Uhhh, I know some girls that have messed around with some voltages on their vibrators. Trust me. There are some girls that will be willing to test anything, even if involves car batteries in the room. The Chuck Yeager's of the adult world.....
If it is physical violence, then you are going to punish that according to laws that deal with physical violence, and not "bullying".
So that leaves non-physical abuse. Just what do you propose? 1 year in prison for name calling? Everything else in the real world would be handled by laws regarding harassment, civil suits, and restraining orders.
I see nothing specific about bullying that is not already handled by some other process. As far as just being an asshole or a bitch goes, that person has to deal with it for the rest of their life.
Sociopathic people and "bullies" exist everywhere. Sending them to prison might sound like a good idea, but it really does make no sense. You can't punish people criminally for harsh words and treating people like crap. If that were true we would have a multi-billion dollar industry just housing PHB's.
Yeah, I am bigot for wanting true equality and not hate crimes. Never mind the fact, that no hate crime was really committed, Ravi is not actually responsible for a suicide (you logically cannot be), and the only thing that occurred here was a case of bullying and an invasion of privacy.
I'm fighting here for Clementi, but in the right way. Not by punishing an act of bullying with a ridiculous 10 years in prison, but by trying to change how society views and treats homosexuality itself.
By doing that, young men in the future will not be placed under that kind of stress due to their homosexuality, and quite possibly never start down that path of depression and suicidal tendencies in the first place.
I understand it's easier to get super emotional here and just want revenge against Ravi. Not change or understanding, just revenge.
Your hyperbole aside, Ravi is not responsible for a young gay man's opportunities after college, or that his life was "ruined".
Ask yourself why his life would be "ruined"? It's because he is gay right? That's a wholly separate problem, and the real one that needs to be addressed.
Is a young woman's life ruined because she gets filmed having sex? I don't think so. It may be deeply disturbing and humiliating to her, but does it affect her ability to get a job later on? If not, then why should it matter if it is a young man having sex with another young man?
According to another poster here that young man may have been contemplating suicide long before he met Ravi. All Ravi did was finally push him over the edge. What brought him there was the rest of society and their tolerance, or lack thereof.
Hate crimes are bullshit, and trying to punish acts of bullying is just foolish. It might make some people feel better, especially those that were bullied in high school and perhaps college, but it does nothing to address the real problems.
I know he wont get 10 years. It is the fact that some people think he should get 10 years that shows they have no understanding just how long that is in prison.
Regardless of whether he thinks he did nothing wrong, years in prison is not appropriate for bullying.
While I can understand that emotions run high here, and that people want to punish him, that punishment needs to be appropriate.
A lot of young people are assholes and pull nasty stunts and pranks against other people designed to humiliate them. Should we start sending them to prison for years? I don't think so. There are more serious crimes than that.
I think he should be put in jail for no more than 6 months to a year. Not because of the bullying either. The invasion of privacy and making the video recordings is the reason why he should be put in jail, regardless of whether or not a death was involved.
The point is going to be ignored and forgotten by the end of next week.
Most people don't understand just how long 10 years really is. That punishment would not nearly fit the crime.
Sure he was an asshole, but I don't think he was actually trying to set out to kill the man, or cause the man to kill himself. Just stupid actions on top of more stupid actions.
Young people can be cruel and callous. However, that is equality. It makes no difference that the young man was gay. Every man, and every woman, has to deal with people like this, and a lot of stupid stunts pulled in high school and college. Yes, some of those stunts can be very invasive and designed to humiliate people. Welcome to college.
While it is sad, that young man made the decision to end his life, there is a larger issue. That real issue here is not that Ravi recorded an intimate moment and broadcast it, it is that the fact this young man was gay and got "caught" engaging in homosexual activity and the loss of privacy caused enough stress upon him that he concluded that the only way out was suicide. That's sad and indicative of the depressing state of affairs in our society.
If society were a little bit different that young man could have just been pissed off that Ravi secretly recorded him with his boyfriend. Pursuing other remedies available to him through the administration and local law enforcement would have been considered long before he ended his own life.
Of course, even that is an assumption. Some people have such a low threshold for stress that it does not take much to make them snap and take other people with them.
