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What's the problem? You won, troll.
There you go again. Even a cursory glance at my posting history would show you I'm not a troll. Once a notion gets into your head you will not let it go, no matter how irrational. It's the theme of this whole thread, sadly.
The rest of your post was too long, didn't read it, sorry. No point in continuing this, so I'll just stop here.
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Yeah right... Dude, you were pulling blanket statements out of your ass, and when you were called on them you got all defensive to the point of insults. If it makes you feel better to delude yourself that I was somehow "trolling for it", fine, you just keep on saying that to yourself.
Thanks for dragging what was supposed to be a civil technical debate down to this level.
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So it is only a difference between 83 and 15. Or compare single layer, 160 vs. 30.
Join us next week, when misleb proves how negligible the difference between 30 and 160 is, by laying 30kg and 160kg weights on his chest and trying to breathe under them.
Well neither is dual layer Blu-Ray, idiot.
Ah yes, the trusty old personal insult. When all your arguments fail, it's the next best thing. Truly the reprieve of the weak minded.
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What is ludicrous is your suggestion that I said that 50GB media is "worthless." I said no such thing. Your making shit up just to create an argument even though you seem to agree with me 100%. Strange.
Um, your own words: "By the time writers become common, 50GB will be nothing." Or maybe on your planet nothing != worthless?
Actually, it would only be about 83 if you had dual layer DVD burner.
Dual layer DVD-Rs are still much more expensive than 2 single-layer discs (at least around here), so this is not really a viable option.
Only 15 disks? Gee, you make it sound like such an attractive option. That's a lot of disk swapping. Not to mention that one or two of them may end up being coasters.
I only said it's much more attractive than 160 discs. Are you seriously unable to think in relative terms? Or do you deny the difference between 15 and 160? I have no idea what's your point here.
Also, keep in mind that the 50GB assumes you have a dual layer burner (and potentially very expensive media)... which is probably even further away for most people than just a plain ol' BD burner. Even today, most people don't even have dual layer DVD burners.
I would think it's obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense that it's not practical right now. There is hardly any 50GB blu-ray media around outside of a few prototypes, and I don't think there's an actual PC burner available for dual layer blu-rays.
We were discussing the eventual situation if 50GB discs and burners become affordable and widespread as plain DVD-Rs are now. You were saying that by the time writers become common it would make no difference, which is patently wrong.
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I'm with you 100% on using external hard drives for near term backups, I also pretty much gave up on optical storage. But your assertion that 50GB media is somehow worthless because you can't fit everything on a single disc is still ludicrous.
You would need 160 DVDs to archive everything on that 750GB drive which is clearly ridiculous, but if you used these hypothetical 50GB blu-rays it would only take 15 discs, which is already in the realm of the practical. So there is a big difference, where you claim none.
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Who modded this as insightful? So what if you can't fit everything on a single 50GB disc, there's still a hell of a difference between your backup taking 10 blu-ray discs or 100+ DVD-Rs.
An order of magnitude jump in optical media capacity is always welcome.
You are trying to make a moral argument now, but the original point was about the legal concept of free speech. I agree, XM Radio sucks, and are bad people, or whatever; and they might have broken a private contract; and they might have done some false advertising.
Well my argument was moral from the beginning, from my first reply to you. I mentioned the general concept of free speech, as opposed to just some particular legal definition of "free speech". Note my comment about the Constitution, and that just because something is written down there it's not necessarily OK. I would consider the rights guaranteed by that document something like an absolute lower limit, a safety net or a warning bell to notify you if a government became overly tyrannical, but definitely not accept it as an upper limit on your rights.
But none of that makes it an issue of free speech.
Free speech is free speech, and it is being curtailed in this case by a powerful entity, no matter what the legal or constitutional framework of a particular country says.
When you hear the words "free speech", do you immediately think solely of the First Amendment (where only the government is prohibited from impinging on free speech)? The amendment is there because the government is the single most powerful entity in the country, but it doesn't mean that other lesser entities suddenly have free licence to trample your rights. Especially not ones that are operating over a limited public good. They can only do it if you as a people let them, and if you are conditioned to think that "free speech" is purely a legal construct in the Constitution pertaining to the government, and nothing more.
You responded and said
Ah, but there is a law stopping them.
OK, I can see how that sentence taken alone would imply that. It was meant together with the sentence following it.
