Actually, it would be terrible for that. A fifty mile range means that a forty mile trip would be pushing its limits. If you even so much as go out to lunch, you're at risk of not making it home. Further, you're running the battery almost all the way down every time, which is pretty hard on Lithium ion batteries. The only thing harder on the battery packs would be a three block commute, where you just barely drain the thing at all between charges.
The ideal vehicle for your purposes would have about a 200 mile range. That way, your commute runs the battery down about a fourth of the way. Unfortunately, that is exactly what everyone should be looking for in an EV so that it can completely replace their car for all uses, yet nobody is building cars like that because it would cost a lot more to build them.
Oh, yeah, and don't forget that after a few years of that abuse, that 50 mile range is going to be a thirty mile range because battery capacity degrades significantly over time. Within five years, you probably won't be able to make the forty mile round trip without charging it at work.
It sounds like basically the same situation as currently exists with FileVault....
The pre-10.7 FileVault didn't work well with TM because users couldn't see each other's files even if the permissions allowed it. In Lion, there are no per-user disk images; your boot volume is just a volume. I would not expect similar problems with it.
I don't use their shared hosting though- it was too gloppy/bursty.
That's something of an understatement, in my experience. About a third of the time, a simple fetch of a static file would take longer than a minute to start sending data. Their servers are so badly misconfigured that you'd think their setup procedure involved copious amounts of alcohol. And after providing them with exact time stamps of when problems were occurring (verified by multiple machines on different networks), they still weren't willing to do anything about the abusers (mostly broken WordPress installations, I think).
And I tried to buy an SSL cert from them once. They eventually refunded my money after determining that even though their website happily sold me an SSL cert with the specified duration, they no longer offered them, and had not for several years. Oops.
It was like working with the federal government, only without the opportunity for a cushy public sector job at the end.
Uh... no, I'm not.... Every BIND-based DNS server that's authoritative for a domain is also a caching DNS server for other domains unless you explicitly disable recursion in resolv.conf.
Most folks have recursion limited to their local subnet to reduce the risk of certain types of cache poisoning attacks, IIRC, but unless the defaults have changed since I built my last box, the default BIND config leaves recursion wide open.
I couldn't care less about caching in the client library (resolver). That's basically irrelevant to what we're talking about here.
To see how small their real coverage area actually is, take a look at the areas that are non-roaming in prepaid voice. They're basically a regional player in four regions: the Pacific Northwest, the extreme Northeast, states that border Virginia, and a stripe up the middle of the country that they acquired after Verizon acquired somebody else and had to sell off a bunch of towers, IIRC.
As far as I can tell, the vast majority (both by square mile and by population density) of U.S. Cellular's coverage area is silently roaming on one of the networks I listed in the GP post (mostly Verizon, IIRC), which means that if one of those carriers decides to crank up their roaming access fees, their coverage area could suddenly get a whole lot smaller.
A lot of folks on slashdot host their own domains, which usually means running your own DNS servers.
Also, a lot of folks run Linux, and the default configuration on a lot of Linux distros provides a caching-only DNS server on the box, unless this has changed recently.
... but if there is evidence that the person took steps to circumvent the filter it is harder for them to argue that they stumbled across it by accident.
Yeah, if there is evidence that they took those steps to circumvent the filter. Is there anybody on Slashdot who isn't already running his/her own DNS server at home? Didn't think so. I have two authoritative public DNS servers on my home network that also provide caching DNS for my intranet and DMZ, and I doubt I'm alone in that regard.
The bigger concern here, at least in my mind, is that this might turn into a witch hunt. Let's say that Telstra suddenly decides to see which clients are using their DNS server, then reports the ones that aren't to the authorities because after all, they're probably doing it to download child porn, pirated movies, warez, or whatever else that Telstra is blocking this week. That could turn into a whole lot of hassle for a whole lot of people. And particularly when it comes to child porn, once accused, forever shunned, making it triply important that folks in Australia ensure that such witch hunts do not occur....
