True, but we're also used to: armed guards at most large stores (required by law), profiling everywhere (sucks if you're being profiled, but there's a reason for it), and traffic being stopped for 30 minutes all the time so the bomb squad can come out and blow up some stupid kid's backpack. I don't think most Americans (and yes, I was a resident for 22 years, and still am a citizen) would like to deal with that. As is, I get strange looks whenever I travel on business and instinctively open my backpack whenever I walk in a store in the US.
The first lesson was that the Internet isn't an innocent place any more. When IE6 was under development 6 years ago, viruses were inconveniences and true Internet crime wasn't a concern.
syousef writes "The Sydney morning herald reports that a new national ID card will be issued in Australia."From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card. People may choose to have other information stored on the card, such as health and emergency contact details which, for example, ambulance officers could use.". Your papers please."
I see 4 quotes, not enough spaces, and an extra period. Is the entire thing syousef's writing? If so, there needs to be an(other) end quote at the end. If not, why is the entire thing in italics (and it's good to know the yet another "editor" is a full fledged troll with the last line. Finally, how many times do we need a period in hte last line? I'm actually not trying to be a Grammar Nazi; I just don't understand what's being said here.
They occasionally plant disabled (i.e., blocked firing pin) guns in people's suitcases to test their screeners. There was a small flap a few months back -- they missed one, and they guy found it in his luggage when he arrived.
you could. But not everyone wants to back up 200GB worth of data.
I have my backups categorized as follows:
High priority (documents, records, etc): 150MB Medium priority (digital pictures, code, etc): 8GB Low priority (movies, mp3, etc): 430GB
The first gets backup up nightly to a remote machine, as well as weekly dumps to CDs The second is rsync'ed nightly to my website (not my machine -- shared hosting) The third gets a RAID5 array, but that's it
For the first (and maybe the second) category, Amazon would be much more economical than doing it myself onto another, designated, disk.
it was a simple matter of going to miami where jewish doctors
My father is a Jewish doctor, and I'm a Jewish lawyer. This no longer true. The supply of.. er.. volunteers... is now used primarily for making matza and "special" wine. The best place to buy organs from Jews is now Israel (why do you think we shoot all those ay-rabs in the face), or (ironically) Germany, where we have a large processing facility.
Correct... someone pays for it -- but it's the government (which charges taxes at a rate independant of blood usage) and private donations. The patient has no direct variable costs associated with the quantity of blood given.
Israel, which has all too much experience dealing with crises requiring blood, has a very unique system. Patients are never charged for blood -- in cash. Instead, they pay with (more) blood (please no jokes about Jewish bloodsuckers). If you donate blood, you are "insured" for 1 year, along with your immediate family. If you have to receive blood, without this insurance, they'll give you what you need, but you have to either pay for it yourself with a donation at a later date, or have someone else donate in your name (instead of in their name).
It's like blaming the toothbrush manufacturer that some inmate turned his toothbrush into a shank and stabbed you. Was the shank already in the toothbrush? Yes, but you had to modify the toothbrush, from it's originally intended purpose, to get to the shank.
No, it's as if they made toothbrush bristles was attached to a shank, and then molded some plastic over the (intentionally) sharp point to form a smooth handle. (Hrmm... sounds like a fun thing to try at the next prison visit...)
At a prior employer, we had one of these setups (actually, I did most of the work in setting it up) -- we had a 15 foot display (4096x2304 - 12 adjacent projectors), 4 cameras (two to zoom the speaker, two for general views), 8 (IIRC) desk mounted microphones, and a &^$%#-load of supporting hardware. It required a real multicast network -- we spent way too much time diagnosing routing issues with ES.net, but it was an awesome toy. Oh, and productive, too.
Bart: Dad, you don't have ten thousand dollars. Homer: Eh. How are they going to find me?
[at PBS Pledge Central, the "mercury" in a thermometer
display rises all the way to the top and rings a bell] White: Folks, we've just reached our goal of ten thousand, seven
hundred dollars, and it's all thanks to one generous
caller... who didn't leave his name. Homer: [laughs] White: But thanks to Insta-Trace, we've learned it's Homer
Simpson, of 742 Evergreen Terrace. [a picture of Homer
appears on the screen. He screams] Homer: Oh, why did I register with Insta-Trace?
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True, but we're also used to: armed guards at most large stores (required by law), profiling everywhere (sucks if you're being profiled, but there's a reason for it), and traffic being stopped for 30 minutes all the time so the bomb squad can come out and blow up some stupid kid's backpack. I don't think most Americans (and yes, I was a resident for 22 years, and still am a citizen) would like to deal with that. As is, I get strange looks whenever I travel on business and instinctively open my backpack whenever I walk in a store in the US.
... for someone who does not have the skill to build their own PC?
and began panicking... no more X10 pop unders!
every IE release since IE 2 or 3
Glad he's paying attention
The first lesson was that the Internet isn't an innocent place any more. When IE6 was under development 6 years ago, viruses were inconveniences and true Internet crime wasn't a concern.
Oh, really? Let's hear it for forward thinking...