You are almost confirming what I said. Your point is basically that because what XM did is not explicitly prohibited by law, it must be right. That is the conditioning I was speaking of... I don't know, maybe it's easier to see from outside, rather then when you're in the thick of it.
legal != right
The airwaves are a public good, just like the air we breathe, and as such they must first and foremost serve the interests of the public. To ensure this, the government is entrusted with administrating this public good, and it does so by choosing which private companies to licence it to. If a company indulges in censorship over this public good, does this completely absolve of responsibility the government who gave them this licence in the first place?
Even worse when the company is effectively a (duopoly soon to become a) monopoly, so the onus is even stronger to ensure that free speech is being preserved (there are currently no competitors you can go to). You said above that Opie and Anthony "only" need to scrounge gigantic resources in order to have their voice heard. So, only oligarchs with huge financial resources are entitled to free speech over a public resource? Is this what freedom is like?
You say that if Opie and Anthony came to my house, I have the right to kick them out if I don't like what they say. You then extrapolate that XM has the same right to kick them off "their" airwaves. But corporations are not people, especially ones offering a public service over a public good, and their corporate assets are not people's private homes. If you have trouble seeing the difference, it's probably another example of conditioning. If your first reaction to this is along the lines of "corporations have the same legal rights as people", you have missed the point and it's again conditioning.
Before you burst a vein, I'm not saying that you are necessarily conditioned to think like this (I have no idea who you are after all), I'm just going by what you wrote above and listing possible signs.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if it's a government or a financially powerful corporation telling you what you can or cannot hear, your freedom is abridged just the same.
P.S. I never "flat out said there is a law against Opie and Anthony starting their own satellite radio service", I have no idea where you got that from. I was only referring to the necessity of getting a government licence before such an endeavour.
For their own forum, they can use their living room, or they could build their own concert hall, or their own satellite radio service. There is no law stopping them, thus no government control of their speech
Ah, but there is a law stopping them. You can't just create your own satellite radio service, you have to licence the frequency band from your government first. Since XM and Sirius (soon to be merged) are basically the only entity controlling the satellite airwaves over your teritory, this control being granted by the government, it is most definitely a free speech issue, both in the abstract sense of the concept and in the particular sense of the USA Constitution.
It's sad that you are not the only one, there are many Americans like you who have been so conditioned by the corporations and media (e.g. you think something is OK just because your Constitution doesn't explicitly say it's wrong), that they don't even notice their rights being squandered from under their very nose. I'm talking basic inalienable human rights, not only those that someone bothered to write down in some document (Bill of Rights, was it?). It's high time the inhabitants of that Land of the Free got their asses into gear and actually make it, you know, free.
How is this not secure? I would seriously like to know.
Seems to me that even if the attacker somehow captured your challenge codes in real time, he would not be able to turn around and use them to withdraw larger sums of money from your account, because the challenge responses would only be good for a 20$ amount (in the hypothetical case above). Could someone with more knowledge shed some light on this?
So? If I create a magnetized object within a pre-existing magnetic field it will also get instantly pulled. Same goes for electically charged particles and their fields, etc. What's your point?
There are an infinite number of points between zero and one, but there are provably more on the real number spectrum outside of one and zero.
So utterly and thoroughly wrong. It is trivial to construct a bijection (i.e. a one-to-one mapping) from the "points between zero and one" to the "real number spectrum outside of one and zero", hence their "number" is the same (more formally, the open real number interval (0,1) has the same cardinality as the set of real numbers, R).
I suggest you study the differences between infintiies.
You don't really need to copy the whole menu file, it only needs to contain the menus that you have actually changed, and Opera will fallback to the default menus for the rest. So, when it's time to upgrade, you only need to sync the couple of changed menus in your custom ini file, the rest of the menus are upgraded transparently.
Well obviously because 'splice' is a more general function that can be used in other contexts besides 'sendfile' (which is just one special case where 'splice' helps things).
Agreed, that's exactly why they did it, in fact. It's only a "drawback" in the sense that if you do want to report a particular website, you have to revert to the normal reporting address (and the subsequent clicking).
You can simply ask the SpamCop admins to enable so called "quick reporting" for your account. Then, you just change your address from submit.RANDOMHASH@mail.spamcop.net to quick.RANDOMHASH@mail.spamcop.net, and you're all set. The spams you forward (via attachments) to this address are auto-reported immediately, no need to go clicking on the website.