I'd imagine a lot of Zynga employees will do just that, if they're smart. Then, since they won't need to put up with being massively overworked and severely underpaid anymore, they'll flee the sinking ship in droves.
Translation: take your profits after a single-digit number of weeks, and then walk away.
Compared to what? It might actually provide just that if you're comparing to an analog connection. If you're comparing to a different digital connection, then that's just silly.
Actually, I'm told that Thunderbolt has the potential for improving clock accuracy when clocking interfaces to one another without the use of a separate word clock or ADAT cable.
Also, Thunderbolt should beat FireWire (which beats USB) at round trip latency.
So there may actually be real benefits to using TB for audio in the future.
And as I said, the rest only offer service in limited areas. Any that provide service outside their limited service area do so by being an MVNO everywhere else. That means that they are effectively not adding any competition except in their local areas.
Unless I'm missing something, that's pretty much it. Everybody else is either a regional carrier that only provides service in a small area or is an MVNO that leases service from one of the services above. And frankly, even MetroPCS is basically a glorified regional carrier....
One of the reasons California is already in big trouble financially is that they depended too much on income tax rather than other sources of revenue.
Untrue. The reasons that California is in big trouble financially are fourfold:
They relied too heavily on sales tax. California tends to be fairly far ahead of the rest of the country in terms of how much they buy stuff online. This has significantly hurt sales tax revenues, particularly when coupled with an economic downturn. This actually caused a bigger drop in California's revenue than income tax did. That means that we would have been significantly better off with a higher income tax and no sales tax.
Prop 13. As you noted, Californians were tricked into creating a broken property tax system that heavily favors businesses and rental properties under the guise that it would help the elderly keep their homes.
California had been living hand-to-mouth as a state for a decade before the economic downturn, spending every single cent of revenue it brought in, saving absolutely nothing. Thus, when the economy went south, they were screwed.
California's constitution does not allow it to run a deficit.
As far as I'm concerned, income tax should be the only tax allowed by law. It's the only non-regressive tax scheme that exists. Every other tax disproportionately impacts the poor. The poor spend a larger percentage of their income on products and housing than the rich, which means that sales tax and property tax impact them more (either directly or through higher rent). Same goes for taxes on businesses, as those businesses pass on those higher taxes to customers.
Income tax, by contrast, taxes based on income, which means that it affects rich and poor equally. If we eliminated the capital gains tax and replaced it with ordinary income, we would immediately fix all of our budget problems, both at the state and national level. If we eliminated the social security tax cap, we would fix social security's budget problems. Basically, everything wrong with our state and federal budget can be neatly pinned on tax shelters for the wealthy. In short, we're not relying on income tax too much. We're not relying on it nearly enough.
I've never had a bank or credit union that didn't pre-assign an initial PIN. Odds are, yours did, too. And just to be cynical, the bad guys probably know what it is already, even if you don't.
If it were up to this court the government would be able to quarter troops in our homes.
When the Founding Fathers wrote that amendment, clearly they intended to require the owner's permission before a soldier may enter someone's home to draw and quarter another soldier who is living there. If the amendment had prohibited forcible housing of troops, it would have said so explicitly.
Personally, I think that unlimited tracking crosses a line. But I can very easily see the argument that it's a simple extension of police tracking that is enabled through the use of new technology.
Is it too late to get Amazon to do express delivery of nine copies of the book 1984 to:
Supreme Court of the United States
One First Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20543
Just saying. Every single thing in that book can easily be argued to be "a simple extension of police tracking that is enabled through the use of new technology". At some point, you have to draw a line.
What's needed here is strict liability. If your company performs an audit and declares that a company is in compliance and it is later determined that they were not at the time of your audit, your auditing firm and its employees should be held liable for any damages.
That one small change to the legal code would end the practices you describe in a heartbeat.
