The media don't have a concern to call out police overreach because frankly, they rely on police for 90% of their reporting. If you don't have a source to start the story, you're out. If you don't have a source to confirm the story, you're out. And if you question what the police tell you, you don't have a source anymore.
"It's probably news because white people are being raided now, whereas previously it was only scary black people like Fred Hampton who got murdered by militarized police."
Radley Balko here. I was 17 during Ruby Ridge. I was 18 during Waco.
So you're assertion that I only got interested in police issues after white people were raided is incorrect.
I got interested in this issue in the mid-2000s. You might Google the name "Cory Maye."
And you should really know what you're talking about before you imply racial motives to someone you don't know. Especially when there's very public information available to contradict you.
I have awaken from my near-decade-long Slashdot slumber to rebut the attempted race-baiting of Radley Balko.
Radley Balko is the type of person who calls out injustice, individual and institutional, regardless of who it impacts. And has done so for a long time.
Radley Balko is also the kind of person who has spent hundreds of hours of his personal time meeting with, writing about, agitating for the release of, and providing assistance to, wrongfully-accused defendants... most of whom, in my thirty seconds of scanning the 'net, are black.
FWIW I like your post. I have actually voted Libertarian since 2000 (I was 24 at the time) and plan to continue doing so... but I have a hard sell trying to explain Libertarianism to a great many otherwise intelligent people who seem to believe we live in a hard-coded, two-party system.
Externally, I'm as old-school "traditional family" as it comes... married 11 years, no infidelity, no illegal drug use (ever), no gun ownership, two kids, two cars, house in the suburbs, job in an office. Philosophically, I'm about as socially liberal as is practical-- I strongly support equal protection for gay rights under law, the usual "cry freedom" mantra of doing whatever you want as long as you don't infringe on someone else's rights, etc. I think that people should be able to publicly be atheists, agnostics, wiccan, whatever. Prostitution and abortion should be legal (or at the very least be regulated state by state). Drug laws should be relaxed. The government should provide the bare minimum framework for process and keep a strong framework to "provide for the common defense."
I stand firmly in the "Freedom to be an idiot" camp with the other hardcore Libertarians... but where I split from the Libertarian party are practical issues. Examples? It's too simple to say "no drug laws," but starting by regulating and taxing marijuana as a cross between cigarettes and alcohol would be a huge improvement, and we can move from there. It's also too simple to say "little to no regulation on commerce." The ideas of the free market only work on an already open/free market; you can't take an extremely complicated world commerce system and strip all the rules at once and hope that "freedom wins out." Books about true, unchecked capitalism should be considered fantasy or philosophy instead of as a credible alternative to the current mess of regulations and taxes and duties and embargoes and quotas etc. I don't believe that smoking should be allowed as "smoke anything you want, anywhere you want," since i think there are serious health risks that make limiting smoking in certain situations a matter of the "general welfare" of the society-- it's interesting to me that although only about 18-22 percent of adults smoke cigarettes, 90-95% of restaurants allow smoking... but when a general election is held, all of a sudden, 70% of the voters favor banning smoking in all public places. If the free market (of letting restaurant owners decide in every case) really worked, wouldn't the 70% of anti-smokers been able to convince more of them to ban smoking? And since Ohio banned smoking in 'all enclosed spaces,' the dire predictions of huge losses of profits have not manifested? I find it interesting too, that Libertarians don't often think of people in closed spaces as having a right to not breath smoke if they do not wish to, as though the freedom to pollute the enclosed space around them trumps the freedom of the others to not smoke it. Now if private smoking clubs want to open a space to sell, trade, and smoke tobacco (and whatever else) explicitly, around like-minded persons, that is a different issue altogether. But complex situations like that can't be addressed by simply saying "freedom!" every single time.:)
I was hired ten years ago at a financial services corporation. After they interviewed me and made me an offer, it was clear that mutual acceptance of the offer hinged on my passing a criminal background check and a drug test. I was fingerprinted and sent to a lab for the urine test. Having never tried illegal drugs nor been charged with anything more than a speeding ticket, everything went fine. As a client of the company and as an employee, this was important protection against "bad guys" infiltrating the company.
What is curious to me about your story is that you say she was fingerprinted "while being screened." They may just be front-loading the process so as to not make offers to people with criminal histories, but taking fingerprints DOES provide a couple of things down the road:
1) The fingerprints are now on file so that the company can check for matching prints during a forensics investigation (never done in my time at the company, we were told several times when high-priced items were stolen from the office that the time and expense was too great to justify lifting and matching prints, and conducting follow-up interviews.)
2) More sketchy: Any time you submit prints for background check, to my knowledge, they are sent through the FBI. Even if the FBI has nothing on you, they now have your name, social security number, and a set of prints on file. So you apply for a job at age 22 in 2007, and in 2050 some guy at a bar is killed and they find your prints on a glass at the bar (maybe because it wasn't washed well enough the night before, who knows what else)... you get the picture. So not only are they taking your prints and checking your prints, someone is filing your prints.
Not necessarily anything devious about this and (with proper protections, LOL ha, right) it could be a useful law-enforcement tool. On the flipside, it could be used to identify you in any number of potentially screwed-up situations in the future, even if you have nothign to do with them. Double-edged sword.
I honestly can't get a rational redux from the actual law code (IANAL, so lawyers please weigh in), but it seems pretty straightforward that since Infinium Labs has admitted that they have no cause to bring action, in effect winning a summary judgement for [H]ardOCP, they COULD be liable for Kyle's legal costs, which he lists as 200,000 dollars.
Insightful, thanks. Hope someone can give us the straight scoop on how common it is that a judge orders legal fees be paid in similar cases.
The results of the memory tests are amasing. The MTBF is about an hour on some of the power supplys. I'm not sure If I understand the setup but that is appauling. I expect a MTBF of about 100+ years not an hour.
MTBF means Mean Time Between Failure, NOT Mean Time Between Errors. What you are seeing is not a failure every hour or so, it's a certain number of memory errors during the specified test period. It's not amazing nor appalling that any of these supplies have the system generating an occaisional memory error; they happen very frequenty, hence why you have ECC and parity in many levels. We're not talking about situations where one bad bit causes a blue screen or kernel panic here.
As a personal opinion, I think this was an early comment which jumped in to garner moderation without really understanding the information that was being commented on. (Nods to the next three posters who are about to reply, "This is slashdot, what did you expect?") I expect when someone posts incorrect or inproper analysis in comments, that they get moderated appropriately.:)
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As a normal everyday guy from Canada, it seems hard for "the public" to grasp the diparity between "Bill Shatner, age 61, three adult children, loves horses" and "Actor/Singer/Producer/Writer William Shatner blah blah blah fourth wife... blah blah blah personal tragedy.... blah blah blah inside scoop" that Hollywood and the Tabloid press seem to turn everyone's life into.
At the end of the day, has the fame been worth the price? Is knowing that you've raised three daughters and entertained people for several decades worth the cost of your privacy? Do you feel that overall, you've gotten a fair shake, even after all the public airings of your alleged failings as a person? Are you going to continue to live in the limelight during your golden years, or settle in and call it good, letting the cards land where they may?
Do you feel you've finished your professional legacy and are ready to leave it for media history, or do you fret over whether or not that legacy is "good enough?" And the same regarding your personal legacy as a man, a husband, a father, a son? What advice can you give to others so that they don't have any regrets?
Slashdot ate my freaking post. Thanks, 404 error. (Maybe it was the router, the firewall, or one of the many switches. Oh well.)
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who responded and confirmed my suspicions. I find it humorous (sad?) that all of the "Use it for pr0n!" and P2P karma-whores are sucking all of the modpoints, while those of us who are directly disproving the story submission's assertion that "Case Western is installing fiber connections in 16,000 computers..." are going unmodded.
Not that *I* need the points, but maybe you CRWUbies could use them, eh?
Seriously, who is selling these people 16,000 fiber NICs that they will need to hook up all the PCs? Or are the students expect to foot the bill, on TOP of the $400 per year tech fee listed in the article?
I had a friend who was attending CWRU in 1992-1993 whose Frat House (!) had fiber to each room. He had a 386 with an ISA card had an AUI port, which had a fiber transceiver attached. It may have only been attached to a 10 megabit hub/switch, but the fiber was there.
My classmate took her PowerMac 7100 to CWRU in the fall of 1994, and she also had to buy a fiber to AUI transceiver to hook up her machine in her dorm room. Strosacker auditorium/lecture hall has had fiber ALN drops readily accessable since the early 90s as well.
So it's my belief that the campus has been wired with fiber for at least 10 years; perhaps they're just upgrading thw switches to Gigabit?
Why did they run fiber that long ago? Well, they had to do SOMETHING with all that technology grant money they were getting for CWRUnet/Cleveland Freenet besides buy modems... plus the $26,000 a year tuition/board costs at the time probably made it easier as well. *Smirk*
-RT (Once known as "Iceman" on CFN, as a teen in the early 90s. Scary.)
If you're working with a standard (tube) monitor, the refresh rate is just how frequently the gun is making it back to the same point on the screen. While in practice this means that the screen redraws 60 times a second at 60 Hz, that does not mean that it drew 60 frames generated by the video card in that second.
If the video card is generating 90 frames per second, then during that second, the 60 Hz monitor has displayed bits and pieces of the majority of those 90 frames, depending on the gun position when the frame was displayed.
If the video card is generating 35 frames per second, then during that second, the 60 Hz monitor has displayed (probably) all 35 of those frames, sometimes two or three times as the gun scanned the screen several times before another frame was pushed.
At least I hope I'm thinking this out right, or MAN am I going to look like an idiot.:)
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I bought mine about a year ago (wise spending of my "tax relief" check from George W.) at WalMart; the KDS RAD-15. They still sell around $370 at most Wal-Marts, and many SAM'S wholesale stores.
