Actually, one of these plus a 20" portrait (1200x1600) screen to it's left and right is a fair bit more awesome than just the 30" display. Since, if you're doing that, you probably run two video cards anyways: throw in a 1080p projector, just in case of wanting to watch a movie in bed or something. Ten million pixels. Fun!
Working fine here. Synology appliance with an extension unit connected through eSATA. SMART is working fine for all disks in the extension and base units.
The theoretical limit of a DS1010+ and a DX510 (which is the only Synology offering in the 20 TB range) is actually 16 TB due to them using ext3. With 2 TB drives the best you can actually get are 14.5 TB with RAID-6 or RAID-5+Hotspare. Spanning a RAID-5 over all disks would result in a volume slightly larger than 16 TB, which will not work. I've tried it. Still, 14.5 TB is pretty much okay in my book. If you actually do need more, build a Backblaze pod (same price league as two DS1010+ with a DX510 ea.; more then double the drives of that) or be spendy and get an X4500 (related as far as the number of drives goes. A completely different class in all other aspects.)
On the WD20EADS: I've had nine of those running in a mostly perfect environment (active cooling, probably never hitting 40 deg C) for about half a year now. Three of them have since died in rapid succession with little warning, one is in the process of following suit. Skip the old ones, go straight for the WD20EARS. As for the rest of the hardware: I've gotten myself a Synology DS1010+ with a DX510. Ten bays for less than $1500, running at acceptable noise levels. As far as cons go, you're limited to ext3 and it's maximum partition size of 16 TiB. Because you can only use whole disks to build an array, the effective limit is around 14.5 TiB using ten 2 TB disks in RAID-6, 5+Hotspare or nine disks in RAID-5. On the pro side you have easy set-up, well-built hardware and acceptable performance. Alternatives might include Thecus' N7700 (7 bays around $1k) or something from QNAP. Some of them offer stacking (i.e. 7 disks with one appliance, 14 with two, 21 with three), xfs, a built-in battery backup and so on.
Talking about the capacities of single memory/storage chips, using losercase b (bit) figures has been the standard for years. Since only techies who care about the capacity of the actual chips read this, it's not that much of an issue. As soon as you're talking about an assembled product (be it a RAM module, SSD or even a smartphone), it'll be B (for bytes) again.
Without your knowledge, they'd track down the Borders' IP address to the store, drive up to it, have a cup of coffee with a laptop hooked up to the store wifi, wait for the torrenting to continue, gather your internal IP address, it's corresponding MAC address and, with some additional equipment might even track down the direction your signal originates from. Then, they'd take a stroll in that direction, check neighboring apartments for cantennas strapped in front of windows and similar constructions. Upon finding one, a couple of CIA (Copyright Inquisition Agency) agents would fly by in a couple of black hawks and, guns blazing, join you for tea, crumbs and torrenting.
There might be some honeybuckets in the tracker's list
The big name trackers have, for some time now, been sending random IP addresses out in every response. It's usually one to three in 50, which isn't a lot, but enough for some plausible deniability. With multiple trackers confirming a peer's address, that plausibility shrinks to very close to zero. Still, receiving a peer's address from a tracker hasn't been any evidence in quite a bit.
[They] denied the dog access since they confused it for a gay dog.
From what I can gather from TFS, they deny access to any dog - regardless of its sexual preferences. They make an exeption for guide dogs, because many blind people rely on these to, well, guide them. Mistaking guide for gay, the denier probably didn't realize he might be dealing with a guide dog, straight or not. The dog's skimpy leathery outfit might've played some part in the confusion as well. You might expect a gay dog to wear such a thing, or a guide dog, but both? At the same time? Who'd think of such a thing?
The effect seems to be positive nonetheless. According to their page, communications providers don't really need to bother looking at infringement reports. Classify yourself as one and AAISP won't care about your infringement reports directed to them. You, equally, don't have to care about your infringement reports directed to yourself; after all you're a communications provider, not a subscriber. If whomever is sending out the reports is serious, they can still go the legal route. They could do that before (sue John Doe to get your information from the ISP, then sue you) and still can (sue you directly). In any case, the whole infringement report business is rendered useless.