Two words: cash back. Also, I've never seen a credit union that offered true credit cards. Debit cards, sure, but I'm not comfortable using a debit card anywhere unless I've been shopping there for years, because all it takes is one sleazy employee cloning your stripe, and somebody can then guess your PIN numbers and clear out your account without actually stealing your card. And because it is a debit card, your liability when this happens is unlimited.
90% of people DONT need multicam, DONT need XML, and DONT even need tape any more.
Sure, I could go tapeless, but I can shoot an hour or more of HDV on a tape that costs a buck or two, and keep the tape forever. No backup needed.
If I shot that on a flash card, it would cost ten or twenty bucks for that much flash, and suddenly I'm forced to copy it to a hard drive not just while working with it, but also for permanent storage, which means two permanent hard drive copies of the content.
That's not a small amount of overhead, both in terms of maintenance (periodically making sure the drives spin up) and ease of retrieval (each hard drive would hold ten or twenty projects, versus each project having its own small cluster of tapes).
So don't give me that "tape is the past" bullshit. There's still no better acquisition format for folks who keep all their raw footage and aren't big enough to have an IT department to support them.
...Is a somewhat drastic change. The first version sounds more forceful, and may be desired depending on the context.
This is true. The first sentence was very bureaucratic and unfriendly. I have a hard time thinking of that as being beneficial, but I suppose if it was written by somebody who works for the DMV....:-)
I'd also like to see what you would change the original example to: "Who did you give it to?"
Fair enough. There's really not much you can do to such short sentences; there's just not much to work with. If I want to be grammatically correct, I'd say, "To whom did you give it?" If I were being informal enough to misuse "who" as an objective case pronoun, I'd probably leave that sentence alone. Once you're talking about informal speech, ending a sentence with a preposition is fine.
Also, I prefer the British style of putting punctuation outside of quotes, even though I'm American.
Strongly agreed. If it's good enough for parentheses, it's good enough for quotes. For anybody who doesn't understand what we're talking about here, if a period (or comma taking the place of a period) marks the end of a sentence that is entirely within quotes (e.g. speech), it should go inside. If the quotes are around a word or two, either to indicate ironic use or to set off the first use of a potentially unfamiliar term, the punctuation should be outside the quotes.
This style is absolutely essential if you are using single quotes to set off a specific word at the end of a sentence in something that is already a quotation, as having the punctuation inside the single quotes would result in a single quote immediately followed by a double quote, which is just unreadable.
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Actually, it would be terrible for that. A fifty mile range means that a forty mile trip would be pushing its limits. If you even so much as go out to lunch, you're at risk of not making it home. Further, you're running the battery almost all the way down every time, which is pretty hard on Lithium ion batteries. The only thing harder on the battery packs would be a three block commute, where you just barely drain the thing at all between charges.
The ideal vehicle for your purposes would have about a 200 mile range. That way, your commute runs the battery down about a fourth of the way. Unfortunately, that is exactly what everyone should be looking for in an EV so that it can completely replace their car for all uses, yet nobody is building cars like that because it would cost a lot more to build them.
Oh, yeah, and don't forget that after a few years of that abuse, that 50 mile range is going to be a thirty mile range because battery capacity degrades significantly over time. Within five years, you probably won't be able to make the forty mile round trip without charging it at work.
The pre-10.7 FileVault didn't work well with TM because users couldn't see each other's files even if the permissions allowed it. In Lion, there are no per-user disk images; your boot volume is just a volume. I would not expect similar problems with it.
That's something of an understatement, in my experience. About a third of the time, a simple fetch of a static file would take longer than a minute to start sending data. Their servers are so badly misconfigured that you'd think their setup procedure involved copious amounts of alcohol. And after providing them with exact time stamps of when problems were occurring (verified by multiple machines on different networks), they still weren't willing to do anything about the abusers (mostly broken WordPress installations, I think).