I have zero complaints. The cost was good, I got zero dead pixels, the fit and finish of the unit is very tight, and the refresh runs up to 85Hz, depending on the video card you have it hooked up to. The brightness and contrast are superior; I have hooked up a 17" tritiron and a 19" tube to test at 1600x1200 to see what I am missing, and I REALLY miss the flicker-free brightness of the LCD. (PS - No magnetic interference from things like fans, either! Just solid picture.)
The only nags that I have are it's not big enough pixel-wise (because I am too cheap to buy a nice 17-19" unit), it only has the standard 15-pin VGA connector (most newer ATI/Matrox/Nvidia/SIS cards have DVI connectors), and when I am in a fast round of capture the flag in Q3:TA with Scout powerup, I can see a little bit of clipping during power running and jumping. Just a hint of it, but enough that the purists would complain.
There really isn't any "blurring" as you might have seen on dual-scan LCDs, but sometimes you can see some pieces clip as the screen does fast color-changes during colorful terrain areas. Granted I have a GF4 Ti4200 cranked up to 300 core and 600 RAM, which is capable of running at many more frames per sec than an LCD monitor is capable of displaying cleanly (because of the alluded-to activation/deactivation time on the pixels), but it is a good value for $370. At least it is for me, and I have been dealing with monitors for a long time. I plan on staying with my 15" until the 17s are available for under $300... in other words, a long time.
Yes, an excellent troll; you've sounded passionate enough and invoked "cheaper!" enough to confuse some moderators into giving you points. Let me go over your completely misleading rants:
Now we can all play games at 3x the refresh rate of the monitor.
We don't PLAY games at that rate; we benchmark them there for comparison with other cards. I have a 15" LCD that I game with. I run my refresh at 60Hz, which I am imaging you are translating to "a maximum displayable 60 frames per second." I'll let someone more technical than myself debunk that one.
I just got a very nice MSI GF4 Ti4200 (for $145 from GameVE.com, free shipping, only because newegg doesn't carry them and they are extremely overclockable cards with a great software bundle). If I ran this card in my LCD's native resolution of 1024x768, with the basic graphics settings, I pull approximately 180 frames per second in Quake 3. If, however, I go to the driver settings, crank up Aniso filtering, and turn on 4x FSAA (anti-aliasing is beautiful, btw), and set all settings to max quality in the game, I get about 85 frames per second in Quake 3. That is what my GF4 MX440 card was pulling with no options on.
We need cheaper and more integrated. Get rid of the DIMM and PCI slots and all the legacy hardware. Put the memory on the motherboard and create a disposable form factor and an open laptop standard.
Again, very nice karma troll. Cheaper is nice, and integrated has its place, but we do not need it. We don't want to put memory, cpu, and all peripherals on the board, for a variety of reasons. The two bigs ones are 1) repair/replacement after failure, and 2) CHOICE. If you want to buy a $20 video card to put in that AGP slot, you can! If you want to buy a $400 Matrox Parhelia to run 3 monitors in Quake 3, you can! Anything and everything between, as well! Everybody has a different budget and a different set of needs. Let the consumer decide.
Disposable form factor? Is that tongue in cheek? Do we want disposable PC cases? Or just good standards like ATX? I know plenty of people who have had ATX cases for 5 years and have housed 4 different generations of hardware in them.
Open laptop standard? Good idea, but many OEMs already work from something similar. The problem is the high cost of development on miniturized, highly integrated systems like laptops, especially when they need extremely tight cooling systems. Someday there will be a standard, where you can go into a store, buy a chassis (for 12, 14, 15, 17 inch LCDs), assemble the mobile parts, and walk out the door... but why bother? There are tons of cost-effective, and vendor-serviced laptops available in any conceivable configuration RIGHT NOW. Just because you can't get it for $1.99 at 7-Eleven does NOT mean the market is broken.
So my summary is that we don't need more integrated, and cheaper is good, but we have cheap already. You were trolling, and I was feeding you. Any questions?:)
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England in 1934.
Come on, let's face it-- Piers is "old school." He may have lived through the 60s as a 20-something; but I doubt he has a crazy, liberal viewpoint a la Ms. Magazine and/or the FemiNazi majors at a liberal arts college, eh?
Accept that he is an older gentlemean, who treats ladies with gentlemanly respect in public, and compares notes with the other "dirty old men" in the back room.
It seems culturally acceptable to me... women do the same thing to cute men, but are far more venomous when denying it than men are. Just TRY to stop my wife from giggling giddily when you show her an Antonio Banderas movie!
I don't disagree with the pro-ethanol enviromentals, nor the anti-subsidy libertarians... but let's try to take this one at face value:
"3) It (Ethanol)'s kind of fuel-intensive to make. Planting, harvesting, fertilizing, insecticiding, AND DISTILLING all take machines that use fuel. If you get 20 gallons per acre (totally made-up) and you use 20 gallons per acre (again, totally made up) to make it, how "fuel efficient" is it?"
Any it does not cost money to survey, drill, extract, store, transport, store again, refine, store again, transport again, store again, and then dispense petroleum distallates (crude -> gasoline)? Just because half of that labor is done at far lower cost than farm workers (who have a strong lobby with bought politicians) by workers of oil companies who have their own competing political pawns?
