If it contains 60% of their traffic, they can deliver the same service to twice the number of customers and they can maintain 2 times higher contention ratios before the customers scream. Even if the contention ratio is specified in a regulator approved package they can still decrease their backbone utilisation as well.
They will still charge the end-luser same amount of money and this will result in a very nice and tidy profit. I am not in the mood to do bistromatics on the cost per port on a DSL concentrator, cost of CPE, line, backbone, etc but the profit definitely will be there.
And it is not their fault as far as public relations are concerned. It is "the local equivalent of RIAA" fault.
Overall, they will end up being the only ones who will really benefit from this financially if this is enforced so I will be extremely surprised if they did not support this legislation (possibly not officially to avoid bad PR).
Not bypassable by Joe Average or as it is in Spain that should actually be Pedro Promedio.
Anyway, the only winners out of all these will be CacheLogic and Ellacoya which can do the enforcement and guess who has been the longest running trialist of their kit.
Guessing once, twice, thrice...
Yep, right guess. Telefonica.
This looks like the local equivalent of Baby Bell has bought itself a law that coincides with the way they see the network. By the way, compared to them even Ma Bell was a pinko commy hippy progressive.
it's a bit naive to think that their authentication systems are offline most of the time.
It is not the time for being offline which is the interesting bit in a revocation architecture of this size. It is the "being offline" idea in first place. Examples of units that must be able to operate while completely isolated are missile launching subs, missile silos, air defence, etc. Granted, for most of them you can limit the CRL only to "certificates of interest", but even after it has been limited it will grow up to be a bloody big CRL after time. It also becomes interesting how do you actually manage who gets which selective CRL and how do you manage rights in an infrastructure of this size.
By the way, considering that it is being done by.mil it is definitely fubar somewhere. Old infantry ideas of authentication produce some truly entertaining incidents when hitting modern concepts. Most likely rights somewhere have been taken out of crypto/x509 context which usually ends up being one big backdoor through which you can drive a truck if you know how to do it.
The last one who tried it was a hobbit. Possibly that is why he got lucky.
It was rumoured to work VERY WELL ON HUMANS.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
You get banana skins thrown at you and have to deal with 200 pounds of extremely annoyed ape. Just make sure you do not call him monkey, cause in that case you are likely to have your head screwed off.
You have to revoke the certificate if GI Joe number 286456781 is dead or has gone missing in action. You have to revoke the certificate if GI Joe 286456781 is found to be really Major Razvedki Ivanov. You have to revoke the certificate if Gi Joe 286456781's wife is found to really be Major Li of the people revolution army and she has gotten hold of the card PIN along with the card by means of giving excellent head.
Actually, revoking as such is not that hard either. May be a bit painfull in a multi-tier certificate hierarchy, but still possible.
The hard bit is propagating the knowledge that the certificate is revoked across an infrastructure of a.mil or.gov size. The main reason is that some portions of the infrastructure are offline most of the time and some are mandated be able to work in offline mode. In practice - how the f*** do you send a revocation list to a submarine?
Yeah, sure. I guess somebody is underestimating the ubiquity of data communications nowadays. Or thinking still about CIA operatives mainly.
The kit in question is available from a number of vendors. I got one with me from Aladin marketed under the name of eToken, supports standard x509 certificates and if it will be bought in the quantities.gov will buy it the price will be in the sub 10$ range. It is only moderately more expensive now.
Works with nearly all OS-es: Mac, Winhoze, Linux, *BSD. It is about one quarter the size of an average USB key and has RSA engine on board. Once you have written the private key on it there is no way to retrieve it. All RSA ops are performed on the key.
Add to that the fact that all modern laptops and most recent desktops have TPM. You can use that for similar purposes.
In fact, the problem is not in the tokens and dongles. There are plenty of these on the market. The problem is how to handle certificate infrastructure and trust levels on the level of millions of certificates especially revocation. Now how.gov handles that will be interesting to watch.
If you have gotten that far your armour class should be in the -20 area. I had characters with -25 armour class. At that level you can simply ignore the Titan until it becomes a tasty Titan stake. It will take a hit point from time to time which you will regenerate before he takes the next one. Who cares.