This whole situation is a tragedy and nothing really positive is going to come out of putting Ravi in prison for 10 years. The only positive outcome here is increased awareness and tolerance for others. Punishing people with years in prison for bullying is not going to be that effective at preventing young people from doing what they do.
The guys here can live in their perception bubbles and go "herp derp use Linux" which is so completely fantasy island i don't even know where to start,
That is so shortsighted, uninformed, and unfair, I don't know where to begin.
If Linux don't have the software they need to work its pointless, which 99 times out of 100 DOES NOT EVEN EXIST on Linux
Untrue. With the exception of a few specialized applications there are equivalents for nearly everything.
Quickbooks/Quicken, photoshop, vegas, etc. And NOOOO Gimp is NOT a substitute, its a kid's class project. no really, not being snarky, it actually IS a kid's class project, look it up,
First off, not every machine needs to be Linux, and not every machine needs to be Microsoft.
Quickbooks and Quicken have online editions. Considering how it is backed up, and the client can be anything, not such a bad idea to look into. In any case, providing accounting with some Windows PCs is not a big deal.
YOU don't think GIMP is a substitute. It works just fine for a lot of people, including myself. I still have Photoshop and I am used to it, but I can use GIMP just as easily to get something done. It's not black and white. Sure, there are going to be some hardcore people that really do need Photoshop for the stuff they do. Is that representative of everybody? No.
A Linux admin with the skills to troubleshoot all the problems with a couple of dozen desktops or more will cost a MINIMUM of $75,000 IF you can even find one, whereas MCSEs are cheap as dirt and just as plentiful
Later on you rail about how IT is treated like shit and now you advocate hiring MCSEs "cheap as dirt"? Sounds a bit contradictory to me.....
If you are a medium sized business with 50 employees you better damn well be paying somebody $75,000 a year to take care of your business regardless.
MCSEs are not worth a fucking shit. That is the most worthless certification I have seen in my life. It does not mean you are qualified to handle a Microsoft based network and infrastructure by itself. It means, at most, that you can be trained on the job for a year or two with experienced people.
It tells you nothing about that person's real skills.
You can compare an experienced Microsoft admin and a Linux admin and they will cost about the same. In fact, the ones that are really good have overlapping skill sets.
I can work with Linux environments just as handily as I can with Microsoft environments.
Since 99 out of 100 software they need does NOT exist you are talking about hiring a development team to build it, that's a good $60,000+ for each software of any complexity and that is IF you don't get sued for stepping on the patents of company whom you are ripping off.
You're wrong about the 99/100 anyways, but if you are a medium sized company chances are you already have a development team. So you are being disingenuous to say the least. Whether or not your team codes with Microsoft based technologies or platforms or Open Source is not relevant to the risks of software patents. Do you think just because you coded it in.NET and it runs on SQL Server that you are somehow immune to patents?
Furthermore, choosing Microsoft as a platform for your developers can have significant added costs that are not present in Open Source platforms.
Ultimately, it comes down the needs of your project, the vendors and 3rd parties you have to deal with, etc. All of that needs to be factored in when you choose.
Hell you still don't even have a substitute for Access, Excel, Exchange and Sharepoint yet, not that works
Wrong again. Sooooo Wrong. Wrong.
There is no fucking substitute for Access. If you are using it, just kill yourself. Save yourself from the pain. I have
Seedbox with SFTP. Unless they are good enough to crack the encryption per connection and obtain "evidence" to discontinue service or forward that information for the MAFIAA lawyerpults it will just result in a lot of expensive DPI with no results.
I say bring it on. Anything that pushes people to Darknets, Onion networks (let it reach critical mass), and more encrypted connections, all the better.
Besides, public torrent sites and crap like MegaUpload are beyond ridiculous and a you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Moving people off those sites to private encrypted trackers and ditching DHT and peer exchange will make it nearly impossible for the MAFIAA to get any headway, even with ISP support.
I'm tired too of having something so ultra powerful that it cannot accomplish simple tasks. Part of the reason why I am tired of owning a smart phone is the piss poor battery life. If the system were more efficient and not always trying to be bleeding edge we might actually get some serious battery life. 8 hours just does not cut it for me.
