And, preemptively, for those who have philosophical objections to me having written the code in the first place, I'll just have to live with your disapproval and hope my steady paycheck somehow sooths my guilty conscience.
One can have both a steady paycheck and a clear conscience. If you do not feel that writing code for MS is a bad thing then don't apologize for it.
OTOH, if you get genetic segregation of health insurance plans, you have only very risky people in a particular pool, and they all have to pay very high rates. If they can't afford that, then you wind up with a bunch of people dead, which is a higher cost to society than a few extra dollars for insurance.
How are a bunch of dead high genetic risk individuals costly to society?
I actually started working on it with tr but then decided that I didn't want to bother with counting character placements to be sure I got it right. With sed I could just tack on extra '-e's as I deduced substitutions.
Our pager team carries Skytel pagers because they have guaranteed delivery SLAs. We have tried SMS with all of the major providers over the years and they cannot reliably deliver messages in a reasonable amount of time. It's the best option short of having a NOC staffed 24/7/365.
The power brick for my laptop claims that it draws 65 Watts. The average incident solar power per square meter on Earth is 1000 Watts. If we assume a solar cell with 30% efficiency I would need 65/300 = 0.216 square meters of solar cell for my laptop. That's a square 46.5cm on a side, or around 18.3 inches on a side.
Not too bad, but not something I would carry with me unless I was severely limited in terms of power sources.
I haven't worked with PCI specifically (although it's looking like I will soon) but I've seen the same sort of BS when working with telecom companies. They plop down a gargantuan checklist which is clearly the umpteenth managerial iteration over something that may have once been written by someone who knew what they were doing. Following the checklist does not mean that you are secure, but it is possible to be secure and also manage to check all of the boxes they want.
I heard someone on NPR the week before last who had a theory that conservatives have been purposefully and systematically causing bloat and inefficiencies in government programs so that people would believe they are incapable of working and therefore vote them out of existence.
Personally, I just think everyone involved with government is an idiot by definition.
We have a similar problem at work, since we do sysadmin for a number of companies. All passwords for a given client are stored in a PGP encrypted file which is version controlled under CVS with some custom wrapper scripts. Anyone who has access to that client has their public key included when building new PGP files so that they can decrypt the file at will in order to retrieve any passwords they might need.
Amanda is very good for backups across various *nix systems. I'm running it on Solaris, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, and Ubuntu machines at various locations. There's a bit of administrative overhead in the initial setup, but it's bullet proof once you have it running. Combine it with a large disk array and some software VTL and you have a backup system that requires basically zero overhead.
I took the entire undergrad QM sequence at my school, we covered Liboff cover to cover so I know a little. I am aware that the electron is not the least massive particle, however it is the least massive particle that I know of Google having built into its calculator function.
Okay, I only have a 4 year degree in Physics so maybe someone can help me out on this. If this particle gives the property of mass then shouldn't it have a mass less than that of the lightest particles? According to a quick Google calculation this thing out-masses an electron by 5 orders of magnitude.
It's a unit of energy that particle physicists use instead of mass. One eV is an electron-volt which is equal to the energy gained by an electron after being sent through a one volt potential. You can use E = m c^2 to convert between energies and masses.
In other news, I vote we go to war against California. They are obviously attempting a scorched earth policy against the world's oil supply. Once we've secured the area, we can bring John Wayne [imdb.com] in to take care of the problem.
I think he'll be on our side, particularly with regards to the LA area. There is, after all, an airport named after him. (Scroll down about half way for picture of the eerily large statue present at said airport).
Yeah, I was surprised by the quality of the system. I had expected that Dell would do something brain-dead thus requiring me to re-install Ubuntu, but it was effectively a vanilla install with a couple extra restricted drivers for the video and wifi. I've had mine for almost a year now, going from 7.10 to 8.04 via the update utility and everything is still running great.
Here's what Google Transit gives me for my morning commute: link. Travel time: 2.25 hours. 3 transfer events, involving a total of 3 bus lines and 1 BART train.
Either that, or I could drive over 237 and get to work in 20min.
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One can have both a steady paycheck and a clear conscience. If you do not feel that writing code for MS is a bad thing then don't apologize for it.
How are a bunch of dead high genetic risk individuals costly to society?
I actually started working on it with tr but then decided that I didn't want to bother with counting character placements to be sure I got it right. With sed I could just tack on extra '-e's as I deduced substitutions.
There were some dead give-away cribs.
