These are two real examples where I broke the speed limit to avoid an accident this week. In each case, I judged that accelerating was less dangerous than braking sharply under the conditions at the time.
Ironically, this is what most women do when they actually cause accidents. Women tend to panic and over-react quite easily when behind the driver's seat. Instead of slowing down... women panic and floor the gas peddle! Although they generally avoid the accident or possible incident they are trying to... they usually end up causing a far worse one.
Windows in POS systems.... is that why I walked into a Krispy Kreme the other day and noticed that their drive-thru display had blue screened?
Imagine how productive business could be if the donut making machine ran windows... When not being crashed, imagine how inconsistent the donuts produced would be!
I'd suggest that the network switching backbone be secured and locked down. You need someone watching this equipment 24/7 in gaming environments or someone will just walk off with your goods. If possible, keep a centralized NOC (network operations center), where the official game servers are secured & administered. Ideally this is where all your network connections come into at.
It wouldn't hurt to have all your switches know STP (spanning tree protocol) to avoid very nasty situations that can occur. Don't have your backbone running off those crappy "8 port" switches designed for home use!
The key once you've solved power distribution and power grid issues is that you need some serious network equipment and you need it setup properly and secured at all times. Setting up a large network that big needs a skilled admin who knows what they are doing, this isn't your typical Home LAN....
Btw, where is this big party happening at?
Re:I have that foam thing
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Breasts produce milk. Milk is yummier than beer. I'll take the breasts with their bras.
"This module provides wrappers for the System V IPC family of functions. It includes semaphores, shared memory and inter-process messaging (IPC).
Semaphores may be used to provide exclusive access to resources on the current machine, or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource.
This module provides also shared memory functions using System V shared memory. Shared memory may be used to provide access to global variables. Different httpd-daemons and even other programs (such as Perl, C,...) are able to access this data to provide a global data-exchange. Remember, that shared memory is NOT safe against simultaneous access. Use semaphores for synchronization. "
Please note that: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension."
System-wide objects are VERY easy to implement in PHP currently. Just use shared memory and sems....
For more information please see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
"This module provides wrappers for the System V IPC family of functions. It includes semaphores, shared memory and inter-process messaging (IPC).
Semaphores may be used to provide exclusive access to resources on the current machine, or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource.
This module provides also shared memory functions using System V shared memory. Shared memory may be used to provide access to global variables. Different httpd-daemons and even other programs (such as Perl, C,...) are able to access this data to provide a global data-exchange. Remember, that shared memory is NOT safe against simultaneous access. Use semaphores for synchronization. "
Please note that: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension."
"The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability," Microsoft says."
So, Microsoft admits finally, that Windows NT (a "SECURE" OS) is fatally flawed from the ground up and there is no way to fix this basic vulnerability.
They are ground to ground defensive missiles. They should be entitled to defend their country however it be possible.
I personally hope they use whatever weaponry they can against American troops (Note: It is NOT a "coalition force".... regardless of what the Media is saying).
I hope they gas as many American troops as possible and light as many oilfields they feel they need to. Its their oil, its their right to burn it!
Just blast a small EMP grenade nearby and disable everyone using these guns...
Imagine bank robbers going in and firing an EMP blast to disable the guard's guns.... and then going in with traditional weaponry and shooting up the unknowing guards.
"I guess that if someone decided to walk into the place with guns a blazing he could, but that's not exactly the most subtle way to steal credit card and bank account information. "
Why do people think the target is always credit card information and/or bank account info? There is so much more you can do with information and control than just stealing a pitiful few thousand dollars on credit cards...
PHP scripts are compiled in run-time. You can speed up PHP significantly by using a "Cache" module that stores precompiled php scripts (compiled ONLY the first time they are requested) in memory that is shared among requests. APC is a great one and is available at: http://apc.communityconnect.com/
Zend (http://zend.com) Also has a number of PHP goodies! Expect some significant speed improvements when using a cache! I highly recommend them!
Sony, as a record company, is still using things like the DMCA to force destructive and damaging music cds into the consumer world. Sony is one of the biggest backers of "copy protection" schemes... the same ones that can be "anti-copy protected" by marking the outer track of the CD with a sharpie marker.
Just because Sony is swinging one way in regards to their doggie, who's specs were already freely available through reverse engineering, doesn't mean you should sway your opinion of them and think that they are a changed company. Sony is a VERY dangerous company... Possibly fourth behind Microsoft, AOL-Timewarner, and the Bells.
Yeah I skipped a class at school and a few hours of work to go see Episode II. It was well worth it.
Of course my company continued to operate without me being there. Even if we lost 2 or three of our main servers while I as at the movie, the company would continue to operate and the remaining servers would pickup the load.
Good admins always have automated backup systems that kick in when a failure happens. Having the entire tech industry take a day off wouldn't ruin the world as predicted:)
Yeah, the Senators aren't involved in this... its in the House. So write your House Representatives. No need to mess with the Senate governed by Palpatine... it will just backfire. Lets make sure Natalie Portman gets the office of Senator after her terms of Queen are up!
In general the/. community is interested in the Space Program and the benefits it provides to the technology community.
As this Bill progresses it will be important to have the Slashdot (dare I say "geek" crowd) write their representatives and encourage the support of this bill.
Please keep the Slashdot editors informed on news regarding this Bill so that more people can read about it on Slashdot and in turn write their Senators to support it.
Seriously, the/. crowd is numerous enough to put some good pressure on Congress to do something right.
Read the bill, it makes note of some serious issues facing the Country's space program and it's future years down the road... such as no MAJOR challenging missions after the ISS "Alpha" is assembled.
When building your own systems you have a number of advantages. It took my boss a few months to learn them after buying some shit hardware from a "professional PC builder"
Advantages:
1) Good hardware in each system, you don't have to deal with low-end entry-level shit motherboards that are unstable and will be the leading cause of crashes.
2) Easier to upgrade. Sure, you can buy an OEM system from HP, Dell, IBM, or wherever... but in two years, when you want to upgrade.... you have to buy an entirely new box instead of just upgrading the motherboard, cpu, and ram.
3) Easier to fix. Sure, OEM's offer supposedly "good" support and will come onsite to fix it. But usually you are stuck mailing off your system to a factor somewhere for hardware replacement. This is just not an option when the hard drive contains sensitive business information.
Since we moved to building our own systems here at my office, we've had increased reliability and performance... we've also seen a drop in the time spent dealing with bad hardware.
If you have qualified people that know PC hardware or you yourself are qualified... then go for it, there is no reason not to.
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Re:Today, the WTO pulled the trigger on another 2.
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No, 2,500 AIDS victims pulled the trigger on themselves by making stupid decisions about sex.
Not true! Many AIDS victims are born with HIV because of their parent's decisions. Unprotected sex is a big cause of the spreading, but when you spread your spermies into a woman. She might get HIV, but since you are unprotected she will probably also end up with a baby.
Also, my two cents: Anyone saying that AIDS is a disease that punishes gays is definately wrong. I think its just another reason not to be gay in San Francisco:)
Re:At What Cost? -- Why waste trees?
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On the cow manure idea:
A new 750-kW power plant at Tinesdale Farms in Wrightstown, WI, is the first in the state to be powered by cow manure. The facility uses a "digester" to convert the manure to methane, which is then burned to generate electricity. Ag Environmental Solutions, LLC (Wrightstown, WI) owns and operates the facility, and Wisconsin Gas/Wisconsin Electric is buying the power and selling it to its customers. The manure comes from 1,800 cows at Tinesdale Farms, and it generates enough electricity to power 250 homes -- http://www.achrnews.com/.snippy./
Re:At What Cost? -- Why waste trees?
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It's going to be a heck of a lot cheaper to burn money to make power than use the moon for a long, long time.
Why even make money to burn it? We can conserve our energy by not even manufacturing the crap and we'd save the trees.
We could, however, burn cow manure and help to erradicate those ugly landscapes outside Area 51 where cattle was once raised that have been littered with pies. (Seriously, the area was big on cattle a while back)
x
Okay, so lets say you _do_ microwave it over ...
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· Score: 2
Now the problem comes in... Earth is rotating. The moon isn't in an equatorially geosynchronous orbit and eventually either the receiving dishes would need to be moved or the transmitting dish on the moon would transmit enough microwaves to eliminate life as we know it for a few hundred meters around its target. If you fear the cellular phone radio waves.... think sticking your head into your microwave in the morning instead of coffee.
People have discussed the idea of transmitting power before. Heck, Russia built a solar reflector to light up their northern lands. It's feasible, but being able to protect Earth from a microwave disaster would be EXTREMELY hard.
without having to alter existing cd fabrication technologies you could reach much higher speeds if you rotate the cd near its maximum and then rotate the laser in an opposing direction at or near its maximum. Now you can add the two maximums together and you have a MUCH faster cdrom drive.
Much louder too, of course. But getting cdreaders quiet is easy... its just that manufacturers prefer to make cheap drives instead of quiet ones.
The true question....
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If you are surfing websites looking for warez (pronounced "war-ez" and not "wares" by the true junkies)... Why the hell would you want to report it to a bunch of copyright police?
The average joe-shmoe will never run into a download for pirated software unless he is looking for it. So this "plugin" is pointless.... right?
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These are two real examples where I broke the speed limit to avoid an accident this week. In each case, I judged that accelerating was less dangerous than braking sharply under the conditions at the time.
