From: http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poebiog.htm
"The twin notions that Poe was a user of opium and a chronic alcoholic have been an unfortunate obsession with his fans and detractors alike for over one hundred years....important note describing Poe's condition, changing 'a gentleman, rather the worse for wear' first to 'deep intoxication' and later to 'beastly intoxication.'...From a purely medical perspective, it might be fair to say that Poe was an alcoholic."
I would say he circumvented his own access control device! Pickled it to be more accurate!
I read the dead tree version a couple weeks ago. Fantastic article!! It changed some perspectives on my understanding of society.
Professional athletes are for the most part whiny annoying overpaid children. Engineers rule the world! They should get the respect they deserve!
They've shaped our world in ways that most people will never understand. Who is responsible for the sturdy durable bridge you take to work everyday? Who keeps electricity flowing to your house? Who invented the airbag? Why aren't these people superstars!! And like Wayne Gretzky, Mr. Kamen is a god. Not THE god, but next in line.
Kudos on a fantastic article!
As for flouting conventions on/., someone once said, "Welcome to SlashDot, please do not feed the trolls.";-)
The toughest laptop I've ever seen is the Panasonic Toughbook. I've used it for data collection in a very high vibration area. Most other laptops would only last 12 - 18 hours in that environment. This one has been running 2 years.
The case is machined aluminum and carbon fiber, and the HD is surrounded by a very soft jelly.
It's the kind of stuff you find in ergonomic wrist and mouse pads, that really thick very soft stuff. A normal HD will survive a drop from about 1m on to concrete, but they claim that theirs will survive a 10m fall.
Perhaps you could find a couple of these at a used computer store and salvage the gel out of them?
A man walks into a Silicon Valley pet shop to buy a monkey. The store owner shows him three monkeys and explains, "The one on the left costs
five hundred dollars." "Why so much?" the customer wants to know.
"Because," the shopkeeper explains, "he can do computer programming in C."
"What about that monkey?" the man asks indicating the next animal. "He costs fifteen hundred dollars because he knows how to program in Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."
The startled patron then inquires about the third monkey. "He's worth three thousand dollars," the store owner replies. "Three thousand dollars!" The man exclaims. "What can he do?"
"To be honest," the merchant confesses, "I've never seen him do a thing, but he says he used to work for NASA."
My company has a simple policy - pretty much open internet. Some sites throw up red flags and are blocked (such as playboy.com).
We publish the companies internet usage policy on the intranet home page. No one has the ability to change that home page. They are required to bide by the rules of internet usage.
If they don't, the rules are simple - termination.
And we make a big deal out of it. Terminations are not announced (the rumour mill takes care of that...), but when employees are convicted of having soft/hard/child pron on their machines, a letter of explanation goes out from the company president.
It's amazing to see the internet usage ramp down for a few weeks!
Let's turn that around - What if you have already been tricked into thinking your vote doesn't count?
And that's what they want you to think! Voter apathy is rising! Typical election results: Winner 65% of the ballots; First loser 20%; 15% to people you never heard of. Voter turn out: 30%. 30%!! If those 70% of the people had turned out to vote for the person who got the least votes - that would have been our imaginary winner!
On the grand scale, yes, your vote means diddly. But it means much more with 70% of the population too lazy to stop watching the tube to get out and vote!
And in the last 100 years or so, 30-40 million people did die so you could vote. (assuming you live in a democratic country:-} )
And the only reason they promise but don't deliver is because we let them!
They know they can get away with stuffing little amendments about privacy into school taxation bills with a little added pay raise for themselves! Because no one will notice!
To quote Babylon 5 (or misquote...) "No one takes power, it is given to them by the people..."
It needs to be able to be taken away by the people too!
And to sell your right to vote. The same right that millions of people in the world would die for, the right to vote in a free and democratic election. To give away what so many young men and women DIED for, just for beer money.
Monday knocks on the door
Arafat is before you
Tuesday gives in to alarm
Paranoia in the streetcar
Wednesday is the very Cold War
Brezhnev laughs in the public swimming pool
Thursday, you knows it already
thousand agents in drains
Friday belongs the Mafia
the Ravioli comes from Florida
Saturday evening lunatic asylum
KGB in the German forest
Sunday, there is dead everything
in the gulf of Mallorca the world war threatens Stalingrad, Stalingrad
Germany disaster state
We live in the computer state.
That's pretty rough. My German is pretty rusty, and mostly a localized dialect anyway.
Don't make the same mistake I did with Origin systems!
If you are going to have a fairly disk-intensive app, don't use RAID 5!
It requires; 1 read per disk, 1 write per disk, then another read-verify from each disk. That's 6 I/O's per disk for a single write. If you need redundancy, use mirroring or a stripe set no parity (RAID 1 or RAID 4).
You'll get much better performance out of the disks!
