Speed limits are NOT set to safe speeds. They are set to maximize revenues. The 85th percentile was the standard, before politicians got involved in speed limits. Open up a highway, and post no speed limits at all. Monitor the speeds at which people travel. After a period of time, set the speed at the 85th percentile, and you have a safe speed. In the case of a blind curve or something, you should post a lower limit as a warning.
Enforcing the law just because it is the law is moronic. Change the law.
One of the first lessons of leaderships is, "Never give an order that you know will not be obeyed." Ask any military officer of NCO/petty officer.
You know, I know, everyone in America knows that the nationwide 55 mph limit was ignored while it was in effect. Ditto with many speed limits around the nation.
Go back to the 85th percentile, then aggressively go after people who break THAT law. Stop robbing people for conforming to the flow of traffic.
Geez, Louise - how many poses of the same child can you look at, with ice cream dripping down her face, over her blouse, down her thighs, and onto her shoes? Uhhhh - yeah, stupid shit. That's a single snapshot moment, you throw the snapshot into an album, then drag it out years later to embarrass the girl. You don't take 300 shots, and post them ALL to Facebook.
Killing some of those people would be a service to humanity. Alright, so maybe I exaggerate some - the petitions don't call for their deaths. Think, numbskull - what do petitions actually call for? Yeah, I sign some of those petitions, and I forward them to the mindless sheep, despite the fact that few will care enough to even read them.
Then again - many of us refuse to do some things because we realize there is no value in it.
I'll admit, I have an account. I go for weeks without signing in. When I do sign in, I just scan over some of the stupid shit my family and acquaintances are doing. Occasionally, I'll sign in to post a petition to kill bankers, or kill pharmaceutical corporate officers, or kill all lawyers and politicians. Oh, Monsanto, too.
I thought crackers cracked games and applications. Hackers do stuff more like the people in the article are doing - penetration testing. Most hackers can likely crack a DRM'd game too.
In maintenance, we have problems all the time. I've referred to not-yet-identified or intermittent problems as "phantom" problems in the past. One such problem was finally identified just yesterday. The machine did some simply crazy shit from time to time, suggesting some kind of electrical supply problem. We've crawled all over that machine, testing boards and cards, probing all the electrical supplies, everything. Finally - the 460 volt transformer crapped out. I can't explain how or why the transformer was doing weird shit intermittently, but we're all sure that replacing that transformer will cure all the phantom problems we've been having.
We should know for certain by the end of this coming week . . .
Well, AC, you done it. I was going to use up my mod points, but you made me think. Dang it!
I mostly agree with you. People doing their jobs shouldn't be touted as heroes. It's just stupid.
BUT - anyone who helps in even small ways to get us, humanity, into space, are all greater or lesser heroes to me. If you want to become my greatest all time hero, all you need to do is make a very fast, very comfortable, efficient, cheap spaceship that can take me anywhere I might wish to go in the solar system within a week. You would become the God of Heroes, in my books. Incorporate the ability to visit neighboring stars with only a year or two of travel involved, and you could be the God of Hero Gods.
Just get us off this one, single, lonely rock that we inhabit. That's all I ask. Lots of people scoff at the idea, but it would only take one huge rock smashing into our rock to wipe us all out.
Except - the PDF linked to specifically states that the encryption is dependent on the silicone within the device. The chip identifiers on the device are part of the encryption. Storage removed from the device are unreadable, until the storage media is returned to the device.
"The content of a file is encrypted with a per-file key, which is wrapped with a class key and stored in a file’s metadata, which is in turn encrypted with the file system key. The class key is protected with the hardware UID and, for some classes, the user’s passcode. This hierarchy provides both flexibility and performance. For example, changing a file’s class only requires rewrapping its per-file key, and a change of passcode just rewraps the class key."
Without the UID, soldering that storage media into anything at all renders the data unreadable, and unrecoverable.
That is exactly the route I took. My phone cost about $85 - I was looking for a particular model that my boss had told me got excellent reception at our work place. It's nothing fancy, but it is adequate for all my needs.
There is no line. Algorithms were never meant to be patented. If you're using an algorithm, and you don't want other people to know what you're using, then it's a TRADE SECRET. Funny thing though, is that anyone can decompile your software, and uncover your trade secret. So, what happened is, everyone tried to get their not-so-secret secrets to be covered by a patent.
It's a corruption of the system. Nothing more, nothing less.
Women are evil creatures. No male principal would threaten anything like that. He would just threaten you with hellfire and damnation, and maybe an ass whooping.