And I tried to buy an SSL cert from them once. They eventually refunded my money after determining that even though their website happily sold me an SSL cert with the specified duration, they no longer offered them, and had not for several years. Oops.
It was like working with the federal government, only without the opportunity for a cushy public sector job at the end.
Uh... no, I'm not.... Every BIND-based DNS server that's authoritative for a domain is also a caching DNS server for other domains unless you explicitly disable recursion in resolv.conf.
Most folks have recursion limited to their local subnet to reduce the risk of certain types of cache poisoning attacks, IIRC, but unless the defaults have changed since I built my last box, the default BIND config leaves recursion wide open.
I couldn't care less about caching in the client library (resolver). That's basically irrelevant to what we're talking about here.
IIRC, DNSSEC will prevent that from working, assuming you have it set up properly and the TLD you're contacting has it enabled.
To see how small their real coverage area actually is, take a look at the areas that are non-roaming in prepaid voice. They're basically a regional player in four regions: the Pacific Northwest, the extreme Northeast, states that border Virginia, and a stripe up the middle of the country that they acquired after Verizon acquired somebody else and had to sell off a bunch of towers, IIRC.
As far as I can tell, the vast majority (both by square mile and by population density) of U.S. Cellular's coverage area is silently roaming on one of the networks I listed in the GP post (mostly Verizon, IIRC), which means that if one of those carriers decides to crank up their roaming access fees, their coverage area could suddenly get a whole lot smaller.
A lot of folks on slashdot host their own domains, which usually means running your own DNS servers.
Also, a lot of folks run Linux, and the default configuration on a lot of Linux distros provides a caching-only DNS server on the box, unless this has changed recently.
Yeah, if there is evidence that they took those steps to circumvent the filter. Is there anybody on Slashdot who isn't already running his/her own DNS server at home? Didn't think so. I have two authoritative public DNS servers on my home network that also provide caching DNS for my intranet and DMZ, and I doubt I'm alone in that regard.
The bigger concern here, at least in my mind, is that this might turn into a witch hunt. Let's say that Telstra suddenly decides to see which clients are using their DNS server, then reports the ones that aren't to the authorities because after all, they're probably doing it to download child porn, pirated movies, warez, or whatever else that Telstra is blocking this week. That could turn into a whole lot of hassle for a whole lot of people. And particularly when it comes to child porn, once accused, forever shunned, making it triply important that folks in Australia ensure that such witch hunts do not occur....
Maybe I'm just being too paranoid.... Nah.
I'd imagine a lot of Zynga employees will do just that, if they're smart. Then, since they won't need to put up with being massively overworked and severely underpaid anymore, they'll flee the sinking ship in droves.
Translation: take your profits after a single-digit number of weeks, and then walk away.
Compared to what? It might actually provide just that if you're comparing to an analog connection. If you're comparing to a different digital connection, then that's just silly.
And HDCAM is a high-end offshoot of DigiBeta, which was a high end offshoot of Betacam/Betacam SP, which....
And yet, not all FireWire camcorders are relics. Just saying.
Actually, I'm told that Thunderbolt has the potential for improving clock accuracy when clocking interfaces to one another without the use of a separate word clock or ADAT cable.
Also, Thunderbolt should beat FireWire (which beats USB) at round trip latency.
So there may actually be real benefits to using TB for audio in the future.
And as I said, the rest only offer service in limited areas. Any that provide service outside their limited service area do so by being an MVNO everywhere else. That means that they are effectively not adding any competition except in their local areas.
List of actual carriers:
Unless I'm missing something, that's pretty much it. Everybody else is either a regional carrier that only provides service in a small area or is an MVNO that leases service from one of the services above. And frankly, even MetroPCS is basically a glorified regional carrier....