The province in which I live has some very specific torte laws (civil laws as opposed to criminal). I am also a member of two Engineering Associations.
As a member of those associations, one of my duties is to report such acts of contract, copyright or licensing laws (or violations of safety, manpower laws, etc) first to management or the PTB's. If nothing is done, I must report them to another outside authority, such as Workman's Compensation or the RCMP, depending on the nature of the problem.
For this type of a problem, I would have to notify the copyright holder, or the Crown Prosecuter. I would have no choice, given my standing in the community, and the laws which govern my profession.
Before I get flamed, this is a good thing! Any employer who would require that their employees belong to these engineering groups, would not commit this kind of thing, knowing that their employees would have to report it.
As well, by law, I can not be fired for reporting this ethier. The consequences to the employer are quite harsh (can you say lawsuit boys and girls? I knew you could!). Of course, I could just be 'downsized', but I wouldn't want to work for a company that did this anyhow...
I'd say check if where you live has any such "whistle blower" laws, and to whom they apply. You know about the problem, you have informed your managers, and nothing has been done to correct them. See if you have to blow the whistle, or if you can take the next step and inform the copyleft holder or the Crown/D.A..
I used to have the original Atari arcade game "Missle Command". The full size upright one! Bought it off the owner of an arcade company when games like that went out of style.
Had to hack it a few times, the big ball targeting system wore out. And it blew a processor. Luckily I had spares! (6809 IIRC).
But the wife got that in the divorce. She can't even play it! What a bitch!
Where else can you get slapstick comedy involving a bunch of girls and a regular guy? Three's Company?
Where else do you get complicated political and social relationships in a war time setting. Space:Above and Beyond?
Where else do you see a group of girls that are so devoted to each other that they're willing to die for each other while arguing like girls in real life? Roller Derby?:-)
It's the northernmost point on Ellesmere island. The most northerly place inhabited in the world.
Most pristine, stark, desolate. Beautiful.
Been there, done that. Really boring for 6 months, especially if you pull duty for the 6 months it's dark there a year. Bonus if you pull the 6 months it's light there however.
Because I worked in the field of communication interception and ground based radar tracking for 12 years.
I can tell what the primary purpose of a dish or antenna is from looking at it. I cannot tell what they are used for, but I can tell what they are NOT used for.
Or take it a step farther. Convolute the message. For example: "help they are on to me"
Fire an e-mail to a hotmail account..."Remember when we were in Rio in '74?..."
That tells the person to set linelength to 74. Then fire another email off to another another account with a long letter, but when the word wrap occurs, it gives a number pattern, say 1-1-8-4-2. telling which letters or words to take from the second message.
Harder to track e-mails from different accounts to different accounts with hidden messages in it. Especially when you don't know the pattern.
Where is the best place to hide a needle? Wrong! It would be the only needle in that haystack! The best place is with a bunch of other needles!
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I would say he circumvented his own access control device! Pickled it to be more accurate!
I have to keep them, because it's the only place left to find "Abuse" since crack.com went the way of the bit-bucket.
Best Linux Game EVER!! I wonder how useful this DVD could be! ;-)
Professional athletes are for the most part whiny annoying overpaid children. Engineers rule the world! They should get the respect they deserve!
They've shaped our world in ways that most people will never understand. Who is responsible for the sturdy durable bridge you take to work everyday? Who keeps electricity flowing to your house? Who invented the airbag? Why aren't these people superstars!! And like Wayne Gretzky, Mr. Kamen is a god. Not THE god, but next in line.
Kudos on a fantastic article!
As for flouting conventions on /., someone once said, "Welcome to SlashDot, please do not feed the trolls." ;-)
The case is machined aluminum and carbon fiber, and the HD is surrounded by a very soft jelly.
It's the kind of stuff you find in ergonomic wrist and mouse pads, that really thick very soft stuff. A normal HD will survive a drop from about 1m on to concrete, but they claim that theirs will survive a 10m fall.
Perhaps you could find a couple of these at a used computer store and salvage the gel out of them?
"Because," the shopkeeper explains, "he can do computer programming in C."
"What about that monkey?" the man asks indicating the next animal. "He costs fifteen hundred dollars because he knows how to program in Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."
The startled patron then inquires about the third monkey. "He's worth three thousand dollars," the store owner replies. "Three thousand dollars!" The man exclaims. "What can he do?"
"To be honest," the merchant confesses, "I've never seen him do a thing, but he says he used to work for NASA."
Could that be a detail worth a little "Update" flag? I know it can't be my glasses, I just got a new perlscriptshun.
It's not like /. to mess up on a story...;-)
At least they should be considered so.
My company has a simple policy - pretty much open internet. Some sites throw up red flags and are blocked (such as playboy.com).
We publish the companies internet usage policy on the intranet home page. No one has the ability to change that home page. They are required to bide by the rules of internet usage.