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't this simply a case of converting what used to be a serial protocol into a parallel version?
Are we going to see a serial version come back in 5 years, which will be much faster due to the lack of syncronization overhead required?
Where would OpenBSD be without the likes of Theo de Raadt?
In the center of a group of friends?
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Give a man fire, keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Yes, but only if you're calling from within the US (or using a US proxy).
Yes, this contradicts their "it doesn't matter where you're calling from" attitude.
No, they don't seem to care.
ok, fair enough. Nice summary, SYousef. Those last three words really added a lot.
We have the following article:
syousef writes "The Sydney morning herald reports that a new national ID card will be issued in Australia."From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card. People may choose to have other information stored on the card, such as health and emergency contact details which, for example, ambulance officers could use.". Your papers please."
I see 4 quotes, not enough spaces, and an extra period. Is the entire thing syousef's writing? If so, there needs to be an(other) end quote at the end. If not, why is the entire thing in italics (and it's good to know the yet another "editor" is a full fledged troll with the last line. Finally, how many times do we need a period in hte last line? I'm actually not trying to be a Grammar Nazi; I just don't understand what's being said here.
They occasionally plant disabled (i.e., blocked firing pin) guns in people's suitcases to test their screeners. There was a small flap a few months back -- they missed one, and they guy found it in his luggage when he arrived.
Nation to drill a hole in a volcano. Lava discovered. News at eleven!
You left off the best part. Next day: "Nation drills hole in volcano. Nation disappears. Lots of new lava found."
you could. But not everyone wants to back up 200GB worth of data.
I have my backups categorized as follows:
High priority (documents, records, etc): 150MB
Medium priority (digital pictures, code, etc): 8GB
Low priority (movies, mp3, etc): 430GB
The first gets backup up nightly to a remote machine, as well as weekly dumps to CDs
The second is rsync'ed nightly to my website (not my machine -- shared hosting)
The third gets a RAID5 array, but that's it
For the first (and maybe the second) category, Amazon would be much more economical than doing it myself onto another, designated, disk.
To whomever moderated this troll.
Please look up the word sarcasm.
Thanks
it was a simple matter of going to miami where jewish doctors
.. er.. volunteers... is now used primarily for making matza and "special" wine. The best place to buy organs from Jews is now Israel (why do you think we shoot all those ay-rabs in the face), or (ironically) Germany, where we have a large processing facility.
My father is a Jewish doctor, and I'm a Jewish lawyer. This no longer true. The supply of
Idiots.
which just makes them doubly scary (10x the bandwidth, 1/10 the brains!)
Cool... someone else who counts on a logarithmic scale.
Linked because I can
Have a friend donate in your name.
Correct... someone pays for it -- but it's the government (which charges taxes at a rate independant of blood usage) and private donations. The patient has no direct variable costs associated with the quantity of blood given.
Israel, which has all too much experience dealing with crises requiring blood, has a very unique system. Patients are never charged for blood -- in cash. Instead, they pay with (more) blood (please no jokes about Jewish bloodsuckers). If you donate blood, you are "insured" for 1 year, along with your immediate family. If you have to receive blood, without this insurance, they'll give you what you need, but you have to either pay for it yourself with a donation at a later date, or have someone else donate in your name (instead of in their name).
well, he could always become a slashdot poster. Isn't that what we do here?
Sorry, bad analogy.
It's like blaming the toothbrush manufacturer that some inmate turned his toothbrush into a shank and stabbed you. Was the shank already in the toothbrush? Yes, but you had to modify the toothbrush, from it's originally intended purpose, to get to the shank.
No, it's as if they made toothbrush bristles was attached to a shank, and then molded some plastic over the (intentionally) sharp point to form a smooth handle. (Hrmm... sounds like a fun thing to try at the next prison visit...)
but what about the other versions,
In Soviet Russia, Camel rides you.
In Korea, only old robots ride camels.
In Planet of the Clams, lobster is slave to clam...
In Soviet Russia, Duke Nukem Forever first-posts only dying Korean old people!
but check out accessgrid.org
At a prior employer, we had one of these setups (actually, I did most of the work in setting it up) -- we had a 15 foot display (4096x2304 - 12 adjacent projectors), 4 cameras (two to zoom the speaker, two for general views), 8 (IIRC) desk mounted microphones, and a &^$%#-load of supporting hardware. It required a real multicast network -- we spent way too much time diagnosing routing issues with ES.net, but it was an awesome toy. Oh, and productive, too.
ObSimpsons
... who didn't leave his name.
Bart: Dad, you don't have ten thousand dollars.
Homer: Eh. How are they going to find me?
[at PBS Pledge Central, the "mercury" in a thermometer
display rises all the way to the top and rings a bell]
White: Folks, we've just reached our goal of ten thousand, seven
hundred dollars, and it's all thanks to one generous
caller
Homer: [laughs]
White: But thanks to Insta-Trace, we've learned it's Homer
Simpson, of 742 Evergreen Terrace. [a picture of Homer
appears on the screen. He screams]
Homer: Oh, why did I register with Insta-Trace?
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF11