Who had access to the tapes on the way to the storage facility? Did a company officer take them to the vault directly or did the Iron Mountain guy come by once a week to pick them up? You trust that guy? How long would it take to find out that your tapes had been swiped/substituted?
My boss has always said (and I think Homeland Security put out a warning earlier this year) that the easiest way to bypass most security is to dress up in a FedEx/UPS uniform. Those people are waved through security all the time!
To foster creativity, 3M encourages technical staff members to spend up to 15 percent of their time on projects of their own choosing. Also known as the "bootlegging" policy, the 15 percent rule has been the catalyst for some of 3M's most famous products, such as Scotch Tape and -- of course -- Post-it(R) Notes.
In 1968, Spencer Silver was a man on a mission. Working in 3M's Corporate Research Laboratory, it was his job to analyze adhesives and how 3M could use them in new products. Along the way, he discovered a unique adhesive that formed clear, sparkly spheres instead of a film. He spent the next few years shopping his new glue around 3M before Art Fry found a use for it.
Art Fry's the guy who put Silver's adhesive on a scrap of paper to form a better bookmark. He was a new product development engineer for 3M at the time, but it was while singing in the church choir that he received the inspiration for Post-it(R) Notes.
It was 1974 when Art Fry entered Bob Molenda's office with a nifty little note in hand -- and a lot of plans. As Fry's supervisor and the special projects lab coordinator, Molenda helped Fry get his pet project through the pilot test period. Molenda was most recently the sales and marketing manager for Post-it(R) Custom Printed Notes before retiring from 3M after 33 years.
Forgive my ignorance but which part of your setup prevents me from sending SPAM through another relay and set my From:, Reply-To:, etc. to tor@slett.net?
We use Netscreen and Cisco equipment here. If you want to use NTP, you need to configure it specifically. Otherwise, the boxes go off their internal reset clocks.
NTP is completely unnecessary on a home user's firewall/router.
I explain it by saying that despite the fact you are not the first person in this thread to say that real-world tests have been performed, no reference to a well thought out trials scenario has been presented. So far, all these real-world tests are hearsay.
And I can also explain it by saying that mathematical errors can lead to "prove" something that is incorrect.
No, you couldn't. You could have never picked the door without the prize that Monty was going to open. Monty knows there are two doors with no prize. So he picks one of them: 50% of the time its the door without the prize that you didn't choose.
This is a question of precision and accuracy. You know going into the game that there are precisely two doors with no prize. You just don't know with accuracy until after the prize is revealed.
Think of it this way: You never have a first guess because, regardless of which door you choose, Monty will always have a second empty door to try and distract you.
The more I think about this, the more it sounds like Gambler's fallacy to me. When you ultimately choose between two doors (regardless of the fact that you had already chosen one of the doors) you have a 1 in 2 chance of picking the right door.
That's a really good explanation but I'm having a hard time considering the third door as part of the equation. You are given the chance to win or not win a prize. (And to have a psychological ride thanks to fear and uncertainty)
Eg.
Host says pick between door 1 and door 2. Host says 'Are you sure? Do you want to switch?'
The way I see it, the third door is irrelevant. You are always making the following choices:
1) Pick from a winning or non-winning door. 2) Choose to keep the same choice as above or choose another.
The fact that the host opens 1000 doors and let's you choose to change them doesn't increase your chances if, ultimately, you are left with two doors. It only matters you are ever not left with two doors.
Eg.
Choose from four doors: I choose A. Well, door D doesn't have the prize. Choose from three doors: I choose A. Aha! A does not have the prize. You lose.
It seems like the Gambler's Fallacy at work here. Ultimately it only boils down to the FINAL choice you make when the win-loss decision is made. The rest has no bearing (other than, again, psychological) on the final decision.
So, thanks for the helpful Matrix. I'll be stubborn and consider the problem a 50-50 chance. And you should usually go with your first instinct anyway.
I have a laptop sitting next to me running XP. It's a Dell Latitude CP (purchased a month before they came out with PII laptops). Pentium (regular, unleaded) 233, 96MB RAM, 4 GB HD.
Minimum specs are designed for people like me. My desktop is almost as out-of-date as my laptop. Is it FAST? Nah. Does it get the job done? Sure.
1) Use this technology to get you to links before they are slashdotted.
2) Have Slashdot create ever-increasing 'Super' Subscriber options. For an extra $20 you get stories before subscribers do. (followed iteratively by the Super-Super and Super^3 subscriber levels).