If they don't, the rules are simple - termination.
And we make a big deal out of it. Terminations are not announced (the rumour mill takes care of that...), but when employees are convicted of having soft/hard/child pron on their machines, a letter of explanation goes out from the company president.
It's amazing to see the internet usage ramp down for a few weeks!
And that's what they want you to think! Voter apathy is rising! Typical election results: Winner 65% of the ballots; First loser 20%; 15% to people you never heard of. Voter turn out: 30%. 30%!! If those 70% of the people had turned out to vote for the person who got the least votes - that would have been our imaginary winner!
On the grand scale, yes, your vote means diddly. But it means much more with 70% of the population too lazy to stop watching the tube to get out and vote!
And in the last 100 years or so, 30-40 million people did die so you could vote. (assuming you live in a democratic country :-} )
They know they can get away with stuffing little amendments about privacy into school taxation bills with a little added pay raise for themselves! Because no one will notice!
To quote Babylon 5 (or misquote...) "No one takes power, it is given to them by the people..."
It needs to be able to be taken away by the people too!
And to sell your right to vote. The same right that millions of people in the world would die for, the right to vote in a free and democratic election. To give away what so many young men and women DIED for, just for beer money.
That is a much sadder state of affairs.
But you get the idea. (-1 Offtopic)
Don't remember who said that though...
How did this place get your Thesis? Why is it for sale and did ContentVille get the copyright tranferred with it?
Post the name of the ContentVille Villiage Idiot(tm) in an update, so I have a scapegoat if I find mine there...
From all the reviews I've read, "See Sharp" doesn't.
Plus Star Trek Voyer will start next week! Mmmmmm! Seven!
If you are going to have a fairly disk-intensive app, don't use RAID 5!
It requires; 1 read per disk, 1 write per disk, then another read-verify from each disk. That's 6 I/O's per disk for a single write. If you need redundancy, use mirroring or a stripe set no parity (RAID 1 or RAID 4).
You'll get much better performance out of the disks!
The province in which I live has some very specific torte laws (civil laws as opposed to criminal). I am also a member of two Engineering Associations.
As a member of those associations, one of my duties is to report such acts of contract, copyright or licensing laws (or violations of safety, manpower laws, etc) first to management or the PTB's. If nothing is done, I must report them to another outside authority, such as Workman's Compensation or the RCMP, depending on the nature of the problem.
For this type of a problem, I would have to notify the copyright holder, or the Crown Prosecuter. I would have no choice, given my standing in the community, and the laws which govern my profession.
Before I get flamed, this is a good thing! Any employer who would require that their employees belong to these engineering groups, would not commit this kind of thing, knowing that their employees would have to report it.
As well, by law, I can not be fired for reporting this ethier. The consequences to the employer are quite harsh (can you say lawsuit boys and girls? I knew you could!). Of course, I could just be 'downsized', but I wouldn't want to work for a company that did this anyhow...
I'd say check if where you live has any such "whistle blower" laws, and to whom they apply. You know about the problem, you have informed your managers, and nothing has been done to correct them. See if you have to blow the whistle, or if you can take the next step and inform the copyleft holder or the Crown/D.A. .
Had to hack it a few times, the big ball targeting system wore out. And it blew a processor. Luckily I had spares! (6809 IIRC).
But the wife got that in the divorce. She can't even play it! What a bitch!
You bet I do! That was a really bad day for all the large lizards. I remember it clearly! Everyone who is 100 million years old does!
Pinhead.
Where else do you get complicated political and social relationships in a war time setting. Space:Above and Beyond?
Where else do you see a group of girls that are so devoted to each other that they're willing to die for each other while arguing like girls in real life? Roller Derby? :-)
Most pristine, stark, desolate. Beautiful.
Been there, done that. Really boring for 6 months, especially if you pull duty for the 6 months it's dark there a year. Bonus if you pull the 6 months it's light there however.
It's part of the Canadian forces at CFS Alert, CFS Masset (both now done remotely from) CFS Leitrum near Ottawa.
They eavesdrop on mainly Russian, Czec, Middle Eastern military and civillian groups.
I can tell what the primary purpose of a dish or antenna is from looking at it. I cannot tell what they are used for, but I can tell what they are NOT used for.
I'm surprised they didn't have photos of the Seti@home accellerator too!
Fire an e-mail to a hotmail account..."Remember when we were in Rio in '74?..."
That tells the person to set linelength to 74. Then fire another email off to another another account with a long letter, but when the word wrap occurs, it gives a number pattern, say 1-1-8-4-2. telling which letters or words to take from the second message.
Harder to track e-mails from different accounts to different accounts with hidden messages in it. Especially when you don't know the pattern.
Where is the best place to hide a needle? Wrong! It would be the only needle in that haystack! The best place is with a bunch of other needles!