Once again, elements of truth and elements of rhetoric in both arguments. Yes, ethanol burns cleaner and is renewable. Yes, it currently costs more to produce... for a number of reasons. But in either case, it costs money to make money, right? It takes energy to produce portable energy as well. The true technological advantages and disadvantages of ethanol may never be known, thanks to this political in-fighting.
Sidebar: what about the organized labor lobby for highway workers who pour asphalt every four years on every major road in the US? They have successfully negotiated a decades-long congressional moratorium on deployment on an asphalt replacement made out of the chopped up bits of discarded tires; millions of which fill up plots across America. The cost is half as much, and has twice the durability. So there would be less asphalt produced, and half the labor needed. WE CAN'T HAVE THAT, CAN WE??? Jimmy Smith won't be able to lean on his shovel for fiften minutes out of every hour then go back to grinding up the old road surface for $23 an hour (and pay his union dues) if we take away half of his work!!
Fascinating, how we let the lawyers, politicans, and corporatists rule us; and all the opposition that is out there are corrupt organizations masquerading as consumerists, special-interest groups, and employee-rights advocates, who are mainly just socialists who get a capitalist-sized paycheck. And we just sit around taking it, saying we'll vote for the other guy.
The article also goes into an interesting discussion on how visual our world is becoming, possibly leaving the visually-disabled behind the technological advances.
Well then, clearly we need to get cracking on better technology to deliver light perception directly into the brain, a la Geordi's visor...
Before you make such a spur-of-the-moment, life-changing decision, maybe you'd like to consider that the $50 a month for phat bandwidth will be a drop on the bucket next to your mortgage, and it might be a little hard to get hooked up in your cardboard box.
"Starter homes" in the Bay Area are now close to $500,000... and a lot of those "need work."
This is going to be weird for most FPS fans. From personal experience, thats like, 90% of the vocabulary used in Quake 3 online.
Where are the parents? Or maybe they dont care.:(
As an avid quake3er, I can attest to this, as I am one of the biggest offenders out there. I pay $70 for crappy DSL that won't get me under 100 ping on any server in the known universe, and I cannot swear at all around real people. SO I take my frustrations out on the unsuspecting "virtual people" on Jolt1 in the UK. I'm trying to knock off some of the more filthy things, but some of my favorite things to say are:
"That was worse than giving Chewbacca a blowjob!" when my team gets owned 8 - 0...and pretty much anything with 'crap' in it, such as: Craptastic, craptacular, crapulous, crappity crap crap crap, etc.:)
As for my parents, well seeing as I am 26, they live on the other side of town. And when dad is stuck in rush hour, mom is cooking dinner, and junior is "doing his homework," I'll bet the parents are trusting their kids to be polite and not looking over their shoulders every minute of every day.
When I have kids and internet access, you're darn right I am going to filter and log all kinds of crap, and moderate my children's usage whenever necessary... but who has time to sit over their kid's shoulder while gaming to make sure they don't say "You stupid jew fag!":P
2002-07-03 14:26:10 RIAA to sue individual file sharers (articles,news) (rejected)...right after the MSNBC article appeared, and I had read it in its entirety.
Anonymous Coward submits it six hours later, and it's suddenly newsworthy?
I know I'm not supposed to bitch about these kinds of things, but seriously, how about some editorial consistency? This is the second time this has happened to me, and I can't tell if it just because I'm a smartass, the different editors see different submissions in the queue, or what... all I know is that I'm a karma whore and want bonus points for my submission!
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Strange though it seems, surely this can be the only explanation for an OS called 'winCE'...
I thought that one was bad, but not nearly as bad as the Audi sport sedan, the TT. Just look at it drive by, AudiTT on the bumper as it zooms past.
But think about it for a moment: why would you market an expensive car, aimed at high-class clientelle such as lawyers and accountants, and call it the auditt? It's not the Audi T T, it's the Audit!
Ah, the "Babylon 5" excuse... Whatever. For all of JMS's design, "Babylon 5" still was badly written (especially when it came to comedy), horribly acted (with the exception of some of the supporting roles), and built up to one of the worst dramatic climaxes I've ever seen in a movie or TV show.
Ahh, the old "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" routine: Millions of teenage Internet fanboys who supposedly hate movies, but can't seem to stop talking about them.
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The media don't have a concern to call out police overreach because frankly, they rely on police for 90% of their reporting. If you don't have a source to start the story, you're out. If you don't have a source to confirm the story, you're out. And if you question what the police tell you, you don't have a source anymore.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/09/misconduct-is-only-news-when-journalists-say-it-is/
http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/21/chelsea-kay-of-krcr-tv-supports-shooting-being-a-lapdog/
http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/12/a-brief-story-illustrating-my-view-of-law-enforcement-and-the-media-that-covers-it/
"It's probably news because white people are being raided now, whereas previously it was only scary black people like Fred Hampton who got murdered by militarized police."
Radley Balko here. I was 17 during Ruby Ridge. I was 18 during Waco.
So you're assertion that I only got interested in police issues after white people were raided is incorrect.
I got interested in this issue in the mid-2000s. You might Google the name "Cory Maye."
And you should really know what you're talking about before you imply racial motives to someone you don't know. Especially when there's very public information available to contradict you.
I have awaken from my near-decade-long Slashdot slumber to rebut the attempted race-baiting of Radley Balko.
Radley Balko is the type of person who calls out injustice, individual and institutional, regardless of who it impacts. And has done so for a long time.
Radley Balko is also the kind of person who has spent hundreds of hours of his personal time meeting with, writing about, agitating for the release of, and providing assistance to, wrongfully-accused defendants... most of whom, in my thirty seconds of scanning the 'net, are black.
"Google Corey May." Classic. Well done, sir.
Radley Balko is a goddamn American Hero.
FWIW I like your post. I have actually voted Libertarian since 2000 (I was 24 at the time) and plan to continue doing so... but I have a hard sell trying to explain Libertarianism to a great many otherwise intelligent people who seem to believe we live in a hard-coded, two-party system.
:)
Externally, I'm as old-school "traditional family" as it comes... married 11 years, no infidelity, no illegal drug use (ever), no gun ownership, two kids, two cars, house in the suburbs, job in an office. Philosophically, I'm about as socially liberal as is practical-- I strongly support equal protection for gay rights under law, the usual "cry freedom" mantra of doing whatever you want as long as you don't infringe on someone else's rights, etc. I think that people should be able to publicly be atheists, agnostics, wiccan, whatever. Prostitution and abortion should be legal (or at the very least be regulated state by state). Drug laws should be relaxed. The government should provide the bare minimum framework for process and keep a strong framework to "provide for the common defense."
I stand firmly in the "Freedom to be an idiot" camp with the other hardcore Libertarians... but where I split from the Libertarian party are practical issues. Examples? It's too simple to say "no drug laws," but starting by regulating and taxing marijuana as a cross between cigarettes and alcohol would be a huge improvement, and we can move from there. It's also too simple to say "little to no regulation on commerce." The ideas of the free market only work on an already open/free market; you can't take an extremely complicated world commerce system and strip all the rules at once and hope that "freedom wins out." Books about true, unchecked capitalism should be considered fantasy or philosophy instead of as a credible alternative to the current mess of regulations and taxes and duties and embargoes and quotas etc. I don't believe that smoking should be allowed as "smoke anything you want, anywhere you want," since i think there are serious health risks that make limiting smoking in certain situations a matter of the "general welfare" of the society-- it's interesting to me that although only about 18-22 percent of adults smoke cigarettes, 90-95% of restaurants allow smoking... but when a general election is held, all of a sudden, 70% of the voters favor banning smoking in all public places. If the free market (of letting restaurant owners decide in every case) really worked, wouldn't the 70% of anti-smokers been able to convince more of them to ban smoking? And since Ohio banned smoking in 'all enclosed spaces,' the dire predictions of huge losses of profits have not manifested? I find it interesting too, that Libertarians don't often think of people in closed spaces as having a right to not breath smoke if they do not wish to, as though the freedom to pollute the enclosed space around them trumps the freedom of the others to not smoke it. Now if private smoking clubs want to open a space to sell, trade, and smoke tobacco (and whatever else) explicitly, around like-minded persons, that is a different issue altogether. But complex situations like that can't be addressed by simply saying "freedom!" every single time.
That's my time folks, thanks for listening!
-RogerX
I was hired ten years ago at a financial services corporation. After they interviewed me and made me an offer, it was clear that mutual acceptance of the offer hinged on my passing a criminal background check and a drug test. I was fingerprinted and sent to a lab for the urine test. Having never tried illegal drugs nor been charged with anything more than a speeding ticket, everything went fine. As a client of the company and as an employee, this was important protection against "bad guys" infiltrating the company.
What is curious to me about your story is that you say she was fingerprinted "while being screened." They may just be front-loading the process so as to not make offers to people with criminal histories, but taking fingerprints DOES provide a couple of things down the road:
1) The fingerprints are now on file so that the company can check for matching prints during a forensics investigation (never done in my time at the company, we were told several times when high-priced items were stolen from the office that the time and expense was too great to justify lifting and matching prints, and conducting follow-up interviews.)
2) More sketchy: Any time you submit prints for background check, to my knowledge, they are sent through the FBI. Even if the FBI has nothing on you, they now have your name, social security number, and a set of prints on file. So you apply for a job at age 22 in 2007, and in 2050 some guy at a bar is killed and they find your prints on a glass at the bar (maybe because it wasn't washed well enough the night before, who knows what else)... you get the picture. So not only are they taking your prints and checking your prints, someone is filing your prints.
Not necessarily anything devious about this and (with proper protections, LOL ha, right) it could be a useful law-enforcement tool. On the flipside, it could be used to identify you in any number of potentially screwed-up situations in the future, even if you have nothign to do with them. Double-edged sword.
Dang Uh, I DO know how to post links... Like this
Hehehehe I just saw one of these the other day! ...searches...
Clicky here
Forget not that there are dozens of people who do not post, but who watch these threads. Along come modpoints, and down you go.