Google's MO usually doesn't include selling a gadget to a customer in exchange for some money; there's too much labor per-piece, handling of physical objects and dealing with lots of small customers involved. What they're trying to do, is push the Android platform. Every now and then, they'll throw out a very shiny and rather expensive toy to enthusiasts, developers and the like; to set a bit of a bar and demonstrate their vision of where other manufacturers are to go. A couple of thousand units are sold, HTC quickly whips up their version (with Sense, sans some Google exclusivity) and sells many more at a more attractive price, with more marketing and actually aimed at the general public.
The G1 and N1 owners push sales of the Heroes, Desires (high-end and) and Legends (lower-end N1 alternatives) just by having a shiny exclusive toy. Thanks to a geek-friendly buying process and very limited support, Google doesn't have to deal with Joe Sixpack's questions to tech support, grabs a couple of megabucks towards development of the next model and, most importantly, pushes android. Us geeks get to play with a shiny gadget without the uncoolness of everybody's grandma and their dog getting one (iP*). HTC and relatives sell the bulk of the devices and, having some experiences with Joe & co, can deal with their customers' problems. Everybody wins.
GSM sign-on requires your phone to provide it's (unique) IMEI, containing it's Type Allocation Code, which again is specific to a phone model or revision of a phone model. As far as I know, the relevant bits you'd need to tamper with in order to avoid detection are quite far below in the phone's baseband, either in true ROM or, at the very least, only delivered in binary form. Faking IMEIs, one could wreak quite a bit of havoc:)
GSM phones transmit their IMEI (jumps directly to the interesting bits) to the network provider during sign-on. This number contains a TAC allowing the provider to identify what model, in some cases what revision of said model you're using.
Whether or not AT&T uses this information, I can't tell you. All I know is several providers do. Call second-level support and ask if they can tell you what kind of handset you're on. If they can (and you didn't buy it in their store), they check. If they can't, they may still check but not expose this info to CSRs.
Your typical shipping crate is fashioned from two kinds of woods - a hard, dense kind (beech, oak, etc) for the edges and a softer, ligher, cheaper kind (fir, spruce) for the rest of the panels. FMJ rounds may cause some (little) splintering in the former, but should pierce right through the latter, leaving very small holes (5-6 mm for a typical 5.56 mm round). A silencer can take care of a lot of the noise, with the usual goal of moving the emission spectrum into a zone that's more difficult to pin down aurally. Muzzle flashes like you know 'em from the movies and typical ego shooters are way exaggerated. In anything but darkness you won't typically see a flash even looking right at the weapon being fired. In the darkness, throw in a silencer; they work to suppress the little remaining flash, too.
Word of advice, though: Don't use incendiary (including tracers) or hollow point ammunition to shoot through crates containing potentially flammable stuff. A tracer may be enough to set off the wood shavings inside a crate. Keep a couple of inches between the muzzle and the crate to give the bullet some little time to stabilize in it's flight before it pierces through the first obstacle (this also helps against burn marks on the crate). And a hollow point may start to deform on the first impact, which would then leave quite a hole in your cover.
Finally about the "cover" aspects of non-bulletproof materials: they still work. A mobile target with, say, 0.5 sq m of vulnerable surface behind 4 sq m of target can increase your chances of not getting hit five- to eightfold. Throw in a vest and helmet, kneel down and a crate or two will increase your chance of survival by an order of magnitude.
i can start my car in 3rd gear if i really want to
I've even done 4th. On an old 1.6 liter diesel with, well, little power.
do you know of an AT that can do that?
I wouldn't know of any that'll let you start in 3rd, but most will allow 2nd. It's advertised as a feature to help you drive in snowy conditions, usually a button with a snowflake or something similar on it. Why would you want to start in 3rd anyways?
There's a very simple answer to your that intellectual exercise: Does it only involve consenting adults? If so, it's good. If not, it's not. Real snuff is okay as long as the snuffed agrees to being such beforehand, in writing, not under duress and while fully conscious. Under the same terms, necrophilia is okay.
Stuff containing non-adults is more problematic. Standard child porn is clear-cut, but what about teens taking pictures of their naked selves for their respective boy-/girlfriends? If it's sexual in nature and involves adults at any point of the production, it's probably child porn and should be punished harshly. Non-sexual material (i.e. your naked kid splashing around in a pool) shouldn't be a problem. Punishment for sending around naked pictures of oneself seems like something the parents should take care of. Personal responsibility and responsibility for one's offspring and all that.