That's what I meant by processing power and battery life. They are screwing it up and creating something I don't want to use.
All of that aside, I don't think the form factor is suitable for many tasks it is trying to do. I don't care what anyone says, you can't browse a webpage on a tiny fucking screen. Sure, if you are really young and have 20/20 vision and teeny eeeny wittle bitty fingers you can make do with it. For somebody with glasses already and big hairy sausages for fingers it's looks like I am Neanderthal from The Far Side squinting with my tongue out.
I would much rather have a tablet or wait till we have some durable expandable screens.
That's why I am very seriously considering going to a cheap clamshell phone and using a tablet for everything else. The software is already becoming one platform designed for it anyways with Microsoft 8, Android, and iOS right?
Only drawback is two devices.... but at least the clamshell phone can be pretty damn small.
I, for one, think that anything with the potential for better internet access X feet below the water is an excellent idea.
Damn straight.
There is no reason why there should be any place on Earth that a man can't download some Internet porn. In the Mariana Trench? porn. Bermuda Triangle? porn. 1 mile underground trapped in a mine? still porn. Far side of the Moon? more porn.
Of course there will always be some other benefits, like search and rescue beacons that can cut through any interference and touchy feely crap like that.
Servers are not standardized for power supplies with respect to size. I have seen hot swappable power supplies in quite a few different form factors as well as your standard power supplies in a lot of different form factors as well. They all have a cost in space, components, connectors, etc.
Keeping the building cool is one thing, but I am also interested in density and efficiency in power consumption.
AC-DC conversion does generate heat, so you are getting a savings by generating less heat, having less components to wear out, and having greater density in a single rack.
I guess that is a good point, but just how bulky do you think the equipment would be to generate something like 6 different voltages? I am not sure there really are that many different voltages. Most spec sheets I see show 3 different voltages. 12, 5, and 3.3 IIRC.
Most stuff is pretty standard and I am sure manufacturers could get on board at some point.
Do you think it would only be 2U per rack? How much more?
Getting rid of all the individual power supplies gets you back space (pretty valuable) and saves on whatever heat and inefficiency there is in the AC-DC conversion. Is that lost efficiency of providing that many different voltages a worse situation than that?
It should not be that much of a problem for Google then.
There lawyers could just have fun with it. A nice lunch with some IT guys and a hour or so later you have a well written response with supporting documentation on why the FBI are complete technology retards.
They could have a few pages on how PUK and SIM actually work, and even being helpful, list contact information for the manufacturers.
Judge would just love reading that the FBI was wasting the courts time because they could not even figure out who to serve a warrant to.:)
Thank you. This is why the debate always confuses me. The poster is not exactly trolling. A single AC-DC power converter is a single point of failure, which is bad. Typically you have two, or even three, power supplies on most servers.
In my data center the AC is very clean, redundant, and has diesel fail over. Now if that is considered to be reliable, and as one poster suggested, we could use backup batteries for only a minute or two, why not convert all of the servers and supporting hardware to DC inputs and dump the AC-DC converters?
If you wanted to still make it redundant, you could build a 2U dual high-efficiency AC-DC converter with battery backup. That should be pretty reliable.
The benefit would be an easier hand off for power from the data center. You don't need expensive power strips taking up space and you can dump all of the power supplies in the rest of the equipment. Just agree on a standardized connector and even color code it to voltage.
It has never made sense to me in a data center setting to have that much space occupied by AC-DC converters.
That's what I always did. Of course, when the price came down to something reasonable (20-30) I picked up a shrink wrapped copy and just threw it into a closet.
At this point I don't have as much time to play games, but I don't have a problem pirating it and then buying it later, or used, for a more reasonable price.
I know some people say that is a sense of "entitlement" and still wrong, but the fact is that I would pay the 20-30 on day one.
Humble Bundle has it right. Never paid less than $25 for the Humble Bundles. It was worth that to me.
The challenge is cost. What I have always looked for is a "security appliance" capable of least two WAN ports for load balancing and fail over. Dial up fail over that was available on some Netgear models was a freakin joke.