Maybe you had it coming, "Mr. Chief of Staff?"
I honestly can't get a rational redux from the actual law code (IANAL, so lawyers please weigh in), but it seems pretty straightforward that since Infinium Labs has admitted that they have no cause to bring action, in effect winning a summary judgement for [H]ardOCP, they COULD be liable for Kyle's legal costs, which he lists as 200,000 dollars.
Insightful, thanks. Hope someone can give us the straight scoop on how common it is that a judge orders legal fees be paid in similar cases.
The results of the memory tests are amasing. The MTBF is about an hour on some of the power supplys. I'm not sure If I understand the setup but that is appauling. I expect a MTBF of about 100+ years not an hour.
:)
MTBF means Mean Time Between Failure, NOT Mean Time Between Errors. What you are seeing is not a failure every hour or so, it's a certain number of memory errors during the specified test period. It's not amazing nor appalling that any of these supplies have the system generating an occaisional memory error; they happen very frequenty, hence why you have ECC and parity in many levels. We're not talking about situations where one bad bit causes a blue screen or kernel panic here.
As a personal opinion, I think this was an early comment which jumped in to garner moderation without really understanding the information that was being commented on. (Nods to the next three posters who are about to reply, "This is slashdot, what did you expect?") I expect when someone posts incorrect or inproper analysis in comments, that they get moderated appropriately.
As a normal everyday guy from Canada, it seems hard for "the public" to grasp the diparity between "Bill Shatner, age 61, three adult children, loves horses" and "Actor/Singer/Producer/Writer William Shatner blah blah blah fourth wife ... blah blah blah personal tragedy .... blah blah blah inside scoop" that Hollywood and the Tabloid press seem to turn everyone's life into.
At the end of the day, has the fame been worth the price? Is knowing that you've raised three daughters and entertained people for several decades worth the cost of your privacy? Do you feel that overall, you've gotten a fair shake, even after all the public airings of your alleged failings as a person? Are you going to continue to live in the limelight during your golden years, or settle in and call it good, letting the cards land where they may?
Do you feel you've finished your professional legacy and are ready to leave it for media history, or do you fret over whether or not that legacy is "good enough?" And the same regarding your personal legacy as a man, a husband, a father, a son? What advice can you give to others so that they don't have any regrets?
Slashdot ate my freaking post. Thanks, 404 error. (Maybe it was the router, the firewall, or one of the many switches. Oh well.)
:)
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who responded and confirmed my suspicions. I find it humorous (sad?) that all of the "Use it for pr0n!" and P2P karma-whores are sucking all of the modpoints, while those of us who are directly disproving the story submission's assertion that "Case Western is installing fiber connections in 16,000 computers..." are going unmodded.
Not that *I* need the points, but maybe you CRWUbies could use them, eh?
Hi, Froggy.
-RT
A 3c996 SX card runs about $475 at discount
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Seriously, who is selling these people 16,000 fiber NICs that they will need to hook up all the PCs? Or are the students expect to foot the bill, on TOP of the $400 per year tech fee listed in the article?
Wouldn't this make a lot more sense?
Newegg.com sells retail boxed, Intel Gigabit cards for $55. So the question is now, how much is the fiber to giga-copper transceiver?
I had a friend who was attending CWRU in 1992-1993 whose Frat House (!) had fiber to each room. He had a 386 with an ISA card had an AUI port, which had a fiber transceiver attached. It may have only been attached to a 10 megabit hub/switch, but the fiber was there.
My classmate took her PowerMac 7100 to CWRU in the fall of 1994, and she also had to buy a fiber to AUI transceiver to hook up her machine in her dorm room. Strosacker auditorium/lecture hall has had fiber ALN drops readily accessable since the early 90s as well.
So it's my belief that the campus has been wired with fiber for at least 10 years; perhaps they're just upgrading thw switches to Gigabit?
Why did they run fiber that long ago? Well, they had to do SOMETHING with all that technology grant money they were getting for CWRUnet/Cleveland Freenet besides buy modems... plus the $26,000 a year tuition/board costs at the time probably made it easier as well. *Smirk*
-RT (Once known as "Iceman" on CFN, as a teen in the early 90s. Scary.)
If you're working with a standard (tube) monitor, the refresh rate is just how frequently the gun is making it back to the same point on the screen. While in practice this means that the screen redraws 60 times a second at 60 Hz, that does not mean that it drew 60 frames generated by the video card in that second.
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If the video card is generating 90 frames per second, then during that second, the 60 Hz monitor has displayed bits and pieces of the majority of those 90 frames, depending on the gun position when the frame was displayed.
If the video card is generating 35 frames per second, then during that second, the 60 Hz monitor has displayed (probably) all 35 of those frames, sometimes two or three times as the gun scanned the screen several times before another frame was pushed.
At least I hope I'm thinking this out right, or MAN am I going to look like an idiot.
I bought mine about a year ago (wise spending of my "tax relief" check from George W.) at WalMart; the KDS RAD-15. They still sell around $370 at most Wal-Marts, and many SAM'S wholesale stores.