Throwing animals in there, it becomes even more complicated. In some instances, killing animals is a necessity; steak doesn't grow on trees, you know. Judging by intent is difficult to impossible. Prohibiting unnecessary cruelty might suffice to get a reasonable base here. Alternatively, add a clear-cut line between pets and livestock, with the former only being put down by veterinarians. Then again, that'd make it a crime to put down a suffering, lethally injured dog hours away from the next veterinarian. Not exactly what you'd want with the dog's best interest in mind. Forbidding not the killing but any torture or cruelty seems pretty reasonable to me.
While we're at it: what about drugs, both the kind you buy at a street corner and the kind you only get with a prescription? On one hand, adults should be trusted to make the decision, on the other, if they get truly hooked, social security has to get them through the rest of their lives.
True. After great opposition from Army figureheads, you are now allowed to voluntarily deposit your rifle in an armory (more or less) near you. Unfortunately, most of the affected population won't hear but a very brief mention of this as they get all of their information about their rights (few) and duties (lots, to compensate for the lack of rights) from their superiors. Informational material from critical groups isn't really welcome in the barracks and sentencing anyone passing around flyers to pay a couple hundred bucks or sit in solitary for a few days costs the judge-jury-executioner but a smile. Going on, you're very reluctant to think of the annual mandatory shooting exercises. Most people do them on weekends, and business hours of armories tend to be rather limited. So apart from all the travel time to retrieve and deposit that hunk of scrap metal again, don't forget to look after it for the rest of the weekend. Oh, and take care not to shoot your buddies on the range parking lot with the (unaccounted for) ammo you picked up there or any of the 3 million bullets (forced upon anybody with a gun, back in the day) whose whereabouts nobody is really sure of.
True. Compulsory military service being defined as age 20 to approximately 34. Just being through with your on-duty days neither gets you out of the reserve (i.e. you keep a huge garbage bag full of, well, army garbage) nor does it get you out of owning an fully-automatic assault rifle.
Throw in a press of Esc before the tabs and you're good to go. Actually, if you're going for speedy: use your browser's search function. In Opera, enter "g [term]" into the address bar to get to the Results page, or add google.com/search?q=%s&btnI (that's a capital i, not an l) as a custom search engine to get the results of an "I'm feeling lucky" query. In firefox, just type the search terms into the address bar. Depending on how popular the first hit is, you'll either get redirected instantly (works for "facebook", "slashdot" or the like) or a results page. Chrome behaves about the same. If you only use one search provider, the search field in your address bar might save you another press of a button -- with the address bar in focus, tab once (instead of pressing G and space) and enter the search term. The address bar is quicker if you make use of lots of providers (e.g. w for Wikipedia, y for Youtube, i for Google Images and so on), the search box saves you one keypress if you're faithful to just one search engine.
That's a lot of talk about overpopulation and world hunger. If you're really this concerned, why don't you grab a flight to "certain parts of Africa and Asia", slash your throat and donate the usable parts of your body to a "famil[y] of people near starving to death"? You'll not only provide food and directly reduce the population but might just cause one or a few cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, reducing the number of people living in such bad circumstances.
Being a registered donor is a rather elegant way to put my mind at ease with the thought of dying. Should I die through some random act of stupidity, I'll still have done my best to allow someone else to live their life to the fullest. If I'm not going to use an organ anymore, why throw it away? Give it to somebody who needs it and allow them to enjoy a bit of extra time. They might be the one to find a solution to the pressing problems you describe above. And if they aren't, I'll afford them with the responsibility of recognizing that and donating their organs to somebody more deserving.
Well, if a beating heart is all that's required to be considered alive in Judaism, donating quite clearly is not murder: the donor heart will beat on in the recipients body for quite some time after the donation. The only "murder" taking place would be done to the recipient's heart, and only if it's still beating (probably more like "forced to beat").
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Actually, one of these plus a 20" portrait (1200x1600) screen to it's left and right is a fair bit more awesome than just the 30" display. Since, if you're doing that, you probably run two video cards anyways: throw in a 1080p projector, just in case of wanting to watch a movie in bed or something. Ten million pixels. Fun!