The master mind flayer is a different matter. That needs to be killed fast. As far as the arch-liches they will most likely waste every second turn on cursing you and keep teleporting away after you smack them. So if you have Magicbane the curses will dissipate on it. Similarly, after getting a good smacking they will no longer be around for the next 10+ turns so you can get the job done.
As I said - unpleasant, but not particularly bad until you get a U or a one of the named "&" capable of confusing you with their gaze in the mix. That will even up the stakes quite a bit. A black D or a few green Ps will also even up the stakes.
If worst comes to worst in cases like this using grenades ("a" on a wand of digging, lightning, fire or cold) helps a lot. Or having 1-2 suitable pets (run yours through a polymorph trap until it is a suitable D, pink W, yellow A or an H).
A few litches, a mind flayer, a giant and a disenchanter.
Unpleasant, but not the end of the world as long as you get despatch the mind flayer in a timely manner.
The rest can be dealt with at leasure. Holy water and Magicbane on the Ls followed by beating the disenchanter with naked hands. Does the trick nicely. Just do not forget to put your gloves back on after that. The closest time I have been to win the game I died in the most stupid manner by forgetting to put them back on and smacking a c with my bare hands.
And the giant - that is a delicacy. Best way to improve your Str: - eat a few.
It also existed for IBM PC/XT and it was tremendous fun. You had to think, plan ahead and operate with a very limited amount of resources counting up to a single bullet in many places. It also increased in complexity as it went along instead of being evenly daft and putting a fat retarded accelerated supercretin in the last room. Most of that got lost in the 1990es rerelease which has degenerated into a doom-like shoot-em up vs retarded monsters (with german uniforms) and mandatory last-level "big ones".
As far as shoot-em ups are concerned the article also misses one of the 1990-es pinnacles of shoot-em ups - Star Wars: Dark Forces. It was the first successfull FPS shoot-em up with some resemblance of a plot, a story line and real artwork thrown in between the levels. Half life, Unreal, Duke Nuke 'M, Jedi Knights all followed on where this game trailblazed. Granted, it suffered from some of the major problems of all shoot-em-ups (compensating for poor AI by high speed and lots of HP in high level monsters). None the less it was fun to the extent Quake and many of the more visually rich games never were.
The article also completely misses the early space simulators - Wing Commander and X-Wing/B-Wing/Tie Fighter. The artice also misses another game which was nothing much as far as game play, but was definitely a turning point in 3D game design - Terminal Velocity.
As I said, it is written to appeal to the common values of the current mainstream gamer which has been brought up to enjoy shoot-em ups with Tits, shoot-em ups without Tits and shoot-em ups with Tits and Hot Coffee. Speaking of tits, the article also misses the first year of Lara which was the first successfull game with a female as the main personality.
I can continue ranting forever but the summary shall remain the same "the article is garbage".
I think we have to have a talk about what the phrase "No problems" really means.
It means what it means. 802.11 has the provisions to do that and even several alternatives for the simpler cases (there is also the multi-queue by TOS stuff pushed by Atheros and the like which I forgot to mention). The problem is that so far there was hardly a single VOIP client on 100 APs camped out there.
This is about to change. When it does, people will start implementing the parts of the spec which have so far been ignored. There is a great deal of difference between designing and agreeing a spec and actually implementing an agreed one. The first is a process which may take years. The second is something which we may see by the time 20 VOIP clients on AP become a common problem.
It follows mostly console development and visual development and is severely biased towards shoot-em-up retards and their taste. The other branches of game genealogy are not followed at all.
It does not mention Rogue-to-Nethack and dungeon exploration games of old, Larry, Civilisation series, Sims to name a few.
The apogee of quests games does not even get an honourable one-liner. Neither does the original Castle Wolfenstein.
Can you imagine 20 users at a coffee shop trying to use WiFi voice at the same time?
No probs. The 802.11a,b,g family has two different MAC schemes (the idea is stolen from Cable actually).
There is a random access scheme similar to the ancient ethernet. In that case 20 VOIP users will simply bring the link down by trying to access the media.
There is also a scheme under which the AP will transmit maps which tell each client when to transmit. I do not have the time to do the exact math at the time, but it should be possible to accommodate 20 VOIP clients using this MAC and leave some breathing space for normal access (not a lot though). The problem is that for this scheme to be usefull the clients must have means of getting reservations from the AP. Tough luck - no such clients out there. Similarly, the AP must have an integrated Layer2-Layer3 filtering mechanism which hooks up straight into MAC and creates transmit maps based on statefull filter context. Once again - tough luck. There is no such AP out there (AFAIK). On top of that while this is in the spec it is hardly in use anywhere so the level of testing clients have is very low. I would expect some of the more cheap and cheerfull clients which do MAC portions in software to be broken with regard to this.
Que jokes about British Government instead.
1. The database is already out there under the name "CleanFeed" invented by BT a while back.
2. The government has badgered a large proportion of UK ISPs to use it by now regardless of their relationship with BT. That includes ones with their own DSL networks based on unbundling and most of the ones which buy BT DSL wholesale.
3. The implementation as mandated amidst other things allows transparent redirect to other URLs which whoever "controls" clean feed can supply if need be.
Now the obvious 2 million pound question question is what exactly prevents Antonio Bliar and his liar cronies from feeding URLs into the database which redirect people from sites that go against their liking.
The database is already there, operational and defective as well: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/. Move along people, nothing to see. Business as usual.
Err... What in particular makes you think that if they speak up the university administration will not use the national guard to make them keep their mouth shut. After all this is Kent State we are talking about. It has traditions to uphold in this area.
It was usually referred to: "Such was the God's will".
Which as far as I am concerned is about the same as the "one more, one less" attitude. Just a different form of it.
Let's not forget that 40%+ child (under 7) mortality was something normal as recently as the 19th century in most of Europe. People in those days were much more familiar with child death in the family then us. I am not saying that they did not care at all. Only idiots do not. They simply cared less, because they did not have a choice. Tuberculosis (in the cities), Malaria (in the south of Europe), Measles, Variolla, Pneumonia of all shapes and forms, Tetanus, Meningitus all took their toll.
Realistically this is the history repeating itself. Many times.
Prior to Edward Jenner discovering the vaccination the people tried to instill immunity to Smallpox in their children by a process known as variolation. The difference from vaccination was that people were deliberately infecting children with the real virus hoping that they have it in a milder form. Well... and if not, that was just a child, one more, one less who cares. In some more awkward and less developed parts of the world this is still done with Varicella, and less frequent Rubella, Measles and Mumps.
Society attitudes have changed since. The majority no longer consideres normal to infect children with the real viruses. Still, even now, there are idiots who insist that "having child diseases is good for the children as it improves their character" (or other such bollocks).
Similarly, infecting networks with real worms is not dissimilar to variolation. There are plenty of security tools out there nowdays which can detect the vulnerabilities that can be used by the worm and force the user to fix them. There is no real need to weed out the "weak" (yeah, I know, I am tempted myself to weed out the idiotz sometimes).
And as far as jo average user it will take some time for them to grow up, but it will end up the same as with vaccination. People were reluctant to do it initially. That is not the case now.
It has been a while before I have sat an exam, but I will second that.
There is a finite amount of knowledge which you can assimilate preparing for the exam. After that you should stop caring for at least a while and leave it to settle. Best of all get shitfaced the second-to-last evening before the exam and sleep over the last day. It is quite easy in most of European Unis where you have around a month long examination session. Essentially you have to get through the stages of care, fear, shitfaced, not care. Once you are at the last stage you perform the best.
This is impossible in most of the US though. Their short examination sessions do not allow this.
In the UK all such taxes and Social Security contributions are payed out of a work permit holder salary regardless of the fact that the work permit holder is not entitled to any of them.
Effectively in the UK all foreign workers subsidise the native's social security budget with their contributions for 4+ years. Situation in other EU countries is not much different. The difference is only the time you are obliged to subsidise the local xenophobic skinheads who are too lazy and/or ignorant to get a permanent job so they live off state benefits instead. It is 10+ years in France, 7? (not sure) in Germany and 5+ in most other European countries.
I am not aware of all the complexities of the US tax quagmire, but I would not be surprised if it is any different. If the companies rip the off the H1B people, the state which allows it is quite likely to try to have a go at that as well. After all they are effectively a form of slaves. If they open their mouth they are chucked out of the country right away.