I have zero complaints. The cost was good, I got zero dead pixels, the fit and finish of the unit is very tight, and the refresh runs up to 85Hz, depending on the video card you have it hooked up to. The brightness and contrast are superior; I have hooked up a 17" tritiron and a 19" tube to test at 1600x1200 to see what I am missing, and I REALLY miss the flicker-free brightness of the LCD. (PS - No magnetic interference from things like fans, either! Just solid picture.)
The only nags that I have are it's not big enough pixel-wise (because I am too cheap to buy a nice 17-19" unit), it only has the standard 15-pin VGA connector (most newer ATI/Matrox/Nvidia/SIS cards have DVI connectors), and when I am in a fast round of capture the flag in Q3:TA with Scout powerup, I can see a little bit of clipping during power running and jumping. Just a hint of it, but enough that the purists would complain.
There really isn't any "blurring" as you might have seen on dual-scan LCDs, but sometimes you can see some pieces clip as the screen does fast color-changes during colorful terrain areas. Granted I have a GF4 Ti4200 cranked up to 300 core and 600 RAM, which is capable of running at many more frames per sec than an LCD monitor is capable of displaying cleanly (because of the alluded-to activation/deactivation time on the pixels), but it is a good value for $370. At least it is for me, and I have been dealing with monitors for a long time. I plan on staying with my 15" until the 17s are available for under $300... in other words, a long time.
Hello? Anyone listening?
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Yes, an excellent troll; you've sounded passionate enough and invoked "cheaper!" enough to confuse some moderators into giving you points. Let me go over your completely misleading rants:
Now we can all play games at 3x the refresh rate of the monitor.
We don't PLAY games at that rate; we benchmark them there for comparison with other cards. I have a 15" LCD that I game with. I run my refresh at 60Hz, which I am imaging you are translating to "a maximum displayable 60 frames per second." I'll let someone more technical than myself debunk that one.
I just got a very nice MSI GF4 Ti4200 (for $145 from GameVE.com, free shipping, only because newegg doesn't carry them and they are extremely overclockable cards with a great software bundle). If I ran this card in my LCD's native resolution of 1024x768, with the basic graphics settings, I pull approximately 180 frames per second in Quake 3. If, however, I go to the driver settings, crank up Aniso filtering, and turn on 4x FSAA (anti-aliasing is beautiful, btw), and set all settings to max quality in the game, I get about 85 frames per second in Quake 3. That is what my GF4 MX440 card was pulling with no options on.
We need cheaper and more integrated. Get rid of the DIMM and PCI slots and all the legacy hardware. Put the memory on the motherboard and create a disposable form factor and an open laptop standard.
Again, very nice karma troll. Cheaper is nice, and integrated has its place, but we do not need it. We don't want to put memory, cpu, and all peripherals on the board, for a variety of reasons. The two bigs ones are 1) repair/replacement after failure, and 2) CHOICE. If you want to buy a $20 video card to put in that AGP slot, you can! If you want to buy a $400 Matrox Parhelia to run 3 monitors in Quake 3, you can! Anything and everything between, as well! Everybody has a different budget and a different set of needs. Let the consumer decide.
Disposable form factor? Is that tongue in cheek? Do we want disposable PC cases? Or just good standards like ATX? I know plenty of people who have had ATX cases for 5 years and have housed 4 different generations of hardware in them.
Open laptop standard? Good idea, but many OEMs already work from something similar. The problem is the high cost of development on miniturized, highly integrated systems like laptops, especially when they need extremely tight cooling systems. Someday there will be a standard, where you can go into a store, buy a chassis (for 12, 14, 15, 17 inch LCDs), assemble the mobile parts, and walk out the door... but why bother? There are tons of cost-effective, and vendor-serviced laptops available in any conceivable configuration RIGHT NOW. Just because you can't get it for $1.99 at 7-Eleven does NOT mean the market is broken.
So my summary is that we don't need more integrated, and cheaper is good, but we have cheap already. You were trolling, and I was feeding you. Any questions?
From a google search:
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England in 1934.
Come on, let's face it-- Piers is "old school." He may have lived through the 60s as a 20-something; but I doubt he has a crazy, liberal viewpoint a la Ms. Magazine and/or the FemiNazi majors at a liberal arts college, eh?
Accept that he is an older gentlemean, who treats ladies with gentlemanly respect in public, and compares notes with the other "dirty old men" in the back room.
It seems culturally acceptable to me... women do the same thing to cute men, but are far more venomous when denying it than men are. Just TRY to stop my wife from giggling giddily when you show her an Antonio Banderas movie!
I don't disagree with the pro-ethanol enviromentals, nor the anti-subsidy libertarians... but let's try to take this one at face value:
"3) It (Ethanol)'s kind of fuel-intensive to make. Planting, harvesting, fertilizing, insecticiding, AND DISTILLING all take machines that use fuel. If you get 20 gallons per acre (totally made-up) and you use 20 gallons per acre (again, totally made up) to make it, how "fuel efficient" is it?"