So Sonicwall, with its drawbacks, comes in at many many times cheaper in price to get the job done then Cisco and Fortinet. Sonicwall starts at around $270 and gives you a *heck* of a lot more than any consumer level router has by far.
I think Fortinet, at the bottom starts at $1500 the last time I checked?
Sonicwall is not perfect, but is the beginning of prosumer devices. You get what you pay for. Considering that I don't think Sonicwall is all that bad. They are a ton more stable than any Netgear or Linksys/Cisco piece of shit:)
Not if his name is Bilbo. I know people that have been named after characters in the book.
I think where the "problem" lies is that the name of the establishment is the name of the book which might possibly be putting it under trademark law which forces you to "protect it or lose it".
It's still bullshit of course. Books are over 60-85 years old and the man has been dead since 73'. Copyrights are rather disgusting when abused like this. His children can go out and get their own fucking jobs and write their own fucking novels.
I would not know about going down or not, because it has never got that far.
If they really did think they could "take me down" they would pursue the case in court. 100% drop rate for all cases I asked for a jury trial.
For traffic court you do not go to jail when you lose. You just end up paying the original fine. Of course, I can't say that from personal experience, just common sense. They have never taken me up on my many offers for a jury trial.
They sell Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows.
I just hope they do the same with this and not tie into their own PBX exclusively. If they do it will make it see a hell of lot less production, that is for sure.
I am equally astonished that you can be summarily convicted with no due process. Standing in front of a judge explaining your story and that the cop has it wrong is not due process. Judges can be in bad moods and need to move along a huge case load.
You can choose to have a judge hear your case to move things along quicker, but I have never thought for one second it was forced.
My experience has been in two states I have lived in and fought tickets. Texas and Nevada. I can tell you that in both states you have a right to jury trial, period. If the state is saying you are guilty of an offense, you can have your day in court. Every time.
With no fees either. If the state is pursuing you, and you plead not guilty, there are no fees. To say otherwise, is equally astonishing to me.
I am specifically talking about traffic courts and not criminal offenses, you are right. To my knowledge it is impossible to exempt any court from the right to a jury trial. It certainly is in my state.
That is just a spectacular abridgment of your rights. It has always been to my knowledge a right to due process when the government is going to deprive you of anything, especially freedom or money. Anytime that due process is involved, you have the protections afforded to you by the Constitution.
There are no court costs to fight a traffic ticket. You show up in front of the judge, plead not guilty. You could plead guilty or no contest, but that would defeat the point.
When you plead not guilty you also ask for a jury trial. I have never been assessed any financial fees of any kind. Logically, you can't be assessed. You are innocent remember? That means they have to prove your guilt in court. The burden lies solely with the state.
I have done this on over a half dozen occasions when retarded and crooked cops and meter maids have fucked with me over subjective issues where they fully admit there was some leeway. Like being accused of California rolls at stop signs (followed me for two miles trying to find a reason to stop me), not having my seat belt on because it is the same color as my fucking shirt, or not having registration when I have a receipt and the stickers are a week late in the mail.
So I can say with some experience that there are no fees and I have a right to jury trial in my state. I just show up a few weeks later and speak with the attorney in court real quick and he agrees that the state will no longer pursue the case. In some of those instances, I did not even have to tell my story to the attorney. All he wanted to know is if I was serious.
It's kind of a dirty secret, but I don't abuse it. I pay my speeding tickets and I have a valid argument with the dumbass armed with a gun, I just take it to a jury trial to explain his bullshit to my peers and see if they agree I should pay the fine. Not asking to much, IMO.
Those people want to do away with all copyrights as they exist now, outlaw all fair use, and create a system in which they have absolute control over their content regardless of where it is.
Rewriting copyrights and the laws from the ground up, bit by bit, lawyerpult by lawyerpult, till they have the system that is totally in their favor, and allows them to "monetize" their content to the maximum extent not currently allowed by common sense, ethics, morality, or the current legal system.
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Uhhh, I know some girls that have messed around with some voltages on their vibrators. Trust me. There are some girls that will be willing to test anything, even if involves car batteries in the room. The Chuck Yeager's of the adult world.....
Ok.
Punish a bully for what?
If it is physical violence, then you are going to punish that according to laws that deal with physical violence, and not "bullying".