While for an European getting kicked out will not really matter, for most H1Bs from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc it is actually a matter of family pride. "My son has been accepted to work in theUS is a lot of kudos points for a small village or a slumland family. Being force-sent back is major strike to the family pride in some places. As a result some of these people will go to all means to stay and the fact that they are staying silent about being ripped off is not surprising.
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Ahem. Seconded.
Though I am not a particular fan of Doom style puzzles some quirks have to be in there for the game to be challenging.
Most importantly there should be multiple ways of getting past the "puzzle". Besides pulling, pushing, stepping on switches you should be able to prop a switch, put a weight on a trigger plate in the floor, prop a door, etc.
And once again, in order for this to be fun the level should be random generated in the game context. If it is not it is all just stupid shoot-em-up. With our without mates and monsters.
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Nope.
Wrong.
All of these are external level generation outside game context and not dependant on game play so far.
In order for the game level generation to make the game real fun it has to be dependant on what you have achieved so far and what levels have been generated so far. Otherwise it is just an improved grind.
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That is one aspect - levels.
Some games got some resemblance of reasonably perverse AI as well.
Some have reasonably complex game play (not anywhere near nethack/Slash'em complexity, but pretty damn close).
None has it all. So I will continue to bitch. Until I start telling the kids to get off my lawn...
Extra credit if the valves are directly thermally controlled. No computers.
If a central heating can do it why is that so difficult for a computer cooling system.
Hint: the valves for floor central heating use valves which work based on the return fluid temperature. It should not be that hard to make something similar for Nx coolant distribution.
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There is nothing wrong with the slashdot crowd.
In fact everything is right with the slashdot crowd.
The slashdot crowd is absolutely bloody right to expect that 10 years later something with the visuals of Quake and the level of game AI complexity of Nethack should have been written released and shipped.
And that has not happened. The monsters in the newer quakes, dooms and the likes are as daft as in the original. There is no random or even pseudorandom level generation.
It is the same old grind. Granted it is with very fancy visuals, but in 10 years I would have expected the industry to come up with something moderately more engaging.
So the slashdot crowd is entitled to bitch and it surely does.
When it is not engaged playing Nethack. Where the f... did that storm giant go... I need to kill it and eat it as I am missing the intrinsic...
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If it contains 60% of their traffic, they can deliver the same service to twice the number of customers and they can maintain 2 times higher contention ratios before the customers scream. Even if the contention ratio is specified in a regulator approved package they can still decrease their backbone utilisation as well.
They will still charge the end-luser same amount of money and this will result in a very nice and tidy profit. I am not in the mood to do bistromatics on the cost per port on a DSL concentrator, cost of CPE, line, backbone, etc but the profit definitely will be there.
And it is not their fault as far as public relations are concerned. It is "the local equivalent of RIAA" fault.
Overall, they will end up being the only ones who will really benefit from this financially if this is enforced so I will be extremely surprised if they did not support this legislation (possibly not officially to avoid bad PR).
Bypassable by you and me.
Not bypassable by Joe Average or as it is in Spain that should actually be Pedro Promedio.
Anyway, the only winners out of all these will be CacheLogic and Ellacoya which can do the enforcement and guess who has been the longest running trialist of their kit.
Guessing once, twice, thrice...
Yep, right guess. Telefonica.
This looks like the local equivalent of Baby Bell has bought itself a law that coincides with the way they see the network. By the way, compared to them even Ma Bell was a pinko commy hippy progressive.
It is not the time for being offline which is the interesting bit in a revocation architecture of this size. It is the "being offline" idea in first place. Examples of units that must be able to operate while completely isolated are missile launching subs, missile silos, air defence, etc. Granted, for most of them you can limit the CRL only to "certificates of interest", but even after it has been limited it will grow up to be a bloody big CRL after time. It also becomes interesting how do you actually manage who gets which selective CRL and how do you manage rights in an infrastructure of this size.
By the way, considering that it is being done by .mil it is definitely fubar somewhere. Old infantry ideas of authentication produce some truly entertaining incidents when hitting modern concepts. Most likely rights somewhere have been taken out of crypto/x509 context which usually ends up being one big backdoor through which you can drive a truck if you know how to do it.
The last one who tried it was a hobbit. Possibly that is why he got lucky. It was rumoured to work VERY WELL ON HUMANS.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Of course you know what happens.