The only slight drawback to this method is that quick reports only get sent for the source of the spam, but not for the web sites advertised in them.
So you have to hit the site that's been advertised by the spam.
This is exactly what Blue Security was doing. I already replied to a similar statement above, no point in repeating myself here.
As for the rest of your post about P2P, I'm not sure it can be made practical and really easy to use, with minimum active participation from the users of the service. The beauty of the Blue Security approach was that they took on most of the grunt-work of identifying spam and opting out on your behalf, so all you really had to do was forward your spam to them, which you could mostly automate via filters in your mail client, plus they provided various extensions for Firefox, IE and Thunderbird to make reporting spam a single-click process.
It was a really good idea and well executed... too bad they chickened out.
"Consumers using the Blue Frog client, report their spam for analysis by our team of experts that examine these messages and verify they are indeed spam. The web sites advertised in these messages are identified and reported to the ISPs hosting them, as well as to law enforcement agencies and other organizations.
Additionally, Blue Frog clients installed on consumers' machines, automatically post opt-out requests on the sites advertised by spam, encouraging their owners to remove all addresses listed in the Do Not Intrude Registry from their mailing lists. Opt out requests are anonymous and do not reveal our customers' identifies or email addresses."
(emphasis mine)
They struck at the very core of the spammers' financing. Why else do you think the spammers reacted so violently? They had the right idea, just not the balls to see it through. Hopefully someone else can pick up the torch. If anyone knows of a service similar to Blue Frog, I would be very interested.
This is off-topic, but I couldn't find a way to contact you privately.
Could you please go into more detail about your RAID-6 setup? I'm planning something similar, and would really appreciate some real-world experience with it, pitfalls to avoid etc.
Specifically, I'm interested in:
- which controller card and OS do you use? - what type of hard drives, and do you use the same model/manufacturer, or are they mixed, to lessen probability of all of them belonging to a single bad batch? - do you use hardware or software RAID? - what filesystem you have formatted on the array? - what kind of power supplies do you use, and in particular how do you deal with huge spin-up current draw when the array is booted, or when multiple drives wake up from power-save mode? - did you encounter any issues with hard drive power-save in a RAID array? - how about cooling and noise, any tips there? - any other advice you might have
If you have a webpage up somewhere with an overview of your setup, that would be great.
And if you wish to continue this discussion in private, you can contact me at: grnch@gmx.net
It is hyperbole. Eclipse is a development environment, not a regular desktop app. Comparing footprints there is just silly. I can find you plenty of "native" development environments with very similar footprints.
What? Its an ide, arguably a glorified text editor, it is an order of magnitude less complicated then say a web browser, office suite, or other "desktop applications". And incidently visual studio dosen't have that kind of footprint, not Xcode, not Kdevelop...
1. Eclipse does a lot more than either Visual Studio or KDevelop: it keeps a parse tree of all your code in memory, which allows it to do some very advanced refactoring, also on the fly compilation and checking for errors. Now Xcode also does this, which brings me to the next point.
2. Eclipse, for all its benefits, is really a poorly written beast, with very little thought given to performance or GUI usability as opposed to cramming features incessantly. You pick one poor application written in Java (and one which isn't even using Swing, the standard Java GUI toolkit), then proclaim that the language must suck.
How many C/C++ applications are there that are trully horrible? Those languages must be positively evil by that measure.
Try using IntelliJ IDEA sometimes, which does all that Eclipse does, and then some, yet is very snappy and takes up only a fraction of the memory. Hopefully it will change your opinion of what a Java application written using Swing can really do. Java is just another tool, and as any complex tool it requires somewhat capable hands to wield it properly.
So does this effectively mean that all nanoparticles of that size are safe to use in the body?
I think not. At those sizes it is the actual shape of the nanoparticle that has a dominant effect on its binding properties and interactions with surrounding matter, rather then its size. Two nanoparticles of approximately the same size can have radically different behaviour. That is what gives nanotechnology its great potential for a large variety of both constructive and desctructive uses.
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They have: Midori Web Browser.
The rest of your post was too long, didn't read it, sorry. No point in continuing this, so I'll just stop here.
Yeah right... Dude, you were pulling blanket statements out of your ass, and when you were called on them you got all defensive to the point of insults. If it makes you feel better to delude yourself that I was somehow "trolling for it", fine, you just keep on saying that to yourself.
Thanks for dragging what was supposed to be a civil technical debate down to this level.