Ironically, this is what most women do when they actually cause accidents. Women tend to panic and over-react quite easily when behind the driver's seat. Instead of slowing down... women panic and floor the gas peddle! Although they generally avoid the accident or possible incident they are trying to... they usually end up causing a far worse one.
Windows in POS systems.... is that why I walked into a Krispy Kreme the other day and noticed that their drive-thru display had blue screened?
... When not being crashed, imagine how inconsistent the donuts produced would be!
Imagine how productive business could be if the donut making machine ran windows
I'd suggest that the network switching backbone be secured and locked down. You need someone watching this equipment 24/7 in gaming environments or someone will just walk off with your goods. If possible, keep a centralized NOC (network operations center), where the official game servers are secured & administered. Ideally this is where all your network connections come into at.
It wouldn't hurt to have all your switches know STP (spanning tree protocol) to avoid very nasty situations that can occur. Don't have your backbone running off those crappy "8 port" switches designed for home use!
The key once you've solved power distribution and power grid issues is that you need some serious network equipment and you need it setup properly and secured at all times. Setting up a large network that big needs a skilled admin who knows what they are doing, this isn't your typical Home LAN....
Btw, where is this big party happening at?
Breasts produce milk. Milk is yummier than beer. I'll take the breasts with their bras.
System-wide objects are VERY easy to implement in PHP currently. Just use shared memory and sems....
...) are able to access this data to provide a global data-exchange. Remember, that shared memory is NOT safe against simultaneous access. Use semaphores for synchronization. "
For more information please see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
"This module provides wrappers for the System V IPC family of functions. It includes semaphores, shared memory and inter-process messaging (IPC).
Semaphores may be used to provide exclusive access to resources on the current machine, or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource.
This module provides also shared memory functions using System V shared memory. Shared memory may be used to provide access to global variables. Different httpd-daemons and even other programs (such as Perl, C,
Please note that: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension."
System-wide objects are VERY easy to implement in PHP currently. Just use shared memory and sems....
...) are able to access this data to provide a global data-exchange. Remember, that shared memory is NOT safe against simultaneous access. Use semaphores for synchronization. "
For more information please see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
"This module provides wrappers for the System V IPC family of functions. It includes semaphores, shared memory and inter-process messaging (IPC).
Semaphores may be used to provide exclusive access to resources on the current machine, or to limit the number of processes that may simultaneously use a resource.
This module provides also shared memory functions using System V shared memory. Shared memory may be used to provide access to global variables. Different httpd-daemons and even other programs (such as Perl, C,
Please note that: "No external libraries are needed to build this extension."
"The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability," Microsoft says."
So, Microsoft admits finally, that Windows NT (a "SECURE" OS) is fatally flawed from the ground up and there is no way to fix this basic vulnerability.
They are ground to ground defensive missiles. They should be entitled to defend their country however it be possible.
.... regardless of what the Media is saying).
I personally hope they use whatever weaponry they can against American troops (Note: It is NOT a "coalition force"
I hope they gas as many American troops as possible and light as many oilfields they feel they need to. Its their oil, its their right to burn it!
Just blast a small EMP grenade nearby and disable everyone using these guns...
Imagine bank robbers going in and firing an EMP blast to disable the guard's guns.... and then going in with traditional weaponry and shooting up the unknowing guards.
Funny how this security breach at Princeton never got the media attention it deserved:
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http://www.ispep.cx/files/tucson.princeton.edu.tx
Mod this up as Informative...
Funny how this security breach at Princeton never got the media attention it deserved:
t
http://www.ispep.cx/files/tucson.princeton.edu.tx
Mod this up as Informative...
"I guess that if someone decided to walk into the place with guns a blazing he could, but that's not exactly the most subtle way to steal credit card and bank account information. "
Why do people think the target is always credit card information and/or bank account info? There is so much more you can do with information and control than just stealing a pitiful few thousand dollars on credit cards...
PHP scripts are compiled in run-time. You can speed up PHP significantly by using a "Cache" module that stores precompiled php scripts (compiled ONLY the first time they are requested) in memory that is shared among requests. APC is a great one and is available at: http://apc.communityconnect.com/
Zend (http://zend.com) Also has a number of PHP goodies! Expect some significant speed improvements when using a cache! I highly recommend them!
x
Sony, as a record company, is still using things like the DMCA to force destructive and damaging music cds into the consumer world. Sony is one of the biggest backers of "copy protection" schemes... the same ones that can be "anti-copy protected" by marking the outer track of the CD with a sharpie marker.
Just because Sony is swinging one way in regards to their doggie, who's specs were already freely available through reverse engineering, doesn't mean you should sway your opinion of them and think that they are a changed company. Sony is a VERY dangerous company... Possibly fourth behind Microsoft, AOL-Timewarner, and the Bells.
Yeah I skipped a class at school and a few hours of work to go see Episode II. It was well worth it.