You get banana skins thrown at you and have to deal with 200 pounds of extremely annoyed ape. Just make sure you do not call him monkey, cause in that case you are likely to have your head screwed off.
That part is easy.
.mil or .gov size. The main reason is that some portions of the infrastructure are offline most of the time and some are mandated be able to work in offline mode. In practice - how the f*** do you send a revocation list to a submarine?
The hard part starts from there on.
You have to revoke the certificate if GI Joe number 286456781 is dead or has gone missing in action. You have to revoke the certificate if GI Joe 286456781 is found to be really Major Razvedki Ivanov. You have to revoke the certificate if Gi Joe 286456781's wife is found to really be Major Li of the people revolution army and she has gotten hold of the card PIN along with the card by means of giving excellent head.
Actually, revoking as such is not that hard either. May be a bit painfull in a multi-tier certificate hierarchy, but still possible.
The hard bit is propagating the knowledge that the certificate is revoked across an infrastructure of a
The kit in question is available from a number of vendors. I got one with me from Aladin marketed under the name of eToken, supports standard x509 certificates and if it will be bought in the quantities .gov will buy it the price will be in the sub 10$ range. It is only moderately more expensive now.
Works with nearly all OS-es: Mac, Winhoze, Linux, *BSD. It is about one quarter the size of an average USB key and has RSA engine on board. Once you have written the private key on it there is no way to retrieve it. All RSA ops are performed on the key.
Add to that the fact that all modern laptops and most recent desktops have TPM. You can use that for similar purposes.
In fact, the problem is not in the tokens and dongles. There are plenty of these on the market. The problem is how to handle certificate infrastructure and trust levels on the level of millions of certificates especially revocation. Now how .gov handles that will be interesting to watch.
If you have gotten that far your armour class should be in the -20 area. I had characters with -25 armour class. At that level you can simply ignore the Titan until it becomes a tasty Titan stake. It will take a hit point from time to time which you will regenerate before he takes the next one. Who cares.
The master mind flayer is a different matter. That needs to be killed fast. As far as the arch-liches they will most likely waste every second turn on cursing you and keep teleporting away after you smack them. So if you have Magicbane the curses will dissipate on it. Similarly, after getting a good smacking they will no longer be around for the next 10+ turns so you can get the job done.
As I said - unpleasant, but not particularly bad until you get a U or a one of the named "&" capable of confusing you with their gaze in the mix. That will even up the stakes quite a bit. A black D or a few green Ps will also even up the stakes.
If worst comes to worst in cases like this using grenades ("a" on a wand of digging, lightning, fire or cold) helps a lot. Or having 1-2 suitable pets (run yours through a polymorph trap until it is a suitable D, pink W, yellow A or an H).
A few litches, a mind flayer, a giant and a disenchanter.
Unpleasant, but not the end of the world as long as you get despatch the mind flayer in a timely manner.
The rest can be dealt with at leasure. Holy water and Magicbane on the Ls followed by beating the disenchanter with naked hands. Does the trick nicely. Just do not forget to put your gloves back on after that. The closest time I have been to win the game I died in the most stupid manner by forgetting to put them back on and smacking a c with my bare hands.
And the giant - that is a delicacy. Best way to improve your Str: - eat a few.
It also existed for IBM PC/XT and it was tremendous fun. You had to think, plan ahead and operate with a very limited amount of resources counting up to a single bullet in many places. It also increased in complexity as it went along instead of being evenly daft and putting a fat retarded accelerated supercretin in the last room. Most of that got lost in the 1990es rerelease which has degenerated into a doom-like shoot-em up vs retarded monsters (with german uniforms) and mandatory last-level "big ones".
As far as shoot-em ups are concerned the article also misses one of the 1990-es pinnacles of shoot-em ups - Star Wars: Dark Forces. It was the first successfull FPS shoot-em up with some resemblance of a plot, a story line and real artwork thrown in between the levels. Half life, Unreal, Duke Nuke 'M, Jedi Knights all followed on where this game trailblazed. Granted, it suffered from some of the major problems of all shoot-em-ups (compensating for poor AI by high speed and lots of HP in high level monsters). None the less it was fun to the extent Quake and many of the more visually rich games never were.