Working fine here. Synology appliance with an extension unit connected through eSATA. SMART is working fine for all disks in the extension and base units.
The theoretical limit of a DS1010+ and a DX510 (which is the only Synology offering in the 20 TB range) is actually 16 TB due to them using ext3. With 2 TB drives the best you can actually get are 14.5 TB with RAID-6 or RAID-5+Hotspare. Spanning a RAID-5 over all disks would result in a volume slightly larger than 16 TB, which will not work. I've tried it.
Still, 14.5 TB is pretty much okay in my book. If you actually do need more, build a Backblaze pod (same price league as two DS1010+ with a DX510 ea.; more then double the drives of that) or be spendy and get an X4500 (related as far as the number of drives goes. A completely different class in all other aspects.)
On the WD20EADS: I've had nine of those running in a mostly perfect environment (active cooling, probably never hitting 40 deg C) for about half a year now. Three of them have since died in rapid succession with little warning, one is in the process of following suit. Skip the old ones, go straight for the WD20EARS.
As for the rest of the hardware: I've gotten myself a Synology DS1010+ with a DX510. Ten bays for less than $1500, running at acceptable noise levels. As far as cons go, you're limited to ext3 and it's maximum partition size of 16 TiB. Because you can only use whole disks to build an array, the effective limit is around 14.5 TiB using ten 2 TB disks in RAID-6, 5+Hotspare or nine disks in RAID-5. On the pro side you have easy set-up, well-built hardware and acceptable performance. Alternatives might include Thecus' N7700 (7 bays around $1k) or something from QNAP. Some of them offer stacking (i.e. 7 disks with one appliance, 14 with two, 21 with three), xfs, a built-in battery backup and so on.
Talking about the capacities of single memory/storage chips, using losercase b (bit) figures has been the standard for years. Since only techies who care about the capacity of the actual chips read this, it's not that much of an issue.
As soon as you're talking about an assembled product (be it a RAM module, SSD or even a smartphone), it'll be B (for bytes) again.
Without your knowledge, they'd track down the Borders' IP address to the store, drive up to it, have a cup of coffee with a laptop hooked up to the store wifi, wait for the torrenting to continue, gather your internal IP address, it's corresponding MAC address and, with some additional equipment might even track down the direction your signal originates from.
Then, they'd take a stroll in that direction, check neighboring apartments for cantennas strapped in front of windows and similar constructions. Upon finding one, a couple of CIA (Copyright Inquisition Agency) agents would fly by in a couple of black hawks and, guns blazing, join you for tea, crumbs and torrenting.
For subscribers, that's true. Not for communications providers, though. Yesterday's /. story has some additional discussion.
The big name trackers have, for some time now, been sending random IP addresses out in every response. It's usually one to three in 50, which isn't a lot, but enough for some plausible deniability. With multiple trackers confirming a peer's address, that plausibility shrinks to very close to zero. Still, receiving a peer's address from a tracker hasn't been any evidence in quite a bit.
From what I can gather from TFS, they deny access to any dog - regardless of its sexual preferences. They make an exeption for guide dogs, because many blind people rely on these to, well, guide them. Mistaking guide for gay, the denier probably didn't realize he might be dealing with a guide dog, straight or not. The dog's skimpy leathery outfit might've played some part in the confusion as well. You might expect a gay dog to wear such a thing, or a guide dog, but both? At the same time? Who'd think of such a thing?
The effect seems to be positive nonetheless. According to their page, communications providers don't really need to bother looking at infringement reports. Classify yourself as one and AAISP won't care about your infringement reports directed to them. You, equally, don't have to care about your infringement reports directed to yourself; after all you're a communications provider, not a subscriber.
If whomever is sending out the reports is serious, they can still go the legal route. They could do that before (sue John Doe to get your information from the ISP, then sue you) and still can (sue you directly). In any case, the whole infringement report business is rendered useless.
Google's MO usually doesn't include selling a gadget to a customer in exchange for some money; there's too much labor per-piece, handling of physical objects and dealing with lots of small customers involved.