So that leaves non-physical abuse. Just what do you propose? 1 year in prison for name calling? Everything else in the real world would be handled by laws regarding harassment, civil suits, and restraining orders.
I see nothing specific about bullying that is not already handled by some other process. As far as just being an asshole or a bitch goes, that person has to deal with it for the rest of their life.
Sociopathic people and "bullies" exist everywhere. Sending them to prison might sound like a good idea, but it really does make no sense. You can't punish people criminally for harsh words and treating people like crap. If that were true we would have a multi-billion dollar industry just housing PHB's.
LOL.
Yeah, I am bigot for wanting true equality and not hate crimes. Never mind the fact, that no hate crime was really committed, Ravi is not actually responsible for a suicide (you logically cannot be), and the only thing that occurred here was a case of bullying and an invasion of privacy.
I'm fighting here for Clementi, but in the right way. Not by punishing an act of bullying with a ridiculous 10 years in prison, but by trying to change how society views and treats homosexuality itself.
By doing that, young men in the future will not be placed under that kind of stress due to their homosexuality, and quite possibly never start down that path of depression and suicidal tendencies in the first place.
I understand it's easier to get super emotional here and just want revenge against Ravi. Not change or understanding, just revenge.
Your hyperbole aside, Ravi is not responsible for a young gay man's opportunities after college, or that his life was "ruined".
Ask yourself why his life would be "ruined"? It's because he is gay right? That's a wholly separate problem, and the real one that needs to be addressed.
Is a young woman's life ruined because she gets filmed having sex? I don't think so. It may be deeply disturbing and humiliating to her, but does it affect her ability to get a job later on? If not, then why should it matter if it is a young man having sex with another young man?
According to another poster here that young man may have been contemplating suicide long before he met Ravi. All Ravi did was finally push him over the edge. What brought him there was the rest of society and their tolerance, or lack thereof.
Hate crimes are bullshit, and trying to punish acts of bullying is just foolish. It might make some people feel better, especially those that were bullied in high school and perhaps college, but it does nothing to address the real problems.
I know he wont get 10 years. It is the fact that some people think he should get 10 years that shows they have no understanding just how long that is in prison.
Regardless of whether he thinks he did nothing wrong, years in prison is not appropriate for bullying.
While I can understand that emotions run high here, and that people want to punish him, that punishment needs to be appropriate.
A lot of young people are assholes and pull nasty stunts and pranks against other people designed to humiliate them. Should we start sending them to prison for years? I don't think so. There are more serious crimes than that.
I think he should be put in jail for no more than 6 months to a year. Not because of the bullying either. The invasion of privacy and making the video recordings is the reason why he should be put in jail, regardless of whether or not a death was involved.
The point is going to be ignored and forgotten by the end of next week.
Most people don't understand just how long 10 years really is. That punishment would not nearly fit the crime.
Sure he was an asshole, but I don't think he was actually trying to set out to kill the man, or cause the man to kill himself. Just stupid actions on top of more stupid actions.
Young people can be cruel and callous. However, that is equality. It makes no difference that the young man was gay. Every man, and every woman, has to deal with people like this, and a lot of stupid stunts pulled in high school and college. Yes, some of those stunts can be very invasive and designed to humiliate people. Welcome to college.
While it is sad, that young man made the decision to end his life, there is a larger issue. That real issue here is not that Ravi recorded an intimate moment and broadcast it, it is that the fact this young man was gay and got "caught" engaging in homosexual activity and the loss of privacy caused enough stress upon him that he concluded that the only way out was suicide. That's sad and indicative of the depressing state of affairs in our society.
If society were a little bit different that young man could have just been pissed off that Ravi secretly recorded him with his boyfriend. Pursuing other remedies available to him through the administration and local law enforcement would have been considered long before he ended his own life.
Of course, even that is an assumption. Some people have such a low threshold for stress that it does not take much to make them snap and take other people with them.
This whole situation is a tragedy and nothing really positive is going to come out of putting Ravi in prison for 10 years. The only positive outcome here is increased awareness and tolerance for others. Punishing people with years in prison for bullying is not going to be that effective at preventing young people from doing what they do.
Wait, what does tinyurl have to do with basting a turkey?