The article also completely misses the early space simulators - Wing Commander and X-Wing/B-Wing/Tie Fighter. The artice also misses another game which was nothing much as far as game play, but was definitely a turning point in 3D game design - Terminal Velocity.
As I said, it is written to appeal to the common values of the current mainstream gamer which has been brought up to enjoy shoot-em ups with Tits, shoot-em ups without Tits and shoot-em ups with Tits and Hot Coffee. Speaking of tits, the article also misses the first year of Lara which was the first successfull game with a female as the main personality.
I can continue ranting forever but the summary shall remain the same "the article is garbage".
It means what it means. 802.11 has the provisions to do that and even several alternatives for the simpler cases (there is also the multi-queue by TOS stuff pushed by Atheros and the like which I forgot to mention). The problem is that so far there was hardly a single VOIP client on 100 APs camped out there.
This is about to change. When it does, people will start implementing the parts of the spec which have so far been ignored. There is a great deal of difference between designing and agreeing a spec and actually implementing an agreed one. The first is a process which may take years. The second is something which we may see by the time 20 VOIP clients on AP become a common problem.
The entire article is a load of utter garbage.
It follows mostly console development and visual development and is severely biased towards shoot-em-up retards and their taste. The other branches of game genealogy are not followed at all.
It does not mention Rogue-to-Nethack and dungeon exploration games of old, Larry, Civilisation series, Sims to name a few.
The apogee of quests games does not even get an honourable one-liner. Neither does the original Castle Wolfenstein.
Yuck...
No probs. The 802.11a,b,g family has two different MAC schemes (the idea is stolen from Cable actually).
There is a random access scheme similar to the ancient ethernet. In that case 20 VOIP users will simply bring the link down by trying to access the media.
There is also a scheme under which the AP will transmit maps which tell each client when to transmit. I do not have the time to do the exact math at the time, but it should be possible to accommodate 20 VOIP clients using this MAC and leave some breathing space for normal access (not a lot though). The problem is that for this scheme to be usefull the clients must have means of getting reservations from the AP. Tough luck - no such clients out there. Similarly, the AP must have an integrated Layer2-Layer3 filtering mechanism which hooks up straight into MAC and creates transmit maps based on statefull filter context. Once again - tough luck. There is no such AP out there (AFAIK). On top of that while this is in the spec it is hardly in use anywhere so the level of testing clients have is very low. I would expect some of the more cheap and cheerfull clients which do MAC portions in software to be broken with regard to this.
All the CO2 dumped into the atmosphere when making the electricity to generate these for starters.
Que jokes about British Government instead. 1. The database is already out there under the name "CleanFeed" invented by BT a while back. 2. The government has badgered a large proportion of UK ISPs to use it by now regardless of their relationship with BT. That includes ones with their own DSL networks based on unbundling and most of the ones which buy BT DSL wholesale. 3. The implementation as mandated amidst other things allows transparent redirect to other URLs which whoever "controls" clean feed can supply if need be. Now the obvious 2 million pound question question is what exactly prevents Antonio Bliar and his liar cronies from feeding URLs into the database which redirect people from sites that go against their liking. The database is already there, operational and defective as well: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/. Move along people, nothing to see. Business as usual.
Err... What in particular makes you think that if they speak up the university administration will not use the national guard to make them keep their mouth shut. After all this is Kent State we are talking about. It has traditions to uphold in this area.
It was usually referred to: "Such was the God's will".
Which as far as I am concerned is about the same as the "one more, one less" attitude. Just a different form of it.
Let's not forget that 40%+ child (under 7) mortality was something normal as recently as the 19th century in most of Europe. People in those days were much more familiar with child death in the family then us. I am not saying that they did not care at all. Only idiots do not. They simply cared less, because they did not have a choice. Tuberculosis (in the cities), Malaria (in the south of Europe), Measles, Variolla, Pneumonia of all shapes and forms, Tetanus, Meningitus all took their toll.
Well...
Realistically this is the history repeating itself. Many times.
Prior to Edward Jenner discovering the vaccination the people tried to instill immunity to Smallpox in their children by a process known as variolation. The difference from vaccination was that people were deliberately infecting children with the real virus hoping that they have it in a milder form. Well... and if not, that was just a child, one more, one less who cares. In some more awkward and less developed parts of the world this is still done with Varicella, and less frequent Rubella, Measles and Mumps.