What they're trying to do, is push the Android platform. Every now and then, they'll throw out a very shiny and rather expensive toy to enthusiasts, developers and the like; to set a bit of a bar and demonstrate their vision of where other manufacturers are to go. A couple of thousand units are sold, HTC quickly whips up their version (with Sense, sans some Google exclusivity) and sells many more at a more attractive price, with more marketing and actually aimed at the general public.
The G1 and N1 owners push sales of the Heroes, Desires (high-end and) and Legends (lower-end N1 alternatives) just by having a shiny exclusive toy. Thanks to a geek-friendly buying process and very limited support, Google doesn't have to deal with Joe Sixpack's questions to tech support, grabs a couple of megabucks towards development of the next model and, most importantly, pushes android. Us geeks get to play with a shiny gadget without the uncoolness of everybody's grandma and their dog getting one (iP*). HTC and relatives sell the bulk of the devices and, having some experiences with Joe & co, can deal with their customers' problems. Everybody wins.
GSM sign-on requires your phone to provide it's (unique) IMEI, containing it's Type Allocation Code, which again is specific to a phone model or revision of a phone model. :)
As far as I know, the relevant bits you'd need to tamper with in order to avoid detection are quite far below in the phone's baseband, either in true ROM or, at the very least, only delivered in binary form. Faking IMEIs, one could wreak quite a bit of havoc
GSM phones transmit their IMEI (jumps directly to the interesting bits) to the network provider during sign-on. This number contains a TAC allowing the provider to identify what model, in some cases what revision of said model you're using.
Whether or not AT&T uses this information, I can't tell you. All I know is several providers do. Call second-level support and ask if they can tell you what kind of handset you're on. If they can (and you didn't buy it in their store), they check. If they can't, they may still check but not expose this info to CSRs.
In that case, we're looking forward to quite a sleek future. Check out (screenshots of) Opera 10.5x, if you haven't yet :)
Your typical shipping crate is fashioned from two kinds of woods - a hard, dense kind (beech, oak, etc) for the edges and a softer, ligher, cheaper kind (fir, spruce) for the rest of the panels. FMJ rounds may cause some (little) splintering in the former, but should pierce right through the latter, leaving very small holes (5-6 mm for a typical 5.56 mm round).
A silencer can take care of a lot of the noise, with the usual goal of moving the emission spectrum into a zone that's more difficult to pin down aurally.
Muzzle flashes like you know 'em from the movies and typical ego shooters are way exaggerated. In anything but darkness you won't typically see a flash even looking right at the weapon being fired. In the darkness, throw in a silencer; they work to suppress the little remaining flash, too.
Word of advice, though: Don't use incendiary (including tracers) or hollow point ammunition to shoot through crates containing potentially flammable stuff. A tracer may be enough to set off the wood shavings inside a crate. Keep a couple of inches between the muzzle and the crate to give the bullet some little time to stabilize in it's flight before it pierces through the first obstacle (this also helps against burn marks on the crate). And a hollow point may start to deform on the first impact, which would then leave quite a hole in your cover.
Finally about the "cover" aspects of non-bulletproof materials: they still work. A mobile target with, say, 0.5 sq m of vulnerable surface behind 4 sq m of target can increase your chances of not getting hit five- to eightfold. Throw in a vest and helmet, kneel down and a crate or two will increase your chance of survival by an order of magnitude.
Now that's caring more than one should. :p
You don't talk to French people much, do you?
I've even done 4th. On an old 1.6 liter diesel with, well, little power.
I wouldn't know of any that'll let you start in 3rd, but most will allow 2nd. It's advertised as a feature to help you drive in snowy conditions, usually a button with a snowflake or something similar on it.
Why would you want to start in 3rd anyways?
There's a very simple answer to your that intellectual exercise:
Does it only involve consenting adults? If so, it's good. If not, it's not.
Real snuff is okay as long as the snuffed agrees to being such beforehand, in writing, not under duress and while fully conscious.
Under the same terms, necrophilia is okay.
Stuff containing non-adults is more problematic. Standard child porn is clear-cut, but what about teens taking pictures of their naked selves for their respective boy-/girlfriends? If it's sexual in nature and involves adults at any point of the production, it's probably child porn and should be punished harshly. Non-sexual material (i.e. your naked kid splashing around in a pool) shouldn't be a problem. Punishment for sending around naked pictures of oneself seems like something the parents should take care of. Personal responsibility and responsibility for one's offspring and all that.
