Look, they have power to all of these router anyway. Why not STRING the cable or use WIFI over Powerline to feed the routers?
You don' have to trench it in more than 4 inches deep, and you only need to go that deep to keep people from tripping on it. You can hand trench when you get near your pipes and power runs.
You're assuming that they have strung power to each location, but there are likely alternatives: solar panel w/ battery comes to mind.
In addition, the poster noted that burying cable is not a good option due to campfires. A few campfires over a 4-inch-deep cable could create a maintenance nightmare. That scenario suggests more strongly that there isn't strung power to the existing routers.
That's why services like pobox.com exist. I've had the same email address since 1997, but I've used mutiple ISPs, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. for my email in that time.
Whether or not anyone else cares that they can still get ahold of me is a different issue.
Instead of making a bland, unsubstantiated statement and walking away, would you care to elaborate on why it doesn't work that way? You could start by explaining where the commenter is wrong or is being too simplistic.
If you're short on time to explain or if you don't wish to be redundant, include links to information that prove your point. But contribute something to the discussion other than a pointless statement.
Just saying something pithy does not a discussion make. You've given me nothing, so I have to assume that the grandfather comment is correct (or more correct) than yours. Prove your point (with facts!) and get me on your side.
Its not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
When the phone lands it stops suddenly, leading to more (possibly much more) than 1G of acceleration in the opposite direction.
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Why would Big Pharma cure cancer if they could convert it from a deadly disease into a chronic condition (and profit from selling you the treatment) instead?
You sir are misinformed. Linux not only has good support for my current hardware, it also runs on my 20-year-old Pentium Pro. Show me a Windows version that does that.
That explains how the company is saying that there could be a "roof-size power generator" using this technology as well. Collect wind energy from any angle to drive the turbine instead of the turbine driving wind in any direction. Neat.
I had a virus scanner fighting with my build, preventing the build from getting done. While our dept. is getting billed by IT for things, they refused to do anything at all about our new inability to build our main program. They had their rules that allowed them to say "no" and leave it at that.
Did you consider that your IT department wants to a) keep your machine(s) running well regardless of your efforts and b) that maybe you should look into whats wrong with your build and figure out why it causes problems with the virus scanner? Be sure to consider it in that order and set about making your software play nice, not the other way around. Here's why:
If you're making this build of yours for internal consumption, then you're effectively expecting your IT department to cut out well-running and necessary software (the virus scanner) at your whim. They can't rewrite the software themselves and the vendor won't be bothered, so the only alternative you have left is to throw out the scanner and possibly purchase a whole new set of licenses from a different vendor at great cost.
If you're making a build for public consumption then your troubles are a symptom that customers, the people on whose whim your job survives by, will experience and decide that your shiny creation isn't worth the trouble. Anyone who runs a virus scanner, and that's most people, may be affected.
Your bullying IT department is trying to save your job and a buttload of money for the company. You should thank them and fix your crappy build. Ingrates like you are why IT hates prima donna developers. I am a former IT drone and a current programmer/developer, and I would be embarrassed if you worked in my department now.
...it's the general point of the groups most involved in population control are the ones most likely to be seen as racially tolerant.
You seem to misunderstand the purpose of making birth control available in the developing world. It's not racism, it's allowing people (women, especially) to choose the size of their families. Given the option of birth control or not most people opt in, have smaller families and are better off for it. Large families only make sense in rural areas where you need the labor around your farm.
Stop denigrating people who label as "different" (liberals, in this case) and realize that sometimes you share a goal. Birth control = freedom to choose = libertarian ideal.
I think you missed the point: if we spent more resources on students, we could find a cost-savings by preventing future prisoners. It's cheaper (by an order of magnitude) to educate people, even providing really expensive high-quality education, than incarcerate them.
Why aren't we charging based on demand? Liberal Arts degrees would be very expensive and the STEM degrees that everyone agrees are important would be fairly cheap. It would certainly balance out the distribution of degrees.
Considering the amount of money spent on the sports programs - e.g. my local public university, University of Connecticut, pays the basketball coaches seven-figure salaries - I'm not certain that a sports program always pays it's own way.
I think many people look to the cloud for scaling bandwidth more than storage. Storage is cheap, but adding lots of servers and/or network bandwidth in a short amount of time isn't feasible if you're working with a physical plant.
Cloud computing and storage is most useful as an incubator, allowing companies to gauge their required resources before they invest in hardware. In an ideal world you use the cloud to launch, then replace your cloud with the correct physical parameters when you know what to expect.
You *hope* that the data is encrypted. How do you know that it isn't simply tunneled over SSH but stored unencrypted on the host servers? You don't, you're taking their word for it. You're putting an awful lot of faith in other people if you're not managing your encryption yourself.