Society attitudes have changed since. The majority no longer consideres normal to infect children with the real viruses. Still, even now, there are idiots who insist that "having child diseases is good for the children as it improves their character" (or other such bollocks).
Similarly, infecting networks with real worms is not dissimilar to variolation. There are plenty of security tools out there nowdays which can detect the vulnerabilities that can be used by the worm and force the user to fix them. There is no real need to weed out the "weak" (yeah, I know, I am tempted myself to weed out the idiotz sometimes).
And as far as jo average user it will take some time for them to grow up, but it will end up the same as with vaccination. People were reluctant to do it initially. That is not the case now.
It has been a while before I have sat an exam, but I will second that.
There is a finite amount of knowledge which you can assimilate preparing for the exam. After that you should stop caring for at least a while and leave it to settle. Best of all get shitfaced the second-to-last evening before the exam and sleep over the last day. It is quite easy in most of European Unis where you have around a month long examination session. Essentially you have to get through the stages of care, fear, shitfaced, not care. Once you are at the last stage you perform the best.
This is impossible in most of the US though. Their short examination sessions do not allow this.
In the UK all such taxes and Social Security contributions are payed out of a work permit holder salary regardless of the fact that the work permit holder is not entitled to any of them.
Effectively in the UK all foreign workers subsidise the native's social security budget with their contributions for 4+ years. Situation in other EU countries is not much different. The difference is only the time you are obliged to subsidise the local xenophobic skinheads who are too lazy and/or ignorant to get a permanent job so they live off state benefits instead. It is 10+ years in France, 7? (not sure) in Germany and 5+ in most other European countries.
I am not aware of all the complexities of the US tax quagmire, but I would not be surprised if it is any different. If the companies rip the off the H1B people, the state which allows it is quite likely to try to have a go at that as well. After all they are effectively a form of slaves. If they open their mouth they are chucked out of the country right away.
While for an European getting kicked out will not really matter, for most H1Bs from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc it is actually a matter of family pride. "My son has been accepted to work in theUS is a lot of kudos points for a small village or a slumland family. Being force-sent back is major strike to the family pride in some places. As a result some of these people will go to all means to stay and the fact that they are staying silent about being ripped off is not surprising.
Ahem. Seconded.
Though I am not a particular fan of Doom style puzzles some quirks have to be in there for the game to be challenging.
Most importantly there should be multiple ways of getting past the "puzzle". Besides pulling, pushing, stepping on switches you should be able to prop a switch, put a weight on a trigger plate in the floor, prop a door, etc.
And once again, in order for this to be fun the level should be random generated in the game context. If it is not it is all just stupid shoot-em-up. With our without mates and monsters.
Nope.
Wrong.
All of these are external level generation outside game context and not dependant on game play so far.
In order for the game level generation to make the game real fun it has to be dependant on what you have achieved so far and what levels have been generated so far. Otherwise it is just an improved grind.
That is one aspect - levels.
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Some games got some resemblance of reasonably perverse AI as well.
Some have reasonably complex game play (not anywhere near nethack/Slash'em complexity, but pretty damn close).
None has it all. So I will continue to bitch. Until I start telling the kids to get off my lawn
No.
Extra credit if the valves are directly thermally controlled. No computers.
If a central heating can do it why is that so difficult for a computer cooling system.
Hint: the valves for floor central heating use valves which work based on the return fluid temperature. It should not be that hard to make something similar for Nx coolant distribution.
There is nothing wrong with the slashdot crowd.
In fact everything is right with the slashdot crowd.
The slashdot crowd is absolutely bloody right to expect that 10 years later something with the visuals of Quake and the level of game AI complexity of Nethack should have been written released and shipped.
And that has not happened. The monsters in the newer quakes, dooms and the likes are as daft as in the original. There is no random or even pseudorandom level generation.
It is the same old grind. Granted it is with very fancy visuals, but in 10 years I would have expected the industry to come up with something moderately more engaging.
So the slashdot crowd is entitled to bitch and it surely does.
When it is not engaged playing Nethack. Where the f... did that storm giant go... I need to kill it and eat it as I am missing the intrinsic...