I don't think you actually received an answer for why 'natural' elements 'stop' at 92.
I'm not a chemist (or any form of scientist, really) but I believe it refers to how many elements have 'naturally' been found on Earth. Wikipedia sums it up nicely at Transuranic Elements: "All of the elements with higher atomic numbers, however, have had to be produced artificially. They are all radioactive, with a half-life much shorter than the age of the Earth, so any atoms of these elements, if they ever were present at the earth's formation, have long since vanished."
Anybody who as posted here saying that they got hit (personal boxes or boxes under their direct control) is a MORON. I exclude those of you who work at places that got hit but aren't responsible for patches. But the rest of you, SHEESH. What a bunch of f'ing idiots. Get off the Internet: you are making it unpleasant for the rest of us.
How Slashdot is this? On a dup/"revisited" article, a five digit id/.er posts a link to a shorter article that quotes the original article that mods didn't read but saw the pictures. Then mod link up. Wow, now you just need to misspell something (preferably CowboyNeal) to achieve Slashdot bliss.
Slashdot Mirror
That would be a karma bonus, just like this one.
Who had access to the tapes on the way to the storage facility? Did a company officer take them to the vault directly or did the Iron Mountain guy come by once a week to pick them up? You trust that guy? How long would it take to find out that your tapes had been swiped/substituted?
My boss has always said (and I think Homeland Security put out a warning earlier this year) that the easiest way to bypass most security is to dress up in a FedEx/UPS uniform. Those people are waved through security all the time!
http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/learn_history.j html
To foster creativity, 3M encourages technical staff members to spend up to 15 percent of their time on projects of their own choosing. Also known as the "bootlegging" policy, the 15 percent rule has been the catalyst for some of 3M's most famous products, such as Scotch Tape and -- of course -- Post-it(R) Notes.
In 1968, Spencer Silver was a man on a mission. Working in 3M's Corporate Research Laboratory, it was his job to analyze adhesives and how 3M could use them in new products. Along the way, he discovered a unique adhesive that formed clear, sparkly spheres instead of a film. He spent the next few years shopping his new glue around 3M before Art Fry found a use for it.
Art Fry's the guy who put Silver's adhesive on a scrap of paper to form a better bookmark. He was a new product development engineer for 3M at the time, but it was while singing in the church choir that he received the inspiration for Post-it(R) Notes.
It was 1974 when Art Fry entered Bob Molenda's office with a nifty little note in hand -- and a lot of plans. As Fry's supervisor and the special projects lab coordinator, Molenda helped Fry get his pet project through the pilot test period. Molenda was most recently the sales and marketing manager for Post-it(R) Custom Printed Notes before retiring from 3M after 33 years.
In case anybody is reading this far, the launch is on hold until 3-9 due to inclement weather.
"Conditions were not suitable for the launch. All being well, it will happen as planned on Wednesday morning," said the spokesman.
Forgive my ignorance but which part of your setup prevents me from sending SPAM through another relay and set my From:, Reply-To:, etc. to tor@slett.net?
We use Netscreen and Cisco equipment here. If you want to use NTP, you need to configure it specifically. Otherwise, the boxes go off their internal reset clocks.
NTP is completely unnecessary on a home user's firewall/router.
I hope they use Philosophical Language because the last time this was tried, Waterhouse helped Wilkins come up with Real Character.
If we made it a habit to remove non-stories, this place would dry up quick.
I REALLY can't wait until next week when this gets posted as a dupe.
So what you are saying is that you are satisfied in giving things to people that they can't use?
"Hey guys I have this video I'd like you to watch!"
"Umm, it didn't work"
"Well, too bad."
Niiice, real friendly too.
Why don't you keep your videos to yourself, then? Nothing like a pretentious Linux user to get me to want to use Linux.
Did I see your jaw drop? Guess not.
I explain it by saying that despite the fact you are not the first person in this thread to say that real-world tests have been performed, no reference to a well thought out trials scenario has been presented. So far, all these real-world tests are hearsay.
And I can also explain it by saying that mathematical errors can lead to "prove" something that is incorrect.
No, you couldn't. You could have never picked the door without the prize that Monty was going to open. Monty knows there are two doors with no prize. So he picks one of them: 50% of the time its the door without the prize that you didn't choose.