According to Rule 34 of the Internet there is a website that will help explain that to you.
The guys here can live in their perception bubbles and go "herp derp use Linux" which is so completely fantasy island i don't even know where to start,
That is so shortsighted, uninformed, and unfair, I don't know where to begin.
If Linux don't have the software they need to work its pointless, which 99 times out of 100 DOES NOT EVEN EXIST on Linux
Untrue. With the exception of a few specialized applications there are equivalents for nearly everything.
Quickbooks/Quicken, photoshop, vegas, etc. And NOOOO Gimp is NOT a substitute, its a kid's class project. no really, not being snarky, it actually IS a kid's class project, look it up,
First off, not every machine needs to be Linux, and not every machine needs to be Microsoft.
Quickbooks and Quicken have online editions. Considering how it is backed up, and the client can be anything, not such a bad idea to look into. In any case, providing accounting with some Windows PCs is not a big deal.
YOU don't think GIMP is a substitute. It works just fine for a lot of people, including myself. I still have Photoshop and I am used to it, but I can use GIMP just as easily to get something done. It's not black and white. Sure, there are going to be some hardcore people that really do need Photoshop for the stuff they do. Is that representative of everybody? No.
A Linux admin with the skills to troubleshoot all the problems with a couple of dozen desktops or more will cost a MINIMUM of $75,000 IF you can even find one, whereas MCSEs are cheap as dirt and just as plentiful
Later on you rail about how IT is treated like shit and now you advocate hiring MCSEs "cheap as dirt"? Sounds a bit contradictory to me.....
If you are a medium sized business with 50 employees you better damn well be paying somebody $75,000 a year to take care of your business regardless.
MCSEs are not worth a fucking shit. That is the most worthless certification I have seen in my life. It does not mean you are qualified to handle a Microsoft based network and infrastructure by itself. It means, at most, that you can be trained on the job for a year or two with experienced people.
It tells you nothing about that person's real skills.
You can compare an experienced Microsoft admin and a Linux admin and they will cost about the same. In fact, the ones that are really good have overlapping skill sets.
I can work with Linux environments just as handily as I can with Microsoft environments.
Since 99 out of 100 software they need does NOT exist you are talking about hiring a development team to build it, that's a good $60,000+ for each software of any complexity and that is IF you don't get sued for stepping on the patents of company whom you are ripping off.
You're wrong about the 99/100 anyways, but if you are a medium sized company chances are you already have a development team. So you are being disingenuous to say the least. Whether or not your team codes with Microsoft based technologies or platforms or Open Source is not relevant to the risks of software patents. Do you think just because you coded it in .NET and it runs on SQL Server that you are somehow immune to patents?
Furthermore, choosing Microsoft as a platform for your developers can have significant added costs that are not present in Open Source platforms.
Ultimately, it comes down the needs of your project, the vendors and 3rd parties you have to deal with, etc. All of that needs to be factored in when you choose.
Hell you still don't even have a substitute for Access, Excel, Exchange and Sharepoint yet, not that works
Wrong again. Sooooo Wrong. Wrong.
There is no fucking substitute for Access. If you are using it, just kill yourself. Save yourself from the pain. I have
There you go :)
Seedbox with SFTP. Unless they are good enough to crack the encryption per connection and obtain "evidence" to discontinue service or forward that information for the MAFIAA lawyerpults it will just result in a lot of expensive DPI with no results.
I say bring it on. Anything that pushes people to Darknets, Onion networks (let it reach critical mass), and more encrypted connections, all the better.
Besides, public torrent sites and crap like MegaUpload are beyond ridiculous and a you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Moving people off those sites to private encrypted trackers and ditching DHT and peer exchange will make it nearly impossible for the MAFIAA to get any headway, even with ISP support.
I am also talking about form factor.
I'm tired too of having something so ultra powerful that it cannot accomplish simple tasks. Part of the reason why I am tired of owning a smart phone is the piss poor battery life. If the system were more efficient and not always trying to be bleeding edge we might actually get some serious battery life. 8 hours just does not cut it for me.
That's what I meant by processing power and battery life. They are screwing it up and creating something I don't want to use.