We were discussing the eventual situation if 50GB discs and burners become affordable and widespread as plain DVD-Rs are now. You were saying that by the time writers become common it would make no difference, which is patently wrong.
I'm with you 100% on using external hard drives for near term backups, I also pretty much gave up on optical storage. But your assertion that 50GB media is somehow worthless because you can't fit everything on a single disc is still ludicrous.
You would need 160 DVDs to archive everything on that 750GB drive which is clearly ridiculous, but if you used these hypothetical 50GB blu-rays it would only take 15 discs, which is already in the realm of the practical. So there is a big difference, where you claim none.
Who modded this as insightful? So what if you can't fit everything on a single 50GB disc, there's still a hell of a difference between your backup taking 10 blu-ray discs or 100+ DVD-Rs.
An order of magnitude jump in optical media capacity is always welcome.
When you hear the words "free speech", do you immediately think solely of the First Amendment (where only the government is prohibited from impinging on free speech)? The amendment is there because the government is the single most powerful entity in the country, but it doesn't mean that other lesser entities suddenly have free licence to trample your rights. Especially not ones that are operating over a limited public good. They can only do it if you as a people let them, and if you are conditioned to think that "free speech" is purely a legal construct in the Constitution pertaining to the government, and nothing more. OK, I can see how that sentence taken alone would imply that. It was meant together with the sentence following it.
Cheers
You are almost confirming what I said. Your point is basically that because what XM did is not explicitly prohibited by law, it must be right. That is the conditioning I was speaking of... I don't know, maybe it's easier to see from outside, rather then when you're in the thick of it.
legal != right
The airwaves are a public good, just like the air we breathe, and as such they must first and foremost serve the interests of the public. To ensure this, the government is entrusted with administrating this public good, and it does so by choosing which private companies to licence it to. If a company indulges in censorship over this public good, does this completely absolve of responsibility the government who gave them this licence in the first place?
Even worse when the company is effectively a (duopoly soon to become a) monopoly, so the onus is even stronger to ensure that free speech is being preserved (there are currently no competitors you can go to). You said above that Opie and Anthony "only" need to scrounge gigantic resources in order to have their voice heard. So, only oligarchs with huge financial resources are entitled to free speech over a public resource? Is this what freedom is like?
You say that if Opie and Anthony came to my house, I have the right to kick them out if I don't like what they say. You then extrapolate that XM has the same right to kick them off "their" airwaves. But corporations are not people, especially ones offering a public service over a public good, and their corporate assets are not people's private homes. If you have trouble seeing the difference, it's probably another example of conditioning. If your first reaction to this is along the lines of "corporations have the same legal rights as people", you have missed the point and it's again conditioning.
Before you burst a vein, I'm not saying that you are necessarily conditioned to think like this (I have no idea who you are after all), I'm just going by what you wrote above and listing possible signs.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if it's a government or a financially powerful corporation telling you what you can or cannot hear, your freedom is abridged just the same.
P.S. I never "flat out said there is a law against Opie and Anthony starting their own satellite radio service", I have no idea where you got that from. I was only referring to the necessity of getting a government licence before such an endeavour.
Ah, but there is a law stopping them. You can't just create your own satellite radio service, you have to licence the frequency band from your government first. Since XM and Sirius (soon to be merged) are basically the only entity controlling the satellite airwaves over your teritory, this control being granted by the government, it is most definitely a free speech issue, both in the abstract sense of the concept and in the particular sense of the USA Constitution.
It's sad that you are not the only one, there are many Americans like you who have been so conditioned by the corporations and media (e.g. you think something is OK just because your Constitution doesn't explicitly say it's wrong), that they don't even notice their rights being squandered from under their very nose. I'm talking basic inalienable human rights, not only those that someone bothered to write down in some document (Bill of Rights, was it?). It's high time the inhabitants of that Land of the Free got their asses into gear and actually make it, you know, free.
You can disable it completely in c:\boot.ini by specifying the boot parameter /noexecute=alwaysoff (by default it's /noexecute=optin).
p pro/maintain/sp2mempr.mspx
More info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winx
How is this not secure? I would seriously like to know.
Seems to me that even if the attacker somehow captured your challenge codes in real time, he would not be able to turn around and use them to withdraw larger sums of money from your account, because the challenge responses would only be good for a 20$ amount (in the hypothetical case above). Could someone with more knowledge shed some light on this?