You're forgetting that any sysadmin worth his/her salt encrypts any backup going off-site (and hopefully any backup staying onsite too). Someone else may have possession of the physical media but accessing it won't simply be a matter of finding matching hardware to read the backup.
Depending on the server's job, a moderately long wait generally isn't a problem unless you feel that you need to watch the compiler messages go by. I have a pentium pro with 128 megs of ram running a file server (no X); to update the machine I start an emerge inside a screen session and disconnect. Even for heavy updates it's done within a few hours.
With a little tweaking Gentoo can be a surprisingly trim installation. And if speed of compiling really is an issue then you can use distcc to distribute the load or offload the compile to another box entirely.
You sound pretty sure that this is a technology problem and that someone in your family could in no way be "one of those people".
How do you know it wasn't a guessed password? There are bots that hit my server's SSH port all day, trying username/password combinations (denyhosts takes care of them, but then they come back from another address). How do you know that the same isn't happening with Google's email interface?
With most email accounts, gmail included, you don't even need to guess the username; anyone that sees your email address knows your account name. Guess-work has just been reduced by half.
I suspect that Google doesn't maintain the same standards of security on the gmail system as I do on my own public-facing systems. I don't have to worry about unlocking millions of legitimate users; they do. I think the security is pretty loose.
You're thinking big by wondering if she was a victim of a drive-by, network sniffer, or an unpatched security hole. Many accounts to publicly-accessible systems are far easier to break through simpler means.
Win7 running under Linux/KVM has quite acceptable performance on my home machine (dual AMD 2.5 gig and 3 gigs of ram); intensive disk IO in the VM suffers a bit though, because it's an emulated disk (qcow2) instead of a raw partition.
For normal tasks I really don't notice a difference.
which are the result of a not-yet-fully-understood process involving dead organic matter
Hydrocarbons are rather common beyond earth and are not strictly due to organic life; there is even a theory that most of the petroleum on this planet is a result of ongoing chemical processes around the Earth's mantle and not due to decomposing organic matter from millions of years ago.
There are a few things we can generalize on. Physical laws seem to be a constant throughout the universe, so sound and touch may not be universal (what if life evolved in the clouds of Jupiter?) but is probably a common way for organisms to experience their environments; radio makes a great long-range communications method here and elsewhere too.
By the same token, an advanced civilization almost certainly is social with a basic code of ethics that we can understand; civilization and technology require cooperation. Utilitarian ethics, like don't steal from others because you wouldn't like it if they stole from you, may be a constant. Social mores may be different but the ethics will probably be similar.
Just because you're off-world doesn't mean that everything changes.
There is another Linux implementation called pwsafe that I use. It's command line, no gui, but it automatically integrates with the X clipboard so you can paste your username/password without seeing it on screen.
It's all about the 40% that you let in. Different frequencies can be blocked at different rates, so (for instance) the infrared and ultraviolet may be heavily blocked but not the ROYGBIV part of the spectrum.
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You're assuming that they have strung power to each location, but there are likely alternatives: solar panel w/ battery comes to mind.
In addition, the poster noted that burying cable is not a good option due to campfires. A few campfires over a 4-inch-deep cable could create a maintenance nightmare. That scenario suggests more strongly that there isn't strung power to the existing routers.
That's why services like pobox.com exist. I've had the same email address since 1997, but I've used mutiple ISPs, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. for my email in that time.
Whether or not anyone else cares that they can still get ahold of me is a different issue.
Instead of making a bland, unsubstantiated statement and walking away, would you care to elaborate on why it doesn't work that way? You could start by explaining where the commenter is wrong or is being too simplistic.
If you're short on time to explain or if you don't wish to be redundant, include links to information that prove your point. But contribute something to the discussion other than a pointless statement.
Just saying something pithy does not a discussion make. You've given me nothing, so I have to assume that the grandfather comment is correct (or more correct) than yours. Prove your point (with facts!) and get me on your side.
Simpler than making an IOU: you make a minor change to the item, call it "art", and sell it as new.
Even if it is the single most-watched channel, that doesn't mean that a large fraction of people watch it.
Its not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
When the phone lands it stops suddenly, leading to more (possibly much more) than 1G of acceleration in the opposite direction.
Why would Big Pharma cure cancer if they could convert it from a deadly disease into a chronic condition (and profit from selling you the treatment) instead?
You sir are misinformed. Linux not only has good support for my current hardware, it also runs on my 20-year-old Pentium Pro. Show me a Windows version that does that.
No, this is just the re-post.
That explains how the company is saying that there could be a "roof-size power generator" using this technology as well. Collect wind energy from any angle to drive the turbine instead of the turbine driving wind in any direction. Neat.