All of that aside, I don't think the form factor is suitable for many tasks it is trying to do. I don't care what anyone says, you can't browse a webpage on a tiny fucking screen. Sure, if you are really young and have 20/20 vision and teeny eeeny wittle bitty fingers you can make do with it. For somebody with glasses already and big hairy sausages for fingers it's looks like I am Neanderthal from The Far Side squinting with my tongue out.
I would much rather have a tablet or wait till we have some durable expandable screens.
That's why I am very seriously considering going to a cheap clamshell phone and using a tablet for everything else. The software is already becoming one platform designed for it anyways with Microsoft 8, Android, and iOS right?
Only drawback is two devices.... but at least the clamshell phone can be pretty damn small.
I, for one, think that anything with the potential for better internet access X feet below the water is an excellent idea.
Damn straight.
There is no reason why there should be any place on Earth that a man can't download some Internet porn. In the Mariana Trench? porn. Bermuda Triangle? porn. 1 mile underground trapped in a mine? still porn. Far side of the Moon? more porn.
Of course there will always be some other benefits, like search and rescue beacons that can cut through any interference and touchy feely crap like that.
I meant standardized as far as voltages go.
Servers are not standardized for power supplies with respect to size. I have seen hot swappable power supplies in quite a few different form factors as well as your standard power supplies in a lot of different form factors as well. They all have a cost in space, components, connectors, etc.
Keeping the building cool is one thing, but I am also interested in density and efficiency in power consumption.
AC-DC conversion does generate heat, so you are getting a savings by generating less heat, having less components to wear out, and having greater density in a single rack.
I guess that is a good point, but just how bulky do you think the equipment would be to generate something like 6 different voltages? I am not sure there really are that many different voltages. Most spec sheets I see show 3 different voltages. 12, 5, and 3.3 IIRC.
Most stuff is pretty standard and I am sure manufacturers could get on board at some point.
Do you think it would only be 2U per rack? How much more?
Getting rid of all the individual power supplies gets you back space (pretty valuable) and saves on whatever heat and inefficiency there is in the AC-DC conversion. Is that lost efficiency of providing that many different voltages a worse situation than that?
It should not be that much of a problem for Google then.
There lawyers could just have fun with it. A nice lunch with some IT guys and a hour or so later you have a well written response with supporting documentation on why the FBI are complete technology retards.
They could have a few pages on how PUK and SIM actually work, and even being helpful, list contact information for the manufacturers.
Judge would just love reading that the FBI was wasting the courts time because they could not even figure out who to serve a warrant to. :)
Thank you. This is why the debate always confuses me. The poster is not exactly trolling. A single AC-DC power converter is a single point of failure, which is bad. Typically you have two, or even three, power supplies on most servers.
In my data center the AC is very clean, redundant, and has diesel fail over. Now if that is considered to be reliable, and as one poster suggested, we could use backup batteries for only a minute or two, why not convert all of the servers and supporting hardware to DC inputs and dump the AC-DC converters?
If you wanted to still make it redundant, you could build a 2U dual high-efficiency AC-DC converter with battery backup. That should be pretty reliable.
The benefit would be an easier hand off for power from the data center. You don't need expensive power strips taking up space and you can dump all of the power supplies in the rest of the equipment. Just agree on a standardized connector and even color code it to voltage.
It has never made sense to me in a data center setting to have that much space occupied by AC-DC converters.
That's what I always did. Of course, when the price came down to something reasonable (20-30) I picked up a shrink wrapped copy and just threw it into a closet.
At this point I don't have as much time to play games, but I don't have a problem pirating it and then buying it later, or used, for a more reasonable price.
I know some people say that is a sense of "entitlement" and still wrong, but the fact is that I would pay the 20-30 on day one.
Humble Bundle has it right. Never paid less than $25 for the Humble Bundles. It was worth that to me.
The challenge is cost. What I have always looked for is a "security appliance" capable of least two WAN ports for load balancing and fail over. Dial up fail over that was available on some Netgear models was a freakin joke.
So Sonicwall, with its drawbacks, comes in at many many times cheaper in price to get the job done then Cisco and Fortinet. Sonicwall starts at around $270 and gives you a *heck* of a lot more than any consumer level router has by far.