Any it does not cost money to survey, drill, extract, store, transport, store again, refine, store again, transport again, store again, and then dispense petroleum distallates (crude -> gasoline)? Just because half of that labor is done at far lower cost than farm workers (who have a strong lobby with bought politicians) by workers of oil companies who have their own competing political pawns?
Once again, elements of truth and elements of rhetoric in both arguments. Yes, ethanol burns cleaner and is renewable. Yes, it currently costs more to produce... for a number of reasons. But in either case, it costs money to make money, right? It takes energy to produce portable energy as well. The true technological advantages and disadvantages of ethanol may never be known, thanks to this political in-fighting.
Sidebar: what about the organized labor lobby for highway workers who pour asphalt every four years on every major road in the US? They have successfully negotiated a decades-long congressional moratorium on deployment on an asphalt replacement made out of the chopped up bits of discarded tires; millions of which fill up plots across America. The cost is half as much, and has twice the durability. So there would be less asphalt produced, and half the labor needed. WE CAN'T HAVE THAT, CAN WE??? Jimmy Smith won't be able to lean on his shovel for fiften minutes out of every hour then go back to grinding up the old road surface for $23 an hour (and pay his union dues) if we take away half of his work!!
Fascinating, how we let the lawyers, politicans, and corporatists rule us; and all the opposition that is out there are corrupt organizations masquerading as consumerists, special-interest groups, and employee-rights advocates, who are mainly just socialists who get a capitalist-sized paycheck. And we just sit around taking it, saying we'll vote for the other guy.
Hint: There is no other guy.
The article also goes into an interesting discussion on how visual our world is becoming, possibly leaving the visually-disabled behind the technological advances.
Well then, clearly we need to get cracking on better technology to deliver light perception directly into the brain, a la Geordi's visor...
(... and I'm only half joking.)
I see a lot of talking about Trillian for Win32... but there is a sweet little app for MacOS X that does the same thing, called Fire.
Has all the major IM apps and IRC, all in one client.
Maybe someone could port it to BSD... uh-oh, I think I'm entering TrollLand, better shut up now!
I've got to move to San Francisco!
Before you make such a spur-of-the-moment, life-changing decision, maybe you'd like to consider that the $50 a month for phat bandwidth will be a drop on the bucket next to your mortgage, and it might be a little hard to get hooked up in your cardboard box.
"Starter homes" in the Bay Area are now close to $500,000... and a lot of those "need work."
Just though I'd let you know!
This is going to be weird for most FPS fans. From personal experience, thats like, 90% of the vocabulary used in Quake 3 online.
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...and pretty much anything with 'crap' in it, such as: :)
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Where are the parents? Or maybe they dont care.
As an avid quake3er, I can attest to this, as I am one of the biggest offenders out there. I pay $70 for crappy DSL that won't get me under 100 ping on any server in the known universe, and I cannot swear at all around real people. SO I take my frustrations out on the unsuspecting "virtual people" on Jolt1 in the UK. I'm trying to knock off some of the more filthy things, but some of my favorite things to say are:
"That was worse than giving Chewbacca a blowjob!" when my team gets owned 8 - 0
Craptastic, craptacular, crapulous, crappity crap crap crap, etc.
As for my parents, well seeing as I am 26, they live on the other side of town. And when dad is stuck in rush hour, mom is cooking dinner, and junior is "doing his homework," I'll bet the parents are trusting their kids to be polite and not looking over their shoulders every minute of every day.
When I have kids and internet access, you're darn right I am going to filter and log all kinds of crap, and moderate my children's usage whenever necessary... but who has time to sit over their kid's shoulder while gaming to make sure they don't say "You stupid jew fag!"
-[H]olyGeekboy
I submitted this story this morning:
...right after the MSNBC article appeared, and I had read it in its entirety.
2002-07-03 14:26:10 RIAA to sue individual file sharers (articles,news) (rejected)
Anonymous Coward submits it six hours later, and it's suddenly newsworthy?
I know I'm not supposed to bitch about these kinds of things, but seriously, how about some editorial consistency? This is the second time this has happened to me, and I can't tell if it just because I'm a smartass, the different editors see different submissions in the queue, or what... all I know is that I'm a karma whore and want bonus points for my submission!
Offtopic for this story, but ontopic for this thread:
Strange though it seems, surely this can be the only explanation for an OS called 'winCE'...
I thought that one was bad, but not nearly as bad as the Audi sport sedan, the TT. Just look at it drive by, AudiTT on the bumper as it zooms past.
But think about it for a moment: why would you market an expensive car, aimed at high-class clientelle such as lawyers and accountants, and call it the auditt? It's not the Audi T T, it's the Audit!
DUH!
Ah, the "Babylon 5" excuse...
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Whatever. For all of JMS's design, "Babylon 5" still was badly written (especially when it came to comedy), horribly acted (with the exception of some of the supporting roles), and built up to one of the worst dramatic climaxes I've ever seen in a movie or TV show.
Ahh, the old "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" routine: Millions of teenage Internet fanboys who supposedly hate movies, but can't seem to stop talking about them.
(Tongue firmly in cheek here.