:)
Of course my company continued to operate without me being there. Even if we lost 2 or three of our main servers while I as at the movie, the company would continue to operate and the remaining servers would pickup the load.
Good admins always have automated backup systems that kick in when a failure happens. Having the entire tech industry take a day off wouldn't ruin the world as predicted
x
Yeah, the Senators aren't involved in this ... its in the House. So write your House Representatives. No need to mess with the Senate governed by Palpatine... it will just backfire. Lets make sure Natalie Portman gets the office of Senator after her terms of Queen are up!
In general the /. community is interested in the Space Program and the benefits it provides to the technology community.
/. crowd is numerous enough to put some good pressure on Congress to do something right.
As this Bill progresses it will be important to have the Slashdot (dare I say "geek" crowd) write their representatives and encourage the support of this bill.
Please keep the Slashdot editors informed on news regarding this Bill so that more people can read about it on Slashdot and in turn write their Senators to support it.
Seriously, the
Read the bill, it makes note of some serious issues facing the Country's space program and it's future years down the road... such as no MAJOR challenging missions after the ISS "Alpha" is assembled.
Or shall we patent/copyright "a method for cleaning windows?"
Haha, yeah its called Windex. Hundreds of patents for cleaning windows...
Why hasn't Microsoft attacked Windex as much as they've been attacking the GPL?
When building your own systems you have a number of advantages. It took my boss a few months to learn them after buying some shit hardware from a "professional PC builder"
Advantages:
1) Good hardware in each system, you don't have to deal with low-end entry-level shit motherboards that are unstable and will be the leading cause of crashes.
2) Easier to upgrade. Sure, you can buy an OEM system from HP, Dell, IBM, or wherever... but in two years, when you want to upgrade.... you have to buy an entirely new box instead of just upgrading the motherboard, cpu, and ram.
3) Easier to fix. Sure, OEM's offer supposedly "good" support and will come onsite to fix it. But usually you are stuck mailing off your system to a factor somewhere for hardware replacement. This is just not an option when the hard drive contains sensitive business information.
Since we moved to building our own systems here at my office, we've had increased reliability and performance... we've also seen a drop in the time spent dealing with bad hardware.
If you have qualified people that know PC hardware or you yourself are qualified... then go for it, there is no reason not to.
x
No, 2,500 AIDS victims pulled the trigger on themselves by making stupid decisions about sex.
:)
Not true! Many AIDS victims are born with HIV because of their parent's decisions. Unprotected sex is a big cause of the spreading, but when you spread your spermies into a woman. She might get HIV, but since you are unprotected she will probably also end up with a baby.
Also, my two cents: Anyone saying that AIDS is a disease that punishes gays is definately wrong. I think its just another reason not to be gay in San Francisco
On the cow manure idea:
A new 750-kW power plant at Tinesdale Farms in Wrightstown, WI, is the first in the state to be powered by cow manure. The facility uses a "digester" to convert the manure to methane, which is then burned to generate electricity. Ag Environmental Solutions, LLC (Wrightstown, WI) owns and operates the facility, and Wisconsin Gas/Wisconsin Electric is buying the power and selling it to its customers. The manure comes from 1,800 cows at Tinesdale Farms, and it generates enough electricity to power 250 homes -- http://www.achrnews.com/.snippy./
It's going to be a heck of a lot cheaper to burn money to make power than use the moon for a long, long time.
Why even make money to burn it? We can conserve our energy by not even manufacturing the crap and we'd save the trees.
We could, however, burn cow manure and help to erradicate those ugly landscapes outside Area 51 where cattle was once raised that have been littered with pies. (Seriously, the area was big on cattle a while back)
x
Now the problem comes in ... Earth is rotating. The moon isn't in an equatorially geosynchronous orbit and eventually either the receiving dishes would need to be moved or the transmitting dish on the moon would transmit enough microwaves to eliminate life as we know it for a few hundred meters around its target. If you fear the cellular phone radio waves.... think sticking your head into your microwave in the morning instead of coffee.
People have discussed the idea of transmitting power before. Heck, Russia built a solar reflector to light up their northern lands. It's feasible, but being able to protect Earth from a microwave disaster would be EXTREMELY hard.
without having to alter existing cd fabrication technologies you could reach much higher speeds if you rotate the cd near its maximum and then rotate the laser in an opposing direction at or near its maximum. Now you can add the two maximums together and you have a MUCH faster cdrom drive.
Much louder too, of course. But getting cdreaders quiet is easy... its just that manufacturers prefer to make cheap drives instead of quiet ones.
If you are surfing websites looking for warez (pronounced "war-ez" and not "wares" by the true junkies) ... Why the hell would you want to report it to a bunch of copyright police?
The average joe-shmoe will never run into a download for pirated software unless he is looking for it. So this "plugin" is pointless.... right?
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