I think Fortinet, at the bottom starts at $1500 the last time I checked?
Sonicwall is not perfect, but is the beginning of prosumer devices. You get what you pay for. Considering that I don't think Sonicwall is all that bad. They are a ton more stable than any Netgear or Linksys/Cisco piece of shit :)
Not if his name is Bilbo. I know people that have been named after characters in the book.
I think where the "problem" lies is that the name of the establishment is the name of the book which might possibly be putting it under trademark law which forces you to "protect it or lose it".
It's still bullshit of course. Books are over 60-85 years old and the man has been dead since 73'. Copyrights are rather disgusting when abused like this. His children can go out and get their own fucking jobs and write their own fucking novels.
This is the Mad Max era. You know.. the one with psychopaths in assless chaps, mohawks, and hockey masks running around killing people.
I would think the most useful thing you could own would be a chain gun and a simple couple page reference on how to make your own bullets.
I would not know about going down or not, because it has never got that far.
If they really did think they could "take me down" they would pursue the case in court. 100% drop rate for all cases I asked for a jury trial.
For traffic court you do not go to jail when you lose. You just end up paying the original fine. Of course, I can't say that from personal experience, just common sense. They have never taken me up on my many offers for a jury trial.
Why the hell not? It's a product like any other.
They sell Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows.
I just hope they do the same with this and not tie into their own PBX exclusively. If they do it will make it see a hell of lot less production, that is for sure.
Will they license this for PBX systems other than their own?
I would love a multilingual system like this. The audio is really good compared to the paid software that I have access to.
I am equally astonished that you can be summarily convicted with no due process. Standing in front of a judge explaining your story and that the cop has it wrong is not due process. Judges can be in bad moods and need to move along a huge case load.
You can choose to have a judge hear your case to move things along quicker, but I have never thought for one second it was forced.
My experience has been in two states I have lived in and fought tickets. Texas and Nevada. I can tell you that in both states you have a right to jury trial, period. If the state is saying you are guilty of an offense, you can have your day in court. Every time.
With no fees either. If the state is pursuing you, and you plead not guilty, there are no fees. To say otherwise, is equally astonishing to me.
I am specifically talking about traffic courts and not criminal offenses, you are right. To my knowledge it is impossible to exempt any court from the right to a jury trial. It certainly is in my state.
That is just a spectacular abridgment of your rights. It has always been to my knowledge a right to due process when the government is going to deprive you of anything, especially freedom or money. Anytime that due process is involved, you have the protections afforded to you by the Constitution.
There are no court costs to fight a traffic ticket. You show up in front of the judge, plead not guilty. You could plead guilty or no contest, but that would defeat the point.
When you plead not guilty you also ask for a jury trial. I have never been assessed any financial fees of any kind. Logically, you can't be assessed. You are innocent remember? That means they have to prove your guilt in court. The burden lies solely with the state.
I have done this on over a half dozen occasions when retarded and crooked cops and meter maids have fucked with me over subjective issues where they fully admit there was some leeway. Like being accused of California rolls at stop signs (followed me for two miles trying to find a reason to stop me), not having my seat belt on because it is the same color as my fucking shirt, or not having registration when I have a receipt and the stickers are a week late in the mail.
So I can say with some experience that there are no fees and I have a right to jury trial in my state. I just show up a few weeks later and speak with the attorney in court real quick and he agrees that the state will no longer pursue the case. In some of those instances, I did not even have to tell my story to the attorney. All he wanted to know is if I was serious.
It's kind of a dirty secret, but I don't abuse it. I pay my speeding tickets and I have a valid argument with the dumbass armed with a gun, I just take it to a jury trial to explain his bullshit to my peers and see if they agree I should pay the fine. Not asking to much, IMO.
Yep. That's essentially it.
Those people want to do away with all copyrights as they exist now, outlaw all fair use, and create a system in which they have absolute control over their content regardless of where it is.
Rewriting copyrights and the laws from the ground up, bit by bit, lawyerpult by lawyerpult, till they have the system that is totally in their favor, and allows them to "monetize" their content to the maximum extent not currently allowed by common sense, ethics, morality, or the current legal system.