Untrue. The reasons that California is in big trouble financially are fourfold:
As far as I'm concerned, income tax should be the only tax allowed by law. It's the only non-regressive tax scheme that exists. Every other tax disproportionately impacts the poor. The poor spend a larger percentage of their income on products and housing than the rich, which means that sales tax and property tax impact them more (either directly or through higher rent). Same goes for taxes on businesses, as those businesses pass on those higher taxes to customers.
Income tax, by contrast, taxes based on income, which means that it affects rich and poor equally. If we eliminated the capital gains tax and replaced it with ordinary income, we would immediately fix all of our budget problems, both at the state and national level. If we eliminated the social security tax cap, we would fix social security's budget problems. Basically, everything wrong with our state and federal budget can be neatly pinned on tax shelters for the wealthy. In short, we're not relying on income tax too much. We're not relying on it nearly enough.
Not true. Denying the Holy Spirit is the one unforgivable sin. Matthew 12:31
Not to mention making this game a complete non-starter in the console video game rental market.
Doomed, indeed.
I've never had a bank or credit union that didn't pre-assign an initial PIN. Odds are, yours did, too. And just to be cynical, the bad guys probably know what it is already, even if you don't.
When the Founding Fathers wrote that amendment, clearly they intended to require the owner's permission before a soldier may enter someone's home to draw and quarter another soldier who is living there. If the amendment had prohibited forcible housing of troops, it would have said so explicitly.
Is it too late to get Amazon to do express delivery of nine copies of the book 1984 to:
Supreme Court of the United States
One First Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20543
Just saying. Every single thing in that book can easily be argued to be "a simple extension of police tracking that is enabled through the use of new technology". At some point, you have to draw a line.
What's needed here is strict liability. If your company performs an audit and declares that a company is in compliance and it is later determined that they were not at the time of your audit, your auditing firm and its employees should be held liable for any damages.
That one small change to the legal code would end the practices you describe in a heartbeat.
Two words: cash back. Also, I've never seen a credit union that offered true credit cards. Debit cards, sure, but I'm not comfortable using a debit card anywhere unless I've been shopping there for years, because all it takes is one sleazy employee cloning your stripe, and somebody can then guess your PIN numbers and clear out your account without actually stealing your card. And because it is a debit card, your liability when this happens is unlimited.
Sure, I could go tapeless, but I can shoot an hour or more of HDV on a tape that costs a buck or two, and keep the tape forever. No backup needed.
If I shot that on a flash card, it would cost ten or twenty bucks for that much flash, and suddenly I'm forced to copy it to a hard drive not just while working with it, but also for permanent storage, which means two permanent hard drive copies of the content.
That's not a small amount of overhead, both in terms of maintenance (periodically making sure the drives spin up) and ease of retrieval (each hard drive would hold ten or twenty projects, versus each project having its own small cluster of tapes).
So don't give me that "tape is the past" bullshit. There's still no better acquisition format for folks who keep all their raw footage and aren't big enough to have an IT department to support them.
This is true. The first sentence was very bureaucratic and unfriendly. I have a hard time thinking of that as being beneficial, but I suppose if it was written by somebody who works for the DMV.... :-)
Fair enough. There's really not much you can do to such short sentences; there's just not much to work with. If I want to be grammatically correct, I'd say, "To whom did you give it?" If I were being informal enough to misuse "who" as an objective case pronoun, I'd probably leave that sentence alone. Once you're talking about informal speech, ending a sentence with a preposition is fine.
Strongly agreed. If it's good enough for parentheses, it's good enough for quotes. For anybody who doesn't understand what we're talking about here, if a period (or comma taking the place of a period) marks the end of a sentence that is entirely within quotes (e.g. speech), it should go inside. If the quotes are around a word or two, either to indicate ironic use or to set off the first use of a potentially unfamiliar term, the punctuation should be outside the quotes.
This style is absolutely essential if you are using single quotes to set off a specific word at the end of a sentence in something that is already a quotation, as having the punctuation inside the single quotes would result in a single quote immediately followed by a double quote, which is just unreadable.