WTF do princesses or queens have to smile about? Or, princes and kings, for that matter? Your earliest memories are of a nanny, lecturing you on how a prince/princess must behave. As you mature, you're always being molded into the perfect little diplomat. You can't get away from the nanny, let alone the military guards, to go skinny dipping like normal little kids. Nearing maturity, your first kiss is arranged for you, and dating some commoner is out of the question. You don't go shopping, and you damned sure don't go shopping on a whim. You double damned sure don't go shopping on a whim, and fall madly in love with some random stranger.
Adult life only gets worse. Passing gas at the wrong time may have repercussions smelled around the world!
You try wearing a damned crown, see how much YOU smile!
Full camo - and blackened boots? Actually - almost shiny boots. Not exactly spit polished, but shiny. Focking preposterous! At least let they poor chump wear BROWN boots!
But, yeah, I like that second photo! Even if the guy in cammies has another pair of blackened boots. Geeez!
You're pretty close to right. SOME of the military would fight for the government. SOME of the military would desert. SOME of the military would join ranks with their state militias, or irregular militias. And, there would be some who are unpredictable loose cannon. Some few would become opportunists and mercenaries, hell bent on making a dollar, what ever it took.
Long story short - it would be one hell of a mess - just as the (First) Civil War was.
He got the girl for a short bit. The story didn't end an a real happy note. Of course, there is plenty of room for a sequel, but Neo and Trinity were both pretty screwed the last time I checked on them, and not screwing each other, either.
You sound as if you should hit the personal ads. There are people who would pay you to administer a good safe beating. Or, if you need the beating, you can hire a nice dominatrix. There's no need to incarcerate people to beat on. There's not even any need to pay or be paid by anyone - it's common for S&M and B&D people to trade services even up.
I'm comfortable with bolt action carbines. An M-14 is good. Never had any use for an M-15 or -16 - I just don't like them. Miniguns? FFS . . . I guess a real man like Rambo would pick it up and shoot from the hip, right?
I'm in over my head already - but, it seemed to me that TFS was saying this very thing: "since our knowledge of the brain is so poor(and our methods for sampling an in-vivo brain so... crude) the list of objective chemical markers dwindles alarmingly swiftly once you get past a relatively short list of endocrine issues."
They want to stop being witch doctors, and actually research causes and effects. Guessing at problems, then experimenting with various drugs to see what results they give is little more than witch doctoring.
Yeah, I clicked some of the links, but I get even further over my head with each click.;^)
A slightly paranoid person might buy into the theory that Big Pharma doesn't WANT to cure patients. Instead, they want to hook people on life-long "cures" that prove to be very lucrative.
Youtube has advertising? Dang - I didn't know that. I just opened my Youtube home page. Black Mambas, funniest racist commercial, DDG gunnery exercise, stupid motorcycle riders, Bagram air crash, Arab Olympics fail, Thanatamersis, Nixie Pixel, Hippo destroys lion pride - - - Tons of stuff, but no advertisements. Maybe advertisers don't support Netgear routers that have been flashed or something? Here, have a nice Tomato, prepared by Toastman!
Well, dude, high school really is unfair! Hey, kids studied the multiplication table in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! In high school, it's just assumed that you should be able to multiply without resorting to a verbal recitation of the table. The least they could do, is to post the table at the front of the room.
But, worse - they expect you to divide, add, subtract, AND multiply, all in the very same equation! It's INSANE, I tell you! Stupid formulas, new rules, geometry, trig, calc - it just goes on and on, with no end in sight!
Hey - that sounds like something good. But, please, tell us: better than WHICH Linux desktops, precisely? And, tell us what metrics you are using to measure these desktops.
I'll be fair here - I've never owned an OS X computer. I don't have the background to make real comparisons.
I've run every version of Windows from Windows version 1. Every one of them. Some were pretty cool for their time. Two have positively sucked. Windows 8 is shaping up to be even suckier than those first two suckers. Win2k and XP were pretty solid operating systems, though they've aged and aren't much to brag about today. Win7 is pretty solid.
Linux? I do a lot of distro hopping. Some are great, some are less great. Ubuntu's Unity is kinda sucky - but hey, that is only one of a multitude of distributions. Depending on what I need a machine to do - there is a Linux distro pretty much tailored to that need.
So, please, tell us what metrics you used to determine that OS X is better than anything that might compete against it. Is it the price? Is it the pretty? The reliability? Uptime? Support? Market share?
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What is a "safe speed" anyway?
Speed limits are NOT set to safe speeds. They are set to maximize revenues. The 85th percentile was the standard, before politicians got involved in speed limits. Open up a highway, and post no speed limits at all. Monitor the speeds at which people travel. After a period of time, set the speed at the 85th percentile, and you have a safe speed. In the case of a blind curve or something, you should post a lower limit as a warning.