This is a question of precision and accuracy. You know going into the game that there are precisely two doors with no prize. You just don't know with accuracy until after the prize is revealed.
Think of it this way: You never have a first guess because, regardless of which door you choose, Monty will always have a second empty door to try and distract you.
The more I think about this, the more it sounds like Gambler's fallacy to me. When you ultimately choose between two doors (regardless of the fact that you had already chosen one of the doors) you have a 1 in 2 chance of picking the right door.
That's a really good explanation but I'm having a hard time considering the third door as part of the equation. You are given the chance to win or not win a prize. (And to have a psychological ride thanks to fear and uncertainty)
Eg.
Host says pick between door 1 and door 2.
Host says 'Are you sure? Do you want to switch?'
The way I see it, the third door is irrelevant. You are always making the following choices:
1) Pick from a winning or non-winning door.
2) Choose to keep the same choice as above or choose another.
The fact that the host opens 1000 doors and let's you choose to change them doesn't increase your chances if, ultimately, you are left with two doors. It only matters you are ever not left with two doors.
Eg.
Choose from four doors: I choose A.
Well, door D doesn't have the prize.
Choose from three doors: I choose A.
Aha! A does not have the prize. You lose.
It seems like the Gambler's Fallacy at work here. Ultimately it only boils down to the FINAL choice you make when the win-loss decision is made. The rest has no bearing (other than, again, psychological) on the final decision.
So, thanks for the helpful Matrix. I'll be stubborn and consider the problem a 50-50 chance. And you should usually go with your first instinct anyway.
LOL We had iLink Express once. Didn't pay anyone, though.
61.40 CPU-days = 138.25 1GHz CPU-days, hence they must have been using 2.2 GHz CPUs.
OR
1 billion cycles per second for 138.25 days = 86,400,000,000,000 cycles (8.64 x 10^11 cycles, right?)
Which on my computer would take, hmm... 3 1/2 years if I turn kpp off.
Good call on Anthro: They already have an iCart.
I have a laptop sitting next to me running XP. It's a Dell Latitude CP (purchased a month before they came out with PII laptops). Pentium (regular, unleaded) 233, 96MB RAM, 4 GB HD.
Minimum specs are designed for people like me. My desktop is almost as out-of-date as my laptop. Is it FAST? Nah. Does it get the job done? Sure.
1) Use this technology to get you to links before they are slashdotted.
2) Have Slashdot create ever-increasing 'Super' Subscriber options. For an extra $20 you get stories before subscribers do. (followed iteratively by the Super-Super and Super^3 subscriber levels).
I don't think you actually received an answer for why 'natural' elements 'stop' at 92.
2 /CH610A/Krische/handouts/Ch.1_Part_1.pdf.
I'm not a chemist (or any form of scientist, really) but I believe it refers to how many elements have 'naturally' been found on Earth. Wikipedia sums it up nicely at Transuranic Elements: "All of the elements with higher atomic numbers, however, have had to be produced artificially. They are all radioactive, with a half-life much shorter than the age of the Earth, so any atoms of these elements, if they ever were present at the earth's formation, have long since vanished."
I found a "historical perspective" on chemistry from Google: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/academic/courses/Fall200
And you could count the seed to produce a PRNG algorithm. This is what we call cross-discipline.
Anybody who as posted here saying that they got hit (personal boxes or boxes under their direct control) is a MORON. I exclude those of you who work at places that got hit but aren't responsible for patches. But the rest of you, SHEESH. What a bunch of f'ing idiots. Get off the Internet: you are making it unpleasant for the rest of us.
Three new t-shirts are the best I can suggest. I've also put you on my friends list so that your low-digitness can rub off on me.
/. id a while ago? Hmmmm....
Didn't somebody eBay a low
How Slashdot is this? On a dup/"revisited" article, a five digit id /.er posts a link to a shorter article that quotes the original article that mods didn't read but saw the pictures. Then mod link up. Wow, now you just need to misspell something (preferably CowboyNeal) to achieve Slashdot bliss.
init flame(UT){ :-)
Urban Terror is what the kids who grew up to play True Combat used to play
}
Also X-Platform friendly.
More contest ideas...
First person to buy a T-shirt with any of the new designs....
First non-OSDN employee to wear one in public....
Honorable meniton...
First person to wear shirt twice....
First person to have shirt wear out....
I think a lot of what sells as music nowadays is also "cruel and unusual".