Spoiler below...
sed -e s/H/b/g -e s/D/e/g -e s/A/f/g -e s/M/g/g -e s/B/i/g -e s/S/o/g -e s/K/v/g -e s/Y/w/g -e s/V/s/g -e s/F/t/g -e s/W/u/g -e s/T/p/g -e s/L/n/g -e s/C/d/g -e s/G/y/g -e s/N/c/g -e s/I/r/g -e s/J/a/g -e s/E/l/g -e s/Q/k/g -e s/O/h/g -e s/Z/m/g fbi.txt
*sigh*
Failed again.
Personally, I've been striving for +5, Flamebait.
http://www.skytel.com/
Our pager team carries Skytel pagers because they have guaranteed delivery SLAs. We have tried SMS with all of the major providers over the years and they cannot reliably deliver messages in a reasonable amount of time. It's the best option short of having a NOC staffed 24/7/365.
How do you know they were good times if you can't remember?
The power brick for my laptop claims that it draws 65 Watts. The average incident solar power per square meter on Earth is 1000 Watts. If we assume a solar cell with 30% efficiency I would need 65/300 = 0.216 square meters of solar cell for my laptop. That's a square 46.5cm on a side, or around 18.3 inches on a side.
Not too bad, but not something I would carry with me unless I was severely limited in terms of power sources.
Exactly.
I haven't worked with PCI specifically (although it's looking like I will soon) but I've seen the same sort of BS when working with telecom companies. They plop down a gargantuan checklist which is clearly the umpteenth managerial iteration over something that may have once been written by someone who knew what they were doing. Following the checklist does not mean that you are secure, but it is possible to be secure and also manage to check all of the boxes they want.
Such conversations are often scripted. Armstrong's "one small step", for instance, was scripted before they ever left Earth.
I heard someone on NPR the week before last who had a theory that conservatives have been purposefully and systematically causing bloat and inefficiencies in government programs so that people would believe they are incapable of working and therefore vote them out of existence.
Personally, I just think everyone involved with government is an idiot by definition.
We have a similar problem at work, since we do sysadmin for a number of companies. All passwords for a given client are stored in a PGP encrypted file which is version controlled under CVS with some custom wrapper scripts. Anyone who has access to that client has their public key included when building new PGP files so that they can decrypt the file at will in order to retrieve any passwords they might need.
Fooled them. My first car was a Chevy!
Amanda is very good for backups across various *nix systems. I'm running it on Solaris, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, and Ubuntu machines at various locations. There's a bit of administrative overhead in the initial setup, but it's bullet proof once you have it running. Combine it with a large disk array and some software VTL and you have a backup system that requires basically zero overhead.
... but can I get one without Lotus Notes too?
Thanks for that hint, I've now found the Higgs mechanism which is currently in the process of giving me a headache.
I took the entire undergrad QM sequence at my school, we covered Liboff cover to cover so I know a little. I am aware that the electron is not the least massive particle, however it is the least massive particle that I know of Google having built into its calculator function.
Okay, I only have a 4 year degree in Physics so maybe someone can help me out on this. If this particle gives the property of mass then shouldn't it have a mass less than that of the lightest particles? According to a quick Google calculation this thing out-masses an electron by 5 orders of magnitude.
WTF?
It's a unit of energy that particle physicists use instead of mass. One eV is an electron-volt which is equal to the energy gained by an electron after being sent through a one volt potential. You can use E = m c^2 to convert between energies and masses.
I think he'll be on our side, particularly with regards to the LA area. There is, after all, an airport named after him. (Scroll down about half way for picture of the eerily large statue present at said airport).
Yeah, I was surprised by the quality of the system. I had expected that Dell would do something brain-dead thus requiring me to re-install Ubuntu, but it was effectively a vanilla install with a couple extra restricted drivers for the video and wifi. I've had mine for almost a year now, going from 7.10 to 8.04 via the update utility and everything is still running great.
I own a Dell 1420n which came with Ubuntu pre-installed. There are a number of systems that Dell sells like this.
>This would be a big win for any kind of "environmental" energy source (wind, waves, caged toddlers) that isn't always on.
Perhaps you've never seen a collection of caged toddlers. I assure you, they are always on.
Have you ever tried to get somewhere on a bus?
Here's what Google Transit gives me for my morning commute: link. Travel time: 2.25 hours. 3 transfer events, involving a total of 3 bus lines and 1 BART train.
Either that, or I could drive over 237 and get to work in 20min.