Enforcing the law just because it is the law is moronic. Change the law.
One of the first lessons of leaderships is, "Never give an order that you know will not be obeyed." Ask any military officer of NCO/petty officer.
You know, I know, everyone in America knows that the nationwide 55 mph limit was ignored while it was in effect. Ditto with many speed limits around the nation.
Go back to the 85th percentile, then aggressively go after people who break THAT law. Stop robbing people for conforming to the flow of traffic.
Geez, Louise - how many poses of the same child can you look at, with ice cream dripping down her face, over her blouse, down her thighs, and onto her shoes? Uhhhh - yeah, stupid shit. That's a single snapshot moment, you throw the snapshot into an album, then drag it out years later to embarrass the girl. You don't take 300 shots, and post them ALL to Facebook.
Killing some of those people would be a service to humanity. Alright, so maybe I exaggerate some - the petitions don't call for their deaths. Think, numbskull - what do petitions actually call for? Yeah, I sign some of those petitions, and I forward them to the mindless sheep, despite the fact that few will care enough to even read them.
Then again - many of us refuse to do some things because we realize there is no value in it.
I'll admit, I have an account. I go for weeks without signing in. When I do sign in, I just scan over some of the stupid shit my family and acquaintances are doing. Occasionally, I'll sign in to post a petition to kill bankers, or kill pharmaceutical corporate officers, or kill all lawyers and politicians. Oh, Monsanto, too.
I thought crackers cracked games and applications. Hackers do stuff more like the people in the article are doing - penetration testing. Most hackers can likely crack a DRM'd game too.
University of Not Safe for Work? I'd say it attracts . . .
Phantom implies that it's not been identified.
In maintenance, we have problems all the time. I've referred to not-yet-identified or intermittent problems as "phantom" problems in the past. One such problem was finally identified just yesterday. The machine did some simply crazy shit from time to time, suggesting some kind of electrical supply problem. We've crawled all over that machine, testing boards and cards, probing all the electrical supplies, everything. Finally - the 460 volt transformer crapped out. I can't explain how or why the transformer was doing weird shit intermittently, but we're all sure that replacing that transformer will cure all the phantom problems we've been having.
We should know for certain by the end of this coming week . . .
Well, AC, you done it. I was going to use up my mod points, but you made me think. Dang it!
I mostly agree with you. People doing their jobs shouldn't be touted as heroes. It's just stupid.
BUT - anyone who helps in even small ways to get us, humanity, into space, are all greater or lesser heroes to me. If you want to become my greatest all time hero, all you need to do is make a very fast, very comfortable, efficient, cheap spaceship that can take me anywhere I might wish to go in the solar system within a week. You would become the God of Heroes, in my books. Incorporate the ability to visit neighboring stars with only a year or two of travel involved, and you could be the God of Hero Gods.
Just get us off this one, single, lonely rock that we inhabit. That's all I ask. Lots of people scoff at the idea, but it would only take one huge rock smashing into our rock to wipe us all out.
Except - the PDF linked to specifically states that the encryption is dependent on the silicone within the device. The chip identifiers on the device are part of the encryption. Storage removed from the device are unreadable, until the storage media is returned to the device.
"The content of a file is encrypted with a per-file key, which is wrapped with a class key
and stored in a file’s metadata, which is in turn encrypted with the file system key. The
class key is protected with the hardware UID and, for some classes, the user’s passcode.
This hierarchy provides both flexibility and performance. For example, changing a file’s
class only requires rewrapping its per-file key, and a change of passcode just rewraps
the class key."
Without the UID, soldering that storage media into anything at all renders the data unreadable, and unrecoverable.
That is exactly the route I took. My phone cost about $85 - I was looking for a particular model that my boss had told me got excellent reception at our work place. It's nothing fancy, but it is adequate for all my needs.
There is no line. Algorithms were never meant to be patented. If you're using an algorithm, and you don't want other people to know what you're using, then it's a TRADE SECRET. Funny thing though, is that anyone can decompile your software, and uncover your trade secret. So, what happened is, everyone tried to get their not-so-secret secrets to be covered by a patent.
It's a corruption of the system. Nothing more, nothing less.
Women are evil creatures. No male principal would threaten anything like that. He would just threaten you with hellfire and damnation, and maybe an ass whooping.
How many years have you been singing that Kumbayah song?
