary emphasises connecting homes, and that's the key to a distributed workforce. If I have a LAN-speed connection to my home, and a company-issued computer and IP telephone, much of what I need to do in the office can be done at home.
Upside:
- Fewer commuters, less traffic congestion, lower cost to workers, less CO2 put out. Dare I hope that lower fuel consumption translates into lower prices?
- People who have a harder time being able to work otherwise(mothers with young children, people with disabilities for whom getting home-to-office-and-back is difficult, etc) could remain in the workforce. Their income stays higer/more stable, their company is not forced to rehire/retrain for the position.
- Workers could live in more rural/suburban locations where there is a lower cost of living. Businesses would benefit by having access to a larger talent pool than the do if they draw from a more finite geographical area.
- Businesses would need less office infrastructure to support the same operations, lowering the cost of doing business, and hopefully giving higher profits to owners and lower prices to consumers. Businesses that might not otherwise be viable might spring up.
Not all busniesses can benefit directly from this model, obviously. But then if you consider the overall benefit to the economy by having lower cost of goods & services from the companies who can, everyone wins.
Why does your blanket have feet on it? And why are you cutting them off?
Ahh ... memories. I used to have a diesel VW Rabbit. It ran forever on a tank of fuel. Of course, it only made a grand total of 48 horsepower.
As my roommate once said after borrowing it, "That's not an accelerator, that's a volume control."
As others have mentioned, Microsoft lauded themselves for allegedly bringing five nines of stability to the LSE. If they take credit for its uptime, methinks it natural to expect them to do the same for its downtime.
Uh, remnants of a slaughtered animal can be rendered into protein feed that can then be fed to other livestock, which is how BSE started spreading in the first place, and why it is now illegal to feed cows to cows.
Dude, if you're married, you're paying more per lay than anyone.
Okay, so according to TFA (yeah I know, not supposed to read it, yadda yadda yadda), it looks like the RFID device isn't authenticated by its ID, but by a series of challenge-and-response tokens it has that are also stored in some central database, which appear to increment as they are used.
There appears to be a finite number of challenge-response pairs in the authentication database. How limited is that number? Are they also stored on board the RFID tag? Are they generated from the serial# and/or ID#?
What is the length of the challenge, and of the response? Could a captured item (ie, passport) with such an RFID tag be brute-force interrogated (hit with a series of random-number "challenges" to see which might elicit stored "responses"), and counterfeited that way?
Could this scheme be vulnerable to MITM-style attack?
How does "she" intend to deal with the warming effects of vast quantities of methane released by thawing the tundra?
How do there things start? Methinks I know.
geek#1 "Dude, what the fsck did you just do? Did you just wipe my whole drive?"
geek#2 "Sorry, dude, I was just messing around. Was there anything on there?"
geek#1 "Yeah, dude, I had a tarfile and a zipfile with pron in 'em. I wanna get that stuff back."
geek#2 "Dude, just download some more. The internet is like, full of it."
geek#1 "No, dude, that stuff was your mom nekkid. I'll never be able to replace it. (gets punched by 2nd guy) Seriously, though. I want it back."
(Both think for a minute, take another bong hit.)
geek#2 "Dude, I've got it! There's all these recovery services companies, and they get deleted data back all the time for companies and the CIA and stuff."
geek#1 "Yeah, dude, but those are, like, expensive. How are we gonna pay for it?"
(Again, both think for a minute, take another bong hit.)
geek#2 "Dude, I've got it! What if we told them it was like, a contest, and whoever could recover the data would be like, the king of data recovery!"
geek#1 "Ya, dude, that would totally work!" (they high-five)
If all his friends do is hang out in their parents' basement while posting on /. there's not going to be a lot for that supermodel to do all day.
Two words: the Pill.
More like a "where were you in 1977" kind of way, judging by Bill's mug shot the on his discount card, cropped to just leave his face. I've got to admit, that part made me laugh, even though I didn't want to.