Did you consider that your IT department wants to a) keep your machine(s) running well regardless of your efforts and b) that maybe you should look into whats wrong with your build and figure out why it causes problems with the virus scanner? Be sure to consider it in that order and set about making your software play nice, not the other way around. Here's why:
Your bullying IT department is trying to save your job and a buttload of money for the company. You should thank them and fix your crappy build. Ingrates like you are why IT hates prima donna developers. I am a former IT drone and a current programmer/developer, and I would be embarrassed if you worked in my department now.
You seem to misunderstand the purpose of making birth control available in the developing world. It's not racism, it's allowing people (women, especially) to choose the size of their families. Given the option of birth control or not most people opt in, have smaller families and are better off for it. Large families only make sense in rural areas where you need the labor around your farm.
Stop denigrating people who label as "different" (liberals, in this case) and realize that sometimes you share a goal. Birth control = freedom to choose = libertarian ideal.
I think you missed the point: if we spent more resources on students, we could find a cost-savings by preventing future prisoners. It's cheaper (by an order of magnitude) to educate people, even providing really expensive high-quality education, than incarcerate them.
Why aren't we charging based on demand? Liberal Arts degrees would be very expensive and the STEM degrees that everyone agrees are important would be fairly cheap. It would certainly balance out the distribution of degrees.
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Considering the amount of money spent on the sports programs - e.g. my local public university, University of Connecticut, pays the basketball coaches seven-figure salaries - I'm not certain that a sports program always pays it's own way.
I think many people look to the cloud for scaling bandwidth more than storage. Storage is cheap, but adding lots of servers and/or network bandwidth in a short amount of time isn't feasible if you're working with a physical plant.
Cloud computing and storage is most useful as an incubator, allowing companies to gauge their required resources before they invest in hardware. In an ideal world you use the cloud to launch, then replace your cloud with the correct physical parameters when you know what to expect.
You *hope* that the data is encrypted. How do you know that it isn't simply tunneled over SSH but stored unencrypted on the host servers? You don't, you're taking their word for it. You're putting an awful lot of faith in other people if you're not managing your encryption yourself.
You're forgetting that any sysadmin worth his/her salt encrypts any backup going off-site (and hopefully any backup staying onsite too). Someone else may have possession of the physical media but accessing it won't simply be a matter of finding matching hardware to read the backup.
Depending on the server's job, a moderately long wait generally isn't a problem unless you feel that you need to watch the compiler messages go by. I have a pentium pro with 128 megs of ram running a file server (no X); to update the machine I start an emerge inside a screen session and disconnect. Even for heavy updates it's done within a few hours.
With a little tweaking Gentoo can be a surprisingly trim installation. And if speed of compiling really is an issue then you can use distcc to distribute the load or offload the compile to another box entirely.
You sound pretty sure that this is a technology problem and that someone in your family could in no way be "one of those people".
How do you know it wasn't a guessed password? There are bots that hit my server's SSH port all day, trying username/password combinations (denyhosts takes care of them, but then they come back from another address). How do you know that the same isn't happening with Google's email interface?
With most email accounts, gmail included, you don't even need to guess the username; anyone that sees your email address knows your account name. Guess-work has just been reduced by half.
I suspect that Google doesn't maintain the same standards of security on the gmail system as I do on my own public-facing systems. I don't have to worry about unlocking millions of legitimate users; they do. I think the security is pretty loose.
You're thinking big by wondering if she was a victim of a drive-by, network sniffer, or an unpatched security hole. Many accounts to publicly-accessible systems are far easier to break through simpler means.
Win7 running under Linux/KVM has quite acceptable performance on my home machine (dual AMD 2.5 gig and 3 gigs of ram); intensive disk IO in the VM suffers a bit though, because it's an emulated disk (qcow2) instead of a raw partition.
For normal tasks I really don't notice a difference.
which are the result of a not-yet-fully-understood process involving dead organic matter
Hydrocarbons are rather common beyond earth and are not strictly due to organic life; there is even a theory that most of the petroleum on this planet is a result of ongoing chemical processes around the Earth's mantle and not due to decomposing organic matter from millions of years ago.
There are a few things we can generalize on. Physical laws seem to be a constant throughout the universe, so sound and touch may not be universal (what if life evolved in the clouds of Jupiter?) but is probably a common way for organisms to experience their environments; radio makes a great long-range communications method here and elsewhere too.
By the same token, an advanced civilization almost certainly is social with a basic code of ethics that we can understand; civilization and technology require cooperation. Utilitarian ethics, like don't steal from others because you wouldn't like it if they stole from you, may be a constant. Social mores may be different but the ethics will probably be similar.
Just because you're off-world doesn't mean that everything changes.
There is another Linux implementation called pwsafe that I use. It's command line, no gui, but it automatically integrates with the X clipboard so you can paste your username/password without seeing it on screen.
It's all about the 40% that you let in. Different frequencies can be blocked at different rates, so (for instance) the infrared and ultraviolet may be heavily blocked but not the ROYGBIV part of the spectrum.