Throwing animals in there, it becomes even more complicated. In some instances, killing animals is a necessity; steak doesn't grow on trees, you know. Judging by intent is difficult to impossible. Prohibiting unnecessary cruelty might suffice to get a reasonable base here. Alternatively, add a clear-cut line between pets and livestock, with the former only being put down by veterinarians. Then again, that'd make it a crime to put down a suffering, lethally injured dog hours away from the next veterinarian. Not exactly what you'd want with the dog's best interest in mind.
Forbidding not the killing but any torture or cruelty seems pretty reasonable to me.
While we're at it: what about drugs, both the kind you buy at a street corner and the kind you only get with a prescription? On one hand, adults should be trusted to make the decision, on the other, if they get truly hooked, social security has to get them through the rest of their lives.
True. After great opposition from Army figureheads, you are now allowed to voluntarily deposit your rifle in an armory (more or less) near you.
Unfortunately, most of the affected population won't hear but a very brief mention of this as they get all of their information about their rights (few) and duties (lots, to compensate for the lack of rights) from their superiors. Informational material from critical groups isn't really welcome in the barracks and sentencing anyone passing around flyers to pay a couple hundred bucks or sit in solitary for a few days costs the judge-jury-executioner but a smile.
Going on, you're very reluctant to think of the annual mandatory shooting exercises. Most people do them on weekends, and business hours of armories tend to be rather limited. So apart from all the travel time to retrieve and deposit that hunk of scrap metal again, don't forget to look after it for the rest of the weekend. Oh, and take care not to shoot your buddies on the range parking lot with the (unaccounted for) ammo you picked up there or any of the 3 million bullets (forced upon anybody with a gun, back in the day) whose whereabouts nobody is really sure of.
True. Compulsory military service being defined as age 20 to approximately 34. Just being through with your on-duty days neither gets you out of the reserve (i.e. you keep a huge garbage bag full of, well, army garbage) nor does it get you out of owning an fully-automatic assault rifle.
Yes. Works for SSDs, kills HDDs.
I'm not quite sure about Schmidt's stake, but Page and Brin are selling off the voting majority.
Throw in a press of Esc before the tabs and you're good to go.
Actually, if you're going for speedy: use your browser's search function. In Opera, enter "g [term]" into the address bar to get to the Results page, or add google.com/search?q=%s&btnI (that's a capital i, not an l) as a custom search engine to get the results of an "I'm feeling lucky" query. In firefox, just type the search terms into the address bar. Depending on how popular the first hit is, you'll either get redirected instantly (works for "facebook", "slashdot" or the like) or a results page. Chrome behaves about the same.
If you only use one search provider, the search field in your address bar might save you another press of a button -- with the address bar in focus, tab once (instead of pressing G and space) and enter the search term. The address bar is quicker if you make use of lots of providers (e.g. w for Wikipedia, y for Youtube, i for Google Images and so on), the search box saves you one keypress if you're faithful to just one search engine.
That's a lot of talk about overpopulation and world hunger. If you're really this concerned, why don't you grab a flight to "certain parts of Africa and Asia", slash your throat and donate the usable parts of your body to a "famil[y] of people near starving to death"? You'll not only provide food and directly reduce the population but might just cause one or a few cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, reducing the number of people living in such bad circumstances.
Being a registered donor is a rather elegant way to put my mind at ease with the thought of dying. Should I die through some random act of stupidity, I'll still have done my best to allow someone else to live their life to the fullest. If I'm not going to use an organ anymore, why throw it away? Give it to somebody who needs it and allow them to enjoy a bit of extra time. They might be the one to find a solution to the pressing problems you describe above. And if they aren't, I'll afford them with the responsibility of recognizing that and donating their organs to somebody more deserving.
Well, if a beating heart is all that's required to be considered alive in Judaism, donating quite clearly is not murder: the donor heart will beat on in the recipients body for quite some time after the donation.
The only "murder" taking place would be done to the recipient's heart, and only if it's still beating (probably more like "forced to beat").