WTF do princesses or queens have to smile about? Or, princes and kings, for that matter? Your earliest memories are of a nanny, lecturing you on how a prince/princess must behave. As you mature, you're always being molded into the perfect little diplomat. You can't get away from the nanny, let alone the military guards, to go skinny dipping like normal little kids. Nearing maturity, your first kiss is arranged for you, and dating some commoner is out of the question. You don't go shopping, and you damned sure don't go shopping on a whim. You double damned sure don't go shopping on a whim, and fall madly in love with some random stranger.
Adult life only gets worse. Passing gas at the wrong time may have repercussions smelled around the world!
You try wearing a damned crown, see how much YOU smile!
Full camo - and blackened boots? Actually - almost shiny boots. Not exactly spit polished, but shiny. Focking preposterous! At least let they poor chump wear BROWN boots!
But, yeah, I like that second photo! Even if the guy in cammies has another pair of blackened boots. Geeez!
You're pretty close to right. SOME of the military would fight for the government. SOME of the military would desert. SOME of the military would join ranks with their state militias, or irregular militias. And, there would be some who are unpredictable loose cannon. Some few would become opportunists and mercenaries, hell bent on making a dollar, what ever it took.
Long story short - it would be one hell of a mess - just as the (First) Civil War was.
He got the girl for a short bit. The story didn't end an a real happy note. Of course, there is plenty of room for a sequel, but Neo and Trinity were both pretty screwed the last time I checked on them, and not screwing each other, either.
You sound as if you should hit the personal ads. There are people who would pay you to administer a good safe beating. Or, if you need the beating, you can hire a nice dominatrix. There's no need to incarcerate people to beat on. There's not even any need to pay or be paid by anyone - it's common for S&M and B&D people to trade services even up.
I'm comfortable with bolt action carbines. An M-14 is good. Never had any use for an M-15 or -16 - I just don't like them. Miniguns? FFS . . . I guess a real man like Rambo would pick it up and shoot from the hip, right?
Excuse me, but Neo rejected the happy pill, and took the reality pill. Had he chosen the happy pill, the story would have ended right there.
I'm in over my head already - but, it seemed to me that TFS was saying this very thing: "since our knowledge of the brain is so poor(and our methods for sampling an in-vivo brain so... crude) the list of objective chemical markers dwindles alarmingly swiftly once you get past a relatively short list of endocrine issues."
They want to stop being witch doctors, and actually research causes and effects. Guessing at problems, then experimenting with various drugs to see what results they give is little more than witch doctoring.
Yeah, I clicked some of the links, but I get even further over my head with each click. ;^)
A slightly paranoid person might buy into the theory that Big Pharma doesn't WANT to cure patients. Instead, they want to hook people on life-long "cures" that prove to be very lucrative.
Youtube has advertising? Dang - I didn't know that. I just opened my Youtube home page. Black Mambas, funniest racist commercial, DDG gunnery exercise, stupid motorcycle riders, Bagram air crash, Arab Olympics fail, Thanatamersis, Nixie Pixel, Hippo destroys lion pride - - - Tons of stuff, but no advertisements. Maybe advertisers don't support Netgear routers that have been flashed or something? Here, have a nice Tomato, prepared by Toastman!
Well, dude, high school really is unfair! Hey, kids studied the multiplication table in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! In high school, it's just assumed that you should be able to multiply without resorting to a verbal recitation of the table. The least they could do, is to post the table at the front of the room.
But, worse - they expect you to divide, add, subtract, AND multiply, all in the very same equation! It's INSANE, I tell you! Stupid formulas, new rules, geometry, trig, calc - it just goes on and on, with no end in sight!
"better than both Windows and Linux desktops"
Hey - that sounds like something good. But, please, tell us: better than WHICH Linux desktops, precisely? And, tell us what metrics you are using to measure these desktops.
I'll be fair here - I've never owned an OS X computer. I don't have the background to make real comparisons.
I've run every version of Windows from Windows version 1. Every one of them. Some were pretty cool for their time. Two have positively sucked. Windows 8 is shaping up to be even suckier than those first two suckers. Win2k and XP were pretty solid operating systems, though they've aged and aren't much to brag about today. Win7 is pretty solid.
Linux? I do a lot of distro hopping. Some are great, some are less great. Ubuntu's Unity is kinda sucky - but hey, that is only one of a multitude of distributions. Depending on what I need a machine to do - there is a Linux distro pretty much tailored to that need.
So, please, tell us what metrics you used to determine that OS X is better than anything that might compete against it. Is it the price? Is it the pretty? The reliability? Uptime? Support? Market share?
"I'm endlessly amused by what people consider "old" these days."
At work, if a computer still powers up and posts, it's new enough and good enough to make some drudge use it.
At home - a year old computer/kernel/whatever is just alright. I'm looking for something newer to play with all the time.