So? If I create a magnetized object within a pre-existing magnetic field it will also get instantly pulled. Same goes for electically charged particles and their fields, etc. What's your point?
Maybe you should take up your own advice.
You don't really need to copy the whole menu file, it only needs to contain the menus that you have actually changed, and Opera will fallback to the default menus for the rest. So, when it's time to upgrade, you only need to sync the couple of changed menus in your custom ini file, the rest of the menus are upgraded transparently.
Well obviously because 'splice' is a more general function that can be used in other contexts besides 'sendfile' (which is just one special case where 'splice' helps things).
Agreed, that's exactly why they did it, in fact. It's only a "drawback" in the sense that if you do want to report a particular website, you have to revert to the normal reporting address (and the subsequent clicking).
You can simply ask the SpamCop admins to enable so called "quick reporting" for your account. Then, you just change your address from submit.RANDOMHASH@mail.spamcop.net to quick.RANDOMHASH@mail.spamcop.net, and you're all set. The spams you forward (via attachments) to this address are auto-reported immediately, no need to go clicking on the website.
The only slight drawback to this method is that quick reports only get sent for the source of the spam, but not for the web sites advertised in them.
This is exactly what Blue Security was doing. I already replied to a similar statement above, no point in repeating myself here.
As for the rest of your post about P2P, I'm not sure it can be made practical and really easy to use, with minimum active participation from the users of the service. The beauty of the Blue Security approach was that they took on most of the grunt-work of identifying spam and opting out on your behalf, so all you really had to do was forward your spam to them, which you could mostly automate via filters in your mail client, plus they provided various extensions for Firefox, IE and Thunderbird to make reporting spam a single-click process.
It was a really good idea and well executed... too bad they chickened out.
Um... which is exactly what they did?
Quote from their overview page:
(emphasis mine)
They struck at the very core of the spammers' financing. Why else do you think the spammers reacted so violently? They had the right idea, just not the balls to see it through. Hopefully someone else can pick up the torch. If anyone knows of a service similar to Blue Frog, I would be very interested.
From the site, it says that nginx is a "high perfomance http and reverse proxy server". How is this in any way related to SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers?
A fellow Tyrian addict, I presume?
This is off-topic, but I couldn't find a way to contact you privately.
Could you please go into more detail about your RAID-6 setup? I'm planning something similar, and would really appreciate some real-world experience with it, pitfalls to avoid etc.
Specifically, I'm interested in:
- which controller card and OS do you use?
- what type of hard drives, and do you use the same model/manufacturer, or are they mixed, to lessen probability of all of them belonging to a single bad batch?
- do you use hardware or software RAID?
- what filesystem you have formatted on the array?
- what kind of power supplies do you use, and in particular how do you deal with huge spin-up current draw when the array is booted, or when multiple drives wake up from power-save mode?
- did you encounter any issues with hard drive power-save in a RAID array?
- how about cooling and noise, any tips there?
- any other advice you might have
If you have a webpage up somewhere with an overview of your setup, that would be great.
And if you wish to continue this discussion in private, you can contact me at: grnch@gmx.net
I hope you will see this. Thanks.
1. Eclipse does a lot more than either Visual Studio or KDevelop: it keeps a parse tree of all your code in memory, which allows it to do some very advanced refactoring, also on the fly compilation and checking for errors. Now Xcode also does this, which brings me to the next point.
2. Eclipse, for all its benefits, is really a poorly written beast, with very little thought given to performance or GUI usability as opposed to cramming features incessantly. You pick one poor application written in Java (and one which isn't even using Swing, the standard Java GUI toolkit), then proclaim that the language must suck.
How many C/C++ applications are there that are trully horrible? Those languages must be positively evil by that measure.
Try using IntelliJ IDEA sometimes, which does all that Eclipse does, and then some, yet is very snappy and takes up only a fraction of the memory. Hopefully it will change your opinion of what a Java application written using Swing can really do. Java is just another tool, and as any complex tool it requires somewhat capable hands to wield it properly.
So does this effectively mean that all nanoparticles of that size are safe to use in the body?
I think not. At those sizes it is the actual shape of the nanoparticle that has a dominant effect on its binding properties and interactions with surrounding matter, rather then its size. Two nanoparticles of approximately the same size can have radically different behaviour. That is what gives nanotechnology its great potential for a large variety of both constructive and desctructive uses.